Love Me Like A Child (2021)

Noona romance done right

The series shows the importance of keeping a core group of friends who will give you guidance for the sake of your well-being. It also shows how important it is to keep a core group of people who believe in you.

The family dynamic presented in the series reminds me a bit of Reply 1988 while the golden trio reminds me of the kdrama 39.

I loved the characters' growth throughout the series and loved the main couple. Although their chemistry wasn't the best, they played their roles as best as they could.

Being from a "study first" family who couldn't help try to experience being in a relationship, I couldn't help but see myself in the main couple - many times I had to smack my forehead thinking "so this is how stupid it looked" but it was a thrilling ride.

I disagree with the comments saying the ML is mature - rather he was surrounded and guided by mature people - otherwise he was really just a clingy and whiny kid.

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Un romance lindo de ver

Es un bonito noona love con una historia de amor que empieza desde antes de nacer pero que se tomo su tiempo hasta llegar al punto donde termino.
Personalmente disfrute muchísimo este drama, era justo lo que quería ver y no me decepciono ni me desagrado nada, todos los personajes fueron entrañables, bien llevados y con una actuación acorde a lo que el drama pedía.
Me encanto la química que había entre el ML y la FL*, las escenas de ellos juntos sin duda son demasiado bonitas hasta el punto de querer un amor así de maravilloso.
La música fue ideal para todas las situaciones en las que se agregaron al drama y la canción aparentemente cantada por el ML cuando firma con la discográfica es pegadiza .
* La FL, ella es mayor pero es esa chica mayor que creció poniéndose esa armadura para que nadie la lastime, siendo independiente y no sabiendo dejar q otros la ayuden y se preocupen por ella pero q quiere querer, quiere confiar y tener alguien que la apoye . me pareció el mejor personaje con diferencia de este drama, supo demostrar perfectamente el tipo de mujer que pedía su papel y ame todos sus momentos tiernos ( no les parece que tiene un parecido a winter de aespa?)
En fin, este es un drama con un amor bonito, muchos momentos de reflexión y que te deja con satisfecho al terminarlo

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Would I watch it again? Nope.

Alright bear in mind I have not fully watched all the dramas. I have only watched fully till episode 21. But that’s only because I was enjoying this drama and I didn’t want to see the main leads in trouble by the bitch that wants to brew up trouble.

Anyways, I kinda have an idea of what happened in the next few episodes so I will take it as that.

So the drama is relatively well done. The acting, the story, the casting was all decently alright. The romance and love between the leads are swoon worthy and the male lead piercing smile and gaze is pretty Wow. The acting of the female lead was top notch as well.

Overall, I may hold onto this and wait a little while before I finish this drama. But I may not watch it again only because it was a good drama, and I want to leave it as that. Who know I might watch it again way down the future. It’s like that feeling where ur so engrossed in the story that you just can’t be rewatching it again as it might lose the impression I have on the show.

Would I recommend it? Yes. There’s love, tragedy, youth, and alittle of a reality check as well. But it kinda shows simply that love conquers all. So who doesn’t like that?

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Gender reversed childhood friends turned lovers story

If you exchange the genders of the leads, this is the typical childhood friends turned into lovers trope.

Their parents were best friends and neighbors. They promised each other that if their children had the same sex they'll be sworn siblings and if different let them marry. The catch? FL was born seven years before the ML. So by now you can guess that the main conflict in the drama is a society that looked down on older female-much younger male relationships.

I really liked that drama showed us flashbacks of the leads' childhood. The FL took care of the ML when their parents were busy, saved him when she thought he was bullied, basically treating him as just a younger brother. The ML on the other hand, worshipped the FL, obeyed her in everything and considered all her words to know how to please her.

The FL kept failing in relationships while the ML just looked on waiting until she finally notices him but she never did. He then went on to study abroad to become more competent and attractive. When he returned the virginal ML kept seducing the FL until she finally gave in. I really can imagine this as if their roles were reversed. A big brother taking care of his so-called sister who in turn is very obedient and tried to become attractive, then because she had a crush on him, pretended to be helpless and seduced him. See? Typical.

The real conflict in this drama is that the FL felt like she was a cradle snatcher if she will have a relationship with the ML. Once she got over this thinking, their relationship stayed strong amidst worried. I was satisfied to see that the main CP has enough people who are close to them supportive of their relationship. The people who matters.

I could not give this a perfect rating because I would have liked to see more growth in the leads, more reasons to see that they are an OTP but overall this is a fun watch which though typical was not that cliched.

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Too good to be true?

Lin Yang (FL) and Lu Zheng An (ML) grew up together as kids, both families were very close. She was 7 years older than him. But one moved away after 6 years. Somehow when LZA was 15, they met again and started liking her. He never had a girlfriend because he was set on her, but she on the other hand had many bfs. He went to study abroad and at 24 yrs old, the moment he came back, he went to look for her to live and work near her.

Their love story was good, and also not good. Good because he was very focused on her and her alone (borderline obsessive). I thought in most instances he was quite mature in his thinking, a little impulsive but sweet and earnest. She only treated him like a little brother at first, cos she couldn’t wrap her head around the idea of dating him. But eventually she realised she had fallen in love with him, but still refused and rejected him. Only with the help of friends then she finally admitted and agreed. There were many sweet moments and PDA so that was nice.

Not good- he directed his whole life based on what she liked- what food she liked, which music star she liked, his whole world revolved around her. She, the lawyer cousin and many others treated him like a kid (cos they were all older than him) which I felt was kinda unfair.

Supporting characters and side stories were not that interesting to me. Unfortunately I skipped quite a lot, and focused mainly on the lead couple and whatever involved them. I also skipped the beginnings of each episode where the scene would flashback to when they were kids with their parents. Found that dull. Sometimes the story was too good to be true, everything worked out perfectly- both parents were so supportive, whatever scandals were dealt with easily and smoothly.

It was a nice easy drama to watch, but don’t expect too much. :)

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Stop what you're doing....and watch this

Honestly, I hardly ever take the time to write a review but this drama is special. I usually stick to kdramas because eventhough there are similar tropes, Cdramas often take the same tropes and manage to make it 10x more annoying. As the ML is 6 years younger than the FL, it could have been cringey or made the FL out to be immature or clumsy and silly, but not this one! In fact, the writers take so many of the things we come to expect from dramas and show us that you don't need all of that to produce a show worth watching.

My fated boy has a strong female lead, supporting parents, no misunderstandings that could have been sorted out with a single conversation, lovely friends and no horrible bosses! The love triangle was mild and the second lead (If you can call her that) got the picture midway through the show. Even the backflashes to their childhood added something special to the show and was never anything I skipped. It was adorable!

All in all, FANTASTIC. And that's coming from me who watches about 3 Cdramas in a year and who complains bitterly if show has more than 24 episodes. This one has 29 and I loved each and every one of them!

Like I said - stop what you're doing and go watch this!

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What nonsense; Super cringe, horrible plot and even more horrible is the acting!

Dropped it at Episode 13, so this review is based on that.

First, I seriously do not understand how this drama is rated anything above 7 considering how some literal masterpieces out there get half the attention than this. Also, I see this listed on no-cliches and healthy romance a lot but I would 100% (politely) disagree. This is as trope-y as any average C/K drama. There is an unnecessarily rude and annoying second female lead who does not take no for an answer and harasses the FL. There is also the overdone trope of age which leads to the FL treating the ML like a doormat. Then you have the brooding SML and this unnamed relationship between him and the FL. If that is not trope-y, I don't know what is.

My biggest problem is with the way the FL acts (in general) and treats the ML. The way the FL just keeps on humiliating him, shouting at him, letting her insecurities get the better of her and lashing out at him is too much and no one should tolerate that, especially under the garb of love. Just because you can't deal with your feelings (coherent or incoherent) you do not get the right to take it out on anyone else, which she does again and again. That's just plain abuse.

Also, I've not seen other works of the actress, but I find her acting here to be extremely horrible. In the sequence where she acts drunk early on, I was getting second-hand embarrassment with her poor acting and how she seemed more paedophile trying to attack the guy than drunk.

I regret wasting even a single minute of my time on this show. It is not worth it and I would not recommend this to anyone. I was willing to drop it at Ep 1 but all these positive comments had me thinking maybe it gets better. Almost halfway through, it DID NOT get even 1% better and was such a painful watch throughout.

I'm giving this a 2 only because I enjoyed He Yu's acting quite a lot. He was quite fit for the role, I only wish the role was better. Whenever he was on screen, it became a little bearable.

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So boring and annoying

This is the only drama I decided to drop because of annoying character of both ML and FL. ML is soooo shameless boring and annoying character and FL is psychic.
Most annoying things,
1. For ML 100-200 messages she barely replies one or two messages yet again he runs to her even after knowing she does that only to him but to others she is not.
2. Only because he is younger than her, in most of the times it is tried to portray his childishness even though he is 24 years old.
3. Even though she didn’t had any feelings yet she wants to try because she is getting old and old.
4. She has loved number of guys and got break up, yet again she is cheerful for new relationship.
5. Even her friends characters is also most annoying because till 9 episodes scenes are repeating, they try to push her to love ML and she always says same thing that she don’t have any feelings for him and he is like his little brother, but she couldn’t completely avoid him so that no to waste time on her.
6. Irrespective of the situation the director tried to show comedy in most of the scenes, I felt it’s childish and immature.
7. Love plot is very worst or there is no love plot actually from when he started to have feelings for her(till nine episodes, I don’t know whether it shown in future episodes).
8. If I were the director I would have courted ML to second FL.

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simples e perfeito

Uma história que não foca apenas no clichê e no drama romântico mas também na história de mulheres maduras com suas dores, preocupações e paixões.


Retratou tanto as histórias reias e comoventes de mulheres no mundo profissional, e no ambiente de trabalho ( os preconceito que são imposto por homens e mulheres nesse ramo ou em qualquer outro lugar ).

E Os preconceito também em relação a diferença de idade em relações amorosas, foi o foco no drama. Eu amei os personagens, as amizades formadas que se ajudam em tudo é tão lindo ??
O casal principal são perfeitos, a atuação te diverte muito eu mesma ri demais com a fofura deles na infância e na vida adulta.
A química entre eles é tão boa e fofa que eu me encontro apaixonada por eles !!!!


Esse com certeza é um dos meus doramas favorito ❤️

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Just a decent filler

OVERALL
This drama is nothing out of this world, but it's worth the watch if 1) you're looking for a drama that delivers romantic scenes and isn't false advertisement, 2) you like super sweet and nurturing male leads, 3) you dig assertive female leads. Still, if you 1) get super annoyed by clichés, 2) find age-gap romances hard to swallow, 3) are looking for lots of comedy, maybe skip.

THE STORY
Not sure why the last few dramas I've watched were all just kind of average. My Fated Boy isn't bad at all, but I wasn't dying to watch it before I started, I wasn't dying to keep watching while I did, and I'm not dying to rewatch it now that it's over. On the positive side:
1) Female lead has a backbone. She can stand up to herself.
2) Male lead is very sweet and nurturing towards female lead, which is really the best way to pursue a girl, in my opinion.
3) the drama has super nice and caring parents, no crazy in-laws.
4) the friends (well, at least one) have interesting stories of their own that you won't feel like skipping.
5) the drama gives the OTP some cute scenes and coherent development.

On the negative side:
1) the drama is literally just a mashup of clichés. Everything about the OTP feels like something you've seen or heard five hundred times, all age-gap conflicts and their resolution are super predictable.
2) Female lead is deep but the drama doesn't give her a good backstory to explain her depth or give her any character development.
3) Male lead doesn't exist as an individual, all he cares about is Female lead, which makes him super flat.
4) the drama really goes full on with cliché, two-dimensional female stalkers that can't take no for an answer and make everyone's life miserable. There's just one after another.
5) the best of the OTP is the "falling in love" part, the "being together" part feels lackluster.

THE ACTING
Ok, I guess. Wasn't super impressed but I think everyone did well enough, given that it's not a drama to show extraordinary skills. I must say though, that after the last few dramas I've watched with scenes of crazy chemistry between the leads, the OTP in this one feels a bit tame. Not forced though, they still look fine. There just isn't as much chemistry between them.

THE MUSIC
No comment.

REWATCH VALUE
Not really high. The drama's fine to watch, but it's just too average for rewatch. I only rewatch dramas with unforgettable, gripping, emotional or thrilling scenes. This one had none of the above.

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Not your typical C-Drama romcom, and that's a great thing!

Chinese romcoms are moving away from having adult female characters (ages 30+) act cutesy and clueless, and I am glad. Finally, we are seeing female lead characters who are normal and real. I was so surprised by the female lead character because not only did the actress do a fantastic job, but the character is someone that women between the ages of 28-40 can relate to. I was also surprised by the interaction that she had with her female coworkers about their job, while they were inside of the restroom at the bar/restaurant. The reason I was surprised is because they were speaking up about the conflict that many women face around the world, when working at a corporate job or in tech; sexism in the workplace is real and horrible.

Side note: I'd date a man who is 6 years younger than me, as long as he is not in his 20's. What I like about the male lead character is that although he is young, he is confident, and isn't interested in living for the moment as most male 20 year olds do nowadays. Also, the actor is cute, and I like his haircut.

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