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Cute but Monotonous
Okay; First i liked the clips on other media pages.Thought of giving it a try.First 2 episode it took time for me to understand that FL is a 2nd year medical student.Like Seriously!!!
From no where she looked like a medical student.Who hardly study and only think of baking cakes and "ROMANCE".
Till episode 23 she gave me a feeling that she occupied someone else seat in medical entrance...
ML is cute , but unable to portray cold, strict male. Then she didn't even confront her deceiving best friends.
Wang Xiyu Bf is telling her to concentrate on herself and career. She has nothing better to do , linger around him.
The writer is a teenage girl,who is fulfilling inner desire by writing this kind of characters. Not the kind of drama , i expected. Good for small girls, who wants to day dream..
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My Journey
Well, i am literally a big drama fan let it be korean, chinese, thai, japaness etc so its a given i literally watch every new ongoing drama and this one. Its pretty good and funny a sweet unexpected romance and fun. I love the part when he realizes his love for her and show affection in the medical camp after she gets injured during the game and also when he tries to tutor her to make her realize his love for her. If ur looking for a multi-couple show this is the one. I also root for the main male lead bestfriend{roomie} and main female lead bestfriend{roomie} relationship. it gets all the stress go wizard and vanish. so, go for it.Was this review helpful to you?
Nice for casual watching!
Pros:Quite simple, not overly complicated.
Loved the female lead and rival friendship…why didn't they have a bit more screen time, this is the first time I'm seeing a drama that does justice to the love affairs of two rivaling women, without making the minor antagonist bat shit crazy…
The friendships in these shows were well written and breathable, showing many diverse characters connecting in some similarity. Even between Wanwan and her friend…
Very cute moments here and there…loved the conversations, very heartfelt and straightforward
Loved that the female lead did not allow a misunderstanding to stop her from confessing.
Cons:
I wish there were more episodes
Hated the second couple
Why: The Xiabei is not compatible with Jinyu, it seems like a cat and mouse method was used to draw these two together, but i couldn't help but feel that Jinyu deserves someone better.
Reason being both male leads were very flat, beside the “I get good grades and look good” package, nothing else really stands out about the male leads. Although there was so much to add to their characters, you really had to search for those recessive traits on the male leads.
E.g male lead is surprisingly tentative sometimes but then the show switches it focus back to him being the nonchalant smart guy again.
I wish…the female lead was better written, no one is perfect and the female lead had her strengths (but I'll never understand how someone can be good at baking..but bad at cooking…? Being better at one is alright….but being horribly bad…..nah..not possible!)
One such strength is her attention to detail, she pays close attention to her work and others as a caregiver (doctor) yet again the show doesn't really bring this out and just decides to have her throw such a good skill around.
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I don't like the story much
I didn't find anything new in this drama , Many school based drama has already made and its story is similar to one of them or I would say it is a mixture of all story . Boy who had some problem ,he was not socially ,he had problem in interaction with people . He didn't show any type of emotion in his face . He was struggling with this . His senior and his trainer adviced him to work on it . Then he accidentally stuck in a situation of misunderstanding which he had seen as an opportunity to work on his problem so he didn't try to correct the misunderstanding and live with this . Gradually he won over his problem and then after he lived peacefully . In his journey the female lead's character helped him to overcome from his problem. So this is the story .Acting was good.
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Could be good but....
The story starts at a good pace, it's interesting, fl is fun, funny, cute, beautiful and ml is cold, distant, but not rude, they have chemistry, a good relationship, but the story is too drawn out, there was no need of spending more than 5 eps winding up a love confession, I thought ml was a coward for not having said anything since he was the first to fall in love, and for having waited for fl to realize that she liked him and for her to say so only then would he say what felt. The secondary couple being ml's cousin is boring and uninteresting, as well as her best friend Qiao, already the best friend she was in love with, I hated his cynicism of only saying after two years that he was dating his best friend her, and I hated that the two didn't suffer any consequences, fl forgave them both easily without any kind of fight, even her ex best friend treating her rudely without her having done anything and still distanced her from her best friend on purpose. In the end, the story started out good but got lost along the way, a lot of fluff, little romanticism, and boring and dull secondary couples.Was this review helpful to you?
“Do I have an open invitation saying, ‘use me’?”
Yes, Lu Wanwan, you fucking do.Anyway, just finished a drama about a robot and an idiot apparently falling in love or something like that.
For this drama to not have been painful, it needed to be 12 episodes, 15 max (and I’ll kick my own ass for saying this cause I hate the shortening of tv shows more than anything). You know he likes her from the beginning but because they needed to stretch the story to fit 24 eps., he never tells her and it repeatedly becomes a source of conflict.
We have the same misunderstandings - the same arguments, over and over and over and over and over
I never want to see a character like this FL on my screen again. Someone would spit in her face, and she’d turn the other cheek for them to spit on the other side. No self-preservation whatsoever
They should take their poster child for a “virtuous woman” and shove her in a closet somewhere idc
She thinks smiling big is a personality trait.
Just a bag of helplessness in a human suit, paired with Mr. Robot. Completely unwatchable
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Cute
At first I thought this is just another college story of two people meet in a strange way and have a contract just like the series To Fly with you, but it has its own twist of the story.Both FL and ML act great. At first, I dont like the way the ML acts because he kinda weird like he walks weird, talked weird but in the process of the story I understand and realized that it is part of his character which somehow made me love him. The ML character portrayed well, the writer showed that not all nerd guys are weird and somehow showed that nerds also have the ability to show their way how to love. The character is good, not so cheesy, not so intimidating and a well writer for a guy which somehow hoping to have one in reality. Love the way the writer portrayed him as simple, intelligent and you won't hate him a bit because of his high IQ. Just like other series with High IQ ML, they sometimes kinda weird but loveable in a way.
While the FL portrayed a simple girl with a humble personality. Love the way the Actress act the character. she done a good job being a simple, jolly and humble character. Personally, I love how she act that didn't made me think otherwise. The writer also shows how a simple girl even not as intelligent as the ML but she was written as it should be in order to fit the personality of the ML. IN short, their characters are balance, and you won't hate them.
Mostly, I sometimes keep skipping some area, but in this series, I barely skip. even the character of the ML cousin, she was jolly and have a warm impact. I like her also in her other series. and the Fan Yi, I like him in the series, Falling into Smile as Rui. His character is different but still he is good.
The story is not boring. I 100% sure it is not boring. Love the way the story of the two lovebirds, starting as enemies, to friends and to lovers. Not like other series, this is not boring for sure. Some scenes maybe the same a reality goes like the scene when the ML got angry to the FL after she rescue and found her girl best friend and was attack by male bystanders. That shows the reality on how a real boyfriend should act, how concern and how frustrated he is in real life because he was scared. In addition, it is also good that no 3rd wheel involved. There's a jealousy but not to a point that makes the story mislead and showed that it is indeed a First love.
I think the writer done a great job. A story that somehow have a little bit of reality. For me, it is a great concept especially people nowadays love to watch series with a little bit of real life and not thinking that it is impossible. Somehow, it showed how life is and not an imaginary as always.
Watch and you will smile for sure and feel the real First Love. I don't know what others think, but this is mine.
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First Love is an Adorable but cheesy RomCom
First Love is the second drama I watched, where Tian Xi Wei is the lead actress. I watched her in New Life Begins with Bai Jing Ting and liked her.First love is a cheesy but cute drama about young love (college); Lu Wan Wan and Ren Chu are adorable as they try to express their attraction and love for each other over time. It was a slow reviewing process, so it was a bit draggy. The supporting cast is good as well. It would be better if it wrapped in 20 episodes instead of 24.
Overall, it is enjoyable, giving it a 6.5 rating.
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Time waste
Starting is good plot is good goes downhill and romance is random and looks forced from FML at 15 she suddenly confess him ? girls you dislike him as bf from 1st eps keep denying now suddenly confess? FML is really dumb chases childhood friend gets betrayed and still talks to the friend who did that ? and ml is so good boy is trying from 1st ep to get her like him she keeps rejecting him for no reason? she's dumb enough to like the friend but not like ml ? ml did so much but she won't budge she will keep rejecting him, avoid him ? I'm bored of this it's already half of the eps and nothing happened and ml and his friends literally all dumb they give only bad ideas to him, watched because of her but dropping because of herWas this review helpful to you?
plain story~
i initially expect too high abt this drama.. unfortunately, i felt there's a plot hole in the middle until last part of it. pull and push scenes were too much and i dont think both FL and ML feel at ease w the skinships.the story's very plain as it mainly tells FL's fear of her future ahead (in major she chose) aka not that complicated.
to be fair, i enjoy 1st few eps bcs its funny and i thought i would like it due to ML character (cool, kinda possessive, smart, good swimmer). i bear myself to binge watch it while waiting for their moments as a cp. oh my.... the kissing scenes were fish kisses (mostly FL opened her eyes wide during kissing scene) and reaaallly short to the point that i couldn't immerse in their feelings. just like the ost tho.
overall, 7.5/10 is a very nice of me to score this.
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nothing to see but simple and cute romance
if you kinda wanna go brainless and watch a mostly romance drama to kill some time, this is it.doesn't really get you hooked, but also the pacing is okay i think (i watched most of it on 2x speed tho). the main girl is really cute imo and the kissing scenes are pretty good too although half of them happen in their daydreams....
there's a bit of the typical angst and miscommunication sprinkled it but it's bearable to watch and they usually solve the miscommunication fights within the same episode or start of the next. side characters are fine, not obsessed with them but none of them are too annoying either so that's great.
favourite thing about the drama is definitely the adorable, spirited female lead!
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