You Are the April Day on Earth (2023) is a miniseries and can be found on YouTube under the captions: “After Two Years of Marriage, My Husband Seeks Divorce at First Sight | You're the Radiance of Night”. The leading couple, Si Yi Han (played by Zhang Ji Jun) and Ye Nan Sheng (played by Zuo Yi), have a cute chemistry but their intimate moments are just sweet interactions and they don’t have great romantic chemistry. There is a good amount of misunderstanding and the female lead is constantly imagining things and getting upset instead of asking the male lead directly. Still, the drama manages to end up with a happy and cute ending.

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Fateful Love (2024) is a romance fantasy wuxia with Hans Zhang as Jun Bei Yue / 4th Prince and Zhu Xu Dan as Han Zi Qing as the leading couple. The series plot has too many attacks on the leading lady and the lead male is not always there on time to save her which made the plot repetitive and unnecessary with an incredible amount of characters that wanted her dead. The leading lady was capable and she did a good job performing her character as a strong and intelligent female lead. The male lead also did well performing his character so, where is the problem? Unnecessary characters that disrupted the flow of the story, the leading couple lacked romantic chemistry, and the end, although they seemed like they ended together, was not satisfying at all; he didn’t seem like he recognized her after saving her from the cave that she fell in at the beginning nor did he give any indication that he knew who she was when she embraced him, so much for a “fateful love”. This is a series where good and experienced actors seemed to just want to finish the drama and move on as fast as they can.

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Jin Cuo Hao Men Jia Dui Lang (2024) is a miniseries that follows the leading couple Fu Jing Shen / Ye Mo Ha (played by Zhen Zi Qi) and Jiang Yun Yi (played by Jia Yi Xuan) as they get into marriage where she is forced by her family that, as they get to know and relied on each other, they find out that they are the he is the child that she saved when they were both children. They had been looking for each other without realizing who they were but still manage to fall for each other all over again. The drama is nice and the leading couple has a good team relationship but they lack zest in their intimate scenes. Overall, it is a nice watch but don’t expect a relationship with fireworks!

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Sha Qi Shi Yin Cang Da Lao (2024), also Known As: The Silly Wife Is The Hidden Boss has a tag of comedy and romance but there’s no comedy, apart for some ridiculous characters. The leading couple, Wang Dao Tie as Ji Yan Li and Peng Dai Dai as Qin Ran, has a nice team chemistry mixed with a few cute romantic moments but there’s nothing that really makes this drama unforgettable. The supporting cast was mediocre so it leads to some awkward overacting and too many crazy antics from the antagonists. Overall, the leading couple is still the saving grace for this fast paced miniseries.

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Determination to Leave (2024) is a miniseries about Jiang Yue, (played by Peng Dai Dai), her rebirth and a new opportunity to get back what is righteously her. The drama is more about using her prior knowledge and outsmarting her adversaries. Although she finds support and love on her childhood friend, Gu Jin Chao (played by Xie Hong Xin), who was always looking for her, this drama is not about their romance but it is about finding your true worth and the people in your life that deserves your love and attention. Although sometimes she seems callous and heartless toward her biological family, in the long run, they dug their own graves, and Jiang Ye didn’t exactly got revenge, she got justice. The drama is okay for people who like to watch the victim getting what is owned to her and the abusers getting what they deserved, but the drama got boring and the female lead didn’t have a good variety of facial expressions.

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Shan Hun Sha Qi Tian You Ye (2024), also known as: Flash Marriage, Silly Wife Is Sweet and Wild , 閃婚傻妻甜又野, is a nice miniseries with a similar plot as Miss Unwieldy (Yu Long and Yang Mie Mie). The drama has a female lead, Shen Zhi , leader of the Shen family, that, after a traumatic injury, reverts to a mental state of a child. She is saved by the male lead, Pei Jing Xing, played by Li Bo Yan, and becomes his wife. As she recovers and regains her memories, they fell in love and became a power couple that helps each other steadfastly. The drama is fast paced and the female lead’s overacting of her childlike characters is a bit bothersome but it gets better once she’s back to her normal self. Overall, even if the drama is not great, it’s still entertaining.

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Are You The One is a great drama set in a historical time with a beautiful love story. It has well choreographed action scenes, beautiful cinematography, and a pleasant OST. The leading couple, Liu Mian Tang (played by Wang Chu Ran) and Cui Xing Zhou / Lord Huaiyang / Cui Jiu (played by Zhang Wan Yi), is a force to be reckon with. They are both capable, cunning, quick-witted, smart, and warm-hearted toward each other. Their relationship begins with a farce but, through their interactions and as they work together to resolve obstacles and complications, they grow to love each other. This love is tested when the lies are unveiled and each other’s real identity is revealed. Up to this point, the drama is provoking with the mix of mysterious characters and a lovely budding romance. The cast did a great job bringing their characters to life and the leading couple has a great playful exchange of teasing remarks, very well written dialogues, and a pleasant romantic chemistry. Yuan Yu Xuan did a great job portraying the seemingly shy Shi Xue Ji that surprises the audience with her character’s shy and clumsy demeanor while concealing her true nature’s maturity and cleverness. Even though the drama starts to slow down on the second half after the drama reaches its pinnacle, and the finale feels rushed, the drama is entertaining.

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Please Remember Me (2024) could’ve been a great miniseries since it has a very good storyline, choreography, and cinematography; the cast did a very good job bringing their characters to life and the leading couple had a lovely chemistry but the ending messed everything up! Chang Yuan (played by Zhang Fei Fei) and princess Cai Yi (played by Wang Ya Ni) had a better ending than the leading couple. I guess that the writer thought he had written a masterpiece since some people seem to find the twist at the end to be aesthetic and pleasing but, as creative as it is, it ended up been a disappointing ending to a steadfast and endearing love story.

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Crying and Sad (2024) is a “romance” drama that can be found on YouTube under the heading: “To escape her parents, the girl seduced a ruthless CEO, who ended up pampering her.” This is a nice lighthearted drama but the heading’s description is misleading. There’s no seduction done from the female lead Yu Sheng (played by Lin Zi Rong). Yu Sheng was drugged and ended up in an intimate encounter with the male lead Wen Zhu Qing (played by Zhao Guan Yu). This event is not seen in the drama and the miniseries starts on the day she finds out she’s pregnant. The leading couple is great and fun together planning on getting back at the antagonists but there’s no sparkling romantic chemistry between them. This is just a cute “romantic” drama with an unintended pregnancy, marriage of convenience, and a nice supportive male lead.

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Zheng Ge Yu Le Quan Dou Zai Deng Wo Men Li Hun (2024)/ The Entire Entertainment Industry Is Waiting for Our Divorce (2024) is a web series with Shen Hao Nan (Fu Gong Ming) and Dai Feng Yi (Shen Shu Li | Li LI) as the leading couple. The series can be found on YouTube under the captions: “After a Face Swap, She Discovers Her Husband Is Her Ex Who Once Abandoned Her”. The short format for this drama that has the face swapping fantasy element does not allow enough time to the actors to get into the different characterizations of the swapping, but the cast did a decent job bringing their characters to life. The romance lacks passion on the romantic scenes and there’s not much chemistry between the leading couple.

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Ji Zong Nin De Ma Jia Ruo Diao Le (2023), with the leading couple Sun Yue as Ji Ming Xiu and Xu Yi Zhen as Xia Yan, is supposed to be a romantic drama but it is more a romantic comedy with some really funny moments and an insipid romance. The leading couple has a nice playful chemistry but there are no sparks in the relationship. The leading male has liked her for a long time and, although they have an intimate night together already, once they get married, she keeps him at bay for most of the drama even when he is constantly helping her and showing his love in many ways. The story is one that has been played many times but in this one, to make matters worse, the female lead has an incurable disease, forces him to divorce, and leaves him so he will not suffer but he spends five years suffering from loving and missing her. Her friends, thinking that he has moved on, are accusative and dare to say that she has always wanted to come back to him and, on the long run, it turns out that it is up to him to get her back. Overall, the drama is not really romantic, the pace, even though the drama is short, seems like an eternity to get to a “happy” ending with a boring and bland ending.

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Wo Bang Ding Le Ai Qing Xi Tong (2023)
(YouTube title: He bought her just to torture her, but he fell in love with her day by day)
FL: Yang Mie Mie as Lu Miam Miam
This more or less 38 minutes super mini drama is lightly based on the magnificent Korean drama Secret (2013) with Ji Sung as Jo Min-hyuk and Hwang Jung-eum as Kang Yoo-jung. The revenge of Xiao Anyu and falling in love with his prey was very well written and performed by the leading couple but the romantic scenes were block by body positioning taking away from the strength of Xiao Anyu’s conflicting feelings toward Lu Miam Miam. With these main actors, it’s a shame that this adaptation was not done into a longer duration drama because the actors performed quite well on this fast mini rendition.

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Fallen Rule is a nice and lighthearted romantic comedy, The male lead goes all the way to make sure that he gets the girl whom he has been in love for 10 years and his family and friends are all aboard making sure that they have a smooth sailing into pleasantly developed love story with a happy ending. Since it is a miniseries, it is fast paced and sometimes it feels as everything is rushed but the leading couple is really cute and, even though their romantic scenes are not memorable, the drama delivers a good laugh and tenderness from the main couple and friends. Overall, this miniseries is entertaining.

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