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This is a good drama that missed the opportunity to be great. The plot brings about serious issues of school bullying, administration corruption, elite class privileges and advancement brought up through money, social outcast issues, revenge, and a nice romantic story. Although the story is well written, the actors did a great job delivering their characters, and the leading couple has good chemistry, the romance lost luster in the last episodes and the resolutions were rushed. Also, even though the story has a good ending, the drama lost momentum and the ending was cute but weak.

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This drama is cute, but for been a sequel, it should’ve been done with the same actors as the first season. On this sequel the leading lady’s character is more over the top than before, but she manages to salvage her character with some profound moments, good romantic scenes, and super cute gestures. The supporting cast did really well, and Mike D'Angelo did very well on his characterization of mutant Xue Ling Qiao. At least Fingal Fu as detective Li Yan Zhi and Aro Yang as Feng Dong Dong, among a few other actors, were part of the original cast, which gave the sequel a familiar vibe. This drama is still entertaining. Enjoy it!

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DO NOT BELIEVE THE VIEWERS THAT CONFUSE FEELINGS OF FINDING A YOUNG GIRL CUTE, WITTY, AND SWEET GIRL WHEN SHE WAS 12 TO FEEL A SMALL TUG IN HIS HEART WHEN HE MEETS HER AGAIN WHEN SHE’S SEVENTEEN, AND TO FALL IN LOVE WHEN SHE WENT TO COLLEGE AS AN ADULT. The male lead never crossed the lines of impropriety, even when they were dating; he was lovely and respectful towards her. Hidden Love is a great, delightful, and lighthearted drama that will make you smile tenderly at the leading male and female once they become a couple. Chen Zhe Yuan (as Duan Jia Xu) and Zhao Lu Si (as Sang Zhi) have a refreshing, charming, and beautiful engaging relationship that dazzles the screen every time they look at each other. This drama has a great main and supporting cast that delivered a well crafted story of two individuals that, in spite of their age difference, managed to bring about a healthy and beautiful love story. Enjoy it!

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Head over Heels (2025)is a great romance miniseries with Yao Guanyu (as Xie Yu Li) and Yu Yin (as Ye Ning) in the leading couple’s role. This is a story of a man that finally finds the woman he fell in love with six years before , but she doesn’t remember him. Even though they are from different social backgrounds and their characters are different, she is shy and inexperience and he is direct and forceful, when she experienced threats and viciousness, she came to realize that he has become more than her protector. He forced his way into her heart and she is more than willing to accept him. When fate is threatening their time together, she surrendered to his care, warmth, and steadfast love to be showered by his affection, tenderness, and care and to be able to reciprocate for as long they can. The cast did a good job bringing their characters to life, the leading couple has intense, sensual, and fantastic chemistry whether they are bickering or being intimate. Both the male and female lead are strong characters when faced with adversity and firm in their believes which, together, they only become better and stronger. Overall, this drama is very good and entertaining. Enjoy it!
This drama can be found on YouTube under the caption: “ They said he was playing with me, but later high and mighty one knelt before me and humbly wooed me” or “She tamed cold, playboy CEO uncle, got trapped in his games, got spoiled”

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This is a fantastic miniseries with a solid, steadfast and passionate love story between Zhang He Nian (played by Yu Long) and Qin Tang (played by Yang Mie Mie). Zhang He Nian’s scheming mother and sister get Qin Tang’s father to marry the cunning sister and the lead couple gets separated foe seven years. From the moment that doctor Qin Tang comes back home from studying abroad, Zhang He Nian puts into action his strategic plan to have Qin Tang accept her feelings for him and stand together to become husband and wife. Qin Tang, against her own feelings, tries to curtail He Nian’s advances but, for every time that she rejects him, he doubles the intensity of his efforts. The leading couple has great team and romantic chemistry. He Nian is forceful and passionate going after Qin Tang because he knows that she is someone that respects and abides by their cultural believes, but he also knows that his family members are vultures and he will not sacrify his life for them. This drama is a great tale of a resolute couple that fights together in pursuit of their happiness.

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This drama is for mature audiences with knowledge of how manga risqué writing works. Many manga works are full of extreme characters and situations that, when adapted to live drama, can leave a bad taste to some viewers. This drama is one of those. If the drama would have been done without the caricature like theme, it would have been much better. Taking aside the scenes that give the impression that the Hiroto is playing around with Risa, it is basically a common theme drama where rich older guy (with family trauma) falls in love with a childish shy girl that lacks common sense. While together, there are the common antagonists that want to set them apart, too many scenes where the Risa get into absurd situations to be saved by Hiroto coming to her rescue, and finally, a happy ending. Where then did this drama/manga go wrong? The writer wanted to maintain the audience doubting the Hiroto’s true feelings and good intentions for Risa so, their romantic encounters had been interpreted as lasciviousness and taking advantage of a naïve girl, who was not entirely naïve if you take into consideration her inner thoughts. Risa’s naivety was more lack of self confidence and ignorance about loving relationships with the opposite sex. Been naïve on this drama is equated to been stupid, which one is not synonym of the other. Having said all of these, this drama is about Hiroto been deeply attracted to shy Risa and falling in love for the first time. Risa takes an instant likeness to Hiroto and, through caring and seductive persuasion, falls madly in love with Hiroto who awakens the art of sensuality on Risa. Regardless of how the viewer sees their interactions, Hiroto and Risa truly love each other and they get to show that at the end of the drama. Knowing from the beginning that he truly loved her would have made this drama much more delightful and likely to have good rewatch value. Enjoy it!

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Di Qi Ci Xin Tiao (2025) is a romance miniseries with Ben Wang as Lu Jingchen and Ma Xin Yu as Qin Ruyan/YanYan in the lead couple’s role. This is a miniseries that has a mystery surrounding the female lead and a man that falls for her at first sight. The lead couple has some really nice intimate moments but the female lead’s facial expressions don’t convey a loving warmth as her gaze seems detached from her emotions. The lead couple’s characters are intelligent, strong, and somewhat mysterious but, if not for the male lead’s suave, passionate, and warm persona, the romance would not have been believable. The drama’s plot has too many things going on and, sometimes, not all issues are resolved clearly, and no amount of passion nicely portrayed by the male lead, can overcome the female lead’s detached demeanor.

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Wedding Night and Departure (2025) is a nice romance fantasy drama set within a historical era with male lead Ben Wang (as Rong Jiu Si) and female lead Li Ke Yi (as Mu Yun Shu). Although some palace antics and assassination plots are part of the palace's shenanigans , the drama could be consider lighthearted, especially due to Mu Yun Shu’s high-spirited and playful character, even though she can display good judgment in understanding situations due to the nature of the historical periods. The lead couple has good chemistry and their intimate moments were nicely done. Overall, even though the drama lacks the intensity on certain moments, the drama is nice to watch.
The drama can be found on YouTube under the caption: [MULTI SUB] A Quirky Female Military Doctor Travels Back in Time to Become a Princess!

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This is yet another version about the female lead (FL) gets together with the male lead (ML) after her scumbag fiancé cheats on her with her sister. The ML is her fiancé’s uncle who falls in love with the FL and pursues her constantly. Even though the ML realizes her love for her later on, he’s always been protecting and caring for her. The downfall on this version is not the acting but the way the FL’s character was written and her obsessively strong feeling of responsibility for her deceased mother even when she knew that she didn’t love her fiancé and that he didn’t love her back. On top of that, no matter how much the ML did for her, it was not until the very end that she became secure enough to believe that he truly loved her. There is also the terrible and absurd behavior and actions from the ML’s father. Although the drama has a happy ending, the way the story is written for the FL makes the drama’s romance tiresome. The ML’s character was much better written and Shen Hao Nan did a good job in his performance of Lu Zhao He (ML).

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This drama is a real disappointment compared to all of the other remakes of the Taiwanese original story “The Prince Who Turns into a Frog” with Chao Zhang as Shan Jun Hao/Dang Ou and Joe Chen as Ye Tian Yu. This drama should not be considered a remake but a spin-off. The writer and director turned a nice romantic comedy into a Slap-Kiss lakorn with no redeeming qualities since, after recovering his memory, the male lead becomes a tyrant toward the female lead all the way to almost the end of the drama. Overall, the drama lacks progressive character development, the resolutions came too fast and, even with a happy ending, it doesn't leave a satisfying feeling. If the viewer wants to see better versions of “The Prince Who Turns into a Frog”, skip this one and watch:
The Prince Who Turns into a Frog (Taiwanese original story)
Waking Love Up (Chinese remake)
Forget You Remember Love (Chinese remake)

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GONE WITH THE RAIN is a very entertaining drama that revolves around the two female leads, Moxi and Feng Yao which, regardless of their status within their family, they manage to develop a strong relationship that stands the wrath of court and family shenanigans, love entanglements, misunderstandings, secrets, and betrayal. The drama is very well casted and the actors did a great job bringing their characters to life. Moxi and Feng Yao fall in love with Wan Jiagui that, in spite of been deeply in love with Moxi, he relents due to his family’s pressure and status. Then, there is Chen Wen De, the “antihero” and a force to be reckoned with, that, through a series of unfortunate events, gets entangle with Moxi and falls in love with her. This drama is a rollercoaster of emotions due to the strong and steadfast relationships that are formed by these four individuals and their determination to protect each other and bringing down the criminals that threatened their lives and the country’s stability. There is also worth mentioning the refreshing aspect of Moxi’s imaginary scenarios. Overall, this drama is fantastic and worth watching.

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Warm Time With You is a really cute miniseries that, if it would’ve been longer, it would have made a really good drama. The leading actors did great delivering their characters in such a short amount of time and they had very good chemistry. So did the supporting actors. The plot could’ve used longer episodes in order to flesh out the characters, close loopholes in the storyline, and allow the supporting actors more time to get into their characters, which most of them still did a great job. If the viewer is looking for something short, cute, fun, and entertaining, this is the drama to watch. Enjoy it!
Side note: The translation is terrible, but one can figure out what is been said by following the characters’ body language and the plot. Still, there is “something lost in translation”!

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The drama Listening Snow Tower (2019) is a good Wuxia, Martial Arts, Fantasy show, but it really lacks on the romance department, especially from the leading couple, unless the viewer is looking for a couple that sustained a non-existent romantic relationship marred by the constant mistrust from the female lead towards her “lover” and protector. There are constant explanations from the supporting characters about the actions from the leading couple towards each other and constant afterthoughts and flashbacks. The story and action elements of this drama are solid, engaging, and very entertaining, but the writer plagued the story with unnecessary death of central characters. Wanting to portray the pugilistic theme as a breeder of cold, conning, and unwavering characters that keep backstabbing the Listening Snow Tower Master, the drama missed the opportunity to create a great love story, since he fell in love with the leading lady at first sight. The leading lady spent most of the drama being stubborn, undermining, and willfully misunderstanding the person that she was supposed to love. Not until the end, you get a short reprieve that allows the viewer to enjoy a nice ending. Overall, if the viewer is looking for a good action show and great supporting actors, this drama is quite entertaining. Enjoy it!

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Miss Qiao's Top White Moonlight (2025) is a revenge romance miniseries with Yang Han (as Qiao Rong Chuan) and Meng Lu (as Qiao Xing Ye) in the leading couple’s role. The cast did a good job bringing their characters to life and the leading couple has very good chemistry. The lead actors romance is slow burn but their interactions were emotionally intense and their romantic scenes were nicely done. Qiao Xing Ye was betrayed by her fiancé and mistreated by her family but that was the beginning of her fighting back the grievance that she suffered during her lifetime. Qiao Rong Chuan finally finds her, and once again, he becomes her greatest ally and protector while making sure that they will stay together for the rest of their lives. This drama, even with the revenge plot, gives the viewer a strong, zealous and heartwarming love story between Qiao Rong Chuan and Qiao Xing Ye.
For the meantime, this drama can be found on YouTube under the caption: “CEO took in a homeless girl, she found real family and got betrayed, he took her back, spoiled her” or “Family favored nanny's daughter. Break off relations with them, I was spoiled by CEO.They regretted it”

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