I first watched this while it was still airing, years ago. I remember being OBSESSED with it, so much to the point that I considered it my favorite drama out of the hundreds I had watched before. Today I decided to rewatch it and thought it was really bad. Terrible acting on the female leads part, and only 3 episodes in, the leads act like they are in love, with no progression leading up whatsoever. He treats her like she's his girlfriend but before episode 3 we didn't see any clues that he even liked her platonically. It's just so random. I did rewatch 'Lighter and Princess' (my genuine favorite drama) before rewatching this and the difference is like night and day. I'll never get over how good 'Lighter and Princess' is. It perpetually raised my standards for a good story. Lighter and Princess has so much chemistry between the leads and the story is so complex and captivating. In 'falling into your smile' the main story is a bunch of gaming bullshit, and don't get me wrong I love video games especially Dota which is very similar to League of Legends, but the characters are so emotional about the game it's hard to take them seriously. I know for a fact real life professional players aren't this emotional about League of Legends. Its just so pathetic to me that the show makes it a LOL game seem like life or death.

Here's what I think would've made the show so much better:

-If they used their real voices and didn't dub it. Using real voices adds so much to the chemistry between the characters and makes the show feel more real to the viewers (obviously)

-Adding more information about the leads inner thoughts. There was no chemistry at the start despite them treating eachother as if they were in love. It just felt so fake and odd. yuck. If there was more inner dialogue, It would've possibly made more sense.

-I'm sorry to say but, Chen Xiao's acting is really bad in this and her expressions are really dry. It looked like she was constantly trying to make sure she looked pretty therefore her face is always stiff, idk. I know she is capable of better acting than this. I thought her acting in 'Lie to love' was so much better than this.

-We don't know enough about the characters, especially the male lead. I can't tell what kind of person the male lead is. Is he more on the cold side, or is he warmer? Because he's cold to almost everybody except the female lead even when they were still basically strangers. I want more information as to why he was so soft towards her when she first joined the team. He held her hand randomly and even showed signs of jealousy in like the 4th episode when he was trying to see the messages between her and her ex. It was so random, I kept wondering if I accidentally skipped an episode.

~FINAL THOUGHT~

If you are 16 and under, you'll probably like it. It's entertaining. At least the first time around. Just don't watch lighter and princess before watching it, or else it will REALLY be unbearable.

I WANT LI XUN AND ZHU YUN BACK 😭🙏