The Best Friend (2023)

A Friend Until the End

Wow! Talk about crazy. This is actually a drama that you can binge watch. You probably will want to with all the craziness that goes on. Hang on!

It starts out with Duan Ruo Nan doing a video proposing to her boyfriend Li Xiao. In the middle of the video, she gets a call from Fan Xiao Wei saying she is going to kill herself. Duan Ruo Nan then calls Li Xiao and they both go to Fan Xiao Wei's apartment and find her in the bathtub with her wrist slit. They take her to the hospital.

But Duan Ruo Nan finds out from Fan Xiao Wei's the reason why she slit her wrist and it is because her ex-boyfriend was getting married, and so Duan Ruo Nan decides to interrupt the proceedings. Now, Fan Xiao Wei did not ask her to do this, she did this of her own volition. Duo Ruan causes quite the scene at the wedding wielding a baseball bat. The girl he was going to marry breaks up with him. And so, begins the craziness.

Fan Xiao Wei's ex post pictures (because of what DRN did at his wedding) of her on the internet and that puts her in a downward spiral. Duan Ruo feels guilty about what she did to her ex but also, she feels sorry that she tries to kill herself over the situation, so she tells her to stay with her and Li Xiao place for a "few days."

Fan Xiao Wei does seductive stuff to gets Li Xiao's attention, but he is doing pretty good ignoring her, but he eventually caves in. Fan Xiao Wei does a pretty good job of always being "the victim" and appearing helpless and that is why everyone is always on her side.

Duan Ruo Nan tells Fan Xiao Wei that she is going to propose to Li Xiao when they go to the lake. But Fan tells Li Xiao about this. As Duan Ruo is pulling out the rings and goes to put Li Xiao's ring on his finger he jerks back, and the ring goes into the water. He apologizes but Duan Ruo is upset.

Duan Ruo does not understand why he rejected her because they have been together 4 years. (It also doesn't help that Duan Ruo's mother keeps calling her asking when she is getting married.) So, Duan Ruo and Fan go for drinks. She thinks if she shows that other men will want her that Li Xiao will accept the proposal. Duan Ruo gets drunk and Fan calls Li Xiao who comes to get them both. Duan Ruo throws up on Fan and when they get home she has to change. Li Xiao puts Duan Ruo into bed and hears Fan cry out in the bathroom. He asks her if she is alright and says she hurt her ankle. He tells her he is coming in and see her on the bathroom floor with just a towel wrapped around her. He helps her up only to have Fan's towel fall down. (Like we didn't know that was going to happen). Duan Ruo wakes up and starts calling for Li Xiao. They are both in the bathroom and so Fan tells her he went to get something to sober her up. They got out of that.

As Duan Ruo and Li Xiao both head to work they leave Fan there. She calls Li Xiao and tells him she is sick. Unbeknownst to Fan that Duan Ruo has to come back to pick up documents, she had called Li Xiao to tell him that she was sick and needed medicine. He jumps at the opportunity. Enter Duan Ruo who comes to get those documents she left and asks Fan why she just has a nightie on, she tells her she is sick. Then low and behold here comes Li Xiao in. Duan Ruo asks him why he is there, and he says he is sick. So, Duan Ruo stays home to take care of them both. No action there...oh, well!

Then there is the necklace. Duan Ruo finds the necklace that she believes is for her but really Li Xiao bought it for Fan. Now, Duan Ruo is still clueless and still trying to propose to Li Xiao. They go to dinner only to have him tell her he has to go meet a client. But Fan had text him and told him that she was moving out. Of course, giving him the address. He leaves the restaurant only to have Duan Ruo following him to the hotel.

She catches them together and sees the necklace that she believes was hers around Fan's neck. Duan Ruo goes to pack to leave. (She has her own place because I was wondering why she was leaving giving them her place.) They argue and Li Xiao just tells her he never wanted to marry her, and she is suffocating him with wanting to get married. He fell in love with Fan at first sight. Duan Ruo is visibly upset and rightly so because here are two people she trusted, and they now dissed her.

It is funny how Fan bounced back like two days after her man left her, but you will know why. Li Xiao thought he had the perfect girl. Only to find out that Fan was clingy, obsessive, paranoid and a psychopath. She called and text him at work nonstop. He took 7 days off just to be with her. That still wasn't enough. She put an app on his phone, so she knew where he was and was getting all of his text messages because she felt he was still seeing Duan Ruo. Which he really wasn't but he realized he made a mistake in choosing Fan because of the behavior she was showing him once they got together. That is probably why her ex left her as well.

Duan Ruo on the other hand did so well at her job because of her performance, she was sent to another branch. This is where she meets the man she will eventually end up with Wu Ze. Her job is going well and of course there is always one that doesn't like you and that is Beija. She doesn't like Duan Ruo from day one and doesn't make her life easy.

Finally, Li Xiao can't take Fan anymore and breaks up with her. She agrees to him breaking up with her if he gives her 300,000 yuan because her father is in the hospital. He tells her he can't give her all of that but some and he wants her gone. She says she doesn't know where to get the rest of the money. He tells her to get a job. Ya think!

Fan sends out her resume and keeps getting rejected. She finally lands at the same company Duan Ruo is at. Beija sees that they went to the same college. Fan (I have to give her credit on this) told her that they were not really friends, and she didn't want to work there.) Beija insists and hires Fan. Beija hired her because she knew that Fan would be quite the nemesis for her with Duan Ruo.

Fan again always acted like the victim, and she wasn't. She took projects from her, locked her up, smashed a bottle that was exclusive to the marketing team (Li Xiao found a duplicate for her), took more projects away from her by lying that she did them, and pitted her against the other co-workers. I mean she just went totally nuclear. It also didn't help that Beija was aiding her as well. Duan Ruo's only ally was Wu Ze who fell in love with her and wanted her to be his gf. He was always supportive and helping her but at some points he couldn't because the evidence would always fall in Fan's favor.

We still have Li Xiao now wanting Duan Ruo back and she kept telling him they were done. Wu Ze stepped in and told him that she was his gf now.

Things reach the final breaking point when Beija got back the director who was basically molesting the female employees. Beija got booted out because Fan set her and Duan Ruo up. She got what she wanted which was a higher position than Duan Ruo, but the price was her.

At the end of all of this craziness, it was that Duan Ruo, Wu Ze, Fan and Li Xiao had to all band together to take down the boss who was not only molesting woman but illegally doing things at the company. Duan Ruo and Wu Ze decided that they were going to travel the world. She eventually forgave Fan and Li Xiao and Duan Ruo just were best friends.

All and all I did enjoy watching it. It is entertaining that is for sure. But it really makes you wonder, how far you will go to help out your best friend.

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