Lie to Love (2021)

Disappointed by this drama storyline too draggy

I started this drama because of main leads and reading storyline which seems pretty good at starting, but it lacks at storyline.
Means villians are too ahead of the leads.
they know more than leads, means it felt like main leads have no idea about it. It was like they were just playing something.

Seriously means this drama became too draggy atleast for me who never skips any episode of any dramas, but this drama was like too predictable and too slow literally I felt like so good actors ,but was lacking in their expressions and affections.
I have watched previous dramas of both actors and in fell in love with them and even villian is great actor himself , but literally this storyline and plots were too much .

Heroine was not manipulating at all she gave in all to villains means because of her I felt villians were getting more aware about heros intention .
At starting she was street smart but after some point she was lacking common sense as well seriously

This is first drama were i have written negative comments ,i have never imagined I will do this with my favourite actors at some point of time I think in the end story should be great

Seriously I am disappointed

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Another let down:(

This is the 2nd Leo Luo Yun Xi drama that I dropped within a few months. The other was Broker. I’m sorry but Cheng Xiao just cannot act (even in Falling into your smile). Her face is expressionless, and unfortunately there was hardly any chemistry between the two leads.

The storyline is quite interesting, but I was just too annoyed with the uncle Huo Jian. Why does he have to know every single detail about their lives, look into all the rooms in his nephew’s apartment, must know their exact whereabouts and have an explanation given to him? I mean jeez... that’s just ridiculous. Talk about micro managing and controlling.

The music background is really good though. Highly modern and sophisticated and suits the mood of each scene. But unfortunately I don’t think I will continue this. :(

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B.O.R.I.N.G.

I am currently on a Luo Yunxi marathon and decided to watch this drama solely because of the poster. He sports fringes and wears glasses AND LOOKS SO CUTE. But that was all that was to this drama. This guy is a good actor and even when he can't save the drama, you know the drama's just BAD. The FL, Cheng Xiao, CANNOT ACT. How can a person have the same facial expression irrespective of whatever emotions she's emoting? Even when she's crying she looks the same.
The ML is supposedly a disabled character, he does not have his lower leg. But what disability, where disability, which disability? He uses the walking stick like a fucking prop and not as a support... At least limp while walking? What is this superhuman portrayal of a disabled character? One badminton match lasts TEN MINUTES in an episode... WHYYYY??? And
This brings me to the pace of the drama. This drama is SO SLOW, I get it that you want to take time to build the characters and the setup and all that. But it's just unnaturally slow. A watcher like me, who does not skip even 10 seconds of an episode, was skipping MINUTES to just get through to what happens next. Because there's literally NOTHING GOING ON IN THE LARGE PART OF THE EPISODE. The story wasn't that bad actually. If it was paced well and sped up to 5 times faster, then it would've gained traction with the viewers. But the pace was so abysmally slow, I just lost interest at the end and gave up on it.
The chemistry between the leads was also so meh; they had none, actually. And this is saying quite a lot, given how charming and flirty LYX can be onscreen. The two leads are just too self-absorbed and expressionless to react to anything that the other person is doing. In comparison, I liked Chu Chu's character far better. She had more sass and acted better as well. The third friend, Oscar, was a cardboard cutout character. And he's dressed like Elvis Presley for over half the time because he's a Rock and Roll singer? WAAAOOOOOO, talk about a caricature character... *eye roll* *smh*.
The OST was also dumb; who writes a song with the lyrics, "I love you, I need you"? How old was the songwriter? Thirteen?? Everything was just so wrong. There was nothing to invest in this drama. NOT WORTH THE WATCH. Watch Love is Sweet or Till the End of the Moon instead. They're eons better than this snooze fest of a drama.

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definitely could've ended 15 episodes ago....

the cast? amazing.
plot? meh, okay i guess.
the music? skipped every second of it because it was garbage.

this is the first show I've watched that i felt like it just kept dragging. the way this got more boring towards the end and slowly made me lose interest was a little alarming and annoying but i just went with it. the overall plot was okay but there were parts that were so extreme and unrealistic that made me die laughing because it felt like watching an irl fanfiction on the screen. the cast did a great job imo and they really killed their roles (especially the actor for XMH because holy shit did i want to punch him in the face and hate him). however, i still finished it but don't think ill rewatch it anytime soon.

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Started out great, but went downhills afterward

They set the bar so high for FL in the first episode and then to the end she became all so naive and easily deceived. LIke WHERE is the Queen from episode 1 and what happened to her?? I was so excited to watch another drama with a strong FL and in the end it just disappointed me.

Same with ML. Love Luo Yunxi and he was the reason I'd started to watch but I don't think the ooc behaviour of the leads can actually keep me watching for him till the end.

I was also singing praises for the leads trust and the ability to communicate with each but I guess I spoke too soon.

Overall it's only worth watching the first half of the drama, the rest is just disappointing.

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Lost brains

I'm not gonna lie but I think all of the female characters just lost brains suddenly around EP23 and then suddenly found in EP30. I usually don't comment but wtf happened there was mystery as hell even to me.
In the scene in EP1 in hotel was FL giving off 'I'm smart female character and I'm awesome' yet somehow it became 'oh oops help me' and ended with pikachu faced moment of 'oh he is the perpetrator'... FOR BOTH OF THEM!
You could see the villains from early on so no surprise there... And the way characters were just falling into traps was... at least hilariously easy.
For me, the plot was promising at the beginning. And it should have ended a lot earlier cuz some scenes later on were just plainly boring or totally hilariously out of the characters' characters.
What saved it were little Chesnut and male actors that actually performed really well. So well I got disgusted by Minghao. And pitied ML cuz of his suffering. And Oscar was actually really nice variegation from all the drama.

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It was okay

I mean it wasn't terrible. The soundtrack could have been worse and I liked the intrigue. I loved whatever was going on with Chu Chu and Oscar, I thought he was a fun character. Guan Zi Jing has always been a strong actor and I wish he would get a main role somewhere because he would do a great job at it. And of course LYX will always bring his a game and perform well.

But its a shame when the side characters are more interesting than the leads. I was very disappointed in Cheng Xiao's acting and I'm not comvinced she only got this role because she's a pretty idol. The acting skill difference between her and LYX was depressingly large and I dont think I could name a time where she didnt have the same flat expression on her face. I don’t think it's fair that LYX has to carry the chemistry of the couple because I couldn't even tell if the FL liked the ML half the time. I think Cheng Xiao would definitely benefit from MUCH more practice acting before she's given a leading role. I don't hate Cheng Xiao I just don't think her acting is strong enough to be a main character yet.

I liked the uncle as the antagonist better, as weirdly controlling as he was. The second antagonist was so creepy and not even in a fun way. I predicted him to be the real antagonist from the second he came on screen. Why be engaged to her sister if youre obsessed with the FL the entire time??? It doesn't make sense to me. Also the constant flashbacks to that one cliff scene drove me crazy. By the time episode 5 rolled around i was tired of looking at it.

Anyway, it started off strong and very quickly bored me to death. Too bad I had to drop it.

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So this might be really biased since I haven’t fully seen the show. But just from the first episode I knew I wouldn’t like the show. Now I personally love Cheng Xiao and Luo Yunxi as who they are and was kind of excited to watch this show. I’m not really into modern day dramas, and I typically drop most of them if they can’t catch my attention or seek my excitement in the first couple of episodes.

Now the cast is great, but right off to the start, we have Luo Yunxi’s character who loves to play video games and I have absolutely no idea what Cheng Xian’s character is doing. Like I would like a good background explanation, but this might just be me being very biased, since the beginning of the show didn’t interest me and seemed confusing and about businesses and corporations.

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