Very lowkey smut (by mainstream Chinese standards)
Honestly, this is the first vertical drama I've watched all the way through so perhaps I've been too harsh with my star rating. That said, I don't want to get anyone's hopes up.
The premise of this drama is a slightly different take on the contract marriage trope: the FL and ML have already been married for three years (but are still keeping their relationship secret under the guise of love/hate coworkers). This allows the storyline to skip the usual ML chasing FL convention and cut to the chase: steamy intimate scenes. These are really the closest thing Chinese media can get to sex scenes. They quickly get repetitive, but the first couple get a solid thumbs up from me.
For what it's worth, the FL and ML have decent chemistry, although I feel the actress does most of the heavy lifting. However, the story isn't particularly engaging and I ended up watching this drama as a way to help me get to sleep. I definitely got to the point where I was scrubbing through whole episodes to see if there was anything worth watching for the last 30 mins of episodes (spoiler: no, not really).
Anyway, I guess this was an ok way to dip my toes into the vertical drama world.
The premise of this drama is a slightly different take on the contract marriage trope: the FL and ML have already been married for three years (but are still keeping their relationship secret under the guise of love/hate coworkers). This allows the storyline to skip the usual ML chasing FL convention and cut to the chase: steamy intimate scenes. These are really the closest thing Chinese media can get to sex scenes. They quickly get repetitive, but the first couple get a solid thumbs up from me.
For what it's worth, the FL and ML have decent chemistry, although I feel the actress does most of the heavy lifting. However, the story isn't particularly engaging and I ended up watching this drama as a way to help me get to sleep. I definitely got to the point where I was scrubbing through whole episodes to see if there was anything worth watching for the last 30 mins of episodes (spoiler: no, not really).
Anyway, I guess this was an ok way to dip my toes into the vertical drama world.
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