Shine on Me

No-kissing Clause from Female Lead.

Great story but the no- kissing clause.from the female.lead dragged the whole.story to the catacombes! Male lead carried the story but their love lacked that "je ne sais quoi" that should have made this love story believable! Too bad l! Someone should tell Meimei to pick different script/ stories. You can̈not have such beautiful.script and no physical.contact with the love of your life...Normal people.cannot buy it and she could not sell it. Such a waste of great love story! Could habe been one of the freats in the books. Misuse of Song Weilong as a vibrant actor. She is a good actress but need to remove that clause when your co star is Song Weilong...

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It’s always hard for me to review shows but I’M in LOVE

I usually don’t write many reviews on tv shows cause I find them often deceiving. Most good shows actually have a lot of good reviews and usually I mostly agree with them.

Some of the best reviewed shows on mydramalist are “The untamed”, “Twinkling watermelon” and “Hidden love” and honestly, can I disagree with this?! NO, cause I love both of those shows myself but they’re not for everyone. I tried to get my sister to watch “Hidden love” but with no luck.

So I always feel like everyone can have different tastes and it’s hard to review a show in an objectively way, especially if you’re not a pro working into cinematography world.

So why am I still writing a review here?
Cause I LOVE THIS SHOW and I want to share my love with everyone else even if there will be still people not liking this.

I’m in a “Chinese Drama period” those holidays and I’m watching so many C-drama compared to my usual kdrama and BL’s content. I’ve also watched the hyped one about car racing “Speed and love” but honestly this is one of my fav at the moment.

I didn’t like a Cdrama so much after “Hidden love” and the reason why I think I do is the main character, the boy. Like in Hidden love, here also the main character doctor Lin is a bit the unlucky one (as you see in the first minutes of the first episode even if you’ll understand why later on).
What makes me so in love with those shows is the fact that the main guy had bad luck 🍀 and had to go through a lot but in the end love is what sort of always give them a second chance to be really happy in life.

And being such a romantic girl, that’s what makes my heart beats and this is why I love those shows so much.

Speed and love is a show I liked a lot less just because there was a lot of talks about racing, cars and stuff I’m not really that interested into so even if that love story was very beautiful and powerful as well, there was too much side story that bored me.

Here, like in hidden love, the main focus is the LOVE STORY and the development of the feelings, very slowly but nicely.

So I guess I could tell you that if you’re like me, loving romantic stories where the love story is the main character of the show I think you could fall in love with “Shine on me”.

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Zhuang Xu count your fucking days.

One thing about men is their audacity. And Zhuang Xu is that man. I want to run him over, reverse, then do it again at least ten times. I thought I had met annoying second leads before, but my god, Zhuang Xu made me wanna rip out my hair more times than humanly possible. I swear to god, I’m so glad I didn’t have to see him so much after they graduated, cuz if I had to, I might have actually dropped his show. I can’t stand him. I genuinely can’t. I don’t care what your issues are, what you’re struggling with, or what you’re dealing with, STOP FUCKING PROJECTING YOUR PROBLEMS ONTO THE MAIN GIRL.

This man reeks of insecurity, and he makes it OUR fucking problem. FUCK OFF. Usually, I don’t care about second leads; even more rarely, I fall for them, but this guy. This bloody guy. He makes my blood boil. He would just be standing there like a nob, and I would still feel myself getting annoyed. How the fuck were there THREE girls interested in him? THREE?! And the fact that our main girl was still hung on him after like a year?! GIRL PLS, WAKE UP WTF!!

People are right when they say men will do anything but take accountability and go to therapy. And add that with their fucking audacity, and they are insufferable. I knew this guy was going to be a problem the moment he called Xiguang pathetic for apparently “leeching off her parents”. His words, not mine. The moment I heard that, I knew this guy was for the fucking streets. Like, why are you projecting your fucking insecurities onto her? And don’t even get me started on him getting onto her for wearing heels because she wanted to look pretty. Like, excuse me!? Go die. Disrespectfully, go die.

And no, I don’t give a flying fuck that he loved her all along, and he didn’t know how to express it, and that he wouldn't have been able to confess cuz blah, blah, blah. No. Fuck you lot for trying to justify this behaviour. Our ML hated the FL and yet couldn’t help but love her. He pursued her DESPITE her being hung up on the SL. And what does our SL do? He calls her pathetic, doesn’t believe or defend her when she’s getting ganged up on, scolds her when she wears heels, lets countless opportunities go, and fucking expects the FL to follow him like a lost puppy.

And oh. OH. When he mentioned the promise. The rage I felt course through my body when he confronted her at the friend's wedding. Not only did he purposefully spill wine all over her hand because he was jealous, but he had the AUDACITY to be mad at her for “moving on”. I can’t. I’m sorry, if anyone likes this guy or even remotely tries to defend him, you're on my hit list. It’s giving bullying the girl you like, but in this case, he’s a fucking adult, he graduated at the top of his class and works at one of the most prestigious places. Get this stinky attitude out of my face.

And when he lost his shit, I was terrified. That was the look of a man who would hit you if you weren’t in public. Kudos to the actor because my god, he was able to make this man terrifying and annoying and so hateful. And Xiguang is a better person than me cuz I would have at least slapped him for the way he was grabbing her wrist. Talking about some missed opportunities and having nothing left to lose. Motherfucker you bought this upon yourself, go suck a cactus and choke. Fucking hell.

I can’t believe I spent this long talking about this loser. I just can’t stand him one bit. And this is the first time a SL made me this enraged. This drama got so much hype, and I can totally see why it did, but I guess it just wasn’t for me. I got the hype, but the hype didn’t hit me unfortunately.


Let’s talk about the positives now cuz I spent far too long talking about that annoying being that is a wet sock.

- I loved the character relationships. The friendships and dynamics were absolutely solid, and I liked how we gave every single one of them enough time. FL and her cousin might just be my favourite dynamic of all time. They’re so adorable, especially in the more serious moments.

- The main couple are amazing. I mainly watched this show for its romance, and I’m not ashamed to say it. Yusen is the perfect man and an incredible yearner. How Xiguang didn’t jump his bones from the get-go is beyond me. I think I focused more on Yusen’s face than I did on the actual show. Song Wei Long is a gorgeous man, and that face card of his has never once declined.

- I appreciate how down-to-earth both the leads were despite being rich. And glad that we didn’t do the whole poor girl x rich CEO trope that we usually see. They were at the same level, and that was a breath of fresh air. Sometimes I even forgot they were rich lmao. The scene where Xiguang claimed her mans in front of all the rich business people had me screaming. Like yes girl, that man belongs to you!!

- We got to see ML’s struggles with accepting not being a neurosurgeon anymore more than I expected. Honestly, I thought we were gonna forget that as the show went on, but it was one of the main focal points of the story, and I was so happy. Even the fact that we got to see him in medical situations, and how much he misses it. Glad he got to go back to doing a job related to it.


Now onto everything else I didn’t like apart from Zhuang Xu:

- The CGI in this show was fucking horrendous, my god. It made me laugh. Budget couldn’t have been that bad, right?

- As much as I loved all the medical stuff, I feel like that was just a gimmick to make this series stand out from the rest of the office romance dramas out there. Yeah, the guy went through a life-changing tragedy, and he had to change careers, but I feel like he could have done something that wasn’t a CEO. I don’t know, you could just tell the writer wanted an office romance, but wanted this to stand out somehow and figured, hey, what do the girlies also love? Oh yeah, hot doctors! Like, the ML is the youngest AND the top neurosurgeon, but also a CEO? Come on, pick one or the other. I get that Chinese MLs can basically do anything, but even this is a bit of a stretch. I guess they somehow managed to link it back to his childhood backstory, but still.

- Story felt incredibly slow. I’m amazing with slow-burn dramas. Some of my favourites are slow burns that don’t have much going on in them plot-wise. But this show just didn’t do it for me. The start was pretty solid, but somewhere in the middle, it got so boring and draggy that I had to use my skip button. Maybe because I liked the medical stuff more than the business. Which really doesn’t bode well when this is an office romance.

- The weddings. I’m sorry, did we blow out the budget in the last two weddings? What the hell was that? They’re the main couple, and we don’t even get a proper wedding? When the hell can we start having proper modern wedding scenes in Chinese dramas? I’m sick and tired of this shit.

- Ending lowkey felt rushed. Don’t know why we always have to include them having children. I mean, it was cute, but that’s always the ending. Give me a proper wedding instead, damn it!!

I guess this was about it, really. The edits made me watch this show, and I think this is the first time that the edits were better. Which is sad to say, because I love Zhao Jin Mai, and I was so excited to see her back on my screen. But I guess it is what it is. LIN YUSEN, YOU’RE STILL MY FAVOURITE!! AND ONCE AGAIN, FUCK ZHUANG XU!!

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don't let ur crush get in the way of ur husband!

this was so fluffy and sweet and romantic muah muah green flag. the business parts i skipped em all! cuz why are they just filler episodes i hate it. anywho...

things i liked:
1. FL did not let the 2ML have another chance/she didn't put up with him. SOOOO many times i watch these dramas and the FL gives the 2ML the benefit of the doubt or another chance and ditches her ML. didnt do that tho! and she put him in his place and he still crawled back. mmhm. side note, (2ML lost out on THREE whole baddies...LOL)
2, NGL loved the heir x heiress rich x rich vibe. kidna cute at the wedding scenes the couple has their own inside jokes and aslo understands the other's family dynamic etc etc. enough with the rich x poor!!!! glad this didnt have that
3. it only took FL to cry ONCE and ML literally was on the ground and lost all of his resentment toward the woman that (supposedly) ruined his entire career. that had me floored tbh lol.
4. LOVE LOVE LOVED THE COUSIN. HE WAS THE MOMENT FOR ME. his acting wasn't stiff and fake like so many others and he was so real and cute. His acting was fire fire. i need more of him.

things i didnt like:
1. business plot duh
2. this was fire up til like ep 18-25 ish. after that just got BORING. like yes they love each other and are in a healthy stable relationship but like BRUHHHH BORING!!!!!!! nothing funny at all just calm calm. too boring.
3. WISH THERE WAS A 2ND LOVE LINE. ugh like FL's bestie at work x ML's doctor bestie??? i thought they were gonna play that out at the dinner group they had but then it was SKIPPED> WASTED POTENTIAL.
4. nothing rly unique about this drama tbh

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Shine on My Awkwardness

Haven't finished the drama, but for the first 9 episodes there's really only one word for my experience: Awkward.

It's not just that the characters were awkward, because I actually did not mind that so much. The main characters were mostly kids freshly graduated from college, and having been there myself, I appreciated depicting more of the faux pas that happens with young, innocent, well intentioned impulsiveness. The drama itself also appears to understand when someone said something really weird and off-key, so that all seemed deliberate and with purpose, so in my books, that's acceptable. But I found myself questioning the writing and the writing process, because THAT seemed awkward too. It's one thing if something embarrassing happens because this was a personality trait, like a character is just really shy and lacks the sharp tongue necessary to resolve situations rapidly, or is insecure and lacks the confidence to stand up for themselves, but the characters keep getting themselves into weird situations and misunderstandings that feel completely unnecessary. In the beginning, FL had a crush on the SML. She was bold enough to confess first, but for some reason he didn't actually answer? And upon learning that her roommate also had a crush on SML, she acted all awkward and regretful about it, leading to these long, painful sequences where FL and SML would stare at each other wordlessly over and over again. What did the roommate having a crush on SML have to do with anything if FL confessed without knowing and he should have answered? How do you have such a conversation without a resolution one way or another? Did the writers not know how conversations work? If SML actually liked the roommate back, then be like your old confident self who confessed first and cut things off, stop pining after him like a loser. If he didn't requite the roommate's feelings, WHAT DOES THE ROOMMATE HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING? Why didn't he just answer? If he didn't reply then he doesn't like you, move on exactly like you would if he liked your roommate back. Hello? It's such a bizarre way to land in this limbo state, both look like idiots and it's so hard for me to believe I'm enduring all these scenes for any good reason. What kind of logic did the writer use to explain this situation? Each time it comes up, I'm not sympathetic toward the characters, I'm just baffled.

And then even weirder was the ML, who's a neurosurgeon; I don't know exactly how old ML is supposed to be and whether this was addressed somewhere I'm missing, but folks, Chinese medical school lasts at least 5 years, which is 1 year longer than your average uni, and that's assuming you don't aim for a PhD, which ML apparently had, so he needed to have been in school for at least 7-8 years. Then you enter residency; first year of any residency is always the year where you're mostly clicking charts, prescribing Tylenol to inpatients, and observing from the back in the OR. If you've proven yourself and the attending is in a good mood, MAYBE you get to retract, which isn't really relevant in something like neurosurgery; at most, you might be able to close with sutures at the end of the case. Neurosurgery residency in the US takes 7 years, I guarantee in China it wouldn't take any less time to complete, which means it would be a few years before you're trusted to do a full surgery on a patient's brain front to back. Not being a neurosurgeon myself, I'd wager end of 2nd year, beginning 3rd year at the earliest, and only very simple, short cases; honestly I really doubt a resident would be trusted to do a full case that early. Still, let's say ML is a genius and he defied all convention and really did pick things up that fast. So at the time of ML and FL's meeting, FL would have been 22 years old, ML should have been at least 29 or older, because he was referred to as a PhD, he was shown performing an 8 hr surgery as a primary, and then having a car accident that damaged his dexterity after which he was out of surgery for a year. Now I'm not talking about the age gap, I'm talking about ML, despite being a surgeon and at least 7 years older than FL, being weird enough to blame FL for not showing up to see him at the hospital after his car accident despite never even having met before? Even a 10yo wouldn't be this irrational, and this guy's supposed to be a neurosurgeon and the hero of the story? Furthermore, his characterization also makes zero sense; he is depicted as a guy who silently angsts while glaring at FL for her seeming abandonment a year ago when she clearly had no idea what he's upset about. The dude's a SURGEON. What self-respecting surgeon is able to shut up about themselves and whatever is on their minds? Yes, they can be socially awkward, but not because they don't say enough! If anything they're absolute divas, especially if they do NEUROSURGERY, I defy any of you to find a surgical specialty more proud of how brilliant they are than BRAIN SURGEONS. These people make decisions about whether or not to cut your head open, they're not going to waver about saying what they want to say, and they're certainly not going to care whether you want to hear it. So this whole weird dynamic of ML misunderstanding FL for several episodes straight and not being able to clear things up because he has selective emotionally-triggered mutism immediately knocked me right out of the immersion. It's fine if 22yo college grads who are still wet behind the ears don't know how to express themselves, but an almost 30yo former neurosurgeon is just pathetic. "Maybe he suffered brain damage from his car accident", you might say. Well, then maybe he should focus on his brain damage instead of hooking up with his employee. And I won't even go into how ludicrous it is for him to sit with his former colleagues in FL's room when she was admitted at the hospital, discussing other patient cases like some weirdo. What do they think they are, neurologists? Did they forget that workstations exist where they don't need to discuss private medical information in front of those who aren't part of the care team? Anyway, if you don't know how neurosurgeons behave, don't make your character a neurosurgeon. If you don't understand how 30yo adults behave, don't write about 30yo adults. There are plenty of much more natural, realistic series of events that can lead to awkward tension between two people, if you're not able to design a believable context then you shouldn't be writing this kind of plot. It's just so clear that these writers don't actually understand the topics and people they're writing about. I'm not dropping this show because it's awkward, I'm dropping it because it so clearly did not have to be and this is what makes it more agonizing than anything else. If I'm constantly wondering why the writers designed the show this way, chances are many of you would find this show more insufferable than enjoyable.

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Now That I have Finished the Drama...

Song Weilong is one of my all-time favorite actors, and recently, I have come to admire the work of Zhao Jin Mai. Both possess acting skills that capture the viewer's attention. Shine On Me has honestly been more than I bargained for. I did not expect the amazing chemistry between the two leads.
I look forward to the continuation of this series.
January 7, 2026
Where do I begin? To say that I enjoyed Shine On Me is an understatement. To say the least, I looked forward to the previews when a new episode was released. To say the least, I rewatched my favorite scenes repeatedly while waiting for another day to begin.
The music became more relevant and fitting as Yusen and Xiguang's relationship developed. I was drawn to their complete and total devotion to one another. The unwavering support and encouragement were admirable. What impressed me more was that there was little or no physical intimacy before they solidified their position in each other's lives. Afterward, the way they came together was appropriate. For me, the true test of a good romantic drama is whether or not love can be expressed in ways besides grabbing a partner every other second. Though the words, "I love you, were never spoken, it was the tender look in the eyes of Yusen for Xiguang that exposed his heart, and vice versa.
We got to see two young people being pulled out of past emotional pain and stepping into a healthy, mature love that helped them grow into the people they longed to be, fulfilling their goals. One did not try to overshadow the other, but walked in their own destiny, fully undergirding the other.
In the end, Shine On Me was a complete story worth watching. Finally, they were blessed to have a beautiful, intelligent daughter who had her dad wrapped around her finger.
#BeautifulDrama

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A fantastic watch

What a show! I loved this show so much. I equally loved both leads and thought they were really a perfect match. I hate shows where the male lead has nothing going on in his life except coming from a rich family and not being able to control his emotions. Thankfully, this is nothing close to that. I feared since a very big plot of the show was based on a misunderstanding, that the show would drag and dwell on this or worse, we would have a cruel ML who goes out of his way to make the FL suffer. He did have a few petty moments where he was trying to make the FL 'remember him'- but they are few and not unnecessarily cruel. He quits as soon as he sees that plan is going nowhere and is instead hurting the FL. And, beside himself, even when he sees her in such a poor light, he starts pursuing her. Pursuing her sincerely. It was hard not to swoon, even for me as a watcher. The FL is a ray of sunshine- given she has been raised spoiled and rich, she is surprusingly level-headed and even when she goes thru a year or so of emotional turmoil in Campus, she is able to steady herself, realize quickly what was happening and realign. I think the most important character portrayal was when her classmate thought she had stolen her internship spot and she threatened to call and have the company rescind the offer. While she knows she is actually in a position that she could do that, she cannot bring herself to make the call. She understands her privilege but never takes advantage of it. Despite her saga with Zhuang Xu, she remains sure of herself and just removes herself from his life despite her lingering feelings. Class act all thru. Besides the leads, Jiang Rui is definitely my favourite character, he is so well written and his delivery at such a young age is on point. Worth the watch and definitely has a high rewatch value. Gu Man really is the bomb

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Slow Burn done right

I didn’t plan to watch this at first because I’m not really a fan of the ML. I’ve seen some of his previous dramas and they just weren’t my style. I gave this one a try after hearing good reviews, and honestly, it lived up to the hype.

It’s a slow burn, but once it picks up, it’s hard to stop watching. What I really liked is that both leads are rich and on equal footing—no power imbalance. They grow together, which made the story more satisfying.

In terms of acting, the FL stood out more than the ML for me (just my personal take). The OST was really cute, and the ending was chef’s kiss.

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Very nice love story

Overall, this drama is absolutely amazing. The storyline is very well-written and feels complete from beginning to end. Every episode connects smoothly, making the plot easy to follow while still keeping it engaging and emotional.

What I really appreciate is how the story develops naturally, without feeling rushed or dragged out. Each character has a clear purpose, and their growth throughout the drama makes the whole experience even more enjoyable.

The ending is extremely satisfying and wraps up the story perfectly. It answers the important questions and delivers a strong emotional payoff, leaving a lasting impression after the final episode.

In conclusion, this drama is highly recommended for anyone looking for a well-rounded story with a powerful and fulfilling ending.

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