I have by now learned how Chinese dramas work: they drag the story for many episodes, write unbelievably charming characters so that you give your heart to them and then they break it by killing them off in the last episode and wrapping everything up with a 'let's finish and go home that it's late'-kind of spirit, making no sense at all. This is this series in a few words. Totally bad? Well no, the main actors were good. Basically this is something to see only if you are a ZhuYiLong fan or AnYueXi fan, both playing different roles and thus entertaining their fans. Being a girl her character is more limited, but FuSheng is an open character, he laughs, mocks, fights... basically he's the only real reason to watch this show.
The show is supposed to talk about three love stories (all played by them), but actually it focuses on just one in the past: it moves too slow, and involves a love triangle for a long time; two good friends separately meet the same girl and both fall in love with her.
The friendship was good, a close one, a kind of unbreakable one it seemed. At first she goes out with XingCheng , slowly becoming friends with Luo FuSheng, who is in love with her and suffers seeing them together but can't do anything about it because he's his friend; then they break up and she starts a relationship with FuSheng. It took them a lot to finally get together, but after that other troubles start so that they can't really enjoy a bit of happiness. Then she accepts to become a spy to get from XingCheng (who is now a jerk) a list of traitors, and when she gets into trouble everyone tries to save her and everybody dies but her.
The couple in the present, after she finishes telling the story, gets a few moments together: basically they cook together, playing and laughing, then he goes away saying that she reminds him of the girl he loved and lost, but can't really tell if he loves her or the memory of that girl.
This is understandable, but the movie ends with them meeting some time later (three years maybe?) and they look at each other and he simply proposes to her. Just like that. Is he sure now? Come on, this ending was so plain :-/ there should have been more on the present couple.
There were too many side things: the battles, the troubles with the Japanese, the spy story, the family-feuds...
Also, it has quite an optimistic title, and yet nobody here lived happily ever after. Maybe the 'present couple', who knows, but that's really farfetched; he left without saying goodbye leaving a note behind, and yet when they meet they smile at each other and get engaged without another word :-/
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