Professor Zhou Let's Get Married (2025)

Heartwarming, slice-of-life, and very sweet.

(I rate vertical dramas on their own sliding scale.) General spoilers only below.
Definitely one of the best vertical dramas I've seen! I love the realistic, down-to-earth, slice-of-life, very sweet romance. With big green flag leads, great acting, and good messages throughout. Uplifting and heartwarming.

A FL who has been mistreated by family and starts to blossom with the encouragement and care of the ML. She has been trained to be meek and obedient but starts to come out of her shell and practice standing up for herself. She is smart (in medical school) and good-hearted. The actress is wonderful in this role and I'll be checking out her other work. She is nuanced, believable, and empathizable.

The ML starts taking care of the FL out of duty, but quickly becomes fond and then falls fully in love. The ML proritizes the FL's health and career, is a good communicator and listener, and tells the FL it's okay to cry instead of repressing herself and offers long hugs. I totally melted. I also appreciated that the ML is written as a more realistic, steady type of guy, not just a puppy-like wife spoiler (which seems to become many a ML's whole characterization after getting bit by the love bug).

It's slow burn with a few good romantic-sexual tension moments and a couple good kisses. I found the whole thing extremely emotionally satisfying.

The 3 hour plot was tightly woven; no unnecessary parts in my view. Realistic trials that the couple learn to work through together. Not much time spent on people other than the leads, low violence, no green teas, no kidnappings or other ridiculous plot shenanigans, and no rape (there is a brief grope but it is handled seriously and realistically).

Watched on an authorized channel 7/9/25: Twilight Drama Dreams
https://youtu.be/txKCoQQ37Vc?si=fdfjzXX86dWX-SRO

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