highly recommended!
I usually don't like romance between students and teachers, but this drama is an exception!! the characters and storyline are all SO GOOD. The couple's chemistry is also very good. I highly recommend this drama!🖤🖤🖤such a harmonious couple, I really like the flow of their love story that doesn't beat around the bush. try to watch 1 episode and you will know how good this drama is, so you will want to watch the next episode🖤. this drama have Happy Ending story
Even though it's only 12 episodes, the plot runs so neatly and naturally. I have never and don't want to watch a love story between a teacher and a student but for this drama I really like their story
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Worth Watching!
Since I have adopted - leave the details to others - I watch these dramas with a different eye. Now, it is simply - Was it worth my time? For this - yes.My only gripe is the everyone gets a happy ending. The mother should be in jail. She made life miserable and ruined so many people over the years. She used them and abused her status to get what she wanted. A bow and a "sorry" should never cut it. Awful woman.
The twists to the plot were well placed and the clues were there though, many of us would need to really pay attention to the details. You will grow frustrated and use the fast forward button - like I did - mainly to get away from the hell the mother put everyone through. There should have been mention of a house or, huge check for the teacher but, no - flowers, blue skies and all smiles by the last episode. Ugh.
Where is that Korean truck in almost every drama that runs someone over?
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Thought i'm open minded when it comes to relationships but this really tested me!
Likes
1. The drama was addicting because the topic is taboo and there were a lot of twists along the way. The first 6 eps weren't easy to watch and I wasnt sure why I was still watching. Ep 7-9 made me feel uneasy coz i thought although it's not a crime to fall in love, it felt too inappropriate for the teacher to fall in love with a hs student. Couldnt they have waited until he graduated before they started anything? Ep 10-12 added a stalker storyline to already stressful events.
2. It's tough to like the couple, Mengyun and Yixiang given the circumstances. But i admire them for fighting for what they want. I also didnt feel any passion in all their steamy scenes because I look at the guy and all I see is him wearing his hs uniform in every scene, reminding us that he is still a boy. But his father telling his son that he was ok with the relationship also made me think.
3. I really hated the mom at the start but in the end, i liked her even more than the FL. She had the most growth in the drama. Still doesnt excuse all the bad things she did and i understood she tried to protect her son from an adult trying to get her revenge and hurt her son.
Dislikes
1. The way Mengyun was written. From the start her decisions and actions have been terrible. We dont always know what she is thinking or feeling because she has one expression. What did she like about Yixiang? I really cant imagine, but hey she seems happy so be it. But she should have resigned even before it became public because it was really unethical.
2. The whole stalker thing was unnecessary and obvious but they didnt figure it out because they were too busy with themselves. Also i didnt like that the ending was written in a way that they're forced to forgive or sweep everything under the rug after the stalker. I think without it, the mom would still be fighting with her son and Mengyun, which I think is more realistic than showing all is well after 6 years.
Rating: 7.5/10
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Disturbing yet oddly entertaining
This lesson in tabus is most probably not a drama that will make you swoon or fall in love with pretty much any of it´s characters. Even if you are like me who has a soft spot for bad-boys gone devoted (obsessed) and soft. As it is there constantly offering disturbing twists some more predictable than others yet indeed very disturbing in so many ways.It also offers a bunch of issues done wrong oh so wrong and has me questioning the writers motives for this drama.
That said I was entertained, the story did surprise me more than once as well as made me reach for that next episode button so all in all a decent watch. Just prepare yourself to feel uncomfortable. Or at least I did
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no better no worse revenge/school drama
I can see a lot of wasted potential here... It's got a lot of ingredients to keep this entertaining, but also it's got a lot of tropes, and not all of them done right!I read a lot abt episode 6 & the turnover it brings. Indeed, there is something to it, but its aftermath not good enough if you ask me. Like someone said, two narratives are stuck together in an artificial way, as if the director received too many complaints from viewers for the story being boring and decided to add some action to it!
So, its a (student - teacher) romance + revenge (?) drama after all, and - hopefully - love wins and revenge is forgotten by the end.
Abt cast: i really think the weak spot is the FL, not the ML as many viewers said. The FL is really boring for wearing the same outfit and same facial expression all the time. While the ML is quite in the character, and though he might look more mature - which i didnt notice - it's not unusual for teens to look so. I've seen teens looking old and adults looking like teens, so this is not a concern for me while watching this.
My objection is to the plot itself, logic seems sometimes gone to the drain while cheap tropes keep recurring... Like, good ppl are in fact the creepy ones and vice-versa? Smh
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What a drama….
Suspected , I tried watching the drama . In episode 5 i read the critics here and it connected so well with what i felt. ..I a bizarre way, i became addicted to the drama - story , actors, acting, performing, i could see life and culture through it i was fascinated i just didn’t want it to end.
Don’t miss a good drama !!
Enjoy🌹♥️
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If you miss a second, you'll miss the whole plot
The plot is full of mystery and secrets. Once you find the truth, the plot will get more interesting and engaging.It's a teacher-student love story they said. But it's more than that. It's a friendship, parenthood, and also sometimes a thriller psycopath story mixed in a drama.
The biggest mistake is falling in love. Love comes with consequences and we should pay it someday, if it's not today.
I'm not recommending this drama for whose heart are weak. It content fake incest relationship so be prepared for the whole facts.
The love triangle, the betrayal, and the acting of the actors got me hooked. I watched this less than 24 hours without getting bored once.
Prepare your heart then watch it wisely!
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Turn off your brain
my first ever review.what i like:
1. chemistry
2. the way the scenes were shot and how it shows on screen
3. some decent acting
4. the overflowing emotions
5. interesting makjang
6. not boring
7. imperfect characters. morally grey, morally red. red flag. green flag. Mysterious character (xia yuxin), annoying character (the mom).
8. the pace, the amount of eps, and duration of each eps
what i dislike:
1. some of the logic and reasoning (i just ignore it, bcos I don't treat this as an educational material, just a pure entertainment drama).
2. sometimes ekkkk acting
overall a 8.5/10. it's definitely not perfect in any way. so many questionable morals, but heck as a makjang and rom, it is entertaining. ok that's it :)
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This felt so Forbidden in its Rightness!
I saw some shorts on youtube and was really intrigued especially since it involves one of my fave guilty pleasure tropes which is the forbidden aspect of student-teacher romance. And i do not mean when Male is the teacher and the student female, i mean when its the opposite. So much more sexier (hehe).Tiffany Hsu really brought out the complex, broken and tortured soul of Meng Yun alive on-screen, whose family was ripped apart by a betrayal and the tragedy thereafter. She is kind to people and dedicated as a teacher, instantly despising YiXiang when she meets him for the first time. There is a sensual undertone in mids of their hostile encounters where YiXiang tries to break her will (as he has done to many other teachers) and YiXiang cannot undermine the thought of viewing her as a beautiful mysterious woman. His great heart got stolen by her, and he falls so hard for her.
Its the first time i have seen Edward Chen on-screen and oh my what a terrific actor! He is handsome in a very manly way. Loved his brash and energetic persona, the way he protects the people he cares about, his fearless way of pursuing MengYun, with his heart & soul bare on his sleeve, for her to shatter whenever she wants to by his heartfull permission.
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Not as bad as you might think
First few episodes might have you cringing.. typical spoilt rich boy acting up and pulling pranks on this new female teacher. But somehow in the process, he falls in love w her.Our ML is 17yo going on 18, still in high school. He’s doing all these rebellious acts to spite his mom, who is the chairwoman of the parents association in the school. The mom of course is super rich, donated loads to the school and abused her power with the school principal. Enters our FL, who is a new teacher at the school, and she’s 30 yo.
The first 5 episodes were questionable : HE was obviously crushing hard on her, but SHE was gracefully holding back, but slowly falling for him as well. It wasn’t anything pedophilia but it was difficult to watch the budding romance between teacher and student. Thankfully, the explicit scenes at this stage were merely a fragment of his imagination ;)
Then comes Epi 6 with a huge plot twist, which made the story turn quite interesting. Here the drama and angst intensifies, and emotions are running wild. I must say I didn’t really like our ML’s acting. He seemed wayyyy too childish to handle a relationship w a much older woman. As the story unfolds, it gets more gripping and more and more plot twists, especially the final episode! Never saw that coming! It is a happy ending for our main couple, and somehow by the end, their relationship doesn’t seem so “wrong” anymore.
Watch this with an open mind. Yes definitely there were some steamy scenes, though it seemed a little forced lol. Bear in mind this is a Taiwanese drama ;) and good thing it’s only 12 episodes :):)
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Lots to like but ultimately failed to convince
There was so much to like in this drama, the performances were good, the script was tight and the characters well drawn. The plot really held your interest and it managed some good twists, even if you could see some of them coming. But right at the heart of it was a major flaw as far as I was concerned, that undermined the whole thing. And no, it wasn’t the perceived immorality of forbidden love.The fact that Edward Chen makes such an excellent job of being an immature, bratty teenager and the writing for him is spot on, makes the romantic relationship all the more difficult to understand and believe. I simply couldn’t credit that the character of the FL would be at all interested in him as a lover. Their relationship simply did not gel for me and I had to just suck it up and move on.
Plus, it’s really hard to get past the unprofessional attitude of the FL in the drama. She behaves so badly, so often, that I ended up really not liking or respecting her at all. I don’t have to like the characters to rate the show, but when it’s a romance, it’s sort of necessary to at least warm to the lead couple.
What my rating means: 7+ A watchable drama, but nothing exceptional. Good enough to qualify for the race, but finished with the pack. The sort of thing that promises more than it delivers.
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immorality
drama normalised immorality. teacher seduced student, that is belo 18 years old. she should be fired from school immediately! she did seduced him.she also raises against his mother, and say him to rebel against mother.
what normal teacher can tell it to student????
2. main actress has no acting skills ... her morbid face stayys same in entire drama. no facial expresion
also sounds very impossile that someoene like her can stay in school and work after all pedo proofs
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