Everyone Loves Me

Review

10/10 is my rating. This is a straight forward and somewhat predictable romance comedy set in the gamer and game developer world. Predictable to me is not bad, most of the really good and well liked romance series follow a set pattern. I thought it had just enough dynamic conflict to keep it interesting while preserving the elements of romance that I personally really like. If you are a romance fan this is a must watch in my book. It is a really good romance. If you are a fan of either of the leads, it is a good one to watch as they do a great job bringing the characters to life and they have great chemistry.

Spoilers

Some reviewers were annoyed with how long FL played the cutesy innocent female thinking that is what ML was interested in. But I thought that was an amusing twist. She was doing it because the ML, who she was playing games with online, was telling her to because he thought she was romancing some other guy. So, it made sense why she was acting like that and why she did it for so long. I also thought, at one point, you should see this isn't working. But she kept getting the advice from a guy friend she trusted.

When it finally flips around, the gig is up, and ML knows that the girl he is in love with online is none other than the annoyingly cutesy woman who confessed to him I was relieved. But I thought it was perfect that she did not immediately forgive him for his completely cruel rejection of her when he didn't realize who she was.

I also like the slice of AAA game production life. Dog eat dog. Saboteurs and jealousy. Really what you would expect in a highly competitive tech environment.

The second romance wound up being cute. I had my doubts as I wasn't a fan of the second female when she first appeared. I felt like her guy was doing way too much to make her successful in her position. If you can't do the job you can't do the job. So, I thought it was logical he wouldn't like her at first.

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Synopsis

This is a 2024 Chinese romantic comedy drama with 24, 45 minute episodes. It is based on the novel "Don't Fall in Love with Me" by Qiao Yao.

Yue Qianling (Zhou Ye) has had a crush on Gu Xun (Lin Yi) since their early college days. When she discovers he is working at the same gaming company she was about to resign from, she decides to stay on to be near him. She takes some really bad advice (through a twist) from Gu Xun himself, on how to win your crush's heart. Basically act like a cutesy princess, the very type of girl Gu Xun most dislikes. Gu Xun gave this bad advice under his gamer handle "Campus Hunk" and he told who he thought was "Sticky Dough Twist" as he liked her and didn't want her getting with some other guy. This results in a series of harsh rejections as Yue Qianling acts cutesy, expresses her love, and gets rejected. After all Gu Xun told her the exact thing that causes him to reject girls. What Gu Xun does not realize is the gamer girl he likes, is none other than Yue Qianling. And the advice he has been giving his gamer girl friend on romance, the deliberately bad advice, was intended to thwart her from romancing a guy he does not realize is actually him. When Gu Xun finds out Yue Qianling is the gamer girl the roles flip and he is now the one actively pursuing her.

With all the romance going on, two couples, different issues to work through, you would think there wouldn't be much time to develop any more of the plot. But they do a very good job of playing out the story about developing an A class game. All the trials and tribulations that go along with trying to develop the game and maintain the funding all the way through.

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