Ling Long Tang Xin (2024)

Watch this because of YouTube fishing. It turned out to be quite interesting, so I decided to keep watching.

The story is about a girl named Tang Ling Long (LL), who dreams of opening her own restaurant. However, her father insists she take over the family’s traditional Chinese medicine business instead. One day, she stumbles upon a game on her computer. When she starts playing, she’s mysteriously transported into the game world — where she becomes the spoiled daughter of an ancient tavern owner in a historical setting.

As expected with this kind of drama, of course LL must complete a certain mission before she can return to the real world.

When LL arrives in this new world, she learns that her (in-game) father has just passed away. Worse yet, she quickly gambles away all the money he left her and even ends up in debt. Her mission is to pay off that debt through her own hard work, without taking any easy way out. For instance, at one point, she tries to sell her father’s paintings, but she discovers she can't do that, because time just reverses back before she sold the painting.

So, LL's journey to free herself from debt & out of the game world begins. Accompanied by her maid & servant, Ye Liu Xiang (LX) & later also by her friend, Lu Zi Ran.

Soon enough, we find out that LX isn’t who he seems. He’s actually the son of a marquis. LX initially joins LL to investigate corruption connected to her father’s past. But as time goes on, LX finds himself falling for LL, which causes his original purpose to shift. Later, we even find out he has another hidden identity beyond just being a marquis’s son.

So, how will LL’s journey unfold? Will LL successfully free herself from debt and back to the real world? And what will happen between LL and LX relationship once LL discovers LX reasons for getting close to her in the first place?

That's pretty much the story without giving the spoiler. This is quite an interesting drama at first. The story is good — it has a clear plot, good acting, no annoying BGM. And the other identity of LX is also interesting.

Overall for short dramas this is quite a good quality. Unfortunately this had a very big BUT in the end. Below I'll write what I mean by a very big BUT in the end. But that also means SPOILERS ALERT!!! Read it at your own risk.
























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SPOILER ALERT!!!
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As for the ending... I don’t quite like it. LX’s expression wasn’t very clear — it looked like he was confused about why LL suddenly jumped and hugged him. Haha! It left me feeling a bit unsure about his feelings at that moment, and it kind of took away from the emotional impact the scene could’ve had.

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