You Are My Destiny

Love this show. Amazing chemistry between Xing Zhaolin and Jiang Jie. It started as an innocent meeting of two people with opposite backgrounds, and as fate would have it, brought them together. This show offers - break ups, heartaches, friendship, family ties, tradition, love, honor, compassion, humility and charity. So many misunderstandings. This show proved that communication is the key to a healthy relationship. The story can dragged on too long but they have merit as background stories. With the English sub-title, I have to rewatch this show twice to fully understand and appreciate it. Soundtrack is amazing as well.

The story with its twists seemed to keep its footing until Ep. 21-22. Then it started to feel like "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks". This could have easily been 28-30-episode series. The content would have been tighter, and the editing wouldn't have felt sloppy. By the time you get to the last episodes, you just want it to be over. The resolutions feel rushed where it's more of an OK at the end instead of HOORAY. I wanted to give it a solid 8 or 8.5 by how the first few episodes were going. But due to at least 7 episodes feeling like 'fluff', that could easily be removed with the same outcome, made the story drag and lose its charm. I have to stick with 7.

The story line was cute. It shows how love can grow between two people and how misunderstandings can become a hurdle that needs to be dealt with properly. I personally felt the story dragged a bit, but overall I recommend this because it's cute, dramatic, and romantic.

Ok, so the cinematography and scenery was great and the acting was a little over the top but good enough for me to want to route for the two leads. I have seen the female lead in another show and she was good. I'm looking forward to seeing the male lead in another show to see how he does.

What I hated was the script! I totally understand one or two misunderstandings in these romantic dramedies but this was ridiculous! No character thought to ask questions about why something was done or not done. The lead couple almost makes up at least 5 times but something always came up. That was so frustrating. I get the one or two times so that you have the tension for the story but this was painful. The happy ending took way too long to get there and only materialized within the last 5 minutes. I would really appreciate it if I could have a happy ending that is at least an episode long.

I started this series with high hopes, and it delivered - till around the 14th episode. After that, all the episodes were superfluous and only dedicated to exasperating the viewer & possibly, extending the series.

I particularly despised the character of the female protagonist, who is portrayed as an absolute imbecile, and even that, she does unconvincingly.

This is also the first series amongst all that I have seen till date that I just jumped, after torturing myself till the 22nd episode, to the last one.

Don't be like me. Please just give this a miss. You'll save yourself from insane stupidity & abysmal levels of lethal toxicity, especially in the latter two-thirds of the show.