Chinese Drama 2021
Stray Birds (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)
Stray Birds poster
- Genre: Business, IT, Entreprenuership, Friendship, Youth, Life, Drama
- Release Date: 3 June 2021
- Origin: China
- Cdrama: 40 Episodes
Cast
- Gao Zhi Ting as Wu Yue
- Lulu Xu as Su Xiao Man
- Wen Sheng as Zhang Jiang
- Anson Qiu as Lin Shao Ting
- Yu Chen as Chai Qing
- Xiao Hao Ran as Ren Qian Qiu
- Xu Wai Luo as Wu Tian Tian (Wu Yue’s Brother)
Quick Precis
Story of young chaebol (Korean term for those from second-generation rich kids) who defied perceptions of rich kids and instead became entrepreneurs themselves.
Sounds interesting.
Episode 1
I actually like this drama. There are many that could be improved like the overacting of the female lead at the start, but there are also many things that are quite watchable.
I still have that tender feeling for Gao Zhi Ting because he was Bo Song in A Love So Beautiful. So I am going to watch this drama.
Anyway, the start is quite interesting and fast-paced.
It started at the airport where Wu Yue was coming back and was surprised by his little brother who was so glad to see him. His friend took his suitcases from him and gave him his mobile phone with some RMB money on it.
At that same moment, Su Xiaoman was also returning to the country. And so was Lin Shao Ting.
They all met up outside where Lin Shao Ting was about to get into his yellow Ferrari (?) but instead Wu Yue and his brother, running from two hoods got into the waiting Ferrari. Wu Yue threw his backpack to Shao Ting before he drove off.
Shao Ting was flabbergasted at what just happened and was going to call the police but Xiaoman intervened saying that the guy obviously borrowed the car and left him his backpack where they found the guy’s passport, etc.
Xiaoman, who was with Chai Xing, asked if Shao Ting wanted a lift.
He did and left his two bodyguards to fend for themselves.
Xiaoman was a much-loved daughter of a professor while Shao Ting was a much-indulged son of a CEO who wanted him to start working in the company.
Shao Ting said that he was not interested because it was money that made his mother disappear completely.
Meanwhile, poor Wu Yue and Tian Tian went back to their old apartment and found that it had been ransacked.
They were woken the next morning by bailiffs from the bank telling them that they must vacate immediately as the apartment had been foreclosed.
With no house, no money but with a strange good debit/credit card, Wu Yue and Tian Tian left the apartment. His young brother did not comprehend their dire situation and asked for more than Wu Yue good provide.
Wu Yue bought his brother snacks and told him that he has to leave for a while and he had to stay put and not go anywhere. Tian Tian promised that he would.
Wu Yue returned the car back to Shao Ting which Xiaoman saw.
They all ended up in an auditorium for IT recruitment.
I am very interested in how this story would pan out. I love stories of hard work leading to success by young entrepreneurs.
Episode 2
The young guys applied to Brain Data and got accepted.
They were then given a black case containing a notebook/laptop that they will use for the duration of their time with Brain Date.
They had to hand it back if either they had to leave or got promoted.
Episode 3
Very interesting drama, I just can’t fully wrap my head on what is going on.
In Ren Qian Qiu, the CEO of Brain Data trying to sabotage his own company?
Episode 4-5
Tian Tian stays upstairs in the storeroom of the restaurant. Out of boredom, he would frighten/haunt the unware restaurant owner.
Xiaoman is crushing on Wu Yue. She found out that he had so many part-time jobs.
Ren Qian Qui was plotting something with regards to Chanda and he thought of using Wu Yue.
Xiaoman is making it her mission to protect Wu Yue and she was practically stalking him. She then tells him what she finds out about Chanda.
Episode 6
It looks like Wu Yue’s father borrowed money to invest in some computer software that did not materialise but only a strange gold card was Wu Yue’s clue.
Xiaoman had become protectively jealous of Wu Yue that she dissuade any woman from talking to him including the journalist that usually helps Wu Yue.
One of the interns had to leave because she was pregnant and had to hand her black case back.
Director Chen of Chanda was drunk and went to harass Qing Qing st Xiaoman’s house in front of her mother.
It got really nasty so Xiaoman texted Wu Yue who immediately came to the rescue but it was too late Director Chen was already beaten up with Xiaoman.
They both ended in the hospital because Xiaoman felt sick seeing Director Chen being sick.
Episode 7
This storyline was not really my cup of tea. Poor Wu Yue is hounded by his parents’s creditors and it gets really nasty.
Stop this already.
Let him start climbing the ladder of success. Isn’t it enough that he was saddled with a five year old brother who is being neglected Wu Yue has no other choice? Come he can’t be getting all the bad situation all by himself.