This drama was great, at least for the most part. The leads had amazing chemistry and their romance is just beautiful. I really like the idea of innocent and healthy relationships like the one showcased here working out. Both lead actors were incredible, pretty much in every way. The OTP gets together at ep12 & they stay together until the end.

In the comment section multiple people asked if this show had a love triangle and I've seen quite a few ambiguous and misleading answers. Let me address that here. Yes, this show does have a love triangle, it's not a particularly weak one either in the sense that the second ML does not give up until very late in the series and he ends up doing quite a few pretty crazy & annoying things, while staring at our heroine with his teary eyes. Despite the Triangle lasting way too long, I gotta give credit to the writers for not making it purposeless. At least the the FL never wavered(wavering is the WORST) and it was nice how his efforts were clearly and straightforwardly rejected every time, that's very unusual in Asian dramas. Some of the rejections were quite entertaining to watch too. (In fact the love triangle here kind of reminded me of One Spring Night, but it was better executed here)

One minor problem I had with the show, that there were some really unreasonable side characters, having some really dubious / cartoon villainy motivations. (Ugly Betty roommate, roommate Senior, psychotic mom) It's really difficult to justify their actions, especially Senior's, I mean why would she help Lin Xi's rival in love, how does that make any sense?

The biggie is that episodes 22 to 27(the 5 episodes preceding the finale) were somewhere in between bad and boring. It's not that I got bored with the uncontested romance, far from it. It's just that the focus shifted to internship and then the startup related stuff later & all the corporate scheming & struggle just did not do it for me. This drama is undisputedly much better than Love O2O, however the company happenings in O2O were much more entertaining and relatable.

I'm displeased with how once again the writers went with the forced separation plot during the penultimate episode. Yes they did not break up, merely ended up going long distance thanks to mom McCrazy. The whole thing doesn't last much longer than a minute either. I understand why they went with a 2 year timeskip, but the separation was uncalled for & it did not fit the drama, I don't think.

I was mostly happy with the ending, but the mini redemption arks all the villainous characters have gotten are borderline stupid.

I am likely to watch this again, the rewatch value should be quite high, since I can just skip all the BS..