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We Best Love: No. 1 For You — Sometimes Losing First Place Is How You Find the Right Person
This review reflects how I experienced "We Best Love: No. 1 For You" in 2021. I am adding it to MDL much later, but I want to keep the perspective of the period in which I first watched it because this series has remained one of my favourite BL stories ever since. I have rewatched both parts several times almost every year, and the strange thing is that repetition has never made me tired of them. The first six episodes tell an extremely simple story: Zhou Shu Yi has spent most of his life furious because Gao Shi De always seems to beat him at everything. First in school, first in swimming, first whenever Shu Yi desperately wants to prove himself. College is supposed to finally free him from that rivalry, only for Shi De to appear again. What Shu Yi does not understand is that Shi De has never been competing because he wants to humiliate him. Being first was simply the only way he knew to remain somewhere Shu Yi would always notice him. That is such a wonderfully romantic reversal of the school-rival trope because the thing Shu Yi hates most about Shi De turns out to have been Shi De's clumsy way of loving him for years.What makes the first part work so well is that the romance grows from personality rather than from a complicated plot. Shu Yi is proud, competitive, emotionally transparent when angry and completely blind to what is happening when the emotion becomes love. Shi De is calmer and appears more controlled, but underneath that control is someone who has organised an absurd amount of his life around staying close to one person. The progression from irritation to friendship and then attraction feels surprisingly natural because the series gives their ordinary interactions as much importance as the confession. The swimming pool, the infirmary, studying together, jealousy, embarrassment and the moments where Shu Yi slowly realises that Shi De's absence bothers him more than Shi De's presence all build toward the same conclusion. By the time Shu Yi understands that Shi De loves him, the real question is no longer whether Shi De's feelings are reciprocated but how long Shu Yi will need to admit something the audience can already see. The script by Lin Pei Yu had the advantage of a writer who already understood Taiwanese BL through works such as "HIStory2: Right or Wrong", "HIStory2: Crossing the Line" and "HIStory3: Trapped", and that experience shows in how efficiently six short episodes can establish not only the main couple but an entire social circle around them.
Sam Lin and YU are a huge reason the story became so memorable for me. Sam was already an experienced performer, while "We Best Love" was YU's acting debut and first leading role, yet that difference never makes the pairing feel unbalanced. If anything, it helps. Shi De is supposed to appear more certain about his emotions because he has loved Shu Yi for years, while Shu Yi is discovering everything almost in real time. YU's slight rawness therefore suits the character beautifully. He can be arrogant one second, wounded the next and almost childishly confused when feelings stop following the rules he understands. Sam gives Shi De a quieter kind of intensity; his expressions often reveal much more than his dialogue, particularly when he is watching Shu Yi without being watched back. Their chemistry never feels as though the production is forcing two actors into romantic poses and hoping viewers will do the rest. They look comfortable enough to argue, touch, stare and eventually kiss without the physical relationship becoming some separate performance labelled "BL scene". That naturalness is especially important because most of the cast did not build their careers around repeatedly playing BL couples. They simply played these characters, and that helped the relationship feel like a romance rather than a genre exercise.
I also love that the side characters are not decorative. Fang Zheng Wen and Jiang Yu Xin could easily have existed only to make Shu Yi jealous or to delay the main relationship, but their own heterosexual romance is given enough space to feel like a genuine part of the same group. Shu Yi begins the series believing he is in love with Yu Xin, only to discover that she loves Zheng Wen, while Zheng Wen is caught between his feelings for her and loyalty to his friend. Liu Bing Wei and Shi Zhe Yu are present with their own dynamic, Pei Shou Yi is far more interesting than the standard school doctor who conveniently gives advice, and Shi De's family gives him a life outside Shu Yi. This is one of the reasons the series remains so easy for me to rewatch. I am not waiting impatiently for everyone else to disappear so the main couple can return. The friendships and secondary relationships make the world feel inhabited, and even when a storyline is small, it usually belongs there.
Technically, "No. 1 For You" is also much better than its modest six-episode format might suggest. Yoiisz International Media was still a very young production company and this was its first major drama project, so there was not an established BL catalogue proving what the studio could do beforehand. What mattered more was the experienced creative team around it, particularly director Chiang Jui-chih and Lin Pei Yu. The production understands water extremely well as a visual element, beginning with swimming and repeatedly using reflections, enclosed spaces and quiet close-ups to make the emotions feel larger than the actual scale of the series. The soundtrack also works particularly well because YU was already a musician before becoming an actor, and music becomes part of the identity of "We Best Love" rather than something pasted over scenes afterward. Nothing about the production needs to be enormous. It simply knows exactly what six episodes are supposed to accomplish.
Final Thoughts
"No. 1 For You" remains one of my favourite first-love BLs because it takes something incredibly simple and executes it with almost perfect emotional clarity. Two rivals discover that the competition between them has never meant the same thing to both people, one boy realises that the person he spent years trying to defeat was actually the person who had spent years trying to remain close to him, and an ensemble of friends makes their university world feel much larger than six episodes should allow. Sam Lin and YU are excellent together, the supporting stories matter, and the ending is genuinely sweet enough that, if this had been the whole story, I could have accepted it as a complete little romance. Fortunately, it was only half of it, because "We Best Love" had something much more painful waiting for us.
Sometimes the person you spend your whole life trying to beat is only running beside you because he never wanted to reach the finish line without you.
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The chemistry between the couple is just chef's kiss its been like 2years since i watched it but still i re-watch it again and again not feeling any boredom the acting script how it potrayed it amazing...i recommend people to watch it
The unrequited love how it executed and how the story went not too rush nor too slow the pacing of it just awesome
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Acting you can believe
The plot is unremarkable but what makes this show watchable are scenes that are genuinely funny, touching and romantic and look natural (‘mum comes home early’ is a prime example). All of this is helped by lead actors who actually look comfortable together and whose intimacy is therefore convincing. One of the behind the scenes videos shows some of the exercises they did to become physically at ease with each other — sooo interesting! I also loved how they broke into Japanese some of the time. For sure worth the WeTV subscription :)Was this review helpful to you?
Dreamy awesome
Was not expecting much from this BL but boy oh boy was i so wrong!! I am totally in love with japanese dropping words from Yu and Sam...these boy men are so dang hot especially inside the pool!!Well done Taiwan 🇹🇼...i am so hooked!! 100%
There are so many other characters that the 1st episode did not touch on so i am sure they would be appearing in the coming eps.
Love love love 💘 💗 💕 ❤ 💖 💓 💘 💗 💕 ❤ 💖 💓 💘 💗 💕 ❤ 💖 💓 💘 💗 💕 ❤ 💖 💓 💘 💗 💕 ❤ 💖 💓 💘 💗 💕 ❤ 💖 💓 💘 💗 💕 ❤ 💖 💓 💘 💗 💕 ❤ 💖 💓 💘 💗
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Simple yet great
I love this show.I love these characters.
I love how they got together.
I love their love story.
I love their relationship.
I love how they are when they're together.
I love the confession scene.
They delivered a great take on the rivals to lovers & unrequited love to lovers tropes.
It probably has some problems but I don't care & I won't listen to anyone saying anything bad about it. It's basically perfect and I won't entertain any critique saying otherwise.
It's a good show and it deserved its second season.
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À la redécouverte d'un BL taïwanais...
We Best Love illustre parfaitement ce qu'on attend d'une histoire aussi simple, mettant en scène le trop d'ennemis à amants. Certes, on peut pointer du doigt un scénario facile, mais lui est réussi.Zhou Shu Yi (Yu) est l'éternel second, car sans cesse devancé par Gao Shi De (Sam Lin). Enfin à l'université, il espère pouvoir briller… Jusqu'au jour où il voit Shi De. Les dynamiques se mettent rapidement en place, relançant aussi la machine à rivalité.
Les relations d'amour et de haine sont croustillantes à souhaite. Généralement, il n'y a pas énormément d'efforts à mettre dedans pour donner envie d'en savoir plus. Pourquoi se détestent-ils ? Jusqu'ou peuvent-ils se haïr ? Qu'est-ce qui va être le déclencheur d'une mi-temps dans la haine que Shu Yi ressent ? Pour moi, l'histoire suit un schéma classique avec quelques facilités, mais la maturité du scénario et des personnages apportent un vent de fraîcheur.
Yu et Sam Lin sont vraiment bons, alors qu'on voit cette rancœur se nourrir sur le temps, avant qu'elle ne change progressivement. Si on connaît le début et la fin, l'histoire suit son cours avec fluidité et rythme.
En bref, We Best Love est une bonne façon de renouer avec les dramas taïwanais, ou de tout simplement en découvrir un.
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Está sendo incrível.
É um clichê legal, se você quer uma história clássica ( pelo menos até o 6 episódio) ela é pra você. Obviamente que nem tudo é óbvio mas deixa uma ideia do que provavelmente irá acontecer. Mas é ótimo, eu recomendo, me fez chorar e AMAR os personagem que são super legais. Me fez rir também, o que é ótimo.Estou ansiosa para ver o desfecho pois agora entramos na parte da história que é inesperada e que nos deixa muuuito curiosos, o que é ótimo.
Espero manter a nota atual até o fim kakakaka.
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Un petit drama sympathique
Tout d'abord il faut savoir que j'avais cette série dans mon collimateur depuis son annonce. Ayant vu toutes les productions BL de la scénariste "Lin Pei Yu", j'ai fortement été attirée par celle-ci. L'annonce du casting m'a quelque peu surprise, voir Sam Lin dans ce genre était réellement inattendu ! [Surtout que le BL est souvent joué par de nouveaux acteurs qui tentent de débuter (comme les acteurs de sentais pour les japonais...)]J'avoue avoir lu beaucoup de commentaires sur cette série avant de me lancer. Ceux-ci sont plus qu'élogieux et m'ont probablement fait avoir plus d'attentes que ce que je pensais...
En somme, je suis assez mitigée sur ce que j'ai pensé de ce drama... J'ai apprécié l'histoire bien que vue et revue (dans le genre comme dans la rom-com classique) mais la fin m'a laissé un goût assez amer... Ne parlons même pas du trailer pour la saison 2 qui promet des prises de têtes... (Moi qui ai horreur des situations compliquées une fois le couple établi, je vais encore en baver --') Malgré ça, on passe un bon moment à regarder ce petit couple se créer.
J'ai apprécié découvrir l'acteur Yu dans le rôle de Zhou Shu Yi. (Ba oui, je connaissais déjà Sam Lin, donc d'office je me suis plus intéressée à son binôme x'D !) Ce dernier dégage beaucoup de charmes et montre un grand panel d'émotions qui nous donne envie d'en savoir plus à son propos et de voir son évolution. (C'est d'ailleurs sans doute pour ça que je regarderai la saison 2 malgré mes aprioris...)
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Não adianta um romance meloso ou cheio de pegação para me fazer amar, o enredo tem que me fazer sentir dentro daquela narrativa. Porém sempre que faço uma rodada de investigativos e sinto como se tivesse com ressaca ou sentido que estou adivinhando tudo, busco uma vez ou outra enredos clichês e leves.
Aqui não foge disso, com enredo tipo Tom e Jerry, com seis episódios de trinta minutos, te prende de uma forma que alguns outros com maior número de episódios não fazem. Mesmo pequeno, o desenvolvimento dos personagens é perceptivo e significativo.
Nem se fala das atuações, os principais demonstram tanta emoção que me vi chorando junto. O beijo foi um dos mais lindo e sentimental que já vi em meus oito anos vendo dorama.
O final te faz sentir que na verdade é o começo, de alguma forma isso não é frustrante, dar a sensação de querer mais, o bom é que terá a segunda temporada We Best Love: Fighting Mr. 2nd, só 5 de março.
Fazia um tempo que não via um drama de Taiwan, seja por não achar ou por não curtir os enredos, porém vejo como o BL é bem trabalhado, na verdade nunca vi um romance mal feito desse país. Claro que é minha impressão sendo meu primeiro BL de Taiwan, realmente espero achar mais pérolas preciosas como essa que dão uma sensação de quentinho por dentro. Até o momento é o mais fofo do ano, bem quem sabe venha outros.
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We best love: no 1 for you
Drama tentang kisah cinta bertepuk sebelah tangan itu sangat banyak,namun drama ini adalah yang terbaik!!!Dari segi musik dalam drama ini sangat bagus,indah,lumayan tenang,dan saya menyukainya.
Dari segi akting pemeran dalam drama ini sangat-sangat mengagumkan.Mereka sangat serasi,membuat siapapun yang melihat keserasian mereka akan merasa terbang di langit biru yang indah.saat saya menonton drama ini saya selalu terbawa perasaan,tak henti-hentinya saat mereka bersama saya terus tersenyum dan kadang sampai berteriak.
Dan terakhir dari segi cerita drama ini benar-benar sangat mengesankan,mengagumkan,dan sangat menarik.alur cerita yang tidak terlalu berat namun sangat berkesan.
SAYA SANGAT-SANGAT MENYUKAI DRAMA INI!!❤️❤️❤️
Dan saya juga sangat menantikan season 2 drama ini, setelah saya melihat spoiler season 2 saya sungguh tak dapat berkata apapun lagi.Saya tidak bisa menunggu lagi!!
Siapapun harus menonton drama ini!!!❤️🥰
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Agradeço todo dia pelos dramas taiwaneses, eles nunca decepcionam
Plot clichê porém interessante, conceito haters to lovers que todo mundo ama, protagonistas com uma química ABSURDA (além de serem lindos demais, não sei lidar), We Best Love tem tudo pra ser o xodózinho de muitos.Iniciando pela história: ShuYi tem um rival no colégio que sempre fica em primeiro lugar em tudo, o que o deixa revoltado porque ele sente que Gao ShiDe faz de propósito só pra provocá-lo. Quando ShuYi vai pra faculdade, ele imagina que finalmente conseguiu se livrar de ShiDe, até que o garoto aparece em seu clube de natação. A história gira em torno dos dois meninos e seus conflitos e razões para querer ser o número um.
ZHOU SHU YI: Tsundere que a gente ama. Eu já me apaixonei pelo Yi simplesmente quando me deparei com a beleza estonteante dele (e olha que é bem difícil pra mim levar tanto em consideração a beleza estética e física de alguém), mas aí ele começou a jogar umas exclamações em japonês a esmo durante a série e eu pensei "é isso, homem da minha vida". O personagem é taiwanês e japonês, cabeça esquentada que adora xingar na língua do pai, é super divertido ver ele frustrado em bilingue language gtyujhnbgtyuj. Apesar de jurar de pé junto quer odeia o ShiDe, o ShuYi não fica de cu doce quando o menino tenta se aproximar dele, mesmo que essa aproximação se inicie a partir de um "contrato" bem típico de drama asiático. Os sentimentos dele fluem de forma realista, apesar da personalidade forte;
GAO SHI DE: Eu não canso de ficar repetindo o nome lindo desse menino, nossa. "Gáo Shi Dã" é um soft boy que só quer se aproximar do crush e tem uma paciência desumana pra lidar com os espinhos do ShuYi. Menino super confiante, sorriso lindo e gentil, amoroso, compreensivo, atencioso. Pacote completo de namoradinho taiwanês (tanto que nem o ShuYi resiste rs).
O desenvolvimento da história é super fluído, super bonitinho, SamYu foram feitos um pro outro e é isso rs. A produção é incrível também, a ambientação e os cenários são super bem apresentados.
Como conclusão, é sim uma série xodózinho e eu só parei pra perceber o quanto gosto dela enquanto escrevia esse review rs.
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Un BL precioso
Vengo a hacer el review después de mi tercera vez reviendo este bellísimo drama y es que de verdad, no me canso de volver a élla! Y es que esta miniserie taiwanesa de 6 episodios de 30 minutos es de mis BL preferidos des de que se estrenó. Es una historia muy bien contada para los pocos minutos que tiene con una de las parejas BL con la química más espectacular del panorama de series Boys Love! No os la podéis perder!!!!! La música es preciosísima y la escenografía también! Cuando acabéis esta primera temporada seguro que váis directos a la segunda donde veremos como se desarrolla esta preciosa historia de amor y devoción inquebrantables.Was this review helpful to you?
