Finally decent story from HIStory series

After the chaotic story from 1st series, a little doubt want to watch another short drama from this series. But since it's short I still do for fill the blank before sleep... Haha... And kinda glad to watch this one...

This drama have good story tell, beginning - middle - end. They take their time to groom both man relationship & trust. Although still in my opinion the beginning they kinda rush it, it's all happen so fast. We even missing the moment Shi Yi Jie (YJ) ask Fei Sheng Zhe (SZ) to be the babysitter, or at least in the version that I've watch. Suddenly SZ already be the babysitter for YJ's daughter.

This drama tell the story about how SZ & YJ grooming & getting closer to each other without them realizing it. The struggle with trauma & society view about gay, especially the one that previously married & have children.

What I really like how YJ take their relationship seriously. Even talk to SZ's mom about their relationship.

Overall quite satisfied with the drama...

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When I thought finally HIStory series that have make sense story & logic, they close the curtain with that kind of ending...

Story about 2 man that meet up when their parent married each other & make them into brothers. At first, like brothers meet up when they old, they can't get along too well. Different personalities, lifestyle & everything make a little problem seem big & can be a bigger issue. But nevertheless Cheng Qing (CQ) & Feng He (FH) try their best to get along with each other, especially FH. And over time they get warmer with each other.

And overtime the sibling feeling start to grow into something more. & with the help of FH's friend, Meng Meng (MM) , they're 'forced' to acknowledge their feeling to each other.

And that's when our problem begin... And that's BIG SPOILER ALERT FOR YOU!!!! So if you don't want to know just stop reading until here!!!

Overall between the 3 mini series this drama has. For me this one is the most make sense








The doesn't make sense logic or plot!
We don't get the feeling when FH regrets his decisions to reject QC's feeling. I know FH keep pondering about his own feeling. But i just don't feel it reach us. It just suddenly he has a change of heart with the flick of finger, happen so abruptly. It's like whatever FH considered about their relationship's problem it's not important anymore...

And the messed up things MM did... Ugh!!!! Don't let me start on that one....

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Uncompleted story

Watch this cause it's short drama with only 4 ep with each about 20 min per ep. So yeah overall about 75-80 min total.

So far for the first HIStory series i watch 2 & quite unsatisfied with both. The story too short & a few aspects very unclear.

Now let's we talk about this particularly....

The story itself already confusing at first, let alone they only have 4 ep. I understand this is the first series, so we talk about budget & just test the water... So maybe they should pick the story more wisely then just randomly pick the script...

Ok. Let's continue about the confusing story.... Like KainGuru already wrote in their review: "How would you get someone to fall in love with you again if you died and returned in someone else's body, and as a different gender?" and let me added, and you also only get 7 days to make that man fall in love with you....

If this longer ep drama, maybe we get more elaborate story about how the 'FL' try to seduce or convince ML about her truth self. But this particular short ep only cover how the 'FL' get closer to ML & how in the end she get to be shock by the result she never expected....

Oh for more confusing notes. The ending is the most confusing one... I don't really understand the ending. But, i don't want to spoiled anything important. So yeah you just need to watch it urself for the ending...

Well what i can said in the end this story just get the happy ending for both man...

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Watch this of course for Bai Lu & Dylan Wang. And I'm not disappointed. Haha... Yes, after read many review here, I realize this drama have many problem. But however I still really like the chemistry between Dylan & Bai Lu.

This drama tell story of 3 main couple & 4 side couple. And almost all of the relationship stories kinda unhealthy in their own way. The most healthy above 7 story maybe only 2, 1 main couple & 1 side couple...

1st couple. Our ML & FL
Shi Yan (SYa) and Shu Yi (SY). Start with the wrong foot, leading to misunderstanding & hiding the truth. Haha... Start with SY get closer to SYa with the purpose of her carrier & revenge against her ex-boyfriend. Her ex-boyfriend, Yue Xing Zhou (XZ), broke up with her to be with niece of SYa. So with the mind to show off to XZ, SY get closser to SYa. Of course you can't forever hide the evil-smelling, soon or later we can smell it... And when SYa finally know about that 'little secret', SY not instantly confess & ask for forgiveness, but still try to hide it. The consequences between got caught & confess is so clear here.

2nd main couple. Guan Ji (GJ) and Bi Ruo Shan (RS)
The playboy & playgirl. Both have fair share of naughty & affraid of commitment. But GJ more honest to himself & his feeling. And in the end, he is the one that take the first step into the relationship.

3rd main couple Yu You (YY) and Qin Shi Yue (SYu)
Story of young woman and an older guy. The initiative SYu get block a few time by YY, that feel he is a little bit too old for SYu & think SYu at first chase him only for fun & nothing serious. But overtime YY finally feel a little bit missed when SYu suddenly dissappear from his daily life. That's when he finally realize his own feeling for SYu.

4th Yue Xingzhou and Qin Lezhi
The story of the EX. From the first their relationship already scream problem. The rich girl that proactive with someone boyfriend. And turn out in the end this rich girl still hide very dark & twisted secrets...

5th Guan Xiang Cheng and Tang Yi.
6th Shi Wenguang and Song Le Lan
The secret couple. Well this 2 couple basicly have the same story line. The couple that have reason to hide their relationship from the world. The diff only 1 is married & the other is not.

7th Chen Sheng and Kong Nan
The most healthy relationships in the whole groups. Meeting because of work & just get interested with each other & start the relationship. We don't get more from this couple...

Ok that's basically the introduction of our couple. Now the other ploblem that arise in the drama.
- Why in the first place GJ & RS must hide their relationship never really told. How come best friend that always share every problem suddenly so secretive about her own relationship. Even when RS struggles with her own feelings, she never once told SY about it...
- Yeah a little stupid advice that RS told SY about hiding the truth from SYa in the first place.
- The funny litte fact that man always ask for forgiveness. When SYa ask his assistant what he do if his GF angry, he can instantly answered. But how SY so confuse how to ask SYa forgiveness.... And how in the end YY give her direction where her mistake actually is....

What i like:
+ the chemistry between Bai Lu & Dylan Wang.
+ to see other character of Miles Wei. I usually watch him as arogant boss like SYa here, but in here I can see him as soft & gentle man.

Overall I still really like this drama.

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Safe watch

This drama really tell story about high school student & romance. So for you who afraid to watch too vulgar drama, this is a safe watch, no mature content except kiss.

This drama tell story about "Tinn" Tinnaphob Jirawatthanakul who fall in love with his high school friend "Gun" Guntaphon Wongwitthaya. But the relationship no more than classmate for 2 years. And finally in the last year Tinn with the courage of his friend, "Thiu" Thiuson Sophonpatima, start to put more effort to approach Gun.

This drama also tell story about Gun's relationships with his band member. About their struggle with romance & school. About family relationships, of course Tinn & Gun family. About friendship, failure & fear. And finally about dream after high school...

Oh yeah the soundtrack is also one of tbe best song out there....

What lack of this drama:
- They never really explained to us the relationship of "Sound" Saran & Tinn before. It's like Sound have grudges against Tinn that we don't know what. Maybe we should watch the whole series to understand their relationship....

Overall this one complete package drama with nothing exaggerated more than it's portion.

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This drama talk about good & bad thing being a Mukbang in YouTube, or I think can also be applied to all kind of celebrities & influencer.

Being someone behind the camera you always have to prepare urself for the critics or people just plainly jealous or hate you, more over the unrealistic standard of the industry. If your mental can't take the pressure, you gonna put all the pressure to urself. Just like what our FL facing in this drama.

This short drama startnwith our FL already begin the early symptoms of PTSD, her body rejected food. And our ML as the chef who really hate see people wasting food or being fake. Like he think about our FL. This is the journey of how An Sul Ha & Joo A Ran getting to know each other more...

Overall this one quite good short drama to watch...

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Something a miss

Watch this of course for Cheng Yi & Zhang Yu Xi 2nd drama. Again the best part of pick the old partner is no more awkwardness between the actor/ess.

Really want to like this drama. After everything that Fu Yun Shen (YS) & Zhu Jiu (ZJ) go through here. But in the end something feel a miss when they close the curtain. I really hope we get extra/special/ a little more episode to make this drama more perfect or ending with better note.

What i like:
+ the chemistry between Cheng Yi & Zhang Yu Xi. Feel like reunite 2 old friend.
+ my 2 fav old actor & actress, Paul Chun & Cao Cui Fen. Play as grandma & grandpa for our ML & FL.
+ all the hardship in YS & ZJ relationship only to make their bond stronger over time.
+ after everything that happen in FU family, in the end family still family. And as always, blood is thicker then water play a big role here.

What a miss:
The ending.... I don't know feel like they push fast forward button in the end. Everything wrap so fast we don't have time to swallow properly. Really hope they prolong the ending & shorten the middle part. Cause sometimes the middle part feel a little bored & it's like they prolong some scene....

Overall this quite good drama to watch...

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Random enjoyable click

Quite surprise see Ding Yu Xi played short drama, but then I realized this prior to his fame. Lets enjoy this....

How fun to have a chance to renew ur life with all the memory of future life, so you get to choose the right choice this time.... That's this drama all about.

This drama tell story about a girl, yun xiao xi (XX), that get the second chance to change her life. In the 2nd life, she get to know what she actually missed & grab all the opportunities that she didn't have courage to pursue in her 1st life. And how in the end all that decision make a sweet ending story for her.

What's I really like from XX herself. Is that she's not really take a full revenue on her enemy, Xia Duo (XD), no matter how XX know how rotten XD is. Like when XX know that XD will stole her design for the competition, XX still only give her warning not expose her to all the people.

Overall this one short but very enjoyable ride...

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What an ending....

Watch this for my MDL Watch Challenge 2023, but turn out quite fun journey. Unfortunately they leave such an ending...

My journey with this drama you could say quite up & down. The first half quite boring & nothing too much, just your usual youth drama. The second half, when the romance start rolling, the story quite interesting. But once again such unfortunate ending...

What I like:
+ Ren Chu (RC) is realy interesting. He is a nerd, but when it comes to Lu Wan Wan (WW), he's quite attentive. He doen't know how to please a girl, that's ok now we have internet that we can research anything on it. Haha... How many our nerdy guy that we can say has that initiatives... But unfortunately he met the 'dumn' WW. She has no clue that that top guy like her even with all the clue given by RC. And that actually make this story quite funny to watch.
+ The chemistry between RC & WW quite good. I can sense their vibes....
+ The friendship. All the closest friend of RC & WW is really good friends. Of course I'm talking about 2 other couple, Meng Xi Bai (XB) - Wang Xin Yu (XY) & Fan Yi - Gu Qiao
+ Not all the problem revolve around our main lead. I really like when the put the light into the relationship of XB & XY. Yeah when the couple together, it shouldn't only put light into one person & what XY did really only put everything about XB in her first priority. And I really like how XB put XY priority aside from himself, even at first he kinda hurt XY.
+ The good communication between RC & WW. They leave no space for misunderstanding between them...

What I don't too like:
- ML surrounded by nerdy guy. Yeah I know sometimes we choose the friend that looked a like with us. But for me tleven his friend is just too much similar with him...
- The ML is the smartest guy in his environment... Haha... Yeah the show just show us everyone around RC is dumber than him....
- The ending. Hesitate to put it here or not. But i think I gonna skip on the big spoiler & only scream that we need another ep / at least special ep to wrap this series

Overall this fluffy & cute youth drama with such disappointment ending...

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Hesitate to watch this cause Angelababy not my fav actress, a few times watch her just to find her acting lack something. But on the first ep I already see Ren Jia Lun act something beyond my imagination. Of course that make me have to watch this....

This story really interesting to watch. They talk about something taboo, mental illness & make us understand that this kind of illness we can't take lightly & sometimes we really need consult or just talk to someone & that's nothing to be embarrassed about.

Ok this drama talk about Liu Xia (LX), a psychological counselor & Qi Lian Shan (LS), a screenwriter. They accidentally become roommates & friend & finally partner for each other. Really interesting how their relationship grow, it's a little slow pace but how they build the friendship & trust is real & fit. I can feel Ren Jia Lun & Angelababy have good friendship, if not earlier at least in the time they shoot the drama.

What really interesting from this drama:
+ We can sometimes see Ren Jia Lun act combustible, due to him act according to script he write. We see him jump, do little karate, everything so cute that I never expected him to do...
+ We got more story than we expected. Haha... LS is script writer and during the drama he write 3 drama, so we get to see all the story he write comes to life with familiar face from all the actor in this drama. So yeah each actor also played more than 1 characters throughout the drama.
+ We got to see the real character true face from the drama LS wrote, especially the police story.

What feel a little lack:
- I don't like the ending. It feel it still leave something hanging in the air that need to be take care of before they close the curtain.
- Due to each character play several characters in the drama, I sometimes got confuse about it. Yeah i know they quite different, but still....

Overall this quite good drama to watch

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Music & drama

Watch this for my MDL Watch Challenge 2023. Short drama that turn out quite interesting to watch...

For you who lazy to scroll down to the comments section, NoirRoseHeart already provide us the link
YouTube:
Film 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IqjCdpWJmE&t=15s
Film 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epc9H3pSLV4
Film 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaPWILU0U4A
Film 4 (no subs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cs4S8ONHUM
Film 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YachyQqNSmY

MV 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fixqh6WIzFo
MV 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbjZdXpgh4w
MV 3 (no subs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwoXvJr4Hvg
MV 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2f2PcGTsLM
MV 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfgXhGNhX-w

The short drama about 10-15 min each ep & that's the first part of the story. The MV is about 5 min each song & you can say the continuity of the short drama. Each drama are the story of its own without having connections with each other.

Of course cause this just mv and short drama, unfortunately not all of the story is completed, some still hanging in the air waiting for anybody to continue their story. But fortunately the ending i can't say pissed me off, it just unfinished but not too cliffhanger, in the end the open ending i can still accept....

For you who want to know what each story about I gonna write a little bit introduction without spolier.
Film 1: This about a boy who fall in love with a popular girl in the school & a little bit stalk her in social media. Their relationship start when the girl need help to fix her computer & only continue online. This one story that i really hope I can watch full lenght, cause I want to know the continuity of their story.

Film 2: This about a girl that break up with her BF & try find new love via dating apps. The story tell us many bad people that we might meet in online dating, but in the end our girl find her man & start dating.

Film 3: This about friendship that start from online games to real world, even start having feeling for each other. One day the boy decided to give the girl surprise by show up unannounced & he got himself surprised about the girl condition. This also about the journey how not all online friendships is trash & unreliable.

Film 4: Hope I'm not too wrong, cause the 4th one is unsub. This about a man that fall in love with the girl that he delivered food to. And how they start having friendship from that day.

Film 5: This about a girl that comes to different city to find work & fight the loneliness it bring. I have a little problem with how the girl fight the loneliness at first, cause it can go to very wrong place. But fortunately for this girl every thing turn out to be good & she land on the beautiful side of the rainbow...

Well that's it every thing i can spoil about this drama. Hope I don't spoil too much...

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The messy continue

Ok... All the hope for better plot better be thrown out of the window. Cause this drama not getting any better, it's even get messier.... Consider stop until here, but at the same time still curious about how our FL get back to her world...

I gonna spill spoiler again. If you don't want get spoiled just don't read my review then...

The messy start from the beginning this time. Instead continue about the Bamboo Rooster, they seem forget about it totally. Nothing mention about Bamboo Rooster at all in this part. And one more they seem forgetting about is the consort of our ML, she's seem missing in the big chunk of our plot...

And also in this part the plot seem like jumping from place to place with no connection between episode. Few time I must check did I watch the wrong episode or what, why the story looked not connected with previous episode...

Like the case with queen mother, ML can suddenly burst that FL's dad is the one that kill his mother. Oh and we got no more explanation after that. After queen mother case finished everything back to normal again, our couple lovey dovey again with each other... Hello don't FL curious about the death of ML's mother...??? No clue... Ugh....

More over the relationship between our ML & the emperor looked messier than what we thought at first. But we still don't know what the intention of emperor with our ML... The emperor looked like ready to sacrifice everything just to take down our ML, even his own mother. I don't know what the emperor affraid of our ML about, he has no support no military power have nothing to support him usurp the throne. Yet with all that the emperor still looked terrified that ML can overthrow him...

Oh almost forget the biggest eyebrows raiser this part have...
1. FL do surgery for queen mother & save her. And after that, supposedly big surgery that FL did herself, queen mother can miraculously stand up and walking. Wow right... Haha....
2. ML save FL from public punishment effortless again. With no soilder chase them at that time or after that. How miraculously right...

This part really give me headache.... Really want to stop watching and yet at the same time still curious about how our FL get back to her world... Hope the story not get any messier than this...

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Second part

Let's continue our journey with this second part... Yeah this part a lot more dark, gore & sadistic than the first part. In this part we meet all the face card in their own game. And turn out some of them we actually already met in the first part. Yeah so just like Risa that we found out at the end of part one is someone that have important role, in here we also meet some hidden characters in the first part that turn out also has more important role...

In this part we also learn that almost every game play big physiological & mental more than just physical. And that's in my opinion that make this part more interesting than the first part. Especially the last game with Risa that we finally known her as the "Queen of Spades". That's really one big mental game that we really can't think lightly...

In this part we also learn many of the main cast past life or their life outside this world. And that's quite interesting to watch. Although yeah this part also much more talking than the first part where action in most of the time...

Aside from all the good thing this series can offer us, like ApolloDipity I also have 1 problem with the whole series. Quote ApolloDipity write: "The characters were beaten, stabbed, shot and even burned alive and still got the chance to look at the beautiful sky full of fireworks." Why it's always like this in most of superheros series, where all the main cast seem like immortal... And until the end the writer just don't ever kill the main cast... Haha...

Overall this just another drama to watch. Good enough, but still like i wrote in first part. Not too memorable for it's genre....

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Different story

Quite interesting when read the summary of this movie. Really different with other cinderella or red riding hood story. In this movie they combine it with mystery.... Let's watch....

The biggest difference:
* They have 2 FL, but this is not story about GL. Of course I'm talk about cinderella & red riding hood together at 1 movie. Me of course never encounter this in any movie / drama. Except maybe that Hollywood drama, once upon the time, where they kinda combine every character in the story book....
* This is the story about mystery, where the red riding hood as the detective. & that's mean this is definitely not story about cinderella find her prince charming....
* We have 2 fairy godmother... 2 FL so that mean 2 fairy godmother.... Hohoho....
* They tell us over and over how important beauty in this world... Hoho... Usually it just common knowledge among the people not something people talk about so bluntly....
* Prince charming already had love interest before meet cinderella... Haha... This definitely the first I think, where prince charming not fall in love with cinderella...

Then the biggest surprise come in the end. You'll never ever guess who is the perpetrator in this mystery drama.... That's something so refreshing to see they so dare to make the unusual perpetrator....

Overall this really one good & refreshing take for the story we common with & make a twist with it.... I really hope we can get another story from detective red riding hood....

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2nd part

OK let's continue our review...

Like I wrote in part 1. This drama divided into 2 part with a little twist in the end that make me feel need to made review about, especially since no one discuss or made review about this drama. The first part talk about introduction, about the game, the character & at the end of part 1, the connections between 1 and another.

The story start when Zhen Yu (ZY) want to find out the truth about his father incident years ago. One day he got a package that lead him to the game. In the game he meet several people that in the end become companion to go through the game & even friends in real life too.

In the game they become the detectives that need to solves the case. And every time they succeed the game they got clues about the incident years ago or where to check for the next clues. From that little by little they connect the dot.

This part talk about the connection they have with incident years ago, 15 years to be exact. So to be simple, every main cast, except Jia Xiao Fei, turn out to be the victim of incident 15 years ago. ZY's dad died in that incident, Xiao Han's (XH) dad also died & possibly the perpetrator who cause the explosions, Bei Chen's (BC) sister also died in that incident.

This part also disclose about the maker of the game, the connection between ZY's dad & XH's brother & XH's dad, the side job of ZY's dad & XH's brother & the reason they being invited & involve to the game.

This part also reveal the real perpetrator behind the incident, I'm talk about the black figure that talk to BC since part 1, & also the direct perpetrator behind the incident, yeah that's 2 different people. The direct perpetrator is like the student of the real perpetrator.

And last but not least, this part also make the relationship between ZY & XH more tense, yet grow... Tense cause you know, ZY think that XH's dad is the one cause the explosions & kill his dad. But at the same time ZY feeling for XH also grow toward romance... So yeah that conflicted feeling kinda make a mess at first....

Overall this really one good short drama with every episode filled with tension that make you want to keep watching. But unfortunately we have the little twist in the end that make this drama a little on the edge....

And like I promise I gonna talk about the twist in the 2nd part of this drama. So if you don't want to be spoiled don't read my review from here...

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Here's the twist!!! This is still an open ending drama.... Ugh.... With the cliffhanger that make me want to hang the director too... And cause this such underrated drama, I hope we get update soon about the continuity of this drama....

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