This was much better than I was lead to expect by many of the reviews, but well worth the watch.
Just make sure you bring a box of tissues once you get past the first half of the season!

Low expectations *might* have played a part, but I generally found myself not hitting the FF button as much as usual lately.
The young actors all mesh well, and I didn't find anyone to terribly annoying, except for the maid initially. The actors chemistry was good, however I'm still not super buying into the idea that Lu Ping and Xan YiFan only care about each other as "brothers".
There are a few too many intense lingering stares. I could totally see both boys being bi, with the women on the side.

The story wasn't super surprising, except for one part, which I was *very* pleasantly surprised at. I will say Lu Ping and his sister were *very* well balanced personality wise, given their meant to have surivived a decade on nothing but torture. The occasional slightly stupid action I can forgive as everyone is meant to be young and inexperienced late teens.

The situation around he adults motivation for past actions was a little ...fuzzy...and occasionally there seemed a few big jumps in logic/assumptions about events that everyone seemed to make. However I think I find breaks in character less forgivable than the occassinal plot hole, and in this the characters all stayed pretty true to themselves.
They learnt and grew, but they hung onto the basic tentants of themselves that they initially expressed at the start.

I wasn't expecting the happy ending that we got, and was totally ready for everyone to die, but they pulled in off in the last 2 eps and I really enjoyed the ending.

I love the main songs played in this series, and even after watching all the way through, I'm still not sick of them.
少年侠(《天醒之路》片头曲)
紙船(電視劇《天醒之路》片尾曲)
have both been added to my spotify list.