Expose his upper body and show you how many packs he has
put some nice soundtrack music at the background,
and it will probably look better than the drama itself.
Hi, you're watching AvenueX where a junkie on
good storytelling shares her thoughts,
knowledge and occasional weird ideas on stories and how they're told.
Ye Se An Yong Shi, Love at Night, is a 24 episodes drama that's been aired on,
mango television,
also hunan television in china right now.
The drama is led by Liu Xueyi and Zhang Yuxi
a contemporary romantic drama.
I caught this drama on the first day it started airing,
but because of many other dramas are airing at the same time,
I only get around to make a video about it now
when it has already aired 2/3 of the entire episodes count,
I highly doubt it's gonna have a huge change in the last third of the content.
So this would be the only video I will make talking
about this particular drama based on what i've seen.
I'll give it a goldmine/landmine rating to be more specific,
maybe 0.5 goldmine
still on the positive end,
but barely there
as usual I'll first talk about the story itself and
then the good and bad and why I give it such a rating
in terms of what the story is about the there really isn't that much,
I can say
it basically is about in current contemporary big metropolis.
In china, a rather successful career man meets a rather successful career woman.
Romantic story.
That's it
really.
There isn't that much you can say about the plot because almost
plot is not important for this drama
on the positive end of the things
first and foremost and most important and most important.
And probably the probably the reason that anyone who watches chinese dramas
wanna check out this drama is
it's led by two very good looking people,
Zhang Yuxi
pretty girl, Liu Xueyi, good looking man
particularly for liu xue yi because he just does mostly period
dramas and often the male second who just
doesn't get what he wants in the end.
Thankfully this time he is the male lead of a contemporary drama.
So like I said in my weekly video,
he gets to drive posh cars.
He gets to wear suits and contemporary hair and have the
opportunities to expose his upper body and show you
how many packs he has
He's one of those people who just doesn't
look like he's heavily heavily a gym user,
but he is
he's one of the hardest working work out person,
I think within his company,
with his six packs or I didn't count how many,
but you know fan service
for every other drama reviewer
who are looking at this drama that I noticed,
really the reason they clicked into this drama is to look
at 2 good looking people and looking forward to those steamy,
hot, sexy scenes that are stepping right at the
threshold of getting cut by censorship.
The second positive thing about this drama is
it is a rather light hearted drama that doesn't have any heavy elements,
whether it's the character set up or the plot itself.
It wouldn't make you suffer psychologically,
particularly in the first third of the drama, first 8 episodes,
I think it's better paced than the later ones
and that's probably it.
The positive parts of Ye Se An Yong Shi
Now let's talk about the things that definitely brings down its rating
first thing at the risk of me sounding like a complaining old lady.
cause I've talked about that very recently in another video last week
dubbing.
Yeah, you see it coming.
How many people realize this drama has similar people dubbing
it as compared to last week's video talking about
the other min guo drama?
and then previous couple of dramas?
This drama just gave me such pain because it's running on the same
time as Fall in Love, Yi Jian Qing Xin,
and then there are two people.
that are the same people dubbing
in Ye Se An Yong Shi, Love at Night,
the female lead played by Zhang Yuxi is dubbed by
the dubbing actress Xu Jiaqi who has dubbed
Ju JIngyi in Jia Nan Zhuan
who has dubbed Gu Xiang in Word of Hornor
who has dubbed Zhang JIngyi in Fall in Love
So when her voice shows up, i'm like,
oh shit!
Now I have four freaking faces overlapped on each other.
When I hear that voice,
certainly when i'm not looking at the screen,
I would hear the lines.
sAnd in my head I see Zhou Ye's face talking one line
and then it gets morphed into Ju Jingyi's face.
And then Zhang Jingyi's face and then Zhang Yuxi's face and overlapping.
I don't know how many people experience that,
but that's a magical experience and it's not fun at all.
Male lead actor liu xue in this drama luckily uses his own voice,
so that doesn't have any problem,
but then the male second
is dubbed by the same dubbing actor
who dubbed Wang Ziqi in both The Imperial Coroner.
and Once We Get Married and then he is also the same voice
who dubbed Lin Yanjun in Fall in Love
Because those two dramas fall in love and love at night,
aired pretty much on the same day
while I was watching them
click Youku, Click Mango
I just hear the same voice coming out of two dramas.
And i'm like, no! no!
this is terrible.
My head starts to mix it up and to make it worse.
One of the supporting roles in love at night,
this role is dubbed by Su Shangqing
who has dubbed many many other dramas previously,
including a few Wang Anyu dramas
And my brain likes to attach that voice to Wang Anyu's face
because of the drama that I liked last year.
Therefore it also creates a problem.
If i'm not looking at the screen watching love at night,
it's a mess in my head and ~~~
It's gonna be something I have to suffer for years to come,
because I don't see the trend of using dubbing going away anytime soon.
And every time I click open a new drama,
it's like a lottery ticket or opening a you know
those boxes that you don't know what is in it.
And hold your breath, anticipation.
Hope it's not a voice that you are familiar with, please.
So my experience with love at night is as long as i'm looking the screen,
it's not that bad.
The moment I look away,
it's a different face acting the roles ha ha ha.
I love my life.
Second thing, that's not so ideal about this drama.
First 8 episode I enjoyed it to a point and then
it starts to um
you know it tapers off so quickly,
the energy of the drama,
the interest,
anything that's worth watching just start to disappear.
Particularly big problem is it just has too many sub plot lines and
too many supporting roles' stories that are boring that are very,
very long and just take so much time and then you have the
most second role who is in competition with our male lead.
For our female lead's attention.
Ah
I don't know what i'm watching.
What is this drama?
Again?
It is a Liu Xueyi and Zhang Yuxi lead drama, right?
lLike where are they?
they disappear for long sections of time
It may just be me who who does not care
much about the second or third couple.
There might be a viewers who like their story
or like the actor and actresses I don't know,
but for me it's like ... come on
Do I need to skip this entire episode
because they don't seem to be in it at all?
The third thing is really this drama is just for you to do the eye candy thing.
Don't take anything serious and you can't
because while it's trying
to set up the male lead and female eat as those like very career
driven professional people who have a lot of talent in the jobs they do
successful white collar workers,
they really don't do any work
common disease of chinese contemporary professional
like having any kind of profession element
in the drama is honestly they don't do their professional work.
And when it comes to the scenes that describes what type of work, for example,
what type of conference or deals or meetings
their ppts or how they resolve a crisis,
that show up in their job, whatever.
When it comes to those parts,
it gets played out in such a child's play,
like playing house way that you just laught at
just how they solve problems and resolve
crisis and how every trouble gets erased.
And just by you know because the script writers said so that type of writing,
it's very funny to watch those parts.
And you're like, yeah I wish professional jobs and life is that easy
Everybody would be so happy.
You kind of accept it as you watches drama because
you know you are also watching it not for that.
You're really just watching to see if you can see two
very good looking actor an actress getting undressed.
In front of the camera and getting to,
those things that you're waiting for
well it starts with a scene that seems to be like that,
episode one,
but then nothing happens until episodes 16.
So good luck with that, right?
In between episode 1 and episode 16,
you have like 15 episodes where they barely kiss or touch each other.
So even if you want what it,
it's supposedly should give you,
you may not get it as you watch this drama,
or you may not get enough compared to your expectation.
so after i've watched the first 16 episodes of this entire 24 episodes drama,
I can't recall what happened to the two leads.
I remember how they met in the first episode because that's how it
got set up the classic start of not liking each other at the beginning
and gradually and through this thing and that
and get closer and understanding each other more.
And that's all you remember.
If you wanna
Recall any details about what happened.
You don't remember it, at least.
That's how it works on me.
If you've watched first 16 episodes,
i'm curious about if that's what you get,
which is can't quite remember what happened but then.
I kind of know,
so I feel like if I watch to the end of this drama 24 episodes,
i'll still not quite remember what happened, I'll just have a
vague impression of two preety faces just moving around in my head.
So at the end of this video,
I wouldn't say love at night is completely worthless or pointless.
It's still has some value which mostly comes from just
make it into edits and cutting out like the sexy,
hot parts and go looking parts and put some
nice sound track music at the background,
then it will probably look better than the drama itself.
If you like the actor and actress,
it's still visually quite pleasing,
although it still has a very typical mango lens,
filter color and skin smoothing type of thing.
Apart from those points.
this is just another drama that's very forgettable.
I'm pretty sure next year nobody is gonna be talking about it anymore.
I probably will remember it better than other
people due to the traumatic experience of dubbing
mixing up in my head while I was watching it,
unfortunately with Fall in Love
And unfortunately 2021 we had Jia Nan Zhuan, Imperial Coroner
and once we get married and word of honor where all
those people's voice just get all mixed up.
ah
And how lucky am I that I am a chinese drama
reviewer where dubbing real life people is a thing
in our dramaland which is not in pretty much every other country in this world.
And I have to watch hundreds of dramas every year and I suffer.
Sometimes I just wanna sue all those platforms.
For the mental stress I suffer by reviewing their dramas
okay that should be the end of this video.
Thank you for watching avenue x
i'll see you in my next video meanwhile live long
and happy drama watching
I love my job.