Everyone Wants to Meet You

This drama got me hooked from beginning to end.I binged watch the first ten episodes in just one day. I commend them for their acting especially the male lead.
Zhang zhe han never failed to surprise me. He can portray characters who looks really cold and tough.I remember him as Prince Qin in his previous drama and it was good to see him back in a modern drama .He looks dashing with his new hair. His eyes are very expressive.
I loved how adorable the Lou Xi is.I became her fan the moment I saw her onscreen. She has a natural charm and no doubt she will land in more bigger roles.
But damn I had no idea Riley speaks English well and being raised in Canada he speaks smoothly. Not really a fan of him but he can really act. The only character that annoys me was Wena and i think she was so good playing the spoiled rich princess.
Tao Lun and Wena are supporting characters but their characters exist for a reason and they are part of the main conflict of the story.
Though Zhang Min replaced Tao Lun and perform his duties as a son but his father never treated him well. I feel sorry for him because he was living a dual life and was deprived of his right to live as Zhang Chi.
Family problems really gets complicated and as you grow older you are left with no choice but to protect the ones you loved.
He had to protect his mother at the same time lived as someone else's son.
Tao lun was still very fortunate because he had foster parents who really loved him.
But when you think of it Zhang Min and his mother suffered for losing Tao lun.
The ones greatly affected are the children.

I strongly recommend this drama and I am loving the natural chemistry of the leads. The way he stares at her makes me melt. Where could I find a boyfriend who looks at me the way he looks at Lou Xi.

The plot seems cliche but the pacing and storyline is good. Just the right amount of sweetness and angst.I'm gonna miss this drama.

So if you ever watched a melodrama and wants to brighten up your mood you should check this out.


The ending was a bit rushed and the real culprit apologized for his mistake in just one episode and it was over.They could have done a lot in a 36 episode drama.It gets draggy the moment they found out the real Zhang Min.
I want a better ending but I am more than happy to see the leads ending up together.

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many plot holes

Zhang Zhe Han of course the reason I've watch this drama. But many plot holes this drama has make me have to lower their star...

the plot holes:
1. One thing almost every director never really consider when making drama. VISAAAAA. Luo Xi (LX) want to go to America, where one of the hardest country to get visa, only plan in 2 days period.... Hello is that easy to get that visa...? For Tao Lun (TL) maybe he is America citizen still makes sense to go there just in 2 days. But LX no way that easy. And Zhang Min (ZM) also... He wants to catch LX by suddenly buy ticket at the airport. Hey where is your passport....??? Can you buy abroad ticket without passport...? I don't think so...
2. No bodyguards that stupid. When Wen Na (WN) go to America she is protected by bodyguard, but that bodyguard that easily get distracted by Tao Lun. No actual professional bodyguards that stupid to be that easily get distracted.
3. The announcement at the fashion show. I don't know where the messed up. Maybe this is the work of really one bad cut-edit. I think when they shoot the scene supposed to be longer where they explain about the fact that ZM is Zhang Jing Zhong's (JZ) son. But the one come out just the recording of ZM's mom scream histerically about she is the ZM's mom & that JZ wants to harm them (mother & son) nothing about JZ being ZM's dad so how everyone in the end still know the fact that ZM is JZ's son....

The bad:
- The rush ending again I guess... The very last few episode is so weird & fast going. Like they want to wrap the drama and in the end make Wu Tian Wei (TW) so easy to regret what his wrong doing in the end.
- The way they put the role of TW feel like half baked. Like is he the bad guy...? Everything he did just feel half-hearted. He want to harm ZM but he is still the uncle. He want to do harm to TL but he is also afraid of him... Hah.... Don't know what to say... Maybe the writer just too focus on ZM-LX-TL story until they forget to build persona for TW as the bad guy.
- Wu Tian Hua never wake up... :(. Will gonna be much better if in the end the mom wake up from her comma & see TL.

What I like:
+ WN is very berry strong girl. She never really depressed or plan to revenge after every heart break. She always get back on her feet. Even I also kinda pitty her for falling again into the same pit but with diff man (ZM & TL). I really like how the writer not put her into one crazy love rival mode.
+ The acting of Tu Ling Aka Shen Xiu Zhi or ZM's mom is very good. We can really feel she is one troubled woman.

I don't know to put it in the good or bad:
The relationship between ZM & LX is mature but some aspect really weird. Like lack of romance maybe... There were some scene where if that another drama I think they'll gonna put kissing or hugging but this drama not. I don't too like too much show off love but the way they do make it feel empty in some sort of way... I don't know how to describe it. The chemistry between Zhang Zhe Han & Zhang Ruo Nan quite ok.

Overall this just another drama to spend ur time...

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Started off as. a potential 8.5 ... slowly went to 8.0... and then to 7.0

The basic backstory of this drama is that the female lead is into taking and restoring plants
The male lead is a ceo of a hotel/ corporation that also has a garden kind of thing., due one to the male lead's grandpa passing he meets the female lead. The male lead often gets headaches and the female lead is the only one that can make him feel better. The female lead ends up working as his hotel.. The second female is kinda annoying, making it hard for the female lead to do what she really wants which is gardening and taking care of plants.

The drama focused mainly on the backstory/ identity of the male lead and the second male lead. ( don't want to spoil it too much)
The production focused too much on the identity part which felt really draggy after a while. I thought it was going to end around 30... , but in total there are 36 chapters.

I skipped majority of all the planning/scheme/identity /backstory ... >_<
The biggest a**hole in the story is the dad......

I however really liked the chemistry between the two leads, wish there could of been more sweet scene
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Mainly watched it because I like the male lead Zhang zhe han :)


I definitely would not rewatch

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I didn't really want to watch this at first based on the synopsis. I decided to anyways because I liked all the main actors.

The main leads, are both great in the drama, although I agree with some reviewers the FL doesn't have the biggest character development. But that's probably because she's a fairly happy person in the story despite, being an orphan. She would need more tragedy and frankly this story has enough, to add more to the FL would be excessive. The relationship with the ML is complicated, but very sweet.

The stereotype Executive in drama is all there at first: cold, ruthless, weird, but naturally (because this is a drama) it's all a facade. The ML storyline is very tragic, it's the first time I've watch such a pathetic ML in asian drama. It reminded me of Reek in Game of thrones, except character wise they are not a like. There are times in this drama when I wished the ML stood up for himself more, pushed back more, but in the end he was a very kind person, and a victim of his family..

His family SUCKS! Full stop, he might as well have been an orphan frankly. The violent and psychological abuse they do on this young man is horrifying. Even the nicest parent (his stepmom) can't help but morn her lost child making the ML feel like he will never be important, or loved by a parent.

The second couple, or the I can't take no for answer couple: their acting is great, their characters are frustrating.

Wen Na is very selfish, and a bit one dimensional. She keeps saying she's in love, but her lack of listening, or sympathy clearly shows she obsessed. Still role makes sense as the spurned fiancé. I will say I really liked her dad. He was the best parent on the show: Fair, loving and supportive.

Tao Lun spends 80% of the drama with a healthy mature attitude, and then suddenly turns into an irrational, and vengeful. I guess he only had compassion so long as he wasn't a victim. You know if he had never gone missing, my guess is he still will have grown up in a loving and warm environment. He was always the lucky one, whereas his brother, was always at a disadvantage.

It is a good melodrama. The main couple, are the best couple, their trials are logical, and their commitment to one another sweet. Yes there is some misunderstandings. Are they necessary, probably not, but I've seen worse. An episode and a half for a misunderstanding that quickly gets explained is really not that bad.

The reason to watch this drama is the ML. His acting and character, is complex, well acted and well developed. I rooted for him the whole time.

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STORY: It is a story of a young girl who was an orphan and she has been taken care a grandpa in France who died and she clashes with the guy who inherits his Vineyard and property. They find an agreement, separate and then meet again in China. Starting from there they get involved in a plot of rightful heir vs. fake heir of the Group they work for and how the situation is resolved.

The drama is good and bad. I would say the Romances were well done. The main couple was great. There is a very nice chemistry between the two of them. Not only they look good together but also their interactions from the beginning to the end show that they really care for each other and they evolve in the way they see each other, fall for each other and fight to be together. I thought their romance was well described with nice moments. I wish they had more moments together in the last part of the drama when they were roughly challenged. The second couple's story was fun to watch also. From allies fighting a same cause to friends and then not lovers but something almost like it. Their personalities made a good pair too: She is a spoiled playful kid and he is a quiet orphan who becomes a rich heir like her.

The bad part: the main plot around the exchange of heirs. Full of holes and inconsistencies. In the beginning, the nanny said she did something to the real heir (as a kid). Means the real heir met the grandfather so why the grandfather did not made the difference when he saw the fake kid? Weird. I think the worst thing about the plot is how cliché the villains are (the father, real mother... ). I cannot fathom how the father can be a Chairman with this kind of personality and behavior. It was grotesque. The real mother the way she treated her son was too unrealistic. And the last evil guy ... He confessed like there was not enough money for more episodes.

ACTORS / CHARACTERS: I thought Zhang Zhe Han was good. He has charisma and he did well portraying Zhang Min. An guy abused who hardly can fight back and must cope with the craziness of his parents. He looked honest and sensitive when building his story with the main girl vs. adversities and caring about people. But in another hand, one thing which really impaired the quality of this drama was his personal character. I never felt any admiration or sympathy for him and never cheered for him. He was completely lacking strength and courage and ability to have a general view to take decisions and solve his biggest problems. Almost everything that happens to him from start to end is the result of the decision/action of other persons. He does nothing in connection with the plot. He is one of the weakest male lead I have seen since a long time.

Zhang Ruo Nan was ok. She was good as Luo Xi. She is courageous and supportive and I liked how unwavering and honest she was when facing the confessions of her childhood friend. She is bit bland and has little character's evolution. Too bad. Other actors did pretty well. Riley Wang was convincing as a good friend, patient lover or angry heir. Anna Hollen was bit behind in term of acting as sometimes I thought she was doing too much but ok, her character was interesting nonetheless. Other actors: Liu Zhe Er as the secretary was excellent. Loved the way he treated his boss. The little girl was fun but the uncles are useless and sometimes even annoying.

MUSIC: Nothing special

REWATCH: Definitively not.

OVERALL: I do not recommend this drama unless you are crazy about romances and you like so much to see cute couples finding each other that you can pardon a lousy plot full of clichés. Apart from the romances, I thought it was really not good.

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It's like fast food: Unhealthy but Addicting

I finished watching this 36-episode drama within two days, one day I was staying up until five to binge, and that's telling you how much I was into this drama, but it's like the title suggests: to me, it's addicting, but it's not good. The plot is tiring and full of tropes that only serve to anger you; the character writing, with the exception to the male lead and female lead, is highly inconsistent; the supporting characters range from mildly annoying to 'I hope you rot in jail'. I skipped most of the political/corporation plot and still understood everything just fine, and I suggest you do the same for your sanity.

What I love about this drama though is the chemistry between the two leads, and 80% of this chemistry is thanks to Zhang Zhe Han's superb ability to initiate intimate actions and flirting, and 20% to Zhang Ruo Nan who was natural in her acting and went along with the acting partner's lead. I wish they could have focused more on the relationship and just let the two go on and have fun together and give us some simple and peaceful romantic time rather than adding all types of telenovela plot points.

Despite my love for ZZH and his acting, I harbored intense hatred for Zhang Min for around 10 episodes where he was an absolute jerk for not being able to break it off with Wenna while still trying to keep Luo Xi in his life. You made a decision to get married and keep yourself in power, now stick with it and let go of Luo Xi. He hurt all of them in the process because he's someone who can't choose what he wanted.

I had more empathy for Luo Xi and Wenna, who were both caught in this mess because they fell in love with a man who didn't treat neither of them right. Luo Xi fell in love deep and hard, and as she struggled to get out of it, Zhang Min kept pulling her right back in. The strongest example of this is when Luo Xi went on a blind date and got the help of that IT guy, Zhang Min confronted her for "being with another man" and kissed her, but as soon as he woke up, he told her to leave and kept Wenna on his side. That was messed up!! Make up your mind and don't look to see where the other path leads!!

I see a lot of people here hate Wenna and I really don't get it; you all seem to just hate her because she's "getting in between" your couple. Wenna may be somewhat obsessive, but this arranged marriage is from both side. Zhang Min can pull out of it anytime if he wants to -- and the drama does prove that he Can pull out whenever he wants to -- but he didn't do it because he wanted to keep his power, yet turned around and tried to make Her to pull out of it instead. She protected him and his reputation when he was caught cheating, and even until the last moment when he decided to break off with her on the engagement day and made her deal with the embarrassment and loneliness of being abandoned, Wenna still protected him and stated it was her idea that they broke off. What more do you need from her?? The writer did her dirty by writing her so two dimensionally at the beginning like she's a dumb obsessive girl, but deep down you could see how insecure she was that the man who promised to marry her kept on having a relationship with another woman. Just imagine yourself for a moment how you would feel if your fiancee continued to have an ambiguous relationship with their ex and have some more compassion for Wenna, because she acted very reasonably for someone in that position.

I didn't include Tao Lun in this triangle because he really wasn't a part of it; Luo Xi never acknowledged him as a potential lover, he just tried to wedge in in a strange way. I wish they didn't drag his plot out so much and just let him give up and move on and be a friend, a brother to Luo Xi who supported her instead of this strange obsessive person who kept on chasing after her and acted like she was his belonging even when Luo Xi and Zhang Min were already in a relationship. Then there's also the inconsistency in his writing towards the end where he overreacted for the "drama" of it all. That's why we should have just cut these dramatic moments short and replace it with fluffy romance moments from both couples.

All in all, will I rewatch this drama? Probably, given that ZZH dubbed himself in here and his performance was top notch as well the chemistry between him and ZRN was off the roof, but I'm highly aware what I'm doing when I do rewatch: that is, eating fast food to satisfy that guilty craving even if it's poison to the body.

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Love the way he looks at her!

Okay, the title can be misleading LoL

I've been on a Zhang Zhe Han binge lately because of the whole boycott scandal and if i delay any longer, his dramas might be taken down from iQiyi. That might be the wrong reason to start watching this drama, but hey, I like Zhang Zhe Han :) It turns out that he is actually the only good thing about this drama. The story is nothing special and I felt like watching an old melodrama from before 2010 era if not for the cinematography. The first part of the drama (until about episode 18ish) is good and moves in the right pace and I like the growing relationship between ZZH and the female lead. ZZH's character is a cool, arrogant guy..... but the way he looks at the FL completely charms and melts my heart and it's like he suddenly transformed to the most warmhearted and caring man in the world! I thought it's worth spending hours of my time watching this drama just to see the romantic ways he looks at her! However, as we get to the middle part of the drama where the identity of the real Zhang Min is revealed, it starts to get draggy and the slightly annoying characters become irritating, like the father, the uncle, and even Tao Min. This drama is not pure romance focus, so there is the business story with inheritance and revenge angle, which I don't particularly enjoy because it's not done properly especially towards the end.

I love the songs in this drama that I added them to my playlist on Apple Music. As for rewatch value, once is enough!

Overall, other than looking at Zhang Zhe Han and unless you're a fan of Zhang Zhe Han, I would not recommend this drama.

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This is a romance drama mixed with the usual problems of large corporate governance, birth secret, revenge, betrayal, and misunderstandings. Although the drama is supposed to be a romantic comedy, the funny moments are mostly provided by the hostel extravagant trio and Dough, the little girl. There is an intended love triangle that is more cumbersome than romantic involving two infatuated individuals that end up getting romantically entangled too fast and with a lack proper romantic development. The leading couple’s story starts nice and strong but it loses excitement as the drama progresses and their romantic scenes are insipid. The leading male does a good job conveying his emotions but the lead female shows contradictory facial expressions while trying to convey feelings. Two of the most disturbing aspects of this drama are Tao Lun’s rapid changed in character and emotions and the fast and absurd drastic change of Zhang Jing Zhong [Chairman and Zhang Min's father]. Also, the rushed ending and forgiveness resolution shown on this drama underestimates the graveness of the parents, and other adult’s, decisions when the main characters were children.

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Decent, but not great.

First and foremost: I am biased when it comes to dramas. I usually watch costume dramas and these modern dramas aren't really my thing. However i wanted to give this one a try for Zhang Zhe Han. I have to say, it wasn't the worst i ever watched, but i also know i probably won't be watching it again. That to the side:
The story in itself has a good plot and set up: but is poorly executed. It drags on too much and what has been taking up 36 episodes could have been done in 20 or less with the same effect.
What really annoyed me was the Chairman's acting, who -to my opinion- didn't rely enough on his expression but too much on his head movements. Which made me think i was watching a bobble-head. The chemistry between the two leads also wasn't all there. Zhang Zhe Han did his best with this one i'm sure, but it's not his most impressive work.
Next to that, the guy who played Tao Lun also didn't really convince me with his acting and the 180 degree turn of his character's personality in later episodes really irked me.
The soundtrack made it better because there are some good songs in there. But it didn't make up for the agonizing slow pace of plot and character development. Neither for the lack of convincing romance or character personalities. All in all i think they did good with what they had, but they could have done better. 6/10

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below average and disappointing

I rarely give 4 stars to a series that I manage to finish till the last episode. Frankly, I started this series for Zhang Zhe Haan, since I wanted to see him in a modern drama. An added bonus was Riley Wang, and all said and done, he looks amazing with his cute dimples, and I’ve always liked his character in all shows I’ve watched with him as a cast. As for Zhang Rou Nan, she was a bit of a disappointment in this show because of her poor acting skills, mediocre chemistry with the ML, and a constant pouty look. The reason I’m giving 4 stars to this show, despite of liking the male leads, is the shoddy story line, too much melodrama, and unnecessary scenes of the hostel family, a majority of which I forwarded. As for Chen Hao Lan, I loved her character in Love me love my voice, but she was unimpressive here somehow, her only quality being able to chase after men in an unrelenting way, but no solid character traits of her own. This could have been a much better show with less melodrama and 24 episodes.

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Drama needed much better ending .

Though it was a happy ending but I am not happy with the ending story , According to my view second male lead's should have justified ending story . This character suffered a lot but in the end he left all alone though drama gave a glimpse at the end that this character would get a happy ending but I think drama should shown this.
Second lead's couples is my favourite then first lead's couple because this couple faced all types of emotions fun,happy,sad and angry . But first lead couple all the time had same facial expressions and which made the drama little uninterested.
In one of the episode First male lead character said to second male lead character that why was he (2nd lead )lucky all the time but actually he (1st lead) was lucky all the time ,he got his (2nd lead) parent's love and the love of his life .so I think this dialogue should deliver by second male lead .
One time watch .

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Started off okay, but turned into a boring GARBAGE

My god!!! I watched this back when I was still on that Zhang Ruo Nan hype because I just discovered her on 'Cry Me a Sad River', but man... not even my hype could push me through finishing or even enjoying this drama, cuz it's just bad, like REALLY REALLY BAD... and it even took me a year and a half to realized like "You know what? Let's not even bother finishing it. I might have at least 10 episodes left, but I really just can't."

Ok so, I started watching this when I was also just getting into cdramas and I didn't know that cdramas have anime-like openings. So I got hit with a lot of spoilers in the first episode because of the opening like wtf... at least in anime, they'll try to make it look like a puzzle that you have to piece together. So already starting off really bad, and I can't really remember much in the beginning, all i know is i think it's decent, but I still watched it at 1.5speed. I think it was okay in the beginning because we're just focusing on the dynamic of the FL and 2 MLs, but the moment they've returned to their homeland and started introducing this family drama and business politics and stuff to the story, that's where it started going down to shit.

Now the family drama, it was either shit or just plain boring. I think it was kinda interesting with the lost son mystery and shit, but i think they've revealed it too early, and it's kinda predictable as well, as to who the lost son is. So maybe it's probably both shit and boring. Zhang Min's dad, my god... props to the writer for writing him as the most annoying dad, but my god! The actor is soo bad; the one scene that got me laughing so hard for how bad his acting was, is when he was choking her mistress, like.... that scene was soo bad HAHAHAHAH If you look at how he's choking this actress like, i don't how to describe it, but it was bad. I don't even think i have anything to say about his character, nor his acting, other than he's BAD. Both as the character and actor.

Zhang Min's mother, i mean... she's just there.. great. Most of the time, she's just passive, though she doesn't have that much screen time. It's understandable.

Zhang Min, my god, can you get even more annoying?? like he's really obsessing over the FL, pushing himself to be the FL's boyfriend, when the FL doesn't even wanna associate herself with him, and i feel for wenna, like why even bother considering marrying her? When it's very obvious that the girl that you really like is Luo Xi?

Luo Xi on the other hand is also annoying and is such a pushover, like just make up your mind for god's sake. I feel really bad for the 2nd ML for getting up his hopes because she's such a pushover, that's why ML keeps coming back and trying to convince her to be his boyfriend.

Tao Lun... ugh!! I'm getting 2nd Lead Syndrome. At first, I felt really bad for him, and i really really like his character, clearly written to be a good likable boy, and I've been rooting for him, but the more you watch, the more you get annoyed, like come on just stop, the girl clearly doesn't wanna be with you and only see you as a childhood friend. I skimmed through the remaining episodes that i have, and from what i saw, he ended up with wenna, and it was kinda cute. You can already tell since they've been building up to it. Of course, the revelation that he was the real son, is really meh, like okay... what else??

Wenna, when she got introduced, it was okay, but she started getting on my nerves. She got progressively annoying as you watch, but I'm glad she got that character development. Then she realized that ML doesn't love her, so that's when i started giving a shit about her character and her dynamic with the 2nd ML.

Now, I'm just gonna sum up the rest of the side characters, like you could've actually cut down most of them and given the screen time to Yang Lin and Secretary Zheng like you didn't even have to bother creating this many side characters. They're just distractions or fillers to stretch out the runtime of this drama because most of the time when it's just these side characters on screen, it's just a snooze fest for me. Like can we just get on the main topic, please?

Couldn't really care much about the business side plot. You could've just kept this on the sidelines and toned it down because of the Family and Business side plot that this became like a shit Teledrama instead of a romance-drama. At least, I'm done. I'm finally free from the shackles of wanting to finish this show, like I'M OUT! It's so garbage. This is the 2nd Drama that I've watched where Riley Wang is in it, and i feel really concerned about his Portfolio because the other one that I'm also currently watching right now is also shit, but I hope he gets a well written drama in the future because i think he's a great actor and he's cute with cute dimples.

Overall, again shit garbage drama. Don't even bother watching it if you're looking for a good story and acting, but if you're a fan of any of the actors/actresses, then go ahead if it can help you go through the atrocity that this drama is, i really wanna rate it 0.5 or even 0, but the website doesn't allow it xD. This is something that my mother or grandmother would watch, i think this is aimed for that demographic and not for my age.

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