Yilu fanhua xiang song

From the first few episodes, I thought this was just about a self-important female lead who can't forgive the male lead for not putting her above his career. I was about to drop this, but Wallace Chung and the unpredictable plot kept me going.

This is about a US-based movie director Lu Fei (Wallace Chung) who goes back to China to film a movie with a story based on his relationship with budding dancer Xin Chen (Jiang Shu Ying) ten years ago. The filming of the movie gives him a chance to reconnect with his old flame. Will they?

There are some really great actors in this cast, and there are some very important themes and a few very good scenes, but I'm sorry to say it but this was a directorial and tech mess.

The worst of it is the soundtrack which far too often detracts from some decent acting - and also too many scenes are repetitious instead of moving the narrative onwards. The final scenes were also flat and vague where they should have led to a decent conclusion. I'm sure the actors did their best, and in the end I felt very sorry for them, as they had all the talent to give, but this series would have been much better in a tighter 16 or 20 episode format with decent sound and story editing!