To Love, to Heal (2018)

This is a light hearted romantic comedy you could say. I had a smile most of the time between episodes 20-32 i think. Mainly due to the lead actorJiang chao who has a good flair for comedy and excels in the role of a nerdy CEO who is less strong physically compared to the female Kendo Master Shui Guang. Their interactions, his little younger brother a student of kendo, his mother and colleagues all bring comic elements to balance the very serious female lead.
The pace is a bit slow and story is told in a very leisurely way.

The plus side and take aways from the drama would be

1. No really horrible villains / evil mother in law trying to separate the lead couple- even the girl Yuri pursuing Zheng Lan and the guy protecting Shui Guang are shown with lot of character and fair spirit
2. The CEOs character is mature and he handles issues both at work and personal life with great amount of perseverance. I like to learn such things that a good leader cannot be impulsive and have lot of ego but must treat his employees with trust and kindness. I liked how the writer /director portrayed that this character accepts that their mother leaves him and young brother to go abroad (the reason is explained in later episodes and how she redeems herself by helping her sons boyfriend to overcome her own tendency to escape from reality) and despite this comes across as a sane and balanced guy.
3. All the characters redeem themselves in the end. They prove that love, understanding and patience/ kindness help in bringing back people together
(I believe we all become what we constantly watch so watching good things will influence us to make us better people- as watching hatred revenge etc make for interesting watch but they do not make us better human beings- sorry for the preachy tone...this is a reminder to myself)
4. The guy never gives up on the girl or his love - he makes up his mind and does not let others influence him unlike other dramas which create stupid misunderstandings. And the way Yuri accepts that she is rejected is nice and refreshing. She is very cute and along with Luo Zhi make a nice pair

The negatives the lead actress's acting is a bit wooden - yes her character is supposed to be that way but the liveliness and expressions after she falls in love could have been portrayed much better. The main reason why the lead girl is blamed for her ex-boyfriends death is too thin and doesnot warrant such a heavy reaction. The accident is nothing so ghastly as they make it out to be and the scenes are repeated a lot

The episodes from 32+ etc is a bit draggy and i ran through them as it was just fluff - could have ended by 30 i think. Some characters such as the policeman and his girl in coma are shown with lot of promise but end very thinly.

But overall go for it if you are in a mood (and a lot of time 45 mins of 40 episodes) for a light romantic flick with some techie background.

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First off i have to say the first 10 minutes of this drama as to be one of the worst i've ever seen in terms of cinematography i won't say why cause of spoilers but holy heck it's so bad

Now for the good and bad about this drama

Good
-Female Lead ( she really nails the expressions early on and shows the journey of her past and how it haunts her)
-Male lead (is goofiness shocks the plot to keep it alive and breathing)
-Gaming firm/ Kendo hall setting

Bad
-Story
-Rest of cast and side cast are just not written very well (
-Slow romance i can understand why cause of the story but it took to long to take off and story really suffered cause of it


Like many dramas that are over 16-20 episodes things start to drag at a certain point and that point for me was around episode 25+, i really enjoyed the first 20 episodes i thought it was going to be a sad yet cute romance to overcome the past but i found myself skipping alot of scenes past episode 25 that wasn't the main couple and sub couple

all in all i enjoyed this drama i really wanted to give it an higher score cause of the setting of the gaming firm and kendo hall was well done but the story is reheated one to many times for me and the romance sadly doesn't save this one it's still worth a watch but in all honesty be prepared to skip here and there.

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Ugghhh!!! Noooo!

This drama was painful to watch! And when I said it was boring, I mean it !. The female lead spent the whole drama sad, in a state of numbness and rejecting the ML up to ep.32... No character or history development at all...
I was watching the episodes hitting fastfoward to see if something between the two happened, but no! The ML lead was very childish I kept asking myself why he didnt suggest therapy to the FL if he loves her so much and had witnessed her mental state? She was emotionless up until the las 6 episodes, I mean it was insufrible. The only kiss I saw was at the very last minute of the drama, and that wasnt even a decent kiss, they only touched their lips.
I dont recommend this drama at all. Please skip it !!!

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This drama was recommended to me after I watched Go Go Squid and I have to say that I was really disappointed. The male lead, as mentioned in previous reviews, tries very hard to gain the female lead's attention and love, however only succeeds in episode 32. The road to success is very slow, painstaking, and honestly, there is no plot development throughout the whole thing. There are some ominous hints of betrayal as Luozhi (the female lead's childhood friend) periodically touches base with some kind of evil boss (?), but the whole plot is not very clear and does not contribute much to the overall story. Mostly, the drama filled me with frustration as I hoped that the female lead would get passed her emotions for her deceased boyfriend and embrace the present. Instead, what I wasted my time watching was a series of rejections of sincerity and a complete lack of a desire to reach out for love.

The acting was not absolutely terrible. The female lead was very neutral, emotionless, and robot-like even after she acknowledged her relationship with the male lead, but I feel like the actress is not bad and she just had to stick to the script. I actually felt bad for the actors because the plot was nothing special. The dialogue was of course filled with cliches, making the drama all the more painful to watch, but I could sympathize with some of the character's emotions and some of the scenes were a little empathetic.

Overall, I would not recommend this drama to anyone, unless you really like the male or female leads or have the energy to sift through 40 episodes worth of cliches, absence of human emotion, and rejection (at least until episode 32).

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Although “The Power of Love” (aka “To Love To Heal”) is a drama that depicts love in a very endearing way, it is not a romantic drama. The lead couple spent a good time together throughout the drama but they don’t become a couple until episode 32 and it is quite frustrating to see how the leading man bends over backwards to show his love and there’s no romantic character development for the leading lady. So it is safe to say that romance is the backdrop story for this drama that centers on Zhang Zheng Lan’s business, Jiang Yu Ru’s one sided infatuation with Zhang Zheng Lan, Luo Zhi’s complicated involvement on his friend’s demise (Shui Guang's Boyfriend), and Xiao Shui Guang’s liveless demeanor after blaming herself for her boyfriend’s death and almost everything else that goes wrong around her. If the viewer is looking for romance and great chemistry among the leading couple, this is not the right drama to watch, but overall, is it tolerable.

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I don't root for the male lead

Let's start on positive note: I really like the actors. Their perfomance is quite good and I really enjoyed watching them in other dramas.

I cannot say much about the plot, since I only watched 9 out of 40 episodes

But:

I was annoyed at the main leads the whole time, for different reasons than other people, who left the review. I didn't root for the male lead at all. At first, he didn't seem bad but the way he tricked female lead early on made me so pissed at him. Using someone's image without their consent is bad enough (He didn't do it himself, but he is responsible for his firm), he acted all cocky and tricked FL into signing the contract using her good heart and his little brother. The way he pursues FL is distasteful, especially involving her friend. I have no objections to some mild stalking and helping your "luck" but who does this insolent asshole think he is, that he's talking to her about her inner feelings like they're close? He has no right to comment on her life. Tricking her again and again, taking advantage of her kindness, really pissed me off but also FL - her coldness is to me (as opposed to other people apparently) appropriate but she is still too nice to the ML - she agrees to ridiculous things way too easily (the photoshoot, stalking her in front of the house to give her a ride, applying ointment - why? because he doesn't have the second hand?!). If I was her, I would have punched him in the face and kicked him in the groin at least 3 times (during the first 9 episodes).

Men of this world - learn from the male lead: How not to treat a girl.

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