Sweet like His Lips (2025)

Quite decent plot but lack of chemistry destroy it.

I personally have binge of watching Ashang and found the school drama plot. The Male Lead is Shen Haonan, even he is not my personal taste of actor i like i still believe on his acting skill. Plot is quite interesting so i try to watch it.

The Plot is about FL who hopelessly fall in love with ML confessed to him but he is just being cold toward him. On their campus time, somehow FL wants to have sex with ML and they have shotgun marriage. FL had miscarriage and comes to ML speech and seeing ML crush also in there and feeling sad. FL died for accident and regret her life for being stupidly in love with ML. She was reborn and swear not to close to ML like her first life while actually ML also reborn and try to pursue FL love again.

As long as I like their acting, but their chemistry stills lacks, which is my letdown for this drama. The FL self growth was satisfying to watch since she choosing focusing on her self and not to go same campus as him. The Plot pace is not to slow and quite fast. I quite like SML and hope FL ends up with SML since he is not too scumbag even in her first life.

If they have better chemistry, i will give this drama rate 7,5. I still recommended since its good drama.

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Lack of chemistry, frustrating ML & infuriating romance arc left me unsatisfied

A reddit friend told me about Shen Hao Nan having dimple. I wanted to verify so opened my iQIYI app and randomly chose this drama because I thought it was a sweet campus romance. Oh I was wrong!

What I liked:
1. Acting - I was moved by A Shang's performance during scenes of FL recollecting her past. I cried - that's unexpected. I also cried when ML realised how precious FL was to him.
2. FL characterisation - I liked her character pre and post rebirth. It's great that she reinvented herself post rebirth. I liked her character growth except that last part.
3. Confessions - FL shared her perspectives of her wasted potential in past life with ML and I was heartbroken by her insights.
4. Supporting characters - I liked FL's best friend Liu Nian. ML's brother was ok but his character was underdeveloped. I liked FL's grandfather & ML's mother.
5. Drugged - I just want to say that the treatment to ML's drugging was refreshing. I was shocked.

What I disliked:
1. Romance - I didn't like that ML pester FL for a second chance in their relationship. For a couple who had been together for 10 years, they were emotionally disconnected. I didn't buy the romance and was disheartened that FL decided to give him another chance.
2. ML characterisation - He was terrible at expressing his love in his past life. Once reborn, I found him selfish. I wish he had given FL space to grow & realise her potential without his meddling.
3. Plot - Overall the story left me unsatisfied. There were plenty of loose ends from SML's role in this whole drama to that crappy reconciliation.
4. Acting - I see chemistry as subset of acting and there was lack of chemistry between A Shang & Shen Hao Nan. Their couple scenes were awkward as though they didn't know how to play off their characters' dynamic.

Favourite scene
When FL told ML how she wasted her potential because her focus on him

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