November is the busiest month for C-drama lovers, I’m currently juggling two shows and trying to start another!

IQIYI, WeTV and Youku really have a tight competition going on. With IQIYI’s “Fangs of Fortune” already sailing ahead, WeTV and Youku subsequently dropped their new shows “Love Game in Eastern Fantasy” and “The Story of the Pearl Girl” on the same day. While clamoring to handle two shows at the same time, I haven’t had time to start “The Story of the Pearl Girl”. Let’s get back to the subject at hand; “Love Game in Eastern Fantasy” is a transmigration romance between a bookworm who migrates into the novel she was reading and the evil second main lead. Unusual love story indeed; because in most transmigration stories, the main lead always transmigrates into the body of the main protagonist. Starring Esther Yu, Ding Yu Xi in their second project after “Moonlight”, the show heavily banks on their chemistry; provided in the first few episodes, they are just trying to annoy each other to death. The circumstantial dark humor is pretty hilarious; as our evil male lead spends a substantial amount of time harassing the female protagonist (in one such instance, he kills her repeatedly and each time, she is reborn to be thrust in the same exact situation). Their scenes are so funny and chaotic, only Esther Yu and Ding Yuxi could have portrayed these roles so effortlessly.

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