Modern Romance C-drama Sniper Butterfly with Michelle Chen and Zhou Ke Yu End Popular Run with Satisfying Ending and Opening Douban Ratings of 6.9
The unexpected success of Sniper Butterfly, a small budget no big leads C-drama, feels like the budget version of this past summer’s unexpected hit with Love’s Ambition. Story and set up isn’t very interesting on paper and the leads don’t seem well-cast opposite each other, but the execution and chemistry end up being so good that viewers enjoy the ride. Sniper Butterfly ended its run this week and leads Michelle Chen and Zhou Ke Yu got their older woman-younger man romance happy ending, with viewers liking how this drama plotted conflict and resolution and delivered a lot of nicely framed romantic scenes. Opening Douban ratings are on the high side for a modern glossy romance drama coming in at 6.9. C-ent is also saying this is rising actor Zhou Ke Yu’s big breakout and also heralding the return of Michelle Chen after her marriage hiatus and then divorce.
Congrats to both! Love it when a drama does better than expected.
I just started watching this and surprised how completely cute these two are and they have amazing chemistry, the story is really chill and healing too.
It’s the first time I’ve seen the actor and didn’t find him handsome at all in the beginning, but as episodes went by something clicked in my brain and I find him so damn handsome now lol, I love when that happens. It really helps that he’s really good at emoting and micro expressions, glad it’s his break out role, I wanna see him again.
He also looks so much like Meguro Ren in some frames that I am low-key brainwashing myself that it is indeed Meguro Ren lol it’s my wish to see Meguro ren in a romcom but now it seems it’ll never happen T_T
Like all my experience with other C modern dramas, I was triggered by leads’ presence or acting but eventually got bored of rosy but frivolously empty plots at slow pace and then quit. Anyhoo, C-ent won’t care as long as they have domestic market to cash in and many South East Asian fans buy it. I don’t see any light for C modern dramas to improve in so many ways, writing, directing, and editing specifically.
It does better from expected but it’s far from being a hit.
I’m happy for a returning mother back to the work force. Her career got so much backlash due to her prior relationship, now that it’s over, hopefully she can thrive & continue to have success.
it’s one of the few dramas I enjoyed this year… good chemistry and love scenes… congrats to the leads…