I will start with what I liked about this drama and then talk about my problems with it. Lin Tuo, as a character, was deeply relatable to me. I myself have severe physical disabilities and his mental struggles were very understandable to me. I really enjoyed his relationship with Xiao Que, especially at the start. Their first meeting, at the interview, was so cute and I loved how natural they felt together. I really liked the side couple, they were actually my favorite. The acting in this drama was really good, they all did phenomenal. The friendships in this drama were really great and I really liked how supportive they were of each other.
Now to the things I didn’t like. The relationship conflict was too drawn out. They made it last longer than it should have and Xiao Tuo was getting somewhat annoying towards the end of the arc. Like I get it but at the same time, it was too much. When I said I understood and related to him, that had its limits. That limit being ruining his relationship and lying to all his loved ones… but my biggest problems were with the subtle ableism and the way they depicted caregiving. I know it sounds weird, a show about a disabled person being ableist shouldn’t be a thing. And I genuinely don’t think that the creators were trying to be ableist or anything but when you write a character who has internalized ableism and don’t do anything to fix his view point, it only projects the idea that the view point is right. That view point being that disabled people are useless and burdensome. Which is obviously not true but this show did not do anything to try and disprove the point. Lin Tuo said that he was useless many times and the entire break up arc was because he didn’t want to be a burden to her. I am fine with a character having insecurities but this show needed to make it clear that this was only that. An insecurity, rather than the universal truth they made it out to be. This ties in with the way they handled caregiving. They made it seem like it was the worst thing ever, that it was better to be out of the relationship than have to take care of your disabled partner. I literally got so pissed when they tried to make the guy who left his fiancé pitiable. Like caregiving is hard but he LEFT her! He did not try to get assistance or do anything to try and make things easier for himself, he just left. It annoyed me so much that they kept trying to make it seem like that wasn’t a bad thing. Caregiving is hard and nobody is perfect but leaving your partner without first trying to get help just makes you shitty. Maybe I’m too biased but I hated it.

Overall, I did enjoy the show and I think it’s really great that we are getting more disability representation in cdramas but there were some serious issues I had with this one so it’s getting an 8.5/10