Lighthearted, surprisingly relatable fluff

I would recommend giving this one a try if you like lighthearted slice of life dramas. It’s not a groundbreaking work but the friends to lovers transition in the first half of the show is handled in detail and quite relatable for me.

The drama is very relaxing and watchable at the end of a long day because of the lack of unnecessary angst or things like love triangles or scheming exes. I also enjoyed the subplots surrounding the ML and FL’s respective workplaces since it rounds off their characters and made them more relatable. It’s basically slow paced fluff with a pretty solid cast anchoring it. Zhang Xincheng and Wang Yuwen as the leads Tang Yan and Shiyan are so naturally sweet and funny together whether they’re bickering best friends or trying to bridge the gap between friendship and dating that it almost doesn’t feel like they are acting at times. Second ML and the second FL also have pretty interesting dynamics and chemistry that makes you want to root for them as well.

That said, I do have a couple of complaints at the moment which prevent me from giving it a 10 right now.
1) The drama length: It feels like the story would have been more suitable for a movie instead of a 30 episode long affair - the writing noticeably weakens in the middle and there are quite a few scenes I would call fillers after episode 17 that do nothing to advance the main or subplots. Sometimes less is more.
2) Feng Weiran: The character is really unlikeable for me at the moment. FWR was an unimportant side character in the original novel and seems to have been given a bigger role in the drama to act as a tool for the writer to bring about filler scenes.

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