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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It was good until...

The drama start with a good start, unfortunately they can't keep it up untill the end.

Quite like the story development at first, everything run quite smoothly without much can be criticism. Unfortunately in the last episode, they kinda jump the plot until make me confuse & shout: "Hah!? How that's happen again..." I think we have missing scene that not included into the final wrap...

The story around 2 long separated friend that meet again in their adult age. The meeting evoke their pent up feeling & the closeness make the feeling bloom into something else.

I like how the story progress with Choi Jun (CJ) try to get closer with Lee Jun (LJ), with all of CJ's expression that we can see on his face. But at the same time, I got blank page from LJ. LJ sudden change in feeling toward CJ make me wonder how & when that happen....

Overall this only another drama that passed by in my days...

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Why... Oh why...

This drama I can say one of the best wuxia this year. The complexity of the story, the beautiful character played by all the actor & of course the chemistry between the cast, make this drama so beautiful. But unfortunately, the ending make me want to cry.... & that's why I decided to lower the score a little bit.

This drama by far, one of the most interesting characters that Esther Yu ever played that I've ever watch. In this drama, we didn't meet the happy go lucky or cheerful usual character played by Esther Yu. Her character here quite gloom & serious & have layered. And I don't think that annoying voice that everyone bother about her voice can be heard here, i don't know if that's dubbed or not tho....

This drama tells story about 2 big powers in martial art, good (Gong family) & bad (Wufeng). Our ML, Gong Zi Yu (ZY) comes from Gong family while our FL, Yun Wei Shan (WS), comes from Wufeng. The story started with the chance Wufeng had to infiltrate Gong family when they open their door for bride selection for their young master who already come of age.

When the plot run, we got to know that Wufeng not only send one of their spies, but 2, with each have their own mission to be completed. And as the story goes, we got to know the character more & their own stories. But this drama not only about the spies of Wufeng & their own mission inside the Gong family. But the messy drama inside the Gong family itself.

The story began with the dead of the head family, ZY's dad & ZY's oldest brother, or you can say the heir. Without the lead & the heir, the elders in the family must decide to pick the next leader, and by all the luck it falls to our ML, ZY. ZY himself at first only one of the sons in the family that, you can say, the most spoiled young master in the family that no one expect him to be the lead. But all the sudden circumstances make all the elders have no choice but to pick him. That's why at first ZY must prove himself worthy to be the lead, especially to his second brother, Gong Shang Jue (SJ). But in the end ZY still our ML right, not only he proves himself worthy to be the leader, but he also proves his own true quality.

I really like the story & how the layered of the story peeled itself when the drama progress. The chemistry between the lead, WS & ZY, SJ & Shang Guan Qian, and also the funny Gong Zi Shang (ZS) & Jin Fan. ZS herself maybe the most interesting character here,Ii really like her shameless yet bitter attitude.

Overall, this really good WuXia drama this year. Without such ending I'll gonna give this drama much higher score....

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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 live 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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Last part

When you think the writer can't make more mess to the story. Yet they still manage to ruin the whole thing with the ending... One of the most illogical ending the writer can possibly come up to. My head really get headaches after wacthing this whole series.

Not only the writer give no explanation about the whole thing in the last season/part. They even added such illogical conclusions....

UGHHHH!!!! I'LL GONNA SCREAM & CURSE VERY LOUDLY!!! Just don't read my review if you don't want get big spoiler about the ending









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The messed up ending!!!
* They lived happily in the end. Forgetting about everyone outside the household. This season/part talk about NO ONE outside the ML family. Including the emperor. He just dissappear into thin air. Never discussed again. No matter what grudge the emperors had with our ML, the writer just decided to finished the story in this season/part. So they simply just erase the part of the emperor.
* What the h*ck with the illusion that FL's dad give them? What's the h*ll what's that???!!!!
* How come in the end Chu Liu Lun that get into the throne???!!!! What happen with the crown prince???!!!
*And the biggest one how come in the end ML that come to the world that FL lived. And we only get blurry image of it too... Why not make they hugging in the future time to wrap the whole thing.

Overall long time not getting headaches after watching drama like this. I rated the whole series 2⭐ I guess....

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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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Messy plot

Intrique by summary and pitching from YouTube make me click this drama. Unfortunately good story with bad writing make messy plot

For you who don't want get spoiled don't read my review. Cause i think I'm gonna curse/rampage a little bit about the holes in the plot...

Ok let's start....

At first the story really good everything quite good, the story, the time line quite make sense. Unfortunately the more story rolling the messier it gets...

They did a good job with the explanation of our FL & her maid side. What she must do to get out of this world & back to her world. And the game system to make all the health tool appear really interesting. But as usual & FL seems not too confuse with how her suddenly in the ancient world & just focus to get back to her world soon.

The messy part however when they need to explain the ML side, or you can said the world that they live right now...

1st off all we kinda missing the introduction in the beginning, we know that our ML is the former crown prince, but how come when the emperor died he's not ascendant into emperor & what his relationship with the current emperor....? And the missing introductions not only that, but also every body connections with each other. Get me headaches....

After that the story role about how ML fall in love with our FL and vice versa. Quite normal... When suddenly we get introduced with new characters Su Qi Shao, that we don't know who the h*ll is he until later, that turn out he is the lover of our ML's sister. & suddenly they're friends (yeah suddenly, a few ep back ML still stealing from him, if he turn out be friend why don't you just aks nicely...?) & try to rescue the sister from the place... Ugh.... And of course they succeeded to take the princess away and returned her later... And they did all of that without much effort or struggle to begin with, everything went so smooth like they own the palace. You rescue a princess from inside a palace without any struggles yet you're not suspected anything or anyone behind that controll it, and let's not forget our ML is former general. Ugh... How stupid can you write the story!!!!

The plot get messier again when they add about Bamboo Rooster. What the h*ck is that???? They never bother to explained it. Yet I calm myself this only part/season 1, hope they explain it later in the part/season 2.

Hope the part/season 2 make the story clearer....

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Here we are again...

Seing many review write about negative thing make me want to write something.... Hahaha....

After read a bunch of the review here must be agreed with some point they all wrote, 7 years in the relationship don't make them be mature. 7 years in relationships don't make them learn how to communicate or talk about thing that important in their life. Just the steamy scene become much better... Haha....

Especially agreed with what yoonthethicc wrote in their review. The biggest problem that this couple have is the lack of trust they have with each other. But sometimes that what the writer did in all the drama, they make jealousy looked like what every couple must have, jealousy mean love sort of thing, without jealousy mean you don't love....

Yeah after read a bunch of review here I also realise this season gonna be better if they just focus on make their relationship better, instead give new characters that didn't help with character development, like Fiat & Leo. Ugh another toxic to the max couple we don't need in the drama.

Like many other i also like doc & champ. Although somethimes i shake my head how stupid champ can actually be...

What i like is the end when FINALLY Type talk about the problem in their relationship. But we can't really make sure will they be mature or not cause this is the end of our journey with Tharn & Type. And in the end i really think they cute couple & just can't bring myself to lower the score even with all the toxic thing that happen in this series.

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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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1st part

Quite boring with usual drama, so I looked for a little bit mystery. Quite happy to find this, quick & fast pace mystery. Let's discuss...

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. This first part talk about introduction, about the game, the character & at the end of this part, the connections between 1 and another.

The game in this drama quite interesting. They using virtual reality with simple VR glasses. Unfortunately we don't get to see how their body in the real world when they're in the game. Is it like the usual VR games where our body moving too or just stay put...?

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 end when with ZY finally know the relationship between him & Xiao Han. Oh I'm 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 there...

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Watch this due to boredom & don't know what to watch. Know the ML so just though to myself, let me check this out. So here I'm finished watch this drama...

What I like:
+ The chemistry between our lead. I can feel the tense, the building romance & everything these couple want us to feel it...
+ The tough FL. Even though she's not familiar with the industry & her sister job, she's not complaining much & just get the job done.
+ The proof that male & female can have platonic relationship. Haha... ML & his sister not the real brother & sister, but their feeling purely only sibling love without other feeling...
+ The supportive family. ML & FL parent is just supportive of their relationship without much trouble.
+ The cute relationship between Gao Ling (GL) & Mu Xiao Man (XM). The time GL take to consider their relationship is good. Cause you know sometimes is not easy to take the feeling from brother love to romance love. You need time to think and contemplating, to separate your feeling & thought, to really really think the difference between brother love or something else.

What i don't like:
- The crazy entertainment industry people. The manager, Fang Jie, just kidnap FL cause he didn't want her sister work to be stop. Yeah I know maybe like he usually said he just don't want all the struggle Su Jin Qing done to that point to be wasted. But still what he did is never OK, what ever the reason
- The crazy sister. To be just disappear from the beginning is never OK. You only leave letter to tell about your absence without much thought for other people it just not OK. Even if you stress out, you need to tell other people about your plan, especially if that's affect other people, like the case in this drama.
- The ending is kinda something amiss. I don't know what, & can't put my finger to think what is it. It just something feel lack....

Overall this just another drama to watch

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