The second half of Blossom is putting me to sleep

I really enjoyed the first half of Blossom, especially from around episode 5 to episode 12 or so. But oh my god, I'm dragging my feet to press play on each next episode ever since I reached maybe...episode 18? As soon as the leads got married it's like the narrative completely deflated.

There are still parts of it I enjoy. The humor is wonderfully subtle, the sound editing and musical cues are great, and the directing is fantastic. But the character writing and plotting isn't reaching its potential imo. I enjoy a simp ML as much as the next person but I feel like the ML is a bit underwritten and has become quite boring to me, even though I think Li Yun Rui's performance is really charming!

FL is a character type that I really really enjoy, and I predominantly go into cdramas like this for the FL. But something is missing for me here, too. As I watch I keep thinking to myself, 'This reminds me of Ming Lan, except Ming Lan was so much more vibrant and had so much more depth.' The writing in Blossom is smart on the surface and enchanted me at first, but now that I'm over 20 episodes in I feel like the writing just doesn't have enough substance to be stretched out over this many episodes.

I also feel the side characters aren't bringing a ton of depth to the story, either. The one narrative turn I did quite enjoy was the development of Dou Zhao's father and his comedic bits thereafter. It wasn't super nuanced, but I thought it was nicely done and him finally standing up for Dou Zhao is one of the few things in the story that actually made me emotional. Other than that though, even though I find some of the side characters enjoyable (the twins!) I'm not actually invested in any of them.

Anyway, I'm a bit surprised at how boring I'm finding it at this point because I've heard the ending is great and that people generally seem to think really highly of the drama as a whole? But I don't know if I can get myself to finish it, which I'm so upset about because my track record for finishing 2024 Cdramas has been bad and I thought this would finally be The One for me 😭 Also, I genuinely keep forgetting while watching that this is a 'second chance' drama because I feel like that dramatic framing has fallen away in the current narrative as things have turned much more inward to family/household politics.

Did anyone else feel this way about the show and did you end up finishing?