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Cute Bodyguard chinese drama review
Ongoing 24/24
Cute Bodyguard
2 people found this review helpful
by Frost_edelweiss
Oct 24, 2022
24 of 24 episodes seen
Ongoing
Overall 6.5
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 3.0
This review may contain spoilers

A packaged deal for Fotile kitchen equipment, standardized cooking included.

No superpower heroine. Story is basically another variation on Cinderella, poor girl/rich prince who needs to take over as king of the business - she, JingJing (played by Ling Meishi), is a shy designer trained girl who did not get a job in her specialty, has bad luck and low IQ but a pretty face.
He, Gu Rong (LiuTe) is supposedly well educated abroad, but looks as diffident as if he was kept under a glass globe at home from which he wanted to escape but became overwhelmed by the outside world. Because he would prefer to be an artist but has no real talent, although he does have haphephobia, so the triangle eyed girl that was his intended is likely not going to get the old king (granddad) the 5 grandkids he wishes for (umm, I know the one child policy has been abolished and 2 or 3 kids are encouraged to help with the aging gap, but 5? That was the standard in Mao times and granted it is a "lucky number". But again, all this for that while the Congress closes and gender equality is promoted in words but not in deed at the highest level, according to news reports).

A quaint old village is showcasing outdated ways of living in a big city. Neighbors want to make more money but are clueless in front of Internet and new ways of selling their stuff. Not that they are from the countryside: they are encrusted and fossilized in their picturesque ways., waiting like the Sleeping Beauty to have someone wake them up and show them something else, cautiously. Of course, that's where the bulk of the story takes place, in an old (well, only 10 year old so rather not ancient) martial arts school. The rest takes place in shopping malls (spend, spend, spend!), a company and a minimalist model apartment for yuppies, plus the bedroom of the old patriarch in his mansion guarded by same lone guard who must be a scarecrow like statue. Mansion has a garden which will prove convenient for a kiss.

Lots of fluff and luosifen, some demo of haoyue dragon halberd by Su JingJing's dad, and sword demo of taijijian moves, except the FL, if she needs to be a master at kungfu fighting to impress a foreigner investor, also has to be afraid of a few traces of blood to the point of fainting. She cannot balance on high heels except if it's combat boots, and is a weak drinker of alcohol. We get "tricks" to attract the stray bird : false fever twice, spoon-feeding, piggyback carrying and everything in the romcom catalogue.

Although it's only 24 episodes and there's a villain who sells secrets, there are no surprises, we suspected from the start who and what had been cooking, so I can understand those who get annoyed.
There's little "chemistry": the couple looks most of the time like clueless children playing at "dad and mom", dressing up as newlyweds to be so conspicuous that they won't be noticed ("Look, I close my eyes and you can't see me", like 3 years old do,, lol!) making food and clay clownish figures, needing models for behavior and reassurance and boundaries.

This drama is to be consumed with and like a pack of Doritos or a box of licorice candies (with little to no licorice, replaced by anise oil) : no real food value, "mildly harmful to health" waste of time, Yet, I watched till the end, slightly surprised that the end came earlier than announced ; but surely this was a "filler" forgettable drama to pave the way before more interesting and long awaited c-dramas.

Lots of use of, demonstrating, advertising for Fotile top kitchen appliances. Some for motorcycling instead of Rolls Royce cars that are comfortable but have a risk of getting flat tires (!) Maybe that was the real point? Advertising some brands ?
My take : it is not really awful, so I don't hate it. I had some time to kill before serious teeth cleaning, so therefore used it viciously to binge on a big dose of saccharine before a restful sleep to face real life pain and bloodshed next. I was watching Love in Time/secret roommate too, so that was food enough for thoughts and speculation about the value of escaping 2022 to get back to 2021.
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