We Started Dating From Marriage (2020)

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Fell in love with the female lead!!!

First of, plot is basically a strong-headed CEO and a warm-hearted Doctor. You would think at the start, how will this drama unfold with this cliche plot for 35 episodes? In other dramas, I would usually keep waiting for the story to unfold and would even have to skip parts because of the dragging. This drama is different. The story flowed. It started very strong with out FL being such a charismatic CEO. You don't expect to suddenly be quarter in the drama and suddenly things folded in a way that you might think, "oh, things are going great, but we're not even half way to the story yet" and then next thing you know, a plot twist happens when the antagonist comes in. You would think it will draaaag but no. For me, I like this. I hate when the antagonist part drags. Certain parts (like the antagonist part) come in to just turn the tables in order to give us a new meaning of the title. Again, in other dramas, sometimes the titles don't really match with the content of the drama. But this one, there are a lot of times you would think "ah, it begins again" but somehow in a different way compared to how they began again last time. I wish I could give as example but don't wanna spoil too much. I love how the production team paid attention to small details like the changing of the female lead's hair style and fashion. A new turning point to her life.

I almost forgot, one of the most important things in this drama is the reversal of roles. From charismatic female CEO to promoting ballerino, to what Ling Rui said to FL's dad "Actually, there are no rules to define to how women or men should act", and also when Tang Ping was being harassed and was told she was wearing a skirt that invites pervs and her answer to that I loved. This drama may be cliche in some areas but the role reversal and mentioning controversial society formed norms, you won't find this in some dramas.

Usually a drama just keeps dragging and sometimes I don't understand why they even need more than 16/24 episode. But this drama, I was questioning how else they're gonna move forward until ep 35. But half way it got interesting, and then that part when she had to leave came. It was quick, it only happened in one episode and so many things happened and then it dragged, but it was a good drag. They didn't drag on how long Ling Yue will know about the existence of YouYou. The chemistry between the ML and FL was there, I was quite shocked as time passed. I didn't really expect it since I didn't feel it as much at the start. Not to mention the sudden existence of YouYou. Things just got better. The story line is cliche like a lot of Chinese dramas, but what makes this different is the acting and delivery of emotions. Not to mention how funny some scenes are and the background sound effects.

Seriously, kudos to the production team for producing such a masterpiece. The choices of actors was brilliant. From FL/ML to supporting actors. The emotional scenes of the father and daughter; the stepmum and FL at the end; the scene of FL and her brother; the existence of YouYou; the separation of the FL &ML, how much crying and suffering - even how he can now hold his alcohol because of the amount of drinking he had to do to forget her; the hospital bed scene with YouYou and Ml while FL was fake sleeping and soooo many more. I cried so many times, it's so touching. These things may be cliche sometimes, but it reminds us of many emotions to feel. I realllllly would like to thank the writer for including YouYou in the later part of this drama. In other dramas, I always look forward to the couple having a kid at the end, but sometimes I get disappointed for not seeing it. This one, there was enough time to see them have a child and their interactions. But in all seriousness, YouYou is soooooooooo adorable!!!!!!!!! He really made this drama very worthwhile. He is so sensible and cute and funny. I suddenly have a baby fever again TT I also like the lil friendships that formed throughout the drama.

As already mentioned, I like the addition of background sound effects in certain parts that need highlighting of what kind of scene it is (e.g when things get sexayy haha). The music. Gosh! The OSTs are my type! I love them! It really makes a difference when a drama has a good OST.

In conclusion, I am verrrryyyy satisfied with the ending. It's been so long since I last saw such a satisfying ending that didn't feel dragged at all. Also, everyone had time of closure and screen time to finish off their story. I saw how the FL and ML grew not just professionally but also their affection towards each other. I probably have so much more to say that I have forgotten but I TOTALLY RECOMMEND THIS DRAMA! Very worthwhile TT

P.S. usually I skip parts when watching a drama in order to get the parts I would like to see, but this one, I barely skipped parts. I am currently having post-drama depression and will have to search for behind the scenes. Would like to thank the production team and the actors/actresses for making this drama happen. Kudos to them.

If I get bored again, I will watch this drama again. Highly would rewatch!

Sorry for the messy review, I keep remembering things haha

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Good drama

The acting is really good in this drama and the couples have great chemistry. I was invested in the second couple, we didn’t get enough of them in the second part for me. The son was adorable and I love the friendship too.

It was interesting and funny that after the time jump, it’s like the personality of the two couples shifted. I loved the second male lead personality after 6 years and his interactions with the second female lead are so funny. The height difference is everything too, man is so tall ahah.

It made me emotional in ep 34 when she called the step mom « mom » and said thank you, and she hugged her family.

It was refreshing after some school dramas relationship. I loved the mature relationship and the understanding.

Yes there were breakups, a bit annoying, but we got to see them together for many episodes and the breakup wasn’t to much long for the main couple. For me, the second couple got together again so late, like ep 34/35.

The male lead was a green flag and he was very understanding, didn’t got mad or yell at her. It was funny to me how he cleans and the FL with her snacks.

Also, the ending was really good, we got closure for everyone, even the side caracters. That what we call a perfect ending.

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Must watch drama

I love how it goes from the start till the end. The two leads are amazing and the chemistry is so perfect! I’ve been watching the behind the scenes and it’s so funny and feels like a real couple. I cried when I watch Fanning left.

Anyways, don’t skip any episode. It’s too lovey dicey but I like it though.. well I just love everything on this drama! I hope there’s seasons 2 or probably another drama for ZYT and Gong Jun.

Gong Jun improve a lot in this drama. And he also looks so mature also. I want him to do a next drama that match his age and also the leading lady.

Zhao Yutong is a great actress. She so fierce and what amaze me is she doing that karate thing. She’s a strong women. I like her character in Begin Again drama.

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A unique drama that shows different stages of love

This drama is very unique in the sense that it shows different stages of love! The female lead is introduced first as a strong, a bit stubborn woman. She evolves throughout the drama, and becomes more sensitive to other people's needs and emotions. Her character is very well-written because she is a dynamic character that grows throughout the show. Towards the start she reminded me of the female lead from the korean drama "it's okay to not be okay". The male lead is the more mature main character in this drama, and he is very level-headed, caring, and prudent. Female lead and male lead have amazing chemistry at all points in the show. Throughout the drama, they both grow together and have major life-changing events occur which shows all the stages of love!

Plot progression:
The plot progresses well for most parts of the show, but at times it does feel a bit stretched out. Sometime I do recall thinking that the show would be better if it was 24-30 episodes, but still it wasn't all that bad having it at 35 episodes. There are some captivating events that occur from time to time to grasp your attention when you think the drama is slowing down. There is also no real love triangle in this drama, although there was potential for one.

Ending:
Don't worry! You'll get a nice ending!

OST:
This drama has really good ost you can listen on youtube! Although I wish they had more they could use in the background during the show!

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Cliche plot, best possible story

My oversimplified review
STORY: A unique story around the cliche forced marriage plot. Really enjoyed the strong female lead. All side characters added to the story, none were overly annoying. Good humor throughout. Story makes logical sense. 

EXECUTION: 徐驰 did great with the directing. All actors filled the roles well, chemistry of the main leads was great. The child actor for Youyou did amazing. The cutest scenes between the main couple which starts after they get together ep 3/35. No unnecessary breaking up and jealousy between the couple. Ly Yi Yao and Cai Si Yu (one side couple) were fun to follow, something that’s typically a bit annoying. 
Music fit well, 三心爱意 was my favorite.
OVERALL: Really really enjoyed this show. Watch for a great plot and couple that involves a forced marriage, business, family, forbidden love, friendship, loss of a sibling, parenthood, and of course starting again.

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Not A Bad Story !

I love this drama but some scenes made me very mad and I just skip them. The lead characters were great. The female character was strong, demanding and pushy but had a good heart and her weaknesses that she only show them to the lead male character. The lead male character was sweet and understanding who love family and the family value. The chemistry between them was fabulous. The story had many weak and boring areas. I just skip them. The basic large company that someone is wanting to take down. It surprise when it was successful and the family became just an ordinary family. I did not like when they do not trust each other to communicate with each other about what is happening. Once you become a couple you do trust and communicate. I love the 2nd couple but I wish they had more of a story together and became a couple a little sooner. The chemistry among the actors was great and so was their performance. I love the little boy and he stole the drama in the episodes he was in.

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It started off strong

I really like this drama in the beginning. I really felt that Fangning's character was one of the most likeable characters in all the CDramas I have watched in the past. She will probably always be my favorite now. One thing I don't like about most female leads in CDramas is how weak their character is and how needy and childish. She was never any of that except when it came to get her husband's love. Still didn't mind it though.
I really liked this drama until I was actually bored by episode 18. I was still watching it but not invested any longer. I realized I couldn't stand any of the support character at all. None of their storylines made any sense. Like, PingPing. Why was she still allowed to be so clingy. She had a stalker she was scared of but had did much worse to Dr. Ling. The stalker had only followed her around, she literally tried to sabotage his wedding, his marriage and his job. And their biggest enemy was right there. Why didn't they sue him and charge him with corporate espionage? Why didn't they accuse his company of underhanded tactics to bring them down? It just got to be too stupid by episode 24 because not only did I not understand some of the dumb choices people were making the story was just dragging on by that time.

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I will not be beginning this drama again.

dropped after about 23 eps. i personally found it too boring, but i can see why people like this drama. acting was great, couple was cute but it was just a bit bland for me. storyline took ages to move and when it did, it felt like it didn’t? i didn’t feel any attachment to the characters to sit this one through (especially hearing about the later 6 year time skip). if this was about 24 eps, i think i would have finished it.
maybe i’ll pick up when i have nothing else to watch but for now, it’s a no from me.

GJ and ZYT looked sooooo in good in this though! nice visuals :))

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Did Not Deserve

Some people easily gave good rating for a drama that didn't actually deserve. It wouldn't be fair for any other drama with good or even excellent storyline.

Begin Again was just another Chinese Drama with cliché story. I know I didn't expect something spectacular but at least, please be reasonable! How could the story be so shallow: the stalker episodes, the office politics episodes, and the bla-bla-bla years later after the office turbulence episodes like... ha?? Really??). The only good point from this drama is Zhou Yutong's acting (and the kid's acting, maybe, as I discontinued to watch it when the kid appeared). I dropped it at 10-more-episodes-to-go cause I simply didn't wanna hurt my sense.

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So You Think You Love Me But Can I Trust You?

I will not list events blow-by-blow just one or two tidbits because there is way too much to unpack in this long drama.

The biggest question and why for me is...why does the 2nd lead guy claim to love and want the 1st lead girl so bad while sabotaging everything she does while being conniving and manipulative to break her and the 1st lead guy up in the hope to make her his own? What is really sad is that it will never happen for him. He has two women very much in love with him and he treated them like a big pile of $%!#. Why do the two 2nd lead women want a man like that? Just baffling and crazy. At least the one girl had sense enough to cry her tears and finally let him go and leave. Well, I hope I am only at episode 23. I started strolling through the 2nd lead girl self-sacrificing for this man as he cares nothing about her and told her to her face and she still yapping about "I love you and I don't care if you don't love me" BS. Just sickening.

The other thing that bowls me over was the lead girl assistant working against her OMG that level of betrayal is at another level.

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Super strong female charisma attracts me badly!!!

It is my favourite type of melodrama with strong female character & cool handsome male leads.
Great chemistry between the leads makes me flutter & sweet...

The drama is about a marriage story between a strong & rich CEO Lu Fang Ning and her chosen perfect man, Dr. Lin...

LFN is a lady with over confidence & cold-hearted personality who works so hard to get approval of her capability. Because of her dad’s forced advice of marriage & having a child, she decided to plan a one year contract marriage with a perfect man and get a child with him.

She accidently met Lin Rui at hospital & chase him & forced him to marry her...Lin Rui has quite straight & honest personality & didn’t agree with her first. However, he finally agreed her to marry as he found out she was the one he used to know when he was young & wanted to know her more. But, LFN didn’t know about that & thought he agreed because of loan problem.

LFN tried so hard to get LR by using various ways but don’t get him even after marriage. When LR got to know the truth that LFN just wants a baby with him and will end their marriage after one year anyway, he rejected to cooperate with her. He thinks her idea is totally ridiculous & quite upsetting him as he desires her to keep him even after one year marriage.. He believes that only the true love between parents can bring up children well...

On the way of LFN chasing LR, he will make her believe love & fall in love with him.. awww xo xo sweet & funny...

The second ML is Lu Fang Ning’s little uncle who was adopted to Lu family since young & cares LFN a lot. Lin Rui is jealous when LFN gets close to SML and it seems he loves her unnoticedly & his actions tell it all haha... But, SML will has his own love line with a cute company staff girl who likes him after several incidences..

I expect all the love lines in this drama will be quite interesting & have more points to watch...

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High Highs, Boring Lows

The beginning of this drama is hilarious. I found there to be a lot of laugh out loud moments but I was also VERY confused. I'm not sure if that's due to poor translation but I was also confused by the way they acted towards each other.

It seemed like they both like each other but I guess she didn't fall for him right away like I had thought(?), she just wanted to have a baby with him (?). Although I'm still confused why he kept denying her when he was clearly jealous of Simon...

I found the constant back and forth of feelings for each other to be exhausting. One minute Rui is trying to break off the contract, the next minute he's jealous of Simon. Jealous enough to ask her for them into the apartment but won't sleep in the same room with her. Then there's Fang Ning who sometimes appears to have feeling for Rui but then other times only seems to want to have his baby. It's a bit annoying trying to keep up with their seemingly every changing thoughts/feelings. Which thread am I supposed to follow here? 😫

Then came Episode 13 which made me want to cry for Fang Ning. "I feel insecure everyday... I hate you" That whole scene feels so raw.

I was really bored with the Fang Ning business drama. To me it seemed incredibly reaching. The guy became her assistant for 3 years because he blames her for her sister’s death..??? At this point I was holding onto this drama by a tiny thread.

Then came the SIX YEAR jump. (I hate time jumps in general) Luckily, the story does seem to pick up a bit between Rui and Fang Ning but the side story for Tang Ping is dreadfully boring. Simon and Cai Si Yu are pretty cute though...

Overall I liked Rui and Fang Ning as a couple and the actors have great chemistry delivering some adorable and laugh out loud moments but the lows were just too low for me.

Would I Recommend? There are better romances out there
Would I Re-Watch? No.

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