Cute Programmer

Full of nonsense

I looked forward to watching this drama, however, it ended up being nonsense.
If you are looking for a drama that made you 'feel good' by watching it, this might not be suitable for you.
You'll end up getting angry with the character that was built through the storyline.

The ML character that was supposed to be charismatic, handsome, and talented programmer seemed to be very childish and rude. The FL character that was supposed to be a smart female programmer ended up being foolish due to love.

In conclusion, it's okay to watch if you want to, but it's not a good show in my opinion.

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I love this kind of story interesting even it's a toxic one but there's no perfect relationship!

Yes a little bit annoying especially the ML that he don't know how to express his feelings toward the FL but if you watch the whole story and focus on it it is a good story at all.From the very day it's start airing I really love it and I can't wait to watch the whole episode There is a scene that irritates you especially Li Man a very scheming ex girlfriend that but I really love their great acting skills especially Bambi Zhu(Xu Zhudan) she's really beautiful and I feel the pain what she suffers I highly recommemd it to everyone that you should watch it. It's worth it from the story itself you can tell that it's almost same story as You are My Destiny but it's different.If your not a fan of Chinese dramas or whatsoever don't watch it we don't need a nonsense opinion towards this drama.By the way I still love it and I always stick to this drama.

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Very Very Very Melodramatic.

Like in the whole drama i think if we collect all the scenes in which the male and female lead were happy it will just account to 4 or 5 episodes thats it.
half the time the ML and FL were either in a misunderstanding or fighting (lol that's the same thing i guess😅)

The ending was pretty cute though.

i feel like it would have been really better if the drama was not that melodramatic. And i feel like the FL is very very selfless. If not for the ending i feel like i would have hated this drama.
The casting was pretty cool though. they acted really well. Especially wang yi ming. he is so freaking cute. it would have been so nice if had a love life and more scenes. looking forward to more of his dramas.

i really like how supporting the parents are and i feel like this is one of those dramas which actually depicts realistic parents.

though everything was pretty nice i dont like the story line. just too much disappointment from both sides. i wished for more happy scenes and at a point i got fed up f the drama. i just completed because i had to. the only thing that touched my heart is the ending.

if you ask me whether i'll suggest this drama to someone then no i will not

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Clichéd brainfart

Nothing new about this story. It seems very very unrealistic just as any other ceo-employee love stories. What ceo is this hot lmao! Hated the FL's outfits, she ain't a kid ,even 12 year olds don't dress like her. Typical plotline and it DID NOT require 30 eps. This story is easily 16 eps worth. Acting isn't great. Also there was a scene where the male employees were peaking at female employee while they were in their swim suits. Surprisingly,they were never punished(as in severe action taken against them) for such a behaviour.

The only thing that was slightly interesting is the love story between the second male and female leads, they deserved to have more screen time since it was painful to watch the lead couple barely move their facial muscle.
She is recruited to be a programmer for a team that is barely shown properly programming or brainstorming and just added some "technical" sounding words to justify the title. I cringed whenever these half-assed so-called technical jargon were thrown around. Also ceo has got a LOT of time to mess with her, what ceo even meets employees like everyday?

How come she was never charged for impersonation? Or something along the lines of fooling a huge company by pretending to be someone else? That's weird. The FL got no spine to talk back when it's needed. If she actually did, they are weak comebacks that makes you want to punch someones face. Gurrlll think smart for once!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Immature FL & ML relationship due to inability to communicate ANYTHING!

The description of this drama sounded interesting. In my head it was going to be a mix of bromance mixed with love o20. I will say it was somehow an easy watch despite it being so frustrating. The plot line was exhausting and repetitive, but for some reason I kept watching it. The whole show can be summed up with the FL and the ML both having awful communication and a general immaturity with no ability to think from the others perspective. It was so ingrained in the plot that really I walked away from this show asking myself what the point of it was. Most of the problems between the main couple came from one assuming that one knew something even if they didn’t say it, and somehow expecting there to be trust. A lot of people seemed to think the ML was the worst of the two in this show, and granted he was very childish and made incredibly naive albeit innocent decisions. But considering how the marriage was forced on him, and her never telling him….anything…even when he tried to communicate, I actually found myself understanding his actions better than hers, and by the end her stubbornness was driving me bonkers. ML had character growth while FL’s dwindled. This show was one of the first times I felt no satisfaction in the final couple.

On the upside, I did enjoy the side characters, particularly FL’s best friend and her coworkers. I even liked ML’s sisters character, which some might find annoying as she was rather aggressive and….loud, with the pursuit of her love interest. But she was at least earnest enough that I found her commitment and conviction to him endearing.

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Honestly, I quite like it, perhaps more precisely, I almost really don't like the storyline. The main female character is very beautiful, patient, graceful, cheerful, innocent and forgiving.

I don't understand why she still wants to be with the main male character who is a jerk, childish, selfish, has no brain, doesn't want to give in and many more after knowing the fact that he only wants to get married because of his parents' pressure and threats and other mistakes.

As a man, I am already very disgusted with the character and behavior of this man, maybe the female audience will be forgiven and excused because of his handsomeness lol.

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Surprised this poorly written story was written by women.

This story was written poorly! The first episode alone had multiple plot holes. I made it through 11 episodes and surprised that I did because it was getting worse as the story progressed. The acting was bad, the plot wasn’t very logical and the characters weren’t very interesting.

I’m actually surprised this show was written by women screenwriters because they don’t seem to grasp the basic idea of a woman with a crush; even more, the directors are male but didn’t grasp the concept of how to act like and pretend to be a male. They didn’t even try.

The FL character seemed to have low self worth as she accepted the ML character’s poor treatment of her through out the show and built her whole existence around the ML. The ML wasn’t even remotely like-able and it was hard to understand why she even liked him since she didn’t really know him.

I don’t usually mind the contract marriage tropes but this was one of the worse.

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The best technology drama in the world

The first time that I watch or read a drama that is correct and realistic even the posing as a male. Not meant to be permanent anyway and rightly so, discovered later on.

The bad comments about the love story is due to biased views of love. However, it is proven that love after marriage is the more permanent marriage, just like in older generations.

Arranged marriages are and we're never forced. Parents will not match their children with incompatible partners unlike the lovestruck youth who usually loses their minds when they meet other people.

For a 2021 film, the technology is the most advanced and correct. AR, is augmented reality. VR is virtual reality, and you can see them playing with these games in the video. The programmer is the most elite of the computer industry. Only behind the operating system designers, but programming is still essential. It is demonstrated in the drama if you listen carefully.

Filter is also an impressive technology drama based on cosmetics. The technology is actually feasible and explained in detail by the lead author.

As a love story, I prefer this over the proven failed love strategies of mating for life. Marriage is just a contract to be together. Love should develop later on. You start with just liking someone. Jiang Yuchien liked Lu Li even before the marriage. The marriage was forced because they were caught in a compromising position but their parents arranged and allowed it.

As for apparent stupidity in believing in lies and deception, it is normal, especially for women. Even my wife exhibit this behaviour. Jiang is correct and pragmatic. He is arrogant because he is correct. He is just misunderstood and Lu Li knew it.

As for hiding her pregnancy because of the mistaken understanding of the mumbling of the word Li to be the antagonist former girlfriend, Li Mun, also believable but viewers were given the complete explanation that Li Mun was actually rejected in the drunken condition, asking only for protection from Lu Li and comfort which led to the sexual act that led to pregnancy, also believable. Sex id impulsive. Pregnancy can happen even in one case.

But intimacy is hard for close friends. We treat them like siblings. Also explored here just like the drama Lover Friend, but it was so slow and boring. Despite it being a 2024 video, its technology is basic. Online shopping and hacking. It also didn't explore love after marriage as shown by Filter and Cute Programmer.

Highly intelligent people will engage in love after marriage, not people with weak minds. I can relate to that because I was also the best student in school and reasonably handsome. The author of the scripts must also experience these scenarios so wrote accordingly.

Love after marriage is rare in Western movies but this is not the reality. Hollywood likes to introduce social behaviours that are not true.

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Illogical, tropey, toxic relationship. Say no more.

It is no secret that the rom-com genre is trope heavy but some shows make it work. This show did the opposite and it is hard to enjoy because of its many issues.

Let's start at the beginning. It was a slog to get through the first 5 episodes. The whole meet-cute was stretched to breaking point with the FL disguised as a man to get her dream job. They tried to milk the setup for laughs with all the cliché twists like going to the wrong toilet, picking a fight with a caveman, having her period while in the middle of the office, etc, etc. They are so obvious that it is just a cringe fest. Then we have to deal with the biggest plot issue. I'm sure an edict of not hiring any female programmer is straight up discrimination. I don't know about Chinese laws but I'm sure it can't be legal if it is a stated condition of employment. That whole set up just does not hold water but the writer pushed through with it and logic be damned. This led to many plot holes that are just painted over or ignored.

It did get a bit better once she came out as a girl in ep.6 and thank god for that because she was totally unconvincing as a guy. If you want to be generous, she might pass as a tomboy but most of the time she just looks like a girl with a short haircut and speaking of the short haircut, they tried to say that a short hair wig can hide a full head of shoulder length hair. Not likely. Once she is a girl again, a hit parade of tropes were dumped on us such as contract marriage, co-habitation, hiding their relationship from the world, etc.

As I mentioned in other reviews, it is important for us to want to ship the CP in a rom-com but the further the show progressed, the harder I find any motivation to ship them. A lot has to do with the portrayal of the main characters. The ML is a man-child who has low EQ but he is also selfish, rude and manipulative. The main CP's relationship is abusive if not downright toxic. He goes through cycles of being angry/jealous -> taking it out on the FL -> feeling guilty afterwards -> ham-fisted attempt to atone -> a) succeeds and we get a few moments of CP bliss or b) fails (which is often) he gets angry and take it out on the FL again. This is a destructive spiral and it wears mighty thin when it went on and on. BTW, the 2ML is a constant source of his jealousy but the 2ML is so beige that there is little chance of second lead syndrome.

The FL, on the other hand, is a top university graduate but has this crush on the ML for years and she will do anything to be with him and worshipped the ground he walked on. She ended up being his wife/slave/victim. Any crumbs of attention or affection from the ML will have her doing a delusional happy dance but she suffered so much more. This is an odd portrayal in this day and age. She also refused to let him see her face in the beginning of the show until she started dressing as a man. Why? Who knows.

Speaking of manipulative people, the show is full of them. The ML's mom is a classic schemer, the ML's father is a one trick pony which always gets his way with the ML by threatening to cut off his funds. His sister is a woman-child who manipulates everyone. Of course, no tropey rom-com is complete without the scheming ex-GF. We are in for a rough ride once she entered the scene on ep.11. This is why we need the CP to become a team so that they can push back against the antagonists and we can get behind them. What we have instead is ML being childish and annoying, their relationship precarious and unhealthy. I want to say to the FL, "give up, girlfriend."

And gave up, I did. The returns are few and far between. The dodgy paint by numbers script didn't help. It is not terrible but it didn't hook me. In a sea of tropey rom-coms, I needed something more to make me commit my time. I watched 12 episodes for free on WeTV. Maybe when all episodes are free-to-watch I'll speed run through to the end. I have no doubt that they will engineer a happy ending but it would be a looong march to get there.

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Stupid, childish and irritating

It’s the type of drama that gives you lots of ANGST!! Lol... that’s why I never bothered watching You are my Destiny, although it had such good ratings. This has the same storyline and concept. ML CEO is the bullying and belittling type, actually likes the FL but don’t know how to admit nor express his feelings. Ex- girlfriend comes along and stirs up trouble etc, the leads separate and then in the end come back together.

The actress who plays the ex Li Man is the same actress that plays another bitchy character in Perfect and Casual. Seriously she should do other roles, cos she doesn’t want to be stuck with this kind of stigma roles!

Disappointed with this one. Wouldn’t recommend this.

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