Bie dui wo dong xin

Falling Into Your Smile, The King's Avatar, Love 020 - the movie and the show... here we are again, talking about gaming. ELM is a romance first, though. The games are mainly played by the leads. ELM is a 2024 release that is rated 7.9 on MDL. It is 1 season consisting of 24 45-minute episodes. I enjoyed every one of them. Everyone (who is a romance fan) should like this show.

Zhou Ye (Back from the Brink, Word of Honor) portrays Qian Ling, a novice artist who is on the brink of making it big. Lin Yi (Angels Fall Sometimes) plays Gu Xun, an intelligent but slightly misanthropic game designer. I never saw this actress before, but she's terrific and gorgeous. I've seen the ML in Put Your Head on My Shoulder-7.3, where he plays an even colder, more analytical type; PYHOMS is wonderful in the first half and struggles in the second half. Lin Yi is completely different here. He sells his attraction to Qian Ling so well we can almost taste it. As much as he loves her, he came close to blowing it. Totally. Here's how~>

They are both working at the same gaming company while finishing up at the same school. The company decided to build a new unit around Gu Xun (the 9th business unit) in order to deliver China's first AAA computer game, entitled Heroes Path. Many ups and downs precede this, but Qian Ling gets the opportunity to draw the hero of Heroes Path and design many of the weapons. For most of the show she tries to keep two jobs at the company. Her previous boss (Hong Yao from Story of Yanxi Palace) does not want to let her go. Not only is he competitive with Gu Xun, but Qian Ling is a special talent.

Qian Ling has known for a long time that she's totally into Gu Xun. He takes no notice of her, however. As a tall, good-looking, high IQ type, he's the recipient of female attention quite often. It's just that most girlie-girls are silly and boring to him. The girl who does not bore him is the one he hasn't met yet - in person, that is, 'Dough Twist' is one of his teammates in online gaming. Their group (Another Win) is 'killing it' together. They each play from home and talk through their 🎧. Dough Twist is fierce, feisty, and just lethal with a joystick, mouse, and keyboard. She's his kinda girl. He's got to get HER in his world.

His 🌏 drops one night when she mentions to the group that she likes a guy at work. He immediately sets out to give her "bad intel" (act cute! Be girlie!) in hopes that the relationship won't work out. He wants this pastry for himself. What he doesn't know is that HE'S the guy, and Dough Twist is Qian Ling.

There's layers of clever irony to the show. He has an online crush on online-her (doughtwist). She likes him (Gu Xun). Gu Xun is jealous of doughtwist's crush (himself). He's deliberately giving her bad dating advice so that it won't work out with his crush - and his advice is working! Gu Xun /can't stand/ Qian Ling. He's undermining his own romance! She's trying to win over Gu Xun by being phony, and Gu Xun hates her. She's completely herself with online him (campushunk), because she doesn't care, and (online) he's besotted with her. They are working (hard) at love without realizing they've already won. They just don't know it. All the wasted effort and longing gives me a tad of stress. It's amusing and delightful at the same time.

Melody Tang as Chen Xin Yi, + Jiang Yi Ming as Jiang Jun Nan are the secondary couple. He's Gu Xun's right-hand man and she's his new assistant. She has almost debilitating social anxiety. She's sweet and talented, and Qian Ling helps her come out of her shell. The actresses both did Love Like the Galaxy together and Ms Jiang starred in Story of Kunning Palace. The directors are Yu Chung Chung (Love Is Sweet, Once upon a Time in Lingjian Mountain-7.5) & Gia Lee (Hidden Love-7.8, Go Go Squid!). Screenwriter, Xu Ting, wrote Double Love, & Zhao Cong penned Hello Debate Opponent. The original creator is Qiao Yao (Only for Love, Love Scenery). At the halfway mark their charaters' interactions are strong, entertaining, sincere and authentic - especially for a Chinese modern-day drama. The scenario is actually entirely plausible and heavy on the grins. It's a nifty piece of writing.

Qian Ling finally plucks up the courage to confess her feelings to Gu Xun at graduation. He only knows the phony Qian Ling, the one he created by way of his subterfuge. He gives her a very harsh rejection. THEN, she hates him. Hate? She LOATHES him. Actively. The act is dropped. She gives him a bitter taste of who she really is from that point on. Gu Xun pieces together that she's doughtwist and spends the rest of the show trying to win her back.

It has some minor bugs. The. Business machinations toward the end are, pretty much, nonsensical. When he meets her parents it's painfully goofy, but it doesn't last that long. The secondary romance looked more promising than it turned out to be. It isn't bad, but the first half was better than the wrap up, by far. It should have been better. The last episode was good enough but could be improved upon.

Artistically it's up and down. The Wardrobe is hit and miss but Stella (Yu Xin Yi from Catch Up My Prince) really puts on a fashion show. The FL has a couple pairs of star earrings that I like enough to buy. The music is dang near outstanding. It really soars in that category. Shazams: With Me by Fiona Sit & For You, by Ree Lax - that one is so good I shared it with my son. There's a lovely scene where he's on an upper floor balcony and she's walking by. He takes flower petals and tosses them out to fall around her.

Overall, the show works for me. The writing (even though it doesn't have a high business or tech IQ which makes it frequently sloppy in those areas) has a high EQ. It's the writing and the 2 leads that bring us Another Win.

〰🖍 IMHO

📣7.4 📝7.1 🎭7.5 💓7 🦋5 🎨7 🎵/🔊8 🔚8 🤗6 ▪ 🌞5.5 ⚡4 😅4 😭1 😱2 😯2 🤢1 🤔4 💤0

Age 12+ Language: b!+ch; Rated TV-PG-13: Parents Cautioned

Re-📺? Won't say no.

While this drama seems to be interesting in the first few episodes, things started to feel stale and boring thereafter. The amount of anger and frustration from the lead female is too much and drags over several episodes. Afterall, she was looked and caref after the whole time and was never harmed so I just dont get it why she had to stage her frustration over several episodes, just too long. Other comparable situation in other drama lasted only for one episode. That is the reason i stop watching at episode 12 as i had enough of the over stretch emotional display from the lead female actress. Its rather immature, instead of romantic.

Basically I find the balance is not there and not able to complete this drama further. While the lead actor and actress is equally attractive, their display of character was not impactful to retain my personal interest to further anticipate the next episodes and to finish the drama completely. What a waste.

The "King's Avatar" was a thoroughly enjoyable, funny, and endearing underdog story with some entertaining (albeit unrealistic) gameplay and gameplay animations.

"Falling into Your Smile" was another really good Chinese video game series, that had plenty of MOBA-style gaming scenes, and a cute love-story.

"Everybody Loves Me" however, is nowhere in the same league. It is incredibly annoying in its writing, and often practically unwatchable. The reason? It is so superficial, in every aspect of the show, that you know some simplistic solution will come along to save the day. There is no real or perceived threat to the main characters that ever pans out in the form of even a slight set-back.

Have difficulty getting qualified staff? Just pilfer them from another division. Don't worry. The owner of the company will never say anything. She's just there for looks.

Have a "Triple-A" deadline that just dropped and is due in a few hours/days and involves a complete rewrite of your business plan, model, coding, animation, promotional materials, etc. Etc. Etc.? Don't worry. Do successfully in a few hours with a dozen or so people (some of them newbies) what a full-blown studio with hundreds of people could never dream of accomplishing in less than a few weeks.

Run into a brick wall and can't make any headway? Don't worry. At least one of the lead characters will know someone privileged and, in a position, to solve all the teams' problems, allowing them to glide along unscathed yet again.

Need to get a deadline finished? Don't worry. Continue to play games during work, answer countless texts and personal calls during work, spend hours eating and socializing during work, and get drunk every night after work. Do not fret...the deadline will magically accomplish itself.

Lastly, the whole "love story" is so bland and ridiculous in its execution, you're left wondering if these two have ever talked to the opposite sex. All the misunderstandings and lack of communication typical of poor writing is on full display here. One or two heartfelt conversations where the leads actually say what they feel would have cleared everything up by episode 4, leaving WAY more time for actual video game development AND character development to be shown on screen. Instead, the behavior of the leads amounts to nothings short of a continuous stream of gaslighting, masochism, and borderline harassment.

And while I wanted to see more development of the characters, the company, the product, etc. I'd do with the show actually being CUT in length. It can't be salvaged content-wise, so make it a grand total of 3 or 4 hours. Condense it, so that things actually appear to be happening and have meaning to the story. The 17 or so hours this show runs is WAY too long.

And stop with the alternate "love interests" who don't stand a chance, and therefore add ZERO to the tension or development of the main characters' love story. These tacked-on one-sided romances are groan-worthy at best and frequently nauseating to the point that your fast-forward button gets a workout.

This is a cute series with lots of interesting stories going on throughout the episodes. The characters are quite entertaining and likeable. The main couple's story is cute and there are other romance stories from the side characters that are fulfilling as well.

I think this series as a whole is built up pretty good with the characters and story development. I especially liked how they managed to bring in the video game theme into the story without making it distracting from the romance part. Even though this was a pleasant watch, I think many of this series' stories follow a pretty cliché an predictable pattern, which made some scenes fall flat for me.

Everyone Loves Me romantic comedy C-Drama is cute and comical in places. If it makes me laugh then the comedy is good and cute as not many make me laugh. Also love the gaming theme - but I am partial to gaming theme dramas. It is not the best C-Drama gaming theme I have seen however the ML and FL seem to be a good match together. I did take 1 star off because it is a little slow at times, especially for a gamer's themed atmosphere and although there is urgency in deadlines, etc, the urgency isn't really shown amongst the staff - leaders and workers that much and also a little slow in the story development. It takes awhile for the romance, connection and chemistry between the ML and FL to start to show. But overall, it is an easy to watch, a little slow burn for a gaming theme, cute romance and comical moments. Remember this is a C-Drama, not a K-Drama so they are a little different to get used to but in comparison to other ones I have seen, like this one.

#EveryoneLovesMe #GamerCDrama #CDramaGamers #CDramaRomanticComedy.