wintersweet

I don't mind a fluffy gamer romance drama even if it has some eye-rolling and teeth-gritting parts. The King's Avatar was OK and so was Falling Into Your Smile. This one is terrible. It gets a pity two stars for the potential it started out with, good casting, and one of the background romances, but it completely blew all of my initial goodwill. I was excited for a CS major FL, and thought this drama might outdo the other two, but the way they handled her personal character arc was abysmal. Maybe the fact that The King's Avatar and Falling Into Your Smile are more recent has something to do with the gross gender politics in Love O2O, which is from 2016? Still, I don't feel like that's much of an excuse. Honestly can't believe that women co- produced/directed/wrote this. (It's got 3 screenwriters, which might explain some of its incoherence to its own setup.) I hear that the novel is better and the Japanese remake is worse, but haven't tried either. Rewatch value is not just 0 but -1 because I wish I hadn't watched it.

Yang Yang sure has nice eyebrows though!