Review by lilianaoana

This movie is a melodrama from the get-go so you come prepared, the strange thing is it takes a while to get there. It goes through several phases. It starts with a very detailed and sobering account of life as a dialysis patient, which I had no idea was so grim, but makes sense. Ling Min really has been dealt a bad hand in life, but she does all she can to basically stay alive.

Then Luu Tu comes into her life and he's really a dum-dum. He comes across as either too simple or somewhere on the spectrum. Or maybe both. But it's mostly a gimmick to make us smile I suspect. It bothered me a little cause he's reduced to a stock character, but then something shifts, predictably. There is a twist that was pretty unexpected. Also they did go hard on the melodrama, a little too much with the parents. And then they turned it around. They ended it on a happy note, surprisingly, but this is just the immediate future. Anyway ,I found it refreshing for an Asian drama, cause they do like to make us cry buckets and this one spares us.

What I did like was the genuineness of the characters. They look and act very much like real people, granted in very special circumstances. This is not a polished, flashy drama, nor an over the top emotional one, which I very much appreciated.