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Maybe because the first time I ever saw Chingching was as Meena in the drama "Mechanic Bride", but I do not have a problem with her acting. In that drama she was the best actor by far, but I recognize that a large part of that is because everyone else were atrocious actors.

"he is not the typical cold male lead" - People keep saying this in every drama with a cold male lead lol.

Up to Episode 18 now and damn the writing is sooo bad. One of the characters goes missing for half a day and suddenly the shareholders of his fathers company are freaked out and want to replace him as CEO. Half a day!!! and He is supposed to be on holiday anyway. lol this writing is painful. The only characters I like at his point are Meena, the dad, the secretary and the fake daughter little girl. Everyone else is trash. And wtf does the male lead keep allowing these women to cuddle him in front of his wife. FFS even in Thailand cuddling is seen as something intimate so why is he continuing to allow it. I am sure if Meena was even half as intimate with Vee or Tee in front of him he would be blowing his stack.

For my own peace of mind, I think I am going to start to fast forward any scenes involving a) the main lead's mum, b) the old fiance and c) the father and son villains

I know this has been answered, but the tag "pseudo incest" just means there is a plotline where romantic partners will suddenly mistakenly believe they are related". Also, since this is a Chinese Drama they will have never have slept together anyway (Thai dramas on the other hand ...)

There is some real kisses but there is also some fake kisses. Episode 14 has a pretty blatant fake kiss. I am not sure why they have both real and fake kisses but there is both in the drama. Maybe the leads started to dislike each other during filming and stopped being willing to do real kisses.

I see your comments on a lot of dramas, and generally you make a lot of sense and often express sentiments I agree with. But I have to disagree with you about Vee. If you do not mind, what makes him so attractive to you? (please note: your opinion about him is just as valid as mine and I am not asking this to rag on you for liking him).

For me, Vee is a common character type in Asian Dramas that I call "Spiders". Particularly as Secondary leads. "Spiders" are always "old friends" of one of the main characters who are secretly in love with them and their "friendship" is a bit of an illusion because friendship is not what they want, but only something they pretend they want. Their true nature is to try and wrap their crush up in as many strands of webbing as they can to restrict them, and will often hold control freak or stalker tendencies. All this is Vee to a tee imo.

are you agreeing with yourself? I enjoyed all three of the main female characters and the actresses who played them. So I want all three to return (I actually enjoyed the entire cast, so want everybody to return).

I enjoy Annie Chen, and I am liking this drama, yet it is another East Asian drama with unlikable Parents. Everytime the Female Lead's father or the male lead's grandmother were on screen I wanted them to go away. FFS does becoming a parent in East Asia make you selfish and stupid or something? We already have villains with the Aunt and the cousin, why do we need to endure these selfish jerks as well, especially when you just know that these jerks will be forgiven for whatever hurt they cause.

And the last episode. FFS, the FL barely appears in the last episode. Annie Chen's character just became background scenery. I think she was onscreen for a total of 5 minutes.

I tried to like this but I have always found Jerry Yan to have a very off-putting face to go along with his meh acting. But somehow he keeps being cast in dramas that sound interesting. But this time his leading lady also has an off-putting face and mediocre acting. Could not continue with this after 3 episodes

If you do end up watching it, you will only watch it for the main couple. Even then you get frustrated by how stupid they make the female lead just to drive "misunderstandings" (ie, she does things that makes people believe that her 3 year old brother is her son, because she is embarrassed to have a brother that young). Both the second leads are annoying and the mother is terrible.

I have just started (up to ep5) and I am hoping to god the Main Female Lead is actually not as stupid as she seems to be so far. I am aware that in Chinese Dramas a female lead must never be as smart as the males around her, but come on it would nice if they were not complete morons in comparison

eh, "Love o2o" has NO love triangle. It is not a triangle if one side totally ignores and flat out rejects the romantic advances of someone else. A "Love Triangle" has one of the characters having romantic affection towards two characters.

"wooden" is pretty much the go to adjective for most Chinese actors in CDramas. I think it is because they all portray the same stoic reserved character. In comparison Chinese actresses in Cdramas often come across better at acting in large part due to the fact their characters are generally more animated and lively and are allowed to have more than one facial expression.

This was one of my biggest bugbears in the drama. I get they wanted to reverse the trope of the rich lead's family and friends being against the relationship, BUT not one of her family/friendship circle was very supportive of her relationship, whilst almost all of the ML's inner circle was. FFS when she was feeling insecure both her cousin and her friend constantly tried to feed that insecurity by basically telling her she was not good enough for him and that he will get tired of her and dump her.

lol. If you think that the male actor here in any way matched up to the female lead actress you are not just subjectively wrong, but objectively wrong. Sure the ML actor had the the challenge of trying to give life to character with as much depth as a piece of A4 paper, whilst the character of the female lead had a lot more depth; but the FL actress acted rings around him in this drama.

I watched it purely for her. She was delightful. Her romantic partner just never felt like a fully fleshed out character (and his weird coat fetish bothered me). The character itself was lacking in any depth or complexity, but I do not think the actor helped either. But luckily the Female Lead's character and the actress who played her were charismatic enough to carry the romance and the show.

Her family (and her friends) seeing his wealth as a negative annoyed me. She had no-one supporting her relationship (unlike him where we see almost all his family & friends supporting it). Everytime she started to worry about something in her relationship, her friends would suddenly be there feeding her insecurity; telling her "she was not good enough and that he will dump her so she should move on". Come on, the show should have had at least one person in her circle support her in her relationship choice.

I have finished watching it, and Romance does start around episode 11. But it is onesided for around another 15 episodes (cute one sided love though). Though it is very frustrating, ultimately I did enjoy, though those first 10 eps are an endurance test (they should have been condensed into 1 or 2 episodes)

I am not sure if this is a case of the subtitles being vague or the storytelling not explaining things very well but I felt completely lost at times in the first episode. Why was it the FL's fault about the extra zero in the contract? Why was she specifically expecting to be fired?

I am NOT Chinese, so could someone please explain this whole "maid" thing that seems to happen in High School there. FFS even the female lead here just seems to accept she is a maid when she is told by a boy she dislikes that she is his maid. She has no issue berating him at home, but at school when he tells her she is a maid she bloody becomes a maid. WTF