Senhorita Corvo com o Sr. Lagarto (2021)

Fluffy but mediocre plot

I really liked the vibe of this drama and the fluffiness of scenes — the relationship between the leads and the second leads are adorable, and the bromance and sismance were also really nice.

Though I like individual scenes though, some things just feel really cliche and hard to believe when it came to plot, and development of the story was sometimes lacking cohesion — some things that happen are unclear and led to cliches that I didn’t need. I have to admit that the premise of the drama requires some suspension of disbelief which I had trouble with, but over time I got used to it.

Other than that, most of the obstacles were handled well, but I felt like the last few eps of this drama fall into a melodramatic progression (to be honest a lot of Chinese dramas fall victim to it) but there were the very dramatic tropes of kidnapping, noble idiocy, corporate corruption, etc. All of these are just really annoying and unnecessary to me.

Lastly — I have to say that the OST for this drama is really good, but sometimes doesn't match the scene well.

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Cute in the first half.

I actually really liked this in the beginning. I skipped some scenes with the FL and her bubbly personality because it was just cringey to me. Her relationship with her friend, Tang Xu made me sad because I didn't want him to be in love with her, for once couldn't we just have an older brother character who treated the FL like family and didn't turn into a love interest? And then they had to make him turn evil (kinda) around episode 25-26? When the story shifted focus from the couple to work issues and put them against each other. I skipped most of that episode, because I just felt really sorry for him. I was happy to see him talking to the FL normally later, and even talking to her aunt who apparently hated him, and I thought he'd have a hapy ending, but they ruined it still. As for Xu Cheng Ran, I had so many issues with this kid, the only part I liked about him was his friendship with Gu Chuan and how he genuinely cared for his friend and was always there for him. I won't say anything about how he treated his dad, because the old man was an ass, but the way he treated Tang Xu always irritated me. (The way Tang treated his own dad for most of their time together also pissed me off.)

I loved Ren Allen in this. After watching Destiny of White Snake I was looking for something new to watch when clips of this show appeared in my recommendeds on youtube. I didn't immediately recognize him with his hair down, but he did instantly make me think of Levi Ackerman, one of my favorite anime characters ever, so for that alone I knew I'd be watching this show. Gu Chuan, even when he acts cold, was very cute to me. The sad parts made me sad, but watching how the FL slowly thawed him out made me smile. Seeing how ready he was to smile for her always made me giddy.

Like I can tell they didn't have any actual kisses on screen, but it still made me blush and giggle every time they looked at each other. I've seen complaints from other comments about the lack of chemistry between them, but as someone that could read hundreds of chapters of nothing but fluff (only the best kind of fluff) I don't need to see characters trying to eat each other's lips or stripping each other on screen to think they have good chemistry. They made me feel shy with nothing but looks and soft touches, and that for me makes really amazing chemistry. I loved them together, felt sad when he decided to push her away for her own good, and I hate that the FL could only develop after he pushed her away. For most of the drama, she kept the same hairstyle and awkward clothing style, acted kinda bubbly and childish, until they broke up, then she looked more mature. But she was 23 already so was there a reason she had to dress up and act like she was 13 for most of the story?

The best part of this show was the music. I'm going to find all the songs in the OST because they were beautiful and complemented the story well.

What I did NOT like was that final episode. The resolution they chose was terrible. Honestly, I was only invested in this for the leads (or just for Gu Chuan) so I skipped a lot. From episode 26, there was a lot that was skippable, so I don't remember much in the last ten episodes of the story, but how they decided to resolve everything moved way too quickly. They literally included a kidnapping plot and the resolution with the ML's heart in the final episode, also unmasking and arresting the villain (and I hope Tang Xu somehow got out of that because I still felt sorry for him by the end of the story, that kid needed someone protecting HIM. Someone write a fanfic about that, please.) Too much happened in that episode, and it ends with the FL narrating the aftermath so we're not left in the dark. Considering the draggy part in the middle of the story, where they sacrificed the fluff, they could have done it better.

Notice how I didn't talk much about the second leads? They had some cute moments but I didn't really like their storyline so essentially skipped over them after the first few episodes.

Overall, I'd give it a much lower rating if I didn't love Gu Chuan so much.

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Just Another Light-hearted Drama

The story starts with an accident where the FL's family and ML fall victim to. Due to the accident Gu Chuan's heart gets completely damaged and he survives replacing with a complete mechanical heart. Due to the side effects Gu Chuan shuts his emotional side and leads a robotic life. Jiang Xiao Ning, queen of bad luck with a lot of positivity meets Gu Chuan at workplace. Slowly passing time romantic conditions develop between them.
The plot had nothing refreshing, a typical rom-com. It was evident who was behind the accident from the beginning. I'm not going to judge on medical facts because it's a drama.
All the actors did a good job. Fair Xing brought most of the fluffiness and cuteness. I liked the chemistry more between the secondary couple Xu Cheng Ran and Zhao Yan. The office workers also did a good job.
The OSTs were so good. They deserve appreciation.
I would have liked if the duration was 24 or 28 episodes because the starting came of strong then weakened in the middle and again the ending was rushed. If you're looking for fluffy rom-com you could check this out.

~the drama had a lot of Meco grapefruit and self heating hotpot c̶a̶m̶e̶o̶s̶ endorsements XD. Well they must have been producers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I had been waiting so long for Allen's drama to be released. This drama has exceed my expectation, not only Allen's acting was great but the ML and supporting couple are also great and enjoyable to watch. They all have great chemistry. It's been a long time since I laugh so loud watching a sweet drama. There are many memorable, sweet, and funny scenes. The music/sound tracks in this drama are really good it fits and enhance the mood and feelings of every scenes. I highly recommend everyone to watch, great casting, story line, and editing. I re watch many scene with Allen, he portrayed Gu Chuan character really well and he is also very handsome in modern clothes.

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Everthing were so good but the ending was too rushed

Xing fei has only been one of the actress that i always catch up with her drama. However this is my first drama starring Jialun. Tbh this drama at first i thought just the romance cliche between boss and employee. But when i watch nearly the end, i have a hard guessing what’s coming next which is the reason i like this drama. The chemistry between the two leads is good(well tbh i like chemistry in every xing fei drama xD) The drama is well-balanced in comedy, romance, sadness. (The perfect ingredients to my fragile heart xD) One more thing that i like about this drama is that even though the male lead and female lead did collide once in the past but the way they meet is not the cliche (strong one protect the weak and bullied one). The way they met was so unique that i could say it one of the thing that could make this story more memorable than most romance drama. However, sadly I don’t really like the ending. I feel like the ending were too rushed, in my opinion they could’ve just divided the last episode into two episodes. Plus, i don’t like the solution to Gu chuan’s heart at all(u kno i expect sth more). But all in all, I recommend this drama for all of you who want a stress-released drama (no need braincell to think about nth) and just want to relax from your everyday work.

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It's more sad than giddy

I normally collect my favorite giddy scenes from a drama but I wasn't able to collect such from this because almost all of their encounters are just so sad. You know those dramas/movies where the protagonist prepares for death and prepares everything that they will leave behind? Such never fails to make me cry.

What I didn't like about this is how they took sooooo long to resolve the super obvious? They started hinting on who was the mastermind behind their accident early on but only resolved it at the last episode? I forwarded many scenes regarding this because it was just so obvious and predictable that I no longer care.

What I deeply cared about is how will the male lead survive? Will he die? But knowing C-dramas, i doubt he would. I would've been super disappointed if they somehow miraculously come up with a ridiculous plot on how they will let him leave. I thought it would have to do something with Dr. P being alive after all, the assistant a bad person, or a thunder will hit him and let him live. I even thought that the accident at the last episode would definitely cure him. BUT im glad they didn't come up with such ridiculous plots.

I want to comment on the second couple and their acting. I think Xu fits the role well (probably because of his real life playboy image). I love their story too but I think Yan Yan was a little bit too strict. About Yan Yan's acting, it was bad! Especially on the emotional scenes. When Xu finally told her about Gu, I was already crying my eyeballs out but she remained calm? No tears? That's it? I mean, the most important person in your man's life is dying, can't you at least empathize? And when she was proposing at the end, it was an emotional scene but she again remained with no tears. Probably because her character's supposed to be tough. But still, I believe that emotions have to be properly expressed in necessary scenes.

I've never liked Fair Xing and her dramas but I keep watching because of the rom-com plot. I gotta say, she still does not impress me. But at least she finally got paired with someone who's not that tall and someone who matches her height well. This is also my first time watching the guy and he's good as an emotionless person but he scares me when he smiles lol. Nonetheless, this drama was good enough to make me cry. But I won't give it a high rating. It wasn't my cup of tea.

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This was an amazing drama, mostly binged it on my weekends. Whenever I started it I hardly could stop.
The lead couple had so much chemistry, I absolutely loved them.
It was my first Drama for both leads. Ren Jia Lun was the perfect Gu Chuan. His character was really complex but he managed to make him likable.
Xing Fei is the absolut sweetest FL I ever saw, she is so caring and sweet. They way that even she lost her parents early on to still find happiness the the smallest things makes Jiang Xiao Ning to one my my favorite FL I ever saw in C-Dramas. I cried when she cried & laughed when she laughed.
I mostly liked all characters even though I wasn‘t much interested in the second couple. I did skip some of their scenes just because I wanted to see our main leads again. I would say a few Episodes less would have been better because in the end it got a bit draggy.

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A great mystery

I was actually wondering if I wanted to start watching this drama yet since I am watching 4 others. I was going to watch 1-2ep to see if I liked and now I’m so happy I started it has my full attention now and I will Binge-watch the whole drama.
It’s start with GU chuan taking pictures of a crow for his job as a photojournalists for national geographic while talking to his Gf When leaving the car in front of him stops and a girl gets out and helps a lizard cross the road. They leave and as he’s driving he see a truck & car accident and stops to help while trying to open the car door chuan yells at truck driver to help, but instead he’s pushed the car while chuan was trying to help off the road down the hill Once they reached the bottom he hear a girl yelling to her parents and he tells her there resting and he then realizes he’s impaled by metal spike by his heart and can’t move and tells her hold his hand and feel something moist and she says it’s her bday cake then he passes out. Next were in OR and they state he’s critical and a heart transplant is out, but they can save him with a mechanical heart (Ironman)by Dr. Puree they agree.
We now jump ahead 10 years and he has his own architecture company with his bestfriend Xu chengran who invested in it and knows about his heart condition. Then we Jiang Xiaoning who has had bad luck since her parents were killed in the above accident. Then fate happens and she meets and rescues Su monlin from being attacked in the bathroom by a client dir. He while on duty as a Uber driver and gives her card. The next day she is given a interview and hired as GuChoun ass’t. Then we have Zhao yanyan her bestfriend who is great at defending herself and Tang wu-xiao(Xiao xu) her childhood friend who turns out to be the son of tang zhengCheng who is brought home one night at the age 17 by Chengran father director XU. Then we see/hear on a flashback the news reported of embezzlement, corruption, pensions involving Tang zhengcheng(jail) and Jiang guangda while absconding with family was killed in an accident (murder?) they both worked under Director XU who company went bankrupt. (* I think tang wu made deal with dir. Wu for his son).
As we continue to watch how Xiaoning is trying to bringing chuan back to life/human with emotions that he knows he shouldn’t have but as there relationship grows so does electrical spark which has caused blackout at home, worksites, hotel they stayin and at work.( I must admit that the places they visit and stay in are absolutely Beautiful in design and locations) . While looking at a designing job for a Café Xiaoning meets Chen wenwen while taking pictures and explains she works for the best architect etc.. and they exchange wechat . Once back at work wenwen calls xiaoning needing a designer for her photography gallery and so xiaoning ask cheun to design it for her, but when she appears it turns out she chuan ex-gf he broke up with due to his heart he asks her to talk and they both agreed it was the thing to do them and now a new chapter. Now monlin is pissed off about xuaoning going above her head and asked chuan to take on this job first and chuan agreed in front of staff that monlin is in charge of designing and all cases go to her. Now upset Xiaoning try to explain that wasn’t her intention it’s was because she boosted about her boss and so they argued. They take on the job and Su monlin is supposed to be in charge, but was jeousle because she thought wenwen wanted chuan again and so she wouldn’t do what she wanted and it was given to xiaoning to help. So monlin is whispering in chuan ear trying to make xiaoning look bad and when he talks to xiaoning he brushes it off. . As Monlin jeousle for xiaoning grows she follows her to the gallery where wenwen and her meet on the roof to take pictures and then wenwen has to leaves telling her keys in door as it turns dark it starts raining/lighting out and the door is locked.. Now she locked outside and is afraid but calls chuan to rescue her and he finds her and break thru the glass then while holding her he accidentally gives her an electric shock as she rushed to hosp. and no damage done. All is well at work, but chuan calls out sick, but Xiaoning call and can’t reach him so goes to house and knocks n/a so goes inside and calls for him again n/a she goes upstairs and enters the charging room and of course he yells and kicks her out and tells her never enter that room. They take on more job and more jeousley happens. Chengran meets yanyan and falls in love, but she doesn’t believe in love and he starts his chase after her a lot of funny stuff goes on between them. When all seems good Xiaoning is on phone chuen in front of the house and see a drunk person and offers a bottle of water when he sees it her he grabs the phone and tell her she gonna pay for budding in and starts to drag her away while cheun is panicking and starts to drive towards her he happens to see him dragging her across the road and he pulls up and jumps dir. He and they fight He picks up a broken bottle and cuts cheun making his heart rates rise and she try to pull him away and he cuts her and now cheun is pissed and gives him an electrical zap sending him flying and cheun colaspes a few moments later Cheng ran pulls up cops called cheun rushed to hosp. . Dir he try to push charges on cheun when Xiaoning tells them of his prev assault and has 2 violation for sex assult. They get home and she prepared dinner and call for him n/a she worries and enter the charging room and he shows his heart and explained how it works then about the accident in which they finally found each other and everyone is happy until it’s starts to malfunctioning. He try to reach Dr. P no ans. ZhengCheng gets worried and fly to see Dr. P and finds out he died and since it was so advanced no one could replace him so they shut them down.
They now get to bid on a job for XU Chengran father(who he hates) for being a horrible father and for bringing home tang wu 10yrs ago and treating him as son. Tang wu also hated dir. Xu and convinced monlin due to her hatred for chuan&xiaoning to steal cheun design and he would change it up and she could show chuen he needed her. So on the day of biding tang wu had his department change the design a little and make it his everyone was impressed by it then chuen and staff came in and faces dropped when they saw there project on the screen and tang wu tells them they have a few minutes to fix. Cheun then hands a USB and tells them to play it once on stage it’s a completely different design and picked by all. He gives her time to confess, but she still denied and so he let her go. Now tang wu dad is released from jail and everyone is trying to find out what really happened 10yrs. In the meantime cheun heart has gone into safe mode in which he lose emotion and pain, but be a walking vegetable sort of he live about 1yr but doesn’t want it so finds Dr p asst. And has it put back to normal he’d rather live a month happy Dir. Wu is getting nervous and so send his man Lue to investigate and follow to see what they know. In the meantime tang zhengCheng gives the evidence to Xiaoning and she shows chuan who show chengran so that he’s prepared for his dad to be arrested, he asked them to let his dad surrender himself. He told everything to his dad and he agreed to surrender in the meantime he had his men kidnapped her for the evidence she didn’t have and chuan called and told him to bring it he show up and was put on a boat to a big boat. He swapped her for evidence his HR went up and now they tried to kill them. Cheun pushed her and as he was stabbed in the heart and released a hugh bolt all 3 were knocked out and alarm went off and he passed out. Now we’re back in hosp. he’s stable but unconscious and as time goes on she tells him that on TV there are Neurologist that can use implant to give stored memories. 3yrs pass and she talking to a speaker about dinner and he answerers back then comes down stairs.. Still a little confusing on ending.

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Sweet but bland

I've watched 3 dramas from the female lead and she acts the same roles but different stories. A girl with poor background and meets guy that is in good wealth and fall in love and have a past life link to each other . Though I found the story sweet I found it bland and very predictable so I wasn't intrigued or sucked in the story to finish it in one go but left it on hold for some time.

The main couple atleast for me feels like the second couple, remove the heart problem and they would pretty much be together and have a sweet simple love and I get it the heart issue is the main plot but both characters have a bland personality and I feel like they restrict the male lead true personality alot because of his heart issues then might as well give the female lead a more up beat character but mostly she's just sweet in all chapters. Like I said, struggling, sweet female lead with a poor life troope and changes male lead with that personality and that drags on for all episodes. Even though Use of my talent has the same story(kinda) the male lead is not that restrictive in terms of romance or tension and the female lead also in poor girl troope she has a bit more of personality and does act in revenge when the male lead is an ass which this drama lacks. Their is more sweet moments than tension because then again, the guys heart problem and the female lead of course she can't be an ass and be mad at the guy because he has heart problems so their are no fights but more like break ups, crying and getting together.


Second couple

The second couple was interesting, I think they added all toxic and spicy on this couple and at the beginning I enjoyed it but they kept the same energy to all episodes instead of watching them mature and love each other little by little and they rushed alot of things in their relationship. If this was real life they would be divorced. But mainly I like this couple more than the main they had more fun, sweet but also tensión scenes between them so I guess they tried to level both couples but I think they dragged it way too much.

This drama is sweet and simple, pretty much it. I don't have a part of the drama that I wanted to rewatch and if I did probably it was because of the second couple and not the main.

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I have just finished the series. I have many thoughts, but I am specifically writing a review because of the actors. I am very forgiving when it comes to dramas, because they are just stories to entertain. Unlike real life, if you aren't entertained, you can simply quit watching. I, like another reviewer I saw, binged this drama in 2 days. It was a bit much, as I often had tears running down my face from about episode 28 through the finale. But I loved the acting so much, even if the story and characters were unrealistic.

Cheng Ran (Ran-Ran)--Ultimate good character. Most supportive best friend in the world. Best boyfriend/husband. My favorite character. Loved how he was attracted to Yan-Yan as opposed to being scared for her. Loved how he said he would do anything to prove his love, and did. (Tiptoeing to keep from crushing the eggs? Brilliant!) He had the best reactions to both Yan and Gu Chuan. I think he was most real to me. Liu Rui Lin understood the assignment.

Jiang Ling (Auntie)--my second favorite character. She was just cool. Bada$$ with her expressions. A side-eye from her would make anyone stop and think twice.

Xiao Ning--I saw a lot of reviewers calling her childish. I disagree, I would say "child-like." *shrug* Some people just are. It's in their nature to be child-like, naive, innocent. It's also the reason that people like that are firm in their beliefs, committed, only seeing the best in others. Plus, she was young and matured throughout the series.

Yan-Yan--Loved her. Loved how Cheng Ran couldn't fool her. Loved the process of her falling for Ran-Ran and then never letting go.

Gu Chuan--Just like Cheng Ran, I was happy every time I saw him on screen. I found it interesting how he portrayed emotion without portraying emotion. I think the directors did a fabulous job with him also.

Grandma--Zhu Ya Ying did a great job with the script. I thought her character was too easy-going though. Dementia patients will tend to be confused a lot, scared, and unreasonable, at least occasionally. Grandma was always firm in her beliefs (even if they were wrong) and way too calm.

I have more to say, but that just makes for an unreasonably long review. But oh....my fav scenes are Gu Chuan's confession scene and the League of Legends "First Blood" (etc.) reference. Had to mention those. :)

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Simply a romantic sad & feeling strong love story

I simply love this storyline especially Gu Chuan acted by Allen Ren Jia Lun. In the drama his heart was replaced with a mechanical heart ever since an accident. Ren Jia Lun is suited in the role, soft spoken, even temper, slow and steady approach in life.

He was a very successful award-winning architect. Despite his success, he has never thought of falling in love until the female lead came in to work as her assistant. Despite having a mechanical heart, he is full of passion in his work, very driven in his objective, organized etc. I dont mind to marry him.... though he has a mechanical heart that needs to be recharged.

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