Tuan Chong Liu Xiao Jie Tai Ye, Jin Yu Wang Ye Nan Ba Chi (2024)

FANTASTIC FUN

To me, this was almost perfect entertainment. I really liked everything about it. The production quality and acting is good. The storyline is SO fun and it has a delightfully humorous ending. The characters are wonderful. I love that the FL has 5 brothers, showing all their different personalities, which felt relatable to me having 4 brothers. The writers gave the leads and the parents thinking brains this time, so they aren't annoyingly falling for the greentea's lies. There's more trust and so its a nice break from the usual vertical C-drama angst. The leads have endearing chemistry throughout... Its just that there isn't ENOUGH focus on their romance. The drama is mostly centered around the FL's badassery, and the romance is just part of that story. And, she really IS awesome. She's strong, clever, talented, fun, patient, and mature, with a fantastic personality. I love her character. She's one of my favorites out of all the C-dramas I've seen, both regular AND vertical. The ML is adorable and brave, with a lot of integrity, and I love how enthralled he is with her. When he looks at her, he is captivated. Zhang Beixi and Wang Qianhui are so well matched in this story. Maybe this drama just needed to be longer or have a part 2 in order to accommodate the romance parts. Or, maybe just trim some excess. Regardless, this is now one of my favorite vertical dramas. 🩵

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It’s a dose of cuteness

I watched this on IQIYI under the title “The Lost Daughter”. A really sweet with a hint of spice romance comedy. The FL is not your typical doe eyed 18 year old character in an age gap trope. She has depth, substance and the plot revolves around her. ML’s chemistry with FL made the show vibrant. There were multiple scenes I enjoyed so much I replayed them. The writing and directing conveyed a fun and playful mood which the actors excelled in performing. My favourite parts were the artistry during scenes with atmospheric haze, hair breeze and costume styling. The soundtrack was well done with popular songs in the background adding to overall mood. Rated this a high rewatch value due to how entertaining the production, performance and story were.

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