So is this one worth watching on? I picked it up because everyone was saying how good it was and the Eng subs were done, but as with all Mainland dramas, the dubbing drives me up the wall, even when they're done well (although when that happens, it's less annoying) because how are you going to determine if they're good actors/actresses if you can't even judge them on the delivery of their lines? Everything always happens so fast that SO MANY THINGS have to happen in the drama just so it can keep going. Haven't they ever heard of slowing down the pace and developing plots so it doesn't seem like during the course of one drama, the leads go through a gazillion traumatizing/life-changing events? By episode 4 or 5, I kind of stopped caring about the drama, but I kept going just because I wanted to know what happened in the past. For some reason, I was under the impression that LZM and WT had been in a relationship, so for the whole beginning, I kept thinking he had suffered a small amnesia. I was really turned off when I heard the truth. I'm on 10, 11, or 12 right now - early teen episodes at least - and it feels like it's going nowhere, so I don't know if I even want to continue. Things are happening, but nothing's happening. I don't even want to watch it in fast-forward mode, that's how uninterested I am. It does seem like LZM's feelings developed out of nowhere, but I think his attraction to WT is how maternal she is, which is the exact opposite of his mother. I was skeptical of Lawyer Xiang in the beginning and I continue to remain skeptical of him with a smattering of annoyance now included. He's nice, but how much of his kindness is truly because he's kind or because he expects something in return? I feel like his only attraction to WT is because he realized early on that she's [still] in love with LZM and it looks like LZM is reciprocating it without realizing it. And I get that he had a bad childhood, but blame that on his dad and LZM's mom. At least he was a wanted child, regardless of how he never really spent time with his dad. LZM has it worse, but Lawyer Xiang is always going on about "poor me and my pitiful, lonely past." LZM had a worse past, but he doesn't use it to excuse any of his flaws or to seek sympathy. As for WT, I can't decide if she's a good mom or a negligent one. Her life is understandably a mess, but she's so absent-minded and such a pushover that I don't even know how she made it this far in life. She's so weak and fragile I feel like she'd fall over or break in two if someone breathed on her. I understand her plight, but I feel like she makes bad decisions, so I can't whole-heartedly feel bad for her because she kind of put herself in the situations she gets into, like the "evidence" LZM presented in court where she's seen dressed up and mistaken for a drunken call girl. Lawyer Xiang's all like "why didn't you tell me about those pictures?" And I was thinking to myself, "One, how would she know, and two, you were the one who put her in that situation in the first place, forcing a single mother to dress up and attend a party with you when you knew she was embroiled in a custody battle, so as a supposed successful lawyer, you're the one who ruined your own case." Because of that, I couldn't tell at first if Lawyer Xiang had purposefully done it so Wu Tong would lose the case. He had to have known LZM would have people following her. It's Lawyer 101. And even if he's her last hope, WT should have never gone with him. Never trust someone who starts your relationship with conditions. And there are so many other similar things that I find just as irritating if not more.
So yeah...worth continuing or not?
I'm just getting used to the dubs because I'm not used to Chinese series yet.