So the big C-drama of the spring 2024 season may not just be In Blossom, now we need to add Blossoms in Adversity to it as well. Blossoms in Adversity wasn’t big budget or had a big name cast, and actually started off with criticism of male lead Hu Yi Tian and a general been there-done that impression of the plucky female lead Zhang Jing Yi overcoming obstacles story. But it apparently kept getting better and better as the story went on, the two leads had chemistry, and the story ended well. The opening Douban ratings was 6.4 but in the three months since the drama finished airing it’s now gone up to 7.3. That’s quite an achievement in that the little engine that could kind of way.