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Beautifully put into bullet points.

I am sure there will be many like me who echo these thoughts.

This show was challenging because it managed to make the viewer feel empathy for ALL the characters.
It showed the complex pathways our heart navigates in relationships ..

I loved that the show managed to balance comedy with serious and Slice of Life with Magical ..

It was rich and worthy of many watches just to get to see the character arcs better .

I LOVED the OST too

excellent summary of themes.

I LOVED this show to death .. so sensitively portrayed .. terrific in terms of balancing the serious with the comic .. the slice of life with the 'magical'.

a tour de force!!

ROFL .. I did my 3 rd watch .. and might do another one in the future.

This and Jealousy Incarnate I am on rewatch loops.

BUT my BIGGEST REWATCH EVER in the 3 year history of Kdrama was Lighter and Princess.

Check out that bobbing discussion thread ;-D

ROFL .. yup .. I am so happy to see my tribe of AMO lovers

ROFL .. yup .. I am so happy to see my tribe of AMO lovers

5 stars to you for putting it out here.

I LOVED ALL 3.
Although Liberation Notes is on hold - its dark and I need to be in a sunny place to be able to sink into it's melancholic heart

She is feeling like a 'slut' with the way he is treating her emotions and declarations and confessions .. someone who is pursuing a man who has broken up a deep relationship and harmed her ex is now madly in love with him .. she is feeling eff-ed and wants him to see how "slutty" his refusal to acknowledge her is making her feel.

All he had to do (as his friend suggested) is hug her and tell her he loves her desperately too (which he eventually comes to realize and SAY ALOUD .. in the hospital scene - that he'd 'break up her marriage AGAIN and be condemned if it would lead her into his arms'

Some of us romantics "get that" feeling he is feeling and get that "shitty feeling" she is feeling when she abuses herself and shows up like a 'slut'

Not sure I made sense.
;-p

I just checked your watchlist.

There is SUCH a strong overlap of shows that you and I liked and rated highly ..

I'll take a chance and say - give it a go .. at least 4 episodes .. and then decide.

The show had me at HELLO .. it had one of the BEST 'media-res' beginnings I have seen - what a hook to pull you into the show :-P

Agree with you

you resonate with me sista.

I laughed and rollicked my way through it too.
I followed her after falling in love with her character in Dr Romantic.
She is one of my TOP fave KDrama actresses.

And I am 100% in sync with you about how much I LOVED the character she portrayed .. quirky - forthright - hilarious - unafraid - give it all once she has made up her mind.

Her Mom had me rofling. She and her mom had me Rofl-ing

Have rewatched thrice already

Check out KDrama : Fight for my Way .. Park Seo Jun and Kim Ji Won are a deadly goofy couple with incredible comedic timing and chemistry ..

<3
GOSH!! I thought the same way.
It was such a complex relationship .. it dared to explore the grey zones of it .. and how REAL it felt inspite of the dramatic 'otherworldly' stuff in it ..

A brilliant take on the 'destiny' angle ..

One of the STEAMIEST KISS scenes in Kdrama - right up there with the one in "Jealousy Incarnate" and "Me Also Flower" ..

LOL .. sister soul .. I LOVED it and watched it thrice already ;-p

Check out (hope it helps)
- Jealousy Incarnate (aka Dare to Dream)
- Rain or Shine (aka Just Between Lovers)
- Fireworks of my Heart
- Hidden Love
- The Youth Memories

- Lighter and Princess (this show kills the taste for all other dramas for MANY Drama fans - so beware. But it also received a LOT of HATE .. See how you react to it)

☮️🕊️✌🏽️
Just ignore and scroll past 🤗

Oh I was looking for this on Youtube .. can you share this song's cover by CFY here?
Some of my friends are not on IG and I wanted them to listen to it on YouTube

Noona romance themed Dramas I did like :

- My Lovely Sam Soon (Korean - the undoubtable classic and mold breaker)
- Something in the Rain (Korean)
- Falling into You (Chinese)
- Crazy for You (2007 - Korean)
- Our Blues (the Kim Woo Bin - Han Ji Min couple)
- Search: WWW (Korean .. this one is on hold .. check out the solid office politics here and sismance)
- Find Yourself (Chinese - on hold also - at least it's hilarious and promises a rom-com ride)
- Race (Korean .. an ex-Noona storyline is there .. similar to SBMS .. but FAR more substance and realism and crackle to that)

Agree

Totally shallow .. in the moment of discontentment response .. and that's why I like this portion of MDL .. you can express raw emotions right off the bat of disappointment :-D

Do check out Ever Night Season 1

;-p
I hope someday, someone clicks and enjoys a sync .. I do often .. great place to find Drama Match, Drama Journey Buddies.

I'd also steer clear of and not read an 'essay-sized' reply either if it didn't click with me or didn't have the time to read :-D

Peace!

🫣 Duìbùqî

I know it sounds a bit ridiculous to discard a show at less than an episode (you caught me there pal 😝)

But I'll explain why I reacted that way to the show AND why I "vented" on the discussion thread.

I am new to CDrama began last month only, after avoiding it for 3 years. Why did I avoid?
- My few trailer views of some random popular shows in the early days, when I was first introduced to the world of Asian
Drama (Covid lockdown years starting in 2020 May) was not favorable, vis a vis the treasure trove I was uncovering on KDrama.
- I couldn't adjust to the "sounds and phonetics" of Mandarin after getting used to Korean and catching a lot of the language

Last month though I hit a TERRIBLE KDrama drought 🌞
and this show on CDrama kept pinging on my Netflix search Algo : Hidden Love

I was bowled over by the delicately crafted, detailed arc of a relationship story that was hitting all my parameters of brilliance : script - dialogue -acting-direction- story - plot device - mise-en-scene within the genre of "pure romance".
It surpassedthe best of KDrama in that category, in fact I hadn't even encountered this theme and style.

After that I got damn lucky two more times - IN A ROW. 😅🤪😅
with Fireworks in My Heart and then Lighter and Princess.

If you check my watchlist you will see that I am almost a 200 plus KDrama completed veteran PLUS if you add my Dropped shows (163 😉) and those on hold (35 because I haven't made up my mind on them or shelved for a rainy day).. Then I have some 400 dramas in 3 years under my belt. Therefore, my experience with what works for me and what doesn't is pretty "fine-tuned" such that I can "smell" what will work for me / what can't be rescued even after a few episodes / how many eps I can test run it for / what is just a "bad mood" day reaction to show that I can return to later.

So dropping SBMS at Ep 1 was a decision I could easily make for this Drama (honest to goodness I wanted to SO SO LOVE this.. Esp for Xiao Jhan).

As for why I ranted here 😬🫢
Well this is a place where I find shoulders to weep on and crib and bitch in the hopes of finding my tribe 🤓 when a show let's me down ( as this one did) or a show pisses me off etc. It's my emotional response holding place mainly... ZERO intention to upset anyone.. But FULL intention to hear from those who have a different opinion of it and carry the convo forward 😊

I noticed from your watchlist that Fireworks in My Heart and
then Lighter and Princess were dropped and rated very low 🤓

And that's perfectly fine.

You and I both rated
The Youth Memories >9 (a 9.5 for me)
The Red Sleeves >9 (a 10 for me)

You dropped King the Land while I watched 2/3 rds and then put on HOLD (might even drop it - just curious to know what happened to JunHo character's mom ;-p). It was so much fluff .. but it had two superb actors - so for meet was like flipping through a GLOSSY MAG. Not a fan of Yoona .. however in this show she has spine and zero aegyo-primed acting (I find that intolerable in FLs).

You LOVED Joy of Life.
I AM currently watching and LOVING IT .. just started (on Ep 4) .. to cleanse my system of the let down of SBMS .
JOL's sparky dialogues, crisp editing, FANTASTIC sets / costumes / plot / cinematography .. beats ALL those other Wuxia / Xanxia tales hollow .. it's sharp and classy till now.
Most of the Wuxia shows have pretty awful CGI / sets .. a plastic .. waxy look to it and flat dialogue driven stories .. I have short listed a few that break the mold and promise better.

I LOVED "EVER NIGHT" season 1 (didn't watch season 2 because Chen Fei Yu dropped out .. as did many others from the show in season 2. CFY WAS Ning Que as Irene Song was Sang Sang.

Have a look and see if that clicks for you. I enjoyed it for the great cinematography .. sets .. superlative acting and cracky dialogues, character clashes are smartly done, great pacing and a complex portrayal of characters (CFY excels in that area).

Overall we have very different taste in Drama, but it's great that we enjoyed some in common :-)

LASTLY .. I will retrieve SBMS from DROPPED to HOLD .. and use the HANDSOME Xiao Zhan to coax me back to watch a few more episodes .. on a TRULY DRY DAY.
In the meantime I am off to enjoy JOY of LIFE (literally .. it's SO SO SLICK .. Slick as The Youth Memories)