Reviews

One of the most underrated BLs currently airing.

My Romance Scammer is easily one of the most underrated BLs currently airing. The actors are doing an incredible job bringing these characters to life—each one with their own agenda, motivations, and internal conflicts that slowly unravel as the story progresses.
What makes this show stand out is the subtlety in the performances. The actors capture the smallest emotional details beautifully. Their inner struggles are clear without ever feeling over-the-top, allowing the character growth to unfold in a very natural and believable way.
The story does a wonderful job exploring characters who are stuck in situations shaped by their past, slowly coming to terms with the possibility of a better future. What may have started as a calculated plan toward happiness begins to shift as they realize that what they thought they needed may not actually be what they want anymore.
That journey of growth is portrayed in such a thoughtful way that viewers can easily see parts of themselves reflected in the characters. Maybe not in such dramatic circumstances, but everyone has experienced working toward something they thought they needed—only to grow and realize that what they truly wanted may have been there all along.
For me, this is one of the best shows of 2026 so far, and it deserves far more attention than it’s currently getting.

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Rebellion with the production team.

When I first saw the trailer, I thought this show would be top quality. It looked like it had everything I enjoy: complex relationships, a big cast, and many story arcs.
The first ten episodes were good and gave me hope. But later, the editing and direction started to bother me. The cinematography felt weak, almost like it was shot on a phone, and not in a good way.
The story itself was strong. The bird clan, red emperor, fox clan, dragon clan, demons, and cultivation—these ideas together could have made the show amazing. But the storytelling wasn’t smooth, and most plots felt dragged out. Only one storyline gave me real excitement.
The actors did well. Jing Tian’s acting was powerful enough to carry the drama, and Ling He showed real devotion in his role. They gave life to the script even when the production didn’t.
For me, the main problem was poor execution and low budget. The show had the right ingredients but didn’t use them well. Maybe I feel this way because I prefer dark, emotional plots, high-budget dramas, and scripts that keep viewers hooked without wanting to change the channel.

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When Love Meets Reality

Once We Were Us follows two former lovers who unexpectedly reunite on a flight to Korea ten years after their breakup. Through flashbacks, the film reconstructs the evolution of their relationship—from youthful university romance to the moment reality finally caught up with them.

The story itself is fairly conventional, but the film finds its real strength in the performances of Moon Ga-young and Koo Kyo-hwan. Their chemistry feels natural and grounded, not only emotionally but physically as well. Small gestures of intimacy—hugs, touches, casual closeness—help the relationship feel believable in a way many romantic dramas struggle to achieve.

Interestingly, the film also reveals something about Moon Ga-young as an actress. For years she has often appeared somewhat restrained in K-dramas, but here it becomes clear that the rigidity may have come more from the format than from her abilities. In this film she feels noticeably freer and more natural.

What ultimately sets the story apart is the reason behind the breakup. There is no dramatic betrayal or tragic event. Instead, the relationship slowly collapses under something far more common: financial instability and the emotional toll it brings.

Because of that, Once We Were Us ends up feeling less like a classic romance and more like a reflection on how time, pressure, and economic reality can reshape even the strongest relationships.

Sometimes love is real.
But life can still weigh more.

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Waste of time

The story started off really well and the plot was actually interesting. Baby woo-joo is so adorable and probable the only good part of the show. The thing that got really annoying was the unnecessary second lead. Genuinely it was the most ridiculous add in the show, not only that but he was the first love and then became her teams leader. Every kdrama fans know that that’s a perfect main character relation but nope it was the second lead that got it. And the writers gave basically majority of the romance that yk, the main leads have, to the sec lead and the female lead. She also was honestly annoying, like she wanted baby woo-joo but kept abandoning him with the male lead. The main leads romance was not romancing, like they didn’t really connect with their scenes. Their romance was barely there. It got so frustrating that I had to drop the show bc why are they treating the second lead like he’s the main character??? On the plus side, woo-joo and his uncle (the male lead) had such a cute relationship!! I was going to just keep watching for them but I couldn’t do it. overall it was a waste of good plot. Like the writers could’ve actually cooked with this plot but they messed up

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PURELY BEAUTIFUL~

An innocent storied-beautiful masterpiece.
This was such a meaningful drama.

I felt like home watching this one. It was so calming.

Fang MuYang....Fang MuYang..... had the entire drama together. We all need a Fang MuYang in our lives. I mean, he's flawed. Yes. But he's like the one in a million.

The stroy was just amazing. It just thought me so many things in the most subtle way possible.
I'm so moved with the message this drama passed on to me,you and all of us.
The drama, makes me realise how important the present is, how important patience and persistence is and nevertheless how importance family ties are relationships are.

And yes. Speacial mentions are the MEN IN THIS DRAMA.

ALL MEN IN THIS DRAMA AS ABSOLUTE GEMS from Fei Mingde to Fei Ting to Qu Hua to Fang Qianyuan to Fang MuYang.... they were such amazing husbands, amazing individuals.
These characters with the other female ones gave deeper meaning to this drama. I genuinely appreciate the casting.

And yes, Chen Feiyu did wonders with this drama. I was flat a hundred times for his smile. And Sun Qian was cute tooo.

For me, the story, the casting all were a blast.


Please please please watch it. You WILL love it.

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Nostalgia mains served with a side of morality and a sweet romance desert

This is a nostalgic review of the birth of modern China and the principles that underpin it. I found it an interesting watch, not least because I can remember the fall of the Gang of Four and the change of direction that followed it. It was a time when the West and China began to reconfigure their relationship.

The drama takes place across four years and illustrates the changing times very clearly. If you were ever in doubt about what direction China was trying to move in, then this drama makes it abundantly clear. It is a sanitised version of history, preserving the sincerity and showing that if you stray from the intended path, either physically, mentally or morally, you will deservedly crash and burn. But then, that’s not just a theme/style for Chinese drama, it’s pretty universal imo. All countries have the tendency to sweeten the difficulties of the past for a bit of uplifting propaganda. It’s called nostalgia.

All the hallmarks of a Chinese romance drama are there. It sticks close to a semblance of reality; moves at a tortoise pace; has modest but determined women; soft and supportive men; lots of family drama; plots that leave you in no doubt of what the outcome will be at any given moment; clear lines of demarcation between the goodies and the baddies, who without fail will either reform or get their deserved comeuppance.

But within that accepted norm, this one offers some good performances. Especially by Arthur Chen and Sun Qian, who serve up a very credible and sweet romance. The rest of the cast also do their bit and I particularly liked the performance of Kong Lin as Mu Yang and Mu Jing’s mother.

Aside from a slow moving middle section which almost had me giving up, this worked well. Unfortunately, the delicious humour at the start faded out not to return. I think a little more leavening would have lifted that doughy middle section and made for easier digestion. The rating that I’m giving it is not so much about my own taste, but more how it sits in comparison to others in the genre.

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Just randomly watching Dramas of this ML.

Definitely like this one.

The scale of the problems are not country level, which is pretty good for me. Because I'm kinda overloaded by saving the country, wanting to become the king, war against another country themes. So yeah...



I liked the FL and the ML characters. They use their brains and know how to scheme correctly. They look like proper adults who really fit their roles.



The family matters on the FL side are also decent. I like that they showed how no matter what they are family and that, in some way, they really care for each other. I like the FL sisters, their family power struggle did carry the show at the beginning.



I'm also satisfied with the ending.

A wedding ceremony for the couple would have been icing on the cake, but alas. At least they ended up with each other.

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hyunjin we love you so much

highlights:

i think hyunjin was characterized beautifully as a first-time struggling mother. her sister. who functionally doubled as her mother died, leaving whj with a baby at a time when she JUST graduated from college and was struggling to even find work. everything she did was perfectly reasonable for someone in that position. she had a baby and was a temp contract worker, of course, she threw herself into the job in hopes of getting hired permanently. she needs MONEY to provide for the baby as a SINGLE mother? delusionals wanted her to be a single housewife becausing apparently raising a child is free? actually if she did that, the tatecels would have attacked her for starving wooju and leeching off of his and taehyung's money. she can't ever win with the mdl freaks. anyway, she cared about wooju so very much, and every minuscule expression on the actress's face proved it. (roh jeongui is just a brilliant actress.)

from her side, the story with the sml also makes sense. she's always given up everything she wanted to give space to other people, as an orphan, she's never been able to own anything herself. she finds out that the man she gave up in college actually wanted her too, yes of course, she's going to be into it. she went out with him a few times, realized this man was from a different point in her life, and didn't fit into her current life, and shut it down. ultimately, the only problem with this was that it occurred in ep 10 of a 12 ep show, and if they condensed the timeline into something more reasonable (or added more episodes to flesh out her endgame) it would have been truly perfect.

sun taehyung's storyline was also amazing. his background as an orphan, someone abandoned by the only family he'd ever known, and how that impacted his ability to connect with hyunjin and wooju was written so well. bae in hyuk is also an incredible actor; i think i might have cried with him in that episode where he finds out his brother left him to protect him from his abusive father. him slowly falling in love with hyunjin and wooju, creating a family of his own, learning that he can also love and BE loved by others, that his childhood wasn't his fault, everything about taehyung resonates with me so much.

also the baby is cute too. there's that.

lows:

the romance. what were we doing, genuinely?

i said that the sml line made sense from hyunjin's side, and it did. however, it made no sense from the sml's side. he has no personality aside from liking hyunjin, we barely know anything about him, and that makes his love of her so shallow. and they dragged it from episode 2 to episode 10 so they definitely could have thrown in at least one hj-centered trait. he's so generic webtoon ceo it hurts the eyes. again, it would have been perfect if they either shortened his arc OR developed him as a character. what's worse is that is that sml is a full-blown stalker in episodes 9-10, randomly showing up at hyunjin's house and also threatening taehyung like his abusive dad is somehow his fault, and sabotaging taehyung at every turn. and then in episode 12 we completely forget that. sml is overly kind again, supportive of taehyung as hyunjin's boyfriend, he's invited to wooju's birthday, and everyone loves him?? actually it's not even a case of split personality, it's everyone in-universe treating the stalker behavior as perfectly normal, including hj and th?? please address the gray trunk in the room.

the main romance is adorable (two sad people finding each other always is), but it's sprinkled through until episode 10, when they finally get together. the last two episodes do make it worth it, however.

watch if: you're normal about women, you can enjoy interesting characters even if they're not mother theresa incarnates, you don't care about romance

don't watch if: you admire andrew tate in any way, you're there for the baby, you hate working moms, you think mothers should kill themselves for their children, you get really invested in male characters and start projecting on the fl, boy moms in general stay away. roh jeong eui should legally be allowed to * some of you

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Yall saying this is not.... you're wrong.

Listen, I will always respect erroneous opinions. But this drama brought me (and thousands of X users) back to the binge-watching K-drama life!

For the first time in years, I finished a drama in less than three days. I don't know what y’all watched, or why you're saying the acting was bad or that there was no chemistry, because OMG my soul left my body several times watching this. I laughed out loud, I felt nervous, and I even felt pretty myself—if that makes any sense. Let me tell you, I was the first to feel disappointed when I found out what this drama was about. What do you mean AI-created boys you date in a virtual game?
I also wasn't sure about the Seo In‑guk and Jisoo pairing, but I found myself hyping them up as if my life depended on it.
I'm 27 years old—why am I crying over this beautiful tall man who yearns every time he breathes?

Seo In‑guk redefines longing—the waiting, the hope. I've never felt more desperate for a character to be loved. Jisoo's acting felt so natural that some of y’all are calling her weird and plain. Girl can act, and she has this drama to prove it. Their chemistry was overwhelming. At times I literally paused the show just to thank myself for giving this a chance.

After I finished Boyfriend on Demand, I remembered why it's so hard for me to find a boyfriend in real life: the standards, baby.
-Rom-coms are back.
-Longing, yearning, one-sided beef.
-He fell first. He fell harder.
-Not your typical boring clichés.

And more objectively speaking, Boyfriend on Demand is a fantasy rom-com. Don’t come here expecting an incredible storyline—there’s nothing life-changing about it. It’s simply an enjoyable drama: funny, romantic, and full of cameos that, honestly, are the least important part.

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The Demon Sect Was the Real Star

For me, Zhou Yiran completely stole the show as Mu Qing Yan. He was cunning, manipulative, and always scheming, yet you could still feel that he was good at his core. His character was easily the most compelling part of the drama.
I liked the female lead at first, but I was disappointed that she never truly separated herself from the sect or from her aunt’s shadow. Her aunt lived boldly and freely without regret, while Cai Zhao always seemed tied to that legacy instead of forging her own path.
You Guan Yue and Shangguan Hao Nan brought great comedic moments that added some much-needed fun to the story.
Honestly, the demon sect characters were far more entertaining than the supposedly righteous sect. At times the righteous side felt pretentious, and I couldn’t help thinking the drama might have been even better if it focused more on the demon sect.

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Worth your time, great chemistry, interesting new kind of story

I've just completed this drama and I totally loved it.
I've seen dramas of FL + ML before but I did not recognise the ML in the teaser. He is such a versatile actor and I am at awe how he can change from "I'm a poor puppy, protect me please" to "I'm a psycho and I might eat your liver just because I can". (he doesn't say that don't worry.)
I am surprised how the story turned out to be about empowering women and changing the game. So refreshing! Writers, please give us more of this kind of stories.
If you're tired of the damsel in destress then this is absolutely for you.

There is a lot of slow burning romance and I mean burning hot romance, the chemestry is absolutely there. The way it is shot there must have been a big enough budget. Clothes, costumes, everything seems high end and elaborated as you can see right in the opening scene.
The main leads are amazing but all the other cast members were great, too.
Some are added for a bit of humour, fun and warmth and I really appreciate the writing of this story - also because of this.

The ending is super nerve-wracking and I am happy they found a good enough ending.
I don't want to spoiler the end so I'm not gonna write much about it. I was hoping for a different kind of ending but in line with the writing it makes absolutely sense. So, cudos to the writers.

Of course, I whole heartedly recommend this drama and I'll probably rewatch it.

The snippet that worked as a teaser to go search this drama was from Kalos TV, "My game, My rules."

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Could not feel connected with the characters emotions at all. Felt so dead and soulless.

This was one of my most anticipated dramas, but turned out to be such a let down...?.
The overall vibe: mildest c-drama plot I’ve ever seen, especially for this genre. It was really hard to continue watching, so I dropped it. I was pushing through with my willpower to watch 5 more episodes b/c I kept gas lighting myself that it would get better based on some other review, but it didn’t. And I just decided not to waste my time, since it got so boring and slow.

Story: the only somewhat decent plot at the beginning was the story with Bing Zhu and his sister, Tan’er. Hong Ye’s backstory is so overdone. I didn’t complete the drama so I never got to confirm if Ning an really was Xiao Yao. But I’ve never truly appreciated reincarnation plot lines.

I never felt the spark between the ML and FL. I’m not sure if it was the acting, but there was no chemistry. Honestly the acting was off for both leads. Since I know that Tan Song Sun and Hou Ming Hao are good actors based off the others dramas I watched, I was surprised. Firstly, Hong Ye seems to always have the same expression and his demeanor is always neutral. Which made it s hard to connect with the characters. I Never felt excited during the fight scenes or blushing in the “romantic” ones. Tan Song Yun’s character is meant to be childish but witty. She is both, and does both. But some people found her acting was not good enough or that she isn’t a good fit for historical/wuxia/xianxia c-dramas; I honestly blame this on the production team and the director. Whoever was the director probably made the final cut and was clearly okay with how Hou and Song Yun acted, even if it wasn’t the best.

There was nothing to root for. Everything felt cliche. The cliff fall scene ?. 10 episodes in, they haven’t done a good job at creating the central problem/villian. I can see that the emperor is an antagonist and that the hatred between the demons and humans is a problem. But idk, the way the plot was carried out wasn’t it. There were no stakes. No one was actively trying to bring the two sides together. If they’re setting up this plot that Xiao Yao will bring calamity bc of her identity, they didn’t do it well enough. How would she even do that?

and then there’s that self claimed immortal fairy too. will they involve the immortal world into the plot too? I think they should have chosen one strong plot line and developed it in depth.

Xiao Yao is supposed to be both demon and human. She has minimal talent for demonic arts, her fire technique can be a distraction at most. How would the world turn upside down for her?
They made her sound so special but didn’t create her character intricate enough.

Hong Ye’s character is honestly boring.
I could not connect with any of the characters on an emotional level, couldn’t feel their sadness or happiness.
Idk what they were trying with this drama, but it felt like a bunch of loose plots thrown into a pot, bad character building. Trying so hard to be complex but failing to focus in.

My review may have sounded vague, but I think they didn’t give us enough to review. Sry if what I wrote is just as half-a**ed as the drama. I’m dropping this drama b/c I feel no excitement in continuing, and honestly I wouldn’t even persevere for the actors ( I do love them though✌️).

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