So sudden. Came home from work and heard/read my friend scream-text that her love (XZ) is returning to screen. Lol.
Ace Troops (王牌部队) is your men-and-women-in-uniform drama to end the year with. There’s a love triangle with Huang Jing Yu, Xiao Zhan, and Zhong Chu Xi, but it is resolved eventually, with each of them finding their love and responsibilities in the army, while striving to create a better team.
Airing 12/26~
Are you ready to watch this story for the Xth time? 🤭 After a year of wait (they dropped the first trailer this time last year), the latest drama adaptation of manga Hana Yori Dango is here. Female lead is from a poor family who gets accepted into a rich prestigious school out of luck. She bumps head with the leader of F4, a group formed by the four richest families. They bully and leave a wake of unhappy souls around until our heroine confronts the leader, making him smitten with her audacious attitude while she has eyes for his quiet best friend.
Began airing 12/18~
Qiyi describes the synopsis: The story of the princess of Xiao, Chen Langyue (played by Xu Jia Qi), who has an architecture dream, sneaking out of the palace and met Li Qingfeng (played by Huang Sheng Chi), a talented craftsman in the field of architecture. A series of stories about chasing dreams and realizing self-growth opens up. As the princess of the Liang Kingdom, the heroine Chen Langyue, was exposed to poetry and books since childhood. She is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but has a grand architecture dream. The male protagonist Li Qingfeng was born in a noble family and is a famous and talented architect. He co-founded the Mu Yu Craftsman Team with his childhood friend, Luo Yi. The 8 young man of the Mu Yu Craftsman Team gathered together for their own ideals, and together they renovated one after another strange and interesting buildings, ranging from brothels to ghost houses, from houses to bridges, from warm little dwellings to paradise of love, from the civil courtyard to the imperial palace’s tower, and finally to rebuild the city defense for the country…..They sometimes quarrel and squabble with each other yet support each other warmly. As everyone renovates various buildings, they experience growth and a sense of belonging.
Sorry for the lack of updates, I’m feeling quite unmotivated these days. Is it the holidays mood of wanting to laze around? >.<”
Airing 12/19~
Well, well, well. Joining the team of psychologists who are running amok (Yang Zi in Psychologist, Zhao Li Ying in Who is the Murderer) in cdramaland is Gong Jun in Dream Garden (沉睡花园). Lol. Our heroine is a popular blogger who gives out relationship advice to her readers. Hoping to improve her ability to analyze emotional problems, she applies to be an assistant to a psychologist (our hero), the same man who irritated her in a prior encounter.
Airing 12/13~
Viki will be subbing this drama!
Love Like The Galaxy (星汉灿烂) is adapted from the novel written by Guan Xin Ze Luan (the same author for The Story of Ming Lan). There’s a time-traveling element in the novel which I’m sure will be changed. Our heroine in the modern world grew up in a divorced family; she lives with her grandma, making her quite wild and unruly, she does what she wants. On chance, she time-travels to the past and becomes the youngest daughter of a General’s family. Due to war, her parents are constantly in battle, bringing along her three older brothers for years, leaving her behind with her grandma. When they finally return, years of estrangement creeps in but her father and brothers dote on her. Except for her mother, who is extremely strict with her and our girl fans the fire by fighting right back. Despite mom being a tough lady, going to war, etc, she expects the opposite of her daughter – to be gentle, to be well-read (actually, she just can’t read ancient Chinese because she’s from the modern world), to be graceful. Since she’s of marriage age when they return, they become concerned that their daughter’s personality doesn’t fit in with the rich, high-ranking sons of officials, so they think it’s safer to settle for a low-ranking family. However, their troublesome daughter repeatedly meets with several high-ranking men, getting engaged and breaking the engagement several times.
The girls share almost the same hairstyle…. Hmmm.
At this alarming rate of drama-dropping, would we have any left for 2022? 😛
For a more complete list of airing cdramas of 2021, please visit my annual schedule.
A lot of dramas are dropped this week… Oh…how many hours do you have? These two are dropped 12/8!
