Delicious Destiny (2017)

It was fun at times and other times it somewhere dragged. If you are into the corporate backstabbing/ relationship drama this one is a must watch. The female lead was absolutely adorable and I really loved how she developed over time and grew a backbone that was a force. The male lead was pretty genuine guy who had a passion for his work and for the woman he loved. There were not too many tear jearker moments but there were a few and plenty of moments that will make you giggle a bit. I love the dad and the aunt of the female lead they were so sweet and in sync, it was amazing. 56 episodes, though. That alone says it all. This was like a mini soap opera, but I was descent. I would recommend this as a filler while you’re waiting on a new show or episodes for the more exciting series that you may be watching or anticipating.

The downside to this for me was:
#1 this series has an extremely jealous female in it and I don’t mean plain jealous I mean the one that I will go to any lengths to get the person that she wants that has no interest in her. It teeters on the line of obsession. I really dislike watching series that have supremely desperate females. They border clinically insane and severe denial.
#2 self sacrificing that brings more harm than good.
#3 dislike secrets that drag on tooo long. My thoughts stay on the moment of revelation.

If the second female lead was less clingy and desperate it would’ve been a little more pleasant

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Great ingredients overcooked

I feel sorry to give this show such a low rating because this show has actually turned me into a big fan of the two leads, Mao Xiaotong (Song Jiaming)* and Mike D. Angelo (Li Yuzhe). Each has a charisma that easily shines beyond the screen, and together, their chemistry is mesmerizing. It is to their credit that this show was made just barely watchable. Unfortunately, the poor script, overblown plot, horrendous editing, and ridiculous pacing of this series really put a damper on what could have been an excellent performance.

Seriously, there were so many plot holes and incongruences, I finally gave up and skipped ahead to just enjoy the scenes with Xiaotong and Mike. I really hope the two will star together in another show so I can watch them again under better circumstances.

*Note I actually came to this show after seeing Mao Xiaotong in Love O2O. Her character in LO2O was actually quite annoying but something about her made me suspect that she is capable of more so, I am glad at least Delicious Destiny gave me the opportunity to see "Momo" in a different light. I look forward to her next projects. In the meantime, I will also be looking for more of Mike, who is very delicious indeed!

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You can’t expect worst than this drama

After watching 8 episodes I decided to drop out this drama but my worst fate make me continue to watch this thinking that it get better but oh my god, this becomes worst and worst, if you want to become sadistic you can try this drama.
I have watched till 21 episodes but what I found is the title of this drama and the story are completely opposite. Instead of that they could have named it as meaningless destiny or destinyless destiny. Whole 21 episodes same thing is repeating and repeating, in some drama in 21 episodes almost it comes to conclude of the story but in this drama even not 10% story moved, but I don’t know in the future episodes is there any story or not, or only repeating the same scenes again.
In 21 episodes ML confessed 3 times and he got rejected all the times, yet he shamelessly shows his face. FL is the most annoying one, more than annoying I must say psycho character because FL couldn’t accept his feelings and ML couldn’t maintain his distance from her, each time he says he will not disturb or annoy her with his presence but in the next scene he shows and again telling the same thing.
In this 21st century I really got shocked seeing this kind psycho annoying dramas.
I think only the Chinese director’s can show this much shameless, brainless jerky ML character. I think in all dramas except the title and few scripts everything they do copy paste of old dramas.
Same ML and FL characterization, cold shameless, dual personality ML and dumb brainless, courtesy less FL.
It is same in maximum all dramas, initially the ML is so mature with high IQ, EQ and dignified but when FL enters his IQ and EQ drops suddenly and he will become shameless, undignified jerk, and FL she is good to everyone but the ML. How much the FL insults, scolds and sometimes even slapped the ML publicly, in the next second the ML again ran into FL shameless.
I don’t know when these Chinese directors change their style or adopt different ML character.

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