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I hate that the FL needed to have this experience to understand how Guan felt. It made her seem completely narcissistic and lacking in empathy.

It's not a romance drama it's a look at toxic people and their messed up relationships. But compelling and extremely well directed.

Bei/Liu Yuning is the one with the FL, Gong is in love with her but they're never in a real relationship.

I actually love it even though I think I hate most of the people in the story 😂 it's just so interesting to watch these messy people be messy all over each other. ETA: this drama definitely doesn't deserve a 7.1 if for no other reason than the directing is so creative and well done. The cinematography is fantastic my mind. The OST is great too.

She's wrong to speak to him that way but I think she's also exhausted by being the adult in the relationship and having to take on all the responsibility. Of all the situations in the drama I think this one is the most realistic, I've seen this dynamic in real life

He knew that the character didn't have a lot of screentime when he signed up for the project because it was the same in the manhua so don't feel too sorry for him. He decided to make this drama so he'd have a chance to work with an acclaimed director and even if the role isn't ideal his stardom led to the drama being released at all and doing as well as it has so it's a win for him in terms of image and marketability.

I'm so irritated that I can't access the final episodes without paying $7.99 and installing an app on my phone that has a 3.7/5 rating on the Google play store and complaints about people paying but not getting VIP access. At least with iQIYI you don't have to install the app to subscribe to VIP, it will allow you to subscribe through their web page. Tencent, you suck.

I created a discussion post on the cinematography of About Love. The visuals in this drama are absolutely stunning and feel more like an indie film than a Cdrama. Share your favorite images here: https://kisskh.at/discussions/754333-chan-nv/148952-the-cinematography-of-about-love

Thank you, love that you put all that together!

I thought he was one of the screenwriters on the series but I was wrong. But something I just found out is that the drama has nine screenwriters credited. That seems like a lot of people but I don't know how many screenwriters normally work on a drama.

I'm not surprised, it seemed like way too much plot to resolve in 26 episodes. I'll finish it this week, I don't like to watch more than 2 eps a day.

I understand why, the drama is about cheating and almost every single character does morally questionable things plus the main ship is problematic. These are not complaints, I'm eating it up, but your average drama watchers will hate it, especially if they are fans of Liu Yuning.

This is a drama about cheating, almost every single character is morally questionable, including the two leads, this is not a true romance, yes there's some good skinship but you may not enjoy it because of how awful some of the characters are.

No not a three day break noooooooo 😭😭 the only positive is I can be more relaxed about spoilers

Yes, both women are beautiful, intelligent and accomplished in their fields, what the hell are they doing pulling on that crusty carcass? They need to love themselves more.

LYN is technically the ML but has relatively little screen time, especially in the early episodes. You do see more of him later on. And yes, almost every character in the drama is unlikeable.

Not the main ML/Liu Yuning's character but almost everyone else yes, men and women

The director has nothing to do with it, it's the author of the original manhua

I actually think the behavior of the friends group is quite immature for people in their 30s. You see more of this in people who are in their early 20s, technically adults but don't have a lot of relationship experience and are kind of struggling to figure it out. In the manhua, Xiaoxi is in her early 20s and Bei is older than her so their relationship feels different and her behavior is more forgivable. Casting Olivia Wang, who is in her late 30s and older than Liu Yuning, really throws off the dynamic. Just by age alone her behavior feels more calculating and I think that's reinforced with her portrayal, which is kind of harsh and cold. Manhua Xiaoxi is more vulnerable.

Yu behaved poorly but it was because she was shouldering all of the financial responsibility for the marriage and feeling angry because Xiu is so passive and behaves like a child.

Xiu deserves a beating and to be thrown in the bin by both women. What a pathetic man for two women to fight over.

Luanluan was wayyyyyy out of line as Gong and Bei said. She took intimate conversations with Xiu and blasted them to the world to humiliate Yu even though LL is the one in the wrong for becoming involved with a married man. She's just as shitty a person as Xiu is.

Even though Xiu is the most culpable in this situation, he won't ever commit to LL even if Yu divorces him because he doesn't want to be in a relationship that requires him to shoulder more responsibility.

I've seen this dynamic play out in real life and the depiction in the drama is painfully accurate (minus the play of course, that's high melodrama)