To Ship Someone (2023)

Optimism falls in love with Pessimism

Story
In comes FL, Xiao Xi, who despite her difficulties and struggles in life and work, she always holds a positive view in living her life. She works in a company that purchased IP from web novelist and send them in film production. FL has been a fan to a web novel series written by Ji Shu. She is in love with Ji Shu’s novel CP and wanted to get company to purchased his IP. Hence FL meet ML. Ji Shu is the opposite, due to misfortunes of his family and blames himself for the death of unborn sister, he became aloof and pessimistic about life, relationship and love. And after encountering a betrayal from love and friend in University. He became more withdrawn and devoted to his novel writing and used it for his own therapeutic healing, hoping that he wrote his story out, he can heal and move on.
While I mentioned because of their work FL and ML met, fell in love and ultimately through various trials and situations involving life threatening events, they have an happy ending. The story involves FL trying to use love initially to make ML sell his IP. H the fantasy element is that while she was upset with how ML changes her sweet CP characters to a sad ending, she started to make comments on his site, but miraculously suck into the web novel as a character and was able to change ML’s novel CP through her involvement in his web novel world. Subsequently ML also got suck in too and fell in love with FL through their encounters. Simply put it that her positivity changed him and he learnt to love someone whole heartedly.

Pros and Cons
The story’s premises were refreshing and realistic about fanatic fans chasing novel CP and wants writer to gave them a happy ending. Characters entering web novel is not new storyline, this drama didn’t spend much time explaining how and why it happened. It just follow on the story of the characters and their development.
It’s definitely a low budget production as the unfitting clothes, poor styling to bad lighting and outdated fashion is quite obvious from main lead to supporting casts. I wish they have done more justice to ML’s charming appearance. FL is also pretty but here, they may have purposely increase her ugliness for the character. In later part, one can see her dress sense change slightly after the CP got together. The dress sense for all the cast just seems cheap and poorly done.

The romance is a bit cliche at some parts but acceptable with comedy, the story is straightforward. The FL’s character is a little over the top to sometimes being irritable, annoying and draggy. However FL is silly but yet adorable at moments. ML acts well here being melancholic and aloof, and taking a process of change. The antagonist is also conveniently planted with not much depth, and I couldn’t understand the hatred he has for ML, if it’s spin off from jealousy, it’s too convenient plot. At some point one may wonder how come the antagonist has so much power to control internet and their fate in the internet world.
The supporting casts are good. The side story involving the novel CP is interesting and their changes reflected the writer’s perspective, but I wasn’t that invested in them. It’s acceptable to me that this story wants to show how lack of love or trauma can shape and change one’s perspectives. I would wish there are more depth to the characters. The comedy is fun to watch. As a ROM-Com, with good amount of tension and good effort of set up of a cohere story and low budget, I thought this is relatively a good drama and definitely worth a re-watch for the CP’s sweetness.
I enjoyed the journey watching the development of main CP, although the ending was conveniently wrapped up with happy ending and then again, one need not think too much on watching this drama.

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Fun drama to binge during free time

Really entertaining to watch! The HE BE story interfering plot is pretty new to watch, and the story is really relatable for drama fans. The FL and supporting characters really embody the joys and struggles of CP fans rooting for their favorite couples. The FL's acting is pretty good. There isn't any dull moment to her life and she plays the part well. ML's acting is decent too, although his character has a pessimistic outlook on life, making him appear more solemn at times. Other than that, the scenes were pretty good, especially as the main leads' relationship progressed. The ML and FL have quite a good CP as well. There are a couple of cute moments throughout the drama.
The trailer makes the drama seem very suspense based, but there is still a lot of comedy in this show for those who enjoy a sweet drama. The actresses for Ye Xining and Ji Fei were really great too!
The only downside of this drama is that a few parts of the plot could be written better and Yu Le's character was a bit bland. The actor seemed overly sad in some scenes which kind of made his character a bit dislikeable at times. Other than that, Yu Le's character was decent.
Overall, this show is a good drama to watch if you have some spare time to burn. (Also great for CP fans who want to see some funny, sweet and shocking moments as well.)

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Imagine you're being teleported into AO3...

This drama itself is like a self-insert fanfiction, which also, tells a cp fan who self-insterted herself to someone's story, but only as the cupid for the main characters. I found this story interesting because the FL only thinks about her favorite cp's story. It was kinda funny because I, too, would love to get involved with my favorite ship's love affair lol. Not only she is able to ship her fav cp with her own eyes, she also gets the man aka the writer to be her lover. Wonderful story isn't it?

However, there's more than traveling between two worlds. There are revenge, jealousy, and a suspenseful actions squeezed in this rom-com sci-fi drama. They packed this drama very well although the writing was kinda messy. Still, enjoyed the drama till very end. What's saving the drama is the main leads' chemistry! They didn't take a long time to realize each other's feelings, and they were very protective with each other. There was a slight misunderstanding before the ending, but it was solved rather quickly so you wouldn't get too frustrated. But there was a certain part that would make you rip your hair because Ji Shu (the male lead) couldn't reveal his identity (this part is so funny because I could see his frustration).

Overall, this drama helped me going through boring days. Although it wasn't perfect, it was nice to know about Ji Shu and Song Yangqi's story!

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It was cute one time watch

As a reader, I love the concept of the story. Everything was kinda okay, nothing stood out. The characters were okay, sometimes fun to watch, but not really memorable.

The supporting characters didn't have much depth and therefore it was difficult to take them seriously or remember them when they were out of focus. What's more, they even tried to pull off the, "I need to protect you so i'll break up with you" trope. It is just tasteless trope that I don't care about. If you don't trust your partner enough to come up with a plan and work together, why are you even together? You make a patsy out of your partner and then later expect them to forgive and forget.

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Interesting drama despite its flaws.

I really made an effort to watch this series because I like the 2 leads (whom I didn't know before, but who are endearing) and the great reviews. The isekai plot inspires me well in general.

However, I had a hard time following through for the first 7-8 episodes. Why?

Ok, the budget is rather low and does not allow great effects.
BUT ABOVE ALL:
- the story is confusing, poorly written
- the characters are not coherent
- the twists arrive without preparation, in an artificial way.

However, from episode 10 (i don't remember precisely) when we got out of the fanfiction part, the series becomes better constructed and more addictive. The flaws fade and the suspense takes over.
The confusion returns in the last 2 episodes, alas! OK, we have an Happy Eending but the process remains more or less unexplained or hasty.
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Je me suis efforcée de regarder cette série parce que j'aime bien les 2 leads (que je ne connaissais pas, mais qui sont attachants) et que les critiques sont élogieuses. Le plot isekai m'inspire bien en général.

J'ai cependant eu du mal à poursuivre pendant les 7-8 premiers épisodes. Pourquoi ?
Ok, le budget est plutôt bas et ne permet pas de grands effets.
MAIS SURTOUT :
- l'histoire est confuse, mal écrite
- les personnages ne sont pas cohérents
- les twists arrivent sans préparation, de façon artificielle.

Cependant, à partir de l'épisode 10 +/-, quand on est sortis de la partie fanfiction, la série devient mieux construite et plus addictive. Les défauts s'estompent et le suspense prend le dessus.
La confusion revient dans les 2 derniers épisodes, hélas ! OK, on a la HE mais le déroulement reste plus ou moins inexpliqué ou hâtif.

Drama intéressant malgré ses défauts.

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Underrated Rom Com

Haters turned into lovers
well paced dramas
some unique scenes ,
made me laugh and entertained
decent watch if its in ur list
didn’t make me SCREAM but it was nevertheless still a good drama that made me smile uncontrollably from time to time hehe

ML is cold on the outside but warm on the inside
he had some past trauma that made him feel love and relationships won’t

it was nice to see ML slowly open up and heal from his trauma through the interactions with FL

i really liked how you can slowly see ML falling for FL through the initial eps
e.g becoming more protective ( safety wise ) of FL because she can be quite clumsy and unaware of her surroundings hehe

FL is also SOSOPRETTY.. i can’t stop staring at her
protrays the character quite well
the crying scenes were sometimes questionable tho
but still a DECENT ACTOR nonetheless

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It's a good one to pass your time.

I'm not into dramas where leads will go into story or a novel and when that story completes, they would come out and it will look like a last minute being together (as in like they will meet at the end and get together or smile at each other).
I don't why I started to watch this even I have seen the synopsis, but this is different. I'm casually rewatching "Time and Him Are Just Right" (FL's drama) and thought if there are any of FL's drama and I came to it.
I have a habit of checking the end whether it is Happy end or not and while doing that I have watched some other bits of episodes just for fun since I don't like such themes.

But it is not completely being in a novel and last minute getting together or knowing each other. They come and go into their novel and both leads known each other in a real world, and both started to like each other in a real world.
The romance is ok.
Acting is good.
The plot is average.
I haven't understood the concept of how they go inside a novel and how they guessed about going in and out.
The end is so hard and it's like rushed without clear explanation (although they gave some explanation, I can't quite catch it).
It's a happy ending not a last-minute happy ending.

It's a single time watch for me. If you want, you fast forward it sometimes.

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Troppo lungo per la sua trama ma ben recitato e senza sottotrame inutili

Io adoro i drama ambientati all'interno del mondo di un libro o di un fumetto infatti sono grande fan di W two worlds apart, Lost romance e Extraordinary you. Questo drama parte più o meno dagli stessi presupposti ma con una sua trama originale, per quanto banale alla fine. Una ragazza che shippa la coppia di un romanzo finisce non si sa come dentro ad esso e cerca di darev alla coppia un lieto fine contro il volere dell'autore. Questa la premessa. Poi in realtà tutto cambia anche l'autore entra nel romanzo, poi c'è un cattivo pricopatico hacker, poi sono in una fanfiction non nel romanzo, poi l'eroe deve superare i suoi traumi passati....c'è molta carne al fuoco, si cade nei soliti clichè ma mai troppo per fortuna. E una cosa molto positiva è che la trama principale e la coppia principale resta al centro della storia sempre, non veniamo distratti da infinite sottocoppie o sottotrame. Anhe la coppia fictional dei personaggi del romanzo non occupa troppo spazio ma il giusto, forse pure troppo poco dopo la puntata 10 e 11. Ecco il più grande difetto del drama che ne abbassa per me il voto è che i protagonisti passano troppo tempo fuori dal mondo del romanzo nel mezzo del drama e che verso la fine dopo la puntata 20 si allunga proprio il brodo. E la trama del romanzo da modificare la coppia da aiutare....passano troppo in secondo piano. Tutto ruota intorno al potagonista maschile ai suoi traumi passati e presenti e al suo nemico. Peccato perchè il drama sarebbe carino seppur non eccezionale, ma si perde via . La recitazione però è molto buona e i protagonisti bravi belli e pure simpatici il che non è poco.

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