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HIStory4: Close to You taiwanese drama review
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HIStory4: Close to You
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by MLVL
Jul 12, 2022
20 of 20 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 5.5
Story 3.5
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 2.5
This review may contain spoilers

Such a FALL from HIStory 3 masterpieces.....

With this title, I can say it's pretty likable to watch. For this series, the storyline is set aside from what I should be following. If it's not for An Ju Peng (Xingsi) and maybe Charles Tu (Xiao Li Cheng). As what I said, I got lost with the plot, it's all over the place. The thing like Li Cheng is pursuing her childhood or past love girl by putting himself in a BL world with Teng Teng which is kinda, uhmm, not much of a strategy to get the girl back. I really never seen at least one plot twist it's just that.

When it comes to Yong Jie, uhm man I hate him. He's like a stalker to his brother which threw me off. I don't really like that when he saw Teng Teng got close walking with Xingsi, he was attacked. Yong Jie is the least appealing in the show especially because of his situation and portrayal. I don't like the notion of him mistaken the TLC of his non-biological brother to him for love. He stalks him in the series and caused panic to LiCheng Ang Teng Teng for invading their home, attacking Teng Teng and raping Xing Si. That's just horrible to me. I like the pairing between XingSi and Yong Jie though but, damn, if the story between them is different from being non-biological brothers and him stalking XingSi it would have been better. Maybe Yong Jie can be an assistant to the company and they both fell in love, I would accept that. Li Cheng and Teng Teng, honestly did not care for them but I don't have problem with them. I was just not into them, even with sweet moments I didn't really care. My overall attention to the show was for Xing Si only. He is the most likable character in the series. He is genuine, caring, sweet, just anything nice you could think about him. He's also sincere to his feelings and how good looks also caters my admiration towards him. It's just like there's no fault around him in all aspects. My eyes were all glued to him when his screen time is there. Back to Yong Jie, one thing that saved him from disappointing me further is the fact that he matured a lot and towards the end he became caring to XingSi opposed to the scene where he made him drunk and raped him. I really like the way he look when his character changed.
The strategy of getting the girl by playing with her in her BL world is redundant for me. I wish it was like LiCheng just fall in love with Teng Teng ever since growing up. I'm just glad that Xing Si and Yong Jie's parents were not homophobic, at least for the father but the Yong Jie's mother got me like uhmm. There's one scene where she just talk about her son being like a thug instead of giving sympathy towards him which disgust me a little bit.

I also hate the Vice President of the company trying to rape Teng Teng and falsely accusing Li Cheng of embezzling the money of the company. He's such an opportunistic moron. Everything else fine okay not for me even the Yaowi girl Li Cheng was really into it feels like the plot needed her but when I look at it, I was like nah she's redundant too. This made the plot looked weak for me.

I love how Bo Xiang and Zhi gang and their friends made cameos. Kinda hoping characters from TRAPPED would make an appearance too but, I'm cool with it. It's just like a sequel for them although they're not the main characters no more but nothing's wrong with it.

Another downside of this series is like the sudden click between XingSi wanting a relationship with Yong Jie like I don't get it. If that weren't their situation I would understand it, but nah it's just, boom, "I love you" out of the blue "let's be boyfriends". It feels like he just wanted him to be his boyfriend because he feels pity towards Yong Jie than what I thought it should be.

The ending I'm cool with it, OSTs are good. That's that!
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