He looks just so good.
In suits
the uncontrollable desire to love really cute looking babies.
He Xiao Sheng de Lian Lian Bu Wang
Unforgettable Love is a 24 episode drama
that's been aired in china on Mango television.
It's led by Wei Zheming and Hu Yixuan
The drama is based on a very out of date,
quite old fashioned, was very popular in early 2000s type of romantic web novel
called *see notes on screen
And as the title suggests,
it is a story about the traditional classic asian dramaland trope, rich,
overbearing CEO marrying a girl very soon after they met each other.
It was after they got married with quotation marks that they fall in love
everybody who's watched asian dramas, know
this is like one of the oldest story set up we've had
based on the first 14 episodes of this drama that i've watched.
This is over half way,
but still counting us first impression because the drama is short.
In total episodes count,
I will give it a one gold mine,
but it's actually higher than that more accurately,
probably a 1.5.
Really, very enjoyable,
super funny comedy,
romantic drama.
This drama was filmed last year from september to november in
the city Changsha where hunan television and mango tv is based.
So this is a purely local drama production for the production company.
And as it is also a contemporary drama,
it means it is possible to control the budget to the absolute minimum.
The melody character played by wei zhu min is the ceo of a tech company.
And he inherited the company because his elder brother died in a car crash
along with the company that he inherited from the brother.
He also inherited the brother's kid,
a boy who was about a year or two old when accident happened.
So he is to the public,
a dad to a child that he claimed to be his own
but actually is really his nephew.
And then our female character is a children's doctor,
psychologist.
So dealing with children's psychological problems and she comes across
this kid and the kid immediately falls in love with the doctor.
It is purely because the kid had a lot of problems and the kid needs a doctor to
take care of him and helping him to be able to communicate as a normal person.
Therefore our male lead has to hire the female lead to help the kid and
then eventually somehow ended up under a contract fake marriage
and then falling in love and you know, classic Asian drama stuff.
So as the story itself and character set up there
really is nothing new everything that's there.
We've seen it many times before,
but I still give it a quite positive rating
and I binged through the first 10 episodes.
It's really fun to watch.
So now let's talk about the good things.
First and foremost,
this drama overall gives you a very relaxed,
happy atmosphere and feeling if you're looking
for that kind of spiritual massage and fun.
At the end of a tiring day,
this is definitely a drama to go for
everything you can imagine that
can happen with this kind of setup will happen and probably more.
And it has been backed up by quite reasonable
and logical writing plus very solid acting.
So that definitely leads to the second point,
which is I love the casting.
I have very good impressions of both male
and female leads
for the male lead actor Wei Zheming
I think people who has been on my channel for long enough know
I have a special partial preference toward him as an
actor and with his looks and particularly his voice.
And I don't know how many of my audiences would agree with me,
but he looks just so good.
in suits
and spectacles and glasses and the metal rim
So I definitely fan-girl quite a bit as I watch this drama
and enjoy his presence on screen,
but he also acts pretty well.
He's a pretty good solid actor.
And his character in this drama is quite similar to
his previous character in last year's Perfect and Casual
Both are very successful,
very sort of rational brain,
statistical data driven brain, male character.
But the difference between these two characters is, last year,
his professor character is a softer,
gentler kinder,
and not so spiky character.
Whereas this time the ceo he plays has that
much more of spice of his character in it.
So he's not always the kindest person.
He's not always the sweetest.
He sometimes acts quite childishly and not always
been very considerate of other people's feelings,
but it adds a lot of bubbly and funny energy
because of the difference in character.
If you've enjoyed his acting in last year's P&C
i'm pretty sure you're gonna enjoy his acting of
this character
as for the female lead actress
Hu Yixuan
Last year.
I really, really liked the drama,
Li Ren XIn Shang (Sleepless princess)
although I don't like the ending,
I said in that drama's review that I really like this actress,
she comes across so comfortably like she's not acting.
She looks like a real person plus she has very sweet
smiles and she goes with the male lead really well.
And then we have to talk about the kid.
The child actor Sun Sicheng
who played this lovely,
cutest baby ever
that is literally the glue, the cheng ling of this drama
to bring the mother and father together, although personally,
I am not very fond of very young children,
but this kid is just too cute,
really opens up that kind of dna imprint in me
the uncontrollable desire to love really cute looking babies.
And without this kid,
the drama would like to lose at least 40%
of its attraction to me because he's there.
He pretty much makes every scene he's in adorable,
although slightly sometimes they make too much of a cat noise.
That's a sound effect of this kid thinking and acting because he doesn't speak.
It's a little bit overuse of the cat noise,
but apart from that everything about this kid,
it's worth watching like if you just watch the kid, it's worth watching.
He's just such a good actor.
What can I say?
I'm successfully targeted by this drama's strategy of pulling audiences in.
And then the third thing about this drama that I appreciate
is although it's a very old set up so old that you pretty
much don't expect any new things coming out of it,
which is really the case of this drama,
nothing out of expectation happens.
But within its framework,
the plot development,
why people do the things they do the motivations
are all written with a solid level of logic.
So there is no annoying people fall in love with no good reason
type of thing or artificial sweetener,
not just trying to smash two faces
together without any laying the
foundation work.
So as you're watching this drama on one hand,
you realize this is so old,
but on the other is like more,
more! ok
that is cool, that is so adorable,
that is sweet, that is pink bubbles in my heart.
So I definitely have to say the adaptation writer did a really good job
of making an old school story still pretty watchable in the year 2021.
Now let's talk about the not so ideal things about this drama.
They're actually not that important and I just
pick them because I realized they're there,
but they don't affect my enjoyment of this drama at all.
The first thing.
is like I said, very tropey for any audiences who are looking
for something that you haven't seen before or something that at
least has one or two element that is refreshing.
Then this is not one of those dramas.
Everything will happen according to your expectation of what can happen,
but they would do it pretty nicely.
So I don't think this drama is gonna attract a lot
of new coming audiences who hardly check out dramas.
It probably would only attract people who already are seasoned watchers
and watch a lot of dramas or like a particular actor in this
drama or just like to turn on a drama when they're doing other things.
And as it has already aired 14 episodes,
you can tell it's at that stage where it is too late to pick up too much heat,
so probably would just stay as what it is,
which is everybody who has gone into watching it are pretty happy about it,
but nobody is gonna go crazy about praising it.
The second thing about this drama that is not ideal is
It is still a relatively speaking low budget contemporary drama production
as i've said,
it's totally filmed in the city of Changsha,
which is where Hunan television is located.
So every resources,
every set, the roads,
everything is like easy,
the traffic, the accommodation,
they can minimize that cost.
And you can also tell in the cinematography
in the setting of the drama, the stuff,
it's very standard.
There's no particular department of props or sets or
costumes or make up any of that stand and out as wow
They put some designer's thought into it or
they've spent quite a lot of money
It just looks very standard and this kind of also contributes to
probably the result of this drama never going to go big in any way.
but
I very much enjoyed what i've seen in this drama and I fan girled
and screamed many times throughout watching this drama.
There are a couple of scenes that are hilarious,
not gonna spoil it for you, but when it happen, you'll know
you probably will be like stomping on your
floor and then smacking your hand on the desk.
Or if your boyfriend or girlfriend happens to be sitting next to you.
You might be pinching them.
I don't know because it does get too quite ridiculous funny level
before I go.
Also this drama's both leads each sang a song for this drama.
The male lead sang the ending song and female lead sang
one of in the middle of the original soundtrack song
and they're both very good singers.
One of the things I feel really sad about,
Wei Zheming not being able to attend the word of honor
May concert is because he's a really good singer.
He's definitely on par with Zhang Zhehan
And I would say probably even better,
there was a time when he was in the boy band
about to debute or kind of debuted,
but didn't work out.
And also because he comes from the bo yin zhu chi (播音主持）
which is a broadcasting and television hosting kind of major in university.
He has a really like actually properly trained voice,
also the female it is a great singer.
I've discovered that actually last year in li ren xin shang,
she is a great singer,
so it is my sincere wish,
probably not this time,
but in the future,
both of them will end up in some kind of
production that will make them much better known.
And they'd be also able to share with people of how good a singer they are.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
i'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.