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I appreciated the beautiful locations, like the boat at the beginning or Budapest (not so used usually), the soundtrack well adapted to the scenes, a fantastic cast always well dressed, a singular plot.
Choices, sacrifices, emotions, misunderstandings... all in one.

It all starts when Xi Yi wants to propose to his girlfriend Anna on a cruise boat, but the girl thought well to put her career before her life as a couple and agrees to go dancing in Paris and leaves him alone on the ship. On the other hand, Jia Xin, this simple girl spends all her money to offer this cruise to her boyfriend, but she will be disappointed to find out he was a liar and cheating on her with his lover. So these 2 find themselves consoling each other. They will later discover that they are legally married and that she is also pregnant. He loves Anna, but he is also a responsible man who takes care of others and has decided to live with his "wife" until she has the baby, then divorce and be with Anna.
But... Months pass and the time will come to choose between these two women: one, his first love, a selfish girl who puts her career before him, or the other girl who carries his child in her womb and does everything for him.
When he chooses the second, the first fights strenuously to win back his love.
Jia Xin feels guilty for having "stolen" her boyfriend.
Something bad happens and this boy is left alone, only this so-called "friend" by his side and the memory of his great lost love. A very sad moment.
After 3 years, when he goes on a business trip to Hungary, he will find himself face to face with his ex-wife and try to reconnect with their lost relationship. Very difficult with the memory of the past and two friends like Anna and Dyland, false and manipulative.

What can you learn from this story? If you are a very kind person, people take advantage of you and most importantly, you can't love someone on command.

I liked the funny and combative couple of friends, as well as the grandmother version of cupid. Above all I loved the character of Wang Xi Yi, a man who is upright, sensitive and so in love that he wears his wedding ring even after 3 years since he was dumped. A man who channeled his pain by continuing to write the diary, making her plans come true, refusing to sign the divorce papers.
I was moved when he confessed to her that he had also suffered and had hard times and that she wasn't the only one who had pain. She has always been altruistic but in that case she has been 100% selfish.

I was afraid that 36 episodes were a lot but I watched them in just 5 days, I was really addicted to this series.
A small note: I would have avoided putting the image of their wedding under the opening titles, it ruined the surprise.
Then I would have avoided putting Anna among the wedding guests. The way she behaved, a simple "Sorry" was not enough at all compared to the pain she caused. Even if they are good, I don't think I would have forgiven her.
Instead, I found the final scene on the ship to be the right conclusion, like a circle closing.

NB: The Eternal Love (2017) has the same two lead actors. News from August 2024 says that after 7 years they will also get married in real life.

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Doctors possessed by ghosts in order to save lives

This "guru" of a doctor has an accident and goes into a coma. Having to stay close to his body, he will wander around the hospital and with his invisibility he will be able to discover various secrets and will continue to operate by borrowing the body of a young resident.
At a certain point you wonder when he will wake up because other patients wake up or die while he continues to sleep.
At the fourteenth episode, still nothing. A little impatient, I had to wait until the last episode.
These two doctors... What a team! I liked the cast and the happy ending. A lot of open heart surgery... not recommended for sensible people.

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Paparazzi

There are so many creepy situations. What is the limit? These paparazzi take photos to threaten people and ask them for money not to publish them.
But sometimes they stumble upon violent crimes where justice prevails over profit.
The common thread of the whole series, this poor guy who does everything to save his daughter. Every day he faces dangers and risks his life to earn money to pay for treatment and a new heart for the daughter he hasn't seen since he was framed.
Of course, politicians, prosecutors and law enforcement always come out of it well. Of course, I'm being sarcastic.
I didn't like this environment of predators of news and scandals, without morals and willing to do anything, even playing with other people's lives. It probably corresponds to reality, but it's shocking.
He as a CEO is too awkward, I preferred him as a photographer.

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"pepper girl" and masked hero - search of the Biluotian treasure

This girl who has lived for years and years hidden begging with her uncle, when she is found by the "bad guys" runs away and is sought and fought over by many. Everyone wants her... some dead... some alive!
It is thus discovered that she is the divine maiden and together with a sacred object and a map, she would allow one to obtain this treasure of Biluotian so coveted to become masters of the world.
On her path she meets a masked knight who will save her on several occasions. It happens that he is also the son of the seventh prince who refuses to welcome her into the palace, as she is his alleged "step-sister".
As you might expect,they fall in love each other.

What I liked: the actor Vin Zhang but also the sketches between him and her have always been fantastic.

What I didn't like: the quality of the scenes which were sometimes blurry, the cliché that everyone who dies has blood dripping from their mouth, the last episode where almost everyone dies impaled like skewers and the ending which wasn't up to par with a 51-episode series.

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The mystery of this student, nicknamed witch, leads this classmate to study statistics. He will sacrifice his whole life to discover the variables for the accidents and deaths that surround her.
For some, this obsession of his could compare him to a "stalker" for others only the fact that he is in love with her and wants to find a way to get close to her without dying.
The ending, a bit like "Crash landing on you", in Austria instead of Switzerland, but it reminded me a lot.
If I were her, I would have immediately gone to an exorcist rather than live a solitary life.
I honestly watched this series for the main character, Park Jin Young, singer of GOT7.

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Great Jung Kyung Ho, I like this actor. It comes across as authentic and grandiose especially in the monologues.
What I think was missing is the couple's chemistry (I didn't see them together well).
The plot and OST of the series are nothing special, but several serious questions are raised. For example: defamation.
People who, with their judgment, raise or lower their thumb, changing people's destinies. In this case, these terrible meddling mothers who even stick their noses into the professor's private affairs. But with what right, I say!
The bad thing is that unfortunately it often happens in the real life of Korean VIPs.
Another problem is the "survival" of students at school who are subjected to strong pressure from their families and have to face tough exams which leads them to exhaustion and some even to suicide.
And finally, a life lesson: be careful about placing too much trust in people. You can never say you know someone well.

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A general has to marry a girl, but she runs away and her sister takes her place. He was very furious with her but little by little, after discovering that this girl was his savior when he was a young prisoner he falls in love with her. It's nice to see their relationship grow.
But the convoluted story, all these poisonings and the length of the series (40 episodes) make it a bit tiring.
Above all, I didn't like the last 3-4 episodes because he changes his attitude, teams up with the bad guy, gets divorced and doesn't bat an eyelid at people who died unjustly.
Even if it turns out that he secretly acts on behalf of the empress to set a trap for the villain, the price was high and made his beloved suffer.
All this, however, will give him the opportunity to discover the truth about his father's death and will rehabilitate his family's name. After that he does everything to win her back.

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3 no-sibling

Beautiful relationship of these 3 "no-sibling", so different but so close and protective each other.
The meaning of family in this case is a choice of a "protective community" and not blood relationship.
A truly touching drama that made me cry for the difficult situations these abandoned kids found themselves in.
I appreciated how they gave continuity to the daughter's character, who was strong and determined when she was little with a predilection for one brother (the little girl was so cute) and she also had this character trait when she grew up.
I like hear dialect slang with different inflections.
I loved seeing the father who raised 3 children as his own.
I love the cast in generally.

On the contrary, it was a bit fantasy that after 10 years in contemporany come back the mother with a new child (a little sister), the other mother to pay the debt and also an unknown father.
Then the two boys left on the same day but even after 10 years they return on the same day?!
I hated the mother who pointed the finger at her poor son, again and again, even 10 years after abandoning him. Crazy! A toxic person.

PS: Bae Hyeon Seong looks a lot like Park Bo Gum.

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4 Japanese actresses and 4 Korean actors will have to undergo 6 different auditions all focused on kissing.
The language is a big obstacle but with the help of the translator they manage pretty well to communicate.
It's a bit of a shame that their eyes seem to be on the phone and communication times are getting longer.
The real problem started when they started to have feelings for each other and have to act out kissing scenes.
Considerations that I made during the broadcast, I thought that women were superior in acting to men.
The 5 observers didn't do much and were also poorly dressed.
Finale, relationships or not, they put them on a plane and send them back to Japan.
3 couples were formed:
-1st, he now seems in love with the second and instead goes back to his ideas and pairs up with the first,
- 2nd couple, I didn't like at all, he didn't even move and waited for her to go to him, then the kiss, no comment, I would have punched him
-3rd couple, he's cute and shy and writes her a letter in Japanese
Did they really maintain their relationship or was it just a show?
I don't know what the experiment was aimed at but it doesn't seem like a great success to me

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