Si Yang Ye Se (2025)

Chen Si Che as a painter seeking revenge while Yao Guan Yu looking like a sexy vampire

I am a fan of Chen Si Che so I was excited to know that she worked with Yao Guan Yu on a drama. I didn't know what to expect from the poster but watched it within few days of release. I liked it.

What I liked:
1. Romance - The first part of the drama concerned me because of ML's behaviour. However the dynamics turned after some time apart. There were sweet & spicy moments in their romance story. I really liked scenes of them laughing.
2. Revenge - I liked it enough despite the twists. I kinda feel some softness when it came to the execution - I think because she was cool & less angry in comparison to FLs in other revenge dramas.
3. Acting - Chen Si Che and Yao Guan Yu seemed relaxed in this drama. I liked their chemistry and individually did well.
4. Styling - Yao Guan Yu seemed like a vampire with the outfits that he wore. Oh he also looked like Korean singer-songwriter Bang Yongguk with the outfits.

What I disliked:
1. Antagonists - The Lin family was horrible people. The kids were idiots that were spoilt rotten by their father. Their own revenge plan was like a child's play.
2. Acting - I felt the actor who played FL's supposed fiancé had interesting look but gave underwhelming performance. His character was quite crucial to the story.

Favourite scene
When FL told a wonderful surprise to ML

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Missing some tension

While I appreciate everyone’s hard work into making short drama productions casting two headliners and expecting sizzling performances with no back up sums up this show. Beautiful leads, wardrobe and a promising beginning story fading into nothingness. The physicality allowing actors to build believable, consistent characters and create specific atmospheres with tension and intimacy is missing. The supporting actors and actresses were so lacking delivering lines by rote. The soundtrack is terrible choosing to inject comedic undertones into moments and repeating one song to set the mood for kissing scenes. While a show can sometimes be saved by chemistry between actors the overall feeling from the leads is two friends having fun on camera instead of characters. No rewatch value.

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