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Yeah, that's why I really shipped it. They are the same mental age. It also made me understand my IRL friend who has a similar dynamic with her 10 year younger boyfriend... I mean, if the guy behaved immaturely and the girl was 10 years younger but mature, nobody would bat an eyelid.

I only saw and dropped Goblin out of these. I don't mind age gaps, as long as there is not also a huge mental age gap. And I feel like after the character is 30 or 35 10+ years is just not as icky as if one is fresh out of High School and the other has just been promoted to Senior Manager or whatever.
A drama that handled age gaps really well is "Find Yourself" (China), like the characters actually struggle with it and you can still see why they work.

Well, at least they could have removed her eye make-up. When she wears that red and white outfit, her eyes are so heavily blushed, it's just jarring. It makes me doubt the intelligence of the guys around her, they are all like "Oh, he is so dainty and behaves like a girl", but don't see her boobs in that high-waisted outfit. At least make her wear some sort of underboob-pillow or a very tight corset or whatever. She would still have really delicate features.

Now, I don't think we have the same tastes and thus my advice is worth nothing to you. But here it goes: DROP THEM ALL. There are more dramas than you can watch in a lifetime, why bother with irksome ones. I dropped DOTS after 6 or so episodes, because I liked the romance and sizzle, but not the war-storyline. Also, there wasn't a lot of depth to either of their characters, and if you don't give me kissing scenes on the regular you at least have to give me characters with the depth of the Atlantic. I also dropped Pinocchio because there was no chemistry between the leads and just watched the Highlight Reel on Youtube.

I have "only" watched a 30 or so dramas and have already started dropping them earlier on. I mean, I didn't start watching as a teen, but as a grown-ass woman, so I have become very selective in what I like as it is. I mostly watch for the romance and I am in either of two moods: fluff or melodrama. Very rarely will I watch anything that is not romance focused, and never crime-type-dramas. If I realize my romance has a super crime-y or icky subplot (and it's not just their traumatic childhood meet-cute, which also get on my nerves), I will drop it. If the chemistry isn't there or the acting of one of the leads is bad/annoying, I will drop. If the FL main characteristic is that she is naive and clumsy, I will drop.
What has also started happening a lot recently, is that I lose interest in the last 5 or so episodes, basically after the dramatic climax, because I already know how they will wrap it up and I will often just watch Youtube clips of the rest and mark it as watched. Or skip, skip, skip...
Also, some of the acting I have seen on Asian dramas is actually outstanding and much better than anything I have seen in Western media.

Thanks so much! I am completely new to Lakorns, so this is a big help for my watchlist.

Any recommendations? I like this kind of plot, but not constant fighting.

I agree hard with "not funny for me". I find Taiwanese dramas are the ones where I genuinely laugh the most, with many other countries the humour is lost on me. But I admit, even with shows from my own country the humour in shows is often not funny to me.

So, I stumbled across Lakorns when "Husband in Law" MVs were in my recommendations repeatedly, and I know why, because the marriage of convenience/grumpy dude plot is right up my alley. But some scenes really made me question my tastes... It was all cute and fun until that one drunk scene, but the ending and the fact that it was discussed later on surprised me enough to give Kluen Cheewit a chance next... Broke off Hua Jai Sila though, it was a bit too much.
Those revenge/slap-kiss dramas do provide a weird sensation, though I might just watch anything Mark is in now, because that's some great acting. Though I am glad modern technology allows me to skip the yelling and fighting scenes, that just go on forever.
Also, I lived in Thailand for a while as a kid, and love hearing the language. I agree though, that Chinese is the most gentle on the ears.

Alright, alright, you convinced me to watch it. I didn't think I was into a drama about mental health, because I like the fluff, but the fairytale stuff seems really interesting.

As a parent with many foreign parent friends I realised that parenting is the same, exhausting and rewarding, all over the world. Even the phrases parents use with small children are the same.
Thankyou for the movie recommendations. I haven't been up to date in Indian cinema for 15 years now, so I am excited to see different storylines than the same-same I grew up with.

What I will say for real boyfriends though:
They actually talk to you about stuff. Like they don't just disappear to protect you, no, you will know everything about the danger and you can make plans together. You will also not find out about their traumatic past via a piece of paper that fell out of his dead moms diary while he is sleeptalking beside you, no, he will just tell you about it.
Also, so many more kisses and... other stuff. K-Drama maximum kiss-count after you just got together: about 5-10. Real boyfriend kiss count, right after you get together: infinite.

What I will say for real boyfriends though:
They actually talk to you about stuff. Like they don't just disappear to protect you, no, you will know everything about the danger and you can make plans together. You will also not find out about their traumatic past via a piece of paper that fell out of his dead moms diary while he is sleeptalking beside you, no, he will just tell you about it.
Also, so many more kisses and... other stuff. K-Drama maximum kiss-count after you just got together: about 5-10. Real boyfriend kiss count, right after you get together: infinite.

This was my first lakorn, and I honestly got a bit frustrated with Thien and Muey too. But I loved how they address most of the icky parts and Thien gets what's coming for him. Like there is real growth in both of them... And yeah, the chemistry was off the hook.

In real life people find each other in the "You might also know..." Section of Facebook, happened to two friends and now they are married.

Hard agree. Why? To prove that their love is strong? Let them move in and decorate a house together, or have kids, those are the things that test your relationship.

I feel like these should be part of the categories up top. The We-Met-As-Children trope does get tiresome, but I hate it even more if they met during some dramatic, murdery, psychopath incident or one of the characters has such an incident in his or her life for no reason. I mean it can be part of the main plot, emotional healing and all of that like in "When the weather is fine" which is so beautiful this way, but not just randomly like in "Secret Romance". Why does everybody need to have PTSD, is that a prerequisite to love?

This needs an update! When I discovered Dramas I was blown away by how good some of the kiss scenes were. Last time I watched Asian TV it was wide eyed pecks or behind some fruit bowl...
Anyhow, there are some really good ones in recent dramas.