Bijou

Underwhelming drama

I quite enjoy girl disguised as boy theme of drama. (From my watch the decent one is Jia Yixuan Sun Yue one) and I need to be honest: It was underwhelming for iQiyi drama.

I quite like Wen Moyan and her revenge plot about who is killed her brother. But for female lead development, the character growth deteriorated to become helpless. Male Lead are not helping too much and drowned with his own jealousy. The chemistry between her and Zhang Tingrui still lacks compare to her previous dramas Male Leads which is unfortunate since both of them are quite good looking. The SML plot troupe has potential but they ended him just like that.

There is no climax on the story and the ending is too rushed.

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Quite decent plot but lack of chemistry destroy it.

I personally have binge of watching Ashang and found the school drama plot. The Male Lead is Shen Haonan, even he is not my personal taste of actor i like i still believe on his acting skill. Plot is quite interesting so i try to watch it.

The Plot is about FL who hopelessly fall in love with ML confessed to him but he is just being cold toward him. On their campus time, somehow FL wants to have sex with ML and they have shotgun marriage. FL had miscarriage and comes to ML speech and seeing ML crush also in there and feeling sad. FL died for accident and regret her life for being stupidly in love with ML. She was reborn and swear not to close to ML like her first life while actually ML also reborn and try to pursue FL love again.

As long as I like their acting, but their chemistry stills lacks, which is my letdown for this drama. The FL self growth was satisfying to watch since she choosing focusing on her self and not to go same campus as him. The Plot pace is not to slow and quite fast. I quite like SML and hope FL ends up with SML since he is not too scumbag even in her first life.

If they have better chemistry, i will give this drama rate 7,5. I still recommended since its good drama.

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The couple has cute vibes

I watch for Lily Zai and someone from Xiaohongsu recommended Liu Ruoxun to me.

The plot is about FL who can see her time to die and want to longer her life. She found ML who was regent and suddenly her time span was add up for 3 day. She tried to close to ML since ML was being known as cold regent with any means.

I quite like Liu Ruoxun way of acting. He is quite has nice deep voice and his intonation is clear. I am happy his voice is not dubbed. Lily Zai is eye candy and FL is kind of simple minded without complex feeling so it's kind easy acting for her.

The plot is quite promising at first but they dragged the plot pace the middle like common term in short drama. The ending is underwhelming for the couple. For the chemistry, they have cute vibe and sweet couple, wish they can show more of the couple actual progress.

Still recommended to watch.

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Still decent watch

Actually i had watch it first before i found the super bad adaptation (Yang Jie-Li Boyi version) and decided to rewatch to compare it again. The plot is about ML who pretends to become disable to stop his wife aka FL shopaholic.
I like Zhao Zhendong-Yang Luoqian dynamic duo but still have weak chemistry as lover. They have great acting skill and they can put the character into complex depth that latter version lacked. The Kid are not too annoying like the other version. There is not too exaggerated slapstick code and they can put the when the time we got emotional.

Still decent watch.

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If i describe this film as food; bland porridge

This has been a pretty bad season. As long as Chinese vertical short drama has pretty nice show or a couple of decent ones, I'm happy. I was getting my high hope for Zhang Beixi and Bai Yan collaboration but unfortunately it looks beyond salvation and worst of all Zhang Beixi real voice was being dubbed, what a bad day.

The Plot is basically FL wants to divorce ML since his indifference attitude and his constrains of FL freedom. ML wants to keep her and tug-of-war are constantly happened in this drama. There is no character development between both of the leads and they just keeping playing cat and mouse. The kiss was hot but it lacks of chemistry and there is no hint of love between them.

I feel i am just eating bland porridge after watch this nothing impressed me from this drama.

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Found nicely executed mystery drama

Once upon a time, He Congrui and Zhang Chuxuan wants to do their first collaboration and the writer quite trust both of actor script selection and turns out the intuition was completely right.

The plot is very consistent from first until the end and FL way of characterization is quite strong-willed with focused on her goal. The chemistry is on off since FL didn't want any romantic infatuation distract her goal. Even the romance it not their main theme, they can put dose of romance right without being overly done like usual type of drama. Glad ML character is not scumbag and not burdensome character and glad they didn't give any useless plot twist that unnecessary to drama.

I still rewatch since this drama is need little bit of brain but overall i enjoy this drama and collaboration.

Recommended to rewatch.

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The costume is great but the plot is too mess

Once upon a time, there is one drama who try to adapt some witchcraft with generic reborn plot that you always see on Chinese Vertical Short Drama but somehow they forgot the plot formula. The result is inconsistency and fickle drama who wants to being Harry Potter version of Shein but ends up being nowhere to go and the ending is having no correlation with the story

Peng Yao styling is not her usual ponytail that everyone complains when i see her drama on youtube. She still got acting skills and unfortunately her chemistry with Xie Hongxin is not here and she was having better chemistry with the Male antagonist instead. Xie Hongxin is having not luck with executing potential drama with decent plot. Somehow his acting always being underperformed by her female lead or the plot is going downgrade on the middle of drama.

Not really recommend to watch.

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Failed do remake of Face/Off

I watch this drama since i like Dai Fengyi and want to know how her transition from antagonist to become protagonist. The Plot is lowkey inspired by Face/Off (1997) with generic formula. They are too lazy to find same height actress since if they want to do face swap people would notice the height different.

The Supporting Artist are too stiff especially the SFL and lack of emotion while Shen Haonan didn't have any chemistry with all the Female character. No fluttering feeling and the kisses are too fake. The Chemistry is no found in every part of this drama.

Kind of lackluster drama.

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Warm feeling for family drama.

It was one of my first vertical short drama i ever watched. The plot is about FL found out she is not real child of her family and green tea was actually their real daughter. FL previous family wants to abandoned her and send her to green tea arranged marriage since her family was being poor. FL didn't want green tea to stole all of her things decided to bring all her stuff and leave her room empty. FL accepts marriage purpose and found out ML was widow with two children. She wants to win ML children heart.

The romance between main lead almost zero but since it was family focused drama i quite don't mind too much. The children acting are quite natural especially the mute daughter, i almost cried when she tried to called FL mother.

The ending is too rushed.

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Murong Guoguo is iconic

This is my first ever Tian Tianyi drama that i watch, thanks to Dramabox never-ending promotions. I tried to watch and it was decent drama.

I just enjoyed the characters with Tian Tianyi as Murong Guoguo being so iconic and make one of her step into stardom and Du Peiyan being cynical ML. SFL is quite annoying and letdown for this drama while her character is essensial for this drama. The chemistry between Tian Tianyi and Du Peiyan is shown as best friends and there is no hint they are in love.

The Murong Guoguo suicide scene are quite powerful and i was wondering if they do it with stunt or CGI because they don't throw doll at all.

The Ending scene is such anti-climax and they could it more better.

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Chinese version of My Demon

The plot is carbon copy from Korean Drama My Demon (love Kim Youjung but Song Kang cannot act for real) and i quite like fantasy drama so i tried to watch since i like Zhang Jinyi. For Yang Pengcheng, I am not familiar with his acting so it's my first ever review for him.

The editing and CGI is decent for short drama class. The styling and MUA are on good mood so everyone got decent styling. The comedy banter was better than Korean one. The supporting casts acting especially the antagonist are superb. But unfortunately Yang Pengcheng-Zhang Jinyi romance is lacked and they looked like buddies instead for married couple.

But I want to compare Yang Pengcheng with Song Kang. Yang Pengcheng is winning for his acting but his face is kinda stiff like Song Kang.

Still Recommended to watch.

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Han Yutong shows her dominance.

I watch Han Yutong drama before her collab with Zeng Hui and found this.

Actually the plot is common in that year, FL who pretend to be insane was forced to marry comatose ML. I like how Han Yutong make the character smart and her disguise as nurse is not obviously same as FL usual look. The chemistry between Han Yutong and Xie Hongxin is quite passable but for the acting skill the gap is too much shown make Xie Hongxin skills look inferior. The ending is okay but i only remember FL antics since her voice is not being dubbed.

Watchable for Han Yutong fans.

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The Most Main Lead Focused

There is too many Lou Yanjing- Li Zi version but for my taste i like this beside the Wang Nan one.

The plot is FL aka Li Zi know she is not real daughter and her fiancé break their engagement with her and turn to being real daughter fiancé . Feeling despair, FL walked on street with strain looked and found by ML. Getting drunk together, FL spends a night with ML who has secretly loved her for years. Later day, ML asks for FL responsibility by marrying him. Coincidentally reality show needs to recruit married couple, so She is agree with ML proposal. They participate in a couple's game, which helps them bond and develop a deeper relationship.

This version was solely focused on Main Lead growth from being best partner into real lover. Another fake it to make it real troupe. Glad they didn't have kidnapping scene (That was unnecessary).

My complaints is FL didn't met ML parents (They were so interesting pair, hope they could met) and there is no real marriage scene on this drama. The editing on this drama shows the budget is not that expensive.

Still recommended to watch.

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