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My April 2025 recommendations challenge

Watch this for my April 2025 recommendations challenge by TianD.

Story about M, a young man who decided to drop everything to look after his dying grandmother. However, it is not out of love that he took the role of a devoted grandson but for a hope of substantial inheritance worth millions.

M got the idea from his cousin, Mui, who got the biggest inheritance from her grandpa after she took care of him during his final days. So, hoping to get the same result with Mui, M is going to great lengths to become the apple of his demanding grandmother’s eye before time runs out.

At first, M was indeed doing it half-heartedly & his grandma knows it by heart. So, M goes to Mui again to learn about ‘the fastest’ way to win his grandma's heart. Mui 'teaches’ her way to M. So, slowly but sure, day by day M is getting closer to his grandma.

But was all M efforts taken into account by his grandmother? Will M get the inheritance he hopes in the end…?

That's pretty much the story without giving the spoiler. Now what I like and don't.

What I like:
+ Told a story about the bitter truth about the reality of family and money:
> Where sometimes filial and desire for inheritance overlap.
> We really can't measure the love of our elders or between siblings to their mother with younger generations the same.
+ In the end M did learn about his grandma loneliness & really did all the grandson has to do with his whole heart.

What I don't like:
- How the title is kinda misleading. I think it's better with the other version, The Chinese Family. Reading the title I kinda hope they help each other to gather the money for their grandma.

Overall this good movies that really tell the truth between expectations & reality in the family. And also how to genuinely put ur heart for ur family

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My April 2025 recommendations challenge

Watch this for my April 2025 recommendations challenge by 𝑰𝑼 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒂 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏. Quite a unique story about Reborn for Second Chance that is quite different from other similar stories.

Story about Dou Zhao (DZ), who at the start of the drama as the wife of Jining’s Marquis [Wei Ting Yu (TY)] and Song Mo (SM), a rebel who demanded the emperor to find the one who was responsible for his uncle's death. On the same day SM started his rampage in the capital, DZ also finds her husband having an affair with her step sister, Dou Ming (DM). Trying to break from the marriage, DZ instead finds herself entangled by SM, because her husband (TY) pinned herself for having an affair with SM. With that excuse, TY and the man behind the mask had the reason to exterminate SM & DZ.

When everything was so chaotic & the evil plan to exterminate SM & DZ seemed successful; DZ woke up and found herself back to her childhood (around age 10). Shocked by the fact but happy because she can meet her mother again. DZ also finds out, she brought the book of prophecies from the previous life to this new life. With this knowledge ahead, DZ plans to change something for the future. So, she started to live her life again as a kid.

But before she could truly grasp the reality, she found herself having to mourn for her mother’s death again. But this time, she is well aware of the reason for her mother’s death & plans carefully about her steps to make a difference to the cause of her mother’s death, her father’s concubine, Wang Ying Xue (YX). Oh and a big difference indeed she made to YX & her daughter, DM, life.

In the previous life, YX & DM had a happy life by gaining all the support they needed from their father [Dou Shi Ying (SY)] & Dou’s family. But this time, DZ made sure it didn’t happen like before, DZ made SY feel guilty for her mother’s death & made the marriage life between SY & YX quite unhappy. And another difference this time, DM wasn't raised by YX herself & that’s really made the DM’s personality quite a big difference. This is important for later.

And after this we jump to the main event, where DZ starts to live her life in the countryside guarded by her grandma. In the countryside, with the knowledge of important future events & the help from the book of prophecies, DZ starts to plan her future & her wealth. DZ gets quite a name for herself in the countryside. And she just lived freely in her youth, until the day came that she must come to the capital…

In the capital, she once again entangled herself to SM & TY. And it’s all stretched all the way to the messed up political chaos. So, how in the end SM & DZ manage to get away from all of that…? Will what happened in the future last time also happen this time…? Or will DZ manage to change all of it…?

That's pretty much the story without giving the spoiler. Now what I like and don't.

What I like:
+ Quite an interesting story that is quite different from other similar tropes. Although ML also returned to his childhood, he didn’t really remember much & just lived his life to the fullest.
+ Some people's personalities are really changing, and the biggest change is DM. She’s changed from a green tea girl to a kind but weak girl. Really talk about the butterfly effect & how the environment you grow up in really affects you.
+ How DZ & SM support each other
+ All the support DZ & SM get from their friends

What I don’t like:
- Although it is an interesting story, unfortunately not so much in the overall story. They overcomplicated the plot with all the entangled chess play. I mean in the end it’s all just one man’s plan, that in the end I really don't know should be praise or just condemn it because it's just a messed for me
- FL & ML are not as smart as I hope

Overall this is quite a good story. But if you want to watch a more interesting and better story about changing the future, just look for another title.

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Watched this because many people said this was a good one. And also there're Dylan Wang & Tian Xi Wei too. So I decided to watch this.

Story about Yang Ling (YL), a modern office worker, who is transported to the Da Feng Dynasty, where he becomes Xu Qi An (QA).

At first QA is a useless lad who is degraded in his family. QA lived with his uncle’s family, and his aunt really didn't like him. But since YL entered QA body, everything changed.

Soon YL gets introduced to this world, he quickly learns that in this world magic is a normal thing. Yet intellectuals & politics are still highly appreciated.

So, using his memories of poetry from the modern world, YL aka QA started gaining popularity among the scholars. Not only that, YL aka QA also uses his modern knowledge and reasoning to solve bizarre cases, earning the title of top investigator. QA started from the lower rank, a "copper gong", night watchman and soon promoted into the silver gong.

After sometime QA also starts to know some influential people. Among these people the one that really appreciates & thinks highly about him is Wei Yuan (WY). The more QA understands WY kindness and appreciation for QA, the more QA feels grateful & respects for WY.

And soon, QA also started getting entangled in a bigger mess in the kingdom, and started to deal and even offend the emperor himself. So, how will the QA journey enden in the end…? Will YL be able to get back to his world?

That's pretty much the story without giving the spoiler. Now what I like and don't.

What I like:
+ This is quite a funny drama. A few time they succeeded in making me laugh out loud.
+ The journey of QA is quite interesting to watch.
+ The crazy & messy political story you find nowhere else.

What I don't like:
- quite a boring plot for most of the time
- I don't d*mn care too much about the plot. If not because it suddenly becomes more interesting toward the end, I'm actually gonna rate this quite low.

Don't know whether to put it into like or not, but if you entered this with expectation about Dylan Wang & Tian Xi romance, you probably need to quick kick it from ur though. This is more like Joy of Life kinda situation, where politics are more dominant the whole drama.

Overall this is just another title on my list. Below I'll write some SPOILERS!!! Read it at your own risk.












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This is kinda an open ending, with a more confusing plot. I don't know I will watch this or not, if there's a 2nd season.

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Watch this out of nowhere just as the break between my dramas... In the end quite happy to watch this...

Story about Bao Zheng (BZ) before he become the famous Judge Bao. BZ comes to Yong Tian academy to investigate the mysterious death of some students. People said it's the king of hell that killed them. So far, there are 5 students who died, and each of their death represent 5 levels of hell, that's why people keep saying that it's king of hell doing.

BZ who's not believe with the nonsense about king of hell started to investigate it, at the same time he also investigate his missing teacher.

When he started investigating, he experience a lot of weird stuff going on. But not because of king of hell, more like people doing magic or drugs to do evil stuff. So together with Zhan Zhao & Ouyang Qing, BZ continue his investigation about the students & also his missing teacher.

That's pretty much the story without giving any more spoilers. Overall for underrated movies, this is one good production.

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March 2025 recommendations challenge

Finally watched this because of recommendations from kxllerwong.

As usual, story first…
Story about the first emperor of China & his assassination attempt. The King of Qin was always referred to as a tyrant king, because he's the one that started the war against other kingdoms. The King's purpose was to unite the whole of China under 1 flag.

Our story opened with a hero named nameless, who arrived at the Qin state's capital city to meet the king of Qin. The king has just survived an attempt on his life by three feared assassins (Long Sky, Flying Snow and Broken Sword). Nameless claims that he had slain the three assassins, and displayed their weapons before the king. The king was impressed & told Nameless to tell his assassination story. As the story progresses, Nameless also sit closer and closer to the king.

After told the story to the king & sit really close to the king, suddenly the king realize something odd about Nameless’s assassination story. But, will it be too late to stop Nameless’s assassination attempt if he really wanted to killed the king?

That's pretty much the story without giving any more spoilers. Now what I like and don't.

What I like:
+ This is a beautiful movie. Beautiful scenery & fighting choreography.
+ All the familiar faces mean all the actor/ess are so good.
+ Beautiful meaning in the end. How Nameless understand the purpose of the king.

What I don't like:
- Boring movie. Sorry but I'm never really a fan of Zhang Yi Mou. His movies are always beautiful, but boring.
- The useless story. I understand the beautiful meaning behind this, but when the ending comes, I feel I've wasted 1h more of my life.

So, overall this just another completed movie in my list

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I don't know want to write a review or not about this special ep. But seeing so d*mn many good review makes me want to said something from my point of view.

Much like Eliot_Rulez, when I don't think this special episode can make the drama worse than it already was, they prove me wrong... Haha.... All the stupid little thing the drama had, still happen in this special episode. And they make it even worse with the sad ending, yet give us the little open ending after the end credit.

What the story? Truth to be told, I don't really understand much. Cause this special ep makes me bored after 30min & I just jump watch to the ending, and a little back track to several minute here & there. But from what I can gather, they had a stupid man who had grudge & gank them all up. But the way he take revenge & the things he did still a stupid one & only can happen in the drama, they're really not learn to do a little bit realistic way that still possible to happen real life.

So, if there will be season 2 will I watch it... UGH.... I don't think I will, maybe for a little bit to learn how joke will come to jake life again...

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Interesting short story

Stumble upon this after I click Recommendations on 7 First Kisses pages.

Story about Kwon Mi Na (MN) a high school girl, a new transfer student that had bad rumors about her being bad luck for those close to her. In this school first we get a glimpse about that as a false rumor, because she had her longtime friend, Kim Da Won (DW) who was also the school’s top student.

Later we get introduced to 3 others of her man, Kim Ro Woon (RW), the star baseball pitcher. Baek Ju Ho (JH), a bad boy who often entangled himself in fighting. And the last is Kang Cha Ni (CN), a boy who is passionate about dancing. Which boy will capture Mi Na’s heart?

That's pretty much the story without giving any spoilers. Overall this is quite a good & unique story. But on the other hand, it is also a forgettable one. Below I’ll write more specific info about the boys and the uniqueness that this short drama has, but that also means SPOILER ALERT!!! Read it at ur own risk.












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The uniqueness: It's like you are playing the story game to choose your own ending. This drama consists of 7 episodes; ep 1 is about the introduction of MN & 4 boys, ep 2 is story about DW & RW, ep 3 is story about JH & CN. Ep 4 is about the ending of RW. Ep 5 is about the ending of DW. Ep 6 is about the ending of JH. And ep 7 is about the ending of CN.

I don’t like how they set-up the order of the episodes, and one of the reasons I lower the score a little bit. I prefer they finish the story about DW & RW first then go to the story of JH & CN.

Anyhow… Let’s talk about the boys…

DW is a childhood friend of MN, they knew each other when they’re little kids. DW is an active member of school radio & he is the one that brings MN to that club. But because of MN's bad rumor, she almost did not get into that club, so DW made an agreement with his team, if MN successfully interviewed RW she could join the club. And that’s how MN got to know RW.

RW at first does not really care about MN, but one word from MN that shows how she pays attention to RW needs instead of her own agenda, got him interested. And there’s an incident involving MN that made them closer. Slowly but surely, MN clumsiness is really attracting RW attention.

JH is a bad boy by appearance, but in the past, how MN never really judged JH by his rumors really attracted him & they end up dating. One day, JH got in an accident & that made him can’t show up to their date. The angry MN thought JH abandoned her & at the same time she also moved school, so MN & JH just lost contact. They meet again in this new school & JH tries to get closer to MN again to reenact their relationship & explain the misunderstanding.

MN meets CN after the incident with RW happens, she hides from all the students that blame her as the cause of RW incident, in the storage room. The cheerful CN attracts MN attention, and later also how CN also manage to cheer MN when there's a bad thing in her life. Later we learn something magical about CN, but I’m not gonna reveal it here.

That’s the stories of MN & her 4 boys. So, which ending do you choose…? The one that is the most interesting for me is CN. But I always have a soft spot for childhood friends, so I'm probably gonna choose MN & DW.

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Watch this cause people buzzing about it. Let's just prove it... As usual MDL summary a little messed up. Let me tell the story from my perspective ^^

Story about San, a Chinese immigrant, who fell in love with Khun Wat, the daughter of a Thai aristocrat. Their romance began when she helped him recover after he was severely injured, healing him with the "five-colored stone" at NiWa temple. Their different background at that time really make it impossible for them to be together, more over Khun Wat had fiancé, Third. When San & Khun Wat decided to eloping, Third caught up to them & by accident he shot Khun Wat instead San, that's resulting for Khun Wat to dying. The panic San brought Khun Wat to NiWa temple & attempted to use the mystical stone's power to save her, but it was in vain. The only way for them to be together again was for San to enter a century-long contract of immortality with the temple goddess, agreeing to wait for Khun Wat to be reborn. The catch was that he would be tormented every night and if he failed to reunite with her after 100 years, he would also face a tragic death for eternity.

After patiently waiting for 100 years, San finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. NiWa goddess give them some clue about the reincarnation of Khun Wat. So, San along with Tao, the priest of the temple, & the family follow the guidance from their goddess & end up bump into Vee. Tao, who is follow the strict guidance from their goddess believed Vee to be Khun Wat's reincarnation. But San resist that idea, cause the problem is Vee is a man. & San didn't believe Khun Wat reincarnation will be a man & more over after they learn about Vee life is so contrast with Khun Wat's life. All that added to the character of Vee himself that at first not so good in San's eye, makes him got more annoyed by Vee.

So the bickering is started in San's heart. Cause although he didn't want to believe Vee as the reincarnation of Khun Wat, but all the symptom & indication that Vee is indeed the right reincarnation is so clear in front of San's eyes. Like how the pain San feel because of the tormented that cause by five-colored stone is much better even almost non existed when Vee is by his side. And slowly but sure San also can see the good side of Vee.

When everything seems great, San feeling toward Vee is much better, and San also finally accepted Vee as the reincarnation of Khun Wat, came Watfah into the picture. Watfah is like the mirror image of Khun Wat. And when Watfah open her mouth, San shock cause Watfah know all the story of him & Khun Wat. And when Tao check Watfah background, is more precise with Khun Wat. So all the confusion started again about who supposed to be Khun Wat reincarnation, Vee or Watfah? And what about San feeling himself, will it change back to Watfah that have the same face with Khun Wat?

That's pretty much the story without giving any more spoilers. Now what I like & don't.

What I like:
+ The good acting from Daou Pittaya Saechua & Offroad Kantapon Jindataweephol. & The chemistry between them
+ Portraying how we can't judge book by it's cover. Like Vee & Watfah.
+ The cute little family that San has. Especially Ju.

What I don't like:
- The crazy beginning. The priest in the temple just tell the secret of five-colored stone to San who was no one back then. Even with Khun Wat present, that kind of secret is not for all the people to know.

Overall this quite unique story you can enjoy.

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Another drama from Zhang Wan Yi, I’m curious. Let’s watch…

Story about mistreated children of Luo family, Luo Yi Ning (YN) & Luo Shen Yuan (SY). YN is a legitimate daughter of the Luo family, but she’s not a favorable child of her father, she still gains all the respect in the family because her grandmother (Madame Luo) hugely favors her. While SY is the legitimate son of the Luo family, where everyone underestimated & looked with one eye.

The story begins with the return of YN to the main house to celebrate her grandma’s birthday. In the house, SY safe YN from her father concubine trap, that’s made YN indebt with SY & since that day, YN determine to help SY climb in favor at the Luo’s family.

Each day YN & SY grew closer with each other, and YN found many good qualities in SY that no one ever knew about. And since MDL already wrote in their summary, one day SY learns that YN is actually not their father's biological daughter, and that of course makes SY have different feelings for YN. But YN still doesn't know about the fact, that’s make SY had to hide his feelings while still acting as a good brother to YN.

SY & YN grew closer and closer with each other, as they tried to solve the mystery of YN’s mother & SY’s teacher death. And all tapered about politics and intrigue in the palace. So… How they manage their feelings & uncover all the mystery in this drama…

What I like:
+ I don’t too impressed with Ren Min in The Longest Promise, but here… Her acting is more natural & much better overall.
+ The good old grandma. Sometimes grandmas are the best in dramaland… Haha…
+ One of the best main wife. I really like Lin Hai Ru as the main wife.
+ The cute Lin Mao (LM) & Luo Yi Xiu (YX) as a couple. When I watch the clip from YT I kinda hope YX will become pairing with Han Zhao, cause you know for once, kind hearted chubby supporting roles get paired with the prince. But in the end, I’m happy LM got together with YX. They understand & respect each other.
+ How each child shows respect to their parents. Like no matter how bad SY’s dad mistreated him, in the end he was still his dad. Or like when YX’s mother did something horrible, but in the end all of her children still acknowledge her as their mother.

What I don’t like:
- How they force the bad guy. Hm… I feel like in the end the bad guy is half baked & the ending kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
- The relationship between SY & YN. Oh I know how they try to sell it as romance. But you imagine, the one that you thought of as your brother for several years, suddenly not your brother & you also find out he knew about the fact all this time & he got feelings for you… It’s kinda disturbing….
- No one really bothers about how easily YN moves family / household. Haha… Like no one really gossip about that fact…

Overall this is a good drama to watch

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As fans of the 1 series & Tan Jian Ci, of course I have to watch this…

Story about The Beijiang police squad, Du Cheng (DC) and his team and also portraitist Shen Yi (SY). Story about how the Beijiang police squad teamed up with SY to help with the case. In this season, SY uses his ability to dig deep into the human emotion and dark side.

That’s pretty much all I can tell about this season. Now what I like and don’t.

What I like:
+ We can see more interesting and better drawing from SY
+ The relationship between DC & SY you can’t really say only brotherhood. Haha… It has the BL vibe all over the place…
+ More interesting crime story. And how the way SY dig deep into human emotion and dark side.
+ The original cast went back to their place…. Oh I really appreciate they changed none of the squad cast from the 1st season.

Overall if you’re a fan of the first season this is something you’ll watch. But if not… Hm… I don’t really feel this is really interesting. Below I’ll write what I don’t like from this season. But that means SPOILER ALERT! So Read it at ur own risk.













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What I don’t like:
- The story was more interesting in the first season.
- The way SY digs into human’s heart is a little over the top. It feels like something only possible on paper rather than reality.
- They don’t continue the story with the perpetrator from the 1st season. I am really curious about that woman.
- They closed with another open ending. The one that makes me want to hang the director.

Overall this season is really like AvenueX said on YouTube. Feel like a step mother taking a kid and trying to work with it without knowing what the kid is best at or what make it special. Haha… Feel like all the interesting things that sucked me into this drama are all gone….

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Quite curious when I heard this will gonna have special episode... Well... unfortunately much like Eliot_Rulez wrote: "While the series was bad, this was even worse. It added nothing to the story, except to have two leads of the original Thai "Love in the Air" in it."

Anyhow... Story first...

This story like Thai special revolve only about our 2 couples love life. All of them couple now, and because Arashi & Fuma make their lovers jealous, of course not deliberate even though they make it seem deliberately, Rei & Kai fled to go on their own vacation.

I don't know what the purpose of making this special episode, maybe except to please us, the Thai fans, with the show up of Boss & Fort. Although I'm still a little bit not satisfied. I really hope Payu & Prapai have interaction more with Arashi & Fuma instead just with Rei & Kai.

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Watch this for my MDL 2024 challenge. Quite interesting, it just has a very big but…

Story about a widow named Tampopo. Her husband died not long before, and she struggles to maintain the ramen restaurant left by her late husband. One day, a truck driver, Goro, comes to the restaurant & sees Tampopo being harassed by her customer. Can’t just stand by seeing that, Goro decided to help Tampopo, but just to be defeated. But from that accident, the friendship between Goro & Tampopo started.

Tampopo who struggles about the restaurant finally has the courage to ask Goro for help. Goro, with the help of some people, helps Tampopo gather the perfect recipe for ramen… And later even to renew the shop for Tampopo...

That's pretty much the story without giving any spoilers. Tampopo is a really clever woman, she managed to trick a few people / chefs to give her the recipe without them realizing it. It was so fun to see her gather the recipe.

This is actually really quite an interesting old movie, even though I watch it today time, I don't feel it's too old. But unfortunately, the scene in the movie mixed with the scene unrelated to the story. I don’t know it just the style at that time or what, but it really affected me who watch it today.

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Watch this for my 2024 Alphabet Challenge. It turned out much better than I expected.

Story about Kamogawa Restaurant, a restaurant in Kyoto that has a special purpose on the side. Customers come from different parts of Japan with one mission in their mind, “Search for food with memories”. Customers who come only relying on a single line advertisement in “Spring & Autumn Cuisine”. Those who come to this restaurant looking for food from their memories and all that memories bear troubles of the seeker.

Every customer who comes will tell their story to Kamogawa Koishi, and after that her father, Nagare uses the instincts and powers of observation honed as a retired detective, to identify what meals customers truly desire and demonstrates his skills by recreating them. Customers who eat the “food with memories”, which are the fruits of the efforts of Koishi and Nagare, will leave Kamogawa Restaurant, finding the answer for their question & trouble…

But except to answer all the customer’s troubles, Koishi and Nagare themselves have problems that need to be answered along the way….

Below I’ll write about each of the dish that was recreated by Kamogawa Restaurant.

1st dish:
Looking for meat and potatoes cooked by late mother. Date Hisahiko looking for the dish cooked by his late mother. After his mother died, Date’s dad remarried to a new woman & also brought a girl along. Date and his step mom are not close, he even feels his step mom treats him and her real daughter differently. But after eating the dish that is recreated by Nagare, he understands how kind his step mother actually is.
The message from this episode: “Try to know the people before you judge them.”

2nd dish:
Tonkatsu. Hirose Suyako looking for a dish for her sick husband. Her husband longs for the Tonkatsu & Suyako wants to give it to him before it’s too late. After the investigation done by Nagare, Suyako finally knows the reason her husband longs for the dish.
The message from this episode: ”A marriage couple bond's that can't be broken by farewell or distance.”

3rd dish:
Spaghetti. A memory with grandpa. Mizuki Asuka looking for a spaghetti dish she ate with her grandpa when she's little. Her grandpa suffers from dementia & other diseases, so she wants to serve a memory dish to her grandpa before his memory & health deteriorates even more. This is the first dish Koishi does the investigation, she learns to be independent & rely more on her instinct & observation.

4th dish:
Nabe from late wife. Kuboyama Hideji looked for nabe used to cook by his late wife. Hideji wants to remarry, but before he does that, he wants to eat nabe that his late wife cooked, then after that he can start a new life living with his new wife. After eating the meal Hideji realized how much effort & love his late wife put into making the dish.

5th dish:
Hamburger vs steak. Takeda Kana, a food blogger, who prefers a steak over all kinds of mixed meat. She so pissed when her son pick burger over steak & want to teach her son how more delicious steak over burger. After the dish was served, Kana learned a lot of things regarding her father.

6th dish:
Beef stew. The one that got away. Nadaya Nobuko once met a boy in her youth, the boy that brought her to the restaurant that served beef stew dishes. They've been in correspondence before, but upon meeting the boy just suddenly proposing to her, that's shaken her & she fled. Now in her old days, she begins to recall everything & one question about what if suddenly shows up in her mind. It's not mean Nobuko is regretting her life, but that ‘what if’ is still lingering in the air.

7th dish:
Noriben. Made by father. Kitano Kyousuke's father can't cook but he still made bento for him everyday. Noriben only consists of Nori, Seaweed & may consist of some other side dish, and in Kyousuke case is umeboshi. Kyousuke always thought his father was a lazy man who wouldn't learn any other dishes. Although it seems simple, after learning about the dish, Kyousuke realized how much effort his father put into the dish.

8th dish:
Fried Rice made by mother. Shirasaki Hatsuko wants to cook her late mother dish for her boyfriend. A simple dish made by a single mother who didn't have too much time, but still thinking about her daughter.

Overall this really one warm drama about every dish from our memories that have special meaning for us.

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Watch this from MDL 2024 Watch Challenge and also for Zhang Wan Yi & Wang Chu Ran. What a fun ride.

Story about Liu Mian Tang (MT) & Cui Jiu (CJ). Our story started when MT woke up from a coma, and she forgot everything in a period of time, the medical term is selective amnesia. MT forgot about the 3 years period of time, the last thing she remembers is that she’s going to marry a man named Cui Jiu. And as it happens, Zhao Quan called our ML as CJ, so MT just assumed he is her husband. But soon we found out, CJ is not MT's husband but Lord Huai Yang & he happened in the pursuit of a criminal & thinking that MT had connection to the criminal, so CJ just played along with MT and pretended to be her husband.

That’s the beginning of our ML & FL story. Yeah, it all starts with a lie. But as the story went forward, CJ started to have feelings for MT when CJ felt that MT really can understand him & his thoughts. And over time, MT also helped CJ when they went to war. Together they accomplish and do a lot of stuff together, making their feelings, especially CJ deeper and also build up a lot of guilt over time.

One day, MT’s memory returns, she remembers everything. And as it turns out, MT’s identity is not as simple as CJ thought at first. And that complicated their relationship & in the end they just separated. And that’s the first half of the drama….

Move forward to the next step. CJ & MT meet again. CJ still can’t forget MT & start pursuing MT again, this time to make her as his real wife. But CJ also had a greater love rival, which is the Emperor himself. So, how in the end this love trial moves….

While CJ, MT & the emperor had relationship problems, at the same time, they also had one common enemy. So apart from the love problem, we also start to dig deep into political schemes.

That's pretty much the story without giving any more spoilers. Now what I like and don't.

What I like:
+ The chemistry between Zhang Wan Yi & Wang Chu Ran. I like how CJ & MT have mutual understanding, respect and support for each other. It’s so funny to see how they easily & have no need for words when they need to role play that they fight with each other, but the truth is the opposite. Like when they tackle the critique when MT first comes to CJ home to greet the elder.
+ He Zhen (HZ) & Zhao Quan (ZQ), is one cute second couple. It’s something unpredictable but yet so predictable. Never expected they would go together, but after watching, yeah seeing how ZQ respects HZ, no wonder that HZ’s heart will melt for him.
+ Shi Xue Ji (XJ) is an amazing empress. She’s really fit for the role. Her tacit understanding of Zi Yu (ZY) is really admirable.
+ Mutual respect that is not that easy to gain. Hm… don’t know how to put it into + or -. But the way the writer wrote about mutual respect is more of something (+). Like, how MT in the end gains respect from CJ’s mother, or XJ & ZY, or HZ & ZQ, or ZY & CJ.
+ The way they plan to trap the bad guy. That's one pretty scheme

Overall this is one good drama. I think it’s been a long time since I really enjoyed watching dramas as much as this one & also many scenes of this made me laugh.

Below I'll write what I don't like, but that also means SPOILER ALERT!!! Read it at ur own risk.












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What I don't like:
- The political scheme is a little stupid & unclear sometimes. And the worst when ZY suddenly become the emperor. What happened to the queen mother and child emperor…?
- The confusing time stamp. Like when MT separated from CJ, how long it’s been. I first think it’s been a few years, cause it’s also happened the same time ZY became emperor. But the woman that gave birth, her child, is just a few months old. In my opinion that’s a little impossible to achieve. But yet like I wrote in the first point, the political scheme is a little stupid & unclear sometimes.

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Watch this for my alphabet challenge and happy can watch this...

Story about the first trial that involve jury in Korea. It follows the case of a son brutally murdering his mother, with all factors seeming to point to a guilty ruling. However, the trial did not go as smoothly as expected by the professional (Judge, attorney and prosecutor). Because with the addition of jury, the case open to new eyes and new possibility.

This movie give us point of view of how ordinary people can see and notice something that overlook by professional, cause they just think the easy and fastest way to end the case. The Jury especially help the head judge to think back about her original purpose for choosing judge as her profession.

For me this movie really help me to remember, not to judge the book by its cover. Always remember innocent until proven guilty need to emphasis for everyone...

This really one good & interesting movie...

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