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Replay Time Slip to Love.
An Interesting time slip replay to win true love.Time slips and meta-relpays can be so challenging to sort out let alone maintain charater growths in only 16 episodes. Hut Lovely Runner has skillfully done so with all its overlaping charater plays and links.
The main leads- Im Sol & Ryu Seon Jae battle through their twisted fates across 15yrs of overlaps and redos. Im Sol wants to protect & save him. Ryue Seon Jae wants to protect & save her. The chemistry is so good for the leads. And the hemistry & banter amongst the secondary characters and couples. I love truely enjoyed the jealous bromance between RSJ & KTS. I absolutely love all the work and growth of Kim Tae Song ( by Seon Geon Hee). KTS starts as the typical angsty teen boy and grows to the strong best friend for both along their time limes, quietly suporting and sheltering their love bc he wants her happiness and long life more. Yes, some firendships are stonger in the begining, while others grew stronger after a few retries. but that actually pushes the growth arcs.
SeonJae noticed her Sol long before she realized, as she was his mystery call from the opening scene.
The start of his love and missed chances is always palpable...but the time slips begin when Im Sol initiates the sequence to correct the tragedy of losing someone she didnt know she needed.
Sol's Grandmother is truely, the voice of the fates reminding and nudging them to grab on to love, enjoy life, and live through the challenges in all its stages. Reminding them that the Soul needs true love to live just as we need oxygen to breath.
Irony -this is the second kdrama "rewrite my life" series i have wathched with Kim Hye-Yoon cast as acting FL . She pulls off the mature and omniscent protaganist very well here, while maintaining the distinct differences in charater between innocent young Sol and the experieced older Sol.
Lovely Runner does a wonderful job of differentiating the story line from other kdrama tropes. Soo much symbolism at play through out the series. Important foundations of the time slips are credible and mystical enough to be successful. After just 2 episodes you are hooked and you need the rest to follow through...ASAP. Binge and rewind and replay soo many good scenes!
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Ski Into Love for fun and enjoyable snow humor!
Ski Into Love (2025) is filled with tangible chemsitry and enjoyable humor.Love the banter and humor betweeen the characters as well as the respective CPs. Truely like the overall friendship and comradery of the snow buddies.
Esther Yu & Lin Yi nailed their charaters and our supporting seconds and teams are equally credible.
I enjoyed teh ending snipits of our "winter king in cartoon formations, as well.
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Your Sensibility, My Destiny...Who's crying now.
Overall, Good, Sweet, enjoyable story.Loved the emotive chemistry of our CP and second CP. I love how deep the story actually goes and yet stays true to the love that grows between the two charaters overcoming their differences and dangers together. Our hero (ML) knows early own he needs the help and trust of our FL., but is baffled in how to build a frendship let alone gain her trust. The unsung supporting LINGs really are the foundation of our CP figuring out how to grow and trust each other.
I am so impressed with Wang XingYue as a young mail lead. I can hardly believe that he was only 18 /-19yrs when he filmed this. He really did carry a huge charater and did so well. Our female lead Bu Guan Jin really played to the strengths of a young lady exploring life with her own secrets to solve.
And yes, i think it is rewatchable if only just to see our CPs grow together. :)
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Gateway to Fallin in to C-drama RomCom.
Seriously, This was my gateway into the world of modern C-drama rom-coms.Great cast & chemistry and banter amongst besties, siblings and the many teams.
This is a great entrylevel Cdrama / modern rom com. Yes it is totaly watchable many times. I have rewatched it at leat 3 maybe 4 times. This is a rom/com while trying to figure life out and the exposing the pressures of online cyber fans and "real job" expectations.
Love the modern theme of egames, girl power, team equity, cyber bulling, fan loyalty, and more.
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Modern K-inderella story.
Modern KinderellaThis was a bit bumpy to start, in establishing the FL and ML and controlling mom / chairwoman charater / plots in the first 2 episodes. But our established team of sibbling supports continued to grow and enrich the show with every episode. I truly found myself replaying many scenes through out the series for both laughs and cries. Especially the antics of the Cheibol brothers. *Love the older brother & Sister-In_Law.
I love that our Cheibol (ML) stayed true to his charater, love and dream for her & him.
I found it enjoyable to see our Cinderella (FL) discovers her self-value and pushes ahead towards her Love... (eventualy).
She does have a lot of past trauma to heal from... but thankful to how the director & Screen writer delt with that part for her charater. Not as much PTSD to destroy the key charaters.
Definietly worth a watch or binge if you have time for 10 episodes.
Love the supporting siblings and sibling rivalry mixed in too! <3
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Dusk Love, Female Designer CEO & Contract fiance secret CEO love.
24 short mini-episodes,Dai Goa Zhen (ML) & An Yong Chang (FL) create good chemistry even in the shortened episodes. The plot sequence is a little tropey with hero & damsel in corporate world of secret idedntity, highschool sweethearts, reconnecttion. But I did enjoy wathcing Dai Goa Zhen in this charater. I hope to see DGZ and AYC have chance to work in longer more developed screen time.
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My Demon. My review.
Soo Good. Loved every episode.It is a somewhat unique story line of fated Loves and the trials faced to be together all interlaced with a few mysteries from past and present for our characters.
The whole cast is amazing from main leads to our villian(s) to the supporting charaters. The visuals of Song Kang & Kim You-Hung are well matched in every scene. Amazing soundtrack!
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Great story of finding ones way in life and love. : )
Overall good story line and character arcs.Really great growth in the charaters and story line. Not overwelming with the common romance tropes. WinWin as YanYue (ML) and He HongShan as An Ran (FL) really do match well for charisma and strengths. WinWin really masters expressive thoughtful gestures and quiet love while He HongShan is succesful in portraying a young woman who is just trying to push through and build a place for herself & team in the business world.
And I really have to say that they manged to build the suspense of who and why the anatgonist is for challenging our leads. I like that everything is resolved in the end in a credible and pleasant means.
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Mystery intrigue : Cons make better detectives.
Mystery intrigue... with Wang Zi Qi and Zhang Yu Xi.An Intersting new tale of detective & cold case mistery mixed in with childhood friends meet fated love. A great lighthearted watch with cute cast in a play with story within story script. Don't underestimated their ability to portray emotions, and tap the literary "4th wall". So many good scenes, imagery, symbolism, and lines of wisdom from our teams. And a hidden gem perfomances from Liu Zhe Hui (because everyone needs a best tech support wingman) and He Peng ("super hero idol in disguise).
Creative guides Director: Zhong Qing and Screenwriter: Xu Meng s.
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First Impression.
First impression (8 episodes in..) I have just started in on this series of 40 episodes.Initial set up for cdrama historical detective court love story.
I do find the first few episodes a bit long in establishing the charaters nad trying to keep track of all the parties for future reference will be challenging. I am eager to see hoe much then continue to uncover of the childhood connections with each episode. I feel it would be sweeter to see more of why the FL is so open minded and trusting towards the ML.
Ryan Ding has matured so much into this charater, I Love it. Cant wait to see more of his signature facial geestures.
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