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Money and love are a difficult financial equation to solve
This is an overall entertaining workplace romance although the butting heads of the leads may feel protracted and there are too many repetitions (food, eggplants, girlfriend denials...)
Tán Jiàncì and Wáng Chǔrán are fun and eventually their characters Lǐ Yìfēi 李亦非 and Qián Fēi 钱菲 (funnily homophone with Qián Fēi = Money flies/gets lost!) end up sweetly kissing. The moral of this drama seems to be : earnings and work are the necessary battlefield, while home ground is not as peaceful as it could be. Creating a green company (Fūlāxīdá 夫拉悉达 which could be translated to "Flora perfection" ) with literal grassroots is the most desirable goal for a healthy future and for the ordinary people, but corporate sharks abound to distort the ideals.
The drama was unfortunately delayed because of AI face swapping a support actor Zhāng Hàowéi 张昊唯 who was suing a slanderer hounding him with a pack of cyberbullies, but courts took over three years to vindicate him (and he did not even receive much compensation for his severely harmed career). Production got cold feet at the perspective of this drama (filmed March to July 2023), set in this given time, gathering dust on the shelf while waiting for justice deciding. That was the reason for the not impressive face swap to Lǐ Xīnzé (not even acknowledged as AI on MDL cast list, and the original actor being mistaken by many for an "actor guilty in a scandal".
Anyway,that secondary character (Wāng Ruòhǎi 汪若海, Qián Fēi's ex boyfriend) was not a great boon to the story, and his appearances, kept short and probably often cut, did not help the plot to move much.
The two other secondary couples(Yáo Jīngjīng 姚晶晶 and Lù Zé 陆泽, Dǎng Yǔ 党羽 and Jūn Shéng 军丞, plus Liào Shīyǔ 廖诗语 rich heiress and some treacherous bosses (Fāng Yún 方云, Liào Jīnshān 廖金山, Sāng Shìqí 桑士齐... ) and assistants, were not much more important except for their ties to the business. One of the young couples illustrated, through the youth leisure interests (dancing, gaming), the difficult divide to bridge between generations. This was also the basis for Lǐ Yìfēi choosing to live apart from and not rely on his rich father, more than an almost casual breakup over a money dispute with his first girlfriend. The latter was a brief almost walk-on character on the stage of the (shared) Apartment which, with the Shanghai Office, were the main settings in which they revolved. Sometimes, whiffs of influences from the iconic American Friends drama series could be felt, but with a different sort of humor.
Watching in between longer and heavier dramas, this drama was light entertainment. A pleasant watch for those who remember Tán Jiàncì 's hilarious drama Filter with Li Landi, and less comedic but good ones (Royal Feast, How Dare You?) starring pretty Wáng Chǔrán (whom I will await in upcoming "Overdo").
Nothing groundbreaking though in this Love Has Fireworks. The OST music is pleasant with 6 songs : https://mydramalist.com/704189-shining-character/discussions/153012-love-has-fireworks-ost-music
Tán Jiàncì and Wáng Chǔrán are fun and eventually their characters Lǐ Yìfēi 李亦非 and Qián Fēi 钱菲 (funnily homophone with Qián Fēi = Money flies/gets lost!) end up sweetly kissing. The moral of this drama seems to be : earnings and work are the necessary battlefield, while home ground is not as peaceful as it could be. Creating a green company (Fūlāxīdá 夫拉悉达 which could be translated to "Flora perfection" ) with literal grassroots is the most desirable goal for a healthy future and for the ordinary people, but corporate sharks abound to distort the ideals.
The drama was unfortunately delayed because of AI face swapping a support actor Zhāng Hàowéi 张昊唯 who was suing a slanderer hounding him with a pack of cyberbullies, but courts took over three years to vindicate him (and he did not even receive much compensation for his severely harmed career). Production got cold feet at the perspective of this drama (filmed March to July 2023), set in this given time, gathering dust on the shelf while waiting for justice deciding. That was the reason for the not impressive face swap to Lǐ Xīnzé (not even acknowledged as AI on MDL cast list, and the original actor being mistaken by many for an "actor guilty in a scandal".
Anyway,that secondary character (Wāng Ruòhǎi 汪若海, Qián Fēi's ex boyfriend) was not a great boon to the story, and his appearances, kept short and probably often cut, did not help the plot to move much.
The two other secondary couples(Yáo Jīngjīng 姚晶晶 and Lù Zé 陆泽, Dǎng Yǔ 党羽 and Jūn Shéng 军丞, plus Liào Shīyǔ 廖诗语 rich heiress and some treacherous bosses (Fāng Yún 方云, Liào Jīnshān 廖金山, Sāng Shìqí 桑士齐... ) and assistants, were not much more important except for their ties to the business. One of the young couples illustrated, through the youth leisure interests (dancing, gaming), the difficult divide to bridge between generations. This was also the basis for Lǐ Yìfēi choosing to live apart from and not rely on his rich father, more than an almost casual breakup over a money dispute with his first girlfriend. The latter was a brief almost walk-on character on the stage of the (shared) Apartment which, with the Shanghai Office, were the main settings in which they revolved. Sometimes, whiffs of influences from the iconic American Friends drama series could be felt, but with a different sort of humor.
Watching in between longer and heavier dramas, this drama was light entertainment. A pleasant watch for those who remember Tán Jiàncì 's hilarious drama Filter with Li Landi, and less comedic but good ones (Royal Feast, How Dare You?) starring pretty Wáng Chǔrán (whom I will await in upcoming "Overdo").
Nothing groundbreaking though in this Love Has Fireworks. The OST music is pleasant with 6 songs : https://mydramalist.com/704189-shining-character/discussions/153012-love-has-fireworks-ost-music
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