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The Remarried Bride of a Little Girl (2023) is a rebirth story with leading male Zhang Ji Jun as Mu Yun Chen and leading female Meng Na as Shen Zhi Yi. Although it is tag as a romance drama, the leading couple’s romantic moments were constantly interrupted in a comedic way and, even though their love after rebirth was steadfast and Shen Zhi Yi was coquettish and playful with Mu Yun Chen, they lacked romantic chemistry. The revenge portion of the drama was downplayed and there was a very annoying woman that Mu Yun Chen was supposed to marry always joining hands with his equally annoying grandfather. Overall, the drama could’ve been better!

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You Are the April Day on Earth (2023) is a miniseries and can be found on YouTube under the captions: “After Two Years of Marriage, My Husband Seeks Divorce at First Sight | You're the Radiance of Night”. The leading couple, Si Yi Han (played by Zhang Ji Jun) and Ye Nan Sheng (played by Zuo Yi), have a cute chemistry but their intimate moments are just sweet interactions and they don’t have great romantic chemistry. There is a good amount of misunderstanding and the female lead is constantly imagining things and getting upset instead of asking the male lead directly. Still, the drama manages to end up with a happy and cute ending.

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Determination to Leave (2024) is a miniseries about Jiang Yue, (played by Peng Dai Dai), her rebirth and a new opportunity to get back what is righteously her. The drama is more about using her prior knowledge and outsmarting her adversaries. Although she finds support and love on her childhood friend, Gu Jin Chao (played by Xie Hong Xin), who was always looking for her, this drama is not about their romance but it is about finding your true worth and the people in your life that deserves your love and attention. Although sometimes she seems callous and heartless toward her biological family, in the long run, they dug their own graves, and Jiang Ye didn’t exactly got revenge, she got justice. The drama is okay for people who like to watch the victim getting what is owned to her and the abusers getting what they deserved, but the drama got boring and the female lead didn’t have a good variety of facial expressions.

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Ji Zong Nin De Ma Jia Ruo Diao Le (2023), with the leading couple Sun Yue as Ji Ming Xiu and Xu Yi Zhen as Xia Yan, is supposed to be a romantic drama but it is more a romantic comedy with some really funny moments and an insipid romance. The leading couple has a nice playful chemistry but there are no sparks in the relationship. The leading male has liked her for a long time and, although they have an intimate night together already, once they get married, she keeps him at bay for most of the drama even when he is constantly helping her and showing his love in many ways. The story is one that has been played many times but in this one, to make matters worse, the female lead has an incurable disease, forces him to divorce, and leaves him so he will not suffer but he spends five years suffering from loving and missing her. Her friends, thinking that he has moved on, are accusative and dare to say that she has always wanted to come back to him and, on the long run, it turns out that it is up to him to get her back. Overall, the drama is not really romantic, the pace, even though the drama is short, seems like an eternity to get to a “happy” ending with a boring and bland ending.

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Invisible Love is a nice romantic web series with a comedic flair. The leading couple, Li Zheng He / Li Xuan Bin (played by Sun Yue) and Lin Zhi Yi (played by Zhang Chu Xuan) has a very funny and sensual chemistry that keeps the drama interesting to watch. There are some mysteries regarding Lin Zhi Yi’s family affairs and her mother’s demise that come to light by the end of the drama and there is also Li Zheng He’s incomprehensible attitude toward Lin Zhi Yi but, at the end of it all, love prevails. Even though the drama is quite entertaining, the intimate scenes, although full of sensuality, were failed attempts by accidental “comical” events. Most of the supporting cast and the leading couple did a great job bringing their characters to life. Enjoy it!

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Lost in the Midnight (2024) is a revenge drama with a dose of romance for the leading couple that, even though they had many nice intimate and sensual moments, their true heartfelt feelings for each other are not revealed until the very end. Some of the supporting cast members did a good job in acting but others lacked acting skills and looked more like fake lunatics. The drama is more about the main couple Lou Xiao (played by Chen Si) and Si Yue / Jian Huan (played by Yu Yin), their fated encounter and intimate involvement, their connection to a sadistic and powerful family that is out to destroy them, and their desire for revenge upon a mutual enemy. The lead couple is smart and capable but the male lead, Lou Xiao, is too aggressive and violent toward Jian Huan (Si Yue) even when he was trying to protect her. Si Yue was so focus on revenge that she would do anything like lying, seducing, conspiring, and even risking her life for the sake of revenge which drove Lou Xiao mad out of mistrust, pain, and frustration dealing with Jian Huan (Si Yue) and her deceitful demeanor in addition t his most earnest desire to hold onto her. The drama moved terribly fast and the leading couple’s feelings are not in tune to each other until the end. Still, even though the drama is not perfect, it is entertaining.

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Fallen Rule is a nice and lighthearted romantic comedy, The male lead goes all the way to make sure that he gets the girl whom he has been in love for 10 years and his family and friends are all aboard making sure that they have a smooth sailing into pleasantly developed love story with a happy ending. Since it is a miniseries, it is fast paced and sometimes it feels as everything is rushed but the leading couple is really cute and, even though their romantic scenes are not memorable, the drama delivers a good laugh and tenderness from the main couple and friends. Overall, this miniseries is entertaining.

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Lovely, Still (2022) is a nice miniseries that is shown on YouTube. The leading couple is lovely and they has great romantic chemistry that would have been better shown in a full series format. As a miniseries, it is too fast paced and the scenes are jumpy. Also, the subtitles are really bad! For anyone that understands Chinese, go ahead and watch it, it will make a lot more sense. Xiao Mu Chen As Lu Zi Heng | Xiao Mu Chen and Shi Xue Jing as Chen Bao Shan did a great job bringing their characters to life and they have a lovely relationship in the drama. So, this rating is lower because the subtitles are awful and the editing is abrupt.

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The Rebel Princess is a fantasy historical miniseries about betrayal, transmigration, romance, and getting the opportunity to find the right person in the midst of death and treachery. Although there is a romance plot of missed opportunities and steadfast support, the story is really about Empress Wang Yun Ci. Once betrayed and killed by her beloved Emperor Da Yuan (Xiao Mo) played by Zeng Xi Tang, her soul transmigrated into the body of the Emperor’s lover and (Xiao Che )Prince Duan’s consort Jiang Jin Li played by Shao Yu Qi. Empress Wang Yun Ci’s character is mostly brilliantly played by Shao Yu Qi once the transmigration takes placed, but it is also shortly played by Wu Qian Xin which did a very good job giving the viewer highlight of the Empress’s real self. This drama is well written with a good OST, some action scenes, good cinematography, and a well chosen cast. There are no passionate romantic scenes but the leading couple truly conveyed their deep affection and devotion through great body language and facial expressions. The ending is truly fitted for these star crossed lovers and it gives justice to the leading couple. Overall, this drama has a well developed revenge storyline and a very good romance plot, enjoy it!

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This drama has a nice plot but it needed more episodes to flesh out the main characters. The female lead’s different skills are overly exceptional and how she acquired them is not properly explained; also, her personality, at some point toward the end, becomes childish and foolish. The male lead’s character is consistent and he truly shows his love, but the leading couple lacks chemistry and their romantic scenes are either constantly interrupted or lacked intimacy. There are some twists and turns that get better explain toward the end but it was not enough to save the drama from been overly ridiculous which, if it was an attempt to provide a comedic relief, it only served to leave the viewers scratching their heads.

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Rising Feather is a great romance miniseries set in historical times with a well design revenge plot that sends the leading couple into a tug of war while the leading male tries, by all means, to keep the leading lady out of the enemies path while she plunges herself into enemy territory trying to seek revenge against the male lead and a common enemy. There are some twist that keep the viewer interested trying to find out how, with so many misunderstandings, the male lead can keep the leading lady close and safe and, at the same time, allow her to vent her anger and mistrust against him even at the possibility that it will cost him his life. The cast did a great job bringing their characters to life and the leading couple did a phenomenal job performing lovers to enemies to lovers again storyline. Li Jiu Lin as the leading male Yun Huan and Xiao Yu as the leading lady Qing Que / Que Er elevated this miniseries to great drama status with their explosive chemistry; whether they were trying to outsmart one another, when they were contentious, and when they were loving and protecting each other. Overall, this is a very good miniseries with good cinematography, great OST, some decent fighting scenes, and a great cat and mouse game between the leading couple. Enjoy it!

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Be with you (2017) is probably one of the most tedious romantic melodramas with full of characters that lack consideration for others and are only concerned with themselves while claiming that they love and care for others. In reality, the supposedly least selfish person, the female lead, was the worst character written in a romantic storyline. Although by the end, she did everything to protect the male lead; she put him through needless emotional torture throughout the whole drama, instead of holding on to him and working together once the truth about past misunderstandings unraveled. Parents on this drama were some of the worst, especially in the Yao family, that father had no redeemable qualities. The leading couple seemed to have had great chemistry on the flashbacks but the leading lady’s facial expressions toward the male lead were cold and distant. Overall, this drama is not recommendable.

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