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Meet Yourself chinese drama review
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Meet Yourself
6 people found this review helpful
by hey887984
Feb 26, 2023
40 of 40 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 10
Story 10.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 10.0
This review may contain spoilers

The perfect refresher of mind and mentality

This has to be another best work of Screenwriter Wang Xiong Cheng other than "Go Ahead". I love everything about it, out of all the drama that is made in 2023 so far (as of now: February 2023), this is the best one out of all in my opinion. The acting, story, cinematography - everything juts works in the best way possible.

Let me start off by the cast/acting:
- They did such a great job at casting the perfect Male and Female Leads. I have been a fan of Crystal Liu since Mulan came out in 2020. I did not know much about Li Xian who played the Male Lead, except I knew him from Go Go Squid, where I had bad experience watching. But aside from all, they both (Crystal Liu and Li Xian) did such a great job portraying each of their own characters. I don't think there are other actors who can pull off their characters so well, so I think they are truly the best actors to represent the lead characters.
- I love that the Female Lead is very mature, no acting cutesy or cringey either - very normal, put together, and eloquent. She also has mature ways of dealing with many types of people, which I admire very much.
- The Male Lead character is a little more on the child-like personality type, and not in a bad way - very playful, but at the same time, very mature when needed.

As for the story:
- I love the story very much. It truly represents their own genre, which is "Life". There are a lot of good message to reflect my own life. I especially like the saying; as I summarize "you can't judge people based on your own standard, or what the society thinks. You can think someone is having a rough time, but to that person, it may be a blessing to them already" It really brings me to reflect myself as a person who always think that I, myself is not enough to please the society and what matters most is what I think I am as an individual.
- The love story is portrayed beautifully. I know that the main problem between the 2 leads are distance. They met in an awkward timing and undesired location where they need to do long distance relationship to make things work. I am so glad the writer doesn't make one person sacrifice for another. I especially love the Male Lead's quote, "why do people always assume that women need to make the sacrifice, male has to be responsible to provide housing for women". It can be considered as revolutionary thinking in Asian drama history.
- I also love that both male and female lead have a mutual understanding where they both prioritize themselves first, rather than sacrificing everything for love. (for example: Female Lead moves back to the village because she genuinely loves the village and its people, also she wants to open her own business because she saw a potential. But she also take ML as the consideration too) - which I think is such a mature move.
- The story has no creepy/annoying love triangle, no toxic relationship, no annoying characters. It's a simple, yet interesting story that is very relaxing to watch. I seriously hurt my face watching it because I couldn't stop smiling.

All in all, if you love a therapeutic drama with no complicated and annoying story, this is the drama for you. Very light-hearted, entertaining, plus there are a lot of meaningful messages that can be learned.
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