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Shine on Me chinese drama review
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Shine on Me
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by Peridot83
15 hours ago
36 of 36 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.5
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 7.5
This slow burn romance premises the modern answer to the ceo romance - they're both ceos!

The real genius of this drama is the love triangle at the centre of it. Both men start from places of coldness and rejection for various reasons, but then they diverge:

1) One is so insecure, stubborn, and stuck in his own head that he misses chance after chance to change course and confess
2) The other resists due to misunderstandings and is also stubborn and a bit cold but wakes up to the fact that he wants what he wants, and he needs to go for it and not have regret

Various realistic and kind of intriguing misunderstandings keep this slow burn romance interesting through 3/4s of it, but once the love triangle resolves, the other plot lines don't have much interest.

The acting is good enough for the limited range they are portraying in this show, this doesn't have the high highs and low lows of more ambitious and dramatic projects.

The morals are simple the key to success in love, work, life is to work hard, take risks and change course, and believe in an optimistic future. Cinematography and clothes are competent enough.

If you like Jane Austen, slow burn, love triangle/misunderstanding type plots, this one could be for you.
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