Having watched this drama, I still don't know what to make of it. It's a very, very strange melodrama that I really can't recommend to anyone. I can't even get wrap my head around what the message was supposed to be.

The SML did the right thing most of the time, but the FL still chose the other guy, just because the script made it so that she would choose him. The SML becomes obsessed with her, which is terrible, but she kind of manipulated him into becoming that way through her interactions with him.

Maybe the theme was: choose someone who won't become such a fan of yours that he will turn into a simp? I don't know, but I do know that choosing the bad boy just because he isn't from a rich family is a really poor moral.

I can't prescribe to China's vilification of the rich, as I don't think money, or the lack of it, is a determining factor in the moral quality of a human being, and that's what I think is most important.

The acting of the SML is heavily criticised for not being very good, but I disagree. It is certainly an over-the-top theatrical performance, but this is a melodrama, and there was nothing wrong with it. Actually, it was refreshing to see a male character cry and display his emotions outwardly. He was a sensitive character that I probably enjoyed more than the actual ML.

I was rooting for the SML the whole time, in fact. Even when he became obsessed with the FL. He was a sweet, sensitive soul who gave his heart away to the wrong girl, and I felt bad for him.

Anyway, the story is a huge melodrama mess, and overall this is not a great drama, but I so wish sensitive, sweet characters could get the FLs in Chinese dramas.