Irresistible Lie
Network: iQIYI
Cast
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| Cui Yu Xin: Zhou Yu |
Li Jia Qi: Jiang Lai |
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| Xiong Ao Bo: Chen Jun |
He Ling Yao: Chen Yi Yi |
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| Shi Chao: Zhou Ming De (ML's father) |
Yi Ling: Sun Wei (ML's stepmom) |
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| Yang Min Yong: Li Ting Jiang |
Ma Ding: Jiang Yu Qin |
Romcom/Romance Checklist
How much of the plot is angst/romance?
0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5The ML:
Cold–Lukewarm–Warm / Timid / Falls in Love First / Noble Idiot / CEO / General /The FL:
Bold / Cute / Cool & Independent / Falls in Love First / Better than ML / Noble Idiot / Describe the Relationship (the tropes):
Bickering Start / Childhood Connection / Cohabitation / Contract Marriage or Fake Couple / Enemies to Lovers / Hidden Identity / School to Adulthood / Love Triangle / Married Couple (Real) / Secretly in Love (F/ML) / Star-Crossed Lovers / Relationship Progress (officially together; first (official) kiss; breakup*):
Ep 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / 21* / 22 / 23 / 24# of CPs (including main CP):
0 / 1 / 2 / 3
0 / 1 / 2 / 3
Ending:
Happy / Sad / Open Happy / Open Sad / BadReview & Gallery
What I like most: If she's not in his arms, she's on his lap and in his arms. There's a lot of cute intimacy. Even if they're not official until late second half, they're doing everything already.
Nothing new is ventured in this CEO romcom, but the story didn't fall into typical cliches. The villain plot kept evolving, which kept our couple busy, but also kept them together.
I also gained a Cui Yu Xin. I thought he was average for the most part, but it's his eyes. I felt them caressing her in a cocoon of pure, unspoken affection 🫠. Li Jia Qi will always have my vote. She's adorable without trying. These two were well matched. Go Jerk-Appraiser CP!
Rating: 3/5 ♥
Gallery
1. Proximity
2. CEO Revenge Necessities: Pettiness, parking lot fights, muscles, ✓✓✓✓
3. Favourite Moments: Nuanced fluttery moments.
4. Business/Family Plot: Evolving bad-guy plot, not bad, not bad.
–– ↓ Trivial Cuteness ↓ ––
7. Sismance
8. Secretary
10. CP Similarity: They're more similar than you think (;
1. Proximity
If she's not in his arms, then she's on his lap and in his arms.
[Ep3] He's seducing her back, and better.
[Ep4] Should his eyes look so in love when she just rejected him? :)
[Ep5] She was sitting behind him on the bike and can still end up in his arms. *Applauds*
[Ep8] Massaging her on the bed
He really is so in love with her. At the end of this episode, it's confirmed that he knows her real identity, but this whole day, he's flirting and caring for her like usual.
[Ep9] Contract relationship begins:
[Ep13] She comforts him after he loses his job. This is "charging" him:
This is her mice-induced reaction:
She asks, "Can I not get off?"
Ye.
[Ep17] He comforts her for her jerk of a father with a shoulder to cry on, a tender forehead kiss, and eyes wrapping her in a cocoon of pure, unspoken affection.
[Ep19] It's official. They're the Jerk Appraisal CP! xD
[Ep23] Grandpa knew who he was! Aw T_T
2. CEO Revenge Necessities
Pettiness ✓, Low-jealousy-tolerance ✓, Parking-lot-fight ✓, Half-nakedness ✓. [Ep9+10] He makes her pick the blackheads off of strawberries and dragonfruits
[Ep10] He's a dork at spying:
[Ep11] Parking lot fight. It's a must.
Her heels save the day.
He's hurt everywhere, but he cares about a small abrasion on the soles of her feet. Exactly the ML we need in dramas! xD
[Ep11] Muscles Romantic-wound-treatment:
Please appreciate this jaw. He cranked that neck for this shot.
His thank-you is at kissing-distance
3. Favourite Moments
Nuanced moments I like from FL (Ep13) and ML (Ep19). They both happen to be lost and found scenes. [Ep13] This hug from her. It's the first time she showed how much she cared about him. I don't think she realized the depth of her feelings either. (Oh, and I loved that he packed her things to quit with him, lol.)
[Ep19] This differential treatment from him <3. Both girls are missing. When he finds 2FL, he's gentle. But when he finds Jiang Lai, he's furious. That's how much more worried he was about her. Awww.
4. Business / Family Plot
This is the BF no one likes in romances: Business and Family. But this BF kept evolving! All the twists were appropriate and well-planned.
- The most shocking one was the reveal of Li Ting Jiang's girlfriend.
- I also love that no villain/dad/mom were redeemed.
- Bringing back FL's Jerk Appraisal business at the end was a nice touch as well.
⚠️ Mild Spoilers ⚠️
Did Sun Wei just take the money and abandon her son?
The return of the Jerk Appraisers
This poor child though :(
5. Confessions and Proposals
All the confessions and proposals came naturally. That's so rare.[Ep11] He confesses first. I love, like looooove that he's sensible enough to make her breakfast the next morning, and give her space. Also, there wasn't a whole drama on planning a surprise (and having it fail). He just went with his feelings, and said those three words confidently.
She makes him coffee *in return for breakfast.
(* = words on the cup)
[Ep21] She proposes first. That was so brave of her with the real Su Qing being so capable.
(But she didn't give him space like he gave her, tsktsk xD)
[Ep24] I love that he proposes with her flower ring! I'm sure the one she gave him hasn't withered yet.
6. Snapdragon Garden
[Ep13] He promised to protect her Snapdragon garden: "I don't want a person I love not to have a home."
(He's the wolf with the three two little big pigs)
[Ep24] His present to her: a snapdragon that will never wither just like his love
Finale: Jiang Lai + Zhang Ran + married + Snapdragon garden + doggo
7. Sismance
It's not that strong, but I like pretty girls with pretty girls.
Jiang Lai, Chen Yi Yi and sleeping.
That angry rabbit.
Coworkers like Jiang Lai too:
These two are so pretty together:
I genuinely like Su Qing and am ignoring the fact that she's boldly pursuing a man with a girlfriend
8. Secretary
ML's cute secretary: Chen Jun.
How not to eat your ice cream 👆
9. Random: Sleep-staring
This gets me all the time: ML stares lovingly at a sleeping FL.
[Ep6]
He needs a cold shower just thinking about her (and the kiss)
[Ep15]
10. CP Similarity
They have more similarities than you think ;) [Ep4] The same (petty) rejection: "Eyes, nose, mouth, I don't like them all."
⚠️⚠️ ENDING SPOILERS⚠️⚠️
[Ep6+23] They're both lying about their identities.
He's not Zhou Yu, and she's not Su Qing. In Ep6, he even told her today isn't his birthday when she read that in his bio. That whole spiel about never giving liars a chance (Ep8 massage), hypocrite, lol.
[Ep1+3+23] They both have graves.
Recommendations
| "Iconic" | FL | Honesty |
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