I watched this series because I really enjoyed the other drama the two leads were in together. They both acted fairly well but I enjoyed the male's character way more, that was the case for this series as well. I didn't really like XiXi. I hated her mulling and pouting and the aeygo faces she kept making. I thought she was an adult but she kept being so childish and it made her character hard to like. Ms. Ran was way better. I liked her dominant character and she was more relatable. Even Mr. Mo was likable. I was happy that he didn't follow the female villain's lead and continue to try to do evil even when he saw there was no way they would ever be together. I liked the fact that he bowed out while still being a friend to XiXi. I thought the female villain was way over the top. How Sichen kept figuring out it was her and never retaliated and also kept trying to just be her friend. It was clear she was unhinged and obsessed, even his mother recognized it. Why they never got that girl any help is beyond me. Anyone who would behave like that and still think everyone should give her her way is psychotic and needs to be institutionalized.
I was honestly mostly enjoying the series until the masquerade party. The masks were dumb. Seriously how can you know recognize people in half masks. The Nianxi was dumb because it was clearly Mr. Mo. But Xixi started being mean to Sichen because she thought he told her he liked someone else and it was so cliche and so unnecessary. Then I think I stopped liking the series. Because what followed was every cliche that has ever happened in CDramas squeezed into 10 episodes. It became so hard to watch and XIXi became even more whiney and I almost stopped watching so many times. Can I say I am happy I kept watching, nope. Not even going to lie. It just kept getting worse.
I am so happy that both the leads have grown so much since this series because this Cdrama just wasn't it.