Well Intended Love (2019)

It started off pretty good and I enjoyed it a lot until the plot twist.

It's unbelievable for the ML to get away with his manipulative tactics. He's a stalker. Lying to someone about a huge illness and forcing marriage on her, then trapping her in his house and repeatedly lying to her/manipulating everything around her behind her back - all of this screams an emotionally abusive male. Like how is that romantic?? At least don't make it seem romantic and show that he repents or something??

He's trapping her in his house against her will, he even tries to come onto her and sleep with her/kiss her and its so creepy and gross. The FL rejects him a lot after the plot twist and stands against his decisions but eventually she gives in and forgives him. I don't understand how anyone can accept this plot. I don't remember how many episodes I exactly watched but it was near the twist.

The one thing I really liked was the second lead, he was so genuine and the bickering was cute haha his relationship with the FL is what made me wanna keep going... but I just couldn't anymore.

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Good First Half but Totally Ruined by the Twist

I’m not enough of a masochist to keep watching this show after episode 10. It’s obvious where it’s going and it’s really cliche so it won’t even be interesting. The first half is fun and playful. The character who is the initial love rival (allegedly) is wonderful. The acting is good and some of the dialogue is really nice, especially between the main couple. Still, it’s mostly typical drama plotting and definitely not enough to sustain it through the halfway point twist. Very typical for Chinese dramas to have a playful first 10 eps followed by crazy drama/tragedy, but this one is too much. I’m actually most upset because my partner who tolerates me watching dramas all the time actually started to get into this one and felt really betrayed by the turn it took. Always do your research before watching, I guess!

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boa e ruim em diferentes momentos

Pela sinopse eu esperava por um drama bobinho, daqueles de aquecer o coração e super clichê e fui completamente surpreendia por partes boas e ruins.
Estava indo tudo bem no início, gosto desses dramas que contrato de casamento, até eu descobrir que ele simplesmente manipulou o hospital pra dizer que ela estava com leucemia só pra ele conseguir casar com ela (!!!!!!). Quem em sã consciência faria uma coisa dessas?????? Era pra mostrar poder ou que é completamente sem noção e manipulador??? Depois disso foi só ladeira abaixo.
Outros pontos negativos foi aquele de usar amnésia do meio do drama, meu Deus pra que???? E depois ele simplesmente fez quase que uma tortura psicológica doida com a Xia Lin sendo que estava todo mundo afirmando que eles eram casados e depois ele recupera a memória e não diz nada!!!!!! Só vi essa garota sofrer sendo que ela nem merecia nada disso, só foi educada com o protagonista. E 2 sequestros na reta final???? Qual a necessidade????
Nem vou entrar no assunto que ainda teve hipnose (why?) e que drogaram os protagonistas.
Nem sei como consegui terminar esse drama, o que mais passei foi raiva. Fiquei tão triste pq o início estava tão bom que depois desse monte de loucura fui só passando pra ver se terminava logo. Passou longe de ser um Amor Bem Intencionado.

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0 out of 10 if i could - DO NOT WATCB

Will contain spoilers

wow, what started out as a super cute and trope heavy drama turned into a disaster.
At the beginning I was head over heels for this drama and the leads romance. I’m a sucker for a trope and hey, even a dab of toxicity, but this storyline ruined it all.
Like everyone else, the first 10 or so episodes were exciting for me. Then the bombshell drops that not only did the male lead know about her before they ‘met’ in the show, he FAKED her cancer diagnosis, their bone marrow match and her recovery all to manipulate her into marrying him.

There was ZERO chance of this drama coming back to life for me after then. Then the male lead kept her hostage in their house for two days with guards???

ugh, the whole thing was destroyed at this point. The second male lead is so lovely so I thought maybe with such a catastrophic twist in the storyline that he would actually be the person she picks but after another episode i realised it wasn’t going to happen and looked up spoilers. She goes back to the horrible male lead.

Waste of any time and energy. Just UGH.

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NOIOSO

Una storiella di amoretti insulsi buona appena ad incantare la fantasia di tredicenni . Frivola. Unico pregio è il bel aspetto degli attori . I dialoghi sono scialbi e di una noia mortale. una trama debole. La storia non apporta nulla di consistente. Si tratta di una favoletta in cui la ricchezza, le belle case , il successo economico, la ricerca di sfondare le mondo dello spettacolo la danno da padrone. La protagonista è vestita male otto volte su dieci , r anche le altre attrici si presentano scialbe o eccentriche , non piacevoli da guardare, a parte An . Gli uomini sono invece di prestanza elegante. Tutto sommato non vale la pena spendere tempo in questi pettegolezzi amorosi.

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Red flag alert

Even though I didn't like some development of the story and characters, it kept me interested until the end.

In the first episodes I thought I was watching the typical cute love story, but suddenly, it became kind of creepy.

The male protagonist, who seemed to be the perfect husband, unexpectedly, in a plot twist, transforms into an obsessive controller. And although it is assumed that he overcame his problems and is willing to sacrifice himself for her, I was left with the feeling that at any moment he would show his true colors again. Then, the ML stopped being so attractive. Undeniably, he is a red flag.

I'm not sure if I want to watch the second season.

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I am so fooled into watching this drama from the rave reviews and comments that I've read. Obviously they are not on MDL. If I'd read the comments and reviews on MDL, I probably would not have given this drama a shot. Well, to be fair, the first 10 episodes are kinda okay and watchable when you leave your brain off and just feast on the eyes looking at Xu Kai Cheng. But after that things started to go downhill. The FL gets more annoying and irritating, and you just want to slap her to "wake her" up sometimes. The evil guy (I forgot his name) is an absolute bore and his acting is so bad......... The mom storyline is also weird and to me doesn't make sense, how you would betray your own son just because she loves her second husband? That to me is super outrageous! Unfortunately, I'm not one to drop dramas, so I have to just soldier on and finish it all - Netflix combines both seasons, so it just kept on playing. But I do other things while it plays on the background. Somehow I'm interested to see what crappy ending this drama has :)

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BONKERS

well intended love was the first chinese drama I ever watched.

it contains almost every trope ever in the history of everything...

kidnapping? contract marriage? hypnosis? drugging? fake cancer? mean mother? abusive father? poor girl rich man? ceo of company? all that and more!

you were never bored - and honestly some scenes were quite suspenseful and exciting - female love rival did some wild things but it didn't matter, the villain was unhinged but entertaining


MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD
when i found this out in episode eleven... everything changed...

the cancer was fake!?! u should’ve seen my jaw drop when this was figured out
renders their whole relationship into this creepy mess where the power dynamics are completely out of whack - when we found out he had like secretly loved her for ages i was like hUh

in general their relationship is extremelyyyyy toxic and abusive

disliked that aspect a lot... at least they gave xia lin enough independence and sense for him to leave him for at least a bit (very bare minimum i know but at least they didn’t say... moving on! her pain and suffering was acknowledged)

the memory loss really annoyed me - felt like an attempt to pad out the plot

tldr: hectic

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This is the first cdrama I have watched which involved in contract marriage. Most of the cdramas that I have watched involved time-travelling, rich guys falls for poor lady, relationship involves with alien girlfriend and hate turns to love relationship. Hence I gave myself a chance to watch this drama since session 2 of this drama was just being released.

I am not going to spoil the story as the title of this drama has mentioned it clearly "Well Intended Love".

What I can said is this drama is really very funny from episode 1 till 10 then from episode 11 onward it starts to get serious and that is the time the female lead, Xia Lin knew the male lead, Old Ling aka her contractual husband has arranged to trick and trap her into this contract marriage.

I am rather surprised to see there are many skin-ship involved in this drama which are very cheesy and I really saluted both ML & FL for being able to bring up these cheesy moments.

The side casting example Xia Lin good friend and Wen Li relationship and Yan Chou were rather cute and adorable. It's like the decoration on top of a birthday.

Overall this story is quite predictable and if you like rom-com this drama is for you.
As for me it's just an average drama 'coz it's not logic but entertaining.
Even the OST for this drama is just average.
One thing for sure is it has happy ending! Lol..........

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*heavy spoilers below!

There is no question that the ML’s actions (big reveal in episode 10) were inexcusable. The problem I had with it though, is that it seemed extremely out of character for him to do what he did. Why on earth would someone like him go to such lengths when he could have just introduced himself and maybe asked her out? He was not written as a shy person. He was confident, authoritative go-getter businessman type of person. He was written as a pretty tough player in the business world. The plot didn’t adequately explain why this character, who had pretty much everything (even women throwing themselves at his feet) would suddenly act like the villain of the drama. The only conclusion I can make is that it was a stupid plot point to add unwanted angst.

I have seen this sort of thing before. In one movie whose name I forget and in another drama (Love Now)... only in the latter the stupid trick is done by the FL’s ‘loving family’ and the plot treats it as a joke. A pretty horrible joke.

To be fair, the plot in this one does NOT excuse the MLs actions. Pretty much every character (including his biased best friend) calls him out and even beats him up for it. The FL also does not take it sitting down and outright leaves him. I don’t think it was right or realistic for her to take him back but I also felt that it was unrealistic for him to act the way he did in the first place. He was pretty much in love with her throughout the entire thing. If you remove episodes 10-13, his behavior is pretty consistent throughout. I did like how it took awhile for the FL to forgive him, and that when she decided to, it was her own choice and she was not forced into it.

Other than that, this is pretty much your standard, run of the mill romcom. I think the first half is stronger than the second but they somehow had to extend to 20 episodes to tie up lose ends and characters. This drama also has the ‘brother vs evil brother’ trope that I have seen in another drama.

What did I like here? I actually like the way the ML looks at the FL. Also, some of the skinship moments were good (if only they removed eps 10-13) and they actually had chemistry. They also included the dreaded amnesia trope which I also hate...but surprisingly, I found the FL’s actions (including the SML’s) hilarious during this time.

I also like the FL’s ‘bromance’ with the SML. I am not sure I can use this word because she’s a woman but I find it refreshing when men and women can be depicted as really good friends without anything else added. Bromance doesn’t have to be just for guys lol.

I don’t recommend this for impressionable younger viewers. Older viewers who like a devoted ML will be able to assess this better, I think. They may either like or hate it. For me, it was nothing special but I did like some parts of it. At the end of the day we have to make our own decisions about what to watch and what we think of them.

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