Its premises had potential to be enjoyable and even interesting, but the execution is at best mediocre--suffering from immaturity and rushing through the resolution of the mini-conflicts--and at worst downright undermining the characters and story itself. Its ending is unsatisfying, unless you are among the small percentage of readers who might find it satisfying, and if there is anything that might be learned from a "certain" character's journey, it's the untrue lesson that "you don't ever have to face the consequences of your actions if you just refuse to accept any responsibility for the obviously bad things you did." I quitted the story out offrustration, near the end. I would not invest such time into getting to that point, never again.

Art - 5/10
The overall style is old-shoujo, long faces, big sparkly eyes, and all, which isn't too terrible (although not my favorite) if executed well. Although it certainly improves as the story progresses, it starts from a place of laughable disproportionality, particularly among the male characters, and certain technical skills are just not there. For the improvement and the decent drawings of the female characters, I will give it some points, though.

Characters - 2/10
Between inconsistency, one-dimensionality, and sometimes down-right nonsensical behavior, this is probably the manhua's worst category. The main character is a complete doormat at first and her development involves becoming someone who is less passive but still isn't assertive enough to stand her ground when something is wrong. The male lead is completely devoid of all redeemable qualities, and the fact that he is given anything good is a travesty. The better male character actually has a backbone and moral fiber, and is not a bad character at all in terms of writing, but I really don't think the author knows it. Because of how he's treated by the story, I can't count those unintentional merits. Anna, the other female character involved in whatever romantic quadrangle this is, is interesting, but poor execution strikes again, here's a really out of character action that completely ruins any possibility of her being sympathized with because "thE mAin cHaraCtEr hAs tO gEt wiTH hEr aBusEr, let's pin the blame for everything on this one lady who is more a victim than anything." The other characters are mostly one dimensional.

Plot - 4/10
I would have been less peeved if this was the only bad thing. It's like a soap opera, everything that happens is the most sensational possible result, which means that it can be entertaining even if cheesy. It's nothing special, pretty cliche, but the execution is quite bad. It's immature.

Romance - nope /10
Main character girl had infinitely more chemistry with art curator guy than she ever did with vulnerable narcissist man.

Themes - 3/10
The times when there was some good/interesting messaging/addressing-of-issues are all undermined by how glaringly bad one of the most significant themes it handled was--letting go, which it handled by saying "you shouldn't let go ever, but you also shouldn't take responsibility". Baaaad

Enjoyability - 4/10
It was kind of funny for a little bit, a tad emotional for another bit, almost entertaining, but catching a whiff of what was going to happen rotted everything.

Overall 4/10
I feel like this is a generous rating. No merits it had were great enough to in any way outweigh its flaws. Don't read unless you like allowing people who haven't learned from their evils to drag you down with them yet again. Then again if you do like that, you should probably use the time spent reading this manhua to get counseling.

Ok that's all.
High Duck says farewell.