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Summer Rain...

He is rich, he is hot, he is crazy for you and girl, YOU GOT TO RUN FAR FAR FAR AWAY before you are a body in a suitcase because some guy checked you out.

Because this version is way less extreme than 2010 in everything and feels more realistic, paradoxically this is scarier because it feels more real. And seriously - it’s a drama so anything may happen and so I know he learns by the end to let her be her own woman and that she doesn’t belong to him and is a great feminist spouse blah blah blah but in real life? This would so not end well.

PS I got to say, I both like Ou Chen and find him deeply problematic in this version, so not too different from 2010. But oooooh boy, does this version’s Luo Xi annoy the bejesus out of me. I loved Huang Xiaoming in the role in 2010 and rooted for him to get the girl for a looooong time. Here I just want someone to punch that prick in his smirk.

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Once she gets all better and gets her career back on track, he leaves, having reached peak sainthood. She chases after him which is awwwww.

She does not catch him in the airport but does find where he went and we get this pretty pretty sequence.

Say it with me “awwww.”

Though they all would have benefitted from therapy.

And I have finished my first contemporary cdrama since Love Him If You Dare years and years ago. Woooooo!

(Between the 2010 Taiwanese version and this, I find it surprisingly hard to pick a favorite. 2010 had gonzo chemistry and some of my all time favorite actors, plus all the crazy melo this version left out. But this one was just fresh breath of air lovely and LQQ’s Ou Chen was sort of a dream guy so...a tie!)

PS in the game of fuck marry kill, I’d certainly fuck the 2010 Ou Chen and marry the 2018 one. (I don’t want to kill anyone - this story has enough dead bodies already.)

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Post head trauma and amnesia and he still fixates in her. You are dooooooomed, girl! He has no idea who you are and is still bawling. Prepare for DRAMA!!!

PS this is the most drama hero thing ever. I am sorry, but I laughed and laughed.

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It’s unhealthy as hell but in the safe confines of fiction, I ship the daylights out of it.

PS between this and Le Coup de Foudre, is it possible I’ve broken my Mainland cdrama curse?

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So, I really like Summer Bubbles/Summer’s Desire 2018 so far (it’s different enough from 2010, I am not having flashbacks), but my brain breaks at the thought of Xiao Yi Qing, the deadly and sickly sect leader from Listening Snow Tower and Man Yao, the deadly and smart princess from Princess Silver as an OTP.

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I started last year’s Summer Bubbles adaptation (fully subbed on youtube.)

If you are a real old timer, and were around during livejournal days, you may remember my obsession over the 2010 adaptation called Summer Desire. It was equal parts very mesmerizing and utterly makjang and made me a Peter Ho fangirl for life.

If you’ve never heard of it, SB/SD was originally a novel about a plucky young woman who embarks on a path to stardom and also has to choose between a hot and fucked up star (who sort of used to be her stepbrother) and a hot and fucked up amnesiac gazillionaire (who used to be her high school boyfriend.) As you can tell from that plot description, low key it is not.

The 2010 version took a frankly insane concept and made it work by both reveling in the melo and because Barbie Hsu (the original 2001 Makino - aka Shancai from Meteor Garden), played the heroine Xia Mo as a terrifying force of nature. The original story is, at its base, about a saintly heroine being shoved around by lunatic men. But when Xia Mo was portayed by Barbie, that girl was the toughest person in the room and the story became about two headcases attracted to the heroine for the sheer fact that she could never ever break and they wanted to possess that certainty because they were emotionally fragile disasters themselves (at one point, each one tried to kill himself over her so...)

This version feels very different. The cast is a lot younger, which is probably more accurate to the novel but means they lack the harder edges of the 2010 cast. 2010 Xia Mo was played by Barbie at 34. This Xia Mo is played by Sophie Zhang who was 21. Peter Ho, who played 2010 Ou Chen was 35. Qin Jun Jie who plays this Ou Chen, was 27. Huang Xiaoming (2010 Luo Xi) was 33 and Huang Sheng Chi (2018 Luo Xi) was 23. Even if you adjust all the ages downward because it takes time to film, the age difference remains.

I am only a little bit in, but this world feels a lot more real and lived in and sunnier, which is great. The one problem with that is it’s gonna make the truly crazy elements of the story stick out - whether it’s Ou Chen’s backstory, which wouldn’t be out of place in a particular weird wuxia, or Luo Xi’s whole personality or the circumstances surrounding Xia Mo’s marriage.

We shall see.

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Oh heroine, you have skipped out on a spectacular and cheesetastic marriage proposal from a super rich dude to sing in some third rate competition with your brother and semi-bro. My materialistic heart weeps for you!

ETA if he wasn’t so insanely possessive, this would be mega sweet.