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My view on this drama
Normally I just watch these Chinese dramas to practice my Chinese language skills (I'm a German national) and don't bother leaving reviews or feedback, but this drama is really nice and I had to leave a comment.I was watching another drama (episode 5 of Love is Sweet) on Youtube when on the browser side with the video thumbnails I saw this Reset drama and it looked sort of interesting. So I paused Love is Sweet and opened episode 1 of Reset in another tab and only listened to the sound while doing other things on my PC (to practice my Chinese listening skills sometimes I just listen to Chinese speech in the background).
By the end of episode 2 of Reset I realised that this drama is something very special. I went back to episode 1 and started watching it, both audio and video. I finished the first nine episodes in 2-3 days, then had to stop because episode 10 wasn't available yet on Youtube. Later I found episodes 10-12 on Youtube with English subtitles.
I managed to find episodes 13-15 on another website, but only with Chinese subtitles. This was a bit tough, because without English subtitles I understand only about 80%-90%. But sometimes individual words are essential to understand what is being said on the screen. So I ended up watching these three episodes (as of today, January 30th they are still not on Youtube with English subtitles) in a stop and go mode - pausing the video and using my Chinese dictionary to translate certain words needed to get the meaning.
In any case this drama is really special - I hope it gets an average score as close to 10 as possible, because it really deserves it.
It's a mix of very interesting story, some science-fiction elements, very good acting and you see real people with their tough, every day life. It's not a drama like Love is Sweet, where everybody/everything is perfect and beautiful, You see some ordinary people who together manage to achieve something very special.
Episode 15 is the one I liked most. I've been watching certain scenes of the second half several times (and the soundtrack, Wake up, is also very nice).
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The overall rating (7.7) is not that high, but I liked the drama and watched it until the end, which does not happen often.
It's probably me, but I like these stories with a fake marriage which ends up in true love.
The plot is not perfect, because it contains some unrealistic sections (how on earth would a young woman manage to disable all monitoring cameras in one street and hire killers...?).
But the chemistry between the FL and the ML is really fantastic and the FL is pretty and sweet. It was nice to see that the ML was after the FL from the very beginning. Funny the scene in the pool when the FL kicks the ML in the head ("why do you also live here").
And me too, I appreciated the FL being a strong young lady. Quite a contrast to the typical passive sweet FL.
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Actually a very nice drama
... but I guess you must watch it in one piece (it's on Youtube for instance). I guess the negative reviews below are mainly because people watched the 3-5 minutes mini episodes.The story is actually sweet. The best part of this drama is the relationship between the FL and ML, and this FL is really very cute. Damn pretty actress.
Oh, by the way, what makes the story interesting is the disappearance of the first FL at the beginning and then the replacement by the second FL and then the fake relationship which quickly turns into true love. It's not a boring drama.
I give it a rating of 10, hoping to push up a bit the average rating (only 7.0 right now).
How can people give such a low rating to such a nice drama, my goodness.
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This review may contain spoilers
This drama starts very well and in the first episodes it'a a beautiful romance between the FL and her bodyguard, the ML. Reminds a bit of the bodyguard movie of Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner of the 1990s. Nice music, great songs and very nice scenes of the two interacting with each other. Pretty FL actress, and even prettier second lead actress.But then in the last two episodes the plot totally collapses into an absurd, totally unrealistic crap (perhaps copied/inspired from The island with Scarlett Johansson). I don't know what to say, but they should have made this movie end in a different way in my opinion.
By the way, the episodes on Youtube have audio issues every now and then.
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Anyway, the actress is pretty and sweet like hell and the plot/story, while not perfect, is not bad either (fake marriage turning into true love).
The other reviewer wrote that the ML is "too handsome", so I guess this is the kind of drama you watch because of the FL and ML. It's a nice, relaxing movie with plenty of kisses and hugs, which you can watch in one evening.
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