Eye candy and lighthearted and enjoyable drama.
I love that little bit of detail that makes me go smiling,
wait for another two episodes.
I'm like,
come on.
Liang Chen Mei Jing Hao Shi Guang
Love Scenery, is a supposedly to be 35 episodes drama,
but then now it's being said on its airing website
as a 31 episode drama so I don't know.
Eventually how long it's gonna be
contemporary romantic drama led by Xu Lu and Lin Yi
Currently this drama has aired past halfway and i've watched12 episodes.
This first impression video is based on those episodes i've watched.
This is another ip adapted drama based on
an existing novel called Ming Qiang Yi Duo, An Lian Nan Fang
which comes from a traditional saying
in chinese which is ming qiang yi duo an JIAN nan fang,
but here it changes the arrow is into love because
this drama does have a long period of the
characters liking each other but not really letting each other know.
And as the adapted version,
they change the title into the liang chen mei jing hao shi guang,
which is just again super vague and it has nothing to do with the drama itself,
but then the english title is even more confusing as Love Scenery.
You're not really talking about oil painters.
Anyway, that's just, some random rant from AvenueX
i will give it a one gold mine rating
based on my seven level scale based on the first 12 episodes.
And now let's get into talk about why I would give it that rating
First, on the positive side of things,
This is a very eye candy, light hearted and enjoyable drama.
I love the fact that it doesn't oversell itself.
It doesn't try to promote it in anyway that doesn't fit what it actually is
it is a romantic story about a popular singer played by Xu Lu
who is older and a very well known successful game streamer,
a younger guy who is still in college.
So the very popular Nian Xia (年下) story these days.
And that's pretty much all this drama is about
romantic drama from beginning,
probably until the end about the coupling between these two people.
So far after watching the 12 episodes,
I think they've done a good job playing with this genre and sort of serving
the audiences expectation for watching this particular type of drama.
The second thing that I do enjoy while I was watching the drama
is it doesn't overdo stuff in every way.
First, it doesn't do crazy skin smoothing which
happens to pretty much every chinese drama these days
And especially when the lighting conditions is not ideal,
you can even tell like there's wrinkles and there's blockheads and
little perfection and make up kind of melting at the end of the day of the shooting,
which I actually really appreciate because
it makes the people look like real people.
And let's be honest, in asian dramaland
not just in china,
The over idealizing of what people look like.
And what everything looks like is a long existing problem.
Also it goes into the plot itself because this
is a romantic relationship, focused drama.
And i'm very worried when I start what china's drama is,
it's gonna have so much what we call industrial sweetener, gong ye tang jing,
the forced
sweet moments after sweet moments that's just trope after trope and tiring.
And you've seen it 1 million times.
And there's no way that happens in reality in any
After watching 12 episodes, i'd say
Yes,there's a lot of sugar moments,
but i'm happy that they don't overdo it,
they don't do it in a very forced way.
And there are actually moments that are really sweet and unexpected.
But it's like that is so cute like the very tropy moment when
somebody is literally playing out a scenario in their brain.
But it doesn't happen in reality.
Yet they do it in ways that is very, very cute,
such as the female lead on wechat with the male lead
Trying to send him money to say, thank you,
but it's only one rmb and she would send it in ten different red packet.
Each is only 0.1.
It's just like something I wouldn't do.
But once she does it,
i'm like that is so just.
Like the romantic people,
like the people who are in love would do that type of thing.
And I love that little bit of detail that makes me go smiling
and i'm happy that they make Tencent's life a little bit more
difficult because of all the back-end
calculation doing it once or doing it 10 times.
Then the third thing that I enjoy watching is because
this drama has a lot of gaming and reality cut,
because one of our character is a big game streamer,
and one of the major plot and how they got together as
a singer and the gamer is she wants to play a game,
but she's just so bad at it.
And she goes to look for somebody who can help her
and a friend of hers introduced this gamer.
So once they cut the reality into the game world,
which has been happening for recent couple of years,
thinking about all the chinese dramas that talks about gaming,
that has the game and reality cut.
So they do a version of theirs,
which is when the two characters end up in the game world,
what they look like, how they interact, what happens
It's very cute.
The way they do it, it's the way that you can tell like it's a romantic story.
Therefore, they do it in a romantic story
way that makes sense for the narrative.
I do have to say they did spend money on some of
the special effects looking pretty impressive.
One of the better ones that you've seen within this genre of dramas.
So that's definitely one thing that's enjoyable to watch.
And every time they go into a game,
something is different, a different setting, a different world,
different ways of solving the task,
and obviously different kinds of romantic and comedic moments happening.
Now, let's talk about a few things that are not so ideal for me.
So I wouldn't give it a higher rating than what I gave it for those reasons.
The first thing is, I don't quite get this cp
Again, this is super personal.
I know the cp is popular among certain audiences.
I've noticed that some people really dig them.
I'm not one of those people.
It may just click with you.
It's just totally personal.
So for me to watch this drama,
there isn't a let's say a physical,
visceral stomach level of need for me to keep continue watching it.
I'm like, okay,
with these two leads like I see they do work pretty well together,
but my heart is like
quite flat lined while watching their interactions.
And I would say probably has a lot to do with the fact that my cpu and
my graphic card in my brain is totally occupied by the other drama
That is still pretty much occupying my life right now.
So I just don't have honestly processing power
to deal with a new cp that may be your reason.
So keep that in mind.
Then the second thing is this drama apart from the
romantic part, older woman, younger man, the singer,
famous star vs a college student type of dynamic that all the tropes
and all the things you can think of that can happen based on this premise.
Apart from that, there really isn't much going on.
That's kind of on itself worth watching,
say last year Crossfire,
it's a gaming drama too.
And gaming is a big part of it and two different people
at different times and how the society views that.
But it also has like extra element,
like thriller element, crime element.
So it has a little bit more going on.
Whereas this drama is just pretty much solely romantic story focused.
So I do feel it lacks a little bit dramatic tension and kick for me to say,
apart from good looking people falling in love,
there's something else that's actually worth waiting for.
Then the other thing is this drama because of the two characters set up.
They didn't find out who each other is until quite late in the drama,
the guy realized who the girl is earlier on than the girl
finally realizing the gamer is this person and then.
They kind of like really recognize each other in real life.
It just take too many episodes.
And I know it's kind of an original book, too.
But for audiences by episode eight,
I was like really impatient.
I was like, come on.
You guys missed each other because there's so many occasions
when they're just on the brink of finding out who each other is.
And just something happens,
stops them at the very moment.
And then either they turn away,
either they're not looking in the right direction and.
Wait for another two episodes.
I'm like,
come on.
So if you play that once or twice,
i'm okay.
You've played that so many times.
So by the early teen number episode,
when it kind of final is out, I was like,
it's too late for me.
So I don't get the kick that I want out of this particular plot
It is just a buzz killer that it happened too late
That would conclude my first impression on the drama.
ling chen mei jing hao shi guang
and I forgot to mention the dram'as ending song is sung by Liu Yuning
Again.
How many drama songs has this guy's sung this year or showed up in dramas
like he had Ultimate Note, he had Chang Ge XIng (Long Ballad) that's on-going
He's the male econd
he sang the songs for Hu Yitian and Li Yitong's drama
He sang a song for Word of Honor
He sang a song for this drama.
I I feel like he's gonna just be present in the entire dramaland whether as an actor
or as a singer or whatever
as Ai Qing Bao An， if anyone knows his ...
That's his nickname.
Now in china he's just gonna be here for the entire year.
I just have the inkling 2021 chinese dramas will be
surrounded by Liu Yuning's presence in every way possible.
Let's see if it turned to be true.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
i'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.