Awwwwww yea! Black horse for the win! Loved it when a drama comes out of the corner and takes the lead in the ratings game, surpassing dramas with endless and heavier promotions. Because of You (因为遇见你) stars relatively new faces in Sun Yi and Deng Lun, also known as the alternative pair in modern youth drama, 15 Years of Migratory Birds. On its last episode (46), it made a record of 3.046, becoming the first drama of 2017 to break the 3 benchmark. It has an average rating of 1.93 for its entire run, leaving everyone else biting the dust.
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This is a remake of Korean drama Jang Bo Ri Is Here. I don’t like the Korean version but C-version is a lot more makjang. I watched up to ep 20, Deng Lun and Sun Yi are cute, but so much craziness involved that I don’t want to continue. Can’t really get into another C-drama after 3L3W, just gonna wait for LGX and ZLY Princess Agent to come out. The airing schedule sucks since it will take longer than usual to finish airing, just have to deal with it >.<
11 thoughts on “Sun Yi, Deng Lun’s Because of You broke 3 in ratings at finale night”
So Good! Yes very ridiculous plot wise, more and more so as it went on (started pretty level). BUT I actually didn’t mind the plot-devices and manipulations so much because a lot of the supporting characters, eventually figured things out, and for the most part, the important peeps (aka our main OTP) kept level heads and worked things out with mostly-decent communication. I also really love how they handled Lu Si Cheng. He had so much setup to potentially be the crazy-unlucky-totally-f***ed-over ex out for crazy revenge. And while he did have a lot of revenge plot in place, they worked with decent efficiency and he was surprisingly humane and sympathetic and overall great guy despite having been f***ed over by that evil b**** so many times.
Apparently a lot of peeps in the youtube comments hated Sun Yi’s character Guo Guo, but tbh I never found it in my heart to hate her. Like she has some “noble idiocy” moments, but she also has a LOT of moments where she’s like, ok this my bottom line, you can only take advantage of me so far. She got that great attitude where she’s clear to her adoptive mom like, ok, you have all these chances of lying to me and hurting me not because you’re so sneaky but because I allow you those chances and choose to trust you, and this stops now. Like, I think she’s great.
And the show does a really well of not showing her noble idiocy as something noble. Like, the show does a great job of pointing out (via the ever awesome, best make character, best boyfriend/husband EVER, Deng Lun’s Li Yun Kai) that that’s her flaw — she meets problems and chooses to hide or run away “to protect everyone”, but that really just her flaw — running away from problems. I like that the show is clear with that. Like, no the heroine isn’t this noble saint who only thinks for other people — she has flaws too and her flaws manifest as noble idiocy which really isn’t something to be applauded like in other shows.
Anyways clearly I have a lot of strong feelings about this.
I’ve watched many crappy trope-filled modern cdramas (incl like all of Li Qin’s Return of type dramas, lol), and on the surface, it seems like Because of You’s just another plot-twisty-illogical-trope-filled drama. But I feel like BoY actually has SO MANY layers that makes it stand out from its other tropey-cousins. Like, characters and situations are setup for audience to be like – “oh yeah I’ve seen that before, now X is going to do Y and things are just gonna go down a sh**-filled road”. But despite the trope-setups, the show manages to sort of divert things and handle things in such a way that situations are quickly and calmly (relative to the norm of other modern cdramas at least) resolved, and characters twisted to be a little more grey and a little less black/white.
I got REALLY frustrated by some characters sometimes, but honestly speaking, aside from Zhang Yu Xin that grade-A-manipulative-b***, there was not a single character I genuinely hated (sometimes the biological mom was little….but in the end I didn’t really hate her). Even the unapproving parent-in-laws and ambitious brother were really human and sometimes quite cute.
It was all around unexpectedly unexpected and pretty damn great, to me at least.
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@ Julianne Lin: I love your posts on this drama!
People hate Guo Guo? Why? I admit I got frustrated with her at times but overall I thought she was good, likeable and mostly strong heroine and even her noble idiocy moments were a lot more tolerable than in other dramas.
And, yes, Yun Kai is the best boyfriend/husband ever. He’s definitely in my top 5 male leads ever. I love how he was not only awesome romantic lead but he also had an interesting, smart, fun personality rather than just some boring, bland perfect guy.
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SunYi and Deng Lun are the most awesome and best of the best couple ever. (Even better than Tang yan and her bf)
A lot of Deng Lun’s conversation to her can make me feel so moved. Really great drama.. 🙂 😉 love it lovee it love it
If they get paired up in other drama after this.. who knows they could be dating for real lol
I highly recommend this drama to everyone.
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Lol… going back to the love bug reports on AVV showed that both of them are dating someone else in real life…. so can’t ship them offline. XD
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Sun Yi is dating Dong Zijian.. Right?
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I ffw-ed a lot of Zhang Yu Xin’s parts because her constant lying made so angry, but ugh GUO GUO/YUN KAI are incredibly lovely together. (Relationship goals!) And Le Tong is such a cutie.
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yeees!! i love them, especially sun yi as i find her acting so raw and realistic (her crying scenes) but omff some bits of this drama with zhang yu xin had me skipping her eps but apart from that i loved this drama! there’s not much c- dramas i continue with as i find most cheesy, well done to both leads.
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Cutest couple ever!!! XD
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I watched a bit of the korean series to make a slight comparison and i actually like the acting of the main couple here especially Yun Kai’s character. It’s because it’s bad just it’s just that the Korean version was a little over the top while Deng Lun actually made his character smoother in terms of the cheerfulness around this character and his interaction with Guo Guo. 1st modern drama tht I did not skip tht many episodes.
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Can i edit. Sorry it should be (*not* because its bad). Admin how do i edit original message?