WHERE TO WATCH : Tencent Video, kisskh.co , dramacool
ORIGINAL NETWORK : Tencent Video
SYNOPSIS: Ji Xing, a technical talent who works diligently in a technology company, resigned resolutely in order to realize her dream and embarked on the road of entrepreneurship. The team formed by Ji Xing and her younger brother was in jeopardy at the beginning of the business. Just when there was no hope, Ji Xing won the support of Han Ting, President of Dongyang Technology, with his unique insights. With Han Ting's investment, the startup Xingchen is finally on the right track. But Ji Xing "lost" her first boyfriend who she had been in love with for seven years. The difficulties of starting a business and the pain of breaking up with her love almost destroyed her. Fortunately, she has the close protection of the sister group.
After several failures in product development, Ji Xing and Han Ting gradually transformed from business partners who were both mentors and friends to soulmates who were attracted to each other. However, the good times did not last long, and the rapidly developing Xingchen soon encountered a bottleneck in development. Ji Xing once again fell into a slump in her career. At the same time, her love for Han Ting also began to be full of crisis. In the end, with the encouragement of her friends, Ji Xing regained her confidence and led the company out of the predicament under heavy pressure.
~~ Adapted from the novel "As Beautiful As Beijing" (你如北京美丽) by Jiu Yue Xi (玖月晞).
I'm watching Road Home (the melodrama) starring Jing Boran and Seven Tan because it has Jing Boran AND Seven Tan. I'm 5 eps in and it's killing me to know what happened between these two. They have chemistry (as in you can tell these two want each other and miss each other) and yet EVERY.SINGLE.ENCOUNTER.IS.SO.DAMN.AWKWARD.
So something must have happened! What is it?! This is technically a melodrama and while the drama is pretty mellow the tension and awkwardness are both at 10. Darn good acting and good writing keeping me on my seat.
So, the costume cdrama draught continues (I have no idea if the rumored ban/purge is a thing or not; new moderns are airing, costume ones are not so who even knows, but either way there is nothing airing of interest for me, whatever the reason.) AND rewatching General and I reminded me of my love for Wallace Chung AND the fact that I actually never finished 2021′s The Sword and the Brocade with Wallace and Seven Tan.
I watched it as it aired and in the beginning, I truly loved it but I was taken aback by the utterly unexpected sudden change of wonderfully nuanced slice-of-life exploration of large families and arranged marriage turning to love and the evils of polygamy and limitations on lives of women and just the joys of watching an introvert hero and ladylike heroine slowly get close into CSI Ming Dynasty. My brain could not swap one mold for the other and even though it returned to slice of life feel soon enough, I never really could get back into it because my brain remained broken and that was back in early 2021 when there were many other delightful things to watch.
Well, anyway, drought (of dramas) and thirst (for Wallace) have sent me back and now I know what it is/isn’t and how it shifts and then unshifts, I find myself enjoying it tbh. Both Seven and Wallace are so good in this. I restarted from about where I stopped (around ep 30 of 45) and am loving the above scene because this is pretty much the best “reunion after you accidentally stabbed me mistakenly thinking I murdered your mom and then I rode off to battle still trying to protect you and now we’ve reunited on a farm my angry mom sent you to after I just saved your bacon.” I think the reason I love this so much is because Lingyi has reverted to his deeply awkward introverted self around her but also he is (understandably) keeping her at a distance and she’s devastated but accepting (because hey, if you wrongly suspected your lovely husband of murder and accidentally almost killed him to boot, it makes sense he’d be ummmm) and that little bit where she reaches out to touch his face and he very gently but inexorably takes her hand before she touches his cheek and puts it down and she just looks down is CHEF’S KISS!!!!
Anyway, there is nothing to watch so I am gonna finish this baby.
FMV 张-张煊翊: ZYC & TSY sang the "New Boy" song, fan made into a duet 震惊!帅哥甜妹竟然合唱过(bushi不敢想象看他们两个演戏有多幸福·郑业成x杨静澜·谭松韵·季英英
Shocking! Handsome guy and sweet girl actually sang a duet (I can't imagine how happy they must be to act together· Zheng Yecheng x Yang Jinglan · Tan Songyun · Ji Yingying.