Love Unexpected (2021)

fluff with bad storyline

Was pretty excited for this initially but it turned out to be quite disappointing. Acting of the casts are decent but the storyline is so horrible. It’s all over the place and it’s all the build ups of the conflicts felt so useless seeing how they managed to solve it (e.g. yunzhu & her father).

Also, there were close to zero character development for the FL, she was naïve from the start to the end. She’s cute but she seriously needs to learn to become a better person. Regardless of what the situation was, she was still in the wrong for all the bad decisions she made.

I’m not sure if it’s a mango tv thing but the ending felt very rushed and the last part felt a bit pointless too, I know that there are two epilogues but still. Speaking of the epilogues, the proposal was so horrible. If i was proposed in this manner I would be so angry. How could one use a life and death matter to propose??? Is he in his right mind??? Though it’s probably because they want to show how she started being his bodyguard and ended the show with her being his bodyguard. Still, what a horrible way of presentation.

Overall, it is a fluff drama with not much story plot. And to be honest, towards the end, there wasn’t any fluff to it too soooo…

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Unique premise, great chemistry, female lead not whiny

9/10 is my rating. This is a 2022 Chinese romantic comedy drama with a supernatural element. There are 24, 45 minute episodes.I read there were 22 regular episodes with two, 15 minute special episodes. The special episodes can be hard to find and the English subs were not very good.

First I will provide a synopsis then review.

Synopsis
After a tragic accident, Xu Nuo (Fan Shi Qi) is no longer able to feel any emotions. Having this disorder has made him ruthless and high successful in the business world but leaves a path if emotional destruction which resulted in many people wishing him harm. Ke Si Yi’s (Qu Yan Di) family has a mixed martial arts business that is in he cutthroat sites of Xu Nyo. When he seeks a body guard, Si Yi uses the opportunity to fill that role in order to get close to the cold executive and influence the decisions he makes around her family business. More than sparks fly between boss and bodyguard when they discover he physically feels her pain and she experiences all of his emotions. What in the Freaky Friday? The two must rely on each other to discover the mystery behind this strange transference. There are some deep ties in their past so fate has had a hand in their lives for awhile. Did fate have love in mind all long?

Review
A cute romantic comedy with a very compelling and unique premise. The cold executive gets humanized by the happy go lucky positive female lead trope. The slice of mixed martial arts was interesting. The second couple were super cute. The family relationships and friendships were heartwarming. The female lead was not overly whiney. She was kind with an inner strength. Some reviewer say she was stupid.I did not see her as stupid she was guileless so she did not play emotional games. People who are overly empathetic and not good deceivers can come off as simple and I think that is what some are responding to.

I recommend and would watch again.

Spoilers*.

Him experiencing her pain had me laughing out loud at times. When he is in a meeting taking invisible punches and others are looking at him like he has gone crazy it is funny. He would tell his lawyer friend to find Si Yi knowing she was up to something. They had great chemistry and the timing and pace of their love story was believable. When he was going through her menstrual pain it reminded me of a documentary where they hooked men up to electrical stimulation machines to stimulate menstrual cramps and they would tap out.

There we’re a few disappointing things in the end. When he worried his competitor might hurt her to extract revenge he publicly rejected her multiple times. The female lead did not believe him because she was so familiar with his feelings having experienced them on his behalf. When he made arrangements to have an actress as his girlfriend and cruelly announced to her that they were considering marriage it gave me Meteor Garden vibes. I understood what he was doing and he he thought it was necessary but thought he could have told her and she would not have been broken hearted. I wanted her to cooly walk away but instead she clung harder and I felt secondhand embarrassment.

it was a bit silly looking when the bad guy goes to run over him and she drives her scooter in the way them the two of them are like spinning in the road. I think they were trying to increase the drama and make you wonder who would get hit but it was ver unnatural looking. Then when she is unconscious and injured on the ground he screams “no” just like that famous scene with Darth Vader in Star Wars. It was similar in that her injury was the very thing he was trying to prevent but keeping her away ultimately caused it.

She wakes from the coma, he is in the room, and she does not pause for a second but embraces him in a hug. It is all over now the bad guy is on the way to jail so he can now go back to liking her. But she just forgave him with no explanation. Her friend gave her lawyer boyfriend a harder time and he was nowhere as cruel to her.

We got a lot of sad when she and he were dealing with broken hearts so their reunion being the last few minutes was not enough happy for me to make up for the sadness we were put through.

Not sure why, with Chinese dramas they have special episodes that are rarely available with the regular episodes and even harder to find with English subtitles. It is like they are providing the opportunity to stop with the regular episodes or, if you want more story, you watch the special episodes.

In the special episodes we see that she is willing to leave if he is being cold or unreasonable. We see an argument and them both struggling not to be the one to make up first. And we get the proposal. The very end is a triple wedding. I enjoyed it but would have liked it better with better translation.

#LoveUnexpected
#FanShiQi
#QuYanDi

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Rom com too cliche ?

I really like Kris Fan, but this drama didnt do it for me. Sure some moments will get you lmao but other moments are kinda bland. The plot development is very illogical and choppy.

Female lead 's dad owns a boxing ring. She herself is good in fighting/boxing. She becomes the male lead's body guard. The male lead is a financial headhunter who doesnt have any emotions. this was due to an car accident which. took the life of his mom. After the accident he is not able to feel any emotions. The female lead became the bodyguard of the male lead because her dad's boxing ring was in danger of shutting down. The female lead has an over amount of emotions, while the male lead has none. They did a study together to help the male lead regain emotions anonymously. The male lead wanted to cancel the treatment because he felt it wasnt working, on the last treatment there was a mishap in the vr system , somehow they switched emotions/the ability to feel hurt. The female lead feels the emotions for the male lead, while the male lead feels any pain the female lead feels from period pains to high pains, punching pains... (some parts of this was funny) The female lead is the body guard but is also working undercover to release secret information to the male lead's competing company.

The female lead is a little too naive and dumb for my liking. Her logic is like no logic. haha she even thought the male lead liked her before finally figuring out that the pain inflicted on her will go to him. She still gave out his information withou his consent....

They got together at such a weird time... like it didnt even seem like the male lead liked her that much it was more that she had a very one sided crush...

The male lead also mistaken another girl to be the one that saved him from the car accident( of course its the female lead) . He was trying to find the girl the whole time..

their sweet moments are soo good, its like eating candy or drug haha super sweet

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Annoying and dumb female lead character made me drop

I was excited to watch this drama because of Fan Shi Qi and Judy Qi and the familiar 2nd/3rd male leads were a plus, but Ke Si Yi (Judy Qi's character) is so annoying and dumb that I've decided to drop this.
Xu Nuo (ML/Fan Shi Qi's character) was fine and refreshing from the typical "domineering boss" characters in c-dramas since he was not unreasonably cold/cruel IMO and still had a human/warm side to him that is not only directed towards the female lead, who does not deserve it IMO.
KE SI YI though. I started this because I wanted to procrastinate and it was on my plan to watch list, but I regret the time I spent on it. She had potential as an MMA fighter, but all that potential ended up drifting into two other female characters who barely have screen time. For someone who was surrounded by such a competitive/tough environment, you would think she had some common sense or at some brain cells, but the only thing she is good at so far is MMA and cooking. Her character is the typical dumb/annoying/"cute"/"warm"/"friendly" female lead in these types of dramas, but she is by far one of the worse since she lacks sense in general. She is said to be extremely empathetic as well as have high morals/ethics, but she uses a dumb reason to go against them and for someone who is supposed to be that intuned with her own and other people's emotions, especially the ML's she would have a better understanding of how the world works (in a broad sense since I don't want to spoil anything if you do decide to watch it), but the female lead wants to make you punch a wall or ram your head into a wall.
I think the dubbing also made the voice too "cutesy" and childish so it was even more unbearable.

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Watch at your own risk..

Story wise, it's not that creative. I have seen much more better shows than this one. The chemistry between the ML and FL is ok, but I feel like there's not enough sweetness shown here. There should be more, because this is an urban romance.

For an MMA fighter, there should be more action. A beautifully crafted fight scenes is necessary to add spice to the show.

I think the writers were a little lazy. The lies and the constant deception were the only cause of all conflicts in the show. It's actually a surprise that the ML and the FL still managed to be together in the end. The ending didn't have that punch too, hense the low rating.

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Avec ce drama, disons au revoir à la logique =D

Ce drama m’intriguait de par les bandes annonces que j’ai pu visionnée et l’idée d’un échange d’émotion annonce par avance des bonnes parts de rire. Je commence donc ce drama en me disant que je n’allais pas me prendre la tête… Triste erreur x’D !

Courte introduction au drama :
Nous nous retrouvons face à « Xu Nuo », un jeune entrepreneur qui ne ressent plus aucune émotion depuis 3ans. Prenant le pouvoir de l’une des plus grandes entreprises de Chine, il décide d’une grosse restructuration. De ce fait, il veut se débarrasser du club « Mad Tigers » qui pratique de la boxe féminine. Pour protéger le club, « Ke Si Yi », fille de l’entraineur, décide de se rapprocher de Xu Nuo en devenant son garde du corps… [Déjà rien qu’avec cette introduction ça sent le coup fourré vous ne trouvez pas ? x’D !]

Parlons des points clés du drama :
• Xu Nuo & Ke Si Yi suivent une thérapie ensemble. Cependant, suite à un disfonctionnement de la machine servant à garder leur identité secrète, Xu Nuo commence à ressentir les douleurs de Si Yi & Si Yi ressent les émotions de Xu Nuo.
o Xu Nuo ne ressent plus aucune émotion suite à un accident de voiture… (Il détient donc l’équivalent du quotient émotionnelle d’une huitre… Ce qui n’aide pas à sembler humain x’D)
o Ke Si Yi, contrairement à Xu Nuo, ressent une fort empathie et de ce fait ressent les émotions d’autrui… Si Yi se rapproche de Xu Nuo à dessein et entraine beaucoup de personne dans son plan… (Peut-être un peu trop d’ailleurs ! C’est à se demander comment elle ne sait pas grillée avant… Car il faut l’avouer… Elle ne brille pas de par son intelligence !)
• La romance peut être considérée comme mignonne même si incompréhensible si on y réfléchi plus de 3min… (Je m’explique : Xu Nuo ne ressent rien… Comment peut-il être certain d’être amoureux de Si Yi ? C’est déjà compliqué lorsqu’on ressent des émotions… Alors pour moi, ce n’est pas réellement possible dans ce contexte ^^’)
• Beaucoup de complots dans la gestion de l’entreprise… (À croire que les hommes d’affaires n’ont rien d’autres à faire que de se battre pour un oui ou pour un non… Après, je n’y connais rien en Business donc je ne peux pas trop juger x’D !)
• La boxe féminine (Je comprends tout à fait Xu Nuo quand il dit que c’est de la violence… Je dois avouer ne pas apprécier ce sport mais il en faut pour tous les goûts…)
• Incompréhension de l’échange de la douleur & des émotions : Durant tout le drama, Xu Nuo & Ke Si Yi tentent de changer la donne… Cependant, ils n’y arrivent pas ! Voilà qu’ils vont voir leur psy et que d’un coup après avoir eu un nouveau soucis avec la machine, tout revient à sa place… (On nous prend pour des imbéciles non ? Si c’était si simple, ils auraient pu le faire dès le début !!!)
• Ce drama ne se concentre pas exclusivement sur le couple de Xu Nuo & Si Yi. Il y a également deux autres couples (Bien que je ne les ai pas spécialement trouvés intéressant ^^’) et d’autres personnages secondaires qui apporte un panel intéressant de personnage !

Ah, je me devais de relever un point qui m’a agacé ! (Et oui, une fois n’est pas coutume =D !) : ENCORE et TOUJOURS cette… F*CK*NG décision de quitter la personne aimée pour SON BIEN ! (En plus de ça, encore une fois… Elle finit par se blesser… Utilité ? Zéro !) Je crois rêver à chaque fois que je vois cette scène (qui est récurrente dans les dramas !) Non mais… Comment dire que cette situation est des plus stupide ?!

En bref : ce drama est sympathique mais il faut mettre son cerveau en pause à plusieurs reprises car la logique n’est pas réellement de mise ^^.

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Una rom-com molto carina.

Una commedia romantica un po' come tante, lui un uomo di potere bello ricco e freddo anche se non per sua scelta ma per una malattia che non lo fa più percepire i sentimenti e lei una ragazza carina giovane frizzate e buffa.Si incontrano e per varie vicissitudini lei diventerà la sua guardia del corpo ma già si erano incontrati ma non lo sanno .Lungo la strada della storia iniziano a nascere dei sentimenti ma la cosa è complicata perché si sono scambiati e lei sente i sentimenti di lui e lui i dolori di lei e questo da il via a tantissimi momenti comici che fanno scorrere velocemente il drama.
Ci sono qua e là un po' di buchi nella trama ma alla fine si capisce comunque tutto.
La storia e divertente e loro sono carini e c'è anche un po' di sana passione tra loro e pure tutti i altri intorno sono bravi.
Non il drama e la storia più romantica mia vista e nemmeno un drama da rivedere ma comunque carino e piacevole.
Finale bello anche se avrei preferito più momenti felici per loro.

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