First it was love O2O, then Falling into your Smile, and now this drama... Tencent gets respect from me for producing dramas over and over that basically flat out promote the games that they make and glorify the gaming industry. I say that with sincerity, it's really a brilliant advertising strategy especially to get at young people...

We are basically following the inner struggles of a top scientist who wants to do great things for humanity but is advised by everyone else that he should use his time to make money first instead. The great irony is that for someone who struggles so much with his higher purpose, he apparently spends copious amounts of time playing mobile games and is now coaching a successful, productive actress to do the same.

However none of the previous dramas seems to have been this blatant of an ad. The first five episodes of You are a Glory are basically 50% scenes from their mobile game. There's very little plot at all. When the plot kicks in a bit more around Ep 5, it's sandwiched between rather abrupt bouts of gaming, sometimes to comical effect. Scenes of the leads working hard at their job or dealing with life problems are interspersed abruptly with gaming animations and discussions of such delightful topics as 'jungle strategy'.

The acting is fine and good and I guess it could be a nice, if cliche, love story... but the artificial gaming scenes stitched on top are a bit hard to take seriously. It's almost like they threw in the propaganda-like space program story for the ML to help this drama pass censorship.