Long Time No See (2018)

FRUSTRATING

To put it quiet frankly: this drama is an ongoing frustration from start to finish.
ML and FL had nearly zero happy moments together!
40 plus episodes and all there was was suffering one way or another: work, relationships, affairs, crazy ass mistresses, shouting, temper tantrums, killings, blackmail, attempted murder, more blackmail, tears, lots of crying and a happy ending in the very last few minutes of the very last episode!!!!
By the way, the SFL is one of the greatest psychos in c drama history! But of course, at the end, after she blackmailed the ML to marry her, living with him and making his life hell for 5 years, intentionally nearly killing the ML - OF COURSE, he apologized to her, he still wants to be friends, he forgives her for everything!
If you are prepared for that, go ahead. If you want your romance drama with, well, romance: stay away!

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Process vs Result

I am only writing this review because I’ve noticed too many people who watch Chinese drama only watch a handful of episodes and give reviews which are misleading.

1. The story starts out with the Female lead who is in her last year of university. This where she starts dating her classmate not because she fell in love with him but because she is grateful to him for saving her. She also meets the male whose best friend’s sister has had a crush on him ever since she was a child.

2. The male leads parents marriage falls apart because his father has an affair with female lead’s best friend.

The story takes us through Dou Dou’s (female lead) life as she evolves as a young idealistic university student, into a journalist who is willing to stay loyal to man until he loses himself to greed and falls in love with a man who is just as idealistic as she is. We see Dou Dou lose herself and fight to find herself and also we see her love someone so deeply and let him go.

The premise of this story is about the age old debate of process vs the result. Is getting what you want more important than how you get it? Love is not perfect and we see several couples in this drama show us how imperfect but also how beautiful love can be. It is not a rom com and definitely not light. The female lead is strong but she loses that the deeper she falls in love but we see her move from student to journalist to a PR specialist reporting into her lover to her starting a business alone.

The FL and ML don’t have a smooth ride to their happy ending. My biggest criticism of this drama is that the writers wasted time in the last 3 or so episodes. I think it’s episode 41 where the ML and FL are stuck in the rain we don’t get to see what is said in that moment, what shakes him so much that he finally loses it with his wife. It’s inconceivable with Dou Dou so resolute to leave that the ending is as it is with no heart heart and no confession. The ending left me feeling cheated but I am glad that the bad guys had to face the consequences of their actions

Overall it was an enjoyable story if frustrating at times.

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