This drama had the ingredients for an addicting drama: 1) perfect cast specially Kevin Xiao as Xiu Ran with his cat-like face and Tian Xi Wei as Mint with her refreshing character, 2) good chemistry between the ML and FL with their banters and cute interaction, 3) beautiful cinematography and decent budget for the production, 4) unexpected plot twist, and 5) short 16 eps and good ending.

But somehow it still failed to hook me like how Eternal Love Rain and My Fantastic Mr. Right both of which are in the same animal transformation genre. ELR and MFMR have smaller budget but more episode count were able to deliver the right amount of sweetness and angst to make us want to binge watch on them. Be My Cat on the other hand might be too sweet and lacks that emotional depth and angst to actually make us feel that loss specially on the climax of the drama.

I’d also like to point out that the producers of this drama are also the producers for Well Intended Love so I think their work is meant for more episode counts or for modern times. Also the Director is the one who directed The Eternal Love 2 so we do have the gorgeous scenes. The screenwriter also wrote the script for Romance of Hua Rong, so we have great main lead characters. I think the main problem is that the whole production is limited by the 16 episode counts so the story felt way too rushed and they just don’t have the proper skills to make condensed 16 episode dramas like the ir South Korean counterparts.

I’d suggest this if you want to watch something new and refreshing but I don’t see myself rewatching this as much as I rewatched The Eternal Love and My Fantastic Mr. Right.