Oh my God......About this drama i could talk hours and probably i'll do, because people need to know, "I show you how deepthe rabbit hole goes". When I discovered that the directors/ screenwriters Zhen Yong Bo and Zhen Yong Tao ( I nicknamed them ironically Coen brothers, at least they are good directors ) were the same of " serendipity love" I already understand what kind of series would have been but I hadn't take in consideration some things.
First of all in this drama the cast is the same as in the movie as well as the couples, the characters names, the costumes, some locations and five or six scenes. This isn't a joke, in this drama there are some scenes that are also featured in the movie.
Here I marked three scenes that are present in both product :
Scene hospital reception: movie 1:10:21 and drama ep. 4 11:34
Fl drinking a bottle of wine : movie 1:11:08 and drama ep.1 14:24
The two protagonists at the market : movie 46:52 and drama ep 5 15:24
Also the movie and the drama were filmed at the same time and this explained all this things marked up also I think that they wanted to do two productions with a limited budget so they recycled everything they could.
Let’s move on and now is the time to talk about the drama, how it is? Well, the first thought that came in my mind was” is really useless, is more fun watching a white wall.”
The plot is full of clichè and the majority of them were poor executed and written like the evergreen silly triangle, a person with a desease, all the subplots about the Fl job, all the subplots of the other two couples etc.
The characters are forgettable and two dimesional apart the two protagonist (more or less….). The fl actress is quite good but i don’t understand why she is obsess with the idea of the marrige( they never explaine this), the ml actor apart of his really pretty face, he isn’t so good at acting, and i think that some motivations of his character aren’t so much explored.
Throughtout the series the two protanists never argue or discuss in a serious way, in particular when they started living as roomates .They have never a contrast when in real life (or in better drama/movie) is quite common that roomates argue about things (like at the beginning of Youth for example).
Also in really hard to comprend how much time passes and a lots of details happend offscreen, they only say but never show.
But there is a “positive” thing: the kiss scene. Finally we can see a really long and passionate kiss between the two protagonists and there is also the beginning of a s3x scene after the kiss (obviously interrupted at the beginning).
I suggest you to avoid this drama, apart if you are a fan of cheap romance. if you are a fan of Cao Yuchen and you want to see his handsome face go on his weibo page( you can enter without registration) and is plenty of really beautiful photos of him.