By the same producers as Put your head on my shoulders and A love so beautiful.
The atmosphere of the drama is nice and probably truer to reality than the majority of high school coming -of-age dramas,
For instance, the shared bedrooms at the university don’t look like straight from a design magazine, we are also shown the military training at the start of the season for new univ students… we see tai chi being practiced outdoors… we can hear the noises of the city and traffic, which is normally polished in these dramas.
Another plus is that we can enjoy the actual and non dubbed voices of the actors on the contrary to what is common in the majority of c dramas for the main leads, famous or not… thus no silly baby voice for the actress, and not the same male voice for the main leads as in so many c-dramas… (on the contrary to a Yang Yang for instance. In that regard, xu Kai recently disclosed that it was the first time we could hear his real voice for his latest drama, “she and her perfect husband).
About the story itself, the main romance is really lovely, it is the first time I see such a cute but intense as well as heart-fluttering pursuit of his crush by a male lead (best being ep. 12 and 13). We really see how he wins her over by his attitude and it is great to watch and quite unique. He falls in love at their first chance encounter, and is understandably mesmerized by her bubbly, true kind and positive personality, when his family background has made a solitary of him (his parents have been frequently fighting since early childhood and it is discovered in present time that his mother has bipolar disorder - explaining for her mood swings).
Spoiler : As in every drama, there will be a temporary breakup, this time in the last part of the drama, not out of love or a stupid misunderstanding , but this one - however frustrating - makes sense given the ML absence of model of what a loving, caring and stable relationship really means.for fear of ending like his parents and having the same disorder as his mother, (bc. His nasty jealous childhood friend changes his genetic test results …) even if he truly loves her, he decides to break up, thinking that he will avoid future trauma. But he ends up more miserable than before meeting her, because she truly means everything for him, as he realizes. Good thing he knows how to make amend, and she.s a smart and caring person….
All in all, a great romance comedy drama- even though the female lead is not the best actress, the story itself is so endearing you don’t mind… and gong Jun is perfect.