Zhi Re Juan Lian (2025)

ITS *PEPÉ LE PEW & PENELOPE*

The original Mandarin title (also IMDb) “Burning Love” is an inaccurate adjective for the story. iQIYI/MDL uses a better descriptor (“Ardent Love”) or more accurately, *HIS (ML’s) Ardent Love*.

Production seems fine and the acting is good but after reading the comments, I must be the only one that didn’t care for this drama.😉, Sorry, guys!

Imho, the leads don’t go well together and there’s no synchronicity or chemistry until the very last 20 minutes. The ML inexplicably likes the FL and is super attracted to her, but the FL is too emotionally-young and frigid, (as well as annoyingly cantankerous toward him for no good reason). For MOST of the drama, she’s just NOT into him and is visibly repulsed by him, pushing him away over and over. *Almost* every kiss is forced (or drugged), so their relationship has no consensual companionship, which made it tedious and uncomfortable. If I didn’t already know the ending would suddenly become “happily ever after” in the last 20 minutes (after the ML convinces the FL to “act” with him through skinship - the ONLY hot scene), I’d be rooting for the ML to STOP pressuring/pursuing the FL and to move on from her. The costume department has the FL wearing the SAME green cardigan or pink sweater with white tulle skirts and white sneakers almost every day. The only parts of this drama that I liked were Actor Cao Tiankai’s interactions /scenes with other side characters, and his exploited (but AMAZING) abs. 💙

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