About Is Love (2018)

Easy to watch

It's a love story about a CEO who has a severe allergy to human touch, especially women. One day he finds a girl he's imune to and he becomes somewhat obsessed with her, but she doesn't want to be with him.
He's been starving for human touch and intimacy for 10 years so he uses all the cunning tricks and manipulations he can to make her his girlfriend, he's almost evil during this part. Personally, I've enjoyed all the tricks he was using to make her stay by his side because I can understand how desperate he was to hold her. His tricks are a bit different from the other dramas and that makes it refreshing to watch. The intimacy between the main leeds is satisfying and not frustrating as it is in most dramas where they literally tease you with them not kissing. Here they kiss, early on in the show and in a very satisfying way during the series.
It's a very easy and relaxing drama to watch from the beginning to the end. Even though there were 30 ep they were easy and fun to watch because they didn't repeat themselves, the storyline was light and it drew me in and kept me interested.

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Expected More, then again... it's a C-drama

I was hoping that this drama would've shown me that C-drama's can produce solid dramas, but it didn't.
Definitely wouldn't be watching it again.
The acting was 'okay' to say the most, but the plot itself was going NOWHERE quick!!
The ML character was just so... bah! His character was emotionally weak, immature, controlling, and down right demanding. The only thing was going good for him was that he's rich. That's it. Absolutely nothing else.
The FL was TOO air headed for me, and let me not start about the relationship between the ML & his mother. Pfffff

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Hi everyone! I just binged watched this, it surprised me in a very positive way. (I almost didn't fast forward! )
The story was somewhat original, with a few twists, the characters were very good... Good acting... Some bad acting as well but you don't really notice it in the overall.
It was fun to watch, sometimes exasperating... Loved the kiss scenes... ❤️
This is the kind of drama that you know if you are going to like it in the first two or three episodes...
I don't regret giving it a chance... I had fun...
Hope you guys give it a go
Xoxo
Uni

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Show is filled with deep emotions and great acting from the casts. However (spoiler alert)
There are many many sweet scenes but things/status are not official till the last 3 eps. So it feels like not satisfactory...
Ending feel a bit rush when all the mysteries get solved.. although is a happy ending, feels incomplete because things were not explained fully in the show and other than the main casts they didnt really say what happened to the others.
Need a season 2 for all the sweet scenes and actual couple storylines..
Worth to watch but
Maybe wont rewatch but will see clips online..

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Very enjoyable Drama with a sadly disappointing Ending

I finished this drama in one Sitting and I must say I did enjoy most of it BUT the last Episode was just Trash (my opinion)

It is a good drama that creates a nice atmosphere.
The plot is not that original but it creates many chances of interaction between the leads which are often very cute or funny.
Zhou Shis friends are just so hilarious and fun ( like they used physics in such a comical way and as a person who understands most of them they are pretty amusing) to watch just like their own romance in the story.
But it gets weaker to the end cause they start to create (stupid) misunderstanding while important conflicts reconcile somehow way too easy.
The plot is not that original but it creates many chances of interaction between the leads which are often very cute or funny.

*Spoilers*

The were many cute moments and it was also very entertaining but some episodes were just pointless to the story (but these were often my fav. Episodes hehehe) and the End was way too rushed leading to "simple solution" that don't fit the development of neitherthe Characters nor the story.
For example just the way Wei Qings Mother acted the whole time. She treated him so badly and it felt like she slapped him everytime they met and the reason is because her husband liked him more than her??? Jealousy you serious... "I didn't just lose my husband but I also lost my son" no... just leave me alone. She treated him like trash and that's how they decided they gonna end this conflict???
What is even more confusing is her reaction to his allergies. idek what I should even say about that...

So many things happened that were just threw into the plot to cause more drama that were just completely useless/pointless and some scenes would be way better in a different order but heyyy it's a drama there can't be no moment of peace ig...
Also it was just so annoying hearing Zhou Shi say she doesn't know if she likes him or doesn't believe him that he loves her like??? You were acting like a married couple for about 10 episodes. Firstly I didn't care but she acted this way till the last minutes of the drama and it was just way too much at this point.

In general the last episode was such a huge disappointment from acting, directing and Ending of the plot in general.



In CONCLUSION.... I rly enjoyed this drama that's why I was able to watch it within 2 days and because i liked it so much I'm even more disappointed of the ending.
But it's still a very enjoyable drama that I would recommend watching. To those who dislike rushed ending I do recommend to stop at episode 28/29 and just spoil yourself the ending (even tho you can guess most what's gonna happen anyway)

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Season 2 coming

First of all I loved the cast they were amazing and the acting was so good.
But there is a season 2 coming on the way and I am so excited.
Now about the drama I liked how the male lead had some kind of disease and that the girl was his only hope and how he relied on her it was so cute after they got used to each other they acted like everything was normal and they slept together without doing anything like they were a couple but as friends
And I hated the mother of guy bc she was blaming him for his father’s death even though he did nothing wrong and I think that someone from the family has something to do with his father’s death.
Also the guy should’ve confessed to the girl more private and after he confessed he should’ve told her about his father bc the girl needs to know why he was at his old house investigating his father’s death. The ending though was cute.
Btw in season 2 they will face lots of trouble as couples and I think they were gonna get married and they break up bc she thinks he is cheating on her so be prepared

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Entertaining

Entertaining drama, but some episodes drag and the story is not unforgettable.
The OCD suffering mysophobic company president's plots and snares to tie the useful but not stunning artist girl to his side are bound to fail until he resorts to sincerity, but even then, will it be enough ? The opposition of business and artistic views are somewhat caricatural, in my opinion. The mystery behind the shy and tortured genius young artist, and the company president, drives the plot more than the somewhat twisted romance which features a collection of expected problematic behaviors. Some moments are, as expected, quite sweet; some others can be disappointing and trite or even offensive to persons with high stress trigger sensitivity because of gestures and maneuvers that are almost borderline and not just funny, although they are often expected as romance ingredients of this type of stories.
Once aware about this and for those not too easily fazed (and since C dramas have instructions to stay within certain limits, that most mythology often transgressed, but our neo-victorian and social justice conscious times frown upon with passion or hypocrisy) it could still be enjoyed by most young adults or older audiences.
I thought this drama was not extremely memorable, as I had started watching it a while ago and then turned to other ones, leaving it on hold, almost forgotten. Coming back and rewatching, I thought there's enough in it to maybe embark on Season 2 which is a bit slow to air at the time I'm writing and which may flesh out some of the other supporting characters together with the back history behind the business and families stories, while adding new complications to the three couples' relationships. They are not role models to follow in my mind, but as the "nerdy" girl puts it, the developments can be "interesting", or entertaining.

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This was definitely better than I expected.

The cover of this drama is very misleading. It looks like a sweet and BORING romance when it's NOT.

This is a drama where the ML chases the FL, but unlike the usual Cdramas where the FL is being annoying and pushing the ML away when he's being nice and sweet, here, it's the opposite. The FL does try to push the ML away, and with good reason. He chases her in the worst possible ways, which I loved. Everything he does to keep her close, does the exact opposite. Since he's rich and she's poor, you know money is the leverage he uses, which thankfully doesn't attract the FL.

I loved the FL in this drama, usually in these types of dramas I wouldn't really like the FL. Here, the FL is a practical person, she has good reason to do the things she does. Even her crush on her childhood friend made sense because he was really good to her, just not boyfriend material. I found it hilarious and ironic that her crushes role model was the ML.

I also LOVED the ML. Despite the fact that he does go overboard in trying to "own" the FL, I understood why he went to such lengths to do so. I loved his charecter development and his backstory really does explain why he became such a cold person who only cares about money and I loved how his backstory is never hidden, we know it from the very begining. His charecter is the definition of "money can't buy you happiness". He is a very lonely person who grew up with parents that didn't seem to love him and instead dotted on his adopted brother. He was an outsider to his own family. I think that's why he grew to have a phobia of touching people, because those who were meant to be the closes to him, abandoned him. What's worse is that he was replaced by his parents with the SML (Ning Fei).

This is a slow burn romance. Maybe a bit too slow, when it came to the romance. But, even when the leads where just "friends", their relationship was more like that of a couple rather than friends. I also loved the second lead couple, though they were more like siblings throughout the drama.

The story can definitely continue as the ending is open and I'm so happy that there's going to be a season 2 with the same cast.

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Engaging fluff of romance drama

Its definitely an engaging and will not bore you. You will be curious as to what happen to the Chairman. Yess he will make use of money to get the girl and the tactics make you a bit annoy but bear with it. But im a bit angry with the mother, how could a mother hate her only son, I mean just because the father want to spent time with his son. And how can she treat an outsider much much better than her your own son.

Anddd how come Zhou Shi takes awhile to realise her feelings that she love Chairman. Its obvious, I mean they slept in the same bed, she thinks of him and is happy with him plus both of you kiss too many times.

Anyway its an enjoyable drama with great side characters, great kissing scene and interesting plot. 30 episodes is a good length.

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Interesting Plot & Side Characters Save a Drama that Botched It's Main Relationship

What really drove this show was character development. Of the 6 main characters, most of them ended up completely different than they started the show. Wei Qing starts as this abusive, borderline sociopathic guy who thinks he can buy, steal, or manipulate anything outcome he wants... even making the FL his girlfriend. Lin Fei Fei, friend of the FL, thinks that money is everything she wants out of life, even in love. Her other friend, Bi Qiu Jing, thinks love is something that is nice to observe, but nothing she'd ever want to participate in. FL's childhood crush Li Ming Cheng has a similar logic-brained view on relationships. Ning Fei, sorta brother of the ML, is a complete mess of a person, who can barely function in society, much less in a relationship.

This show really finds it's form in the middle, when each of these characters grow up and start to find themselves. Wei Qing becomes more emotional and empathetic. Bi Qiu Jing & Li Ming Cheng begin to see value in love, even in their own twisted ways. Ning Fei becomes a more confident and stable person. Lin Fei Fei sees there's more to happiness than money.

The problem with the show is the FL, Zhou Shi, doesn't have this character development. She starts off hands down the most normal of all of them, but by the end, you got the feeling that they all grew up and became adults while she didn't. She'd spent ten years in love with brother Ming Cheng for simply helping her study for an exam. She had this misconstrued notion that she should love someone simply for helping her. Literally, everyone in her life knew that she was in love with Wei Qing, by episode 20, but instead of acknowledging her feelings, she was indecisive and dragged it on. Then at the very end, she decides to kiss him, after he revealed he saved her life in a swimming pool a decade earlier. This shows her character clearly didn't grow. She kept finding love as an emotion of reciprocity for a favor, not as something deeper. She clearly had a deep emotional care for Wei Qing, but for someone, she couldn't recognize it as love... even if the whole audience and all her friends could. And because of that, the audience was deprived of seeing them date at all. They are literally together for 2 minutes before the show is over...

This ending where they get together is incredibly rushed, which I'll be a little less harsh on them for, given that there is a sequel in the works. I hate how that sequel is sending her abroad for grad school (I hate this plot trope... she is literally about to be independently wealthy from having ownership rights of Xun Ran's paintings, on top of dating a multi-billionaire... don't you think she could get private training in China that means she doesn't have to leave her whole life behind to pursue inferior training? It just felt like she was running away from her new adult life at the end) and how it's already revealed they break up. Hopefully, through this breakup, they can explore her character growth as she begins to develop a more mature perspective on love as the other 5 characters in the show did in the original series. If she does, then this will have been a satisfying drama with 6 complete character arcs. If not, oh well at least we have the nice side characters, and hopefully Wei Qing can find happiness elsewhere.

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