Be Together (2021)

Leading Men Roaming in Relationship Confusion.

So much untapped potential it was a never progressing story. Baffling! Are there just no scripts of consistent value to be made? Is this a supply chain issue in the entertainment industry??

Four college friends....so far so good...start their professional lives...ok, I know those individuals.....start different careers in the same city......got it, exciting times in everyone's lives... been there, lived that.....THEN....enters the first idiot.....well every woman can identify with that on some level....but seriously to then pass him around----said no woman ever on the planet, "Sure go ahead and date my best friend since you are clearly a cheating untrustworthy guy"........and if you live long enough to get to episode 33/34 when he then beats both your best friend and her brother....... seriously??? This is the dribble that goes on for 1,575 minutes.

Dual career couples where only the women are asked to take second seat white three geniuses take off to pursue intellectual property theft....the ever-popular "but I have to move for my career" excuse, and "I must abandon you at the alter to find myself"...and who could forget the ever popular, "sorry honey, I really love you, but since I am a criminal who did leave you for dead in my apartment---I gotta go serve time". ,,,, even the "terminally ill boyfriend" chooses to abandon the "love of his life" so he can die alone.....

Conclusion....scriptwriters of this series do not know any professional women in relationships with professional men who, when in committed relationships, make joint career decisions planning for each carer and what is best for them as a couple. The CEO who "had to go to Beijing" and then simply stopped calling her....well how do you think he ditched the other two ex-girlfriends that came back to ruin his life or "re-capture" him as a love partner? ....notice he only dates women in the company he is an executive......and abandons all three. How in the name of blue sky is that a hero????? In a movie, to have the lead male character attract women for no obvious reasons.....well, I guess we are just supposed to use our imagination to wonder what magic he has that is not visible in actions, words, or physical appearance. Hours of undeveloped script potential....so sad.

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ok watch as a filler

Had this drama on hold because I was waiting for it to be completed subbed. I saw that it was finally completed and decided to finish it. I want to put it out there that I judge dramas pretty leniently compared to other reviewers . I'm that person that knows they're watching a show that's pretty bad but will still try and finish it (unless its just plain terrible lol).

TBH really started watching this drama because of Vin Zhang. I do agree with most of the issues that other reviewers mentioned. So without further ado here are somethings I liked and what I didn't like about the drama.

Lets start with the good :)

1. I did somewhat like main leads relationship-(Xu Cheng Yi and Xia Yan)they had a few cute moments. Some people may think him hanging on to a random girls bracelet for 3 years is stalkerish, but hey its the world of c-drama. I think its the pretty much norm lol it wouldn't be a drama if it didn't have something like this so I didn't mind it too much

2. Contrary to popular belief, I actually liked Han Shuang's character. I liked that she's fiesty and is always ready to defend her friends. She's absolutely dramatic but she also speaks her mind. She's literally said some of the more realistic/common sense things in this drama-ex. when Zhao Xiao Lei was debating about dating the older man because she didn't want to break up their "happy family"- Han Shuang reminded her that he was already divorced.

3. I do like that the girls are always there for each other even after fights and what not. --this is also a catch 22 because their friendship is also in my not so good list lol.

4. I also kind of liked Yan Chang Jun's character mostly for the simple fact he was the smartest one out of all the leads. He also mostly had all the answers . He would've sort of fit the typical main lead CEO that I described below, but the drama didn't really give his character enough depth. Again I get what the writer was trying to get across- he is supposed to be the old competitive friend that seems hostile but actually will defend and protect his "brother". The execution of it just fell flat. They could've done so much more with him. I would've even accepted him as a SML.


So on to the not so good

1. I truly did not really care too much for Vin Zhang's character. Usually the CEO in dramas are usually unrealistically smarter and more calculating than most of the characters in the drama. In this case, he was lowkey powerless, had no back up plan -like when he was framed and had to take extended leave. Usually the CEO at this point already had a back up or working on one (lets reference Sweet Love for the type of CEO I was expecting him to be). Also he never even suspected his ex-girl friend at all--like.. AT ALL? thats just unrealistic. His character here low key reminded me of his character in Flame's daughter. (also the same thing can also be said about the character of Xia Yan. She wasn't super clever or anything like the qualities of the mfl)

2. The part where they cornered the ex-girlfriend to expose her. This is supposed to be the climax of the show where the main leads put together everything she did and explain/prove why she was the culprit. but this part was done so badly in my opinion . The dialogue lasted what seemed like 20mins of pure going back and forth with her and multiple people coming in with new information or "proof" but she had a come back for all of it. and then on top of that Vin Zhang's character still didn't believe she did it until he saw the papers? no satisfaction at all. Usually I like this part in dramas because it shows the cleverness of the main leads on outing the culprit but this scene was not it.

3. The girls friendship is great at some points and other points just a no. Especially with Zhao Xiao Lei-who was clearly getting abused physically, but in the end they still left her with Lin Hao... after all that yelling they could've forced her to leave but no they just left? smh. also when Han Shuang believed that Xia Yan exposed that video during her wedding? for all her protectiveness she's shown in the show she should've known better.

4. all the other randomness that other reviewers mentioned-like Xiang Nan may having breast cancer in like episode 30 and Huo Kai randomly appearing at the end. Xue Ning randomly coming back just to help and leave? like there was no real point in my opinion in having her come back unless she was going back to the company as a director again.


All in all, even with all the faults it was an ok watch if you have nothing else to watch. Also I get what this drama was trying to do. Having the different type of girlfriends- the wild, crazy but fiercely protective friend, the sweet, naive friend, the successful office friend, and the mature not willing to take risks friend. i just don't think they did the character development right as well as issues with the storyline for each character and overall. If done correctly this drama would've been so much better. So I gave this a 6 mainly because of Vin Zhang lol, a few cute/funny moments, and what the director was trying to portray story wise.

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Oh dear!

So many relationships in this drama and most of them irritating and not credible! Really don't know what the writers were thinking of - so many dislikeable characters! The main couple are cute but for the first 10 episodes just bizarre plot that once resolved makes no sense! Seriously what man would act in this sensless way to save a girl- did so much damage to her and her parents.
The FL ex is delusional and despicable yet he keeps cropping up spewing the same nonsense and expecting FL to take him back? Writers what world are you living in?
Tha background of FL and Ml re business is just downright confusing and boring. Enter her line manager in typical vengeful jealous mood - what a tired trope.
The 3 female friends are just bizarre- the dr is set up to have a relationship with a musician who is so soft he almost melts! Very nice but so not her type! The other friend is a weak pushover who I cant believe is a teacher she is so naive- plus meddles in her friends lovelife. The final friend is simply a bitch - not attractive at all- so full of herself.
I am fast forwarding most episodes as just despair of the storylines and am irritated by the characters.
Why did BinBin sign up to this mess? Are there no better chinese dramas?
I hate to leave something once I start it but the whole thing is an intensely irritating mess!

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This is crap !

Ok imma be honest, I started watching this drama only for Zhang Bin Bin but then now ended up dropping it. Not because of his acting, but the plot was seriously so bad ! The first few episodes were pretty decent but then after that it started going downhill. Idk why it has freaking 35 episodes lol. I ended up skipping a lot because I was just watching for the heck of it.
Xiao Lei was dumb af. Han Shuang was irritating af.
I thought this was gonna be like sisterhood/friendship oriented drama with some cute romance but nah. The relationships and the friendships were so toxic.
The posters and YouTube thumbnails of this drama had Zhang Bin and Sun Yi all over, so I thought they would be like the main characters but they both received the least screen time in the drama. Felt like they put Zhang Bin in the poster and thumbnails to attract audiences. Basically it was a clickbait.
Dunno why Zhang Bin Bin agreed to sign up to this shit. What a waste of talent.

Anyways in short, this show is crap and don't waste your time and energy watching it lol.

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What A Disappointment !!!!!!!

What a disappointment. I did not even want to watch it because a drama with 4 girls get to be annoying. But I really like Vin Zhang so I decided to watch it. I do not know who wrote this but they are terrible writers. Could they have thrown in anymore bad situation at us with no real story. From sickly to dyeing, cheating, corporate stealing, failed wedding, Abusive partner, obsessive ex-boyfriend and girlfriend, revenge, please could this story have a better plot. Then they give us an ending with no final end. You are left with "Is This IT!". It was bad they waited to the last episode and the last 7 minutes to try to end each characters life story but it did not work. I don't blame the actors, I believe they did there best in their performance. I blame the writer and the director. They both stink.

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Don’t waste your time

This show starts out like you would think any little office romance drama would. And the first 5 or 6 episodes really do draw you in. It starts out quirky and funny and you think it’ll be a nice little low-budget drama to indulge in.

Then everything goes off the rails and it’s obvious after a point that the writers were scrambling to stuff as much drama into this show to stretch it out as they could. The main couple start out rocky. The guy harasses Yan at work and his interest and involvement with her cause problems for her with her coworkers and he seems absolutely oblivious to how this could happen. After they officially become a couple they become bland.

The doctor girl Xiang Nan may as well not even be here. She has no chemistry with her musician love interest to the point where I could skip any interaction they had and not miss anything important. She herself has no solid personality so that the writers can have her back-up or argue with a character whenever they need her to based on whatever asinine plot they’ve come up with. It’s disappointing because when I first started I thought she’d be my favorite character and the actress clearly knows how to act the type of mature and calm character the show was going for. It’s a shame they didn’t give her anything to work with.

Han Shuang is quite possibly the single worst character in this show and it’s even worse that the show will bend over backwards to try to make her sympathetic when she isn’t. Her back and forth with Dr. Mark started out rather cute. Then the show takes away any agency and backbone he had at the start and she walks all over him like a doormat and treats him horribly. It got to the point where I don’t want them together at all. She’s absolutely horrible to him. She’s also horrible to her “friends”. She constantly yells and screams whenever conflict arises and it makes everything worse. Sometimes something will be entirely her fault but not once will you ever see her genuinely apologizing or growing from the experience. She’s a selfish, spoiled and entitled brat with a violent streak and I she’s lucky she’s a drama character because if this were real life, she’d have no friends whatsoever and it’d be well deserved.

The only character I have any kind of sympathy for is Xiaolei. Her “friends” are constantly talking down on her and her horrible home life leaves her with no confidence and she’s constantly being blamed by her friend group for things beyond her control, to the point where she ends up in an abusive relationship because a lack of support from her friends drove her into his arms. She does have a love interest that is good to her, but he has yet to return and as I only have 5 episodes left to finish, I doubt the show will be able to do it in a believable and satisfying way.

Honestly if you want a good office romance drama, skip this and just watch Love Is Sweet instead. I’m only still watching this show to make sure Xiaolei gets her happy ending. Don’t bother with this drama if you haven’t started it yet and if you have, get out now, because it doesn’t get better.

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