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The male characters in this show are just awful.

Other than maybe Mr. Xia, all the male characters in this drama are just awful in one way or another. Including and especially the first, second and even third male leads! The 3rd lead is just simply a child who has confused admiration for Gu Bai Zhi (the SFL) with love and is too immature to respect her choices so just keeps hanging around hoping Gu Bai Zhi will magically start to have reciprocal feelings for him. The 2nd male lead , Jiang Yucheng, is more complex, but ultimately is also childishly selfish and a coward. He obviously still has strong feelings for GBZ but is too scared of the emotions so refuses to resolve them with her and instead keeps running away. He feels 'relazed' with Chu Li and confuses that comfort with love. But he feels so relaxed _because_ she has no weight on his heart. His emotions aren't really threatened by anything she does so he's only gravitated towards her because she is a naturally safe emotional harbor. In this sense, he's a jerk because he is using her as a safe place. And even though he obviously knows that she has feelings for someone else, he doesn't respect her choices because he insists on continuing to pursue her. Finally, we get to the First ML, Zhou Chuan. He's just a wreck of a human. He's obviously traumatized by his upbringing into being an emotional coward who, just like his father, hides behind a shield of constant sarcasm and pettiness. It's just a made up act and not the full, 'real' him. But it is the manifestation he presents constantly to the FL, Chu Li. And it makes him a completely absurdly unlikable person. He has another shield, the Mr. Fox online-identity and he talks to her like a normal human being so we know he's capable. But once the latter identity is exposed and that shield is gone, will he be able to finally learn how to open himself up and communicate in real life to Chu Li without the absurd, constant sarcasm, criticism and pettiness? His father never learned. Chu LI's patience with Zhou Chuan's behavior to this point is almost as absurdly unrealistic as his behavior.

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little Jane is a menace to himself he always…

little Jane is a menace to himself he always gets angry at things that i find irrelevant while missing the main reason to be pissed. & i am sorry but his showing up with a new guy every new moon is kinda gross. don't just bring anyone to meet the family - u bring over someone truly important. same with his somehow ending up as Dan's bf - like r u kidding me?!? even if at that moment he wanted to hurt Jane Patrick & make sure he stopped hounding him. the sec he was alone with Dan he should've apologized for using him & tell him he wasn't in the right space of mind to start dating. but nope he just glossed over that whole issue & went with the flow - even though he knows he isn't over Jane Patrick & it would be a while for that to happen. but bottom line he considers Dan as a good friend, nothing more. would save him all the following awkward situation's - but little Jane needs to be humbled & embarrassed at every turn i guess. ********************************************************************so the fact that his own brother forced him to kneel in front of Jane Patrick, begging for a favor was hilariously ironic. even though if i was in his place i wouldn't be going to meet some thugs behind a hospital - i would be calling my parents & we would deal with that sh*t as a family. WTF should i shoulder all that sh*t all on my own??? as is that brother has been the odd one out in that family from the start of this. & his parents enabling as turned him into the spoilt brat he is, so they as the adults in this equation should be the ones to deal with their middle child & the thugs he has "invited" into their family - sorry not sorry. but then no BL so it is what it is...

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Two Pianists, Two Broken Pasts, One Incredible Bond

I genuinely did NOT expect to love this drama so much. Music and pianist dramas are usually not my thing, but after just two episodes I was completely hooked and ended up bingeing it in one sitting.The opening was EPIC, from the intense piano performance in Prague to the shocking kidnapping scene. The production quality is seriously impressive, and I was never bored for a second.Song Kang as Kang Bi O and Jun Young Lee as Choi Jeong Yo are the heart of this drama. One comes from wealth and enormous family pressure, while the other comes from poverty and a painful childhood. They are completely different, yet both are carrying so much trauma. Their rivalry slowly turning into genuine friendship and bromance is EVERYTHING. The chemistry, eye contact and the way they secretly care for each other had me screaming.What surprised me most is that this isn't just a drama about music. It deals with family pressure, poverty, bullying, ambition, trauma, friendship and growing up. Even though I know absolutely nothing about classical music, every time they played the piano my heart was racing.My only small criticism is that Song Kang and Jun Young Lee are playing 17 year old students despite being 32 and 29 in real life, so they definitely look much more mature than high schoolers But their acting and chemistry completely made me forget about it.10/10. One of my favourite K dramas this year already. If you love rivalry, bromance, emotional stories, childhood connections and beautiful high quality production, PLEASE give this one a chance.

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Somewhere…someone…in time

The trope of time travel is nothing new, but creating a convincing love story across time can be a writer’s nightmare. For me, the bar was set by Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour’s Somewhere in Time…a tragic yet beautiful romance carried by an unforgettable soundtrack and the mystery of an old photograph.I Feel You Linger in the Air enters through a similar doorway: an old house, an old photograph, and an inexplicable feeling connecting the present to the past. What first draws me to a great script is its premise…the “what if” that persuades my pragmatic mind to suspend disbelief. Then come the editing, production, and the director’s ability to draw genuine emotions from the actors. From its opening episode, this series already understands that atmosphere is not merely decoration…it is part of the story.Time-travel romances rarely promise happy endings. Love may transcend time, but two people from different eras are like oil and water…destined to touch, yet unable to remain together. That is what makes writing such a story so difficult. But in the hands of a gifted writer, impossibility becomes beautiful, and pain becomes proof that the love existed at all. Time may carry the person away…but somehow, you still feel them lingering in the air.Thanks to the discussions of @Lynnea and @NLE, I was introduced to this series.

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Looks like a light rom-com in fictional world. Just what I need!

I've wanted to check this one out for so long, and finally couldn't resist the itch. Not sure yet if I will continue right away, though, but this gives off a light rom-com vibe which could be an easy watch and something I need. 🙂‍↕️Both of Zhao Lusi's characters are pure chaos — the fictional third princess and the author herself. But that just adds to the comedy, in a good way. 😏I like that the setting is a female-dominant city, which is unlike anything I've seen in C-dramas before. The dynamics with reversed gender roles will be interesting to watch. And I am already excited for this enemies-to-lovers trope! 🤭 My only concern along the way will probably be if this is all just a dream of Chen Xiaoqian's and she wakes up at the end. 🤨P.S. Sad that Han Shuo doesn't have Ding Yuxi's beautiful voice. 😔

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i loke this ，I’m having fun

okay ，that’sa lot to end the episode withowwkfiwjanxn but i liked this episode. fujita is a great character to prove acchan’s pessimism wrong with. i liked meeting acchan’s friends a lot ，she’s a great unlikeable fharacter. i did briefly theoriZe that she was a possible former student of akane but then i remembered shewas at the—welcome party dinner—& then i went back to my first suspect kirisawa. that was basically confirmed this episode that they have this connection ，now it’s just a matter of whether she feels guilt or debt to akane ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆　　 ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆i quite like how the students participate in the episodes.they have this sense of completion at the end of this episode & join this budding group to look out for the next of them. i predict that boy with the glasses is the assailant ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆　　 ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ they’re also really great actors they feel so authentic & i completely missed the fact that this is junior high. i was thinking they were referring to junior high in past tense but like ，no these are middle+schoolers ($(#("(#(# which is a sirprisng change of pace from the high+school student dramas I’ce seen. this is definitely one of the better ones｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆　　 ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ the students are good ，& so is the faculty. i like kirisawa & i lvoe kitayama ，this unyielding optimist is so pleasant to see for a change & he really throws himself in there. everypony’s so well+rounded & I’m scared byt i have a bit of faith in how they’ll handle the corporal punishment in the snext episode ，they’ve done a great job so far.

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before anything, if i was little Jane i would've…

before anything, if i was little Jane i would've bailed the sec Jane Patrick said that Jui chick deserved what she was getting, as is dude is turning out to be too much of a Pandora's box for anyone normal to handle - too many shady dealing's & secrets.... but i don't agree with little Jane always saying "ur lying to me" as that isn't the case, they haven't known each other long enough for them to know everything about each. they just in the getting to know/talking stage. u can't sum up ur life in a few words & give ur freakin CV on the 1st date or even in a month's worth of dating - that isn't how dating & getting to know someone works. so i think it isn't a valid argument to make - but i for sure would say dating Jane Patrick seems a very complex thing & is too much for me handle, would rather bail while i aint in too deep. which then would be the end of this BL lol so i guess we get what we get. well at least i got another interesting toxic BL to watch lol *********************************************************************side note: i found it kinda hilarious (& sad - depending from who's i'm looking at this) here Put was ready sacrifice his life for little Jane - he confessed his love &yet it wasn't even mildly acknowledged by little Jane - that's whack.

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