Dolce e Freddo (2023)

The title says it all

This series started off fun and strong. It was a little flirty with just enough business conflict to keep you interested. Somewhere along the line the story veered more into business navigation than that of the leads. The ML and FL were cute to start and afterwards it felt like the writers just wanted us to assume their relationship was steady without issue. It wasn't landing well ...so the writers had to literary have the ML say several times that they have no issues and are good for believability. ML always seemed more vested than the FL and in a clutch towards the end. It seemed unfair of how she handled their 'relationship' as if she could take it or leave it. without a 'true' conversation. The secondary 'winter-spring' relationship I liked more. You could see how they could become a couple. The counselor was the worse. I would hope to never run into someone so unprofessional. They should have just written him as a brother or family friend. The way it ended was so subpar that I had to just take a point away. Why is this series ending at 31 episodes that should have been 24. It was sloppy trying to tie up loose ends and make connections without forethought just to get to the finish line. It is worth watching once. If you are like most Cdrama lovers, you will get tired of it feeling like 'groundhog day' of issues in the middle and want them to get to the end. This is how the writers must have felt because that is how that last episode landed. C-

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Typical Chinese romance drama

I had hope that this would not be a typical drama, but so far it is. Meng Hao Tian is supposed to be a smart, energeticstrong welledperson; yet she meets Leng Si Ming and becomes this mumbling idiot.

You mean the man you don't know who he is or what he does, he grabs you by the risk because you're wet and he takes you up to his room! Give me a break! She doesn't protest she doesn't do anything she just goes with him? This only happens in Chinese dramas. No woman in her right mind would go with somebody she don't even know about I guess in Chinese dramas there's nothing called rape where is the common sense of Chinese females in these dramas? She straight up being a slut. She doesn't know anything about Leng Si Ming, yet he gets in her face, carries her to his room ansshe says nothing.They just met and he is talking marriage. Really!? She is teasing him and he is too arrogant. I guess this is what Chinese producers call romance. In Chinese dramas I don't care how strong FL are, they always become subservant to the rich male lead. She crawls into the bed of a guy she doesn't know very well. He moves next door to her that's creepy. Plus he told her he'd marry her (they don't know each other that well). She has no self respect. She don,t mind getting caught in the bed of a man which she has no relationship with. He dominates her with no push back. This all in episodes 1-7.

The drama series is getting more interestingafter epssode 11. The subplots are better than the main plot. They tackle the situation of what would you do if you found out that your best friends spouse is cheating. What would you tell them or when would yo tell them?Now that they introduce another person in the drama, it is getting really interesting. They seem to tackle someup-to-date issues, like domestric violence and how to address the issue. They addressed it from the stand point is when the perpetrator is celebrity with great connections. I could understand when Jiang Lei Lei was dealing with the age gap and how she thought others would view it.

Like I mentioned before the last half of the series was better the front half. I was thinking of dropping the series because of the first 7 episodes. I still believ that the subplots were better than the main plot. The musical score was good and the songs came in on cue and fit the threme at the time. Deal with certain situations when it comes to the heart was tricky.

If you could get past the first 7 episodes, the drama is worth watching. I would recommend watching from Episodes 10-31.

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