Divine Marriage (2025)

Jia Shen Ming (2025) aka: Marry a God is a cute miniseries romcom with ML: Yang Peng Cheng (as Zhao Jiyuan) and Zhang Jin Yi (as Fu Zhen) in the leading couple’s role. The cast did a decent job bringing their characters to life and the leading couple has a very nice, cute, and fun chemistry. The drama is lighthearted, the lead couple developed a steadfast loving relationship and, although the romantic scenes between the lead couple are not passionate, their interactions are very good and they share a common understanding when facing difficulties.
In the meantime, this drama can be found on YouTube under the caption: “To inherit the estate, I married and fell in love with a man who has divine powers.”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xivy824CAI)
Other 2 links from the ones posted by Jwells on MDL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNqhPji8Iaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arN1wttKHIs

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Lighthearted rom-com vertical drama inspired by My Demon

After so many duds this week, I decided to watch a drama with my favourite trope: supernatural / fantasy. I had not watched Zhang Jian Yi dramas in a while and to my surprise, I hadn't watched Yang Peng Cheng dramas even though I could recognise his face in a line up of vertical drama actors. I watched this drama on iQIYI - I enjoyed it.

What I liked:
1. Fantasy - I really liked the fantasy element used in this drama, which is heavily inspired by Kdrama My Demon. The visual effects were mostly good.
2. Tone - It was lighthearted with many comedic moments. Thankfully it didn't go the slapstick humour route like My Demon.
3. Romance - Slow and subtle. They got into a marriage of convenience to help each other with their personal quest. There were sweet moments with some kisses although I wish they had gone stronger with their co-dependency / alliance. I liked the fact that ML fell for FL first.
4. Antagonists - This is a story of inheritance dispute so evil relatives are a must. There were 3 - 4 antagonists and I felt each antagonist was given good arc to keep viewers vested in the family drama.
5. Styling - I really liked the clothes worn by Yang Peng Cheng in this drama. Like a cool, deity version of Netflix animated movie K-Pop Demon Hunters.
6. Supporting characters - Butler Wu was awesome! He was not just his employee, he was ML's confidant.
7. Ending - I really liked the final episode - that dialogue between ML and Butler Wu was powerful. And of course the final scene.

What I disliked:
1. Pacing - The pacing seemed a bit off after the evil ladies were killed off from the story. I think that happened around episode 50 something. There were romantic scenes before the final twist was unveiled. It just felt off for me.
2. Acting - I think both Zhang Jin Yi and Yang Peng Cheng did fine in their roles but they lacked romantic chemistry. They felt more like buddies.

Favourite scene
When FL was extremely sad thinking about her grandfather and then hugged ML

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Chinese version of My Demon

The plot is carbon copy from Korean Drama My Demon (love Kim Youjung but Song Kang cannot act for real) and i quite like fantasy drama so i tried to watch since i like Zhang Jinyi. For Yang Pengcheng, I am not familiar with his acting so it's my first ever review for him.

The editing and CGI is decent for short drama class. The styling and MUA are on good mood so everyone got decent styling. The comedy banter was better than Korean one. The supporting casts acting especially the antagonist are superb. But unfortunately Yang Pengcheng-Zhang Jinyi romance is lacked and they looked like buddies instead for married couple.

But I want to compare Yang Pengcheng with Song Kang. Yang Pengcheng is winning for his acting but his face is kinda stiff like Song Kang.

Still Recommended to watch.

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