littleberry09

yeah you would have thought it should have been 34 or 36 episodes like a usual Cdrama. most even go up to 40. even when I started watching 32 seemed a little too less for this genre. But I think they only wanted to stick to the in-game world and not the modern one

he was incredibly good looking in his modern attire and I still need to watch Moonlight. isn't it also with Esther?

her thinness is another thing I noticed too, again not straight away just like you. But she wears some very nice dresses as the drama progresses and you can see her arms are so scarily thin.

I also watched Everyone Loves Me after having repeatedly watched this drama. I came away thinking ELM is like a much more realistic version of Love 020. In this one, he only approaches her and loves her because he accidently finds out her identity, hacks her laptop, and even stalks her round campus - Xiao Nai is made to be this 'genius mind' able to cross any limit.
But in ELM, Gu Xun is a lot more of normal intelligence and realistic events never let him find out who his online crush is. He rejects FL in order to stay loyal to his online crush. Unlike Xiao Nai he can't do anything that probably sounds illegal and stalkery in order to find out who she really is in real life.

I have rewatched this so many times, and I've come to the conclusion Xiao Nai's character is the most unrealistic ever written but I just LOVED it. His stalking tendencies and all, I could never bring myself to dislike this drama. I did have problems with the 2nd couple, but I mostly skipped their scenes on rewatches.
plus the brilliant OST ❤️

This is my favourite brain rot drama. I usually wouldn't like something so dumb and clichéd but this was surprisingly entertaining. Minor issues here and there, but it's so fabulously out of the early 2010's that I can laugh and overlook it (FL's hairline and brows aside haha)

Thankfully this wasn't early on in my Kdrama watches so I wasn't turned off, I have plenty of favourites amongst dramas that are ACTUALLY good.
I also have a few 'brain rot' dramas which I enjoy, just not this one. It's like all my most hated tropes in 1 drama. I also don't understand it when people act like Kdramas peaked in 2009 with this drama lol.

they make it clear they end up happy together, so it's not that 'open.' Warning that it's a bit rushed, and that's why there's some unsatisfactory feelings going round, but it's nowhere near sad.

they reveal in the real world that the novel had a satisfying and happy ending, so he did rewrite the story as Miao Miao wanted her favourite author to do.

I agree, atleast it was happy, so it wasn't trash. i would still keep it at 9/10.
but the fact they don't even show his face when Miao Miao sees him for the first time on the real world was still weird ngl.

I felt this too, like we should have had 5 episodes of them in the real world. Maybe in the real world they also come across the characters in the game like Mu Yao and Lui Fuyi (ofcthey wouldn't remember angthing about it). they hinted at that when showing Cuicui and his grandfather, so I felt they could have given us a lot more.
But I also think they just wanted to keep it to the game world only that's why it ended so soon in the real world ☹️

I just finished this drama and WOW was I surprised with the big twist in the final episode. In hindsight we had the little hints at the beginning, and it totally fit that Mu Sheng/Ziqi was the author's self insert character. The author creates a half Demon character who destroys himself and the world falls to pieces due to his own sad life story.
Seeing Cuicui and his grandfather at the end made me soo happy 😭, although I wanted more from Miao Miao and Fu Zhu at the end 🙁. I know the story was ultimately about the fantasy story, but it just left you wanting more of them being reunited and happy after all the agony they had to face in the game.

Exactly, his mother was a complete witch and was even emotionally abusing him along with how she treated FL's family. I hate when the ML is complete under the parents control too, and he is completely unable to protect her. LMH played basically the same role in The Heirs too. in dramas like this the FL has NO REASONABLE explanation for falling in love with a guy like that.

I wish I knew this because I watched it last year when I was older (in my 20s) and it was just downright awful. I can't believe this drama is so loved and popular. I even tried the Chinese version Meteor Garden and it was just as bad. the ML is just straight up toxic and not worth rooting for. Don't even have anything positive to say 😕

In general this is a good drama but I don't think it's for everyone. I liked a lot of things including the main leads, the OST and chemistry. But sometimes the episodes dragged (especially when she is alone) and it's hard to look past the ML's problematic character. Much love to Arthur Chen and Zhang Jing Yi though ❤️

This drama didn't age well and I think you are more likely to love it if you had the nostalgia of watching it as a younger person back in the day of it's release (2009). I watched it as an adult in 2023 and eventhough I expected clichés and toxicity, it was still so cringey and red flagged. The character Gu Jun Pyo is completely dislikeable and has no redeemable qualities, it was just impossible to root for him and Jan Di when he was literally her bully. In my opinion she and the 2ML had a better bond in the 2nd half of the drama. I also came to like the 2nd couple more. Overall I would have rated it a 0, maybe just 1 point for Lee Min Ho's crazy hair :)