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Short review:
If you're looking for something serious with an amazing plot and thorough story telling then you should look somewhere else, BUT if you're looking for something sweet, funny, relaxing etc. then I'd say this is the drama for you!
A lot of people say you have to push past the first few episodes (a bit cringey) and I would agree, most people say that around ep 5/6 things start to get less cringey and more enjoyable. I personally found it hilarious at times and some of the eventual scenes between the main leads are super cute!! The key is to not take it too seriously, it ruins the fun~
Longer review:
Story -- for the most part the story/plot was interesting but nothing new besides the Dream aspect of the story, which was unique and also one of the funnier parts of the drama and I enjoyed them a lot. However, later in the story the writers seem to forget about the dreams altogether which was a bit disappointing. The conflicts started to get repetitive and I felt like their resolutions were a bit lacking as well. All that being said I think the story still did it's job of putting the characters in situations to be expected in a 40+ episode drama: meaning that if the main couple got together early on, conflict would happen to pull them apart etc. (typical drama stuff that we all both love and hate)
There are also occasionally these little animations/graphics on the screen that add to the hilarity or fluff which I quite enjoyed!
Characters/Cast -- the characters themselves took a bit of getting used to and the dubbed voices didn't help, but soon I found the characters and their interactions with each other cute/funny and the main cast did a good job in acting both the comedic bits as well as the more serious scenes. I wasn't completely invested in EVERY character but I did care about the main 6. For the most part each character was pretty consistent in their personality and the decisions that they made but while QiQi is definitely a bit childish early on, she (slowly) matures as the story progresses, and Bohai slowly opens his heart and we get SO MANY adorable scenes (and behind the scenes) between the two! They also did a good job portraying the different friendships between the characters which I always appreciate. I also liked that all of the characters were flawed in their own ways and they struggled to overcome these flaws and become better versions of themselves (at least the main 6).
Music -- opening song always had me dancing and the ending song by Deng lun was good too :)
Overall -- writing could have been better but it's still an enjoyable watch, funny and cute, and the actors/actresses deliver!
Rewatch value - as a rom/com drama it's definitely rewatchable, there are so many fluffy or funny scenes that I have already rewatched and will probably come back to watch again and again but in all honesty I'd probably skip through some of the villain scenes, but I do that with almost everything :D
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But then, the main characters were so limited and the story moves away from the dreams plot that the series starts to crash. Qi Qi is childish, not very bright and whiny for basically the entire series. Bo Hai is not only an iceman, but he does some terrible things which makes it hard to root for him. This is not a couple that I care about.
The secondary characters are better fleshed out with more dimension and seem more capable of leading this story than the main characters. It’s rare that this happens for me, but there’s a lot of talent (and handsome) in this cast.
If this were 16 to 20 episodes, this series would have been a lot stronger. Instead, the story meanders to the high stakes world of floral espionage (I kid you not). The early story runs out of steam so we get that odd story line and a finale that makes no sense so there can be some additional drama.
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The premise of the story was definitely really interesting - being able to jump into someone else's dream and whatnot. I think overall the first half of the drama was honestly fairly entertaining and cute when it involved the fantasy elements of the dream world. The end half of the drama definitely wasn't bad by any means, but once the relationship left the dream world and entered the real world, it definitely just became more of an average modern drama. Though overall still a good drama to watch.
The actual progress of the story I mostly enjoyed. There were a few bits that just seemed unnecessary/weird or not well explained/developed to me. I think the development of the main relationship from a fan fawning over her idol to an employee who disliked working for her boss to the eventual true love and support of a relationship was well written.
I will say that again, the fantasy element of the dream world towards the first ? of the drama was definitely my favorite group of episodes. From the beginning it was such a cute and exaggerated way to play out their relationship together, but even through wuxia dream scenes and the "A Chinese Ghost Story" dream scenes and so on, it was a lot of fun watching the two of them interact with each other. In the real world, I will admit I didn't pay a ton of attention to the business side of things (I was watching the episodes raw, so overall I got the main plot, but didn't pay attention to the finer details); so a lot of that was a bit lost on me; but again overall things felt decently paced and balanced. In general, aside from the fantasy elements - the rest of the drama played out like a fairly basic modern drama (hence my slightly lower score). There wasn't much in the actual plot that was mind-blowing or different that what has been done before - but again, still decent overall.
ACTING:
Dilraba - Overall Dilraba is a very cute actress. She's one of my favorites (from the younger class of actresses at least), but overall I do think she still has a lot of areas that need improvement. This type of drama is right up her alley (aka roles that play out like Bai Feng Jiu from TMOPB). Her character was very cutesy, kind, a bit of a temper/stubborn, etc. I think this role was very well suited for her as she's one of the newer actresses who brings that youthful playfulness to these types of characters.
Deng Lun - slowly becoming one of my favorite actors. I've seen a good number of his dramas at this point and have yet to be disappointed. Bo Hai's character overall I feel had the most obvious change/development as he went from the "Man Eater" boss to the loving and kinder boyfriend to Qi Qi. Particularly during the dream sequences I think he really shined because he played such exaggerated characters, but it never felt obnoxious or overdone. Again another member of the younger class of actors, but I think he's going to continue to improve very quickly over the next few years.
REWATCH VALUE/OVERALL:
Definitely not a drama I'm going to watch over and over again, but this is definitely a much better modern drama than others I've watched these past few months. There was a good bit of cutesy romance, funny and exaggerated nonsense, and more heartbreaking and deeper moments throughout. Definitely worth at least one watch through, but again, I won't say it's anything groundbreakingly different.
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So first of all the cast. I don't know many chinese actors, but I will surely watch more of the ones who portrait this drama. The main characters aren't just really good looking, but also good at acting.
The character of Bo Hai sometimes seems a bit confusing, but he just has many unsolved childhood problems and is insecure. Ling Lingqi is a really good choice of charavter, as she has a sweet personality. She is naive but stubborn, so she really tries the help the ones she loves unconditionally.
The friendship of three of the main characters is also really great. They stay with each other even in hard times. But there are even in this friendship some interesting secrets to make the story exciting!
The story at first seems a bit flat. Ling Lingqi likes her idol so much that she tries to work for him. And a miracle happens, she is allowed to. Not only that, but she discovers a way to meet him even in his actual dreams. Interesting, a bit weird, but really fits in the theme of this drama, of a dream like romances... But there are not only the good ones, there can be nightmares.. everyone has them! Eventhough the ending is really dragging the story through the last ten episodes and the clishe`s at the end are getting worse and worse... (some would consider it cute, actually me sometimes too)..
I would really recommend to watch this and see how the story starts changing it's directions and more secrets get revealed. And the connection between seemingly unconnected characters...
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I can understand some of the characters actions, like the reason behind why they're doing what they are doing but sometimes there are just decisions that irritates me. There are a lot of other options to do but a character chooses the most ridiculous choice just because the writers/director told so. I don't like something like that. Like, in a story the reader/watcher should be convinced that there really is no other choice that's why the character will be forced to do something. If it's like that then the reader wouldn't feel like the character is so stupid and there will be less loop holes. There are a few stupid decisions in this drama haha but the reason i continued watching is because of Deng Lun haha! Kidding aside i continued watching maybe because I was watching while it's ongoing and I didn't binge watch. If i did then I would definitely get bored or sumthing. I would probably feel the draggy-ness more. So, one advice, DON'T BINGE WATCH!.
3 episodes a day is enough haha. Do this and you'll enjoy this drama!
This is funny, and a very sweet romcom that is meant to be watched when you have nothing else to do but to watch a drama. Great for passing time. If it wasn't for Deng Lun and Reba this would probably be the kind of drama i'll forget after watching it but yeah. I don't think I will 'cuz it's Deng Lun and Reba. AHAHHA
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The women should have been arrested for stalking
Honestly the only reason I could complete the entire show is because I am a Deng Lun fan. This show is full of negative Chinese female stereo types that we are supposed to find cute and funny. Perhaps if this had been a high school drama it would have been less annoying. The FL had the maturity of a five year old through most of the movie and all the women would have been arrested for stalking in the United States. One of them committed acts that had it been a male done to a female they would have been sent to prison but we are supposed to forgive her. The men tell them no but the women don't listen.To all the DRAMA writers out there... NO means NO. If it's not acceptable for a man to do to a woman, it's not acceptable for a woman to do to a man.
I'm not going to go into other plot holes and disasters. I am mainly writing this for those of you who are parents... don't let your girls watch this.
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Sweets Dreams follows a young girl, a recent college graduate who studied veterinary science, named Ling Lingqi (QiQi). After having one of the most happiest days of her life where she thought she knew what love was, her boyfriend dropped her off and told her that he was in love with someone else and took off. Qi Qi was crushed until a mysterious man gave her a bouquet of flowers with an encouraging note from a place called FlowerPlus. After this incident, she found out that Bo Hai, the CEO of FlowerPlus was the mysterious man on the street that day and decided that she was going to become a florist and make him fall in love with her. But year after year she gets rejected from the florist internship program at FlowerPlus. It isn't until one day when they post a position for a sales associate at one of their flower shops that Qi Qi finally has a chance to get her foot in the door, even a little one, to prove that she is a great florist. During this time, Qi Qi is trying to make extra money and decides to test this new Sweet Dreams bracelet which is supposed to help her sleep, but what she doesn't know is that her bracelet is faulty and actually connects her with someone else wearing the bracelet and they are put into a dream together. At first, when she meets Bo Hai in her dream, she thinks that it is a sign that she will do great things at the company, but when she starts to dream about him over and over again, she realizes that there is more going on. In fact, she finds out that Bo Hai also is testing the Sweet Dreams bracelet, but unlike her, he remembers the dreams, but doesn't remember her face. We also find out that Bo Hai was given the bracelet from one of his friends because he has issues sleeping and thinks that this bracelet will help him as well as reduce anxiety. But Bo Hai is a complex character. After a traumatic childhood which left him an orphan, whenever Bo Hai gets extremely stressed, he becomes colorblind for a random amount of time. It could last a few minutes to a few weeks at a time. We also learn that whenever Bo Hai stresses about something, it reflects in his dreams. After a few dreams, Qi Qi realizes that this dragon that keeps trying to hurt Prince Bo Hai (the first series of dreams is fairy-tail themed) must symbolize something and she decides to to step in and be Bo Hai's knight in shining amour, and soon realizes, when the "monster" is defeated in his dreams, so does the "monster" in his real life. This continues on until the moment Qi Qi finally meets Bo Hai in person and realizes that he isn't the sweet and charming prince from their dreams, a cold boss who only seems to have a healthy relationship with his work.
The series continues with Qi Qi and Bo Hai getting to know one another and honestly just taking on the world together. It is a rocky start to say the least and it doesn't get better for a while and Bo Hai did test my nerves A LOT, but honestly they are the definition was fated love.
I was going back and forth between giving this series a 4 and a 5. I watched this show religiously back in January when I first started it that night. I would come back from work and just plop down at the dinner table and just watch as much as I could. I think I made it to episode...35 until I stopped watching because of two reasons. 1) I didn't want this show to end. It was so unique than any other Chinese drama I have ever watched before. Honestly, usually Chinese dramas have a lightness to them. Even when something crazy is happening, it isn't too crazy. You actually see crazier plots in Korean dramas and I think Sweet Dreams was a nice median of the two cultures. Which feeds into the second reason. 2) My roommate had binge watched the hell out of this drama. She was obsessed. Which meant that she needed to talk to someone about it...which meant I got spoilers. I knew that around the time that the two mains finally got together, they would soon break up because of this CRAZY insane plot point which reminded me of something crazy I would see in a Korean drama. And after this crazy plot point, something inside Bo Hai just broke and he was never the same after. I was scared by this. I had finally watched 35 episodes of this drama and finally the two mains got together and after 2 or 3 eps, it would just end. I couldn't deal. So I stopped watching for about 2 months and watched a bunch of other dramas. I always had Sweet Dreams in the back of my mind because Qi Qi and Bo Hai went through so much and I wanted to see how everything ended; how they would somehow find each other again and defeat the monster of the world together. So I started watching it again and after...a few episodes, my roommate decided to tell me that there was this WILD ending and knowing myself...I needed to know what happened and she wasn't telling me anything. Which is at that moment that I got into my head and thought...someone must have died at the end. There is no way that anything else could be as wild as that, and when she didn't respond to me...I just knew. Not saying that this did or did not happen, but the ending reminded me of Love @ Seventeen. That's all I'm saying.
Honestly, this drama really messed me up. I even lost sleep over it which wild and the moment you know that you are way too deep. After thinking about it, there has only been one other drama that I was completely messed up after...and it was Boys Over Flowers (the Korean adaptation of Meteor Garden.) Even thought I gave that show a 4/5, I was completely invested that I watched all 40-50 something episodes over the course of a week...and that is literally all I did. That show messed me up that I needed to watch more and more and once it was done....I didn't know what to do with my life. That series was wild and emotional af. Much like that show, the characters played a huge part in it being emotional. I am not going to lie, there was a love hate relationship between me and the two mains. In the beginning, Qi Qi was this annoying lovesick girl who was honestly wilding out over this guy that she made up in her head. She had her moments when she found out that Bo Hai was a jerk and she decided to show him that she was a smart and passionate person and was actually a boss at her job. When FlowerPlus was in trouble when their rose shipments were lesser quality, and people were trying to sue the company, Qi Qi came out of it all and told everyone that she would personally make everyone's valentines day bouquets without the roses, but be just as romantic. She basically saved his ass and all while she only trying to prove to herself that she was passionate about her job and not because she wanted to prove to him and she was good enough. I think I liked how Qi Qi matured over the course of this series. I love when Qi Qi is romantic, but I also love when she is a boss ass bitch and saving Bo Hai's booty. Bo Hai on the other hand...oh man...he tested me. Don't get me wrong, I understand why Bo Hai is the way he is. He had a really tragic backstory and an enemy from his past that would not give up trying to bring him and his company down. That was literally what this show about about besides the romance. It was about this villain who would just not leave Bo Hai alone and honestly did some CRAZY stuff to try and ruin him. Bo Hai, instead of trying to open himself up to love or any form of relationship with anyone, he was incredibly rude to everyone. Once he meets Qi Qi, he starts to open up little by little and then close up completely again, and then little by little. I understand his fears, and towards the end, Bo Hai realizes that these things make him weak, but the thing I didn't like about Bo Hai is that even though he knew he was being weak and he hated himself for being weak, he did nothing about it. He would rather run away and hate himself for being weak, than try to find the courage to at least try to solve the issue at hand. I mean, he comes around eventually, but it takes him a WHILE. At some point, I just really wanted them to be together because I don't think there would be anyone else in their world that would be able to put up with either one of them.
After finishing off this series, I would say that this is definitely one of my favorites. This drama makes you feel every kind of emotion possible and it kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. Especially the last episode with that WILD ending. I hated it, but I also thought it was perfect.
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As a whole it is a love story where you can see betrayal ,love ,revenge ,jealousy ,breakup and patchup .
Some part is boring but it is ok it is not bad story . If you start watching you willing to watch all its episodes.
You can watch this drama at ondramanice,this drama is on YouTube also but subtitle run very fast then scene .
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