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Autumn’s Concerto (2009)

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Have you seen Autumn's Concerto (2009-2010)?

Yes

Partially

No, but I've heard of it

Never heard of it

Voting ended onDec 23, 2025

Original title: Xià Yí Zhàn, Xìngfú | 下一站，幸福.

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Do you want your heart wrecked? God, do I have a drama for you - The Outsiders (2004) pusher post.

Prepare to be shocked because The Outsiders doesn't have a single cliche so beloved by many older dramas: there is no over-the-top silliness (the story is pretty grim), nobody is in college or has terminal illness, and...*gasp* love is important and even the lynchpin of the main characters' lives, but the drama is not starry-eyed about it, and in fact wants you to seriously question whether it was better for protagonists to have never met, or were the highs worth all the appalling lows.

The story of The Outsiders centers around 4 characters: three lower-class boys, thug delinquents and best friends since childhood. And Yu Yen, a sheltered, unworldly upper-class pianist who ends up falling in love with Ah Hao, one of the three guys. The boys join the Triads and 'move up in the world' even as they are losing their souls, and Yu Yen also copes with the fall-out. I think The Outsiders is even more Yu Yen's story than it is Ah Hao's or anyone else's. It's her destruction, her growth that becomes the key.

I love, love, love, LOVE the impossible, incredibly messed-up and oh-so-doomed central OTP of Ah Hao and Yu Yen. I want to tell them to run and get away from each other, even as I cannot resist wishing they could work it out, even if I know they never can. The drama does something I have rarely see a drama do: it presents the viewer with this grand operatic love and then asks whether that is really worth it, whether it is really enough. Yu Yen and Ah Hao would indubitably have been better off if they had never met. Ah Hao joins the Triads to protect her, but Yu Yen gets irrevocably damaged as the result. And the secrets they keep from each other: out of guilt, out of love, out of protectiveness, out of dysfunction, or a myriad other reasons end up building a wall between them and for most of the second half we are watching people who cannot live without each other but cannot live with each other either. They keep hurting each other but they cannot, nor do they want to, break away.

While The Outsiders has an amazing love story, it is not a romance drama: it really is the story of the main characters' descent into hell, some self-made and some forced on them. Some of them emerge out of it and some do not. It is almost Greek tragedy like in making the characters' downfall based on their flaws (and sometimes what conventionally could be perceived as their strengths).

All the main characters are fleshed out: the difficult, impulsive Ah Hao whose world is dangerously black-and-white, who is oh-so-flawed but also irresistible (you can see why Yu Yen fell for his passion and his total absorption into whatever he is or does, but also see why this brings them tragedy). Yu Yen, who starts the story deceptively fragile and sheltered but develops into the strongest character of all: an internally locked-away, contained woman who is a trauma victim on the inside but will keep going despite that or despite anything else. Danzi, probably the most likeable of them all, the narrator of the story: introspective and intelligent, there to pick up the pieces. Ah Qi, the easy-going joker of the group, perhaps the least messed-up or affected by their life and his tough-as-nails street-smart girlfriend Hong Do.

The drama made me feverishly obsessed, made me bawl (yes, I got weepy for contract killer mobsters), made me swoon. It's incredibly good.

Also, I found darkeyedwolf's legendary pusher post for The Outsiders, aka my second fave twdrama beside Mars and one that will FUCK YOU UP!

A little taste from her review:

I really can't convey the twisted messed-up glory of the OTP. She can't leave him no matter what he does, because he does it all for her, and he can't blame her for any of the secrets and lies and scars, because it's his fault she's involved. They're madly in love (the kind of intense, everlasting, die-for-you love, which is not at all an exaggeration when you're dealing with the mob) but their lives would've been so much better if they'd never met. It almost hurts to ship them, because you know they should be apart for their own sakes, but you can't stop and neither can they. They don't know how to do anything but love each other.

The Outsiders She's the sheltered daughter of an upper-class family. He's a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Together, they commit

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Autumn’s Concerto. 10

Story: 10

Acting: 10

Chemistry: 10🔥

Comparable to: Thank You (kdrama)

This is by far one of my absolute favorite Twain dramas. It’s a bit full of cliches and predictable storylines, but the way they intertwined them in this is so well done that you don’t care/notice. Yes it’s that good. The leading actors have such amazing chemistry that you can tell even by the first episode how well they are matched. It’s such a heartwenching emotional roller coaster romance story. Be forewarned for some tear jerking moments. For me it’s a much watch, it’s so underrated. Hell I’ve seen it three times already and it still never gets old.