February 14, 2025

Les Belles | Review

Les Belles
A beautiful flirt meets her match.
Notable Actors/Actresses
Lin YunLuo Ling Yu
Fang Yi LunLu Yun
Screenwriter
Chinese Title
怎敵她千嬌百媚
How Can Anyone Resist Her Thousandfold Elegance and Charm
Year: 2025
Episodes: 26

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Cast


Lin Yun:
Luo Ling Yu
Fang Yi Lun:
Lu Yun
Lin Bo Rui:
Prince Heng Yang
Zhao Qing:
Zhouyang Ling
Guo Jia Nan:
Prince Chang Yi
Deng Xiao Ci:
Fan Qing Chen
Li Jia Xin:
Chen Xiu
Rao Jia Di:
Liu Tang





Romcom/Romance Checklist


How much of the plot is angst/romance?
0.5 / 1 / 2.9 / 3 / 4 / 5
The ML:
Cold–Lukewarm–Warm & Sly / Timid / Tsundere / Falls in Love First / Noble Idiot / CEO / General
The FL:
Bold / Cute / Cool & Independent / Falls in Love First / Better than ML / Noble Idiot / Business Woman
Describe the Relationship (the tropes):
Creepy Love (M) Rivals +++ / Bickering Start / Childhood Connection / Cohabitation / Contract Marriage or Fake Couple / Enemies to Lovers / Hidden Identity / Harem / Love Triangle / Married Couple (Real) / Rebirth / Secretly in Love (F/ML) / School to Adulthood / 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 / 25 / 26
# of CPs (including main CP):
0 / 1 / 
2 / 3
Ending
Happy / Sad / Open Happy / Open Sad / Bad / Rushed+++


Remarks



[Drama Info]

By the director of We Go Fast on TrustHuang Ying Xiang brings us a novel adaptation from Yi Ren Kui Kui, who also wrote My Sassy PrincessWang Hong (and team) wrote the screen adaptation. Her work seems to be hits and misses, and really bad misses: Legend of FeiRattanSword and Fairy (6)Royal RumoursThe Sword and the BrocadeSnowfall.

Notable supporting character(s): Zheng Qiu Hong. (Aw, she used to be FL and Fang Yi Lun was her 2ML in Unique Lady). 

Wrapped on July 28, 2024. 

[Ending] Happy


Drama Overview & Review



Director's aesthetics 👍 Fang Yi Lun and Lin Yun are already easy on the eye, but under her lens, they look even better.


Romcom is more comedic than it is romantic. ❤️ It's a she-seduces-him-and-he-seduces-her. A warning though, if men being "weak" for the girl is a dealbreaker for you, this might not be your watch. 
ML's knock-off flower-flirting moves
Spot the cheering soldier ~


Bromance – wait for the bromance at the end! 😂 They're worth it. Love this prince role for Dragon Lin Bo Rui.


Women/sismance. 👧 The youngest and the oldest do brighten up the screen. No hateful women.


Shoutout. 🥂 To Creepy-Lunatic and Romcom-Addict. The lunatic is too handsome....xD. The romantic junkie is spot on.
"When can we finally watch the lovey-dovey romance ending?"


[Review & Rating] By cynlynn.
Pretty ~ What was the plot again?

→ A prime-time filler rom-com – hooks you early, stumbles in the middle, and redeems itself with a fun ending. My rating is lowered only because of the romance. It’s cute, comedic, but not enough love. This is why I watch filler romcoms – for the rom. You have to give me the rom.

→ Someone get the director a juicer script. She should be a force to be reckoned with.

→ Fang Yi Lun does suppressed love like a pro, but when it’s his turn to seduce ... Help. Lin Yun is a much better flirt, but not as good at showing love. These two… share... I defintely love her character a lot though. She's openly fake in a very real way xD.

→ Shoutout to 1) Deng Xiao Ci for perfecting the art of being a creep, 2) Lin Bo Rui for delivering sportsmanship bro-hood (I surprisingly enjoyed the bromance as much as the romance – surprisingly because it was so late in the game), and 3) the servant for being the audience’s unhinged romantic stand-in.

Rating: 2/5  Fun filler-tier romcom



Recommendations

Preliminary recs are random / a peek at the list. These may be updated if drama is completed

Light- Period- Romcoms
Unique Lady Season In a Class of Her Own Royal Rumours
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