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surprisingly disappointing

I was really looking forward to this drama given the cast, however i have to say that i was fairly disappointed. This was barely a romance it was rather a story of how a mother controlled her family with verbal abuse and blackmail. If they didn't fall in with her wishes she would become hysterical and scream abuse at all around until everyone would bend to her will. Any romance that there could have been disappeared into the background it was barely noticeable.
When i think about the overall impression now i see the wonderful character of Grandmother who was a wise and beautiful lady who cared deeply about the people around her, and a screaming manipulative mother. I cannot for even a moment understand how this was being presented as a loving family. the Romance faded into nothingness. The ML and FL did their best with what they were given by the writers however they were not given much to work with, I do wonder if this was the outline and script that they signed up for in the beginning.
I do not really know why i watched it until the end of the series.

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A expectativa da parceria de Xu Kai com Yang Zi foi bem maior do que o visto no drama. O roteiro não é o melhor, é focado mais nas complicadas relações familiares, os romances não contagiam e os personagens são comuns e sem nada de especial. A parte negocial é apenas preenchimento da trama. A verdadeira personagem protagonista desse drama é a mãe, pois tudo gira em torno dela que é uma personagem, até quase o final do drama, pouco gostável.
As atuações são boas, mais nada de extraordinário.
O tempo de tela desperdiçado com personagens insignificantes é imenso. A relação do casal protagonista está mais para amigos ou irmãos, pois não há emoção entre os atores que passe o sentimento de um romance. A finalização é insípida e faz jus ao drama.
Há algumas cenas cômicas bastante engraçadas e algumas poucas, emocionantes.
Yang Zi e Xu Kai são extremamente talentosos, mas o roteiro não colaborou para que eles brilhassem vestidos de seus personagens.

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If you like overbearing and annoying mother then you may like it. Acting was mediocre by everyone

Best Choice Ever is a Romantic Comedy about a 30-year-old unmarried girl who lives with her overbearing mother, who has done nothing but ruin and embarrass her, even slap her in front of everyone for what her mother called "I did it because I love you."

My Reviews:
1. The overbearing mother is so annoying. She is too much, and Yang Zi's (Mai Cheng Huan) character is too weak to stand up against her overbearing mom.
2. Xu Kai's acting ability is mediocre, but he is handsome and good to look at. I could only manage to finish his modern dramas, but I ended up dropping all of them for costume dramas because the acting was so bad.
3. There was a scene when he lost his dad to a car accident, and his character went through the grieving stage. Xu Kai did not show griefing emotion and barely shed tears for such a loss.
4. Yang Zi is a good actress, but she needs to branch out a bit because she plays a similar type of role, which doesn't stretch her acting ability. She always plays a bubbly girl, career-driven, timid, and filial daughter to an inferior mom.
5. It is watchable since there is nothing good or exceptional with the Cdrama in 2024 until the last four episodes when the mother was diagnosed with something that was not severe but went missing. This caused a frenzy, and everyone had to drop everything to look for her. The last four episodes were annoying and frustrating.
6. This drama focused more on the mother's character than Yang Zi's. I would give it a high rating until the last four episodes when the ending ruined everything because of the unnecessary plot about the mother missing.

Downgraded to 6.0 rating instead of 7.0 rating.

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Se puede pasar de largo

Un drama que lo definiría, sin pena ni gloria, es más, bastante aburrido y cuenta con 37 episodios En realidad como ya leí varias reseñas y coincido con aquellas que exponen que el drama se trata de la relación entre madre e hija y que Xu Kai tiene un rol secundario. Desde luego hay buenos momentos que hacen que uno, no llore por el tiempo invertido.
Jamás se me ocurriría volver a verla y creo que dentro de una semana ni me acuerdo que la vi.
Además, quiero destacar que esta madre protagonizada por He Sai Fei es tóxica, para todos los integrantes de la familia, ella es el centro y todos los demás son objetos de su pertenencia. Pero es un personaje débil que los demás integrantes de la familia, hija, marido y hermano la van llevando como pueden por el bien familiar. A pesar de todos los problemas que ocasiona. Pero podemos decir en su favor que es una madre que cocina y se preocupa por su familia.
El personaje principal interpretado por Yang Zi, es demasiado perfecto como para ser real, en honor a la verdad ella es la madre de su madre y también tiene un crecimiento importante como empresaria y como hija. Recién en el episodio 28, tienen una charla donde ambas se sinceran y pueden encontrar un punto para mejorar la relación, pero son muchos capítulos repetitivos de lo mismo que llegan a aburrir.
Muy linda la relación de la protagonista con su abuela protagonizada por Wu Yan Shu como
Chen Shu Zhen o Grandma Mai.
Xu Kai, como Yao Zhi Ming tiene una buena actuación, su papel es el que más crecimiento interno tiene. Hay algunas escenas románticas bonitas y él es muy atractivo.
El drama tiene comedia, pero nada que destacar, todo siempre subordinado a esta relación madre e hija, la historia secundaria acompaña a este drama, es una historia de sostén sin mucha importancia.
La actuación de todos es buena, pero el guion a mi gusto soporífero.
De acuerdo a lo visto mi opinión es que mires otro drama, demasiado hincapié en las relaciones familiares, que desde luego son importantes en la vida de uno, pero me parece que en China hacen un culto de ella.

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Un petit disclaimer avant de commencer ce drama

J’écris pour les personnes qui parlent français et qui hésiteraient à regarder ce drama. Si vous cherchez une romance ce n’est pas le drama pour vous et c’est dommage parce que le couple principal est très mignon pour le peu de fois où on les voit. Yang Zi et Xu Kai passent très bien ensemble à l’écran. Les deux gros problèmes de ce drama selon moi:
- On s’ennuie trop de fois
- la mère de la FL qui est au centre de l’histoire est insupportable et n’évolue pas tant que ça.
Je développe : pour le premier point on s’ennuie surtout dans les parties “business” mais ça ne sert à rien, ça n’apporte rien à l’histoire. Pour mon deuxième et c’est le plus problématique. Finalement le personnage principal de ce drama c’est la mère de Chenghuan (Yang Zi). Dans la première partie elle a fait des choses inacceptables et finalement c’est pas tant qu’elle a changé mais sa relation avec sa fille s’améliore parce que sa fille a changé. Y’a aucun développement au final, la mère reste une femme égoïste jusqu’au dernier épisode. Et vraiment vraiment le couple principal et relayé au troisième. Même les dix dernières minutes du drama ne leur sont pas dédiées. J’ai mis 6 en note finale parce que le casting est vraiment bien pour le coup mais honnêtement si j’avais su même pour Yang Zi j’aurais pas regardé ce drama.

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Dysfunctional families

This is my first time watching both Yang Zi and Xu Kai in a contemporary drama. Their acting was convincing, and kept the plot going. In general, the supporting actors also did a credible job.

Ranking;
#1 Dysfunctional Family Mai... Mother
#2 Dysfunctional Family Xin ... Son, Daughter, Father, Mother
#3 Dysfunctional Family Yao ... Father

MAI family
Mother Liu Wanyu was overbearing and controlling, but she was emphatic and kindhearted occasionally. She was the nucleus of the Mai family. Her husband Mai, son Zao and daughter Huan were her satellites. The drama should have been named Story of Wanyu since she seemed to dominate the plot. The actress should have been attributed a Main Lead designation.

XIN family
A privileged family of four, lacking in ethics, but full of arrogance and condescension. Son was too clingy, trying to manipulate Mai Cheng Huan. Daughter was psychotic and condescending. Mother and Father were calculating.

YAO family
Ex-convict Mr Yao had his fifteen minutes of fame. The day he grew a conscience, was the day he died. That was cold, Scriptwriter! Yao should have lived, reside permanently at Xing Anli, and work as a host. Son Yao Zhiming realized too late that his father had redemption.

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Its good but very exaggerated mother daughter duo

I am very confused with this drama honestly.i watched it for xu kai, but ended up watching till the end. i just hated the exaggeration of a mothers obsession towards her children. i kind of did not like the unprofessionalism where a mother can randomly enter a daughter's office meeting and say to have lunch. They were a lot of unattractive points in the drama. but above all the ML and FL has carried the drama beautifully. Even FL's brother and Ex boyfriend did a good job projecting the relationship. It was sensible for a mother to be noisy in a daughter's relationship but it was really really not acceptable for a mother to be noisy in professional fields. I have a lot of mixed feelings towards this drama. Its a family drama with very weird obsessions. The granny was the best among everything.

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Oh so boring! :(

Unfortunately, yes. The trailers and reels would make you think it’s a romance story between Yangzi and Xukai, but it’s really not.

The drama revolves around Mai Chenghuan and her family, centering on her relationship with her mother. The mother has a really annoying character where she talks too much and constantly interferes with other people lives. Too much screen time were given to both the parents which I did not enjoy. The other couple which is her best friend and little brother also did not interest me one bit.

The first half focused mainly on the FL relationship with her bf of 3 years, whom she didn’t know was the son of a very wealthy family. Somehow forced to get married, she finds there’s too many differences in their social status and creates conflict with the future mother and sister in law. These scenes were so frustrating to watch. And her own mother never learns- even after breaking off the relationship, she secretly held an engagement party , tricked her to attend it and it was SUCH A MESS!

After that it gets boring, a grandma dies, she inherits a hotel and navigates her way to run the hotel, whilst getting closer to xukai and liking him… really not that interesting.

So unfortunately will be dropping this. I just fast forward too too much just to get to their kiss scene in ep26- and even that was a lack of chemistry and let down. Definitely not recommended.

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Mai ChengHuan's growth to independence

TLDR: If you've read the discussions on Viki and MDL, you will have seen the overbearing, annoying and toxic mom labels. I won't deny that the mother was portrayed very well by actress He Sai Fei. And many people who are unfamiliar with Asian culture may not understand her portrayal, so they dropped the series because of her, even though she eventually strives to understand her children better, and they reach an understanding. Also, if you're just expecting a RomCom, this series is not for you.

This drama is more about family life and the relationships between the family members. Not many of us will have the economic background as the Mai family, who are living in government housing, and where the parents' big dream is for the government to demolish their building so they can collect the relocation money and move to the suburbs. Mr. and Mrs. Mai have sacrificed enough to be able to send their two children to college, and ChengZao had scholarships while also tutoring while attending school. He's in his early 20s and still sleeps on a cot in their living room. Older sister ChengHuan is 29 and diligently works in the hotel industry. She wants to be independent and to be able to alleviate her parents' difficult life. As her mom increasingly interferes with her life, the fragile balance between filial piety and independence breaks, leading to a public row between her and her mom.

Things I liked:
- the very gradual and realistic change in the relationship between Yao ZhiMing and Mai ChengHuan. They started off on the wrong foot. From my perspective, he fell first but could only support her without her knowing about it.
- Yao ZhiMing and Mai ChengHuan being there for each other, physically present and emotionally available, was the most romantic thing. Viewers define romance differently. Some go for the big ring, flowers, chocolate. Me - someone to hold me when I'm down and someone to listen so I can hear myself think.
- ChengHuan's journey growing up with an overbearing mom to being able to speak up for herself, not second-guessing herself, but being able to stand up for herself was a joy to behold.
- the friendship between siblings ChengHuan and ChengZao. They're the only ones who know their parents and know what the other is going through.
- the friendship between ChengHuan and MaoMao. They have each other's backs.

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