Love you so deep and waiting for you no matter how long.

My favorite Japanese drama this year!! I love the story.. It's very meaningful and romantic fantasy.
I love the chemistry between Ayano Go and Ishihara Satomi.
Both acting are very excellent! They can laugh while seeding tears, and almost in every episode they make us laugh and cry.
It begins with the competition relationship in the office, and slowly make them realize their fate to love each other deeply and understand each other feeling even without saying it.

The male lead is a tsundere, and the female lead is naive yet very pure and sweet. You will be surprise with the fact of who is she in the second half of the drama. There are some plot twist too to make you surprise.

I love the chaotic situation between the 3 brothers and how they can fix their relationship in very touching way too.

This drama is very simple, but it thought us a lesson to protect the nature, and love the sea as there is so many living creatures in the ocean. It's a successful hidden campaign of global issues due to lots of plastic used in daily life that human throw not in the right places, and even it goes to the sea and give a very bad impacts to its ecosystem and living creatures under it.

The drama ost is not really impress me. However I love the instrument music that they are using during the dramatic and romantic situation. It's brilliant!

I hope there will be another season, or the special movie as the continuation of this drama. I can't get enough to see the love story of 2 couples in this drama.

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Real tear jerker, Ill-fated relationship!

I just watch this old dramatic melodrama in 2023.. and I regret to just find out this great drama just now... after 11 years.... I should watch it earlier and join the hive!
First of all.. this drama is very detail, they describe about "rich people", "dream", and "music" in different level.

Love how they use piano as the main focus of the story to represent dreams, and love. The young version of main leads also has a great chemistry.

I love Joo Ji Hoon acting so much!!! He is really a great actor. I love Jin Se Yeon as well.. she is a very young actress, but her acting is suitable to describe the lovely and bright Da Mi. She has a great smile and that's make people getting attracted with her. She is a happy fever for both male leads, and I can feel the first love story has been developed so well.

All characters in this drama are perfect. I can't explain how I amaze with all the casts!

They have a very strong connection with the plot, and successfully can express their own character really well.

It just very sad that Ji Hoo and Da Mi can't be together... because of ill fated relationship between them to have a complicated family background.

No matter what.. the ending is very realistic.. and I'm glad that Ji Hoo finally can get the company back, and leave it to In Ha. At least.. they finally have a peaceful relationship as brother.

I don't expect the ending can be that sad.. but it explains how karma works in life. After all... blood is thicker than water. How the mother express love to In Ha is totally wrong, but sad at the same time.

The plot twist in the ending about Ji Hoo and his mother is also so heartbreaking. That was a great climax that bring the story become more tragic.

I am heartbroken almost in every episode.. and I love how this story make me curious everytime!

I love how the kind people can be bad, and all the bad people can be kind. I can tell everyone has angel and devil in their heart.. they can be angel and devil depends on how they have been treated.
I love the story keep moving forward, and Ji Hoo show his cold and different side when he came back to revenge.

I fall deeply to the main leads. It was a drama with full of ups and downs, love and hate relationship, a perfect way to describe ill fated relationship.
It's a tear jerker.. and I will never forgot how this drama made me feel.

I wish Joo Ji Hoon can play in another romance drama with Jin Se Yeon. I wish they will come back in more romantic scenes.. eventhou I know that they have been playing in another fantasy drama.
I learn that love doesn't always have to own each other. Sometimes.. when you let go of someone you love for the goodness, means you are mature enough to see them happier and move forward even without you.

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Heartbreaking but Destinied Couple!

At first the drama has a very interesting plot.. but for some reasons, it's kinda inconsistent with too many additional characters and unnecessary situations that kinda ruin the focus of the story about the sleepless girl and her secret animal transformation. I wish to see a lot of her transformation scenes but too bad it just some side story. There's a lot of misunderstanding between couple and some reasons are quite silly and make it too draggy. However.. It's getting more interesting in the second half of the drama when the male lead is finally find about the death of his brother that related with the female lead. Trust me..just watch till episode 25 and after (especially episode 29-31).. it's not boring anymore! It's totally make your eyes teary and make your heart broken because of the couple's fate! The drama is getting back to its original interesting plot! It's a plot twist in the later part. I feel excited when they give us some unexpected truths and lies.

The last battle with the main enemy is kinda too easy after a long wait, and tiring attack-escape events in the long run.

I love both main leads acting as well. Their heartbreaking tears really capturing my heart. The female lead is very cute and naughty, but she is not annoying. The male lead is totally admirable.

Overall.. this drama is good.. you just need to skip some unecessary parts, especially in the first half of drama ;)
I'm so glad this drama give us an alternate ending (the special episode). It's very sweet!

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Too cliche & just another Fairy Tale Story

I don't read the manga version, so I don't know if the movie version is rushing the plot or not. But overall... the story is just so-so. It's kinda like a fairy tale.. I'm kinda confuse because without strong reason and right after some coincidence meeting, suddenly an idol fall in love with the female lead and want her to be his girlfriend..despite the age gap and different background.

The fetish issue that being told in the synopsis about the male lead is only shown a bit in the beginning of story, but then he seems very normal after all.

The girl is too naive but she is still in the high school so it's pretty normal. The plot is just too ordinary like in many others romantic high school movie with triangle love, childhood friend, amusement park date, jealous scene due to a classic set up and artist scandal.

I'm not really impress with the acting as well, but both leads are good looking. The genre is not really rom-com, there is not much comedy.

The issue in the boyband is kinda interesting, but it just another side issue.
The piano story is very cliche. This drama lose its main focus.
By the way, the actor's manager is too damn old. They should choose another young energetic actor to play the role.

Well if you are expecting dreamy plot then this drama is right for you. It just doesn't really make sense to be happen in real life for me.

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My heart skip the beat for the romance!

I love the romantic moments between the main couple lead, it’s so hot and passionate.
Li Teng is successfuly become a very mysterious guy at the beginning. He looks fierce, independent and romantic.

But the second couple lead is actually cute and make me want to see more from them too. I’m in love with Li Teng in the first half of the story, but slowly Jiang Hao grab my attention. He is soft hearted and cute like a puppy.. but so addicting to see him "playing hard to get" in romance.

Overall the story is good, more focusing on the romance between the destinied couple.
However it’s more about the romance and there is less action scenes compared to what has been illustrated from drama poster.

Maybe because the episode is only 16 and the duration is only 30 minutes per episode, I feel the plot is a bit rushing and not really show in details about some characters.

I don’t really like the female casts' make up and outfit in several scenes. But it’s a good thing that their acting can cover it up.

Some soft selling of sponsor product (shampoo) scenes are too annoying and too much. Come on! it must be not that obvious to sell the product.

Now is about the enemies character. Too bad that the female antagonist is ended just like that.. I’m expecting more action scenes from her. It’s not really cool to always bring the cross bow wherever she goes.. but she didn’t successfuly deliver a strong women figure through lacking action scenes and just with the same 1 weapon.
The main antagonist Tuo Li is also too cute to be an enemy. His acting is not really that terrifying like psychopath. And.. It’s too easy to defeat him just in 1 last episode.

The incident from 5 years ago is not well described. Luckily the main leads successfuly can deliver the obsession feeling and emotions through some extra scenes.

All the bad guy from the past are dead, and the new enemy is created after that. Hmm.. but it’s not look really like a strong and scary sindicate like has been told. I’m expecting more tragic, broken hearted and sad scenes in their current period with satisfying ending.

In the last scene.. the main leads only fight with Tuo Li.. meanwhile we know he could be more powerful with lot of mafia as his pupils.

The another lacking point is all cast voices are dubbed. I watch the behind the scene videos of this drama from youtube and I realize that their true voices are better. If they are using their own voice, it must be more realistic and beautiful. Li Teng’s real voice is even hotter!

I love the body guards’ friendship! They are all good looking.. it just so lacking in their costume and weapons.
I think if they have more action scenes like chasing bad guys by driving expensive cars in the road, or riding big motorcycles.. it must be more interesting and elegant. They are a well known body guard company after all.

Actually they can show more action scenes using those high tech protection devices that the body guard company provide, then it will be more thrilling!

Anyway.. no matter what, this drama is successfuly make my heart skip the beat, and I wish they will have another season with the same casts. The ending is satisfying and sweet. The drama ost songs are beautiful too. Salute for the good acting of main leads.

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When you miss someone in a heartbeat...

I watched this drama several years ago.. It’s worth watching! I watch it like 5x I guess.. and never get bored to it. Whenever I miss some dramatic yet true love story.. I always find this drama to satisfy my wish :)

First of all.. don’t read the points below if you don’t like medical drama at the beginning. Because this drama is focus on medical, with touch of romance and political influences.

Now here I give you some reasons why you will love this drama:
(1) Beautiful setting.
They did shooting in overseas and it’s totally mindblowing. They go all out with beautiful places selection. The visual effect may not be that perfect but still ok.

(2) Great acting.
I will become emotional everytime I see Park Hoon meet Jae Hee.. and everytime they are crying and yell to each other. I have no idea why so many people hate Jin Se Yeon acting skill. In fact.. she always being chosen as the main female lead in many historical, thriller and political melodrama. I hope the audience don’t judge her too fast. There must be a good reason why so many movie directors choose her from the casting as the main lead.
From my opinion.. she is pretty, she has a beautiful + sexy voice, and more over her acting may not be perfect.. but she can potray her character suit her best. Some people may think she has less expression / flat like a robot and whatsoever, but I disagree. I can tell she has a lot potential in her to be a successful actress.

(3) Heartbeat couple!
No matter how many people out there trying to ship Park Hoon with So Hyun.. I’m sorry but Hoon is a perfect match with Jae Hee. Why? because they love each other in time of sadness and happiness. It’s fate that they already together since childhood... they sacrifice so much to be together. It’s a true love that willing to die for each other or even sell their soul to the evil just to save each other.
Most important thing is no matter how good, funny and lovely the 2nd female lead here... the way Park Hoon keep choosing Jae Hee show us that First Love is actually can work, especially after the blood and tears that they have been through. I envy this couple.. they really try hard to make it to the very end and get their freedom to love and to live.

(4) Best song selections (drama ost)
We can’t deny the drama ost make the story more dramatic and so emotional. Great job in the music and song selections!

(5) Exciting Story Line & Plot Twist
Don’t judge too fast about the story. Slowly but sure.. you will understand what’s the reason behind every doctor competitions and some accidents that happened in the story.

(6) Meaningful
Why? because you will learn about the meaning of freedom, true love, and how to be selfless for the good shake of the others.
You will learn how evil can be good too as long as their loved ones can be happy.
But at the same time, you also realize that sometimes the good ones can be an evil too, and sacrifice everything for the safety and happiness of their loved ones.

The real doctor is the one who try their best to save people. But doctor is still human too.. so sometimes they have no better choice despite of doing what they hate for the goodness shake of others.

After all... I recommend you to try this drama if you love medical story with melodrama as the genre.

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Best Romantic Drama & Couple ever!

This drama is surprisingly amaze me. The chemistry between all casts, choice of costumes, settings, music, especially the choice of main leads are perfect. After such a long time, I finally found a chinese drama with super high recommended rewatch value. I watched it 4x already and never get sick of it. The storyline is nothing new.. about contract marriage and it was started with unrequitted love at first, but then.. slowly the main leads bring you to get involve in their bitter sweet marriage life, cute daily life and a lil bit plot twist in working life.. all blended in 1 beautiful package in every episodes. It's totally a romantic comedy!

Gong Jun (Ling Rui) & Yi Tong (Fan Ning) are very lovey dopey couple.. so sweet till the end. Their acting are indeed fabulous.
35 episodes are worth watching.. and the 2 parts of special episodes are soooo cute and lovely.

Ling Rui is deliver a very warm character, loyal, selfless, family guy, and kind doctor. I guess his family circumstances that make him surrounded by all women in 1 roof make him more soft hearted. What an ideal figure as a husband that can cooking, cleaning, and comforting his wife. His smile is heaven.
Fan Ning has a strong character outside but lonely & doubt inside, wild, and naughty. She is a little bit pushy, but cute anyway. Both are childish sometimes, but love make them crazy.

The story is very natural.. starting with a girl who chase after the guy first without concern much about his background. They are basically met by fate since their childhood.
This drama will make you laugh, cry, but mostly smile and shy... if you watch their Behind of The Scene, you can tell the main leads are very close and comfortable with each other. I wish they will make season 2, or a new drama with the same couple as the main leads. Begin Again is very romantic drama without stupid plot. You will dream to have a marriage life like them after watch it ;)

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Being loved by 4 Charming Boys…

I love this movie! The boys are charming and cute. The girl is so funny and kind!
There are some scenes that actually very similar with the anime versions.

If you love the reverse harem genre, and if you already watch the anime version or read the manga version.. you will like this live action version as well!

If you don't understand otaku world, you will be find yourself hard to love this movie since you can't relate with whatever situtions that happening there.

I love that each boy has their own characters and their own way to show their care to the girl. At the end.. they are fall in love with the girl for who she is.. not because of her look. This drama teach us about how to see the inner beauty and to understand the otaku life. The musical part in the beginning and end of the show are very entertaining and fun. Love it!

P.S. I like the way they end it.. it’s an open ending.. all the boys are stick together to be around her and protect her… so they leave it to the audience imagination about who’s gonna be chosen as boyfriend by female lead in the future.

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