Joyce Chan

A SUPER SWEET STORY OF LOVE! BETWEEN A BUBBLY GIRL AND A QUIET BOY

ARGHHH !! I CANT GET OVER HOW CUTE, SWEET AND PURE THIS DRAMA WAS . DEFINITELY HANDS DOWN ONE OF MY FAVE DRAMAS. I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF THIS DRAMA !!! loved the male lead Nan Xi and how cute and adorable he was, loved the female lead Xia Rui for being a loud and protective person !! In my book this gets a 11 out of ten !!!

The story is about the male lead Nan Xi who has a social anxiety disorder. He never done well with crowds and thus males him a quiet and weird kid. When he was young he meets the loud and proud female lead Xia Rui, who ends up protecting him and a develop a friendship together. Nan Xi, has always been good with wood. He makes her a whale necklace, with a bell inside. Nan Xi is the whale , and she is the bell ( because the bell talks a lot) Fast forward, its his first day of his third year (?) ( i think). He transfered over to the school. Xai rui accidentally bumps into Nan xi. lol their encounter at school starts out with a lot getting hurt, bumping into each other, falling on the ground. He discovers that she has the whale necklace and makes the connection that she is his friend from when he was young.
Xia rui's personally is bubbly , loud and sweet, while Nan xi is cold, quiet and collected. Xia rui was always there to take care and protect Nan xi , and even help him overcome his social anxiety! They start doing eveything together and make a plan that they will go to the same college.

I think the story was written really well! there isnt any drag at all! The story is well rounded starts from when they were young , unitl they meet in high school and then experiencing college together and even after college life. The development of the relationship was good timing too, although it didnt have too much kissing scenes i felt it was appropriate because it was like a puppy love and kinda pure/simple like 17/18 years old, and then as they went to college more cute scenes with the addition of a kissing scene. I also like the development of the side characters , each one got their own pairings. I loved the friendship that they all had with each other. There was no evil girl characters....

Their relationship is so nature and sweet! doesnt need to much kissing, i feel like being together is enough ! i cant get over how cute Nan Xi is !!!! he just lies on her shoulder and said i need to recharge!! oh my heart!!! He is such a cute bf that you want to take care of lol. It was really sweet that they supported each other through their highs and lows. Nan xi said you are my final stop!!! which also melted my heart away !

this drama is the very few drams i would rewatch ! most drama i dont want to rewatch, but this one, i will !!!

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To be quite honest this drama was quite risky for being a re make of fated to love you.( which one hugely successful at that time) I loved the fated to love you with joe chen and Ethan ruan. Did You are my destiny hold up ? kinda.... To be honest a lot of the parts was too similar to the original and felt like 36 episodes was a drag. Some spoilers moments ep 24 is when she loses her baby. Ep 30 at the end has a steamy kiss scene.
1) chemistry between the leads is beyond good!!! ( because they've been is like 3 other dramas together) hence their kissing scenes are on point and steamy :) hehe
2) storyline is basically exactly the same but they changed certain names , honestly not too many surprises.... kinda bored by that....
3) i was already expecting them to lose fall in love and lose their child , so I was anticipating that part to come faster ( lol no offense)
4) the sad part got my eyes balling tho
5) Lets talk about the l,ast 6 episodes, a total waste of time. It could of ended in like 2 , dont need 6. i tottaly i totally lost interest and did care about their kissing.... I felt it was really draggy of ... you hurt me and make me lose my child, but i still love you, but we cant be together because we cant get pass the barrier of my dead baby, then some hope comes it ( lol they kiss) , then it goes back to we cant and shouldnt , just hurts too much, I'm going to pretend to be in love with the guy who has always been my support, finally at last they fall in love again when she realizes the person who bought her art is him...


Overall its a decent watch , but definitely not my fave...

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The Yin to his Yang. Cute love story of smart professor and naive student!

To be quite honest, did not have high expectations for this drama!To me the first couple episodes were kinda of bland and started off at a 7/10. Slowly it reacted a 9.5/10 for me !

Overall- this drama was really nice to watch because its a sweet and light hearted romance. There isn't the focus of an evil second leads, or a heavy focus of work situations. The drama revolved around their relationship , with a little emphsize with work.

Background/storyline-
The male lead's grandpa has cancer, and has one more year to live. Male lead is literally like statistics/a computer , he computes a lot of data and analyzes a lot. He is super smart and very logical, his eq isnt very high., lol he is quite a wooden block when it comes to romance.
The female lead of the other hand is the contrast to the male lead. She is cheerful, warm, gullible, naive and doesn't have too many strict requirements to live by. Male lead turns out is the female leads professor. He is also the reason why she couldn't graduate from university in time. He goes into a contracted marriage with her because oh his grandpa's health. lol another contracted marriage.... but this was was quite good

Romance- oh my gosh , it was cute! it was first she liked him and while the male lead's feelings for her wasnt too developed yet. Latter on, it showed his feelings for her. Finally when they got together, there was litterally an explosion of sweetness and kissing ! omg . Like every epsiode after had a super sweet kissing scene. They are so cute together and have great chemistry. Male lead is super dorky and cute. Female lead has a really pure, and good girl look. I cannot stress how sweet those scenes were! DEFINITELY WORTH THE WATCH might be dangerous for the singles out there lol. This drama the romance was defienitely the focus.

This actress is the first one i've seen with teeth that isnt straight. She kinda has slight chipmunk teeth, her front two teeth sticking out, but she cute haha.

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Hotel intern meets boss of the hotel

This drama does deserve to be rated that low! to be honest it was a decent watch .I really liked the first half of the story . Not a fan so much of the later 9 episodes.

Storyline: Female lead is an hotel intern/trainee. She has a three months probation, and she gets sent to different departments like the guest services, culinary etc. The male lead is the son who owns the hotel. He is sent to help out the hotel who is in trouble. The backstory is there is this mysterious lady who has been trying to buy the hotel for a low price. Through a series on incidents she tries to ruin the reputation /make the hotel close down. The story line gives a decent and fresh perspective and some of the things that they might run into while they are working in a hotel. Male lead gets attracted to female lead due to her persistent, and optimistic personality. Female lead falls in love with male lead because he is always there for her.

Romance: They're romance is acceptable, but not the best chemistry. Doesnt give me the tingly feeling in the heart. Have some cute scenes.

There is definitely focus of romance in the story , its almost the second main factor in the story. With the hotel and dealing with clients, tp dealing with the staff and hardships of the hotel being the main focus.

I didn't like the story development pass episode 15 because i felt it was developing smoothly. I mean the mysterious lady is finally revealed! and she does what she can to try to sabotage female lead and male lead relationship. At this the the female lead doesnt believe in the male lead, some riffs in their relationship...... it then becomes some hat of a roller coaster.... ups and downs but for the relationship and the hotel.

It has an happy ending, its a little too sweet and unrealistic. but overall a decent watch !!

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Dont lie in your relationship !!

This drama first half was good and then towards the end such a let down.

The female lead lives in a placed called Tao hua Wu , a place that is hidden from the rest of the world. Tao hua Wu is secluded because there is said to be a fountain of youth there. A rule of Tao hua Wu, outsiders who intrude the land needs to be killed. Somehow the male lead intrudes into the land on the female lead's ceremony to become the protector of tao hua wu.

The female lead doesnt want to kill him and often many times save male lead from being attacked and killed. They eventually fall in love. He falls in love with her simplicity, innocence , kindness and bravery. However the male lead must go back to the place he lives because he is judge. He tries to find out how to leave this place and even draws the map of how the water flows, eventually the male lead's servant finds him.They find the key to leave Tao Hua Wu and its the night of their wedding.

So basically this relationship started off by the male lead not telling the truth about this identity. When the female lead asked if he wanted to leave he didnt tell the truth. When he finally gets out, the female lead goes out to find him. Afterwards, yet again choose not to tell his love one ( the female lead ) the truth about whats he doing, this gets the female lead mad and angry again.

Like if you like someone please communicate no matter how hard it is, dont hide from them please. This is what made this drama so bad...He hid everything from her and didnt explain, which caused miscommunications .

There is an evil character who was interested in the fountain of youth... then the male lead's mom trying to help the evil character... but the evil character was the one who killed male lead's father... so i dont really understand? lol at the end The son and mom both stab the evil guy to death...

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Only here for the lead, can skip the rest haha

Only here for the leads!

Storyline; Twins sisters Tao xiao ting and tao xiao di make their way to Shen Zhen. Older sister Tiao xiao di is materialistic and thinks that having a pretty face will get you anything. So she decides to get plastic surgery to become more attractive to meet those rich second generation. She even changes her name to Tao fei er. Her younger sister on the other hand is hardworking and not afraid to do the hard work. The male lead is an elder gentlemen who becomes the ceo of On nuo company. The previous ceo was his buddy and passed away due to heart failure, but he had an extra marital affair. The video of the evidence was in a usb and somehow the usb gets picked up by female lead. This starts their super cute and hilarious encounter. The male lead acts like a blacklist motorcycle driver who's from hong kong. His accent is so funny ( coming from a person who understand canto :)
He is basically there for the female lead when she runs into trouble, and supports the female lead in her lowest points. The female lead's true ,genuine , simple, persistent attitude slowly attracts him. He begins to want to tell her the truth.

The other ongoing story is the twin sister who got plastic surgery . You honestly could skip her parts because she is manipulative, selfish and takes advantage of her sister. She basically lies her way through trying to be with On nuo company's younger ceo. Also that young ceo is also annoying character. His character likes the female lead and consistently annoys her... but of course the female lead does not like him. The twin sister basically though she can use her beauty to get everything.

I loved the story between the lead. The male lead is not your average xiao xian rou or super good looking, but I really liked him( haha maybe because I'm getting old) He had a great maturity to him! He was also very supportive of the female lead. The two's relationship is very sweet and natural not cringey at all .I liked that you were able to witness the female lead's growth and struggles. It's a good balance between romance and work life, but honestly would be better with out the twin sister. Also another annoying part was the evil dude in the company, Doing a lot to sabotage the company... He was pretty successful and almost like a main character. I could care less about the company rival and drama inside.....

Love Janice Wu

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a really assuming male lead and a really green tea beach as a second female lead

I was super disappointed in how the story unfolded. It started out pretty cute and very similar to many school romantic dramas. They turn from enemies to lovers. They are always running into each other.

Whats cute is that they develop chemistry and love through the love of solving math problems from a book they both love.

The drama falls super flat after they discover that they are each other pen pal....

THINGS THAT ANNOYED ME
- ASSUMING MALE LEAD, ARROGANT , VERY RUDE TO THE FEMALE LEAD, IT SEEMED LIKE THE FEMALE LEAD HAD TO BE THE ONE TO SAY SORRY OR MEND THE RELATIONSHIP
- ANNOYING ASS SECOND FEMALE LEAD. SHE IS GREEN TEA TO A MAX.. SHE IS SO HORRIBLE. IM GLAD SHE DIDNT GET A ROMANTIC STORY LINE BUT FELT BAD FOR THE GUY THAT LIKED HER
-SO MUCH SABOTAGING FROM THE 2ND FEMALE , IN THE MAIN COUPLE RELATIONSHIP
-THE MALE LEAD HAVING TRAUMA , BUT EVERYTIME IT WOULD GET BROUGHT UP HE BECOMES SUPER MAD AT THE FEMALE LEAD AND DIDNT APOLOGIZE!

The leads have no chemistry whatsoever, there was only everso slightly in the beginning stage

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Cooking competition that heals past scars!

I came in with little to no expectation to this drama and didn't know what to expect! It was a pretty solid drama .

The male lead is a superb chef but he is really cocky. He lost a cooking competition and became depressed. He has a nephew that makes shao bing ( a chinese fried bread). The nephew is the owner of the shao bing store. Female lead is a french pastry chef, she came back to Su zhou due to someone stealing her idea of a pastry. The female and male lead's pass cross as the Shao bing store gets rented to the female lead. The third male lead in the drama comes from a wealthy family and is trying to wind back his ex gf. Together, the male lead and female lead , nephew and the rich guys creates a team to compete in making dian xin ( small bites )

The drama is interesting because it touches on the four characters lives and their past, through creating and making food it helps heal their past scars and resolve past miscommunication.

I really liked the chemistry between all the , the friendship.

I liked that all the leads found their respected other half. Although it was not heavily focused on romance , it was just a little to get you through. lol wish there was more. The male and female lead was very late in the drama before they had their first kiss.

I must say Wang Yan Ling ( male actor) did a superb job in leading this role! He is funny and smart but also very emotional and sometimes rough but he brings it! The female lead is more tomboyish....

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Even when you switched your face I will recognize you !

CAME IN WITH NO EXPECTATION ! sLOVED EVERY BIT!!!
YA'LL THIS IS A HELLA GOOD DRAMA! A 100/10! a must watch! thrilling yet romantic!

The female lead is a painter who helps the people in the brothel to paint their pictures. One day she is told to paint a promiscuous picture of the second female lead aka evil lady and the prince having sex....She gets drugged and wakes up with evil lady's face. Evil lady also is holding her older sister hostage. Evil lady commands the female lead to find an item that belonged to the previous prince who died. Also the evil lady was engaged to the male lead, the general. So now the female lead has the evil lady' s face and becomes the general's wife.

What I like
-The male lead is cute. He plays the cold general well but when he is in love he becomes cute. He is cute when he smiles about the female lead.
-The male lead is smart and eventually figures out the identity of the female lead without her even saying.
-The general remembered that the female lead saved him and remember all the words she said. He didn't question her, just because her face is different.
-The female lead is super nice and sweet ( which contrasted the evil lady very nicely)
-They didn't give too much time to evil lady and prince
-The romance of the general and the female lead. They have some nice and steamy scenes together. They have really good chemistry. At the same the the evil lady and the evil prince have good chemistry too.
-There was also a cute daughter
-There was nothing that was draggy or too annoying of character. All of it was just right.

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Superidol meets reporter and their soul swapping romance!

This drama is the best summer drama so far! hands down! I was so surprised by this drama. Although the background/story is kinda cliche.: Male lead is a celebrity and female lead is a reporter and they end up swapping souls... The script is written very well, comedic yet refreshing not annoying to watch.

Male lead is a famous idol in a boy band, however he is a man of few words because of his broken family, Female lead is reporter and has a blog that does reports/story of celebrities. They both have the same birthday so she decides to pretend she is his fan to get more information about him, to get more readers. There was suppose to be a dinner fan date but that canceled because the male lead knew that she was just a fake fan. They meet again on an elevator and there was mishap which caused their souls to switch, resulting in hilarious encounters! through their soul swap the female lead helps him become a sunnier person and helping him with his dad's family relationship and mom's relationship. They eventually fall in love.

This drama is definitely a sweet sweet one! they kiss so many times! their passion and chemistry is amazing! I love the actress liang jie but didnt know Steven Zhang was such a good actor! omg I loved them together! it was funny and sweet!

Can we please talk about the ost! that Liang JIe sang? Omg so good! its on loop right now!

A soul swapping drama done right!

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Female lead who gets into the math department and meets the math spirit/god?

This is a mini drama! 11 mins long for 18 episodes. Can't say its my favorite drama and cant say i hate it. I'm on the fence. Some parts are just kinda weird.

Ye An An use to major in Chinese but somehow gets into the math department( i forgot if it explains why ...) Basically she is a noob when it comes to math. She goes to school on the first day and meets the girl with the highest math score. Ye an an makes a bet with the smartest in her class, that she could catch up to her. She tries to study on her own but its too hard. She cries if there are any math god/spirit to please come to her aid! lol lo and behold there comes the male lead. HIs name sounds just like how you would say math in Chinese. (lol) He is the math spirit who tutors her, ( more like trains her physically and has her copy things like 100 times to get her to have a better math foundation). During this process she falls in love with him.

Female lead kinda looks/reminds me of Selina Ren's sister. Not a fan of how the male lead is dressed and looks >_

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Overall cute love story which got sorting boring at the end :(

WARNING! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK LOL ! SPOILER ALERT

I was super intrigued by the preview of this drama and had high expectations for this drama. This drama for the first half was good but then afterwards became less interesting to me. ( get in some details later)

The basic of the story is that the male lead is a ceo of a jewelry company. One car accident leaves him with some memory/brain damage. He some how thinks he is a prince/king from the ancient times. So his uncle sets up a palace that looks like the old days, hoping a psychologist that they hire can heal him. This psychologist is none other than our female lead, whose name is Luo Kai Huai. She is a psychologist, but has run into money issue, so she takes on this case. She acts as the maid and serves the king, trying to get closer to him. Eventually their relationship blossoms. She is trying t slowly introduce himself to the new and modern world, first to the ideal of a cell phone. Slowly they take him to the outside world. Luo Kuai huai dreams dreams about her pass life and a prince. In that dream she is a doctor who heals the prince , who knowing that he is the prince. She gets more vivid dreams when she gets closer to the male lead , while interacting with him in the modern day built palace.

So technically there are two similar stories going on 1) modern ancient day 2) dream ancient day

The first part of the story was done so beautifully! it kinda reminded me of someday or one day/ inception.... Then they have to ruin it by saying that he was just acting this whole time! he didnt lose his mind.

The female lead fell in love with him and as a psychologist you cannot do that! you cant fall in love with the patient. She was going to use all her time and love to cure him, but he used it to trick her. Obviously you knew that there would be some heartbreak!

The story's interest quickly dropped from that point after... Plus the female lead had a trauma experience which haunted her and finally found out/solved in the end ,but that wasnt really fascinating enough. And it became obvious that of course the male lead would try to pursue the female lead again ..

All my emotion and feelings was for when they were still in the palace. It was just so sweet and cute and filled with love. The lead's kiss was more passionate during those moments. My heart strings were pulled and tingled, but that feeling went away after going back to reality.... When they came back to real life, their kissing scenes just lacked something..

To be honest the second pairing had better overall chemistry! I think its because the second lead ( which is the secretary of the male lead) had a smoother relationship. They initially were the bickering couple who finally got together, not too much was between them. I sometimes found the secretary, when he is dressed in modern clothing to be hotter than the male lead lol! he is too good looking, some of the spotlight definitely went to him. But its funny how in the palace times I didnt not find him attractive >_< Not to mention second lead kissing were really spot on.
With the lead pairing, i felt it was more of the male lead who was displaying the passion and that drive to kiss , if that make sense... ( female lead is too gentle ?)

Lastly, I feel so bad for the uncle of the male lead. The uncle is not too old...... He's the definition of second lead syndrome. HE was such. a nice guy, even though his face makes him look evil ! Im so glad he wasn't evil.

The songs in this drama are really good! Overall, could of done better on the transition with the story of realizing the lie to going back into the modern world!

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Straightheaded male lead falls for the cute and persisted minded female lead.

With this drama being 24 episodes long, i would expect the cute scenes to come slightly earlier. This was a slight disappointment because they official got together so late, like finally at ep 16 ? Like what was happening during the first 16 episode? I mean it was kinda due to the male lead's character being kinda blockish , and straight forward. I think it started strong, where it had the potential, because the first scene was a cute encounter between the female and male lead.

The female lead actress is short is stature, which makes her cute)( although many people dont like the actress) anyways.... She bumps into the male lead ( literally) and falls into the river on her first day of school. She wanted to transfer to another major. She is saved by the second male lead ( who turns out to be her childhood friend, which she doesnt find out till later). She basically missed the chance to take the transfer test and gets stuck into the sculpting class/major. I forgot to add that she knocked down the male lead's sculpture. They are now in the same class.
Male lead is a straight forward, cool, wooden character. He's good at sculpting. Through various encounters the male lead starts to crush on the female lead. During the first 16 episode, he likes her but doesn't staight up say he likes her. On many accounts his dorm mates ask him to take the initiative. The female lead also has a good friendship between the second male lead.

The sweet part comes from their kiss and finally them being together. Those scenes are especially cute. I feel like the drama now just pack it all the end , all the sweet and romantic scenes. This drama , they shot their kissing scenes a little different, they dont show them full on kissing , but dont directly film it, so its moree mysterious lol ? Another thing thats really cute is their height difference. But overall their romantic scenes were super cute, like them dressing up in japanese kimono and dating :)

I dont think they developed the story particularly well. If you asked me there isnt a heavy focus on their sculpting class. The last bit focused on trying to save their major and not let them close out on the sculpting class. I didnt like the girl who had a crush on the male lead. She acted like she was weak and pathetic to get the attention of the male lead and also the female lead. She tried to to be friends with the female lead.... She was literally in almost all the scenes of when the female lead and male lead were together, like seeing them together and then you see her sad face .... lol . I was like , why are you everywhere they are???

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Stone cold ML meets quirky FL and their story about restoring art pieces!

Didnt know what to expect when i got into this drama, but this was soooo good! Finally a good drama to end 2022 lol .

Female lead dreams to one day become an art restoration person. Her hobby and side jobs includes recreating the old art pieces and drawings. The male lead personality is stone cold, and is good at restoring the ancient art drawings/pieces. Their paths cross because of a fake painting . The male lead is also really famous online for doing live streams of restoring art pieces., but he has never shown his face only his hands. After their "fake" art piece, the female lead wants to become the apprentice of the male lead but the male lead initially was hesitant. They grow through a lot of things together and this bond makes them closer and fall in love.

This is my first drama of this type of genre. I found it refreshing and interesting, getting to learn some history too.

The leads actually had a really cute relationship, totally full of chemistry. I find it quite surprising because in real life the male lead is 14 years older than the female lead. I thought they wouldn't have any kissing scenes, but they did. Even though its not much but I really liked their cute and genuine relationship. ( wish there was more lol)

I watched it without subs

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dont watch if you are expecting romance

Dont watch if you are expecting romance! there is hardly any. The story id quite touching but its horribly depicted.

Like the female lead gets transported back to the older age because she is also a plays the pipa. Her soul gets into the body of Li ru niang, who knows how to play the pipa. In order for the female lead to go back to her own life, she has to help Li Ru niang complete certain things, like divorce her husband and find the person that saved her in a fire long ago and marry him.

There is the rivalry between the right and left music group. The main story focused on revealing the story and who was behind the fire, which caused thirteen musicians to die. The evil character is the second male lead's dad. He's an uncle figure to the male lead. ( although i still never really figured out why the evil dude had to do that...)

The right music orchestra is lead by the male lead. He is handsome and flirty. The female lead is bold, proud loud and has wits.

Its like the story had to things they were trying to show, first is about the fire, second is the female lead's journey to find her way home aka find her lover.

Honestly this drama would have been a lot better if they has just stuck to one plot! I wish there was more romantic and kissing scenes. You could feel the chemistry but because there wasnt too much screen time of them being close...

For a 24 episode drama it fails... I'm sorry

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