7 Choices Of Romantic Chinese Drama, Suitable For Celebrating Valentine's Day With Your Partner
JAKARTA - Chinese New Year holidays coincide with Valentine's Day celebration, aka Valentine's Day. Long holidays at home will certainly feel boring if there are no exciting activities. Especially if you want to keep celebrating Valentine's Day with your partner.
There is nothing wrong if you try to watch romantic dramas with your partner on this Valentine's holiday. As an option other than Korean dramas, there's nothing wrong if you try to watch Chinese dramas. Here VOI summarizes 7 romantic Chinese dramas that are suitable for watching during Valentine's Day.
1. A Love So Beautiful
The drama A Love So Beautiful highlights friendship and first love with friends themselves. This drama will present a romantic and passionate story for the viewers. No wonder this drama can make you nostalgic for first love.
Each of the actors is able to present natural acting. Not only a strong love story, but this drama also discusses contemporary family issues so that it makes it easy for the audience to connect with the story. Because of its popularity, Netflix finally made this drama in a Korean drama version.
2. Put Yourself on My Shoulder
Put Yourself on My Shoulder tells the story of Si Tu Mo and Gu Weiyi's relationship. Si Tu Mo was about to scrub but he was still confused about his future plans. All the time he was thinking about his future, but he couldn't make up his mind on his own.
Then Si Tu Mo got an internship opportunity. Since the apprenticeship was far away, Si Tu Mo's mother encouraged him to stay at the house of his friend Gu Weiyi's son.
Initially, they lived together as strangers. However, Gu Weiyi's stiffness as a physicist began to thaw since Si Tu Mo. What's interesting about this Chinese drama is how their relationship slowly builds and matures with each other. There are no cliched parental conflicts so it's fun to watch to celebrate Valentine.
3. Go Go Squid
Go Go Squid was named as the most popular Chinese television series in a poll by The Beijing News. This drama is based on the novel 'Stewed Squid with Honey' by Mo Bao Fei Bao. This drama was released in 2019 and totaled 41 episodes.
This drama never fails to make the audience emotional in every episode. Go Go Squid tells the story of the love between computer student Tong Nian (Yang Zi) and Han Shang Yan (Li Xian), a professional gamer.
That girl was usually brave, but when she met Han Shang Yan, she couldn't say a word. Han Shang Yan was cold-type and not the type to be easily attracted to girls. Here, Tong Nian expressed her persistent efforts to attract Han Shang Yan's attention.
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4. Le Coup de Foudre
Le Coup de Foudre is adapted from French which means love at first sight. So you could say this drama is in line with A Love So Beautiful. The Chinese drama Le Coup de Foudre is a romance genre drama released in 2019. This drama has 35 episodes and was adapted based on a novel entitled I Don't Like This World, I Only Like You by Qiao Yi.
Le Coup de Foudre tells about the love story of a rank one genius Yan Mo and an ordinary student named Qiao Yi. Not a cliché story about a fool pursuing a genius persistently, this drama actually features the very shy character of Qiao Yi.
Coupled with Yan Mo's cold personality, their "hanging" high school love story - without any obvious love affair. They even made promises to continue studying abroad together. Unfortunately, the accident experienced by Qiao Yi's stepfather made her cancel her intention.
Yan Mo, who was disappointed, decided to still go abroad and continue her education there without Qiao Yi. After that, they both broke contact. However, Yan Mo returned to chase after Qiao Yi.
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5. Well-Intended Love
The drama Well-Intended Love is very popular in China, even in 2020 Well Intended Loe 2 was made which is a new version not a continuation of the story. And both dramas are still loved by Chinese drama fans.
Well-intended Love tells the story of Xia Lin who is starting a career as an artist. Still unsuccessful and his girlfriend betrayed him, Xia Lin got the news that he had leukemia. Xia Lin's world was destroyed. Then the doctor said that he could be cured if he received a bone marrow donor.
Xia Lin is alone. The only way yes he would find a suitable donor. The doctor says someone is qualified. Unfortunately, he was Ling Yi Zhou, the CEO of a large, well-known company. Ling Yi Zhou is willing to help Xia Lin but of course with the condition that is a contract marriage. It is the life of a contract marriage that makes the story of this drama interesting.
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6. Boss and Me
The Chinese drama “Boss & Me” is based on the novel “Shan Shan Comes to Eat” by Gu Man. Like the Cinderella story, but Boss and Me spit out her cinderella traits into a strong and stubborn woman. did not want to give up on the condition and rely on a rich woman who became her lover.
Xue Zhan Zhan's character in “Boss & Me” doesn't just refuse to use her lover's, Credit Card. For the sake of being worthy of being called her lover, she also won a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) to raise her caste.
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7. Go Ahead
The Chinese drama Go Ahead is one of the most popular dramas that garnered praise from critics. In fact, this drama was ranked second in last year's favorite Chinese drama released on Weibo.
This touching and heartwarming drama follow a unique family of three unrelated siblings who are raised by their two fathers. The children were played by Song Wei Long, Steven Zhang Xin Cheng, and Tan Song Yun. Prepare a tissue if you watch this Chinese drama because the spirit of kinship, friendship, and love that is depicted in the drama easily makes viewers bored.
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