Lighter & Princess

I Just want to say go for it it's one of the bestest drama of 2022❤️.

I won't give you spoilers because this drama is a rollercoaster of emotions you will feel like u r not seeing any imagination type drama because this drama from starting to its ending always makes me feel like yes this is the harsh reality but please don't get confused by my word using harsh because it doesn't mean that it had a sad ending no because I too can't take sad ending dramas. I will not gonna tell you how does this drama end because I don't want u guys already know what's gonna happen in the end because being in suspense about this drama will make you happiest only. It has a most beautiful ending ❤️

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i will never be able to get over this cdrama.

this cdrama genuinely was so good it’s actually insane, the cdrama literally made me completely in love with it, it teached alot of things in life i still wasn’t aware of, it felt like i watching real people growing up going through hardships,relationships,betrayal,hatred,love the story is so cool, and the way they programmed and used computers even though i never really understood what they were doing, they were still so good at it, the acting also plays a main role over,the actors and actresses really got me emotional with their acting, they knew how to express a feeling with only a gaze or a stare, this cdrama is so amazing for those who love enemies to lovers tropes, the fl and ml had so much tension and chemistry between them, they literally kept me giggling and blushing all the time they spoke to eachother, this is genuinely the best cdrama i ever watched, nothing can compare to it in my opinion.

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MALE LEAD IS A CONDESCENDING ASSHOLE THAT NO DECENT PERSON COULD POSSIBLY ROOT FOR

Male lead is an arrogant condescending piece of sh*t. He is unnecessarily antagonistic towards everyone he meet. The only person he has treated with a modicum of respect is their old teacher and the rocker chick. He publicly abuse and humiliates his friends and classmates and somehow everyone just accepts it because he's an all knowing genius. He does not apologise, the people he mistreats just accepts it and move on. The drama in no ways attempt to explore the fact that this is not an appropriate way to treat colleagues. The message seems to be, he's a genius that's right and taught them a valuable lesson by being a cunt, so they should just suck it up and continue to learn from such a master.

I have never taken an intense dislike to a main character this early in a drama and I'm someone that's very partial to flawed main characters in dramas. However, only when dramas are intelligent enough not to brush their character's flaw aside, excusing it as the unconventional behaviour of a genius.

Here's how it goes:

- Genius male lead notice an error by another character, instead of highlighting it and speaking to them respectfully, he publicly berates and humiliates that person.
- Female lead calls him out and he doubles down.
- The other person, unhappy with how they've been treated, storms out.
- Female follows and talk to the person.
- Person says that genius male lead was right about the error and they'll continue to learn and grow under tutelage of genius male lead.
- Conflict resolved.

In the 7 episodes I've watched, this circle repeats itself about 2-3 times and its very likely to continue to do so throughout most of the drama because the source of the conflict (his mistreatment of others) is actually never dealt with. Therefore the male lead does not face any consequence for his actions, never has to reflect and learn from his shortcomings to be a better person. The drama instead seems to be banking on the female lead love softening him up and making him a better person as the drama progress. And judging by his condescending attitude in episode 1, her love does not seem to have succeed in changing him for the better.

Even the female lead was starting to disgust me because by episode 6 and 7, she becomes an enabler of his abhorrent behaviour. She cannot convince him to apologise or acknowledge his mistreatment of others, so she places the emotional burden of making things right on those he's mistreated. That she is falling for someone she saw publicly humiliate not just his friend but also her friend, is just mind-boggling. Every-time he invades her personal space, backed her to a wall/gets in her face (which is this drama's attempt at creating an intense moment of chemistry between the leads ), I just roll my eyes at the absurdity. Like, "gurrrrrl, is this really doing it for you?"

These are not characters you're rooting for to end up together and you may find yourself at some point, like I did, rooting for the male lead to fail just to see him knocked down a peg. That honestly, for me, is the only acceptable reason to continue watching this drama.

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Dragging. Boring. Amateur production. FL seems to get the role through nepotism.

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*I gave it a score of 3.5 after watching 7 episodes. After finishing 10 episodes, I had to lower the score to 2. It's not getting better. Instead, I'm becoming more irritated as time goes on.

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FL's acting [-]

I've seen quite a few Chinese series where the lead characters got their main roles through nepotism. Most of them, though can't act, at least have beauty. But for this girl... it's not just that she can't act, she also doesn't meet the beauty standard of a typical Chinese female lead. So, it's simply too obvious when the lead role lacks both capability and beauty that this incompetent person most likely got the position because of her influential backing.

I'm very disappointed with the FL. She can't express human's complicated feelings and only acts shallowly. Her acting score from me is 1 - the worst of the cast in this series. She's a sore sight and has a lot of screen time (since she's the 1st lead character -_-)

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Story [-]

The story drags on and the script is sloppily written. It's so boring I had to fast forward from time to time until I finally gave up after finishing ep.10. Then I still watched 7 more episodes in a fast pace, but it's a total waste of my time. Their love scenes couldn't draw me in at all even though the ML did his job alright (- at least, it doesn't show that he is irritated by the FL like I am.)

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Earrings [-]

I specially want to know whose idea the FL's earrings is. Most of her earrings have no taste and they always distract me in her face shots. In the first couple episodes, she wears big golden earrings that look fake. In her college years, she wears all kinds of earrings. All of them are random without taste of fashion.

Note: In the later episodes, the earrings are gone from her ears. Seems like the director finally noticed what an eyesore those earrings were for anyone watching, but he still noticed it too late, I would say.

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Stop Romanticizing Toxic Behavior

This glorification of men who treat women like garbage needs to stop.

How can the FL be an educated, bright person if she falls for him?

He is not cool or aloof .. he's arrogant, rude, narcissistic, and very self absorbed.

I don't care what hairstyle or color they give him, he's not attractive due to his personality.

I thought this would be a cute albeit somewhat angsty watch.

It was a hot mess of abuse in varying forms and I only watched 4 episodes.

The FL is belittled, ridiculed, humiliated, physically kicked, called names more than once, and then he destroyed her school laptop by installing a virus.

Oooooh, he's so talented.

It wiped out all of her systems (core included) and all of her work, saved and current, is gone.

Do you know how infuriating that would be to a real student?

Instead everyone is gloating and praising him, all the while the FL is wandering around behind him like a puppy with a broke laptop.

He continues to be snide and insult her, as if he was in the right.

Sheer stupidity.

I feel nothing but disgust for the ML and can not imagine he can redeem himself enough for me to root for him.

Especially as other comments made seem to indicate he gets even worse as the show progresses.

The drama world needs a revamp.

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Male lead with Toxic traits!!!

Unpopular Opinion and Spoiler alert!!!!

Li Xun (male lead) with genius coding ability meets up a cute yet strong headed girl Zhu Yun in college. They had another from Gao who turns out to be the villain charecter later..

Male lead Li Xun-
Absolutely toxic, just because he is genius he looks down on everyone. Has no sense of respect towards others opinion, would he valued Gao a little then he could get a friend for life and not an enemy.
Later he kinda did same with his buddy from the jail too..
Li Xun loves Zhu Yun but continuously kept things hidden from her. Also for no reason he always get privileges, like for what reason??? Just because he is genius!!
I dint understand why throughout the show he tried to push away the enormous love and positivity of Zhu Yun so hard that she kinda became obsessed with him!! Like what was his point? He is a 10/10 red flag and he is the reason Gao became a villain!!!
May be deep down he is a soft hearted person, may be but what exactly did Zhu Yun so bad that he crushed her heart like anything with his harsh words that too again n again!!! Nobody wants this kinda soft hearted arrogance in their life...

Liao Gao -
The third wheel of the trio and the villain -
I liked how the makers portray his charecter. He was a good human being and was loyal towards his buddy Li Xun, all he wanted Li Xun to acknowledge him for at least some thing. But Li Xun kept on disrespectinh him and literally made him a negative charecter!!

Female lead Zhu Yun
A strong headed, cute girl. She fell for Li Xun hard that she becomes obsessed with him. She got rejected by Li Xun many times, he humiliated her for her family yet she kinda protected and justified all his toxic traits..

Allover story -
Too much dragged and I kept on fast forwarding. The love between the leads felt like one sided obsession of the FL!

Ost - I like the tracks.

I don't know what is the reason of 9 /10 floating on the review section but the toxicity of ML and obsession of FL pretty much annoyed me.

I won't rewatch it anyway!!!

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At the end we're all humans ruled by our emotions

I usually don't like watching modern dramas but after When Destiny Brings the Demon I got interested in Arthur Chen and decided to give it a shot. It has become one of my favourite dramas to date.


I admit, I have a type of ML that I like. I'm attracted to capable people who have confidence in themselves and their abilities. But even more so, Li Xun has touched me as someone who is not always perfect, not always considerate of the feelings of others but always strives to do his best, whether to help in his own way or to prevent others from feeling his own pain. He's a bit clumsy with it however, he doesn't realise that people will feel pain for him.

I think a lot of people say he's a red flag. But i think in this society, everyone strives to be seen as perfect. Not just in looks but also public image. But I would like to ask, how do you view yourselves?

Perhaps I relate to this ML because sometimes it's hard to play these people games. Sometimes I know I'm selfish, i can be immature, i can be stubborn and opinionated. We are humans and we have faults. But like what the FL said, it's easy to stand from afar and criticise without understanding it from the person's point of view. If I had undergone what Li Xun experienced in his youth, I'm not sure if I could stand as strong as he, and for that I really admire this character.

Some criticised him for shouting at others, for hurting the FL with his words, for only caring about the bigger picture and not the feelings of others. He's a realist. He is forced to be, because of his situation. Who has not felt overwhelming rage, enough to let you lose all rational thought? Or overwhelming sadness and guilt over decisions that you cannot ever take back that resulted in circumstances beyond your control? If you have never experienced such things, bless your lucky life, please cherish it.

Overall, the couple is cute. I like both of them. They support each other come what may and always try their best for each other. it's rare to ever find people like the both of them in today's society.

I think it always serves as a reminder to not judge a book by its cover. You don't know what the other person has gone through. I hope seeing FL's mother in the show, people would be able to reflect and understand that people have their reasons sometimes. It might not produce a result you agree with, but we are human, not AI. We come into the world with a blank page and fill it with our experiences gained. We don't always make the wisest decisions and we might get emotional but our intentions might not be bad. As someone who has always been misunderstood by friends and family because I'm not good with words... i understand this ML too well.

Anyway, i'm giving this a perfect score. I enjoyed the journey thoroughly and will be rewatching the cute parts definitely for serotonin (:

May Li Xuns and Zhu Yuns of today live great lives that contribute to changing the world for the better.

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WATCH IT FOR THE COUPLE!! THE ML AND FL ARE PERFECTTT

i did like this drama especially the fl and ml. li xun was portrayed so well by chen feiyu and HE IS SO FINE. i loved his hair and i was kind of sad that they changed it but it shows he has matured. HIS PERSONALITY WAS AMAZING , I TOTALLY FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM! zhu yun was played by such a beautiful actress zhang jing yi . she really does give off innocent princess vibes and li xun'a VOICEEE especially when he calls her princess! i mostly enjoyed the past episodes of when they were at university but the ones in the present were also a nice touch touch . would recommend if you like cold boy x innocent girl dramas. totally fell in love with the cp their chemistry was unbeatable. episode 18 was my faveeee.

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BEST CDRAMA EVER

IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED IT YET, YOU SHOULD GO AND WATCH IT. So far, the best chinese drama I have ever watched. It is so realistic, it feels like you don't watch a drama but rather a real life event. No cringy scenes or stories, no unnecessary overreactions, no awkwardness. Lead characters, side characters, all are fun to watch. COUPLE IS AMAZING. I don't know from where to start praising the couple, be it chemistry between them or storyline. What I like the most about them is the little gestures we see throughout the drama; unlike other dramas, couple's physical contact is not limited to kiss, even the way they hug is the most genuine. The love they have for each other is inexplicable, the sacrifices they make for each other made me so emotional. Hats off to the whole cast, everyone did their part so well, acting is too natural. I wish we had more episodes, I can't let go of them...

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