This drama had promise, but I felt that some opportunities were missed. The storyline really dropped the ball on the potentially interesting aspect of his medical condition. They used the physical condition called hyperthymesia – but that is a condition that related to a person’s past (remembering all aspects of their own life and “living in the past”), not having an eidetic memory, and this was not how the character was presented. Toward the end of the drama the medical condition came to the forefront and then was never fully explained/resolved, other than with a sentence tossed out by the male lead. As I find with most Chinese dramas, there was an awful lot of filler, multiple storylines, etc.
CHARACTERS: Han Che (played by Leon Leong) had some real issues for me. I can totally buy into the cold person being changed by the woman he loves, but he was so cold throughout most of the show it was like he was an automaton. Did he really have any emotions? Add to that his manhandling the female lead over and over again, I just didn’t care for him. It’s not love to be forced to kiss, it’s not love to be dragged from one place to another over and over again. In addition, his total inability to communicate with her and keeping things from her was unacceptable.
Nuan Nuan (played by Eleanor Lee) was pretty well-written. I really loved her attitude and her drive to succeed. The opportunities that came along for her really demonstrated that if your initial dream doesn’t work out, that’s not the end of it. However, once she and Han Che got together, I really didn’t like her attempts to be “cute” – it came off as childish and immature. Also, she had communication problems of her own in that she held a grudge against Han Che multiple times, which was immature as well. Her one friend totally threw her under the bus more than once and she forgave her without any issues, but Han Che was a different story. Also, her asking him to repeat his question over and over again at the end of the drama was especially immature and I felt like she was making him jump through hoops.
I liked the secondary couple and their storyline was cute for the most part, but again, the miscommunication/no communication/misunderstandings was overused here.
I didn’t care for the potential rivals for Han Che’s and Nuan Nuan’s love. I felt that the acting of these two, especially, was not very good. They were wooden and one-dimensional.
CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THE LEADS: Many open-eyed kisses. They were both very attractive, but I just wasn’t feeling the love between the two. Han Che’s character had some very well-written and touching lines about love, but their chemistry was lacking.
I don’t often do this when watching a drama, but I found myself thinking “if only they had gone in this direction with the character” or “it would have made more sense for her to say something else”. And even after the final lines of the drama, the title of the drama made no sense to me.