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personal fav drama ever.

my first drama + greatest drama i've ever seen. the aesthetic is so perfect (this drama is likely responsible for my addiction to 2000s taiwanese media, as niche of an interest as that is), the ost is so memorable, xiangqin is THE CUTEST portrayal of kotoko i've literally ever witnessed she is simply SO ADORABLE!!! i think i first watched this as a kid? maybe 12 or 13 or so, i was quite young so it definitely left an impact on me. this one gets rewatched frequently it's absolutely my comfort drama of all time. DEFINITELY watch if you're a fan of itakiss in any capacity, it's hands-down my fav adaptation of it, ugh just quit reading this review and watch it already, it's available for free on youtube with captions!

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watched this entirely in one day and felt insane for like a week afterwards.

gonna be 100% completely honest: i watched entirely because keum donghyun is in it and he was bias wrecking me SO BAD at the time and now he is in fact my epex bias and one of my ults. do with that what you will. kind of insane about that boy now he won't get out of my head, can't even watch this without giggling kicking my feel like a schoolgirl every time he is on screen oh it's Bad. didn't care too much for the main couple honestly? i liked jebi with the other guy or even with hanse (and THAT went nowhere smh) + no kiss kinda made some of it feel a little nothingburger at times and sometimes i kinda wished jebi would just be gay and kiss dami cuz even she would have been a better love interest than suoh. another thing i didn't really care for was the eating disorder plotline with dami, i really feel like it could have been left out and it left a bad taste in my mouth as someone who has struggled with that kind of thing myself. however, a very fun and quick watch, it made me feel a little bit crazy at times but that was definitely more donghyun's doing than anything else. especially when hanse like. signals to jebi that he knows she's from the real world in the most cryptic and terrifying way possible???? kinda set it up like he was going to be a threat or have some sort of villainous arc which i'm glad didn't happen because i fear i would have never recovered from that emotionally, i love it when such a sweet sweet person with such a friendly demeanor plays a character that is so sinister and conniving and unsuspecting, it's like the perfect recipe to make me fall head over heels in love. so yea i like keum a little bit.

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hatewatching gone wrong

i watched this because the male lead is so incredibly fine. and then i HATED the premise cuz why does nobody have an issue with the fact that HE IS IN LOVE WITH HIS SISTER i don't care if they're not actually related that's just ODD. but by time i got halfway thru it, i was like ok well we have to finish it now. and then i got attached to everybody????? especially when lin di came into the picture.
arguably the worst part about this aside from the massive elephant in the room was the fact that the rival girl had zero irredeemable qualities. like she felt so unrealistic, there's no way someone can be THAT obsessed with another person and have no other hobbies or interests or personality traits. i get we're supposed to dislike her, but man she could have been written better. and also yifeng's boss tryna be romantically involved with her just gave me mad ick the whole time idk.
6.5 out of 10 i'm just gonna settle for following ryan ren on instagram and fangirling over him that way instead of ever bothering to rewatch this. his face + zihui and diyin and mu visceral hatred for the plot were the only things that kept me watching honestly.

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