Beauty from Heart (2021)

Watch for main leads

The synopsis turned me off...plastic surgery? No thanks. The poster with the leads drew me in. Male lead isn’t the typical “pretty” “gorgeous” type everyone fawns over. He is also older. If anything like Dating in the Kitchen, I wanted to try.

Sure enough, I enjoyed it. The business side of it showed some brilliance in ideas. Like other stories, there’s the schemers and conspirators trying to oust the top guy. While there’s some crazy twists, there’s some nice surprises that are noteworthy.

Synopsis seeming to focus on plastic surgery is wrong. Except giving the idea that it’s dangerous if not done right, that plot was gone right after one of the sisters had one. I guess how a person changes not just physically but mentally fits in.

Janice Wu as the kind sister Xiaoting was excellent. She encounters lots of degradation but handles them with her head held up and a maturity beyond her age and experience in work field. Edward Zhang as Lian Sheng turned out to be exactly the character I wanted to see. He is very matured, quiet and thoughtful. Their meeting should of never happened and as it goes with Chinese dramas going around circles when if they simply ask, lots of dumb runaround would be avoided. His disguise at initial meeting is hilarious and he’s perfect. From there, the relationship development slowly made its way to one that was so beautiful. She’s young, he’s a lot older yet when he fell first, it was just adorable. Their chemistry was so good and I appreciate this a lot in artists acting ability. There’s a twist that springs out late that adds spice.

The supporting cast were good, when not annoying. The second leads were immature and their relationship was weird. Writer sort of dropped them towards end. The nice thing added is that there were no super evil characters, slappers, screamers (well, that’s more of kdramas to be fair). It was a pretty smooth storyline and I watched all the way through..even un subtitled few last episodes.

I could actually go back and rewatch this. It’s a 9/10 for me.

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Only here for the lead, can skip the rest haha

Only here for the leads!

Storyline; Twins sisters Tao xiao ting and tao xiao di make their way to Shen Zhen. Older sister Tiao xiao di is materialistic and thinks that having a pretty face will get you anything. So she decides to get plastic surgery to become more attractive to meet those rich second generation. She even changes her name to Tao fei er. Her younger sister on the other hand is hardworking and not afraid to do the hard work. The male lead is an elder gentlemen who becomes the ceo of On nuo company. The previous ceo was his buddy and passed away due to heart failure, but he had an extra marital affair. The video of the evidence was in a usb and somehow the usb gets picked up by female lead. This starts their super cute and hilarious encounter. The male lead acts like a blacklist motorcycle driver who's from hong kong. His accent is so funny ( coming from a person who understand canto :)
He is basically there for the female lead when she runs into trouble, and supports the female lead in her lowest points. The female lead's true ,genuine , simple, persistent attitude slowly attracts him. He begins to want to tell her the truth.

The other ongoing story is the twin sister who got plastic surgery . You honestly could skip her parts because she is manipulative, selfish and takes advantage of her sister. She basically lies her way through trying to be with On nuo company's younger ceo. Also that young ceo is also annoying character. His character likes the female lead and consistently annoys her... but of course the female lead does not like him. The twin sister basically though she can use her beauty to get everything.

I loved the story between the lead. The male lead is not your average xiao xian rou or super good looking, but I really liked him( haha maybe because I'm getting old) He had a great maturity to him! He was also very supportive of the female lead. The two's relationship is very sweet and natural not cringey at all .I liked that you were able to witness the female lead's growth and struggles. It's a good balance between romance and work life, but honestly would be better with out the twin sister. Also another annoying part was the evil dude in the company, Doing a lot to sabotage the company... He was pretty successful and almost like a main character. I could care less about the company rival and drama inside.....

Love Janice Wu

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