Chinese Drama : Go Go Squid 亲爱的, 热爱的

Year Released   

2019

Genre

Esports

No. of Episodes

41 - running time of 45 minutes per episode

Starring

Yang Zi, Li Xian

Storyline

Gun God (Li Xian) was once the top player of Solo team representing China in cybersecurity CTF competition. He retires from esports during his peak period due to two of the members Solo (Li Zefeng) and Appledog (Wang Zhen'er) leaving the team. 

Tong Nian (Yang Zi) is a university student who falls in love with Gun at first sight. Tong Nian is helping her cousin mending the counter when Gun visits their internet cafe.

My View

I guess a lot of people are still skeptical about esports whether it could be treated as a future career. GGS depicts the dreams of youngsters and brotherhood.

The part where Solo and Appledog apologised to Gun made me teared up. The pain, regrets which had been bottled up in them for the past ten years were all being released at once.

Rating

4/5 Stars

Chinese Drama : The Romance of Tiger and Rose 传闻中的陈芊芊

Year Released

2020

Genre

Historical fiction, Comedy

No. of Episodes

24 - running time of 45 minutes per episode

Starring

Zhao Lusi, Ding Yuxi

Storyline

Chen Xiaoqian (Zhao Lusi), a struggling screenwriter faces criticism from actor Han that her script lacks creativity probably due to her zero love experience.

While Xiaoqian makes amendment on her story "The Romance of Tiger and Rose", she falls asleep and gets transported into her very own plot world. Xiaoqian wakes up as the third princess Chen Qianqian of Huayuan City.

Huayuan is where females are more superior than males unlike Xuanhu City where males' are of high status. It happens that Han Shuo, the prince from Xuanhu (looks exactly like actor Han) has come to marry the second princess of Huayuan, Chen Chuchu (Zhou Zixin).

Unfortunately, Qianqian snatches Han Shuo to be her husband instead. Qianqian is supposed to die after drinking poisonous wine on her wedding night. Han Shuo's plan is to kill Qianqian, marries Chuchu, steals Huayuan's national treasure, Dragon Bone to cure his heart disease and lastly to conquer Huayuan.

Since Xiaoqian knows the entire scenes inside out, she plays along while trying to change every sequence of events.

My View

Quite a lovely story but without much ups and downs. Plus point is that this drama is short and sweet or I will have to rate a 1 or 2.

Rating

3/5 Stars