I initially didn't think that much of reviews complaining that the pacing was way too slow & draggy, because there's always someone complaining about that, & sometimes the complaints are legit & sometimes it's people whose brains have been poisoned by Tiktok who hate that fleshing out characters well takes time. But I had a bad feeling as soon as I saw this was originally written as a 24 episode drama & was extended to 40 episodes. I gave it a shot anyway, because Luo Yunxi's performance in TTEOTM was phenomenal, & if anyone could make this worth watching it was him.
Nope. Even he cannot save this mess.