Just watch it for the chemistry!
This drama is your average, thriller, a bit of mystery, and romance drama. The story is full of plot holes and the mysteries are like in a loop, they keep repeating themselves and there is not much explanation behind it UNTIL the last episode. So, it gets really draggy in the middle, and many episodes become really bland.The plot is actually quite interesting at first, but it gets a bit boring as the story goes on. There are several meaningless breakups, bad guys, and useless plots mixed altogether that create a really confusing drama. On the whole, the story is just an amalgamation of many side stories that can be cringe-worthy.
The couple, on the other hand, is the only thing that makes the story interesting. Their chemistry is very deep and the romantic scenes are beautifully depicted. Surprisingly, the leads have a great connection, and the kiss scenes are wonderfully shot. that's the only part worth mentioning in this drama. but they have meaningless breakups and lies, etc.
The soundtrack is so average and boring at times. I didn't like the repeating songs and glamorizing the scenes with rather irrelevant songs.
Overall, a pretty decent drama. But, i suggest FF many scenes and get straight to the couple's interaction. The mysteries and plots all unravel in the last few episodes so you won't miss a thing.
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Who said this was 2023's best cdrama?
It made no sense from start to end. I was in the mood to watch a really nice fluffy trash drama, and that's the only reason I made it through all 24 eps. The writers were high on somethig serious, and ended up putting in every single drama trope in existence - illegitimate children, car accidents, murderous family members, corporate warfare, old rich grandpas, doppelgangers, supposed dead people coming back to life, spoilt rich psychos, idiot women who blindly chase uninterested men, drowning, ML trauma, underwater CPR, computer-savvy and hottie bodyguard sidekicks, lies, noble idiocy, crashed weddings, childhood trauma, parental favoritism, endless fighting for the CEO position, kidnapping attempts, weird foreign actors -- you name it, the writers managed to stuff it into this.I'd say the most exciting parts were the first 6 eps and then directly skip to ep 16. The FL starts out dumb, is hella cool in the middle, then gets a little dumber, then becomes better, then finishes off with one last airhead move. The ML was by far the most interesting person in the show, but they mellowed him down so badly toward the end that the entire "lethal' side of him disappeared. However, ill admit it, the kissing scenes were GOOD. They were really, really good.
The second couples werent very interesting. The SML had one expression on for the entirety of the show.
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SMN : Do you love me? YXC : What do you think?
Started this one when I feel bored with my CW list. I was immediately hooked by episode 2.What I liked :
✅️ Enemies to lovers. I'm a sucker for this genre so can't help enjoying this one.
✅️ Sizzling chemistry between leads. 10/10. You could feel like their love is real not just acting.
✅️ Spectacular acting especially from male lead, Fan Zhi Xin. His facial expressions were so on point! When he feels angry , sad , depressed, confidence, satisfied , happy & love it was all shown in his eyes, face and the way he acted. Watching him here feel like when I discovered Ryan Cheng in A Familiar Stranger. I wonder why he is not getting popular when his acting was this good?? I hope he get cast as ml in many drama in the future because his face & his acting deserves it.
✅️ Addicting , intense & angsty plot: 9/10. Watching this drama quench my thirst for angstiness .The last time I feel so much angstiness like this was when watching TTEoTM 4 months back.
✅️ Perfect OST :10/10. My favourite song is Parallel World by Jin Guicheng.
✅️ Good cinematography. I like the way some scenes being filmed helped provide meaning & more depth to the scene while watching.
✅️ Easy watch . Each episode roughly had 30 +- minutes excluding opening and ending credits. So it didn't take long to finish one.
What I liked the least:
☑️ Okay mystery & revenge plot.
✖️ The fact that fl has the same face as ml's sister. But I can forego that fact considering ml and his sister been separated since they were child and didn't even meet when they're adult.
❌️ Boring second couple story. I skipped all their scenes.
Overall, MLM was one of the best short C-drama I've watched this year. If you like what I liked, enemies to lovers, good looking male lead with great acting , sizzling romance , angsty story and all that watch this & you might enjoy it!
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PLOT
SHIT AND SHIT, VERY CONFUSING AND THE ONLY THING GOOD IS THE ACTING OF ALL CAST AND OF COURSE TEHIR BEAUTIES TOO. THE STORYLINE SUCKS AND IS FROM A NOVEL OF WATPAD OR A FANFIC THAT WENT WRONG. IF YOU ARE A TEEN AND LIKE TOXIC STORIES THIS THE CUP OF TEA.
STORY AND BY RANT HOW I HATE THE FEMALE CHARACTER :
I don't understand why people like this drama. For me is a solid 6. Yes everyone is good at acting, that isnt the problem.. The story and female lead character are. First since when woman going to start love themselves more and stop been okay with everything a man does. This female lead is weak, selfish and suffers all drama. The main lead treats the female like shit , physical assault her all time lets not forget he is the one that forces her to enter a house and gaslight her because she has the eyes of his sister.... Then he dumps her and instated of her trying to accept he wants the one for her she literally forgets herself and start having stalker and manic behaviour she even humiliates herself I am sorry but its time to stop with this kind of toxic love teams, because young teens can be influence and believing love between tow people need to be harsh and full of physical assault and gaslight. PS: The second main leads are cute and very good , I stay for them .
THE BROROMANCE IS VERY GOOD IN FACT THEY SHOULD ALLOW A GAY COUPLE BECAUSE THAT TOW MAN ARE THE BEST TOGETHER.
SO YA 6 OUT OF 10
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Let's have a drinking game
Bottoms up when:1. FL cries
2. ML carries FL
3. Auntie wears ugly clothes
4. Cousin gets angry
5. Tang Lin says 'I like him!'
6. Tang Qin being reasonable and helpful and MENTALLY THE MOST ATTRACTIVE BEING IN THE WHOLE SERIES AND SINGLE AND WE NEED MORE SCREEN TIME
7. Someone cries without snot
8. You see cheap looking jewelries
9. You think Ruo Meina is pointless
BONUS a shot of baiju (or two) when you think oh finally sexy time! With all those kisses she should have been pregnant by now.
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Most nonsense drama I ever watched
** Please do not read this review if you have liked the drama **MLM has to be the most illogical, cringe, overacted piece of Cdrama I've had the misfortune to watch. There is no rhyme or reason to why any of the characters do what they do. The ML is supposed to be a dangerous man, but what he is, is a typical gaslighting, abusive toxic romance hero and FL a stereotypical manic pixie dream girl who falls in love with her abductor for absolutely no reason. The politics of succession are laughable as is the acting of everyone in the drama. The chemistry between the leads was not enough to save this train wreck of a show (and TBH, I've seen dramas with rubbish plots but much, much better chemistry.)
So, no. This one's a hard pass for me.
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This is worth the watch!
The ML (Fan Zhi Xin) Bravo!The storyline was interesting, The ML acting throughout was quite impressive. If it wasn't for the best friend and father being literally 'forced' into scenes, it would have been almost perfect. How the ML cared and protected the FL was an intimacy that truly makes you understand how she could not only fall in love, but also want to protect what was important to him. Some of the dialog after the warehouse scene didn't acknowledge the warehouse reveal which made the pace afterwards slightly off. OST very nice. The 2nd hospital scene was trying especially when ML and FL had their phones and were on the same floor. Staging could have been better on that part. Struggling to see each other really wasn't a task. However, that is just being picky. I can take that instead of the over-the-top scenes with the best friend and father.
I appreciate the fact that the story didn't drag.
Very nice flow from scene to scene. Very strong cast. OST is very nice.
With a cleaner edit of some the 'forced' scenes with support characters this would have been 20 episodes and a SOLID 10.
Must watch!
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Main actor was captivating
There was a lot to like about this drama. There always seemed to be something going on (sometimes too much), yet I still felt the need to fast forward through a bit of it, mostly because of the storylines that bothered me.Liked:
1) Fan Zhi Xin as the male lead. Cold, powerful, driven. I didn't like his bent toward physical abuse at the beginning, but luckily, they got rid of that. I enjoyed watching all of the changes he went through as he fell in love. I also appreciated that the ruthlessness that he portrayed didn't completely disappear when he met her. He still had that going on, just not with her.
2) Chemistry between the leads was excellent.
3) Awesome kisses. The Chinese dramas are starting to get better about this.
4) Interesting storyline with some twists and turns and something that I didn't see coming.
5) Redemption of the 2FL. Up until then, this is where I fast forwarded a lot. She was unbearable, she overacted, and she was more than just a little crazy.
6) Happy ending, though it was pretty flat.
7) Fight scenes were good.
Not so much:
1) FL. Well-acted, but I vacillated back and forth on whether I liked her or not. She wasn't your typical simpering female, which I loved. The song "Stand by Your Man" kept playing in the back of my mind. She believed in him throughout. But wow, did she make some stupid decisions!!! SPOILERS: going into her house when it's been broken into, following the bad guy. And the biggest thing that bothered me about her, she bit the ML, twice!! That was just so immature. END OF SPOILER.
2) Plot loopholes. There was a lot going on, but some things just didn't get wrapped up, explained well.
3) FL's friend. I am so tired of seeing clingy, stalkerish females. Trying to act cute, but they are just irritating.
So, overall, if someone asked if they should watch it, I'd say yes, but I don't think I'd go out of my way to recommend it.
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Sizzling chemistry is the only selling point of this drama
Every time I searched for a modern c drama, this popped up. With a high rating of 8.something, it's worth a try.But be prepared for girls in tiny, crotch revealing skirts/ shorts. Thank God the squeaky baby voice was discarded.
The villain lady with straight black hair and red lipstick.
The clichéd car accidents
The cringey share holders meetings
The jealous and greedy family of the millionaires
Just be ready to crawl under a blanket with all these silly creatures
BECAUSE
The ML is worth every minute of it.......
He's a dish, carries his role well, underplayed, macho.....Hmmmm mmmmm
The FL does a good job too. She adds the sizzle to their chemistry and does not shy away from the intimate scenes.
Sticks to her role and is kind of underplayed.
Most others need an award for overacting, especially that FL ' s friend.
So yeah, keep your remote close, skip through the rubbish and enjoy the steamy romance.
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This is such a good drama! you should definitely watch it
I really like this drama. I think it's a bit of a shame that dramas usually start with the initially ruthless guy, but then you never get to see his ruthlessness again once he's with the girl. But in this drama it's just great.The intense male lead made me want to watch My Lethal Man. but when you look at the girl you just now how perfect and beautiful she is. I understand that most people couldn't believe that the girl looks exactly like the male lead's sister. I felt the same way at first. When you really realize that they haven't heard or seen each other for 17 years, you'll be more accepting of the plot. You will realize that the man loves his sister with all his heart, but he also loves the idea of his sister when she was younger. But now he has no idea what his sister looks like now that they're older, because he hasn't grown up with her over the years.
About romance: In this drama you can see how the girl fights for their love. She was always the first to announce everything. But when she said it, she wasn't afraid at all. Every time she says, "I love you," she asked him, "Do you love me too?" To which the man always says, what do you think?
You'll quickly notice that the guy is always the one who gets the better end in their relationship, especially how chivalrous the GIRL is: she always tells the guy I'm there for you no matter what and I'm always by your side. You will realize for yourself how the man is always the one who feels dizzy and cold. The girl is literally his home.
she always makes him happy.
about Acting:
the man was a great actor, I really enjoyed watching him. I love how deadly he looks in most scenes. I think he's really handsome. You should definitely pay attention to his hair. In some scenes his hair is really funny. You'll notice how the scene would play out with his hair and this little detail just added to the drama.
About the girl:
She was really good at acting and I really enjoyed watching her CEO's scenes. I thought she was also dressed super nicely in every CEO scene. I would also like to become a CEO, hopefully that will happen
Honestly, great scenes. when the male lead feels vulnerable, you don't see it right away, but you can tell by the way he hides his face in the girl's neck.
Extra, I love this drama. But what I didn't like so much is that this drama made me cry :( I don't know why but I really have a weakness for sad scenes.
I hope I find more of these dramas.
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This Could Have Been Great
The story was just not it for me. I couldn’t quite wrap my mind around that he started having romantic feeling for someone who’s identical to his biological sister. That alone was a bit much for me. While it was a bit much its not what made me dropped the drama. The FL acting kept getting worse and worse. She overacted so much in episode 13 that she had me feeling like I missed something which would justify her for acting the way she was lol but I didn’t miss anything she was just way over the top. The ML was doing great and I enjoyed his two partners that were along side of him. FL best friend was a tad bit annoying as well. I honestly feel like if the FL was portrayed better I would have kept watching it but her acting just really wasn’t it here.Was this review helpful to you?
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The script doesn’t make sense on many scenes.
I like twist and turn drama. For this one, the plot is fine. With a good script and good production, it can be a fun drama to watch. I’m on episode 13 and I have a mix feeling if I should go on or I should drop it. The ML is handsome and interesting. I’m still here because of him. Many scenes and many parts of script does not make sense. Business building won’t allow animal to walk around and retriever dog won’t attack and bite for no reason. The FL is annoyed the most. Some scenes her acting is too forced, made me raise an eyebrow. The second FL is typical, do unreasonable things for a guy who she may not even like. Just for fun, maybe? I may still watch it with skipping some parts because I’m curious if the scripts may improve eventually.Was this review helpful to you?
