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In recent years, Xiao Zhan rarely kisses in dramas

I'll try a few minutes, then, just out of curiosity lol

Your comment made me add this movie to my watch list, to see how bad he was, because that same year, 2007, he did Time Between Wolf and Dog in which his acting was outstanding (he even won the MBC excellent actor award being 25 years-old) , which had very high rating at the time, peaking at 20% and ending with total average 16%, and it's one of my fave dramas with him (together with Flower of Evil)

Thank you!

You're welcome. About Viki's chatroom, I never, ever, watch a drama for the first time in Viki with the comments on! It totally ruins my first-time watch experience LOL

Thanks!

Me too, I liked him normally in Love like the galaxy, buy I loved him in this drama

I'm not sure what you mean by similar, since dramas have different plots. But these are sweet and very popular C-dramas about high school-to-college-to-after college = Forever Love, Meeting You, Exclusive Fairytale, My Fated Boy, Le Coup de Foudre, Lighter & Princess, Put Your Head on my Shoulders (and some of these are better than Hidden Love in my opinion).

Not at all (I truly struggled to finish LMLMV, but this one was so captivatingly cute that I binged it -plus I kept expecting cliches and I there was none).

I just commented above, that if someone consider the ML to be a stalker, then that person was raised in a country of beta males (which would be extremely rare anyway since males chase females since homo sapiens), or that person is very young. Because guys are pushy and pursue the girls they like, way more proactively that the ML in this drama, at least in Latin America, USA, and Mediterranean European countries. That's not only my experience or those of my many friends and relatives who live all over, but you can google it as well...

Well, maybe you were raised in a country of beta males (which would be extremely rare anyway since males chase females since homo sapiens), or you are very young. Because guys are pushy and pursue the girls they like, way MUCH MORE proactively that the ML in this drama, at least in Latin America, USA, and Mediterranean European countries. That's not only my experience or those of my many friends and relatives who live all over, but you can google it as well...

Agree with you that relationships are complex. I haven't watched this one yet, but I Have a Lover is one of my favorite dramas.

If I were her, I would cancel my contract with her agency M.A.A. An important role of an agent, is to know the potential but also the limitations of the artists they manage. And even if her manager mislead her, she's 30 years old and should have known better. She should have never accepted a lead role in a project with such big visibility (due to the other main actors) such as The Impossible Heir. She doesn't have the training, experience, or enough 'raw' talent for such a role, and sadly, it has been witnessed by millions of viewers.

It would be interesting to know how she got a main role. Talent agencies usually don't have that kind of pull. Directors have power to reject artists that in their view, wouldn't fit a role as their reputation is at risk. And casting is usually carefully done and some consensus must exist. The only explanation is that either the executive producers and/or the director, insisted in casting her for some unknown reason. I hope that in the future she's offered minor roles that will polish her skills.

This drama truly lives up to the hype (not like many high-rated dramas out there). What a wonderful time I had binging it. I'll be following up if there's ever a second season produced, I won't miss it.

Out of the hyped dramas I've watched in 2024, this drama, plus Oh No! Here Comes Trouble, have been the only ones that, for me, lived up to the hype. I hope the other hyped I have in my next-to-watch (Flex c Cops, Bloodhounds, Mysterious Lotus Casebook), also live up to the hype for me.

It still doesn't have a rating in Douban, but for popularity, like eliteless1 said in this comment, it was first place since 1st episode, then went down to second, and yet still ended being 5th among 10 top dramas. There are many articles about this drama popularity, examples:
https://k.sina.cn/article_6094646365_16b44ec5d040018p78.html?from=ent&subch=oent
https://www.163.com/dy/article/IUKUVQJ00553P0F2.html
https://www.163.com/dy/article/IUSCO3FA05534M20.html

It still doesn't have a rating in Douban, but for popularity, like eliteless1 said in this comment, it was first place since 1st episode, then went down to second, and yet still ended being 5th among 10 top dramas. There are many articles about this drama popularity, examples:
https://k.sina.cn/article_6094646365_16b44ec5d040018p78.html?from=ent&subch=oent
https://www.163.com/dy/article/IUKUVQJ00553P0F2.html
https://www.163.com/dy/article/IUSCO3FA05534M20.html

You can watch it here:
https://kisskh.co/Drama/Iyashi-no-Otonari-san-ni-wa-Himitsu-ga-aru?id=7781&q=true

I loved Parasite, but also loved him in the drama Miss Korea, I fell in love with his acting there (although the drama is old and for some it might feel dated). I'm planning in watching A Hard Day, which was selected for Cannes.
- Here a list of his best acting works (you have to translate the page with right click, 'awards' means he won, 'candidate' means nominated):
https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EC%84%A0%EA%B7%A0#%EC%88%98%EC%83%81_%EB%B0%8F_%ED%9B%84%EB%B3%B4
- This in English, but it's incomplete:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Sun-kyun#Awards_and_nominations

It seems you are a hard hater of Lee Sun Kyun. You have replied to almost all comments spreading your hate (including mine). But even in my very corrupt country, we have been taught to respect deceased people. Furthermore, in my opinion, the worst sin is for a person to believe he/she has the right to judge other people's actions, as if he/she were God or the planet's moral police, and without even ever met that person... I also truly believe that words are like arrows shot from a bow, once released, they can't be un-released, and what we put out into the world will come back to us - usually called karma.