The Revolution of Our Love (Chinese Drama, New)
As one who pushes herself to win everything she does, our heroine is seemingly a perpetual loser when it comes to love. Not realizing her best friend of fifteen years had been harboring a crush on her, our heroine foolishly have been looking at all the wrong places without realizing her Mr. Right has been within reach all along.
I liked the first episode but I usually have little patience for stories where our leads have to kiss a bunch of frogs. The show does have a great looking cast though so I might check in from time to time.
My Assassin Girlfriend (Chinese Drama, New)
This web drama has a hilarious premise where the emperor falls in love with the female assassin who keeps trying to kill him. In fact, the emperor is so enamored with the assassin that he always makes sure she has a way to escape from the palace guards. Our leads will also end up time traveling back and forth between the modern time and their own time period so that should add some more wacky fun to the story.
This particular web drama’s budget seems to be on the modest side though, so the production is a bit lacking.
Ashes of Love (Chinese Drama, New)
Outwardly a lowly grape spirit, our bumbling heroine is clueless that she is actually the only child of a flower goddess. Convinced by her own unhappy marriage that love will only weaken her daughter, our heroine’s mother placed a seal within our heroine to make sure she can’t feel or express the feeling of love. Despite everything the flower goddess has done to keep her daughter ignorant of love, fate has other ideas and our heroine ends up falling in love with our hero who is the prince of the heavenly realm. Unable to figure out her own feelings because of the seal, our heroine ends up getting tricked by the male second lead into killing our hero. No worries though, we are talking about gods here so death is just a minor plot twist.
I found the first couple episodes quite good and was pleasantly surprised by how fun the show was. The inevitable sob feast that will follow eventually is making me a bit hesitant but I am hoping the scriptwriter can keep up the fun vibe for as long as possible.
Martial Universe (Chinese Drama, New)
I am feeling really torn about this one. Based on the popular fantasy wuxia novel Wu Dong Qian Kun by Tiancai Dudou, Martial Universe tells the epic journey of our hero becoming the greatest protector of his world. I read the novel a long time ago and it had everything a wuxia fan could ask for. Small fry hero becoming great one step at a time until he can triumph over all of his foes, check! Great friendship and bromance, check! Epic romance with not just one but two heroines, making our hero the envy of every man, check!
So why am I torn? In the world of Wuxia novels where the readership is mostly male (at least that’s what I am assuming…although I read plenty of wuxia myself), it is not unusual where the hero gets to live out the male fantasy where he receives the undying love from multiple goddess-like women and ends up marrying all of them. As one who grew up reading Wuxia novels, I am pretty used to this sort of plot and tend to just ignore them…but I am not sure I could when the story is in a drama form. After all, dramas are supposed to live out MY fantasy…so any hero who has two wives…I am afraid that’s no fantasy in my book even if he is Yang Yang. Still, I do remember enjoying the novel’s comradery and bromance quite a bit so I keep wondering if I should give it a chance. I did watch the first episode and the story felt a bit scattered but I think that was probably because we are still in the setup stage.
Familiar Wife (Korean Drama, New)
Ji Sung’s new fantasy romance! Ji Sung plays a beleaguered married man who is worn down by his depressing bank job and a wife that scares him. Unable to stop himself from wondering what might’ve been when he runs into his first love, our hero is overjoyed when he discovers a mysterious tollbooth that allows him to travel back in time…and wakes up with his first love as his wife. Of course his glorious new life is not without hiccups…especially when his real wife (our heroine) walks in as his new co-worker.
There have been plenty of time traveling dramas lately so I was afraid Familiar Wife’s premise would feel…um…familiar. However, I am happy to report that while Familiar Wife uses plenty of time traveling elements we might’ve seen before but the show does feel refreshing nonetheless. One aspect I thought was particularly interesting and comical (but sad in a way too) at the same time is that our hero seems to be genuinely afraid of his wife. In most time travel romance involving married couples, our two leads usually just need to work out their differences and remember why they fell in love in the first place but here, the issue is a tad bit more complicated since it really seems like our two leads might be better off without each other…at least for now.
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