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HOT ML ALERT!!! ROMANTIC KISSES AND MAKING OUT IN YOUR AREA!!!!

The plot revolves around our female lead (FL) and male lead (ML), and how they transitioned from being young and affectionate lovers to experiencing a tragic adult romance filled with misunderstandings. FL mistakenly believes that ML murdered her entire family when in reality, it was Z, a deceptive and unsuccessful man, who committed the crime. ML, on the other hand, misunderstands FL and her family, believing that her relatives were responsible for his parent's death and the ruin of his life.

ML and FL find themselves entangled in a war of emotions, with FL frequently losing and regaining her memories. ML initially treats FL with a mixture of coldness and warmth, making their relationship tumultuous. As is common in many love dramas, after enduring various hardships (such as ML nearly being killed and FL partially saving him), ML and FL begin to appreciate, care for, and love each other more deeply.

Gradually, ML and FL genuinely develop romantic feelings for each other. However, FL loses her memories, prompting ML to be exceptionally kind and promise eternal love.

Eventually, ML kills Z, the person responsible for FL's family's tragedy. FL regains her memories and harbors immense hatred towards ML, leading her to shoot multiple bullets at him. She then attempts to end her own life but miraculously survives. Similarly, ML survives the attack. When ML encounters FL again on the battlefield, they exchange a loving smile. The story concludes on this note.

The male lead's actor is widely regarded as attractive - HOT HOT HOT 🥵 . The End.

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who is the CULPRIT !!??

After watching episode 12 I'm pretty sure that the main lead's FATHER is the culprit.

In this episode, we find out the female lead's nightmare. Her parents will lead a very happy life, but she can't find the male lead. Looks like the main lead will be disappeared. That happens if the male lead was died or he was never born. If the main lead's father is the culprit, then he will be arrested . This is how the main lead will never born. Besides this logic I found a wierd fillngs about his father. He looks very suspicious.

If this happens then it will be a Sad ending.🥹🥹

I know my English is not so good, but I think it's quite understable.

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maybe everyone agrees with me that our dating sim is an extraordinary work from south korea. from all aspects of this drama is superior when compared to other dramas in terms of story? extraordinary with the duration per episode reaching 15-20 minutes, in terms of acting from the actors? The chemistry of the main actors in this drama is no longer recognised, from a cinematographic point of view? you can judge if you have watched this drama. highly recommended to watch. but in terms of the ost I'm not interested in listening to the song but that's just a personal opinion. I am very grateful to the hard work of the entire staff from the actors, director, and all those who played an important role in the success of this drama

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For the funsies...

Episode 1: Zero Photography
It's a cute story but it was a bit annoying... Idk why? They didn't exactly look InkPa?

Episode 2: Zero in the Moonlight
My fucking god what was that shit LOL, it's so bad. So fucking bad. Oh my god. What a waste of time.

Episode 3: Zero Supporter
My favorite, because it was so fun. I really like CLW too, so I'm a bit biased, but this special episode was really really fun, they are so silly. Love them.

At all, it was a very cute special with ad, but since this tea ad is always at the bls, it was not really different. But it was cute and funny (except episode 2 the girl was dumb and the boy very annoying). But makes me wonder HOW MUCH money these brands put on GMM works, damn...

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Wasted potential

I like the gist of the story but screenplay is so bad .

It tried to tell something but it lacks conviction. Why i said wasted potential was because scenery is so refreshing, cinematography and music are good, but the screenplay made it so bad.

I've seen the actors in other kbls, and they've done great, but in here, they are too stiff.

There were times i watched it in 8x mode just to finish this. I don't know if the story is too slow or too fast. Lol.

This is something not worth to rewatch but something that is tolerable to watch.

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( Personally ) It was great but It takes time to get hooked.

At the beginning of the drama, I thought it would circle around the theme of revenge of our mc but I was wrong. From the first episode, I wasn't hooked that much but as I finished the episodes one by one. I fell in love. The more the characters develop, the more you understand them. We could say that Teacher Kim ( One of the mc ) is harsh and unlovable but as the story goes on, you'll def fall in love with him. I actually was hooked by the way his smile and the drama also shows that he has a bit of a childish side, which was very funny. I watch this drama because I wanted to know more about medicine and I wasn't disappointed. This whole drama was inspiring and I felt that this show convinced me that maybe someday I could become one of our MCs. Yes, It has romance which I want to commend because they add the right amount of romance in this drama. They made sure not to make one genre over the top while one is bringing down one. I would recommend this to those who like doctors, comedy, and with romance.

Personally, my favorite character would be Park Eun Tak. He's a nurse and a supporting character in this drama. I was caught off guard by his cute smile at the beginning and as the show goes on even though he didn't get many scenes, They still showed his character which made me fall in love with him more. I'm not saying the other characters are bad, In fact, I love all of them except the villain ( I want to drop him an island where there are a lot of zombies ). BUT EUN TAK IS MY FAVVVVVV.

Thank you for making this drama. It's def a memorable one for me.

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Spoilers for Ep 16

The way I interpreted what happened in episode 16, is that the ML was not in his right mind to communicate clearly with the FL. Even though so far their communication has been really open so far, it shows that he still had reservations in telling her everything, and this unfortunately created a misunderstanding that was later called out by the FL. I have seen comments lambasting her for the way she treated ML, but considering what he did to her I think it’s natural for her to be afraid of him even though she understands why he did it. Forgiveness took time, which I appreciate and even then she later realized how hurtful her words were. Her responses are flawed, and most importantly human and she acknowledges it eventually and apologises and that’s what really elevates this story for me. Including the ML, even though he is an immortal who has been around for some time when it comes to inter personal relationships he still has a learning curve and will make mistakes. Yes, they have established a relationship where they are open with one another but that does not necessarily mean either one will get it righ all the time, and it was later addressed. So, I do not think it was “out of character” or a plot hole but a demonstration of how flawed they are. However again that is my interpretation of it, but I think for anyone considering on dropping it because of that just know it does get addressed later on and is not a moment that happens and is forgotten about

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AMAZING CHEMISTRY ❤️

Why is this drama getting a perfect rating from me?
THE CHEMISTRY, I thought I'd never ship any one with Janice Wu except Steven Zhang from skate into love but the CHEMISTRY in this drama was on the heights....they definetly make it to my top cps of 2023.
THE STORY. As much as this looked like a common plot I love how it wasn't filled with all the cliche plot lines, they got rid of the love triangle and we didn't have an annoying second female lead to keep wasting screen time rolling around male lead, the leads were given their screen time..the confusion between their relationship was cleared, those flash backs with both of their POVS and the balance between work and romance,I don't know why people were calling this slow paced..to me it was neither slow nor fast it had that perfect pacing to it..nothing felt rushed not dragged❤️

THE CHARACTERS, No doubt Xu yanshi joins Xie xhi Yao( Meet yourself), Song San Chuan ( Nothing but you) and Xiao Han( The forbidden flower) as boy friend of the year but I love how not necessarily cold but how calm mature and considerate he was written, yes someone you'd never meet in your life but definitely set standards...well done Vin Zhang on bringing him to life.
Janice Wu has always been an amazing actresses, her naturally flowing humour and absolute charm, her gutsy personality but at the same time not a damsel in distress...I loved her❤️

Side characters like the technical department, th female leads grandpa, the cute little brother and all the rest did their parts as well and I loved them❤️

THE OSTS..guys the osts..I swear it's rare for me to have a C drama where I love each ost from one to the last well except shining for one thing that drama had amazing osts but this had OSTS I loved each one of them❤️

THE HAPPY ENDING I don't think I need to explain since every one obviously loves a happy ending.

I don't know if iam supposed to write this here but for future viewers who are having doubt if they should try it out then please for the love of it do..it was a cute light romcom and I'd rate it 10/10 I don't give that rating because a drama was perfect I give that rating because a drama managed to get all these emotions out of me, managed to entertain me and managed to be that good in my eyes...so yes this is highly recommended on my side❤️

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I have mixed feelings on this one

So I have a lot of mixed feelings about this drama.

Yes, it's cliche, but what drama isn't nowadays?

The MFL and MML are cute together when they can actually communicate, but the age gap doesn't scale in the back story.
This leads to way too many plot holes overall.
The MML is awful at best, and abusive at worst. He doesn't communicate, and his double standards for what is okay for him but not the MFL pissed me off.
The MFL and MML are both so oblivious to what is going on around them and others' feelings that it's painful to watch. They constantly hurt others with their blatant obliviousness.
The MFL at least attempts to communicate, but lets her feelings get in the way of actual communication.
The MML's female assistant (love rival) is a total witch. I was upset that she didn't get a comeuppance at the end for all her bad deeds. She is a first-class witch. She played her part well but at some point, it became too much.
The MFL's assistant, I mean the puppy dog following her with big heart eyes, is a much better choice for the MFL. The MFL deserves so much better than the MML.
The Secondary couple was actually my favorite part of the show and they got way too little screen time.

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Solid drama with good acting and production value; but the storytelling and editing could be better

This is going to be a shorter review but I recommend reading PeachBlossomGoddess’ excellent review especially if you want some background information.

I was a fan of the two movies “Brotherhood of Blades” and I found them to be much more exciting than “Pledge of Allegiance”. If you want to watch them, I believe you can start with the reverse chronological order of production;

1. Pledge of Allegiance (2023-Drama)
2. Brotherhood of Blades 2 (2017-Movie)
3. Brotherhood of Blades (2014-Movie)

Quick thoughts:
1. I enjoy the acting of Leon Zhang and Chen Ruo Xuan. I wasn’t expecting much but I think they exceeded my expectations. Actually, the overall acting is pretty good.
2. I enjoy the fight scenes. There aren’t many, but the ones they have are choreographed well and show great close contact, hand-to-hand, sword-to-sword combat. This also exceeded my expectations and are on par with the quality of the two movies (the movies’ action scenes are still better).
3. I wasn’t confused with the story or timeline, but I was a little confused with the names in the beginning. Names of government officials were thrown at me left and right without seeing the faces of these characters. Thus, it took me a while to relate each name to the event that happened 10 years ago.
4. Bromance/Brotherhood is interesting. Reminds me a little bit of the frenemies/best buddy relationship in the K-drama “My Country:The New Age”. The leads care for each other, trust in each other, yet the decisions they make oftentimes don’t seem that way.
5. Getting stabbed in the chest or close to the heart is no big deal in this drama.
6. It rains all the time at night.
7. So many secrets, schemes and lies. It’s hard to decipher the true intentions of each character. But after a while, this becomes repetitive.
8. I enjoy the natural makeup and no white filter.
9. I like that the actors are using their own voices, and there seems to be live recording.
10. Not enough excitement to keep me on the edge of my seat. Pace is somewhat slow. I was a little bored.

Despite liking many things about this drama, I can’t seem to muster excitement when watching this. Therefore, on a personal enjoyment level, this is a solid 8.0 and not an 8.5


Completed: 6/6/2023 - Review #315

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what could be done in 12, was pushed to 17.

Too long!

Overall I think the story was fine but damn it shouldn't have even passed 12 episodes. especially for a show with no b, c, or runner plot(s). for it is 17, it could've used another couple/conflict, especially with all the wasted talent on account of the other female characters. (we literally see that with Phukan (the actress), she's maybe on screen 5, 7 times and she's on the poster.)

I really hated that they left my homegirl May to just be another conquest and we had to brush over the fact that her best friend ended up marrying the guy! Like homegirl pours her whole heart out to you and in some writing that feels like some guy wrote it, she just says you should've been more careful. Plus after they get married it's never really brought up again. I think this really says a lot about how lacking the conflict is...everyone is so focused on getting this money back that we don't have time for literally anything else.

My absolute favorite part was Jen. there were so many times that I couldn't help but wonder: what's your goal? like do you wanna be with the ML or use his money or keep your job (lol she loses all three). I do kinda love that she really did play herself. All she had to do was stay quiet and play dumb but this b couldn't help herself. I love that she had the gall.

Mew being here made me ask why are you here...to be the other guy? Also, I can't even tell if his acting is just bad here (which is odd since I know he can do angst well) or just the sub-par writing when it came to the two male leads. For the life of me, I truly couldn't tell you what the motivations behind half of these characters were. ...I'm just lost.

You are telling me Jes's character is some kinda of cheating playboy...yet besides Jen and the big reveal (his...not aunt) all of the girls he's been with are primarily one-night stands due to trauma? Like let him hook up with MAY and while I'm glad May didn't do anything... I kinda wish she did? There was some serious favor lacking in the whole cheating escapade plot...they should've just made him a scammer who f's his fake aunt... The cheating (?)/one-night stand phase (?) was weak.

Also...who were the perfumes for? I watch most of these at half speed and I know for a fact they forgot plot lines halfway through cuz the jump from cheater to scammer to oh you guessed it MARRIAGE FRAUD was like one episode to another. I guess that explains the whole harem thing but not really...because the photos provided for his while cheating era were from the same hotel and the whole point of the marriage fraud was that he was doing this thing internationally! I think what makes me laugh most is when the lady who is helping her with her case says that she didn't lose enough money...HUH like it sounded like quite a bit of money to me.

All in all, while I had fun this was kinda a miss. I was bored half the time and now as I've been writing this I've just become mad.

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Really Good

I just finished rewatching “Why Women Love” and I wanted to watch something else that Jin “Gina” Chen was featured because that woman can act and has the best matured strong sexy FL aura for CDramas on lockdown IMO and I was looking for a mature CDrama without all the cutesy baby-voiced and baby-like FL characters and needed a break from all that. I never knew Cdrama had this mature type of series. It’s like watching real life adults live their everyday life’s.
There is no oh they are pushing 30 and haven’t been in a relationship before and that pull/push CDrama trope between the leads and then they start dating and are the only ones for each other for all of times but can’t even sit close to each other without being so shy and looking so awkward and also wouldn’t even sleep on the same bed, even a bed big enough for 3 people, how tf are you in a relationship but can’t even share a bed together, I still do not understand the logic behind this behavior in Cdramas because you can absolutely share a bed without having sex but wait for it, this same people who are pushing 30 and haven’t been kissed before nor being in a relationship and who are so shy and adverse to sharing a bed at the beginning of the said first relationship would suddenly in a few episodes into the dating life, become experts in the bedroom without any prior experience, puhhhhh-leaassseeee.
But there is none of that in this drama, thank God for that. The characters are real world/life adults here with their own struggles and challenges.
The only character I do not like is Guan Yue. She feels she is owed something by everyone. She is annoying with the constant woe is me attitude towards her supposed failures which she is the architect of most of the time. I’m at ep18 and she has become less annoying but I don’t know if it’s too late for viewers to fall in love with her.
Shen Si Yi takes life by the bull horn, she knows what she wants and she goes after it. She been so scarred for life by her parents and it’s really sad. I love her character so much, I agree with Yao Yuan though, if she doesn’t open herself to real love, she’s letting her parents win and they don’t deserve to win so I really wish she would open up herself to love so as to not let them win and also she can experience life in full.
My favorite line so far is from ep18 when Lu Ke got back from here date with Zhang Mang and wanted to sneak in but Shen Si Yi wasn’t having it. During their convo she told her that “Zhang’s eyes are shining when he looks at her”, she’s like really, Shen Si Yi is like “Ofcourse not, it isn’t as if he has light bulbs for eyes”, I laughed so hard at that.
It’s a really good series and I’m really enjoying watching it.
It’s really not something I would rewatch though.

Update @ep23. I didn’t think GuanYue could be dumber but well she’s proven me totally wrong. She finally gets her big break through connections (which I personally have nothing against as long as you are worth it but in this case she’s not totally not worth it IMO) and then she’s so dumb, stupid and gullible and just hands over her design to someone else just like that, she deserves to be fired IMO. The business/art world is cutthroat and nobody has the time to hold your hands.
I don’t know where she gets off throwing tantrums and the self righteous indignation towards her friends, who are trying their best to cheer her foolish self up. I can’t for the life of me understand how she’s friends with that group. She looks and feels out of place with them. Even though they are struggling with maintaining personal/romantic relationships, they all still have the matured adult aura but she just looks and behaves like a child who is playing dress up with her elder ones friends. And the group keeps babying and coddling her instead of telling her to grow the hell up.

Update @ep36 after completing the series.
I reduced my original rating of 9/10 to 8/10 just because I wished the series focused more on the personal/romantic relationships of the characters, I don’t know if they changed directors half way, because the mature sexy romance of the first part turned into a muted romance, maybe that’s why they left Shen Si Yi and Yao Yuan’s reconciliation to the last episode because there was no way they could have muted that chemistry/romance, which was a real shame that we didn’t get to see them together for longer. Guan Yue should have as well been one of the leads because lemme tell you it felt like she got more screen time that the leads, which would have been fine if her story arc was interesting. Anyways overall I enjoyed the series and I don’t regret watching it because I got to watch Jin “Gina” Chen.

Rewatch value 5/10
Overall 8/10
Even though I would not necessarily rewatch this I highly recommend you watch it once.

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