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Good series

I didn't like the first two episodes, that kind of comedy is not my cup of tea. Lucky for me after that it just became a normal drama, without the extreme comedy. It was a nice story, great visuals and the music was ok.

I love Tay/New, their acting is great and they have amazing and effortless chemistry and great kisses, you can see they are working together for many years.
I am still not convinced about the pairing Mond/Ryu. Mond is an amazing actor and can create amazing chemistry. But though is see a little improvement in the acting of Ryu since That summer, he still needs to learn so much. There is still not much chemistry from his side. At least the kisses were not too bad.

And remember, after the end credits of the last episode is a fun extra.

I probably won't re-watch it, it was nice for one time.

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the first ten mins is all you need to know

By far the most beautiful BL I have seen since 2017 when I started my first series.

I can't even tell you a partciular scene that stuck with me because all of them did. The golden duvet and that warmth of the sun, the opening shot with the car made me realise I was getting far more than what I was anticipating.

The framing, lighting and angles are simply eye watering, the cinematography is sublime. I think I have fallen in love, and it's no exaggeration. Someone in the comments said this is like "poetry in motion", a moving painting, and it couldn't be a better description.

This drama may not be for everyone: the story is slow, it begs patience from the viewer, and it will reach the right audience. It's more about experience (like art) than consumption. And whoever made this is clearly an artist.

It doesn't feel like a BL at all, but a slow, beguiling documentary about everyday people, even making stars and crew seem mundane and very much human. And that's exactly what this drama feels like - human, and so simple yet complex.

The only thing that's left to be determined is the acting. I feel there's not much expressions that tell a story (but it supports the viewer experience as a documentary), so I can't comment too much on this yet other than this. But the cinematography and music alone should make A Winter Sun be hailed as a "must watch"

Go and feast your eyes.

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lalala

muito bom
amo enemies to lovers e esse é beeeem slow-burn
eu gosto assim!
os atores também me surpreenderam, principalmente na parte do choro, não parece tão forçado assim
só achei o plot meio nhe pq tipo, cadê os pais desses alunos que n veem o que a escola tá fazendo com os filhos?
também achei engraçado o protesto de 3 pessoas kkkkkkkkkk
as 3 mosqueteiras



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So Much Potential, So Many Missed Opportunities

What I love most about historical dramas is the beautiful costumes, but here they felt so underwhelming and, honestly, quite uncommon for a production of this level. The women’s costumes especially were disappointing. Some of them looked cheap, and the wedding dress in particular was probably one of the most underwhelming ones I’ve seen in a historical drama. It was supposed to be one of the most beautiful moments visually, yet the dress looked surprisingly inexpensive.

The story itself had huge potential, but unfortunately, I felt that the chemistry between Ye Li and Mo Xiu Yao was far too soft. I’m not even sure how to explain it properly, because it wasn’t necessarily that they had no chemistry at all—it just never felt natural or intense enough to me.

And honestly, I can’t blame Li Cheng for that. From everything I’ve watched from him so far, his performances have been outstanding, especially when it comes to his interactions with female leads. His chemistry with his co-stars usually feels extremely natural, effortless, and convincing.

With Bai Lu, however, I felt something was missing. And this is not the first time I’ve had this problem with her recent dramas. I had a similar feeling while watching Only for Love with Dylan Wang and Arsenal Military Academy with Xu Kai. In both cases, I found the chemistry between her and the male lead somewhat off.

I also have to mention her crying scenes, because those bothered me quite a lot. And before anyone thinks I’m simply a Bai Lu hater: I’m really not. This is purely about her performance as an actress. I’m judging what I see on screen, just like I would with any other actor or actress.

Sometimes I actually feel that newer actresses are doing a better job at making their characters and relationships feel natural. For example, in Love Between Fairy and Devil, I know many people found the female lead childish or forced, but personally, I thought her behavior felt incredibly natural for the character. More importantly, the interactions between the two leads felt spontaneous and believable.

That’s why Mo Li was especially frustrating for me. It’s not about having unrealistic expectations or wanting a perfect romance. The problem was the chemistry. And unfortunately, that chemistry was important enough to damage what could have otherwise been a masterpiece.

I also felt that the video quality was a little underwhelming compared with some of the more recent dramas I’ve been watching. It wasn’t terrible, but visually it definitely didn’t feel as polished.

And then we get to one of my biggest frustrations: the heroine finally gets an amazing battle scene, and what happens? The hero comes to save her. 😭

Why?!

There were so many opportunities to let Ye Li shine on her own. She was finally having a moment where she could demonstrate her strength and competence, and instead the drama fell back into the classic “hero saves the heroine” trope, as if she couldn’t win using her own abilities.

That was honestly so annoying.

And just when I thought that, toward the final episode, the chemistry between Ye Li and Xiu Yao was finally starting to improve… it was already too late.

At that point, I really wanted more scenes between them. More conversations, more emotional development, more moments where we could actually see their relationship grow.

But instead, they filled the final episodes with scenes involving almost every side character imaginable. 😭

Like… we waited all this time for the main couple, and THIS is how you use the remaining screen time?

Overall, I don’t think this drama was bad. Quite the opposite: it had so much potential. That’s exactly why the problems bothered me so much. The story, characters, and world had the ingredients to create something truly memorable, but the weak chemistry, disappointing costumes, underused heroine, and excessive focus on side characters kept it from reaching its full potential.

It could have been a masterpiece. Instead, I’m left thinking about everything it could have been.

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An insightful subversion of the dom-sub trope

I did not expect to love this show the way I did. Naoya and Takaaki will live in my heart for a long time...

I loved that we were drawn in with this idea of your run-of-the-mill toxic power play couple, only to have the rug pulled out from underneath us in the first episode. I thought this was a really insightful exploration of dom-sub relationships, subverting the usual tropes & expectations (e.g. the richer, more successful partner as the dom, or the bottom as the sub.)

Takaaki was the more interesting character for me. In one episode he commented on how his high school relationship with Naoya was the perfect outlet for his desires, which he felt were shameful. (I interpreted this as a powerful metaphor for queerness.) Takaaki really blossomed thanks to his relationship with Naoya. Anyone on the outside looking in would think he was being taken advantage of, but it's exactly what he needed to feel safe enough to explore his own desire.

In later episodes, it warmed my heart watching him struggle as an adult to express his wants, outside of Naoya giving him orders. He was so terrified of becoming like Naoya's dad, so afraid that his passion was too possessive to be healthy. And even though this was never (or rarely) explicitly discussed, Naoya intuitively knew how to bring him out of his shell and make him feel like an equal in their relationship. Naoya's EQ is really high and he did a great job steering their relationship out of the hierarchy they'd been stuck in.

Don't watch this looking for sexy power play, cause I'm not sure you'll be satisfied. But if you're interested in a beautiful, healthy exploration of desire through the lens of power play, I think it's worth a look.

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An Excellent BL With One Major Problem I Couldn’t Ignore

Kiseki: Dear to Me surprised me. I expected a fairly standard gangster/BL setup, but this is much more ambitious than that. There are two central romances, organized-crime and family politics, betrayal, sacrifice, memory loss, found family, and consequences that genuinely alter the characters’ lives. Most importantly for me, the story would still have substance even if you temporarily removed the romance.

The main couple begins when 17-year-old Bai Zong Yi encounters an injured gangster, Fan Ze Rui, who essentially blackmails his way into Zong Yi’s tiny apartment. What starts as extremely unwilling cohabitation slowly becomes domestic and affectionate. Zong Yi is poor, working while still in high school, and determined to become a doctor. Rui cooks for him, helps with his studies, and gradually turns a lonely apartment into a home.

Their chemistry is excellent, and I especially loved that Zong Yi is not written as passive simply because he is younger. He is emotionally direct, stubborn, physically confident, and consistently the more proactive person in the relationship. Taro Lin gives Zong Yi much more emotional weight than I expected from such a young actor. He was one of the strongest performers in the series.

However, I cannot ignore the biggest problem: Zong Yi is 17 when his relationship with adult Ze Rui becomes sexual. The show itself acknowledges the age issue — Rui initially rejects him specifically because he is underage — and then crosses that boundary anyway. I understood later why the writers may have needed Zong Yi to remain a minor for an important plot development, but that explains the writing choice; it does not make the sexual relationship comfortable for me. I liked this couple enormously, but this kept me from experiencing parts of their romance as uncomplicatedly romantic.

The secondary couple, Chen Yi and Ai Di, may actually be the emotional standout of the drama. Their relationship is messy, painful, funny, frustrating, and built on years of shared history. Ai Di in particular is a fantastic character, and Louis Chiang is exceptional in the role. Everyone in the cast is good, but he consistently stood out to me. Ai Di could easily have become loud comic relief or a stereotypical jealous second lead; instead, Chiang gives him remarkable emotional complexity and vulnerability.

The drama also does something I appreciated with its time jump and memory-loss storyline: the consequences matter. People lose years. Dreams change. Relationships are damaged. The story doesn’t simply press a reset button and return everyone to where they started. Zong Yi’s later life in particular carries visible consequences from what happened to him, and I loved that the ending incorporates those limitations into his future rather than magically curing them.

Both couples have terrific chemistry, the supporting relationships are unusually important, and I loved that the Fan-family storyline avoided the predictable “threatened half-brother becomes evil” route. There is also a genuine found-family thread running through the entire drama that becomes increasingly meaningful as the story develops.

The pacing occasionally moves very quickly, especially considering how much plot is packed into thirteen short episodes, but I was never bored. I went from laughing at strawberry cake, cats, hot pot, and romantic incompetence to crying through huge portions of the later episodes.

And yes, watch the post-credit scene in the finale. It gives Zong Yi and Rui exactly the kind of quiet emotional ending their story needed.

Overall, this was an excellent drama with strong storytelling, memorable characters, two compelling couples, and several genuinely outstanding performances. I just wish the writers had found a way to accomplish what they needed narratively without making Zong Yi sexually involved with an adult while he was still 17.

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A Road to Splendor: a journey of love, survival, growth, and staying true to yourself. ❤️

There are dramas that make you escape reality and give you a dream, and then there are dramas that make you look at reality differently and teach you something about life.

For me, A Road to Splendor is definitely the second kind. It’s one of the best C-dramas ever, and honestly, I don’t think it should be compared with other dramas. Not because there aren’t other great dramas, but because the depth of its story, the writing, the characters and the messages it carries make it difficult to put it on the same scale as just any other drama.

At first, it looks like a story about two people from completely different backgrounds who meet and are forced to face everything together. Zhao Ling is a generous and affectionate salt dealer from a humble family, while Fu Ting Yun comes from a noble family but is falsely accused and forced to leave everything behind. From there, they begin a journey filled with challenges, family conflicts, power struggles, betrayal and difficult choices.

But for me, the real meaning of A Road to Splendor is how to survive without losing yourself.

It shows us how to stay kind and keep a good heart in a world full of greed, lies, jealousy and betrayal. It also shows that being ambitious and wanting to reach the top is not wrong, but you have to know when to stop when success starts costing you your values, your conscience or yourself.

And then there is Zhao Ling and Fu Ting Yun.

They are what a real partnership should look like. They trust each other, support each other, protect each other and help each other grow. They don’t just love each other—they face everything together. Each one is ready to sacrifice themselves to protect the other.

They truly feel like soulmates.

I also loved the way the drama talks about friendship, loyalty, identity, empathy and family. It reminds us that family isn’t always about blood. Sometimes, the people who choose to stay, protect you and stand beside you become your real family. And the people we love deserve to be treated with kindness and a good heart.

What I love most is that the drama makes you question yourself: If I were in their place, what would I do?

And the cast… absolutely incredible.

But Ding Yu Xi as Zhao Ling and Deng En Xi as Fu Ting Yun were on another level. Every look, every expression, every gesture and every tear felt so natural. They didn’t just play a couple—they made us believe in their relationship.

That’s why A Road to Splendor is a masterpiece for me. It’s not simply a love story or a story about success. It’s a story about love, family, friendship, ambition, survival, loyalty, empathy and growth—and about reaching the top without losing the person you were along the way.

I really hope they can read my comment someday. I just want to say thank you.

Thank you for making me laugh, cry, think, and for making me feel like I was living this journey with you through the drama.

For a while, I wasn’t just watching their story.

I was living it with them. ❤️

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A Quiet Reflection on Love, Life, and Death

Will Love in Spring is not a drama you can simply put on as background noise. It demands your attention, thoughtfulness, patience, and, most importantly, empathy. This is a drama that can hit surprisingly close to home because it deals with things that every one of us will eventually experience in one way or another: love, grief, illness, disability, loneliness, aging, and ultimately, death.

It is the kind of drama that makes you think about the life you have already lived, the life you still want to live, and eventually, your own mortality.

From the very beginning, the drama stands out because of its unusual setting and characters. Chen Maidong works as a funeral makeup artist, a profession that brings him closer to death than most people ever have to be. Zhuang Jie is a successful medical saleswoman living with a prosthetic leg. Through these two characters, the drama explores life and death from very different perspectives. One is constantly confronted with death through his work, while the other lives every day with the consequences of an accident that permanently changed her life.

And this is where I think the drama is at its strongest: its approach to death.

Death is such a sensitive and uncomfortable subject. Most of us avoid thinking about it until it enters our lives personally, and even then, there is no right way to deal with it. Will Love in Spring understands this very well. It does not try to give grief a simple solution or tell us that everything will eventually be okay. Instead, it shows different people dealing with loss, sorrow, and mortality in their own ways.

There is something particularly heartbreaking about watching the younger generation encounter death for the first time. For a child, losing someone can completely change their understanding of the world. One moment, death is simply an abstract concept, and the next, it becomes something painfully real. I especially loved the scene where Maidong explains death to a young child through quantum physics to help her cope with losing her father. It was such a thoughtful and gentle way of approaching an impossible situation. He could not take her grief away or explain death in a way that would make it hurt less, but he tried to give her something she could hold onto.

The drama also looks at grief through adulthood and old age.

As we grow older, we don't necessarily become better prepared for death. If anything, there is another kind of sadness that comes with aging. The older generation in this drama, particularly those in their sixties and seventies, have already lived through so much. They have watched people come and go, lost friends and family members, and know that as time continues, they may have to say goodbye to even more people they love.

It made me think about how difficult loneliness can become in the later stages of life.

There is something incredibly sad about the possibility of outliving the people who made up your world. Eventually, friends disappear, siblings grow old, partners pass away, and one day you may find yourself waiting for your own death while carrying memories of everyone you have already lost. The drama does not romanticize aging, but it treats these fears with a great deal of humanity.

At the same time, it also reminds us that we don't actually want to live forever. Death is frightening partly because life has meaning to us. We love people, we form connections, we have dreams, and we want more time. Yet endless life without the people we love, without change, and without an ending may be just as frightening in its own way.

This drama constantly reminded me how thin the line between life and death really is. From the moment we are born, we are moving toward death, and no matter how much we think we have prepared ourselves, I don't believe anyone can ever truly be ready for it.

So maybe the only thing we can really do is live while we can.

Really live.

Another aspect I appreciated was how the drama handled illness and disability. There is a tendency in stories to give us an uplifting message that everything will be okay, and while encouragement, love, and courage are important, this drama understands a more difficult truth: sometimes things will never be the same again.

You can tell someone that it is okay and that things will get better. You can give them sympathy, love, support, and courage. But deep down, everyone understands that an illness or disability can permanently change the course of a person's life. Loved ones can support you, but eventually, the person living with that reality has to find their own way to cope with it.

I think Zhuang Jie's character represents this particularly well.

So many people seem to dislike her, and I understand why. She can be frustrating. She pushes Maidong away, contradicts herself, and sometimes hurts him despite clearly caring about him. But I personally found her understandable.

She is strong on the outside but deeply vulnerable underneath. Her disability has affected how she sees herself, how she approaches love, and what she believes she needs to do to feel worthy. Shanghai becomes a kind of safety for her, a place where she can focus on proving herself and building an identity outside of the circumstances that changed her life.

I don't think her biggest fear was simply that Maidong would reject her prosthetic leg. The deeper problem was that she had not fully accepted herself.

That is why I found her journey meaningful. She spent so much time trying to become successful, independent, and secure, as though she had to become a better and more "complete" version of herself before allowing herself to fully love someone. But Maidong's acceptance was never the biggest obstacle. Her own acceptance was.

The incident near the end reinforces one of the drama's biggest ideas: there is no such thing as a perfect plan for life. We can plan our careers, relationships, futures, and dreams as carefully as possible, but life can change in a single moment.

Zhuang Jie was definitely not an endlessly lovable character, but I don't think she was supposed to be. She is proud, insecure, ambitious, hurt, vulnerable, and sometimes selfish. But that is exactly why she feels human. She is not emotionally neat or perfectly developed into an ideal female lead. She is a person carrying years of disappointment and unresolved pain.

And I understood her much more than I expected to.

Maidong, on the other hand, is a quieter character. He isn't overly friendly or outwardly expressive, but I never found him cold. He simply sees the world differently because of what he has experienced and the nature of his profession. Being surrounded by death has given him a broader understanding of life, but that does not mean he is without trauma himself.

Outside of that trauma, he is actually a genuinely cheerful and kind person, especially around those he loves. If anything, he is too kind to the world and not kind enough to himself.

The romance between Maidong and Zhuang Jie is also one of the things that makes the drama feel so mature.

This is not a fluffy romance built around exaggerated tropes and perfect people. Both leads have careers, goals, different ideas about life, and emotional baggage that existed long before they fell in love. Maidong wants a slower and more peaceful life, while Zhuang Jie is ambitious and attached to the possibilities of the city.

They are different people who want different things, and that difference actually matters.

In many ways, they are the perfect example of the right person at the wrong time. Not because one of them is already committed to someone else, but because they meet and fall in love before either of them has fully made peace with themselves.

They are adults, but being an adult does not magically mean you have resolved everything from your past. Sometimes they behave in ways that feel almost childish, and yes, that can be frustrating. But I also understood it. They may be in their thirties, older and wiser than their younger selves, but parts of them are still stuck in old wounds.

Their relationship has its push-and-pull moments, and I won't pretend I loved every part of it. At times, their emotional contradictions and inability to move forward tested my patience. But I appreciated that the drama didn't pretend love automatically heals trauma.

Love can offer comfort, but it cannot fix everything.

In the end, both of them have to find and put together the missing pieces of themselves. They cannot simply rely on each other to become whole.

I also liked that their childhood connection was genuine without being turned into some ridiculous predetermined romance. It wasn't the typical drama connection where one character gave the other candy during a difficult childhood moment and suddenly that becomes the foundation of their eternal love. Their past connection simply adds history and meaning to who they are without taking away from the relationship they build as adults.

The drama's treatment of conversations is another thing I really appreciated. There are many scenes where people simply talk. Some viewers may find these scenes slow, and I can understand that, but for me, they are necessary. This is a character-driven story, and those conversations help us understand the psychology of the characters, especially Zhuang Jie.

The drama does not rush through emotions.

It gives grief time. It gives awkwardness time. It gives relationships time to become complicated. It gives characters time to say the wrong thing, reconsider their choices, and slowly understand themselves.

The flashbacks were also handled well. Instead of dumping the entire history between the leads at once, the drama gradually reveals their past and allows us to understand why their present relationship is so complicated. Their arguments also felt more realistic than the typical dramatic fights where characters scream at each other and refuse to communicate for several episodes.

That said, I don't think this drama is perfect.

The forced kiss scene made me uncomfortable, and while I appreciate that the drama dealt with the consequences rather than completely ignoring what happened, I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about the way that storyline was handled.

I also understand the criticism that there is not massive, dramatic character growth. However, I see why the drama approached the characters this way. These are people in their thirties. They have already spent decades becoming who they are. They are not blank slates who suddenly transform into completely different people because they fall in love.

Their growth is quieter.

It is less about changing their personalities and more about learning to understand themselves, accept the things they cannot change, and make different choices despite their old habits. They remain recognizably themselves by the end, and honestly, I think that suits the realism of the drama.

The side characters were another strength.

I really loved Grandma Lin, and the friendship between the two grandmothers was one of the softest and sweetest relationships in the entire drama. Their bond felt so natural and comforting. In a drama that spends so much time thinking about aging and death, their friendship adds another perspective on growing old: the importance of still having someone beside you.

The sibling relationships and friendships also gave the drama more life. Zhuang Jie's younger sister brings energy to the story, while the friendships among the adults feel lived-in and genuine. I also enjoyed the lighter side romances and quirky supporting characters, which help balance the heavier themes.

The setting deserves special mention as well.

This drama is mainly set in an old, small town filled with ordinary, not particularly glamorous buildings. And I think that setting fits the story perfectly. This isn't a drama interested in presenting an idealized, luxurious version of life. It is interested in real people living ordinary lives, dealing with family, work, love, illness, grief, and all the small and large problems that come with being alive.

There are scenes in Shanghai, but this is not a story obsessed with the glamour and excitement of big-city life. The contrast between the town and the city reflects the characters themselves, particularly Zhuang Jie's connection to ambition and independence versus Maidong's preference for a slower life.

Visually, I found both settings beautiful in different ways. The small town has a lived-in quality that makes the story feel grounded, while the cinematography captures its scenery beautifully without making it feel artificially picturesque. The locations genuinely made me want to visit, especially the scenic views shown throughout the drama. Whether the exact town is fictional or not, the place feels alive enough that I wanted to step into its streets and experience it myself.

The cinematography overall is beautiful, with a style that suits the drama's warm, melancholic, and reflective atmosphere. The color grading, locations, and quieter visual moments work particularly well. There were a few editing and dubbing moments that felt slightly choppy to me, and occasionally a background song didn't quite match the scene, but these were minor issues.

The OST, however, is excellent and adds beautifully to the overall atmosphere of the drama.

What I think Will Love in Spring does best is refuse to sugarcoat life.

It talks about dreams and reality, joy and sorrow, the past and the future, pride and humility, love and loneliness, death and renewal. It understands that healing is not always clean or complete. Sometimes you move forward while still carrying pain. Sometimes you forgive without forgetting. Sometimes you love someone and still struggle to let them close.

And sometimes there are no perfect answers.

This is not a drama for everyone. If you are looking for a light, fluffy romantic comedy, this is probably not the right choice. Despite its warm moments, humor, and romance, the overall atmosphere can be quite heavy and angsty. I often found myself unable to fully relax because the drama had made me so aware of how suddenly tragedy can enter an ordinary life.

But if you are willing to be patient with it, to sit through its long conversations, emotionally complicated characters, and quieter moments, I think it offers something genuinely special.

Will Love in Spring is a thoughtful, mature, and beautifully human drama about love, grief, disability, acceptance, aging, and death. More than anything, it is about understanding that life is unpredictable and fragile, and that we will never be completely prepared for everything it brings us.

We cannot prepare perfectly for illness.

We cannot prepare perfectly for loss.

And we certainly cannot prepare perfectly for death.

All we can really do is live the life we have, love the people who are still here, and accept that neither life nor healing will ever follow the plans we carefully make for ourselves.

Like spring, this drama arrives quietly.

It doesn't force itself upon you with huge twists or dramatic declarations. It takes its time. It grows slowly. And before you fully realize it, something about it has stayed with you.

A drama that asks you to think about death, but somehow leaves you wanting to live more thoughtfully.

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Skipped through the End

I was SO excited for this season. Then I saw the ratings and wondered if I’d be wasting my time and honestly 30 episodes is A LOT. Still, I decided to take the risk, convincing myself that the ratings might be misleading.

Well… things were actually going fine at first. And then came the double dates. From that point onwards, everything went downhill so fast.

And NO, I’m not saying this just because all my ships were sinking . I survived that! The real problem was that there was nothing left to hold on to. Everything became soo predictable, and straightforward that there was barely any excitement left. No tension, no anticipation, no OMG WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN?

Let me summarise it
• Lan Lan and Dr. Fang were basically a done deal after their first official date. Jiao Zhou never really stood any chance. All his efforts were pointless. There was no suspense at the end whatsoever

•Le Chan, Dou Dou, and Lu Yuan/Ruilong’s dynamic was the most interesting one.. BUT THEN LE CHEN STARTED ACTING WEIRD WITH DOU DOU. Even if his feelings changed yet still the way he kept avoiding her was painful to watch. And Ruiling was such a gem. Only if dou dou had opened her heart a little for him.

•And when it came to Le Chan and Lu yuan, I’m sorry but… I simply did not care about them anymore. Their trip was SO boring that it genuinely put me to sleep. I was literally skipping through it just to get it over with.

•Chi Chi , Zihan and Yu Xing were little bit of mystery till the end. And I don’t even know why, but I was weirdly rooting for Yu Xing . I know he wasn’t the right fit for Chi Chi, and honestly, we could see exactly why. But for some reason, I kept hoping he would get better.

Overall, this season just didn’t give me the romance I was expecting. Rather than feeling cute, romantic, and heart-fluttering, so many moments felt cringey and, honestly, a little fake.
And instead, I ended up skipping episodes.

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A charming drama that lost its spooky spark

Spooky in Love opens as a fun supernatural story with a strong ghostly twist that gives the early episodes a fresh, engaging feel. The leads, Park Eun Bin and Yang Se Jong, bring a lot of charm and make the story easy to follow.

I also really enjoyed Lee Chang Hoon and Kim Min Ho — their dynamic added a light, playful energy that balanced the darker elements nicely. Let's not forget Ong Seong Wu: He was a great addition; even though his role became clear early on, watching his storyline unfold was still satisfying.

The acting and chemistry were great, and that’s honestly what kept me watching until the end.

Unfortunately, the ghost theme — the part that initially drew me in — fades away midway through the drama. I would’ve loved to see that aspect explored more, especially since it gave the show its unique identity at the start.

Even with that shift, it remains a light, easy, and overall enjoyable watch. It just turns into a different kind of drama than I expected.

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A Surprisingly Well-Rounded Cdrama

Honestly, for an idol drama, this series certainly exceeded my expectations! From the acting and the senior cast to the plot and overall production, everything felt very well put together.

That said, I do think it fell a little short in the romance department. And by that I don’t mean the chemistry between the leads or the way their love story was portrayed throughout the drama. If anything, their relationship felt almost too realistic and heavy at times. I just wish we had been given more sweet and lighthearted moments between them. The honeymoon phase was cut short, and the final arc was filled with so much hardship and angst that we were left with only about half an episode to redeem their romance properly.

Still, I appreciated that there weren’t any major plot holes and that everything was ultimately tied up nicely by the end.

Another thing that made this cdrama stand out to me was that the writing wasn’t solely focused on the leads. Many of the supporting characters were given genuine depth and complexity, which made the world feel much more fleshed out and complete. Characters like Madam Yu, Fan Ke and several others in the supporting cast truly shone and left a noticeable impact in their respective roles. It was refreshing to see the story give them enough substance to feel like more than just plot devices.

Lastly, I absolutely loved how the drama concluded! It’s wise to know when to advance and when to retreat, indeed. ML saw his chance and took it and honestly, he was very wise to do so!

Overall, while I would have loved a little more sweetness and romance between the leads, I think the drama did a lot of things well. Strong performances, solid writing, well-developed supporting characters and a satisfying ending made this a very worthwhile watch.

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How can you do an special that it's purely fanservice NOT VERY FAN SERVICING?

So, I think that in the end (and I'm very sad to say this) Peach and Me was very bad. It wasn't good at all, and nothing worked well.

I was eager to see them living their happy life, with funny moments and amusing things happening. In the end, we don't even have a proper narrative in those four episodes. It's just pure fanservice, as specials often are and that's okay! What's absurd is that it was fanservice done badly. I really hate this.

I don't think it's a good special, and I don't think it's a good gift to the fans. It is poorly written and poorly directed. I really kind of hate everything about it, even the secondary couples. It was purely fanservice and funny scenes, but they weren't even good or fun. In the end, I would prefer to live without it... maybe we can just ignore that it exists.

Also RomeMok was a mess. A awful mess. And they wasted my girl Emi time to make her do Mira when MiraPlub was just a bunch of nothing.

IT'S SO SAD bcs Me and Thee was quite THEEE SERIEEES for me and honestly it's so hard to fumble a special sequel... but they did it LOL.

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Spooky argument

STORY – Starts great and end miserably. Somewhere un the middle of the drama, I lost the plot, and it was dull and boring.
ACTING – It was good, but I felt some strange feelings in the last 2 or 3 episodes, something was different…
MUSIC – it was good for the show, and it stayed in my mind.
REWATCH – not really. And I don’t think that there will be more than a couple of scenes deserving reviewing.
OVERALL – I lost interest going to the end of the drama. I don’t regret watching it, but I wished it was more consistent and well written…

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