I watched part of the episode on KIKU TV the other night, and I ended up looking up the series on mysoju.com. Over the past weekend I've gotten up to episode 9.
For those who don't know it, it's set in Taiwan and is about a girl named Xiang Qin who is a senior in high school, but in F Class, which is for the lowest scoring students. She confesses to Zhi Shu, the top student from A Class, who rejects her, so she tells him that she'll just forget about him, then.
After Xiang Qin's house is destroyed in an earthquake, her father's old high school friend hears about it on the news and she and her father move in with his friend's family.
However, it turns out her dad's friend is Zhi Shu's dad, so they have to live together even though Zhi Shu makes it clear Xiang Qin annoys him. He eventually starts helping her study, though, and she starts to improve. Xiang's father and Zhi Shu's parents think they're a cute couple and constantly try to push them together.
Eventually the two (of course) start to like each other once they learn more about each other's good points.
Overall I really like it, but it takes a while for interesting themes to start coming into play, such as doing the things you want versus doing what others want you to do. And if you can truly judge a person based on talents and brains, or if hard work is really enough to achieve your dreams when you don't have any exceptional skills.
The main problem I have is that Xiang Qin is a pretty bland heroine. She doesn't have any talents for anything and doesn't express any definite interests. The writers need to give her SOMETHING to fall back on to make up for how, I'm being honest, utterly stupid she is (she spends all night trying to do one page of math homework, and in the end still gets it wrong), other than that she works really hard. Plus her mom is DEAD, but absolutely nothing about this is acknowledged except in the first episode.
Zhi Shu is a little better, considering that even though he has a photographic memory, he has his own inner conflict about what to do with his life, plus he had a pretty messed up childhood thanks to his mom.
It's pretty good, but I think I need to see more to decide whether I'd recommend it to someone.
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