I started watching the drama because of Lian Chen Xiang (Simon Lian) who had impressed me a lot in “Lost Romance” and I was pleasantly surprised. The drama is such an amazing watch. It is great at all the most important aspects: directing, characterization, camerawork, cinematography and acting, all is very good indeed. Everything happening on screen feels so organic and true to life. The dialogues are smartly done; they serve well to define characters and nothing sounds rehearsed or artificial.
The plot is quite simple: the Ml is a student who is considered a lost cause in terms of studying but the appearance of the FL in his life motivates him to get back to school and gives him a new purpose in life and new friends.
What I liked most is how subtly the ML and FL's (and other characters) personalities are shown. They are multi-dimensional and realistic, very human, with lots of both strengths and weaknesses. It is wonderful how nothing overdramatic or of large scale really happens, mainly just small events of day by day life. But still the drama never gets boring and keeps you invested in these little details and insights about characters.
The best part is the ML. He seems at first a rather typical drama character being a rich kid with parent issues and problems at school, popular among the classmates. However the script and the actor manage to give this cliché character depth, prove him to be indeed special and make you like him a lot .
Lian Chen Xiang is brilliant at portraying the ML’s youthful budding love for the FL and his hurting over the girl's crush on other boy. He is very endearing in his awkward attempts to get her attention and to care for her.
The reason why the score is not a 10 is a messy ending. The time skip is totally unnecessary and illogical. They should have ended the story at the leads' entering college. Then the confession, first date and so on would make perfect sense.
Despite the awkward final episodes I would certainly recommend the drama and will rewatch it myself.