Bijou

The only redeeming quality in this drama was Male Lead

I watched this last year because i am missing Ma Xiao Yu at the time and i have trauma against Xiang Yun Jie after her lousy kissing scene with Liu Lambo so for the therapy i tried the experimental trauma by watching this. Turns out, the plot is just very abstract. To make it simpler, seducing my ex-boyfriend's sister-in-law. Ma Xiaoyu should have been able to do that easily (in the drama), and the screenwriter clearly favors ML, giving him a complete character aura, and his crazy, dark, and reckless personality is well-developed.

However, FL is relatively one-dimensional. Their falling in love is also very formulaic, and the reason ML loves her is also poorly designed. Plus, the actress herself doesn't quite pull off the "older sister" role. Xiang Yunjie was miscast (it was nothing to do with my trauma, i am just being fair person she lacks jie jie vibe even the real age she is 3 years older than Ma Xiao Yu)

Maybe, i am little too fond of Ma Xiao Yu. I'm increasingly disliking these soft-hearted, dim-witted, and indecisive characters only watch this for his sake lol.

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FL revenge was inefficient and ineffective

I watched this since i liked A Shang but this drama left me disappointed again.

The overall plot of this drama is average, a typical short drama storyline. However, there are a few key moments that really drew me in, and I even teared up a bit (mainly thanks to Chen Tianxiang's acting). The fox spirit look, especially the red dress and makeup, is so cool, and it doesn't look like cheap cosplay costume.

I think the main weakness lies with the FL (the character and the actress). For character, FL was quite not really smart for do revenge for her entire family. She do anything but think about the consequence and ML just help to fix her messy plan. For the actress, I like Ah Shang as person but her acting is definitely a weakness; she lacked a lot of feeling when acting opposite her. I must say Chen Tian Xiang and A Shang don't have any chemistry even from first drama i watch it feels imbalance and bland.

Only for hardcore fans.

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Quite fresh youth drama.

I watched this since i am on journey to search Li You Lin drama. I remember i saved this drama for Zhang Jin Yi since it was campus drama and i have a mood to watch this after found mediocre dramas recently.

This drama is original script and has a clear message. The plot is normal and probably reflects things we've all encountered. The characters are people we know or friends around us. It's righteous yet wicked, completely unlike a typical short drama. Four people from four different families—one from a single-parent family, one divorced, one orphaned—each with their own difficulties and problems. Two couples experience their own stirrings and interactions, and two pairs of best friends face various trials. There is no kiss which is understandable since it is campus drama.

The story encompasses friendship, family, and budding romance. Rich in content, with a complete narrative and natural progression, it unfolds with a comfortable, gentle flow. There are no forced or contrived conflicts, making me feel like I was back in high school. Li You Lin and Zhang Jin Yi looks and acting perfectly suit their roles; they're genuinely young, not just pretending to be young.

Recommended to Watch.

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The Best Period Drama I ever watched.

I watched this since the premises was really good and i want to explore more Yao Guanyu's work and it's my first time seeing He Lei acting and Turn out I love this drama. Because it's just not romance but it focused on FL and her mother relationship and FL entrepreneurship growth. The comedy was not too cheesy. It was perfect balance for every genres for Period Drama.

The plot logic is very reasonable. FL gradually understands her mother and teaches the original mother from past and sister to resist loving her. Even though the FL knows the bad consequence will happen to her that day, she has a reason to go out. In the end, the FL's wish to return to her mother's side is fulfilled. All of these things are not accomplished by a few superficial words, but are actually driven by the plot. This is true feminist drama in short drama-emphasizes judging actions based on ability, not gender.

FL is truly intelligent and self-reliant heroine. Many times when she encountered bad guys, I thought the ML was about to appear, but she always solved the problem with her own. He Lei proves her natural acting in this drama. Her economic thinking are biggest help to survive in 1980's.

Yao Guanyu was well-cast and acted perfectly. He contributed 80% of the comedic moments in the show so this drama is not too serious since they bring heavy topic. His screentime was not too much but he makes impact. ML's marriage proposal gives the FL confidence, and the couple are incredibly sweet.

The makeup is so natural and light. But I liked Yao Guanyu's floral shirt, slicked-back hair, and bell-bottoms, he perfectly captures the unruly and resilient spirit of a rebel kids in 80's

The cons are the duration are too long around 4 hours 20 minutes so I need to make watch instalment. There are too many distressing family scenes especially come from FL's dad and annoying chatter from uncles and aunts. I feel bad for ML in the end and last part really feels poorly written.

Recommended to watch and it was the best period drama.

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Great Chemistry for BL Drama

I found this BL drama thanks to Tiktok advertisement and despite the MLs (Zhang Qi Hao & Pan Xin Yu) are not well-known they played the part well and not awkward for BL drama and the kisses and humping scene was good compare to most hetero couple on duanju drama.

But the plot is too common. I have irked about Doctor character despite his passionate humping. if he was in real life he should get his license revoked. Drugged your patients are big no even you are smitten at first time.

For The Racer, he is basically just naive and distressed dude. He was denial on his sexual preference and he slowly embrace it and want to tell his fiancée and his dad about his engagement annulment. I like his character development in here.

Still decent to watch for BL dramas

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Liked the Leads but it was lukewarm story.

I was eager to watched Peng yao and was like Zhang Sifan acting with Zhang Chenglu and Chai Huixin so i had great hope the drama would be good. I was thought it was lowkey glasses advertisement drama but apparently is not.

The FL got mirror curse and was the daughter of Zhao family. The mirror is passed down through generation by generations, but later in FL's parents generation was massacred due to mirror's magical powers. The culprits are Song family and Qin family (one of major families) and FL want to take revenge by using ML as her weapon as she search about her parent real murder with using mirror to get her other personality. By time,She was fall in love with ML.

Overall the story was quite complicated but somehow i got yawned on the middle so i tried to fast forward and the ending is quite nice

Recommended to Zhang Sifan and Peng Yao fans.

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Still delightful drama despite dragged on the middle

This is Wang Haozhen- Lu Lulu second collaboration and i quite enjoy it. The Chemistry is the best one for both of actor.

The Plot is basically about FL aka Luo Jia who getting cheated by his ex aka Gu Boning with green tea. His ex being terrorized by green tea about who was FL and he said she just once time fuck buddy. Being heartbroken, She called his ex and make voice not to ask for break up and met ML aka Cheng Jin. Because of self desire, FL asks ML to become her ONS. When they have done doing sex activity, ML asks her to bathe together and FL just run away. Tomorrow, FL works as nurse met new boss which happened to be ML.

I love Wang Haozhen characterization of Cheng Jin-being cunningly calculative but if he is appear on real life it would be completely stalker behaviour. I don't understand why people hate FL for not accepting ML apology easily. I understand her being deceived twice on row by men and want to have normal relationship since she is in the age of marriage. Cheng Jin is someone who cannot accept when someone saying no to him. He tried to shoo FL pursuer by asking their main priority. In the end, FL tried to rekindled their relationship even she wanst sure about the future and i dont feel angry about that and Cheng Jin action is justified in the end because it was happened in real life too.

This is 3 of Wang Haozhen drama that i repeat beside Han Yutong one. Recommend if you like modern drama with common break-up problem.

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It was an Okay drama

I watched this when i am binged to watch Chen Si drama. I think this is decent drama, it has a strong "overly wild" feel. Chen Si and Liu Xiyu have great chemistry which make me okay watching this. The sweetness is on point not to over powered. After all, who can resist a sweet and gentle FL.

The setting is in the Republican era, which is more reasonable than the modern version, naturally avoiding some plot inconsistencies. The overall story framework and main characters remain the same, but reasonable modifications have been made to fit the Republican era: 3FL's company is changed to a reading club, FL's initiative to seek cooperation with the ML on the aircraft business is changed to saving the students of the reading club, and the addition of a Russian roulette scene at the banquet makes the contrast between the ML and the SML's characters more obvious. ML an d FLinteract more, getting together early on, with numerous intimate scenes full of tension. ML is more proactive, while the FL is neither conflicted nor insecure. Their secret relationship is portrayed as natural and open. FL also realizes her feelings for the male lead early on and not being dragged until end of the drama. Overall, it's very sweet and worth watching.

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This Manhwa should never got Live Action

I will talk about this drama as an avid followers of the manhwa from season 1 until the end and the Live action as expected will be watered down their 18++ contents. Personally i am okay with Nagyum cast but for Seungho it was letdown for me and his acting was not convinced as wild Seungho. The chemistry between the leads was almost non-exist and obviously industrial saccharin. they still using camera trick for kissing scene even their pecking was not convinced me. The plot was quite disjointed since they crammed all the season into one drama and it was obivously on-budget drama. As someone who follows the manhwa, this is quite disaster and sometimes few BL manhwa should stays as manhwa.

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Non toxic version and more humane character.

Okay My duanju review are getting slump due to various reasons, I watched many versions and this is wont be comparison, I'll only talk about this one as new version. Let's pretend i never watched another version since my memory are too hazy. But this drama is quite sweet and not too toxic like other version.

Gong Fang Ni as Younger sister is not bad and her costume was not to childish for me. Her character are still acceptable for me and she got some brains and not too spoiler brat. I quite not used to Lambo on Modern drama but i think his character was not too cold and feels more humane. Unfortunately their chemistry is still artificial for me. The Older sister and Younger Brother love story was quite fine and i was surprised by Yu Wen acting since its my first time seeing her in duanju.

The sister and brother's relationship, and the parents' scenes, while not numerous, are all very sweet! In this version, the mother finds out the father has been pretending all along, acting like a "white moonlight" (idealized love interest)! All three couples are very sweet and the misunderstand trop are not being dragged.

Recommended for everyone who liked sweet moment only.

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Still watchable despite chemistry was almost gone

I watched this drama years ago and this is another version from Charon-Liu Lange version. I need to confess i was quite liked this version but when i rewatch again i realized Chen Luxi but her expression is to stiff and her chemistry with Yang Yubin was somewhat below minimum. This version tends to be serious compared to first version but at least the good thing about this drama the child acting was not unbearable to watch..

The plot was quite meticulous until the "twist" part, they failed to execution the story and it feels like you build a card tower but you accidentally touch the middle part. and the tower was collapsed.

At least, i would recommended this drama to hardcore fans of the actors.

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Nice Try for making Office related drama but still unnecessary to make Sequel

I watched this because i quite like the first season even some of part were unrealistic but i can tolerate because it was rare on duanju drama didn't push the romance which is good for me who like to explore any genre. While first season focused on fake daughter real daughter trop the second season focused on after season 1 end—FL establish her own company and the "real" family called her for saving the company. I understand they make season 2 hoping to get raved as previous season even it was unnecessary to create sequel.

The first half continues the highlights of the first season, completely eliminating the excessive banter. The overall pacing is tighter, with intense clashes between the real world and the short drama world, perfectly capturing the feeling of the first episode. Unfortunately, the second half feels somewhat disjointed, as if the scriptwriter has changed. Having read the entire script, the biggest problem is that there's too much content, too many characters, and too much runtime, leaving insufficient groundwork for the supporting characters' storylines. The eldest brother is a typical incompetent CEO in short dramas, all talk and no action. His career is passable, but he lacks some memorable lines (I was really looking forward to him saying things like "I need all her information in 3 minutes" or "I'll bankrupt your XX family in 5 minutes").

The romance is excepted to be poorly developed, the character of Wen Rou isn't well-defined, and FL's solution—just 2-3 conversations—feels rushed. The second brother is probably the most successfully portrayed; a typical outlaw in short dramas, he learns his lesson after a few police calls. The third brother is a typical character who only cares about tokens, not people; there's too much pointless plot, initially portrayed as mysterious but ultimately useless. The character of Master Su is never well-defined and lacks the characteristics of a short drama. The villain is unconvincing, weak in both ability and intelligence, and lacks sufficient conflict with the FL. The lack of plot twists and turns severely diminishes the show's appeal. The plot regarding the interactions with the two female supporting characters is well-intentioned, but due to insufficient foreshadowing, the rescue, achieved solely through a few lines, feels somewhat farcical.

The final crisis, while attempting to portray the heroine's past acts of kindness as a reward, lacks sufficient impact. In summary, the main problem is that it tries to convey too much content, leaving insufficient time, and the plot and character development feel overly thin. The costumes, props, and sets are good, the visual quality is excellent, the filters are natural, and the original voice acting contributes to a pleasant viewing experience

It's neither outstanding nor terrible. Compared to typical short dramas, it offers a fresh perspective, but lacks compelling moments and a gripping plot, and still weaker in comparison to the first season. You can watch if you didnt mind of non romance drama.

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If i judge hard, i will miss this drama

I watched this because Yang Luoqian I really like her as an actress in short dramas because I find her quite approachable even some of her script are terrible but i still willing to watch it for her.

I haven't seen other version beside Zhang Chi-Yuyin. This drama leaned into character growth more than romance. I really like the plot and character design. This one emphasizes the spirit I admire most: free will. FL's family uses love as a cage, forcing her to learn various traditional female virtues and looking down on FL achievements.

FL isn't heartless; she has feelings for someone, but she always maintains her independence. FL wants to work for the family company, but her elders berate her, believing it's not something a woman should do. ML expresses his support and promises to protect her. In other dramas, wouldn't the female lead be grateful to the male lead? but in this drama FL really want to prove her own quality instead for help which is rare on duanju settings.

"My twenty-plus years of hard work are less effective than a single word from the ML" This sentence hits really hard. The female lead's mother and aunt, under the guise of "for your own good," instill traditional female virtues in her. FL feels anger and pity for their misfortune and lack of self-reliance and i feel related to her at this point.

The ending is good; ML respects FL's freedom of choice and rewrites his own destiny. The greatest feature of this drama is that it doesn't imbue male characters with charm, nor does it cover up the blind obedience of women to their parents or husbands.

Recommended if you want to see how real Male chauvinism affect female in aspect of life.

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