Shall We Live Together is also known as Marry Me Now?
Genre: Romance, Family, Melodrama
Date Released: March 2018
Shown Saturdays & Sundays
No of Episodes: 50
Cast:
Han Ji Hye as Park Yoo Ha
Lee Sang Woo as Jung Eun Tae
Park Sun Young as Park Sun Ha
Shall We Live Together (KDrama Review & Summary)
There are two episodes so far that have been released. The story is not really clear yet how it is going to go.
So far Park Yoo Ha (played by Han Ji Hye) is married to a chaebol. Being from a lowly family she has to abide to the dictum of her in-laws including almost disowning her own family.
But when her own daughter became a part of the parcel, she finally had had enough. She told her husband that she wanted divorce.
She had no choice as she will not allow her four year old daughter to be taken abroad, away from her, even for education.
Jung Eun Tae is a well respected doctor who had been out of the country volunteering his services to the poor and needy of the world.
Eun Tae and Yoo Ha first met in the hospital. He noticed already her enviable pair of legs as a work of art (Lee Sang Woo should know as he is married in real life with a woman with really beautiful shapely legs)
Eun Tae treated Yoo Ha’s inflamed sole, but she vanished before he can find out who she was.
Last scene was Yoo Ha going back to her father’s house with her little daughter and declaring that she was to divorce her husband.
The story is about a very handsome carefree late 30s pilot captain, who goes from fleeting relationships after another.
He was previously married to a flight attendant but unbeknownst to him, his ex-wife was pregnant when they divorced.
16 years later, his ex-wife passed away and suddenly he is now faced with raising a rather spoilt but sad stranger.
Mix into the equation is the boy’s teacher, who happened to be the young woman, the pilot met in Australia and had a series of misunderstanding with.
Reason to watch this drama is Ariel Lin. Just love her. I have to say that she has a great chemistry with Liu Ye even from the first episode.
She is a feisty independent young woman, while he is very masculine gorgeous guy. T
he actor, who plays the son is a perfect choice, he looks so much like Liu Ye.
This drama has a very strong cast and the mature men were so good-looking.
Episode 1
The captain was flying to Australia from China with a three days stopover.
Lin Xiao Ou is a teacher and flew to Australia from America to be with her nerdy boyfriend of many years.
The captain and the couple were going to the same resort. And on the way, Xiao Ou and boyfriend stopped by at a store. The boyfriend got out to get provisions leaving Xiao Ou napping soundly at the backseat.
The captain also stopped at the store. He was driving a similar car.
Xiao Ou went to use the toilet and came back to the wrong car.
The boyfriend drove away without checking his car, whether the passenger was still in the backseat.
She then harassed the captain by telling him he was a car thief. The captain proved that he rented the car and told Xiao Ou that she was a hot-tempered foul-mouthed young woman. He then left her to hitch-hike in the middle of nowhere.
But after a couple of minutes, he went back for her and returned her to her boyfriend. At the resort, when they meet, disaster happened, including him falling over the swimming pool with his passport in his pocket and therefore, can’t fly back the next day. Disastrous for a professional!
Upon his return to China, he got invited to a current girlfriend’s birthday bash. She said that she even bought the gift he had to give to her.
At the party, he duly gave her the big box of roses. She then took out the huge diamond ring amongst the roses and put it on her finger and pretending it was a perfect fit.
The captain said that it should be a perfect fit because she bought it herself and nothing to do with him.
He went to the restaurant and met up with his ex-wife who was with a young man, who was asking for more money to buy a new guitar.
The captain had a stilted conversation with the ex-wife.
Episode 2
Xiao Ou is now in China with her best friend who happens to be the sister of her boyfriend. The sister asked if her brother asked her to marry him. She said that the brother had not but wanted her to move in with him to Australia. She cannot persuade him to return to China.
Also, the initiating forces for a break-up with the boyfriend have been set. 🙂 A woman at her school, where she taught had asked her for help. The woman said that her daughter Shan Shan is going to Australia and can she asked her boyfriend to meet the daughter at the airport. The daughter has no place to stay yet. Hmmmmm
The ex-wife suddenly died because she had not been taking her medication. She was writing a letter to her son that she had put away some money for his education. But the letter and the cash card were found by the stepfather, who went to tell the boy that he was going away and he had to learn to fend for himself. He was not his real father. The boy was absolutely heartbroken. 🙁
Episode 3
Wu Zheng found out that Xiao Ou is a teacher at the Wharton International school and she was the teacher of the two kids they have befriended at the bar/restaurant.
It turned out that one of the boys is Wu Zheng’s son after Shi Fei compared the timeline of the boy’s date of birth and Wu Zheng’s divorce with ex.
Shi Fei brought the now homeless boy to Wu Zheng’s apartment.
Episode 4
Wu Zheng can’t get used to being a father of a teenage boy so he is denying that Xiao Han is his son. He said that even if he happens to be the father, he can’t live with him.
So Xiao Han is left living at his best friend’s house for now.
Episode 5
Poor Xiao Han was more or less told by his best friend’s mom to leave as she thought he might be a bad influence to her son.
Xiao Han was left with not much money and had to wait on the doorstep of Wu Zheng’s apartment. Pitiful.
Episode 6
Xiao Han had started living with Wu Zheng, who is still very resistant to this new development. There are cute together. Xiao Han is Wu Zheng’s mini-me.
Episode 7
Xiao Han and Wu Zheng are learning to live with each other, finding out each other’s idiosyncrasies. Wu Zheng had to learn to live with a roommate.
This week Wu Zheng bought a huge bunk bed and Xiao Han ordered a new automatic toilet to replace an ancient loo.
Xiao Wei, Wu Zheng nosy ex-girlfriend took it upon herself to secretly gather specimen for DNA testing for Xiao Han and Wu Zheng.
Episode 8
Xiao Han is missing his mother so much and to a certain extent his dad (stepfather). Wu Zheng sympathised with him but he wanted Xiao Han to grow up like a man and leave his spoilt life.
Episode 9
It is really touching to see the growing bond between this father and son. It was funny with really strong touch of realism the collapsing bunk bed that nearly killed Wu Zheng and maimed Xiao Han because Wu Zheng ‘DIY’ed the bed rather than pay extra 300Yuan for professional installation.
Xiao Han also brought home his huge dog much to Wu Zheng annoyance being canine allergic. Xiao Han said the dog is family to which Wu Zheng asked “what am I, the wallet?”
Episode 10
The result of the Paternity test Xiao Wei had organised came out as negative. Wu Zheng and Xiao Han are not blood-related.
Also there is some issues that Xiao Ou’s boyfriend may be playing around with little Shan Shan.
Episode 11
Xiao Wei took it upon herself to pack Xiao Han’s belongings and threw him out of the apartment.
Episode 12
Wu Zheng investigated the DNA result and convinced that the result was wrong as the cigarette butt was not his as he hadn’t smoked for months inside the apartment.
Xiao Ou’s boyfriend is playing around. She continues to trust him.
Episode 13
Wu Zheng was offered a retest of the DNA sample but opted not to take it as he was convinced Xiao Han was his son.
There was a poignant but rather hilarious scene where Wu Zheng tried to comfort Xiao Han for having parted with Oscar, the dog.
Wu Zheng said that he can sympathise with Xiao Han about Oscar, because when he was a little boy, he had a pet, a turtle, which he called ‘Lightning’.
As both his mother and grandmother were often busy at work, his only companion was Lightning, whom he told all his secrets and woes.
An elderly neighbour got sick and his mom read that a good tonic for the sick was turtle soup. So without telling him, his mother gave his turtle away to the neighbours.
He came home looking for Lightning but was told he was now a soup 🙂
Wu Zheng said he cried so much he got smack on the bottom as well. The pain of losing… 🙂
I really love these father and son.
Episode 19
Xiao Ou went to Australia to see her erring boyfriend. They finally break up.
Episode 45
Wu Zheng asked Xiao Ou to marry him while flying a plane to Hawaii. It did not run smoothly as the captain can’t find the ring. All the same Xiao Ou said ‘I do” ahhhhhh
Du Zhe Ming was the heir to a fortune. One day his grandfather, mother, uncle, other relatives and helps went camping in the wilds.
But Du Zhe Ming disappeared. Despite extensive search he cannot be found. What his grandfather and mother don’t know was that Zhe Ming was deliberately taken to the thick of the forest and left to fend for himself by his uncle. He was just 5 years old.
In the forest, the boy, Zhe Ming saved a she-wolf, which was caught in a net trap. From then on, he became a family of the wolves.
Living with his new family of wolves, Zhe Ming acquired their characteristics including keen eyesight, brilliant hearing and super strength.
Over the years the boy would often see other humans venturing into the forests, some for romantic tours, while plenty more with guns, shooting and hunting anything that moves.
Sometimes Zhe Ming would take bags and things that were left unattended by the people.
I think this was the explanation of why he has vests and shorts. He has tin kettles, flashlights, and even a radio and a few blankets.
What I find rather strange though is that Zhe Ming has the most flawless skin for a wolf boy. He has beautiful white teeth as well, I am sure he’s not supposed to have seen a toothbrush or a dentist since he was five. He has also a trendy haircut with highlights. I wonder what he used to shave as you can see from HD tv that he was freshly and cleanly shaved.
Mi Mi is an amateur photographer who decided to venture into the Wolf mountain. There she met Zhe Ming, who rescued her when she was falling down the ravine.
Aside from that Amber and Derek make a good Tarzan and Jane, the Taiwanese version, they have a lot of chemistry.
As we are leaning more into the idea that our universe is not really alone, well this fantasy drama, it hypothesises that there is another universe which has a backdoor connected to our own universe.
This backdoor is the Rakshasa Street (or Requiem Street), which is guarded by Cao Yan Bing, who is the fire guardian as well as the Suppressing Spirit General of Rakshasa Street. He has a very demanding job because Rakshasa Street also leads directly to hell. And it seemed all hell broke loose as the street is also home to ghost, spirits, evil spirits, phantoms and guardian spirits.
Xia Ling is a new university graduate and works as an intern in a large company. On her way home one day, the bus she was in entered into a mysterious tunnel and plummeted into an abyss of darkness. A gorgeous guardian spirit plucked her out of the falling bus and delivered her to safety.
The next thing was that some ghoulish creatures, like from Power Rangers 🙂 came to collect the bodies of the dead people from the bus.
Xia Ling was helping a little girl escape when the ghouls noticed her. She was cornered and awaiting her death when Cao Yan Bing with his silver bat (a la Lucille of Walking Dead) came to her rescue.
The next thing Xia Ling knew was waking up in the hospital.
Episode 2
Xia Ling was able to enter Rakshasa Street. No human can enter and therefore Cao Yan Bing deduced that Xia Ling was not a normal human. She has a spirit host inside of her.
This Monday offering is called Bloody Monday and rather bloody exciting to watch.
It is based on a manga written by Ryu Ryumon.
It centres around a second year high school boy called Fujimaru, who is ace hacker. He can hacked into anything including the secret Russian files. His code name is Falcon.
But for the last two years he has retired from his illegal activities as his father works for ThirdI, some sort of MI5.
Japan had information that something cataclysmic form of terrorism is about to happen. They have therefore recruited Fujimaru for his IT expertise and find out about this which is Russian in origin.
What the Falcon found was a short video of a church Christmas service, where the congregations started to feel unwell and develop nose bleeds, sores and breathlessness. Some piteously asked for help.
ThirdI then found out that an airborne virus will be released, which will kill most of the population and will remove Japan from the map.
The cat and mouse chase was pretty thrilling.
It was found later that the leader of the terrorists, in which Ryunosuke Tagaki is one, is J.
J is a math genius, who was a former professor.
He found it easy to recruit new members because of a very tantalising hook that he applies.
To join the group is becoming like God.
Otaya Kujo, Fujimaru’s best friend, explained that becoming God is doing whatever you like.
With the virus killing 90 per cent of the population the chosen 10 per cent remaining can control the resources and do what ever they want.
So this Bloody Monday is actually about population explosion control.
I recommend this highly. It is intelligent and a lot of action.
Plus a big bonus of having Haruma, Takeru and Hiroki in one drama.
