learning what love is like
I love how it is supposed to be unironically cliche due to the setting of the novel. It is so quirky in its own way and I enjoyed it for what it was. Main standout is how amazing the female character is. I loved her so much in this show. Her chemistry is good with the male lead too. Male lead will always do well in CEO roles and I will eat it up every single time. I did not care for the second that much. I am starting to get tired of the trope where the plot does not explain parts of it. It is nice to come up with your own theories though, but I need closure. I also needed to see more scenes of them happy because where is my wedding? Female lead now learned that love is not so bad after all. <3Was this review helpful to you?
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I love the storyline and the main characters of this drama! Its such a wholesome drama to watch and make you laugh out loud! I wish the ending was so confusing and wished they gave us a couple more episodes explaining how GHM got to the modern world. CXX did such an amazing job, I like his character in here more than Love between lines. This is my first drama watching Wang Yuwen and I love her acting. Both of them have such amazing chemistry and knowing that they have a variety show together, I'm already watching WOW the world to see their true personalities.When I was in the middle of the drama, I had an theory that GHM also had a pager and had task to do too! I wished they just cut the scene where GHM got hit by the truck and Lin Huan'er had to retrieved his memory to how he came to the present world. I believed that the truck came out of no where was to bring Lin Huan'er back to the present world. Even tho I was disappointed at the ending but overall the drama is worth to watch! I'm already re-watching it!
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Not on my page
Lovers of this drama will utterly disagree with me but sharing my opinion.I got bored. The tropes we expect were all there, but gosh, the creativity behind them was that the game says" it has to happen or else"--it felt like lazy writing and even the FL exclaims (often) how inane the game is! Also the second leads storyline adds no value to the primary story and is unneeded.
Visually, ML never looks bad (in all his dramas, he's so darn photogenic), and in this drama, FL is styled and madeup and shot more beautifully than her prior dramas. I was puzzled by ML wardrobe--often a turtleneck under a shirt with tie--perhaps my styling awareness is outdated.
At any rate, this was another dud for me re: ML (A Beautiful Lie was also disappointing) , so his recent Love Between Lines was far more watchable. And FL has been in lots better romances prior. I am waiting until the last episode is available to binge-fast scroll to see the end but don't anticipate upping my ratings.
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Writing Falls a bit short but it’s still a fun show!
The cast has great chemistry but I feel like the writing fails them a bit.First off when the CXXs character starts liking her I feel like the transition could’ve been better because he randomly went from disliking her to immediately liking her. I feel like they should’ve eased into it a bit more.
Secondly the ending was a bit weird. It seemed like they were going to show us how he came through but no he just somehow appeared out of thin air?!
I feel like the random truck plot was super unnecessary and that they were just trying to drag the series. Stupid ass Kdrama truck 💀
Anyways I really enjoyed WYWs character. I thought she was super fun and that the plot was a very fun concept. I enjoyed the little schemes and how she used her chances. I also really enjoyed the ex boyfriend plot.
I liked how a major point of this show was to normalize periods especially amongst men.
Althought I spoke about a lot of the things I didn’t like, overall I had a fun time watching this series.
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Pleasant way to pass the time
I mainly started watching My Page in the Nineties because of Chen Xingxu and Wang Yuwen.Chen Xingxu is currently my favorite actor (that changes from time to time, but right now it’s definitely him).
The basic “being pulled into a book” storyline feels quite overused and sometimes doesn’t make much logical sense.
At the beginning, I was a bit bored. However, after a few episodes, you start to feel immersed in the story. The chemistry between the two leads really carries the drama, and their love story is sweet and enjoyable to watch.
The second couple felt rather pale to me, but luckily they weren’t overused. Overall, it’s not a masterpiece in terms of logic, but it’s nicely made and a pleasant way to pass the time.
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Rough scene editing, weird storytelling, sudden ending
Watched this mainly because of the off screen chemistry and real life relationship between the main leads. It had a good start, meeting the main lead ahead of all the time travel like it was a mystery. The styling and settings were good, even the clear folder presentation was nostalgic. Then comes the cuts between scenes. It was rushed like suddenly they are on a date. They ending was the awful part, they left the audience hanging like how did the main lead and everyone else came out of the book. How was it connected to the first scene???Was this review helpful to you?
Somewhere between fiction and feelings
I started My Page in the 90s expecting a simple, slightly silly rom-com, and in many ways it is exactly that. But there was something about the atmosphere that kept me watching. The whole idea of entering a romance novel set in the late 90s gives the drama a nostalgic and playful tone, and the story never takes itself too seriously. What I liked the most was how the relationship slowly shifts from a calculated “mission” to something that feels real and unexpected. It’s not a groundbreaking drama and the plot stays fairly light, but it’s easy to get attached to the characters and their dynamic. In the end it felt like a warm, comforting watch – the kind of story that reminds you that sometimes the lines between fiction and real feelings can blur in the most surprising ways.Was this review helpful to you?
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The Little Show that Could
To be honest, My Page in the 90s is a drama that probably would have been shelved into a corner gathering dust for the complete lack of resources that it had. Four changes in directors, such a tight production budget that they only had one song on the OST, practically little to no marketing budget.Many will find the drama too kitschy and campy at the start but that’s PRECISELY why I got into it. It was always meant to be a send-up of worst drama tropes and it is hilarious if you watch enough dramas (it even has the truck of doom!)
But what me made truly love it was the amount of heart it had. At the core of it is a heartfelt story of female empowerment (go normalising periods and pads!), learning to love a person because he/she sees you and believes in you (and vice versa) and learning to enjoy every small ordinary moment you have with your loved ones.
Was the cinematography & direction excellent? It had some pretty moments but it definitely came off as low cost in its sets etc (which I didn’t mind since I thought it was fairly reminiscent of the era anyway). The editing was definitely choppy at certain bits but again, with the revolving door of directors, it’s amazing that it even flowed as a story. Was the story amazing? Contrary to reviewers who thought that the ending was lazy, I actually thought it was one of the more “complete” ways of ending a transmigration story instead of the abrupt did they or did they not meet again, was it a dream nonsense. At least we know for sure that it was Gao Haiming who lived through an entire lifetime of a book to finally meet Lin Huan’er again in her universe.
The acting of the entire cast was decent, but much like how the marketing promotions for the show was carried entirely by the leads, the drama is likewise hard carried by them. Both Chen Xing Xu and Wang Yu Wen more than rise to the occasion. Their acting chemistry is so natural and so fun that it puts a smile on your face just watching them together. And when the drama takes a sudden veer into angst, they are so believable as their characters that you just cry along with them. Word of warning - the last 4 episodes is just a complete sob fest, but in the best of ways.
Would I watch it again? Absolutely yes, but with a fast forwarding of the second lead storyline and much more lingering on the happy and sweet moments between the leads.
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Those darned last episodes ??
I really feel like I am the target audience.The Good: the intro song made me smile and feel hopeful- something this drama invokes often; the actors were amazing; we got a shirtless CXX 😝; the storyline is beautiful and for the most part heartwarming. overall, the premise and 80% of the show was spot on and amazing.
The Bad: After the reset, the plot turned to dog $!!t. the ending was so lazy and unsatisfying.
if I didn’t fall in love with the first 22 episodes, it would be rated much lower.
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We all could have written a better ending
Aghh so hard to rate this an 8 but I’m doing it anyway, this show was so good and then derailed big time. Why oh why oh why do you dumb writers do this. Dynamite Kiss did the same thing. Don’t need to try to act clever, just send her home and give us 3 episodes oh how she went back to get to know him and now hes here or something. This was on track to be a solid 9 for me, but best I can do is 7.5. I love these leads and all their shows. This just made me mad. Was so weird!!!I dunno, what the point of it was once we hit the first proposal-the whole plot stopped plotting and from then on, it didn’t stay true to what we had just watched 3/4 of the show. It’s like the writer was just like “now what” and pulled rando ideas out of a hat.
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light fun watch
went in it with little to no expectations just to kill some time and I think that helped me appreciating the show more. it was a fun and light watch and some of the scenes were really funny. the starting felt like a vertical low budget drama but later all turned out well. I wish they would've incorporated more 90s thing most of the time it did felt like I'm watching a modern drama set in today's era and not the 90s. i usually disconnect with a show when the main leads start dating or fell in love it becomes boring but surprisingly this was fun and i enjoyed every bit of their dating era as well.Was this review helpful to you?
Meta and Nostalgic
The show follows Lin Huan'er, a romance coach from 2025 who gets sucked into a cheesy 1999romance novel she was publicly trashing. It's a brilliant set-up because she knows all the tropes ( the 'cold CEO', the misunderstanding, the 'tragic second lead') and tries to use them to finish her 'quest' so she can go home.Moreover, Chen Xingxu and Wang Yuwen have been friends for 16 years in real life, and it shows. Their banter feels natural, and the 'fake drunk' scenes in the early episodes were comedy gold. The production team nailed the late '90s vibe. The pagers, the 'brick' monitors, the oversized suits, and the constant fear of the 'Millennium Bug' (Y2K) add a great layer of authenticity. It's also hilarious watching a modern influencer trying to navigate a world without Wi-Fi or high-speed data.
However, some episodes in the middle felt like they relied too heavily on the 'miscommunication' trope. Like many transmigration dramas, the 'rules' of the book world can feel a bit inconsistent when the plot needs a specific conflict.
In conclusion, My Page in the 90s is a light-hearted rom-com that shifts its tone to a very emotional core ( the bittersweet nature of time and memory), which was well balanced. Ultimately, the show concludes that while you can't 'edit' your past like a page in a book, the connections you make, even in the most unexpected circumstances, are what define your reality. In my opinion, this is one of the strongest transmigration dramas of 2026 because it respects the 90s setting rather than treating it as a gimmick. It's a rare book-travel story that feels like it has actual stakes.
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