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I'll still keep EITDN as my favorite these days, in that non serious category. That drama rolled so well along the music : "Act Like Perfect Partner / cuz we are involved in a drama / fully enjoy it...."
Even if adapted from another song, that went so well !

oops Embrace, My Lethal Man... are not Japanese but Chinese. It looks like you didn't watch them or your post was truncated to state the opposite of what you meant ?

Same as you feel lenient, but unresolved business and sudden illogical turnaround of Mrs Bai have me deduct two points. I add one half for the concluding cheesy but sweet "it is kicking".
It is still one short episodes drama that I binge watched with quite a lot of amusement. Will remember Ryan Ren and the clean faced Li Xingyao who played her poker face "liar" role very well. The script is of course non serious, so can't be evaluated except for sizzle quality, which was fine through most of this pastime. The logical end could have been divorce as evaluation not only of the relationship but the way she was treated from marriage. But we were spared such a realist ending and got the fairytale ring and roses instead, which was an ok HE!

Ah, perhaps I ought to check that one out, next?
My favorite non serious sizzle short items up till now were Maid's Revenge (DGZ!), Provoke, and Embrace In the Dark Night, although there were some nice Richard Li short ones too.

don't look too hard for meaning, just enjoy the sizzle and thrills and laugh when you'll spot the long shoes 😂

tell you : me too ! 😂

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glad to see I'm not the only one to enjoy pastimes that are not too heavy on "meaning" 😂
.... I'll remember those extra long "wolfish" shoes that were focused on, at times ! 😂😂😂

Conclusion today/tomorrow (depending on where you sit) of this "non serious" and often hot pastime that will perhaps get a compilation "spicy movie edition" on YouTube later to the horror of those who want to lambast it.
Time flies too quickly and we'll be slithering into February already, after a quarter century of 21st gone by. Wishing you happy celebrations, a fruitful 2025, and continued good times drama watching !

Look out for fun and expect love and kisses, lol !
Those who look for toxicity will find such in the stones under their feet anyway. Disregard those toxic people. Like what you like and avoid reviews and comments to sway your own independent judgement and tastes!

Don't slander Fuhui. She is just as much in the sisters group as the other ones, and if you did not watch carefully, it is your loss if you mistook her motives and actions, but don't go broadcasting erroneous judgemental views. You look too much for toxicity.
Just chill down and continue enjoying the show !

She sure could have been more upfront, even though there was the trauma and lingering distrust after the forced abortion episodes where she heard he was not giving a damn if his wife and her baby died. Once he knew and accepted her as wife, all this distrust from her was so misplaced... And she certainly could have revealed truth before, instead of masquerading as Penny so long.
But she is very pretty.

yes they were both drugged by FL's (stepmom?) on their first night (her very first... which made him wonder, and more easily let go of the "escort" delusion he had about her in the first episodes, and decide to forget about wanting a divorce to "be with her", one he knew she was his wife).
He did not cheat on his wife, neither there nor before, nor later... there are no clues about any such behavior in this short drama. He hated escorts, fell in love with the mysterious Penny but refrained from having her privacy invaded by a full background check because of respect and sentiments. But once he knew she actually was his wife he could let go of too much restraint, despite letting her go do her job if she insisted to leave him to go out doing that.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 does this show make us think and imagine ?!!

Not sure he could get the document if he stank of alcohol and looked too much in a daze?
Perhaps, as twinty imagines, he went in looking neither left nor right, stony faced and got the chore over in minutes using will to blur out her answers to Public Affairs officer, and then exited in a hurry, leaving her to hand over the documents to his grandfather, later getting his certificate without opening it before stuffing it into the drawer.
Or.... The grandfather would not have used Rohypnol (ML might have looked too sleepy), or ketamine on him, but I am not so sure about FL's stepmother who needed the marriage to get his money for their firm. The evil sister too, perhaps planning and working to replace FL already, although she could have just as well taken her place then, if ML did not know what he was doing.

Hello and happy new year of the slithering beast ;)
I was wondering it you had kept track of Drifting Away, that received love-hate for its difficult true story inspired drama? and are you opening a new 2025 file for iQiyi heat index logs?
All the best to you, Dreams, and enjoy the holiday!

I'm curious of your experience: are you watching on a platform that is slowing down episodes release (there were 3 episodes on 1st day on main Mango platform, Hunan TV started with 2 eps on Jan27 but I am not clear about Netflix)

At the moment 10 episodes have been released on Mango :)

In case you find a way to binge watch, and have trouble putting a name on actors and characters, you can turn to my illustrated Notes and click on the excellent characters relationship chart translated by fellow MDL member soonsetra (click twice to get it in enlarged format for easy reading).
I may be expanding these Notes with more info along the way so feel free to click on the apparently empty Discussions section (above comments here) to access the three "pinned" ones that are "hidden" there by MDL (reason explained in my Notes).
For quicker access, here is a direct link :
https://kisskh.at/discussions/perfect-match/134578-notes-about-perfect-match

Here you are : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jL66LOrYo4
(English and Viet subtitles) Download it if you are a Jay Chou fan : perhaps it won't stay forever there and the cool archives are regrettably defunct now.

Thanks, assuming there will be another calendar, after Jan31 and ep.13 release. It is interesting that the release is very much slowed down on the other platforms, but I doubt it is beneficial for the impatient audiences.

yep there's that trope too. But the husband and rival are united when it comes to protecting FL, and upfront about their feelings in later episodes when the childhood friend appears. She stays aloof with both who press their suit , she often shies away from both except as necessary in her company, stays closer to husband when he is injured. It's going to be unrequited pining for the "ex" and sizzle with the husband, before and after some tropey misunderstandings which got resolved through lust evolving into love.
There are many hilarious over the top moments.
This is not a "serious drama" so should not be assessed on same scale as "deeper ones". It is a light and fun pastime for those who have not caught the woke bug. Some want to say it is "bad" because of ... (their splitting hairs to deconstruct it.) I'd say it is a good "hot cult" item and not a moral blueprint for actual behavior in real life.
The ML is hot, handsome and wolfish, including his often seen large size shoes, and the FL has a pretty face, plays better than I expected. The rival and the villain half sister are as expected.