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Totally underrated urban professional life romance revenge and crime story
It had me sitting up over here in Europe every night, combing the net for the next airing of new episodes.Although it took some getting used to the FL squeeky voice I do love the main couple and found them convincing since episode one.
The couple fights huge social gaps. This drama actually shows a piece of how some of the working class people in China live. The expectances they face. From their families and friends. The shallowness they are met with when it comes to money high society people.
Wang Ju An, heir to a share of a group called Ansheng is called back to China to be Anshengs new CEO at Shanghai.
He faces internal and external oponents, has to clean up and rationalise overcome company structures, eliminate devious employees.... and accidentally meets the woman he falls in love with.
Su Mo, a uni graduate who messed up her own brilliant carreer opportunities by taking the blame for her former boyfriend's cheating in exams, can only make ends meet as a sales person at a dress shop. When she loses that job she applies at Ansheng. And finds herself rejected at first.
As she is upright she faces Wang Ju An and explains. But neither humiliates herself. Nor ask for extra favors. Impressed - nobody dares to stand up to him- (which he neeeds so badly!) he hires her. And that's how it all begins.
Bad acting, other reviews say. WHAT bad acting? It's Vengo Gao at his best. Sporty, nonchalant refined society man... so convincing. Foil fencing like a mad devil! Jumping the carpet in 3 leaps just to mark a point. Competitive, bold, secretive, scheming... vulnerable, loving, protective... it's all there.
The rest of the cast is not less convincing. FL stands her ground when CEO is being "emotionally stupid". She gets his feet back to the ground. And stands by her miserable beaten and framed man, when he is at his lowest.
They are toooo ollld... reviers say!
"Crap they are!" I say. To be a CEO at a huge company it takes a certain age. The Cdramas China is so used to with teenage CEO's and giggeling secretaries are much, but neither interesting, nor convincing. Nor real.
"The Outsider" shows mature actors, cinvincing characters... who sometimes do act foolishly. But WHO of us... doesn't do that every now and then?
I like the lead couples interactions. Second leads are funny oposites. Until tragedy hits. Wang Jian is starred in such an endearing manner... everybody would like to have a little brother like him. Developing from lazy beans into determined young man. Deeply in love with the brainer cousin of Su Mo.
I loved this drama. Do give it a try. To see Vengo Gao have mimics, smirking, sneering, being shy, being coy, being angy, menacing, concentrated, cooking, fencing, DANCING, (yes, he dances!), tearing up, (yes, he is emotional here, showing the entire bandwith of emotions involved with the grandezza of a great actor), going down on one knee, is already worth it all.
The way the actors are being dressed was great. Wang Ju An can wear anything, from that needle stripe business suit to his fencing outfit... and last but not least that sand colored outfit with those matching Chelsey boots... he wears them all to perfection. Cudos to Vengo Gao being an international Haute Couture model.
To me this is a "watch and repeat". Definitely.
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Cdrama goes Agatha Christie.
I just finished it and loved it so much.A young detective, whose aim in life is to be admitted to a legislative court meets a strange quack doctor, who is said to be able to bring the dead back to life.
Through much bickering and bromance both guys get to solve some mysterious crime cases.
Things vanishing, people dying. The cases give off clear Agatha Christie vibes, the lady of crime of English detective novels.
Whenever the spectator thinks: "OH, I got who did it and how they did." the plot uncovers yet another layer underneath and yet another.
The crimes being connected.
And it all gets us to the martial world where some ten years ago the young sect leader of Sigu sect came to be poisoned treacherously and die in a battle.
We discover, that there is an evil scheming mastermind behind all that, who is planing to take over the entire world and transform people into obedient puppets.
It's a fascinating story woven by mystery, eeriness, poison, murder, crime, treason- counter balanced by bromance, trust, loyality and faithfulness. And the ironclad will to do right by the world.
And it is all connected to that mysterious seemingly weak quack, his young detective friend and a former rival for the first place in the martial world.
To his strange wooden Lotus Tower coach, which pulled by four horses moves from crime scene to crime scene.
And to Fox Spirit, his faithful cute doggie.
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Did I love it? ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Yes I did.
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Do I recommend it?
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Absolutely!!! Do watch it by all means!
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Does it have rewatch potential?
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Absolutely. Kisskh.co has hall all english subbed 40 episodes out.
Plus one extra scene giving us a resolution.
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The sad love story of a rich girl
A rich girl falls in love with one of her classmates.She tries all the wrong ways to buy his love, but it never works. She gets pushed back again and again. Really painful to watch, although she is a real rich brat.
Until one day she decides to fall in love with a seemingly "good guy", another one if her school comerades.
On her wedding day she runs away before the ceremony and gets stabbed in an abandonned building.
An angel appears and gives her 7 days to find out who stabbed her and why.
She walks back in her own tracks and finds, that some things she had done had brought bad karma to herself and others.
She also finds out that many of the things she had firmly believed in had been fake.
Resumé: a nicely short Cdrama to watch inbetween. 11 episodes. Nothing lengthy.
Is it a happy ending?
Let's turn it like this: it's a clement merciful ending. Not a conventionally happy one.
I really liked young Rebas acting here. It also sounds as if it was unsubbed by a voice actor. Which worked pretty well.
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Awfully mumbeled speach.
I could not watch this drama.Came for beautiful Reba.
Left running head over heels. I seldom have been put off by what a film team had done to an actor that much.
Reba sounds as if she had a wet cloth in her mouth. Her usually pretty distinct way of articulating becomes unaudible and dull.
This is to represent the downfall of a former rich family and the effect it is supposed to have on Li Hui Zhens character.
But sorry... that's a huge bunch of nonsense.
Dropped the drama. I am very very disappointed of that show.
Rewatch value is 0 for me.
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