When We Were Young (2017)

An Underrated Masterpiece

Please tell me where and why you agree and disagree with me after reading this review.
Suggestions are welcomed.

BE CAUTIOUS, SPOILERS AHEAD!!

Getting to the drama~
I just finished watching this drama, and I totally liked it. I have no idea why so less people have actually watched this. I came across this drama randomly and it's too good although if you start watching it you might want to drop it by episode 8 or 9, I would suggest you to keep watching it as it has a very meaningful and happy ending.

Story: 9.0
Till episode 10, this drama seemed to be going nowhere, that's why I rated this 9.0. Except for this fact, the story was quite nice, Xia'Er didn't have a good motive in the starting so I thought she would end up miserably but she went through many things and paid for it so I guess it's understandable she had a happy ending. This drama is basically a light hearted one with no kisses and all (something I don't like watching) but still I gave it a try and it went out pretty well.

The next is a MAJOR SPOILER for those who want to know how it ended (kindly skip it if you don't) :-
According to what the last scene was, soon Li Bai and Xia'Er would end up together and Chu Yin Yin and Xu Kong Lin have already confessed for each other indirectly and are kind of together. (just like many viewers wished it to end like).

It is very much like Who Are You: School 2015 except for its length and some story (I liked this one better to be truthful). The characters of Eun Bi, Eun Byeol and Chu Yin Yin, Xia'Er are also reversed and they don't come to find out about their childhood and all. That's the major difference but if you liked one of them, I'm sure you would like the other one as well.
This is the link to the drama I was talking about : https://mydramalist.com/13386-who-are-you-school-2015

Acting/Cast : 9.5
⨠Zhang Xue Ying as the twin sisters (Chu Yin Yin and Xia'Er), I would really appreciate her for the acting since both the sisters had totally opposite character. She was so good in the chemistry when it came to Chu Yin Yin with Xu Kong Lin or Xia'Er with Li Bai.
⨠Joseph Zheng as Xu Kong Lin, he played the shy and protective boy character really well and I loved him for it.
⨠Wang Bo Wen as Li Bai (I consider him a main cast), he did really well in all the scenes where he was naughty as well the one in which he told Xu Kong Lin about his mother.

I really loved the acting of all the support characters but two of them were too great:
⨠Wang Qui Zi as Teacher Lu, she totally rocked it !!
⨠Zhou Luo Ran as Li Ni Ke, absolutely nice!!

Music: 10.0
I totally loved the music, especially the song which went like ~ I love you love you love you (the english sub since I can't understand Chinese).

Rewatch Value: 9.0

Overall: 9.5

I totally recommend it.

Hope it wasn't boring.
Thanks for reading.
Lots of love <3

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It was really good

I wanna start by saying that I started this drama in late 2018 and finished in late February 2019 so it’s been a while since I’ve seen it. I still remember it though because I know that I really liked it. See, it’s supposed to be a remake of “Who Are You: School 2015,” which is my favorite School series season(?) so I was excited to see this. It was actually one of the first cdramas I’d ever seen and the first I’d ever finished. The story had similar elements to the original but the storyline was pretty different. I loved the this dramas take on the premise though. It was pretty lengthy but I didn’t mind it.

Also, I don’t remember any of the music except I vividly remember liking the theme song.

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