I wasted my precious weekend watching this terrible drama so you don't have to: part II

I'm embarrassed to say that I enjoy some Stubborn Male Lead and Misunderstandings but geez... This was too much.

It started off ok, even though the male lead has no clue of how disrespectful he is most of the time, but after episode 20, it was painful to watch.

They had this misunderstanding going on and while they were trying to fix it, they kept creating more misunderstandings. The female lead was being thrown from trouble to trouble and did nothing! While the male lead was being childish and had his development literally in the end.

I liked the actor, the female lead is so cute and pretty and showed her feelings pretty nicely, but what a terrible storyline.

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Why did she agree with lying about the baby not being the MLs???? That was not only immature, but it was dishonest and idk if it is a crime BUT IT SHOULD BE.

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my favorite drama of all time

as i said in every review i’ve ever written, cliches are my thing.

this drama simply delivered everything i wanted. healthy relationship? yes. protector ML? we have it. a bad ass best friend? absolutely. fun work space? of course. so cute it’s cringe? no doubts. nice parenting? yes. and we still have a lot of really cool 3d fights.

if you are thinking “is this drama worth watching?” the answer is YES, it’s light, soft, fun, entertaining and healthy.

i didn’t want to mention how xu kai is like all the other reviews, but it’s impossible. he is just to handsome. that it.

my favorite drama of all time.

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it's not that bad

it really isn't

but there are a lot of skips in it. i couldn't watch an entire episode without skipping 20min.

there were a lot of things that bothered me, for example:
who was more USELESS? a) lei chu xia going back to november 18th and doing the exact same thing and not saving anyone b) qin yue learning xiao dong's BIGGEST secret and immediately telling the villain

that's only 2 things out of WAY TOO MANY, but anyways...

if you ignore it, the story is kinda fun. a little bit confusing tho, but very amusing, the relationship between the leads is healthy and sweet. and even tho it looked like a sad ending, i'm pretty sure it's a happy ending.

i love ju jingyi.

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masterpiece.

this drama is everything people say it is. it deserves the hype it got and deserves the high ratings.

i have no words for the acting performance of both leads. it was so natural, mature & touching.

every thing that i didn't like about the drama (which is very few that's not even worth mentioning) was so irrelevante when compared to the high quality narrative, performances & plots.

and wow. SO MANY PLOTS. you may think that you've got everything figured out, but you don't.

it's one of my all-time favorite dramas (the first one in this on going list).

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I didn't know the cast besides Ju Jingyi (who I love), but the acting was pretty good from all of them. I liked the songs too.

But the story was kinda of mess. The comment section is REALLY exagerated tho. The FL is not as bad as they made me think, but it's true that she doesn't have a character development, she behaves like a 15 year old all the time, but by the last episodes you can see that she's a bit more mature.

The editing really gets weird by the end, you can see they rushed a few scenes. The villain is great, but seems like his primer motivator of vengence gets lost by the end, and he changes to a psycho unracional villain for no reason. Not to mention continuity and logic error in some parts of the story.

But for the positive side, I liked that the conflicts were quicly resolved and I love the chemistry between the main and the second couple.

It was a regular drama. I'm not sure I'd watch all 40 episodes again, but I kinda liked it. I laughed so hard at some special effects I cried.

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If you want cliche, this cdrama is full of it

I'm gonna start by saying how much I love the main couple. They have the most amazing chemistry, I felt myself vibing everytime they looked at each other. Darren Chen is a cutie too, just putting this out there.

This drama is so cliché, but that's exactly what I was hoping for. I enjoyed every single second & cringed the whole time, everybody deserves something light like this. We don't have that toxic disrespectful male lead, because Wen Bing is fun and caring, it'll elevate your ultimate boyfriend standards even higher.

The side characters are also very cute and relatable, we - cheesy romance lovers - have everything we could possibly want & I felt very satisfied with the whole story. When it ended I kinda felt a hole in heart, and I'm sure gonna fill it with another Chinese rom-com, yes. I don't know if it's healthy, but I do love it here. It's a yes from me.

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roller coaster

i love zhang ruo nan, i feel like she's so real with her facial expressions and cxx is a very good actor, very mature, and fits the character of a businessman, unlike dw for example. but i gotta say that i absolutely HATE what they did to cheng yao after he confessed, she was an extrovert, fun, and honest, which is why qian heng fell for her. but the closer they got, she was getting shyer and distant and indifferent, while qh was getting warmer and kinder, i hated that change. i know she values her job and he wasn't being reasonable, in fact, he was being a jackass at the end, but the changes are happening since ep 25 or 26, and rn i just feel like she transformed into a whole different person and i really don't like it.

anyway, after ep 36 things kinda get better, and i love how this drama is often speaking about inequality, and difficulties faced by divorced women and kinda focused on women's rights, not that this is anything new, but i noticed that cdramas are mostly focused on a hardworking FL who faces injustice and there's a savior ML whos always helping her.

although the drama isn't perfect, i found it mature (relationship and work), the actors look their character's age, are really kind to women and respectful. loved the FL maturing at the end, when she chose her career and demanded to be respected by her boyfriend, not only that, but she also broke up when felt like he crossed her lines, and also loved the ML and how he opened up to the world after seeing it through FL eyes and also being a fluffy ass boyfriend

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Surprisingly, my score is high even tho there's ZERO of my tropes in here.

This is my second Miao Yi's drama and I swear she's so cute and funny, this type of character fits her really well. The male lead is really good too. But what makes this a 9+ star drama is the involving and tender story of two childhood best friend, that has so much intimacy and care about each other in ways that no one understand, but also pick on each other and have fights like sibling.

The way the writers build this friendship into a romantic relationship is really soft, I was giggling through all the episodes.

This is definitely a must-watch if you are into cliché and cute dramas, even if this isn't your favorite trope.

Didn't like the SLs.

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Again, Miao Yi is incredibly funny. If you want a funny, smart, and kind character that doesn't feel forced or even stupid, she's the right fit.

And the male lead, oof, I've been obsessed with Zhou Yiran since FIYS for absolutely no reason. His acting skills are amazing and his character here is so cool and serious that is heart-melting when he starts falling for Su Zaizai. I'm looking forward to his next work.

The storytelling in this drama is great, the writers were able to capture their growth through time very subtly, it's just like watching them grow and mature in front of our eyes, especially romantically.

The second leads have some amazing stories. Normally, I find it very hard to get involved in SLs stories, but not in this drama. The writers didn't only give them a relationship out of nowhere just to say they did it (something like this happened in Exclusive Fairytale, Miao Yi's new drama), all of the supporting characters have depth and we get to know them well.

Honestly, Friends to Lovers isn't my trope, but this C-drama flew fast to my top 3 favorites of all time.

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Don't watch it if you're going to compare it to the korean version.

English isn't my first language, so please excuse my mistakes.

First of all, I watched it on Viki with temporized comments on, and what I saw the most was people comparing it to the korean verion, some being disappointed, some liked it better, but, please, those are different cultures and characters, if you're gonna watch because you liked the korean version, please keep in mind that those are different dramas and you can't expect them to be the same. If you don't like the changes, move on. If you like it, I hope you enjoy every second of it.

Now.

The main actors are handsome, and the FL is just as pretty. Everybody says that, but that's a fact and it's impossible not to comment.

The acting is on point. I really like Ju Jingyi and seen all her dramas, I can't express enough how much her acting skills have evolved. Her character Wen Bin/Wen Xi is funny, charismatic and very relatable, she's not as "perfect" as the other women on the drama, she's even called a "inappropriate woman" which, for me, meant she was defying their standards and I liked it. All the actors were great and very likeable.

Now, if you're expecting romance, I need to let you know that this ain't it. The romance only evolves by the end, but I the bromance and the four friends constantly growing together makes it worth watching. I laughed a lot, didn't cry until the end (and it was a good reason) and I wanna re-watch it again very soon.

I absolutely love this drama & the last episode is beautiful and funny.

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