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A TYPICAL STORY WHERE FIRST ML HATES FL AND FL MOVES TO ANOTHER CITY, THEM ML BEGS FL TO COME BACK.
I really liked the beginning but slowly from 10th episode it started degrading, the ml 's ex was too much very dramatic and i have seen other dramas and the exs were tolerable. This drama had too much of sappiness and there was no other way to avoid due it didn't have much going on, it was focused on romance and no comedy, that guy who is ml 's love rival, he did too much there was a limit and Lu Li didn't stop him when he said the child was his, she let him cross the line. She based off her carrier on him totally on him and it isn't good,she shouldn't expect him to do everything, without telling anything or express her feelings and its unreasonable.Was this review helpful to you?
I actually a bit skeptical to see Zhaolin in another similar roles like his roles in Lucky's First Love and You Are My Destiny (rich, handsome & cold young CEO). But being the good actor that he is, there is not a bit of Xi Yi or Xia Ke that I seen in Yi Cheng. While Xi Yi and especially Xia Ke are undoubtedly cool, confident and dashing -- Yi Cheng in the other hand is a bit embarrassing, uncool and childish which make him more hilarious to watch. So instead of laughing with him, you are actually laughing AT him.
While Bambi Zhu as Lu Li is in for a surprise for me. The last time I've seen her is in Ten Miles of Peach Blossom and God know how I hated her character there but I really like her as Lu Li. She is lovely, sweet and brave. I liked the she is actually really capable as a programmer and contribute to Yi Cheng's company growth. I liked it when female character is not a doormat but rather someone with opinion and strength. Plus, she looks very pretty with her hair in a bun!
Things to love in this drama; how it realistic that Yi Cheng keeps pointing out to Lu Li how she looks like a girl when he cosplayed as a guy at the beginning of the drama. In dramas, they usually like to gloss over this and expect us to accept that the girl looks like a guy but for a first time, this drama didn’t. I lost count on how many people especially Yi Cheng likes to point out how Lu Li looks like a girl all the time. When she said; 'My card ID is so ugly since it made me look like a girl.' and he was like; 'You think you look like a guy??' lol!
I also love the creative idea regarding the normal romantic scenes and the way the drama handles it and making it inventive and refreshing. I LOVE their game arcade wedding photoshoot and how fun it looks. The blueberry wedding ring is another plus and not to mention the watermelon birthday cake that Yi Cheng made for Lu Li and lastly, the virtual world wedding proposal that he prepared for her. All of this aside from being romantic, is such great scenes and lovely.
Both of Yi Cheng and Lu Li's families’ relationship is another plus. Yi Cheng parents’ relationship is very amusing especially the part where the Father said to the Mother; 'You are the Queen, and I'm your pawn. I will move according to your instructions.' XD Some stuffs that they did are borderline illegal and cruel but I can’t deny that they are such a fun family underneath all that.
For the bad part in this drama, it got dark and frustrated near the end but the earlier episodes and last episodes are so much fun so you kinda let it go. Pain and suffering are important for character developments so whether we like it or not, it will come but once the water is clear, then it’s all fun back. But the drama is still 80% extremely fun thus the rating is 8/10 from me. Again, any RomCom by Zhaolin is usually entertaining, enjoyable and hilarious so it made a good rewatch value.
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This series made me cry out of frustration. I have never hated a drama so much and will never watch it again. The plot was dry.it seams like the writer was mixing every cliche possible into one show. Everyone is talking about hoe Lu li didn't look boyish enough, no one cares it how the show is. But what frustrated me was the whole plot. Lu li is so obnoxious and annoying every time I saw her on screen my blood boiled. Not only did she allow yichen to have s*x with her while he was intoxicated, she also ran away with his child without telling him she was pregnant. Then decides to tell him its another guys child and that she moved on expecting him to not give up and keep trying to get her back, even tho in his mind she's already started a new life. what kind of toxic mind set is that?Also everyone is hating of Yichen for being "toxic" to lu li but he was literally forced to marry her or else his father would take his WHOLE COMPANY away from him and the last girl he trusted betrayed him, so of course he gonna be salty to her. On top of that it not like he knew she was in love with she didn't exactly tell him. So when he was doing what he thought was something good he didn't know he was hurting.
Oh another reason i hated the show was cause of the LACK OF COMMUNICATION between the ML and the FL if they just talked and the other didn't keep interrupting thing could have been different. Like when Yichen tried to explain to Lu li why he was hanging out with Li man so much she literally cut him off. The guy literally thought his ex was getting abused my her dad.
But in my opinion Yichen wasn't the toxic one it's Lu li. I hate the ML and the FM and the little brat Li man who just had to stir the pot and make me more mad.
I did tho love Zi tong and Cheng relationship. Yes she did basically throw herself at him and repeatedly harrass him but when they did get together where a cute couple and the only people i like in the show and the Yicheng mum cause she was funny.
Anyway i would never recommend this drama to anyway it stressed out so much that i actually cried and it wasn't even a sad scene. I also hated how she told him like 2 weeks after the got together that the baby was his and je was just happy about it like she didn't lie to him this whole time but go them i guess.
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Too many wrong things
30 episodes but could have been 3, this drama was painful to watch. The actors did a great job and I respect the writer's hard work but this story is so wrong.FL loved ML for YEARS for no justificable reason, she just saw him, found him cool and decided to chase him. ML treated the girl so badly during the entire drama and she barely reacted.
The typical ex girlfriend was so annoying interfering on their relationship and even so ML took about 20 episodes to realize it.
This drama is full of misunderstandings, miscommunication and toxic relationships. It's fun for the other characters, yes, but the romance is meh.
SPOILER:
what about the bed scene? He was completely drunk, she wasn't and didn't stop it, then it caused her pregnancy. How wrong is that?
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PERSONALY AT START I LOVED DADS FROM MALE AND FEMALE LEAD - total simps in this one
to say it nicely - this drama got very un-logical cliché story... still thanks actors I enjoyed it and was able forgive them alot its why I rank it high.But I dont expect much logic from chinese most novels I ever read from them are same.
This drama is quite long 30eps/45min at other hand it got almost every type of romance genre you can think of.
Whole drama got at least about 4 pairs of loverbirds
plot - FL falls in love and becomes programmer cause of ML. She wants get hired in ML company, but company doesnt hire female programmers. She disguises for guy to get hired and its where all starts.
Drama is long with situation always changing dont want spoiler much
genre: romance, office romance, gender bender, triangle, cohabitation, pregnancy, marriage
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There is something about this that makes you watch it!
There is nothing much to this drama. The acting of the ML is average. The FL in spite of being portrayed as an intelligent mind behaves like a floozy till she takes a stance. The story is average. Then why did I wait for every episode eagerly every week?Sometimes there is not much to the story and the acting, yet there is a pull. And this is what this drama has done for me.
I was ripping them apart yet somewhere I could sympathize with the FL. She idolized the ML and did everything she could to be like him and work with him, even if it meant disguising herself as a boy. She agrees to the marriage because she is crazy about him.
Doesn't love do that to the most intelligent of us too?
Love can literally make you do things that you would never imagine doing. Maybe that's why her character appealed to me. She was willing to take any steps just to be with him and when she realizes that her love will never get reciprocated (that's what she thinks), her self-respect makes her take a stance, and hence the separation. If you look at it from this perspective then maybe you will realize that the FL has actually done a great job.
The other leads are not worth mentioning ( i saw them in fast forward mode)
The Mother in law is too cool and needs a mention.
I know this is going to end well yet I am waiting to see it finalized in front of me.
Watch it only if you don't have any expectations.
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Painfully finished it!
I wanted to like this show so bad but the script really sucked! It started ok then went terribly wrong to an ok ending. I cannot believe I finished it. One thing I hate the most in dramas is when they write the leads to do stupid stuff and show so much immaturity. And this show topped them all.Storyline - written so poorly. I just don’t understand why you would write something where the leads cannot grow up. I mean come on!!! The FL was so immature and stupid. Even after the ML apologized and explained what happened that night, mind you he did this several times, she still walked away from him. Then she is at the hospital because she is pregnant and she allows the “guy friend” claim the child is his. And she decides to test the ML to see if he will come back to her one more time after she did that?? Makes zero sense to me. If she was that way I definitely would have walked away and left for good. People that play stupid games like that are not worth it. Anyway… needless to say it was written poorly. There are so many parts that really should not have been in this drama. They should have cut it back to 24 episodes and left a bunch of crap out. For instance… The “cross dressing” was really dumb too. You can clearly see she was a she. Only good thing I can say is the ending was the ONLY good thing in this drama. They did not get together and then it ended. They give you a good ending that is satisfactory.
Acting/Cast - honestly I think the only good thing about this drama was Xing Zhao Lin. I have seen him in a few other dramas and liked him but this drama was not a good one.
Rewatch - nope. I will not watch this drama again.
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Full of sh*t
OMG telling one’s baby as someone’s and she is silently accepting the situation, sh*t.Only in Chinese dramas we can see this kind of sh*tty stories and scripts. Starting I felt different and interesting but later on came back to like same sh*tty old dramas and in this drama you can see some more sh*t. The whole plot, story and characters everything is unrealistic and difficult to digest. I can say it is impossible to make worst than this. It is really unbelievable, in this 2021 still Chinese dramas are following this kind of sh*tty stories.
ML agrees with his best friend that he believes he don’t do anything bad behind his back yet he questions his wife FL what is the relationship between them. When others comforting to FL saying ML respects you very much, you are a very special to him like that she felt his feeling for her and in the next scene again misunderstanding and finally applied for divorce.
Only in Chinese dramas we can see workplace as a comedy place, she submitted resignation letter before processing and relieving she got and reported to another job.
When she asked for divorce he got totally blank till she go out from the apartment and picked up the cab(unfortunately friends car which came on time) and then he came to his consciousness and starts to chase her.
What I felt most illogical is, When ML searching for her nobody realized that he has feelings for her that’s why he is searching and there might be some miss understanding, instead everyone used to scold him and drive him away. It is common sense If he wants his ex back why he opposed to give diverse when FL is willing to and why he is searching for her.
Most blunder characters are FL’s parents, when FL told that she has applied for divorce they took it like returning the clothes to store without any deeper discussion, as for FL age of course we can accept she has lack of experience or thinking capacity but as her parents without knowing complete story either from FL or ML they decided that ML is deceiving FL even after knowing he is desperately searching for her.
The whole drama is complete cliche except starting few episodes.
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Perseverance is Magical
I didn't plan on writing a review but it doesn't make sense for me how the top reviews for this drama are the low-scored ones. It was actually a pretty good watch for me.Definitely, it's your typical rom-com , rich guy, multiple couples, cliche Chinese drama -- but aren't most Chinese dramas like this?
At the beginning, when she was pretending to be a boy, I couldn't find it interesting but it was really funny how he thought he was gay when he was already falling for her, that early on. Then, they got married, that's when it really started to kick for me. I'm a sucker for male leads who never admits their feelings but cares for the female lead so deeply -- oh, never fails to make me flutter.
I'm only guessing, people might not have liked the conflict, which explains the low score. There were also too many conflicts -- looking back, probably just one conflict that just branched out, which sucked. I would understand the Li Man part 'cause she's an ex who's obsessed, but when the FL ran away pregnant? They prolonged the Congqing 'arc' too much. I was already eager for them to get back together that I no longer gave a damn about DaHuang's and the cat couple's love stories. She was already pregnant, he's trying to win you back, just give in already! I think that's the only part I didn't like.
Going back to the Li Man 'arc'... I super commend the male lead during these episodes 'cause he was never swayed. He was very stern on not getting back together even after learning the truth... but still disappointed 'cause he never tries to explain to his wife.
On the other couples, i literally didn't give a damn on the Gu-Gu (cat couple). I even find their ending so-so, whatevs, don't care. I liked the sister and the best friend. Altho it doesn't do me justice when he just suddenly fell in love with her. I wanted more, but I guess it was explained by saying, "perseverance is magical."
Another thing I like is the male lead's family, his parents and his sister. His parents for being so lovey-dovey and ignoring their children, lol. But really, mostly for being ever so supportive. At least it saved us from hating another evil mother-in-law.
In general, this was actually a pretty good watch!! It was very similar to You Are My Destiny, except the pregnancy came a little bit later. and Anna = Li Man -- very similar, evil ex-girlfriends who ruins arranged marriages. Plus, I love Xing Zhao Lin so I would've persevered watching this anyway even if it's not any good, and i'm glad I did because PERSEVERANCE IS MAGICAL :P
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The most beautiful thing in my opinion and what drives me to watch Chinese dramas to this day is this fidelity to love, love being the most important thing. I actually came from other shows that emphasize freedom, self-love above all else, misrepresenting what is beautiful in loving someone.
All things enchanted me because it was my first cdrama and everything was new to me. That's when I fell in love with clichés. The scenes are sweet, the couple has chemistry. Of course, commits your mistakes, but nothing that is not forgivable.
This drama made me stay and watch other dramas. This is the cdrama responsible for my passion for China, so it has a very special place in my heart.
Watch if your heart is sweet enough.
"Because persistence is magic".
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Two Wasted Days of My Life!!
Anyone thinking of watching this drama don't waste your time!! I have finally watched it after putting it off for a year. I thought it can't be as bad as the reviews say but trust me it was worst.I feel likt this drama should have been made in the early 2000s. This drama is not a good reflection of a modern love story. The script was all over the place and you can tell the drama doesn't know what its suppose to be so it comes across as super cringey. It was a hidden gender/ office romance/ contract marriage drama that became too exhausting to be truly enjoyed.
The female was something else! Lu Li was not a character one can realisticly sympathize with. No one like should exist. I have seen innocent FLs I have seen the doormats type and the stupid naive oness but this girl is in a league of her own. I can honestly say I have no idea why she loved the ML. This man was not desirable in any way. He was obtuse, dense, asshole and a ridicolous Jerk for no reason. Usually in dramas all ML as the typic assholes but the one redeemable quality that they all shared is when they accepted their love for the FL they never hesitated to protect and show their love. This ML was the worst!! The FL I just wanted to scream at to get a life and stop obsessing over this man for no reason. She has loved him for years and doesn't even really know him. Lu Li's manner of talking was super annoying. She sounded like a 12 year old when she tried to seem innocent and cute.
The storyline dragged for so long and for no good reason. At the end of it I still wasn't convinced their relationship was worth saving. When she decided to divorce was the only time I genuinely like the FL for making a smart choice. The ML needed to grow up and start therapy.
Anyways the visuals for this drama is ok.. The acting is so so.. The characters even less likable. I prefered the ML in other dramas such as Eternal love and You are my Destiny. He had more chemistry with his FL in those dramas.
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Cute Programmer is a very good business romantic drama adaptation from the manhwa "No Programmer Can Be So Cute!" by Tianyi Icartoon and Vitality Studio. Although the drama has some comedic moments and characters, there are some heart tugging moments that are very well delivered by the actors. The leading couple takes some time to develop mutual feelings and longer to trust each other, but their journey is believable and their love for one another remained steadfast. There are some cliché incidents but this drama is not to be compared with “You are My Destiny” in any way. Although he learns that his ex girlfriend (the main antagonist) was not totally responsible for his company’s troubles a few years ago and he shows her some sympathy as she tries to manipulate him, it is clear that he is not harboring amorous feelings toward her but just a kind of care for her struggles. Although the leading male is of high intellect, his has a low emotional intelligence that caused him to make errors in judgment and the leading lady doubted his love for her for too long, their journey to love and trust each other is nicely done and endearing. There are two more couples that provide some nice moments aside from the leading couple but the drama never loses its focus on the “cute programmer”. Overall, although the drama is not perfect, the actors delivered their characters well and it is entertaining. Enjoy it! Was this review helpful to you?
