Falling into Your Smile

If you're into the recent trend of e-sports dramas, this is the show for you.

Its a light hearted drama that covers the e-sports world from the challenges of the female perspective, in a predominately male dominated industry. While its not entirely about the e-sports world, it focuses on some of the challenges people go through, whether its your gender, your health, life-style, family, mental state well being, as well as gossip news, and especially the challenges of being a female. The drama doesn't over emphasize it, but in today's society at least with Riot Games League of Legends there is high level of toxicity towards players if they know you're female.

The drama was very fun, it had its serious points in order to develop the characters, as well as plot by introducing team as well as personal challenges. It covered both e-sports but also offered a fun romantic comedy that wasn't overdone, but remained within the confines of the story.

Cold hearted guy Li Cheng melts as he gives into his feelings for Tong Yao (Fall into Smiling), which changes him from the guy you saw at episode 1 to the last episode. The chemistry between the two leads was fun, but also not frustrating especially when you're trying to one is hot the other is cold/lukewarm on expressing themselves.

Within the story you see Li Cheng grow with his feelings, even though he started out as a cold hearted guy, and Tong Yao develop as a noob to a professional esports gamer. The animations of the gameplay helped dramatize the battles, which are well done. The other characters like Xiao Pang & Lao Mao provide comedic relief and balance to the cast/team. The plot didn't have any noticible holes, as they addressed most of the points the story brought up.

The pacing of the story was good, it didn't seem overly rushed for the 31 episodes, is there enough story for a second season? Would it be enjoyable as this one? Who knows , but it would be interesting to see that happen as the team is pushing for International aspirations, as well as setup the stage for more female e-sport players.

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WARNING !!! CONTAINS HIGHLY ADDICTIVE SWEETNESS OVERLOAD! YOU BEEN WARNED

Falling Into Your Smile

PLOT:
I hate to say this but I find this series cute and easy to digest at the same time. I can't help myself but to compare it to other existing/old series like "GO2x SQUID". The plot is a typical boy meets girls hate to love.. kind of story. The writers are good at making the script easy t understand. The scenes we're not complicated and the side characters are not annoying. I love how they make it easy simple and not complicated. In other word it's not a toxic kind of plot.


CHARACTER:
Hands up to both lead character for giving us a solid interpretation of their role. Th side character again they are superb!!!

Music:
The OST is very good and catchy.

Re-watch Value:
I may watch this in the near future if I want something to relieved me from a heavy drama type of plot.

Highly recommend this for you if your looking for a start up C-DRAMA Marathon.

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This drama is worth to watch!!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

I can't believe the drama has ended so quickly, I will miss all the casts in this drama, their acting skills are not that perfect but I would say that for me this drama is one of the best, from the plot to the characters and visuals. This drama is full of visuals, and so many talented actors and actresses, hoping for season 2 if ever there would be one I just can't get enough of the fact that I have waited on this drama since last year and would just end in a month (T_T) you guys can watch this drama on WETV, YOUKU, and DOUBAN.

I love how all of them would be okay again at the end of the day especially on episode 27 and 28, I love the friendship that this drama has, the episode I always want to watch is the episode where Tong Yao's parents go to the ZGDX to check on Tong Yao, they're so great in that scene that even though Tong Yao was just a new member they still cooperate.

I hope to watch them all in one drama again. I'm so thankful that I've known and watch this drama there's nothing that I regret about watching this drama, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

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One of the best romantic esports drama

Before watching I had read the novel so I have to tell in terms of adaption I would like to give a 8.5 stars. When watching an adaption mostly I don't like the adaption. However for this drama I have to say they have adapted beautifully and gave justice.

What I like the most about the drama was the characters specially the male lead. I don't think I have came across such a beautiful character in a while. Although he has his own fault but that's what made his character even more beuatiful and perfect. Xu Kai really brought the character Lu Sicheng to life. It was really like seeing the novel Lu Sicheng come to life through Xu Kai acting.

Each and every character of this drama brought so much to the table. I really like how the drama showed background of some character which was intresting and made the story more perfect. The casting for this drama was perfect and the chemistry between the cast can also be seen in the drama.

The chemistry between the leads was so good. When I was watching the romantic scene I never felt it was too sweet. It was just perfect for me.

And the comedy part always made me laugh so much. Specially the monologue part in episode 15. That's my favorite comedy scene in this drama.

The CGI it was so beautiful . Thats another thing I really loved about the drama. When they play the game I always look forward to the CGI part.

What I dislike was the gaming part. It was difficult to know who was playing which character. And also they didn't really explain the game much and the role. For me since I read the novel I was somewhat aware of the role but still it was hard to know who was playing who in the game.

To end this review I would say this was a perfect balance drama of comedy, romance and gaming. And if anyone is hesitating to watch this because of controversy or some clips I would suggest to watch this drama and judge it yourself.

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The only regret I have is that I can't erase my memory so I can experience this drama anew :'(.

I solemnly swear that I will try my absolute best not to wax lyrical on Xu Kai's visuals (amongst the SEA of handsome men that seem to have taken up residence within this drama.)

Before watching this drama, I had seen many high reviews of it, but put off watching it because I was still hung up on You are my Hero. I spent about a week trying to find a new drama chock full of romance and kissing scenes (because as much as I loved YAMH, I felt deprived of the kisses that could have been but ne'er were between our ML and FL!), meanwhile, this amazing drama was just sitting there, waiting for me to realize that I'd skipped over a gem! Not only did Falling into Your Smile deliver on the romance, but it also heaped the kissing scenes high up and left me feeling satisfied and content.

This is a gaming romance drama like Love o2o, Go-Go Squid and The King's Avatar (which of course is sans the romance), but dare I say it was better? Before the Yang Yang fans come at me (I'm also one btw), I'll explain why I felt that it was better. The male lead, Lu Si Cheng ( Xu Kai), had the same cold and aloof demeanour Love o2o's Xiao Nai seemed to have, but I felt that he was a lot more relatable and realistic compared to the perfect and unattainable Xiao Nai. The FL, Tong Yao (WJSN's Cheng Xiao), was also a lot more substance, and a lot less fawning and meek. She was a strong character who didn't take BS from her crush just because he was stunningly gorgeous and highly popular. I loved that she gave the male lead as much as he dished out, which was severely lacking in Lo2o and GGS (too much hero worship is never a good thing ladies!) There were many cute moments between the ML and FL and he showed a lot more emotion and was a lot more playful than XN. I also found myself a lot more invested in the characters and story of FIYS. The camaraderie between the team was so beautiful to watch and there was never a time where I felt that the team viewed Cheng as this perfect god who never made any mistakes and was always right (which is the vibe I got in Lo2o). Cheng's team shouted at him when he was wrong, and he apologised and acknowledged his faults when he had messed up. I really appreciated that and it made me fall in love with Cheng a lot more.

I HIGHLY recommend this drama, I see myself rewatching it several times in the future when I need a break from a heavy and intense drama (or just when I want a drama that gives me mushy cute feels). A bonus factor is you will get a heaping truckload of visuals from sooo many guys! As generous as the casting was when it came to visuals, I'm still in awe of the visuals king that is Xu Kai. The good Lord did NOT hold back when he was creating our Xu Kai. As much as we must admit that he's not had the best time when it comes to the headlines he's made in real life, we must definitely give him props for delivering much more than us fans could ever ask for in this drama.

I'm brand spanking new to the Xu Kai fandom, but I look forward to seeing his other dramas and hope they're just as good as this one was <3.

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Cute and Funny Characters

As predictable and expected each scenario was, it's super cute. The way each character interacts and develops is great.
Compared to some other e-sports drama, this one discusses some of the problems/issues the industry actually faces. It's very relatable and made to easily let viewers understand. Things like parent's expectations and disapproval, post-graduation career hunting, love life in a work-heavy job (the struggles), and other business-related stuff in the industry.
I also really love the spaces they used. the base's architecture is nice.

The only downside for me is more towards the few awkward/cringy moments. When things are too planned out, it just feels like the actors are forcing it - creating a fake emotion...in other words, bad acting. This might be the director's fault as well?
There were a few episodes where the cut-off was awkward too. Like they went a second too far, ending the episode in an awkward climax.

Overall, I really love the story and style of production. Everything is really cute, especially the intros. A super cute young adult love story. I definitely see myself rewatching this again in the future. Would recommend as well :)

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Worth the Watch

This drama has Rewatch all of it.

The acting is superb, the comics were funny, the sport itself was good. The story is relatively predictable in the way that sports dramas are predictable.

Love the ML, he was cool and yet caring at the same time, there were no misunderstanding told it as is, the FL was well matched, and knew what she wanted. . Comedy wise, there are too many funny scenes in the drama. Too many puns, Fatty's reactions, ZGDX teammates reactions, Tong Yao and Lu Yue's immature bickering and Lu Sicheng and Tong Yao's bickering as well- I LOVE IT! Don't know much about the e-sports gaming, but the graphics were really good, and easy to understand.

The female lead is competitive, she has good gaming skills, not too optimistic and is supportive towards her enemies. She likes to give advice to her enemies when they're down or anyone else who also got the same problem as her. Overall the fl have good characteristics. The male lead is quiet, but he's the leader of the team and would always have their backs. He secretly took care of his teammates problem. He got very good gaming skills, unbeatable. He has a soft spot for the fl whenever a problem occur to her. He's straightforward and I like him for this.

They had cute chemistry between not only the ML & FL leads, but the second couple as well, and also the team involved all worked well, and did a terrific job they interacted well.

Definitely a series well worth the watch, very light and cute and funny!!

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Flatlined from the very start

It's a wonder Xu Kai doesn't have a hunched back from having to carry this entire series on his back. My goodness, someone please get Cheng Xiao some acting lessons and maybe tell her to slow down on the plastic surgery cos she may forever lose the ability to emote should her face stay that frozen.

If you've seen one e-sport drama believe me this will by no means give you a different story. They play, win/lose, practice, run around being cute, have to debunk several malicious rumors and finally a happy-ever-after (I would imagine since I dropped this halfway).

Sigh

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I'm rewatching it eveytime

It's very nice and kind of what is happening today it's very pleasant and the lead actress and lead actor are perfect match. Everything is very understandable and also pleasing in viewers eyes I prefer this to today's generations .So all viewers pls mdmjdjshdhdjdjkdjdjdjdjdjdjdhehheiduxjjdkeodoejduxhhdjekkskdndjjdjdjdkdjdiejejhdjdjfjfjdjdj jdksowjejeiskdjdjdkxkjchhcjdjskosodkxkkdkdkdkskdkdkxkxkxkdkieiekdhhhchjckdkekskcjjfjdksklslslsodoifjjrjrjrnendjkdkxkdkdkdkkdkdkdkdkdjdkkdkdkdkdkdkdkdjdjdjhddheujwkkzjieoe希望导演多做点

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i only watched for xu kai and him alone couldn't keep me interested..

i was close to finishing this drama but I just lost interest. (I have seen the ending though)

The plot didn't really interest me and I found myself first only watching for the couple and then the ML (who reminded me of landon from a walk to remember for some reason..)

I also don't like the FL actress. she's wayy to stiff and doesn't really move her face (show emotions. occasianally she does, but usually not) I've tried watching her in my heart and it just wasn't working. Let's just say you HAVE TO like the actress to enjoy this or at least tolerate her.

E sports isn't really something that interests me either.

now on to things that might be enjoyable:
- if you're interested in e sports
- like xu kai
- like bickering couples
- it's a rom com
- there are some nice scenes between the couple
- I kinda liked the second couple
- fluffy romance


I don't remember the music.. (I watched this a while ago.)

Overall 7/10. I won't rewatch. I have edited the main couple, but that's about it.

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Must watch !! Really sweet and careless drama.

The thing i really like about this drama is that it was really sweet,careless and fun to watch !! I really love the characters and their personalities. It took a while for Tong Yao and Cheng to end up together since im a kdrama watcher and kdramas usually have less episodes,anyways i really like their relationship. Also i really like how Cheng kisses Tong Yao at leats once almost in every single ep,it makes me blush-
Anyways yall should def watch. Also i don't really watch cdramas so this would be 1st one that i will finish and this cdrama would be really good for ppl like me who just started watching cdramas,again this drama is really wholesome and yall should watch it. :)
Thats it from me,thank you for reading !! <333

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