First Love

Warm, Fluffy, Sweet, & Funny

When a drunken mishap causes a scandal between two university students, will their scheme to save their reputations succeed or will it just cause more misunderstandings?

The ML is considered a genius student both academically & athletically (this actor as a swimmer is f-i-n-e, fine!). He’s the guy all the girls want, but he’s not interested in dating. Girls aren’t even on his radar - he’s too focused on achieving his goals to waste time on such trivial things. He comes across as distant & emotionally closed off, as geniuses often do. Of course, he’s actually a very kind & caring person, which is slowly proven as the show plays on.

The FL is a bright & bubbly girl who can be a bit timid at times. She’s working towards a medical degree while also chasing another dream - the dream of finally being a CC with her childhood bestie. Believing he feels the same, she’s shocked & heartbroken when it’s not her he wants to date, but rather her other best friend - the third member of their high school trio. Feeling betrayed by their relationship, she gets drunk to dull the pain, which ends in the aforementioned scandal with the ML.

The duo decides to fake date (a trope I admittedly love!) in hopes of stopping all the gossip that’s flying around campus about them. As they try to convince their classmates that their feelings are real, these opposites discover that they may not dislike each other quite as much as they first assumed. In fact, the more time they spend “dating”, the deeper their mutual feelings of affection grow. Can they clear up the misunderstandings between them, eliminate the annoying love rivals, & finally confess their feelings, turning their fake relationship into a real one? It’s drama land so of course the answer is yes!

I found myself both amused & frustrated while watching their story unfold. I laughed at several scenes due to their silly antics but I also wanted to smack them both at times for not just being honest with one another when the opportunity arose. I don’t like when people make love so complicated - I just want them to confess & be together for the majority of the show {{a GREAT example of this is the couple from “Love Me, Love My Voice”. I absolutely adore that duo & their immediate connection & confessions. PSA, Writers - more please!!!}}.

Overall, I did enjoy this drama. I admit, though, that I skipped a few scenes due to the cringey cheesiness. I get serious second hand embarrassment that I can’t stand to watch scenes where the characters are making absolute fools of themselves. 😜

The Leads are super cute together & their journey from enemies, to frenemies, to friends, to lovers is a sweet story to witness. They have a great bond of a beautiful love that doesn’t bend or break. They bravely face all the obstacles together (long-distance & extended separation), growing as individuals & as a couple. They have a very healthy relationship full of mutual encouragement, support, & trust. They’re both 100% devoted & loyal to the other.

And they have great chemistry, too, which ALWAYS raises my enjoyment of a show. They’re openly affectionate & flirtatious, with lots of safe skinship & yummy kiss scenes. 🫠

For me, there’s nothing really noteworthy about the secondary characters. Which is no shade or reflection on the cast! They each played their role well, I simply wasn’t invested in them like I was the Leads (which is usually the case for me so it didn’t affect my rating.)

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The things I always want to know 😏😉…
- First(real)Kiss : ep.19 💋
- Together : ep.18 👩🏻‍❤️‍👨🏻
- BreakUp : Nope 💍

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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.

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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.

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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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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 her

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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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