Good show to watch after a busy workday but WTF was that ending? It wasn’t explained well.
I’ll still gave it a 9 because it’s hard for a low budget drama to engross me into binge watching it.
The drama may have not been edited well enough with how fast it tends to get especially with the reality setting, it’s like the director wants to just focus on the book version.
With that said, the world building in the book version is miles better than the reality one. You might wonder though if they’re historically accurate with all the tech they’ve introduced despite it being set in 1999 but then you’d realize that it’s just 1999 based on a book, not really 1999 time travel so you’d have a sense of understanding that it does not need to be 100% accurate.
The screenwriter definitely messed up the last episode, especially how it left to the viewers to decipher how it ended the way it ended. I’m still confused but still happy that it ended that way. It’s really just the big HOW. A little explanation would have sufficed but no, they decided to just roll the ending credits and be done with it. The WeTV comments are even so funny as everyone was just confused and asking others how they understood it.
Acting-wise, I never really expected for Chen Xing Xu and Wang Yu Wen to have the best on-screen chemistry especially after watching their bestie coded clips in Wow The World. Watching them in this show suddenly shifted their “besties” energy to “are they perhaps dating in real life? they seem to like each other so much and they’re so comfortable”. Yes, that’s the effect. You could tell that they really became close friends after filming this show, which is a good nod to their middle school selves who were too shy to speak to each other.
And can I just say how good of an actor CXX is?? This is my third consecutive drama of him being in a CEO role but his acting here wouldn’t remind you of his other roles. His facial expressions, mannerisms, body gestures, even his gaze and the way he talks— all just for Gao Haiming and that to me is such a lovely thing to watch as a viewer and a fan.
Alsooo, please cast Wang Yuwen more in rom coms. Her comedic timing is just top notch. I laughed so much in this drama that I couldn’t really rate it to anything lower than 9, it’s that lovely to me!
Overall, this is a good watch. The kind that makes you excited after a busy workday. The OSTs may have been repetitive as they apparently have only 4 but they hit the right spot.
I watched this a day after finishing Love Between Lines and although I loved LBL with all of my heart, I didn’t find myself comparing the ship there with Gao Haiming and Lin Huaner here. It helped that this is a rom com and the first few scenes weren’t romantic, just pure fun and laughter. And when the ship sailed, you have already forgotten CXX in LBL as CXX really owned his Gao Haiming with Wang Yuwen’s Lin Huaner. Their promos are also genuinely good, you can tell they’re truly comfortable with and close to each other. It’s nice to see CXX relax because of Yuwen.
The drama may have not been edited well enough with how fast it tends to get especially with the reality setting, it’s like the director wants to just focus on the book version.
With that said, the world building in the book version is miles better than the reality one. You might wonder though if they’re historically accurate with all the tech they’ve introduced despite it being set in 1999 but then you’d realize that it’s just 1999 based on a book, not really 1999 time travel so you’d have a sense of understanding that it does not need to be 100% accurate.
The screenwriter definitely messed up the last episode, especially how it left to the viewers to decipher how it ended the way it ended. I’m still confused but still happy that it ended that way. It’s really just the big HOW. A little explanation would have sufficed but no, they decided to just roll the ending credits and be done with it. The WeTV comments are even so funny as everyone was just confused and asking others how they understood it.
Acting-wise, I never really expected for Chen Xing Xu and Wang Yu Wen to have the best on-screen chemistry especially after watching their bestie coded clips in Wow The World. Watching them in this show suddenly shifted their “besties” energy to “are they perhaps dating in real life? they seem to like each other so much and they’re so comfortable”. Yes, that’s the effect. You could tell that they really became close friends after filming this show, which is a good nod to their middle school selves who were too shy to speak to each other.
And can I just say how good of an actor CXX is?? This is my third consecutive drama of him being in a CEO role but his acting here wouldn’t remind you of his other roles. His facial expressions, mannerisms, body gestures, even his gaze and the way he talks— all just for Gao Haiming and that to me is such a lovely thing to watch as a viewer and a fan.
Alsooo, please cast Wang Yuwen more in rom coms. Her comedic timing is just top notch. I laughed so much in this drama that I couldn’t really rate it to anything lower than 9, it’s that lovely to me!
Overall, this is a good watch. The kind that makes you excited after a busy workday. The OSTs may have been repetitive as they apparently have only 4 but they hit the right spot.
I watched this a day after finishing Love Between Lines and although I loved LBL with all of my heart, I didn’t find myself comparing the ship there with Gao Haiming and Lin Huaner here. It helped that this is a rom com and the first few scenes weren’t romantic, just pure fun and laughter. And when the ship sailed, you have already forgotten CXX in LBL as CXX really owned his Gao Haiming with Wang Yuwen’s Lin Huaner. Their promos are also genuinely good, you can tell they’re truly comfortable with and close to each other. It’s nice to see CXX relax because of Yuwen.
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