Y’all fight over chemistry this and chemistry that lol it’s a youth coming of age and we see the FL creating relationships with everyone lol
Anyways, episodes 7-8 was fun. It established the friend group creating friendships that will support each other going forward. We got sibling dynamics and they cleared up the misunderstanding and established a bond outside of the house for more interactions going forward 👏🏼
I absolutely adore the sibling dynamic in the novel and to see it adapted well in the drama ❤️ also yubai crazy imagination and his interpretation of her acting over the top coquettish reminds me of Xu Xai saying Tian Xiwei looks crazy when she tries to act cute 😂
&& we got two Moonlit Reunion cast members in this drama! Of course Lai Weiming our second male lead and Zhou Zhan who plays the older brothers classmate who tries to recruit our Lin Zhixia to astronomy club
With a genius like her, I would have expected her to skip a couple of grades. I thought that is usually the case…
In the novel she continuously skips grade. The lady the FL met at the aquarium happens later in the novel and she ends up working in research group at university but in the drama it looks like it was just a little moment when she was younger and never interacted again
Maybe because I've seen alot of these second meet, dramas. My first reaction whem they started showing the past…
The novel is majority of them as kids and we didn’t get university/grown up them until the end so be lucky it is adapted this way lol when this drama was picked up to be adapted I was wondering how they were gonna do it.
I remember seeing someone saying how is she a genius but not get 1st place. The judges explained it perfectly and so did Jiang yubai. Her self reflection and awareness 👏🏼 One of the main faults of a lot of geniuses
“..but he’s also my good friend” “… right now I don’t see a friend— I see my rival”
The novel is smooth sailing for her and her conflicts are shallow. The adaptation gives her character growth. I liked Tingting telling her time will filter out the fake friends. Also in the novel I think the rivalry was just for test scores and when he couldn’t beat her he pivoted to keeping up with her academically
I don’t know what people are saying or if we are watching the same drama but I can see the chemistry between…
Yup. It’s slow and quiet. In the novel the ML doesn’t even realize he liked her until she goes off to university and she’s oblivious to it. In the drama you can see there is chemistry between them early.
I don’t mind the change in jang yubai’s background. The novel was monotonous in just her moving up in education and him following along. Which is fine for reading but will come out boring for a drama even for a slice of life drama and this is a youth/coming of age type drama.
I read the novel a while back and I personally think that so far it’s adapted well. I was wondering how it was gonna go bc half or more of the novel is just them as kids and it’s just all classroom competition between two classrooms and stiff and her moving up in grade levels. The novel is cute but flat. This so far has given the characters more depth and emotional complexity. Lin Zhixia definitely has a higher EQ in the drama compared to the novel.
He appeared on her variety show and they were paired together the last two episodes
Mangotv. It’s called crazy treasure hunt season 2. If you don’t have mangotv, they have a YouTube channel that uploads the episodes. Episode 5 & 6 I think are up and they also have other videos of clips with the two of them
I watched the trailer and the ML didn’t seem the sunny type of character mentioned in the synopsis, neither…
The female lead isn’t introverted. She a girl with high IQ and low EQ. She has this strong logical systematic mind and reasoning but struggles to manage, recognize or empathize with emotions. My best companion is the tv show Young Sheldon… even the relationship with his sibling is like the character siblings in this drama
What’s with the low ratings ? Is it just bad or people just hating like usual
This drama is one of those that shows the different tastes with mainland China and international viewers. It’s well received mainland with great reviews and rating. Only 23 dramas have reached a 10k heat index on iQIYI, the douban rating even few from the initial 8.1 to 8.2, and it’s ranked at 6th for satellite tv for the first half of 2026. There is a film now in the works lol
I feel like a lot of actors have their comfort zone and excel in those areas but try something different and you realize if they are a great actor or just great at certain things. I’ve seen that talk with Zendaya recently about her acting being limited
I don’t watch Republican dramas (so I got no comparison) but I’ve seen ppl complaining or just poking fun at the directors directing. Is there a chance this all done by choice stylistically and all other Republican drama has a similar style? I’ve seen ppl say Republican drama are melodramas and are usually over the top. Or is this on par with the directors previous works? I think I saw someone say he’s the director of Churan’s current drama she filming (which relies heavily on cgi bc it’s a fantasy drama) and is gonna be Linghe’s next drama director. UPDATE: I did look at some of his other works and it’s not his usual… so maybe it’s just a stylistic choice, which of course didn’t seem to translate well. Either way it’s not the first drama that has some questionable directing and cinematography but are crowd favorites lol
The premise doesn't look very strong, and the pairing doesn't seem to work for me. I was actually waiting for…
Depends on what you are expecting out of this drama. It’s a youth drama so it’s more of an ensemble cast coming with age type with her character showing loneliness and seeking connection and you see a group of kids grow up together
okay but everything aside, I might be in the very, very small minority who believes zlh is just NOT cut for the…
It’s bc he has soft facial features and not really any edge to them. Makeup I think could help but for this drama I don’t know if it’s the filter or the lighting/color editing that is a bit too bright that lost some of the dimensions on everyone’s face. Which I think he needs more of to give contrast… it needs some shadows on his face when he’s shown at certain angles and facial expressions.
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Anyways, episodes 7-8 was fun. It established the friend group creating friendships that will support each other going forward. We got sibling dynamics and they cleared up the misunderstanding and established a bond outside of the house for more interactions going forward 👏🏼
&& we got two Moonlit Reunion cast members in this drama! Of course Lai Weiming our second male lead and Zhou Zhan who plays the older brothers classmate who tries to recruit our Lin Zhixia to astronomy club
“..but he’s also my good friend”
“… right now I don’t see a friend— I see my rival”
The novel is smooth sailing for her and her conflicts are shallow. The adaptation gives her character growth. I liked Tingting telling her time will filter out the fake friends. Also in the novel I think the rivalry was just for test scores and when he couldn’t beat her he pivoted to keeping up with her academically
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