Tuan Chong Qian Jin (2025)

Fun But Nonsensical Vertical in Horizontal Format

This show was both fast paced and addicting if you follow vertical plots as it attempts to take the formats and satirize them. It's not often that a show takes a full 1/4 of it's plot just to serve as an introduction. Plots jump from one instance to the next in lightning speed and everything is very surface level.
If judging the show strictly on a romance development metor, there is essentially no in-between; the "romance" goes zero, one, ten, one hundred.
By the end of the story the show has a feeling that the writer threw up their hands and started writing the first thing that came to their mind. The vaguely coherent but weird beginning devolves into an end that feels like a dreamstate where someone wakes up as a "twist" in the last second of the show (this doesn't happen, it's just the feeling it gives off).
Ultimately, I laughed and enjoyed myself greatly while watching this train wreck. I have plenty of scene clips and screenshots but perhaps few braincells remain.

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This show puts an emphasis on the side characters rather than the ML & FL

This story was very interesting. It showed a different point of view of those types of dramas, where this poor, kind girl saves a rich CEO’s grandma. Then the grandma takes her as a good daughter, and later the girl takes everything away from the actual daughter. I like how it shows how the villainess struggles and doesn’t only show her bad side. The system acts as if we were the audience, trying to make the ML and FL end up together no matter what happens on the other side. The mess it creates—this drama shows that mess. It also gives the side characters a chance to show themselves. I really liked this drama and would recommend it.

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