To raise your dopamine level
配一脸 pei yi lian
you are spoiled about the story
not by a reviewer
but by the drama itself
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Bai Sui Zhi Hao Yi Yan Wei Ding
what a long name for a chinese drama
and unfortunately english title has "love" in it again
Forever Love, Ok
kind of like explains what the chinese title means
100 years worth of promise
consolidated once it's spoken
that's the literal meaning
This is a 28 episodes web drama that has aired on Tencent
The drama is based on a novel that has the exact same title
This is a romantic
contemporary young adult story
that covers the main characters' life from
pretty much the end of high school to
university and then after graduation
the drama is led by
Wang Anyu, Xiang Hanzi
Chen Ze, Pan Meiye
if you watch a lot of chinese dramas
you'll see a lot of familiar faces
Playing the mother
the father
the teacher
It also features supporting roles played by actors such as Zhao Haohong
who was also in Qi Hun
Hikaru no Go
And I think he's a golden supporting role actor
I will give this drama a one gold mine rating on my scale
It's more like a
1.7, 1.8
So it's a very high one gold mine
The reason I didn't put it as two gold mines
is because the main characters are dubbed
I'd much prefer to hear their real voice
although the dubbing is not bad
particularly for the male lead
the same dubbing actor actually dubbed his previous other roles too
really fits him
It almost sounds like it's him talking
but for contemporary dramas
I just would much prefer if they did the real voice
immediately it's a 2 gold mine drama for me
So now let's go into the details for this drama
Most of the things I will talk about are
positive things
the watching experience of this drama is really really good
There's no need to double speed it because the story is about small moments
realistic enough
not super dramatized
But at the same time very heart warming and sweet
A lot of dramas
Unfortunately these days in china
while they were filming it
they already had in mind when the drama airs
what kind of hashtags i'm gonna buy
on the trending tags on weibo or on other social media
Therefore I have to film that particular scene
creating a very simple and catchy phrase
to describe that as a way of promotion
A lot of dramas have those moments that's so intentionally designed for that
This drama doesn't have it
Like I can hardly find any moment that is intentionally dramatized for that purpose
I'm grateful
And I think the people really want to tell a good story
for the drama and it didn't really care much
about how to sell it the easiest way
And for the drama is unfortunate because it came out on December 14th
4 days later
it was the Legend of Fei and then it was Da Jiang Da He
Like A Flowing River at the same time Liao Bu Qi de Nv Hai
Dear Missy came out
Liu Jin Sui Yue My Best Friend's Story came out like
all those big star and traffic pulling drama
and just all came out
and then itself didn't really put effort into promotion
or actually in the drama itself having those points
the memes creating points to promote this
I feel bad for it
but I appreciate actually the very simple and candid way of storytelling in the drama
The realistic thing doesn't just happen about the plot
It also goes into the visual style
It's a very normal looking drama
There's no crazy color grading
There's no over skin smoothing
It makes the story much more believable when they look like a normal real people living a contemporary life
when they look like a normal real people living a contemporary life
Then another thing that is really major for me to love this drama is I really
really love the chemistry between the two leads
The character Jiang Zhenghan played by actor Wang Anyu
and the character Xia Linxi played by actress Xiang Hanzhi
Pei Yi Lian 配一脸
they really are very couple looking
Like the way that they're good looking
is the same type of good looking and not the type of invasively
good looking
but comfortably good looking
Good Looking
the outward appearance of those two really match
And then their characters are just golden
so lovable
When they fall in love
they still are themselves
which I highly appreciate
Often you see those writings of people fall in love and then they just become morons
they lose their aspirations
they lose everything else
lose their family
lose their friends
lose their career
whatever like they only focus on love
And that's the only thing
That's important to them
sorry
but that is psychologically problematic
You need to go to a shrink
If you actually end up like that
when you falling up with somebody
The two leads are not people like that
They love each other
You can tell like the acting really
really sells it
but they also both understand they have other things they need to do
They have their family
and they need to have responsibilities to
They have studies
they have their degrees
they need to earn
and they have their jobs and works they need to do
romantic love relationship is important
but it's hardly the most important thing for most of the people in this world
Can we be honest
And I appreciate they have a romantic story
with the two leads that are normal people
They're not like the stupid ones you see
So often in asian dramas is like
I don't wanna listen x3
they listen and they understand each other
and they give each other opportunities to mend
whatever problems they've had in their past
to think back about all the dramas within this genre that i've seen
And I have to say
honestly
this is probably most realistic portrayal of very intelligent
very kind
Young people couple that i've seen in the entirety of 2020
Then the last really good thing as viewers
If you go and watch this drama
you are safe
In a sense that right from the beginning
You know it's a good ending
because the first couple of episodes
the first scene of those episodes are all about their wedding day
What happened on the day of their wedding
and those short scenes cut into when they first meet
in high school and what happened afterwards and afterwards
and eventually lead to their wedding
You are spoiled about the story
not by a reviewer
but by the drama itself
Right from the first moment
Okay
you know already what's gonna happen
So you're kind of in a safety box right from beginning
Don't need to worry too much
Even if they run into obstacles
problems on their way to their happiness
you know it's gonna get resolved
Eventually you just need to enjoy the ride
So this drama is very happiness and fulfillment
Inducing
if lately in your personal life things have happened
that makes you really want a high dosage of warmth and happines
This drama is really good drama to go into
to raise your dopamine level
after watching the drama
When you close your eyes
it's very easy to recall so many little moments that are so well captured
very sweet
just makes you go like that
It may remind you if you're old enough of the sweet love you've had
When you are much younger
it really gives you life worth living type of feeling at the end of it
Although it's just a normal
romantic story that doesn't have anything to do with those big themes
life and death
Any of that
Then just very small things that I think the drama could have done better
First thing i've kind of already mentioned
which is dubbing
The second thing is as a normal story
You would have to have heroes and anti heroes
people who you stand for as the audience
and people who are kind of in the the main leads way, obstacles
In this drama
mostly their romantic relationship's obstacles
different types of people try to stop them for their own
whatever motivation
And those people are not that well written
and you immediately know what their function are gonna be
what they do to try to become the obstacles of that romantic relationship development
is very LOW
That's the chinese word for it
It's like there's nothing with any finesse
with any technicality
Or any element of surprise or like really well done dramatical wise
It's so expected and so immature
It's like we see it from a mile away
had those characters been written better
It would be a more interesting drama plus at the very end of the drama
they kind of each got cleaned up very quickly
They've been giving troubles to those leads for however long
And then just within one scene
literally one moment it got just flipped
and then they suddenly become on the leads' side
or like no longer caring about their grand scheme to
destroy this romantic relationship
or making their life difficult
They look like they suddenly just become very good
I was like yeah, that's so lazy
It's like the writers can't wait to get rid of those people
so that they can move on to the happy ending
Had they put more effort in that
I think it will be overall a better written story
but then those things are minor to the quality of the drama
and to the happiness of the drama
It doesn't really change my overall very positive opinion and review of this drama
At the end of it
I would highly recommend people who want a dose of happiness
sort of warm sweet happiness
not like laughing to the point that you can't breathe
kind of happiness
This is a good one to go for
One final thing I would say is if you don't know about the leading actor
Wang Anyu he is a very young actor
I think born in 98
this year if nothing went wrong
there's a BL drama that he is starring with Fan Chengcheng
That will come out probably later this year
They're still filming it in Dongbei (Northeast China)
which is freezing right now
among all the dramas that will go out within the BL adaptation world
This is the one I have highest hope for
I just feel this one will stand out because it's the only realistic people story
all the others are period drama and some fantasy drama
some Wu Xia that's lesser grounded
This is very grounded
real contemporary two people that has no super powers
so that in itself stands out from the crowd
The other thing is I just have this instinct
that FCC and WAY will work really well together
If the BL drama got done properly
script wise
production quality wise and promotion wise
it all went smoothly by the end of 2021
he probably would be at a totally different place in terms of fame popularity
If he's a stock
I would have bought him at the bottom of the price right now
so that by the end of the year
I'll become financially free
I hope that's prediction turns out to be true
If it did come back to this video
leave a comment there and say you were right
You Were Right!
Let's hope it happens
I'm picturing it's happening
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