Go Ahead (2020)

One of the cutest family dramas!!<(￣︶￣)>

Even though the headline says 'One of the cutest family dramas!!<(￣︶￣)>' it has some toxic characters. But in the end maybe you'll understand some of these characters (or maybe you won't)
Li dad is an angel. He is the nicest, kindest and all-the-synonyms-for-nicest-&-kindest person I have ever seen. he is so forgiving and cute and shy. His interactions with ziqui wre my favourite.i shipped him with ling dad but.....
Jianjian is the wisest person in the drama. She seems and acts like a kid at first but her character development is awesomeeeee✨
Ming que was my fav character. She was brave, independent, and reallllly smart and wise. I hope to see more characters like her in more dramas
Ling xiao and ziqui were also cute and really smart and wise. They were more responsible than many adults in the drama.
Just like no one is perfect(or maybe you are), the only problem in this drama is the non- consensual kisses.
Well, I will end this review by saying that this is a really good family drama with many heart warming moments(especially Li dad'd and ziqui's interactions) and it is worth your time.

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Lindo, emocinante, bem escrito e desenvolvido. Desde os atores mirins até eles em adulto. Chorei, ri, senti raiva em alguns momentos. Não sei até que ponto essa questão de ser filial realmente funciona na China, as vezes parece surreal. Como bem é dito no drama, a mãe do Ling Xiao era um buraco negro sugando todos para o seu inferno pessoal.
Mas no geral é lindo de ver que nem sempre família esta ligado ao sangue e sim pelo coração. Só não achei muito legal colocarem o romance entre os 3 irmãos, poderia de ter ficado apenas entre o Ling Xiao e JianJian, pois desde crianças já dana a entender que o amor entre eles era diferente, agora colocar o Zi Qiu como pretendente, acho que foi demais.
Se tivesse que colocar 1 defeito, seria no final. Corrido demais, depois de 40 episódios de 40 min e só no último episódio vê finalmente Chen Ting parar de invernizar seu filho, foi dose, ela merecia um castigozinho maior.

Apesar de 40 episósios, super indico!!!

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It’s a good show, but with some flaws

I love the main plot of Go Ahead. It’s so original and well written to see the neighbor and his new friend raising these kids through the years, and see how they became a family. A different type of family. This was the thing that made me love these people so much. The caring of these three to each other and their fathers was something so beautiful to watch. He Ziqiu is my favorite character, along side with his dad. All the scenes with them two together for me bring the best quality that this show had to offer. The love of Haichao for his kids made me cry so many times. I don’t have words to describe how pure and genuine this was.
But now I have to say about the negative things of Go Ahead. The moms. I think that have some things about the Chinese culture, that I’m not aware of, but how come these awful, so disturbing, disrespectful women made their kids suffer so much and in the end they had their “good ending”?! Specially Ling Xiao’s mom. This woman for me was the worst of this show. So many scene with her for nothing. Only she being awful and annoying all the time. Ok, I know she was sick, but I think the show losts its hands sometimes, cause it have so much other good plots to tell, and they show decide to show more of her awfulness. Parts of I didn’t like more was because of her. The other ones, so many things I think were wrong, oh my God… I can’t even know what to say. The only one that for me have the perfect story was He Mei. We understand what she went through, and she deserves a happy ending with Haichao. They are perfect together.
Talking about to the three main characters, the siblings. Their chemistry was top notch. For me, I don’t think that was necessary to put Ziqiu to had a “love interest” for JianJian. They’re siblings, the end. And I like that she end up with Ling Xiao. They’re meant to be since they were little. This was beautiful too.
So, in conclusion, I have the feeling that the 40 episodes was too much, for things that for me doesn’t sound good to tell (the so much of the mothers plots, the worst of it). But the rest was so good, and in general was a good show too.
In my heart, I’ll stay with this cute family in my heart, Haichao, Heping, Ling Xiao, Ziqiu and JianJian. All the times that they’re all together, was the highlight of the show. They are the best thing of all this.

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SUPERB

I wish I can find another QUALITY drama like this !! The bromance acting and Steven Zhang, Tu Songyan and Tan Song Yun are AMAZING !!! Not a draggy and lousy story. The music added to each scene is GREAT! Fearless by Ma Di somemore, EXCELLENT. A lot of tears and laughters. I would really really really suggest you to watch this drama! Better than iDeal City IMHO. Why should we write this long??????????????????????????????????? 500 CHARS??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? WHAT SHOULD I DO?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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Heartwarming yet heartbreaking

Go Ahead is absolutely a masterpiece that everyone should watch. It is definitely one of the most meaningful and touching drama I've watched. While watching it, I was swarmed with all kinds of emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, and relief. This drama will literally take you on a rollercoster ride.

You get to witness the ups and downs of each character as they grow and face different kinds of problems in life. It teaches us the importance and definition of family, wherein a family is built on love and care and its members are not defined by blood.

Watching Go Ahead will make you cherish your family and the people around you who continuely supports you. It showed us how the peaceful and joyful life that we share with the family we built can easily crumble when our past comes knocking on our door that places us in dilemma between our biological family that abandoned us or the people that accepted and treated us as their own family. It makes us realizes that the relationship we have will eventually change, for change is a constant. The only thing we can do is to move forward and go ahead in life. One day, the people close to us may leave, the things we avoid may suddenly appear, and the life we're trying so hard to hold on fall apart in an instant.

It tackled about the pressure that children face because of their parents and how it can grow and turn into their darkest scars. The show opens our eyes as to how avoidance or keeping our problems to ourselves is not the solution. It will eventually haunt us or make us overwhelmed with the burden we've placed on ourselves. Sometimes we don't want others to know the problems we're dealing in order for them not to worry or pity us and so that we won't trouble them with our own problems, but sometimes its better to open up even though the may not be able to offer some help instead of bottling all our all feelings because thats what familes and friends are for, which is to support one another.

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BEST CHINESE DRAMA I'VE WATCHED SO FAR THIS 2020

I started watching this drama with just the sole purpose of seeing Song Weilong with no hopes that this drama will be great. But as I watched the first episode I honestly enjoyed it. I can say that because I felt that I've watched a 10 minutes long drama when in fact it was 40 minutes long.

I like the story. It was not the typical over dramatic story with heavily dramatized problems in life. It was just the right amount that made it perfectly portrayed the real life scenarios.

I like the acting. Their acting resonated inside me and that's why when they laugh, I laugh; when they cry, I cried.

Young adults would probably realize a lot from this drama. A whole lot. It will make you realize the harsh truth of being an adult, of growing up.

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Truly Beautiful and Lovely! Cant get over it.

I read on "Go Ahead" Wiki that in China the rating of this drama dropped when suddenly two non-blood relater brother confessed their love for Li Jianjian. There is no way that one could just judge the drama on this basis alone. Also, both the characters in the drama have their own reasons for doing so. And to understand such a thought process, one needs to be mature and has emotional intelligence.
We all can see that Ling Xiao and Li Jianjian always have something going on (crushing each other vibe) though Li Jianjian didn't realize it before. So, it's quite normal for Ling Xiao to confess his love for Li Jianjian.
About He Ziqui, his wanting to be married to Li Jianjian is more to do with staying with the family forever. He is very protective of her. And He feels only he can protect and care for her the best.
And his love for her is very brotherly and family vibe. He loves his dad Li wholeheartedly. With this thought, his confession is justified.
The story of this drama is well thought out and well written. It depicts all the emotions which one faces in normal life. And it's truly beautiful. The actors and actresses performed outstandingly for the characters they are playing. It was a roller-coaster ride of emotions. Can't help myself saying - It was truly beautiful. Every bit of the drama is worth it. All the characters are lovely, of course! except for Ling Xiao's mum. But the actress did a great job of making us hate her so much. She really did a great job of depicting an evil, selfish-centric, and difficult-to-be-with person.
Thank you, Producer, Long Ya for producing this amazing drama and screenwriters Shui Qianmo and Wang Xiongcheng for complying with this beautiful family story.

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Heartwarming

If you're looking for a slice-of-life family drama, this is the best it gets. I must have cried every other episode, and it's rare to see a drama where every character gets a fleshed-out backstory that tugs at the heartstrings. There's a lot of struggle and tragedy but a lot of love as well — and it really felt like no minutes in this drama were wasted and no character felt left behind. This drama just gave me so many feelings, especially when it came to the two fathers.

The romance was done really well too; it was hinted at early on and developed naturally — there was no annoying breakup and misunderstanding. This drama describes why I love friends-to-lovers, because they just know each other well enough.

The OST is perfect and powerful; listening to the songs afterwards isn't just like watching the show all over again, it was like seeing myself grow up in the last 20 years and feeling the nostagia of it all.

There's some comments about the ending feeling rushed and to a certain extent I feel that as well, but ultimately I think it was more of a feeling of not wanting it to be over. I'd seriously highly recommend this one.

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Good Show

It has a really compelling story. It took me a while to get fully into it, but I enjoyed it. It had the best cooking scenes. The whole love plot was annoying it could have been just a really cute story of friendship, but Jian Jian and Xiao grew on me.I absolutely hated the love triangle I felt like Xiao and Zi Qiu could have been closer and we don't see too much of their friendship. The ending honestly sucked, they could've fleshed it out more and had a satisfying conclusion. I hated how most of the episode was about Xiao's mom. Everyone did really great in portraying their characters. I really like the OST. I would not watch this again because it was super long and emotionally draining. Overall I enjoyed it, felt like their could be more to the ending though.

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A family of choice, abandoned by their mothers, raised by devoted fathers.

Relationship between the three friends who grew up together:
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From the get go, it was easy to see that Jian Jian clearly favored Ling Xiao over He Zi Qiu. She made Zi Qiu's life quite difficult and it made me a bit worried about what kind of man Zi Qiu would grow up to be, to always have to beg for affection. But thankfully, he turned out all right. Overtime, she outgrew the little jealously she felt about him becoming her brother and Zi Qiu's mother becoming her step-mother. But we could see that she took him for granted because he agreed to everything she wanted. And maybe that allowed him to have fun along with her, be a little naughty and forget that his mother left him to a stranger who could have treated him badly. Next, we have Ling Xiao, who was treated cruelly by his own mother, then later abandoned without much care. He had to grow up too early, compared to Jian Jian and Zi Qiu who were always lost in their own mischief. He was the mother of their friend group, who had look after both of them once he decided that they were his family. It was painful to see how life split the three apart, and for a moment I wondered if they would ever be the same.

The Best Fathers :
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Li Hai Chao: The best parent I have ever seen in any stories. Just how generous can a person be? There is nothing you can hate about him. He is made of all the good stuff in the world. Seeing that he lost his wife to childbirth, he could have become just as vile as Chen Ting and mistreated his child. But he was never that kind of person, he raised a daughter who was maybe a bit mischievous but all in all had a happy soul. He took in Zi Qiu and always treated ling Xiao well. He was both a mother and father to all three children who grew up to become the decent human beings they were. It was easy to see his genuine care for the children. He just eluded warmth. I was glad we had a character like that to balanced out the selfish mothers.
Ling He Ping: I wasn't a fan of him since he was more of an absentee father. Normally, it would have been understandable as he was the primary breadwinner of the family. But his absence resulted in the psychological trauma faced by his only living son who was neglected and mistreated by his mother. For far too long, He Ping humored Chen Ting at the cost of his child's mental health. I'm usually someone who is against violence and don't even tolerate excuses for slaps. But I didn't feel sorry when Chen Ting was slapped. What a poor excuse for a mother. Once she was out of the picture, Ling He Ping was finally focused on his child and became a decent father who started looking after his son.

Mothers who abandoned their sons:
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Chen Ting: What a horrible character. I wonder where the ideas for this character came from. I do hope people who have mothers like these have grown up at least as well adjusted as Ling Xiao or are holding on and trying their best to live their life. She first mistreats her son, then abandons him without looking back, she then goes on to marry someone else and have another child (wth was going on in her mind to have another one. She is not a mother material), has an injury so now all the adults in her life don't want to take care of her so Xiao has to, when he has no obligations to do so. But he is guilt tripped into doing so. Even after he has fulfilled his duty as her "son", she then forces him to stay with them for more years. When is able to get rid of her tentacles and come back to a place where he was happy, she finds it in herself to come play with his head. She is mad at the woman he loves, hates her because that woman cared more for Xiao than her selfish ass ever did, then she tries to set her son up on a date with another woman, as if that's not enough she tries to kill herself leaving behind a letter for Xiao to find. She never had any mercy on her son. (One of the ickiest characters I have come across)

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