He Yi Sheng Xiao Mo

I first watched the director's cut of this drama that condensed the series into 4 episodes. The story was so compelling and the main leads so lovable (despite unconventional hair styles), I watched it three times in a row then searched for the full version and loved it.

My Sunshine tells the story of lively, kind and guileless free spirit Zhao Mosheng (Tiffany Tang, Janice Wu as young Mosheng) who falls in love with second-year law student He Yichen (Wallace Chung, Luo Yunxi as young Yichen) on her first day as a Chemistry major in Changhua University. Mosheng pursues top student Yichen relentlessly until his resolve to not have a girlfriend in college breaks down.

Their bliss would be cut short when family issues and harsh words lead to a painful separation that would drain the spark out of Mosheng and turn Yichen into a cold workaholic lawyer. Would they find their way back into each other's arms after 7 years? Would Yichen still be drawn to a dispirited Mosheng? Would she regain her sunshiny ways?

I am a fan of both the FL and the ML, normally. However, I don't understand why the writers thought the best way to depict their relationship, even from the beginning, was for it to be so abusive. I was uncomfortable watching the ML speak to the FL throughout the series. Several times I thought to stop watching altogether.

Horrible, horrible English speaking. I couldn't understand them at all. Not sure what to think about it all. I was shocked to see this had nominations and awards.

Mosheng gets a super short haircut but then reverts to her previo haircut in the scene where she and her friend plots how to lure Yicheng to the theatre. Yet another haircut shows up on the same timeframe, just even later in the evening, after the movies.

The Caucasian actors and actresses seem to have been picked without much consideration. Many speak unintelligible English. Perhaps Russian or other European languages? The accent is so thick it's unintelligible. And the worse offender is the landlord lady portrayed near the end, who spoke no English at all and yet Mosheng is replying in Chinese.

The younger boy that Mosheng was the guardian to was not friendly and spoke no Chinese. The older boy actor also lacked acting skills and seemed out of it.

Sometimes the background music is so loud it's more like foreground music and makes it next to impossible to know what was being said.

Not all of the Chinese actors spoke clear English. The worse offender was Yin Hui, whose deep voice and accent contributed to my frustration. Netflix didn't seem to bother trying to provide subtitles for the supposedly English lines. Which increases my frustration.

Would have been a great watch if ML wasn't so manipulative and abusive and FL wasn't acting so much of a pushover.. like he could literally be slapping her in the face for nothing and blame her for it and she'll say "I'm sorry".

He broke up with her but blames her because of what her father did to him. Then blames her for leaving him even though she was a teenager being forced to leave her country.

And then her father dies and she doesn't get to mourn him in her country but who cares about that when ML's heart is broken because she actually leaves when he told her to leave.

WTF is this drama really.

Im sick and tired of C-Drama always portraying FL as weak and gullible. I think she probably raised her head like 10 times from Ep1 to Ep10 to look at him while hes talking... constantly looking down all defeated! WTF.

I don't like it at all and giving up at E10.

There are so many things wrong with this drama that I can't believe it was popular back in the day. The 1st problem is the FL's wig. For some reason the director thought she should wear a bad wig for most of the show and then halfway through double down to a smaller worse one?! Then the ML is the most unlikeable guy ever. He's either cold or down right mean to the FL for most of the show. It makes no sense that she would have put up with him in college and still want him as an adult. He breaks up with HER in college but let's all their friends believe she abandoned him and doesn't clarify later. He also never lets her talk and bulldozes over her when he talks. He never gives her the reason for their abrupt break up and we're supposed to believe that she should have "read between the lines" and not left after it?! I had to stop watching--I couldn't buy into their happily ever after.