Just You vs. Fall In Love With Me- two chances to see the same hot neck

It seems like everyone in my drama circle is watching Fall In Love With Me, which they probably should, because Aaron Yan.  Yep, that's the number one reason.  Jack Li is probably reason number 2, if that wasn't already the Aaron Yan OST.  I guess you could shove that into reason number 1, but I'd prefer to make it number 2 and Jack Li number 3.

Aaron Yan and Jack Li both have amazing necks.  In fact, Jack's neck bumps him up from a cute guy to a hot guy.

92. Miss Rose 螺絲小姐要出嫁 (2012) Taiwanese

Megan Lai, Roy Qiu, Puff Guo, Jao Jun Ya, Tia Li, Paul Hsu

Drama Rating: 3/10     Neck Score: B

Emotional manipulation.  That was all this show was.  A butt load of emotional manipulation.  It started off so well too.  The premise of a hard working secretary making a bet with a fortune teller that she'd get married that year is cool.  But that plot was like the minor, minor detail and not the main plot.  She's an awkward secretary who ends up in this "golden boy of business's" life and makes him want to break free from his shackles of emotional manipulation.  He is indebted to his boss, who raised him and took care of his mom ever since his dad died, and so has to be engaged to his boss's spoiled daughter who still thinks of him as the chauffeur's son and treats him like crap, all to pay his boss back and take the role of successor.  Once he falls in love with the secretary, then everyone in his world gives him crap and keeps manipulating him, including his mom, who I seriously wanted to slap because she was the worst kind of manipulator.  Then there was the evil head of the secretary's company who was manipulating things because he didn't want the golden boy dude to remove him from the company he was embezzling money from.   Also there was the head bitca who trained the spoiled fiancee in the ways of the bitca, turning her from a spoiled but honest brat into a full fledged bitca.  Then there is the older dude who cruelly dumped the secretary girl for money and career, who decided that he made a mistake and turns into a cray cray creep trying to win her back.  Seriously, a whole lot of crappy manipulation that made it really really hard to finish no matter how hot Roy Qiu is.  Too bad he had to deal with all that crap all the time, I felt so sorry for him.  But Paul Hsu made up for a lot.  His character was adorable, even if his romantic counter part was "stone face" Tia Li.  She's actually way better in this one than she is in Fall in Love With Me, but I never believed she liked Paul Hsu's character, not good acting on her part.  Love Puff, but her character is not the best, but she played it very well.

89. Fall in Love with Me 愛上兩個我 (2014) Taiwanese

Aaron Yan, Tia Li, Jack Li, Beatrice Fang, Kao Ying Hsuan

Drama Rating: 2.5/10     Neck Score: A++

It makes you fall in love with it and then turns into a train wreck.  The horrible, terrible train wreck that you can't look away from.  It's  completely awful writing.  It might be one of the worst written dramas that I have ever seen.  What makes it worse is that I loved it at first.  So much that I made all my friends start watching it.  Then it suddenly turned into a completely different drama.  It basically stole the horrible second half of Miss Rose manipulation plot for a while.  It changed plots so much in the second half that you completely forgot the first half, what was going on, and who the actual main characters were supposed to be.  Then, to make it worse, it tries to wrap everything up in a moralistic bow at the end, fixing things that cannot be realistically fixed, and redeeming people who can't be so easily redeemed, all in the space of one episode... impossible.  It was the lamest, preachiest, most horrible ending I have ever witnessed.  Seriously, what were the writers thinking?  Like a beautiful train wreck where you can't look away we finished it, making fun of how awful it was the whole time.  If it hadn't had been Aaron Yan, I might have just given up on it.  But it was seriously so bad that I stopped caring what happened so it all became funny, then it was ok.  I wrote a post about the first half, also talking about Aaron's previous drama Just You.  I also have another post here about how bad the second half was.  Spoilers included, but since I would never recommend this drama, I don't feel bad about it.  It is a seriously bi-polar drama.  So good, so bad.