This drama taught me to be patient and somehow I finished all 36 episodes!
A little thing called first love centers around Miao Miao who develops a crush on the perfect senior Liang You Nian in high school. Miao Miao tries hard and slowly changes from a classmate, HeXin's friend, to becoming Liang You Nian's confidante and girlfriend. It is a very, very,very slow burn romance as we spend over half the drama watching Miao Miao and Liang You Nian dance around their feelings, drift apart due to misunderstandings before someone finally confesses! Hallelujah! Along the way, the show covers a lot of deep topics and I'm really glad that our two leads have a great support network helping them through it all.

I personally think this drama should have been 20 episodes, there were a lot unnecessary scenes that should have cut, such as : the teacher love-line, the roommate who needed therapy, the Frank character etc. Over time, the poor acting became even more noticeable. Liang You Nian had several moving scenes but unfortunately the acting was stiff and wooden, I couldn't connect to the character at all. In contrast Lin Kai Tou and HeXin were so good, their arc was compelling and we could feel something from their acting. I would have liked Xia to have more depth to her character, she was portrayed as the girl who ate snacks 24/7 and it got boring quickly.
I also want to mention, the very obvious ppl and the styling of Miao Miao in the beginning. I can't understand who approved that but in some scenes she looked like a yellow highlighter.

Overall, I 'd recommend watching this if you are bored or tired and are looking for something which doesn't tax your brain cells.