Amor O2O (2016)

If you think the man should always save the woman, and that all independent women should become submissive, you've come to the right place. Honestly, the love story didn't even make sense. She fell in love with the guy because she thought he was handsome. He never properly shows that he loves her either. Throughout the whole drama they were just these two people that had absolutely no chemistry with each other. It didn't help that their story lines was so cringe. Like, whoever wrote this drama obviously was a shallow person. If someone could just please enlighten me on how this drama was soooooo great. Love? Cute? Where?

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A story of first love…with a twist.

Ok I admit, I regret a bit that I put off watching Love O2O for so long (there are just so many good dramas to watch), but it’s better late than never!
Things that I like:
• I’m not a gamer, but I like the idea that the ML Xiao Nai (Yang Yang) and FL Bei Wei Wei (Zheng Shuang) started as a couple in the game “A Chinese Ghost Story”, where Xiao Nai first “pursued” her, then eventually in real life (They being Computer Science students is a plus!). Their in-game interactions and experiences together laid the groundwork for their eventual meet-up and relationship in the real world.
• Casting the same actors to portray their in-game characters, which made me more invested in their scenes inside the game. I enjoyed watching their interactions and action scenes in the game, which were well executed.
• Fluid transition of the story from online to offline scenarios.
• Smart, interesting and attractive ML and FL. Especially the ML, he’s so well-rounded, almost perfect, too good to be true at times!
• Amazing chemistry between Yang Yang and Zheng Shuang. They look so good together! They have many light-hearted, sweet and romantic moments, and Yang Yang is a good kisser! He mostly carried their romantic scenes 😊.
• There is mutual love, trust and respect between our main couple, and I like that there is not so much drama and misunderstanding between them.
• Great circle of friends for both Xiao Nai and Bei Wei Wei, and healthy family relationships.
• The drama showed Xiao Nai and his friends navigating the gaming industry through their start-up tech business, the challenges they faced and how they overcame them.
• Love the OST! The songs just fit the drama so well. So glad they’re available in Spotify and Youtube.

Other comments:
• Zheng Shuang is pretty, but I find her a bit too skinny. Her acting in some of the kissing scenes could be better, as most of the time, she was a passive receiver of Yang Yang’s passionate kisses. To be fair, there were some kissing scenes where she did better than in others. I read that her character is written that way in the book.
• There were a number of annoying characters, who seemed to spend most of their time gossiping and trying to pull others down. But hey, they made the story more interesting, so they’re a “necessary evil”.
• This drama has a high rewatch value for me. After I finished it, I rewatched the last 3 episodes the next day. Then in the following days, I rewatched my other favorite episodes, before starting from episode 1 and rewatching the whole drama (albeit with some skips the 2nd time). So I watched the entire series twice in a little over 2 weeks.

Overall, this is a fun, feel-good, and enjoyable drama for me. I highly recommend it!

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This failed. Miserably.

I can push through a bad story if the acting is decent but for such a bland storyline and HORRENDOUS acting, this is one of the worst drama.

1. Yang Yang’s good looks could not save him. His acting is the same overall- quick delivery, monotone and boring.
2. FL could not act if her life depended on it. Most scenes of her acting naive, innocent, surprised, excited, frustrated etc were of her squinting her face, blowing out air and looking pretty.
3. CRINGY bromance and friendships. All the guys tried too hard and all the girls sounded like 12 year olds trying to be cute… in college.
4. I had to ff some of their romantic scenes bc it was all so predictable and repetitive. He’ll say something flirty, she’ll look surprised, then shy, then flustered and cut scene. The kisses were all him kissing a wall. She could not kiss. Awful.

Watch if you are bored and need a quick drama to kill time. If you like watching bromance and romance in the gaming like world, watch Go Go Squid. If you like Yang yang, watch You Are My Glory.

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Not my cup of tea!!

So contrary of popular opinion, personally I did not like the drama. I watched it after falling into your smile because of the same gaming - romance genre but I was disappointed.

Story wise it lacked character development of the male lead. Like at one point it kinda became frustrating. The gaming sequence was also tad bit boring and tbh I just skipped most part.

The main problem for me here was chemistry between leads , was just too forgettable and felt forced.
The OST was nice though.

Honestly this wasn't my cup of tea but again I would understand if anyone else loved it. :))

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What a hard time rating this.

I had to compare it to Boss & Me and... Love O2O is in no way inferior to B&M. Both of them have their flaws and slow pace, so I think 7.5 is a good rating for them. This is based on a webtoon/novel as far as I've heard. And after watching this, I can imagine the webtoon being the exact same way.

The drama follows that basic romance concept many shoujo-mangas have. From beginning to end. So, it was quite easy to guess how the story would unfold and also end. It only varies in their executed subtleties.

As for the pace... Like I already mentioned in earlier posts, it's very slow. Though the beginning was more interesting and thrilling in a certain way, the second half becomes very weak. It was an up and down as repetitive trouble for our leads kept appearing, and not all of them could hold my excitement.

The romance part is clear and straightforward. Regarding its execution... It has its sweet times, that even make you blush sometimes but it also had some problems with showing passion in... certain moments. I enjoyed some of the characters alot although they were quite stereotype. The one I grew fond of the most was the male lead. He will linger in my memory a very long time.

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Overall, this is an interesting drama if you want something that strays a little outside of the generic plot-line. By incorporating online games into the drama it gave it a realistic feel as to how people meet in the 21st century.

The drama has its cute moments that are worth re-watching. Compared to the usual 40-50 episode Chinese drama this drama has almost the right amount of episodes. The only things that I didn't quite like about the drama was how repetitive some of the scenes were between Xiao Nai and Bei Wei Wei. It bordered on being predictable and almost unnecessary. The acting doesn't really evolve between Xiao Nai and Bei Wei Wei. It pretty much begins with instant adoration and love between the two characters. However, the length that Bei Wei Wei goes to suppressing who she really is in order to be what she thinks Xiao Nai wants in a girlfriend is kind of off-putting. In addition, Xiao Nai is supposedly a cold and collected character in the drama but he often comes across as flat.

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I loved the drama so much, I just expected to see the end of the plot of the secondary characters, but the main one was amazing! Despite the kisses of Wei Wei (lol) at the beginning, the main couple has a great chemistry together. I loved the addition of KO in the story, I just expected to see the progress and the end of his story with Mei. And that was the first drama that I watch with Yang Yang and I loved him so much! He is wonderful! This drama made me laugh a lot and want to play A Chinese Ghost Story as well. It is not my favorite Chinese drama but it is certainly in my top 5.

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Awesome

This is already a very very late review. I just feel that I need to make a review because I really love this series.
I guess this review is for the people who are new to Cdrama’s.

This is the only drama that I will never get tired of watching. I’ve watched this several times already and almost memorize each scene but I don’t care, I still rewatch this.

The chemistry of Yangyang and Zheng shuang is so perfect.
The story is so unique, I tried looking for other series who has the same story or kinda similar to this, but I cant find until now. Nowadays the series have so many conflicts, conflict with work, conflict with love, with family, but this series is so light, so refreshing that everytime I’m stress and wanna feel better, I will just watch this series. Other series may have a perfect ML lead, handsome, genius rich and all, but noone love like Xiao Nai.
Yangyang’s portrayal of Xiao Nai is so commendable that I ended up on stalking him in social media for several days.

Also the friends of Xiao Nai added spice to the series.

If you want a stress free, romantic, comedy, online gaming story, you need to see this series.

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If you're a fan of becoming an obedient girlfriend. This drama is for you.

The graphics are really good, I liked the game background, and most of all the three male best friends. Mostly Mr. Beauty. The story line is good.

But..



I've nothing much to say except the unjustified things I felt in both the main leads.

The female lead, at first pictures perfect, beautiful, smart, great computer student with scholarships, but slowly when she met the male lead she becomes obedient, follows his decision, can't even able to handle her situation without his help even though she's a scholarship student in computer science, awakrds in kissing scenes, in a relationship with him because he's so great and popular. There's no jealousy from other females or little cute scenes between them, they have out of realisticly perfect relationship with no flaws at all.
She's only in the drama to show support to the male lead, who controls every decisions or plot of story.
She's potrayed only as a beauty.


The male lead, he's cold, emotionless, superior, very smart, not funny, not a tiny bit of romantic only good at kissing.

He leads more than half of the story. Thinks himself superior in his gf's life , thinks he's the only important in her life more than her friends. Not good at consoling her.Takes most of the decision, very boring personality with no fun, or teasing capibilities.
And from the starting to the end there is no character development.

Both of them are awakrd in their relationship. I can not find the equality between them.

The only thing i liked about him, he trusts her completely. And that's it.

There's are many flaws in both of them. Not only single problem I saw for not to mention.

This only my view, you anyone has opposite thinking as me I respect that too.

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An absolute waste of time !

How is this so popular and highly rated ?

If you have any explanations to answer this question, tell me cause this C-Drama is so disappointing.
So, before watching this i was just looking for a good C-Drama to watch and this has been recommended to me a couple times, after reading reviews and comments saying this was really good and things like that i just decided to go for it.

What a bad decision that was ! This thing is just so boring and does not deserve all that hype and that 8.4.

So let's start with the GOOD in this :
ML friends are sometimes funny

The BAD in this :
The rest of it

The FL is boring, she has nothing special, she's embarrassed by everything her boyfriend does, hugs, kisses, compliments etc...
In the end it feels like they are not really couple.
Kisses btw, ML tried his best to make it look good but FL does not even move, watching this feels like he is kissing a dead body, she's doing 0 efforts.
She's bland, not interesting at all.

ML then, acting all the same during the entire Drama

The group of bitches,
So there is a group of bitches that only goal is to ruin the drama, and it adds absolutely nothing to it. It does not make the plot better and it has no interest just being mean for the only purpose of being mean , it feels like a trend in Dramas to add random bitches with no depth whatsoever to make ppl feel like the plot is interesting and things are happening.

Now the FL best friend,
Propably one of the most annoying character i've seen since The Oath of Love FL, again, it's a trend to add characters that are acting all cute and like a 6 years old when you're 20 or more, the thing is that she is yelling all the time basically can't speak without being loud and she has literally 2 IQ.

The SML who is in love with the FL,
This dude is 2 IQ aswell, got rejected but making plans to try again, miserably fail, accusing her of cheating, spreading rumors and things like that.
Can't figure out until one of the last epsiodes that the girl he is talking to in game is not the FL even though everything point in that direction.

The In-Game part,
The VFX and green screens were looking so cheap, the Drama is from 2016 and this didn't age well and it's not going to.

All the other characters are just even more useless.

I wasted my time watching this, don't do the same.

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Anorexia

I really really hope that the situation for women in China is better than this. I also found kind of disturbing that the FL clearly has severe anorexia. ML is hot but he has only one expression, which is weird. I liked the storyline and I tried to enjoy it until the end but... girl.. you were the most badass girl... super clever, incredibly strong in the virtual world. In the end you can’t even win you dinner against some man in the game where you used to be one of the best. C’mon. And you used to choose for yourself. But no, now you are the hero because you got to land the best male out there. So, as a woman, your value is defined by your man? I’m sad for you. And for China.

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As a gamer myself, I was in love with this. If you don't do non slaughter-only games, you know that you meet people through these games, and sometimes become irl friends! The plot was fairly interesting, I love how the characters''personalities and morals etc. really fleshed out into the story! It made you have a cushion of guessing, but within that cushion, you'd be at the will of the characters, as they were true to themselves, and not so predictable. I love how it was a happy ending for everyone–everyone has the ability to turn themselves around.

Cast:
Yang Yang: I've only seen him in Whirlwind Girl and this series, but am amazed at the emotions he expresses. In comparison, I'd put him on a high pedestal, similar to Kim Soo Hyun, but I'd have to see more works to decide if he has the versatility. Within this drama, 10/10, the way he moves, speaks, and gazes channels Xiao Nai. You don't see Yang Yang. (Yang Yang irl: an expressive lovely man)

Zheng Shuang: I feel that she did quite a good job, but I don't know if she was dubbing herself, or dubbed by someone else, but her dubbing subtracted a little from me believing she was Bei Wei Wei. She pulled off her role well, but I feel there were some things missing. 7-8/10
Er Xi: She was that bouncy friend we all need. Er Xi all the way! I felt like her emotions expression could use a little more. 9/10

MUSIC:
The music was perfect. The opening song was perfect for the gaming theme. It's opening notes really resonate with me. The song that talked about romance (???????was just too enjoyable. I don't know if it was just in ep 29, but there was a song sang by a male singer, which was also very nice. If you can understand them, and have been in love, you'll enjoy them. They adjusted music volume reletively well! I remember in my video production class that I was the only one who ever controlled volume to a T, so it's always good to see that. Volume control either makes or wrecks–if not takes away from dramas, scenes, and movies.

Rewatch:
If I ever lose faith in the world again, this would be a great drama to rewatch. A must-watch for couples(?). (I wouldn't know (T v T)b)

Overall:
A prized jewel. Not so often that we get a romance-game drama.

\(o u o)/

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