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This was fire 🔥🔥🔥. A solid 10. The leads were fantastic. The story, the chemistry, the acting, the visuals—all on point. I rewatch over and over especially the kisses.

Do you have the link to part 2?

exactly, shady morally-flawed system 😳😆

But bestie Meng Meng and their policeman guy friend don’t know that. It appears bestie was supporting Lin Hua’er in her cheating and the policeman friend was rightfully suspicious of Lin Hua’er. The fake Lin Hua’er is making the real Lin Hua’er seem like a cheater if one doesn’t know about the game (which fake LH isn’t allowed to divulge). How could GHM ever really trust LH if he thinks she’s a cheater? This game is so silly. I kinda like the drama, but I also don’t get it. The premise is confusing 🫤.

I’m confused. Lin Hua’er’s ex cheated on her, true enough. But wasn’t she also flirting with Gao?

Who are the leads in “Roses and Pine” on iQIYI?

I’m enjoying this. Wang Yu Wen looks so pretty in this drama. Her makeup is gorgeous. And jealous CXX is always comedy gold. His deadpan face, peeking through his office blinds, is hilarious 😆. Not the best drama I’ve ever seen, but it still makes me chuckle quite a bit. This is the only drama, at the moment, where I am waking up every morning, excited to see the latest episode, and sad when today’s episode is over.

I’m referring to many characters in this drama. There is a sea of lesser-attractive visuals in this drama—not just one specific actor.

The visuals are so bad in this drama.

looks hilarious, 😆, can’t wait

Imma definitely watch this. Sounds like something I would like

Not all of them were bad—agreed. Many were very sweet because the relationship itself was beautiful and healthy. But, even still, I didn’t get the butterflies that I like to get from my romance drama kisses. There’s a certain something—either I feel it or I don’t. Another example—Shine On Me. Beautiful romance, but I got zero butterflies from those kisses.

No, I am not new to cdramas by any means. There are plenty of full-length cdramas that have good kisses (I list examples in response to other commenters above in this thread). Actually, the trend of fish-kisses is fairly new. Old-timers know they did real kisses back in the day—“Loving Never Forgetting”, for example. Or, Wallace Chung’s dramas in his younger days. While “Love Between Lines” doesn’t have the fish kisses, there was still something missing in the execution at times preventing the swoonworthiness I look for, although the romance was very sweet and heartwarming.

Some examples—My Little Happiness, Oath of Love, The Best Thing, Hidden Love, Forever Love (with Wang An Yu), First Frost, Falling Into You, You Are My Hero, You Are My Lover Friend, Sniper Butterfly, I May Love You, Prisoner of Beauty, Love Unexpected, Love Me Love My Voice, Meet Yourself, Will Love in the Spring.

ML’s mother was so pathetic and useless. 😐

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It’s a directing issue. This Director is known for his conservative style.

The kisses were sweet—I can agree with that. But I never got any butterflies 🦋🦋🦋. I don’t need “sucking face.” There’s was just something in the execution that just didn’t make me swoon.

Nahh, the percentage of good kisses in cdramas is way higher than that—I’ve seen plenty. I don’t need Yoona/Junho kisses—they were so gross. I just need a bit more than what we got here.

They weren’t that good either. But, the sweetness was definitely there.