Special Lady (2023)

Cute couple, silly humor and lots of fun

I was probably one of the few who loved this drama so much. It's really silly, shallow and even childish, but it's a lot of fun. It's a light-hearted drama with slapstick humor that's good for distracting yourself without thinking too much.
ML and FL are very cute together, both have shortcomings and aren't the most intelligent people, so to speak hahahaha
In my humble opinion, this is probably the FL most wronged by the public on this site that I've seen so far. A lot of people hating on her for whatever she did but I realize that no one ever tries to see her side. She's a teenager (it's not said how old she is, but I don't think she's older than 15 or 16) who's been pampered and protected by her family all her life, she acts very much like a teenager: she doesn't want to be bossed around, she doesn't care much about anything that doesn't revolve around her, she's inconsequential, impulsive and thinks she can do whatever she wants. If you see her for what she is, a teenager who wants to avoid an arranged marriage at all costs, you won't find the things she does so absurd or evil.
And unlike what many people thought, it's clear to me how much she's grown over the course of the drama.
The pace of the story is really strange, there are many episodes with FL still infatuated with SML, from the rhythm it seems that it would be a drama with about 50 episodes. The revelations and solutions to the problems were accumulated for the last 6 episodes, which ended up being a bit rushed.
In short, a cute main couple with a lot of chemistry, especially when it comes to comedy. By the way, the actor who plays ML is extremely charismatic. I also liked the friendship between FL and SFL. It's just SML who's so dull, always looking constipated and gloomy.
Finally, I suggest you ignore the low ratings and harsh comments and try to watch it and come to your own conclusions.

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The best drama in the early 2024.. I'm ady miss so much too neo hou and zhou ye because their drama also the hit in early 2023..This drama overall are just nice from the actor line up, storyline, crisis scene, romance comedy scene..The ML Chen Yan so cute tho also Song Zhu.. both so adorable and cutie but only the director maybe they put FL (Female Lead) so crazy and hard to get moreover song zhu in early so fancy to zhou ji but i don't care because she will fall in love with chen yan in a time. hmm i also hope chen yan will stay as prince son meanwhile he take a decision to move to an academic.. All of you need to watch this

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This show didn't seem very impressive at first, but after watching it to the end, I felt it had many good aspects. The initial episodes were quite funny and relaxing, although the lead actress was heavily criticized for being irritating. However, if you try to understand her reasons, you'll sympathize with her more. For example, if her parents chose her groom since she was a child, and he turned out to be a bad person, scary-looking, and not the main lead, what would she do? Or even if he was a good person, but they didn't truly love each other in the end, and she ended up marrying someone she didn't love, what would she do? Would she accept a life with someone she doesn't love, or find a way to escape? This is where the necessary choice to disturb the main lead comes from because if he didn't study here, she could study elsewhere. However, the ML is so lovable, this make people even hate FL more. Before watching, I also wondered why they cast this actor since he didn't seem handsome at all, but as I kept watching, I started to like him, feeling he was handsome and charming. I even fell in love with the character. However, the latter part of the story became more stressful, sad, and somewhat boring in many episodes or many scene. The point I felt that the series lack was a period of FL started to show signs of unknowing love, but there wasn't. Its should have more sign before she accept herself that she love the ML. The script made her fall in love, and then said it was a habit for the ML to be by her side, but it didn't feel like she had fallen in love without realizing it before. This is different from the main lead, who viewers felt was starting to have reactions, starting to like, but didn't realize it and didn't accept himself from the beginning. However, in the end, I got a good teachings and aspects from this. Therefore, if you ask how I feel, I would say it's a series that was boring to watch for many episodes, but I don't regret watching it until the end.

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I’m surprised!!!! I liked the drama :)

First - Lead actors. It’s the first time watching any work of Zhai Zi Lu and Xiao Yan (had to look for their names). And Watched “Special Lady” without expectation at all (except for the 7.4 mydramalist rating). I don’t usually write reviews but I did for this drama because I want to say that both of them are good actors and the drama deserves a bit higher review.

Zhai Zi Lu - impressive. I think with all the cdramas I have watched, he’s the only cdrama actor that I found good in romcom. He has great sense of comedic timing that is crucial in this type of character (though I find his intonation too high sometimes lol). His antics are on point. Not all can pull off this silly character as some may look awkward or trying hard.

Xiao Yan - adorable. I did not have much interest in her in the beginning but she gets adorable as the drama progress. Her acting is good and the character fits her overall look.

Zheng Xiao Ning - Song Zhu’s father. Dean Song. I wanted to put it up here that he did a good job acting as the ever calm and upright character.

Second - chemistry!!!! They were cute bickering (and because the characters are well portrayed, I found them silly in a good way) I loved their energies.) Then when they were starting to realize the tension between them I found myself smiling and giddying that I wanted their relationship to progress faster lol. Finally!!!! When they got together it was warm, fuzzy, calm and secure relationship which fully convinced me watching it is so worth it <3

Story - Now I think one of the reasons for the low review is it’s excessively long, especially the first half of the drama. I know it’s for the plot but I still fee like this should not have 36 episodes. Especially the relationship build-up for the two it took more than half of the series. Nothing special about the plot but still a good watch. So I am giving it a 8.5. Still it gave me butterflies in my stomach so great job, everybody!

Thank you for reading my review. <3

** Pseudo-spoiler **
P.S. I’m glad I did not root for the 2nd male lead guy here lol. Judge him when you watch the series

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Pengembangan karakter FL

Buat aku pribadi tidak nyaman dengan penokohan FL. Karena di cerita manapun FL itu protagonis, tapi di cerita ini justru karakter FL berkembang menjadi antagonis.
Kalau mau di bilang komedi aku tidak melihat adanya unsur komedi.
FL di sini yang aku tangkap karakternya justru liar, nakal, tidak memiliki tata krama, lancang, manipulatif.
Untuk ML pengembangan karakternya kurang jadi tidak seimbang dengan FL.

Jadi episode 1-5 terlalu berbelit dan konflik hanya di situ saja. Alurnya sangat lamban, pengembangan karakter kurang. Pemerannya memang bagus tapi justru rusak karena jalan cerita dan karakter penokohan.

Aku hanya memberikan ulasan sesuai dengan penilaianku. Karena aku sering baca novel China dan nonton drama China yang banyak episode justru seharusnya lebih bisa mengembangkan karakter tokoh lebih banyak.

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