Joyce Chan

To unravel the mystery behind the male's lead past, also a cute love story

A fairly decent watch , but I always have my doubts when a drama is 40 episodes long, it usually tends to get draggy and have plot holes ( which it did)

Storyline- The male lead is a leader of a a group of "bandits", in that town they he rules and protects the people there. It starts off with him kidnapping the female students of the well known academy in the city ( i forgot the school name) Basically all the wealthy/well known official's daughter and sons goes to that school to study. Our male lead is a genius, he is good at all things like painting, poetry, archery, chinese chess etc. He challenges the male students to an area of study they are good at in order for them to save the girls. There he meets the female lead who is the daughter of the Wen family.( an illegitimate daughter). She was the only person that didnt get saved, because it was 1 male could bring back one female who was kidnapped. They end up spending sometime together and she realizes that he isnt as bad as he seems. The " senior" brother goes back with a general and tries to save the female lead. The male leads jumps off the cliff......... Fast forward, to the setting of the school. A new schoolmate is accepted to the school because he has the talent, turns out to be the male lead. Only the female lead recognizes him. She shows him around the school. The male lead's motive for going to that academy was to figure out why someone wanted to kill him , when her was young. This caused him to miss the last time to see his dying mother. The male lead eventually becomes friends with the people that bully him. He of course slowly falls for the female lead. The female lead learns some martial arts/ qing gong from this dude ( turns out it was her mother's senior brother.

Here comes the plot holes-
if the female lead knows kung fu/ has qing gong how come she doesnt use it all the time? certain times in the drama she gets caught... but im like you know how "to fly/drift"

How they randomly save some teen, and that teen turns out to be of royal family from what looks like Korea lol ( just to stretch/ make longer this drama?)

2) I didnt like how near the end how the evil guy got the upper hand. It was quite dumb lol. Like you gonna throw the principal/ teachers into a locked room just because they believe the male lead is not a bad guy? Also the evil dude forces them to be burned alive? At this point, how come the female lead doesnt break away from the people holding her down to use her kung fu/qing gong?


Romance- they definitely were on the cute couple list, They had really cute interactions and moments. It felt like a real relationship because you can see the things they've been through. For the kisses nothing super special, mostly just pecks on the lips. Also they were not in a relationship till like half the drama( which is considered long) but i mean in a ancient drama , theres no part saying will you be my gf >_<, They liked each other pretty early on.

Characters I couldnt stand

Evil mom of the Wen family. She didnt like the female lead one bit!

Evil stupid sister. Initially she showed like she cared for her but that was all a front. She showed her true colors very soon. She was jealous of the female lead, because the person she likes , likes the female lead. Always trying to make her sister look bad/fail.

Evil senior brother- who claims he loves the female lead. He is just a whimp, who has been pushed too far by his mom. His mom gives him pressure to be the best and pursue the beset, Telling him he cant like the female lead, he should like the sister instead. All that hate , pressure and jealousy made him cray!

I give it a 7.5 because of the ridiculous plot at the end and the annoying evil characters. Those characters shouldnt get too much limelight or it becomes a nuisance to watch ! Both got what they deserved!!!!!!

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Honestly not a bad watch, however I feel the intro song part gives away too much of the sweet scenes. So when it actually happens its like... whatever bleh.

The basic story is alright. The summary says it all. About a female coach who tries to restore the the school's basketball team. ( her dad use to coach there) She and her friend tries to find people to join her team. She finds this one guy ( male lead) but it very very hesitant to join the team. She ends up making her team and the male lead only joins because he falls in love with her. ( kinda wish there was more of a story as to why he didn' t want to join the team)

Highlights of the drama: the three games they played against the other team

some dislikes: I felt the romantic development between the male and female lead were kind of choppy. Like they were in an ambiguous relationship state. I dont even know if they ever was officially together. I remember in one scene they were holding hands and then the next minute she had to leave. In the next episode , he's still asking if she likes him.

The kissing scene were all revealed in the intro. Im sorry they dont have much chemistry. Its more a peck on the lip that actually kissing ( like feeling the chemistry kind) lol

Beside the team prepping for their basketball match with the other team, other parts of the drama felt dry and draggy.

Another thing that annoyed me was the shit talk the rival team did while they were having the basketball match. The rival team keep saying negative stuff to get the team down. Like you suck, you can beat me, and other things like that. seriously wanted to smack the other team.

I really enjoyed the music !!!

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Jade Cheng as the female lead, I'll give it a try..... but honestly this drama is disappointing..... To me the story is kinda awkward and boring.

Female lead is a 鏢師. Which is basically a person that helps guard/watch/deliver goods and people to a destination.... but the fact is that she doesn't have good kung fu doesnt make any sense. The male lead has better kung fu than her.... like how are you suppose to protect people's property. Also the female lead was suppose to be a maid to the Bai family to repay a favor( because the Bai's wife helped the female lead's when she was in need. The female lead is to protect the Bai's daughter and get her to successfully marry the Yang family second son.

The male lead is the Yang family second son. His parents died trying to establish a new road of trade. He wants to continue that and open a new road for the trades to go through This is what the drama is about and on their way they try to find people to support them but a lot of people dont want the new road and try to kill them on the way....

The romance between the leads is pretty cute.The male lead falls in love with the female lead from the early episodes, but the female leas is hesitant because the male lead is the suppose fiancee of the Bai's daughter. But the leads go through near death and slowly fall in love with each other. They have a decent chemistry. They have a lot more kissing scenes after episode 15.

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A hot mess... of identity fraud

This drama is awful and weird.
Starts off with the male lead getting hurt and the female lead saves him. They kiss and the male lead leaves her a jade pendant. Female lead's best friend aka second female lead, somehow obtains the jade pendant and she gets mistaken as the female lead. The second female lead then finds someone to help her change her face to look exactly like the female lead. The female lead finds herself in all kinds of trouble. She has a dad who is addicted to gambling. She tried to make more money , but that was a scam job., she got trafficked. The male lead saved her, but she was blindfolded at the time so she didnt know who saved her.
We have our second male lead aka younger brother of male lead.He is just always angry and bitter and wanting to kill his older brother. The second male lead tricks the female lead into thinking it was him who saved her, so in order to " pay him back" the female lead works at a fabric dying store.

WHATS ANNOYING!.... the second female lead got all of the spot light, like sure she had the same face at female lead but the way they portrayed it made her seem like she was the lead. The male lead was with the wrong freaking girl the whole time, how do you not know... sighs..

Not to mention the younger brother literally was raging the whole show, " Imma kill you" to his brother. every scene was him just being bitter and full of hatred lol ..

i wouldnt reccomend...

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rookie voice dubbing actress meets ceo of a radio company

To be honest .. not sure if my review was affected by reading the other reviews prior to watching. To me this drama was kinda bland and lacking a little something. Its average in the sense that I didnt think it was super good but not that bad lol in the middle. Some review said its cliche... kinda?

Female lead's dream has always been becoming a voice actress. She applies for a role but turns out it has been replaced. The people hiring her was also in need of an assistant, so they hired her. She is a plain, simple girl. Her voice actor crush is none the other but her boss. It's a secret that the boss is a voice actor, because he is actually an CEO of a radio station. She and her boss start off at the wrong foot, because he thinks female lead is a stalker. First encounter was leaving her bag on his car, then living across from him and hen becoming his assistant. He teaches her about voice dubbing. The radio station came up with a series and the female lead thinks her idol is the best fit for the male lead. She tries to contact him , and the male lead starts to spend more time and get to know her more. Slowly they fall in love...

To me i didnt feel the chemistry between the leads. Maybe its the fact that i felt like they didnt go through enough to build that relationship to be believe- able. I mean there was a good amount of kissing scenes but to me it all felt passionless. Maybe the female lead didnt make me feel she actually liked him? The male lead was the one initially almost all the supposedly passionate kisses. I felt the second pairing has better chemistry and better passion. I mean the second male lead was better looking that the male lead >_<

The second male lead was kinda cringy and exaggerated but he was funny. lol some people might find him too much.. too narcissistic. His solo time by myself was hilarious.

Some parts I didnt care for as much
1) annoying ass third female , trying to ruin the relationship of the female and male lead. I mean in dramas its pretty typical, the male lead is loved by the third female who is best friends from young.... Ugh her character is so annoying, so lu cha.... I didnt like the fact that she used her status to put down the female lead who was a rookie voice actress.
2) the plot development was kinda just stuck there. The whole drama it only focused on one project that they were working on and trying to find the right cast for the dubbing... The female lead didnt really grow in her profession , she was still just a rookie and just got bullied and picked on. its only an total of 24 episodes... (s o maybe they cant add too much). The storyline is based off voicing dubbing but i think romance is more of the focus...
3) male lead wasnt even there to protect her from the two times she got bullied....

I'm going to end up dropping and not watch the last episode... its pretty average but if you have nothing to watch, you can go for it.

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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME! SKIP, SKIP SKIP

FIRST OF ALL I DONT KNOW WHY THEY MADE A SECOND ONE, WHEN THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE PREQUEL. With that being said,, the annoying and bitchy characters are still their characters...

Honestly not worth your watch! It's a contract marriage, but the male lead falls in love kinda cliche troupe. The male lead is always jealous of the men in the female lead's life. They are always have misunderstandings to due the annoying adoptive sister and bitchy half sister of the female lead.

They let the psychotic adoptive sister and the bitchy half sister have too much onscreen time. This drama is worst than the first one.

The only thing good is the kisses/romance but sorry that doesnt save this trainwreck drama.

Btw the male lead is quite ugly ( lol personal opinion)

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MORE RANT THAN REVIEW Female lead is talented in her career but wants to start over again.

I was quite intrigued by the summary of this drama. This drama started off very decent and then it went downhill for me! The only redeeming factor is the female lead. I really liked how she was written.

Female lead once had a prestigious life, studying over seas, graduating from a well known university, worked at the top 2 IT companies, had a boyfriend, and best friend, but everything came crashing down when her boyfriend married the boss's daughter and her bestie died of a sickness. She is stricken with grief and goes back to home to start over again. There she accidentally runs into the 3rd male lead who rented the female lead grandma's house. She lands a job as a front desk in their company. She just wants to be simple and not let anyone know of her past. I really liked the female lead because she is humble, and enduring. Despite her ex boyfriend's wife trying to humiliate that doesnt let her down! But to me she forgave the male lead way to quickly....

There are Three "male" leads but not actually when you start to watch it you can definitely tell who the main main lead is. Two out of the three are brothers and the last one is the friend.

Male lead- the boss to a tech company, he is blunt, straight forward , cold and a block head when it comes to relationships. He was also the childhood friend of the female lead. In the first few episodes her already recognized her. As for the female lead, she remembers him little later because he changed his name. I honestly didnt like his character for how inflexible he was and didn't try hard enough to express his feelings for the female lead. He is one of the reasons why i dropped this drama. He is so petty and explosive with his emotions, like when they get into heated arguments, he becomes an ass.

2nd male lead- Also the boss of a tech company, the rival of the male lead. 2nd lead is cunning, deceptive, and is charming. He was the senior of the female lead while at university. I also dont like him because he is too much for me. Does so many things to try to make the female lead try to fall in love or show that he likes her. He is so manipulative and uses many ways to get her attention which I dont. Like he knew that the female lead ex married someone else and she got dumped. He would invite her to the party, which he knew the ex was going to.

3rd male- He is the housemate of the female lead. They are strictly friends. He has a chill personality who likes to game. and takes pictures. He is a programer or IT in the male lead's company, 2nd and 3rd are brothers but they are on bad terms!( out of the three I like him the most!

To me the female lead and the male lead's past didnt really add much points. It did in the beginning, thinking it was cute, but I was so turn off by the male lead's actions and personality. Like seriously, off all the dramas I have ever watched I think he is my most hated male lead to date!!! lol Also male lead isnt very handsome in my opinion.

Also I didn't like the fact they that introduced the ex of the male lead. She was annoying as hell! Bitch ass , who downgraded the female lead. If i were the female lead i would slap the annoying ex girlfriend. I mean her ex boyfriend wife's humiliation isnt enough , they need to add the male lead's ex gf... horrible!

I did enjoy the music tho.

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MP3 that can connect you to the past

I must say the concept of this drama is pretty good but was it well executed ? NOPE
A slight disappointment because it started as suspenseful, but kinda just faded out to where it didnt really make much sense..

The female lead is an actress. She is in her 30s and is about to get replaced by another actress who is younger than her. She decides to share some gossip of that younger actress , which results in the younger actress attempted suicide. Female lead attends a high school gathering and is sent a video/ recording of what she did. She finds her old mp3 and finds out that it can connect her old high school self. She starts to suspect all of her high school friends.

She has two best friend and two guy friends ( who both like her) . One is always bickering with her Yu Ming. The other use to be a chubby kid, but now is tall and handsome.

the story focuses of her high school trying to fix up the relationships and the things in order for her future self to figure out who is blackmailing her. it flashes between her high school times and current actress time.

Too much, back and forth without much progression made it a little dull. Like there was nothing really revealing who it actually was. She just literally went down the list. I was just as confused....

There is hardly any romance up until the very end... so wouldnt reccommend for romance.. It had potential like but eventually all the excitement/suspense fizzled out...

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HANDS DOWN MY FAVE DRAMA SO FAR!!!!

the female and male lead have such good chemistry !!!OMG !!!! they are so cute.

Female and male lead have known each other since they were 8 years old . During school they are often butting heads , their favorite thing is to arm wrestle to solve problems. Because of losing an arm wrestle match , the female leads gets dared into wearing lacy leggings. This causes a misunderstanding among the female lead mom and dad. The female lead ends up finding more about her broken family...

Fast foward to college : The male lead is into archery and he struggles and blossoms into being a coach. He later on has his own struggles to overcome. The female lead is studying to be a veterinarian. Each of them faces challenges and struggles in their pursuit but they are there for each other to encourage and support each other during their lowest points.

I really admired the he female lead and her brother relationship, they have a really close relationship and he is very caring and sweet guy, to his sister and the girl he cares about.

i would rate it a 11 out of 10 if possible. Don't want to miss out on this drama.

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This was a really enjoyable drama. Its the ancient day f4 , lol but instead its 5 in a group.

The female leads disguised herself as a boy to try to find the true identity of the her best friend.

She is smart, witty and cute, she is good at cooking. The story mainly revolves around the school and overcoming obstacles, challenges and solving crimes with her 4 male friends. The male lead is depicted a cold, strict. The female lead gives him the name stinky tofu lol. The five stooges include female lead ( who disguises as a male), the male lead, a 2nd prince, one who is good at martial arts , and one who was suppose to be the female lead fiancee

I liked how the side character got plot development too. Each of them finds their love :) as for the minus .5 is that they never really solved why she was in the school in the first place. It was kind of looked over and only mentioned in the last two episodes. The female lead dead friend's identity honestly wasnt even important anymore....

But overall it was enjoyable because there were sweet scenes of love and friendship.

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To be honest wasn't really expecting much... the female lead started out as naive and spoiled but I really like how she slowly matured and develops into someone being responsible and finds her passion in fashion and helping people. She has an optimistic, cute, chatty personality which was opposite to the Male lead. The male lead was reserved, logistical strict and organized.
Along the story you are introduce to people who someone interrupt their relationship. They did not even kiss/confess their feelings until ep 26.... She also kind of was in a love triangle between the 1st male lead and 2nd male lead. After that the 1st main lead 's childhood friend comes back and that takes about ten eps , and then the 1st main lead aunt came back also around 10eps.
It was really cute how the female lead's bestie ( which is a guy ) found love with the 2nd female lead.
I really like Sunny Wang but did not understand why they had to dub his english and voice? as for the chemistry between the main leads there was some but could be more >_< .
Overall it was enjoyable and above my original expectation .

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Sounded so promising but such weak deliverance!!

First of all this drama is way too long! second of all, drama is too cliche and predictable. 3rd , i didnt feel the chemistry of the leads at all! 4th the second pairing had their first kiss before the leads which is a no no! This drama is so disappoint and quite frank boring. I was expecting it to be a lot better (but with 35 episodes... i kinda already knew)

Like it had so much potential to be good with the storyline of her dad getting sick at the hospital. The leads interactions just lacked something/some spark and heart beating moments. Although I like Yang zi ( the actress), nothing really wow me. She is sunny and cute.

I dont like the third female. She is the female doctor that is good friends with the male lead. She likes the male lead but the male lead doesnt like her. Her character is overly annoying, being rude to the female lead. Acting like she is better than the female lead, just because she is the doctor.

The development of them getting together is way too slow! like they have their feelings but they have misunderstanding which drag out... But then i guess if they were together too earlier then they cant drag it out to 35 episodes.

Even Xiao Zhan cant save this drama... sorry

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The journey for the search of her lost brother inside a xianxia world!

This started pretty solid! Funny, and cute but the storyline gets messy quickly.

Female lead is trying to find her lost brother and somehow ends up in the xianxia world. Xian Xia means (deity/god with powers/martial arts). The male lead takes in the female lead as a "sister" to increase his strengthen. The male lead is trying to become the leader of their sect. The male lead is dull and naive in relationship. The female lead is quirky and cute. She disguises as a male to go to school. On her journey she makes a friend who also happens to be a girl , crossdressing like a guy. The academy doesnt allow females.

There is also another sect called the demons. They are portrayed as bad. It so happens that her real brother somehow also transfer over into the xianxia world and became the demon sect's leader. One characteristic in order to have the powers is to have a ling gen (spirit root). Both the brother and the female lead doesnt have that. It's only when you have the spiritual root where you can increase and become stronger.

Cute/naive moments: The male lead calls kissing eating cotton candy ... haha.
Also he finally realizes he likes the female lead in another way not like brother/sister... But although their kisses are more like planting on the lips, there was some cute moments)

What made the story unbearable...
1. female lead's brother has an "adoptive" sister who has two personalities, one which is evil and tries to do evil things to sabotage the female lead and male lead because the evil adoptive sister is jealous of her adoptive brothers feelings for the female lead ) aka real sister. She also wants him to win the competition to become the leader over all...
2. The story becomes weird and boring....

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seems like firefighting and saving lives is not the main focus!

Usually I rave about 24 episode dramas! But not this one! This drama had way too much talking and dialogue.... Like not enough action pack / time to save.

Other reviews have already said it. The leads got together incredibly fast and tried to break up in the same or next episode. There is no further development and some how they really like each other. ( dont feel the chemistry) Female lead's face is too babish/cute. I think ancient day drama might suit her?

They also develop like 2 other couple in this drama, which is stealing the limelight from the leads!

Female lead is pretty naive! often takes action on her own!

Too much unnecessary talking which i skipped... kinda sad how this turned out.

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