There was only one character I liked during the whole series: Song Lin.

Song Luo and Shen Di played a little part in the drama....I liked them, I hope they develop their friendship into something more in future.

It was 45 episodes long therefore there were a lot of side stories and a lot of issues that got extended some I felt repetitive. I had to skip parts I wasn't interested in. I don't think I missed a whole lot of the story even then. I wasn't too interested in that whole aspect of the show. All I was really interested in was the love story of Song Lin and Zhou Fang which started out with great chemistry but somewhere along the way I found Zhou Fang to be wishy washy.

Scenes where Song Lin (Johnny Huang) was in, I never found draggy though :-) His acting is just so natural regardless of what mood he was in. He was what made me finish the series.