May This Love Be Mutual (2025)

Surprisingly good for what it is.

I never thought I'd write a review for a vertical drama (I call them tiktok dramas), but this one was actually fairly well acted....and funny. So funny! Especially in the beginning. (Pay attention to the soundtrack when FL sees ML with his shirt unbuttoned, that had me rolling!) It was your typical CEO/poor girl drama, with mom needing an operation. So no surprises in the plot. But the script writers definitely had a sense of humor, and the actors pulled it off great! Even the translations were done well, with very few grammatical errors or ridiculous half-sentences that made no sense, like you'd find in most of the vertical dramas. When I was only a few minutes in, I was hooked. Most of these type will have me fast forwarding and rolling my eyes, but this one had me laughing out loud. Absolutely great for a quick watch, when you don't really want to get into the high's and low's of a full-blown production. And most of the acting was actually pretty good too! Do not expect sound effects though. They're practically non-existent.

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Your typical vertical drama plot, but surprisingly funny and good acting. (I dropped it)

Some positive notes:
+ the acting is not so bad
+ genuinely funny in the beginning
+ the FL can stand up for herself and is quite sassy
+ ML is funny

What made me drop it:
-- White Moonlight (childhood love etc.) trope ewwwww (I'm so tired of it)
--- gaslighting and manipulative ML but framed as caring and nice (the FL kinda called him out on it, but still went through with his request) --> I stopped watching here, because I really really don't like that. It was just one scene, but I'm so averse to this trope (especially if he's otherwise framed as a nice person) that I dropped it immediately.

Some basic, prevalent annoyances that wouldn't stop me from watching but give me the "eh, here we go again":
- too unrealistic and plot armoured
- cliché af
- feels like it was heavily inspired by A Business Proposal
- the FL is ofc piss-poor
- annoying Green Tea Bitch
- they have 0 actual time to get to know each other, but the feelings are alr there cause the plot said so

Story: 5 stars because it's your typical cliché vertical drama and idw give it more because of that manipulative moment

Acting: 8 stars because I liked it

Music:
There's no SFX as usual. But I'm giving it 7 stars for that one abs scene hahahah

Rewatch value: 2. I hate manipulation. I might come back to it eventually because I'm hoping that maybe the ML won't display any other manipulative behaviour. I'll update my review then.

All in all:
I'm disappointed because I genuinely enjoyed the first 10 mins (and then they hit me with a white moonlight, green tea bitch and a very ridiculous abs montage (it's so funny, you should watch it even if you don't wanna watch the whole thing fr. It's somewhere around 10 mins, after we are introduced to the Green Tea Bitch)

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