Reminisce your own school days.
I just finished this show. I definitely enjoyed it and would recommend it.However there were some issues atleast in my opinion with the show. I see a lot of comparisons with A Love So Beautiful. While I agree with them, there is a lot different with this show as well. And if anyone goes into this show expecting it to be very similar, we'll you'll be surprised to say the least. While there are similarities, there are more difference between the shows. ALSB shows them go through school then college and the final episodes focus on life after. With You is mainly set in High School, the final 2 episodes focus on life after, there is no progression to College and the experience there, the ending of the show felt very rushed and I'm generally not a big fan of open Endings so that also annoyed me.
Second Lead Syndrome will happen without a doubt in this show.
As a romantic, there isn't really much in terms of romance, like you as the audience know the main characters like each other, but they don't kiss until the final episode and even then its an emotional scene and well it left a lot to be desired.
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End was messed up
About storyStory about life of students, how they mange to enter in high school and then how they manage to enter the college. For this they work hard according to their potential . Nobody wants to get poor marks because they fear of scolding from their parents so some really do hard work and some do wrong doing .
Positive about drama
1. Each and every character of the drama was very good .
2.like student ,teacher also faced so many hurdles ,their personal and professional life were messed up but still they continue to do work with happy face .
Negative
3. I like the chemistry among the leads .
1. Starting of the drama was not synchronised.
I thought story went in flashback but there is no flashback.
2. Not happy with ending .
This drama needs 2nd season .
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Nostalgic, remind me of youth.
I love this drama so much.. such a beautiful story, characters - It reminds me of my old school days in 2000s. The main and support characters played their roles very well. I love their friendship, heart-broken, family issues, study time, the struggle in findings their own dream, career, etc. I cried every time watching their sad scenes, also during the last farewell speech from their classroom teacher telling them not to feel sad on their parting and so many other scenes.I wish to see more scenes of Geng Geng & Yu Huai in adult timeline, perhaps to have 3 more episodes so not to rush their ending? Anyway, I had good feeling watching this drama, so nostalgic, definitely worth a watch! You will definitely enjoy this drama <3
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I've seen a lot of dramas featuring actors with faces like flower boy or flower girl but, here it feels very natural and I like it.
the plot is getting better with the development of existing conflicts and the love story between these two friendships is getting more interesting because it is made simple, realistic, rarely excessive slow motion scenes.
only shows two lovebirds who love each other but are buried because of friendship.
BUT, I don't like when the ending is too fast and forced to hang or cliff hanger or open ending, not in a good way but in a bad way. when it comes to ending we seem to be forced to immediately accept the conflict and then make up and the end. but actually it doesn't really leave a deep impression on all the characters so i was like " hmmm that's it....?"
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With You focused a little more friendships, and the romance was more of the little things instead of the big grand gestures — and that's the kind of relationship that makes my heart flutter. For that reason, I didn't have SLS at all (just like how I didn't in ALSB).
I'm also someone who HATES time skips, and I was honestly dreading the end of this drama. Surprisingly, I didn't hate it as much as I thought I would, mainly because they didn't drag it out. Still, the time jump opened up so many plot holes and lack-of-communication issues — in my head, I'm just gonna pretend that that part doesn't exist.
The time jump also focused a lot more on the romance than on the friendships, and it delved more into melodrama style. Beta was my favorite side character, and I felt like her plot never got closure both in the friendship and in the romance departments.
Overall, With You had a lot of my favorite cliches, and it managed to pull it off swimmingly. The ending was very reminiscent of a lot of other Chinese dramas that suddenly go from wholesome to angsty — but as a whole I still really loved Geng Geng and Yu Huai, especially during their high school days. And lastly, the OST is AMAZING , but sadly super hard to find.
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It have a realistic vibe and I loved the first part of the drama with their friendship , school struggles & one sided love ... but the later part when they were about to graduated I got bored I did not like the story line at that point & also I did not like the leads character development .
It had a really high potential at the beginning , I only gave the 7.0 because I liked the first part of the drama .
Even if this drama was not that bad but I wont rewatch it !!!! someone gave a recommendation to watch this after I've finished " A Love So Beautiful " telling me it have similar vibe , after watching it I disagree it is so different and I totally prefer " A Love So Beautiful " over this one ! .
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THIS IS NOT LIKE 'A LOVE SO BEAUTIFUL'!
I feel like the fellow reviewers have scammed me in to watching this drama saying 'If you want to fill in the void after ALSB, this drama is for you' Noooo not at all it is like ALSB! The skeleton of the drama might be like ALSB but the execution and story did disappointed me a hell lot!The best thing about the drama was the Cast! The actors made me complete the drama otherwise I would have dropped it at the 7th episode itself. Every actor was so good at the role! The only person who did the great job in the crew was the casting director! Seven Tan was my most favourite amongst all and then comes the actor who played Lu Xing He... Trust me, The only interest I had in the story was how Lu Xing He's love develops and how he expresses so warmly everytime till the end! I had seen 'beta' in 'My dear ancestors' and I loved her as an actor (Though a bit biased against pairing her up with Chen ZheYuan) and here also she doesn't disappoint! The actor who played "Zhang Ping" was great on his job too! Last but not the least, Liu Hao Ren was good too but his limitation was the character given to him which doesn't allow him to show his talent which is written all over his face that he has in him, so I would love to see his other works before saying anything about him...
Coming to OSTs, there was no single tune, let alone a song, that gets our attention and we cant stop humming it. For me, osts are like bridges between the audience and the stories, they make the story alive and felt by the audience. maybe, this is one of the reason why I am not attached to the story!
The incompleteness is too much in the drama, the whole group was shown so close to each other in some parts whereas in others they were totally unconnected. for example, Han Xu was considered as other side actors which were just there to fill the class' benches. Bei Ling's real intention and other things they have not shown only, after leap no other friends are visible, just their voice you get to hear whereas they must have shown a proper reunion of them, Not even something about Zhou Mo and Jian Dan they have shown and the most important the ending literally pissed me off and I have came here to rant my anger! Okay we get it Geng geng was always in love with Yu Huai and she cannot hurt Lu Xing He by commiting him a loveless marriage - ACCEPTED... but atleast we as audience deserved some chemistry and love scenes between the two main leads which was an invisible hope that never came true until the last episode and after that too.....
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