Devil Beside You (E Mo Zai Shen Bian)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Mike He as Jiang Meng 江猛
Rainie Yang as Qi Yue 齊悅
Kingone Wang as Sang Yuan Yi 尚源伊
Ivy Fan Xiao Fan as Xin Li Xiang 辛莉香
He Du Lin as Jiang You Hui 江友暉
Ge Wei Ru as Huang Xue Wei 黃雪薇
Masuyama Yuki as Yu Yang Ping 于陽平
Tsai Pei Lin as Qing Zi 晴紫

Synopsis:

About a young girl named Qi Yue who has finally can to her senses to confess to her long time crush Yuan Yi a basketball coach at her school's basketball team. As she sees Yuan Yi walking and brings out the letter to confess, her accidentally confesses to Jiang Meng, the school's bully and is someone you do not want to get involved with. Shocked, she runs away leaving her love letter to Yuan Yi behind for Jiang Meng to see. The next day she goes to school, only to find out that Jiang Meng was trying to find her. Turns out that he has her love letter and that he will print out millions of copies if she does not become his personal slave. Devastated by the fact that Jiang Meng might reveal her true feelings for Yuan Yi, she abruptly agrees for the time being to become his personal slave. What's surprising is that Qi Yue's mother's surprise to her daughter is that she is getting married....to Jiang Meng's father...

Review:

This was the first drama I've ever watched, and is still my favourite out of all the dramas I've watched so far. I did watch Rainie Yang in Meteor Garden, but I have to say that her perfomance as Qi Yue in this drama was probably one of her best that I've seen. I wasn't sure at first if this drama was going to become a good one, since it was a bit of a brother-to-be and sister-to-be relationship going on between the two. But it did go greatly in the end, the drama itself even had good reviews and everything. Mike He's character was one of those tall, sleek, and handsome type of guys that you would see in dramas. I love his character, especially when he slowly became all sweet towards Qi Yue about his true feelings for her. I also love how the story revolves around students going to school, it made it more believeable that something like this could have happened to us (minus the sister-to-be and brother-to-be relationship). I don't exactly know why Qi Yue's other friend is rarely mentioned in the drama, actually I find it pointless to have her even show up if her job is to appear only three times. Haha, but I guess it's just business, I mean she does earn money for appearing at least once in the series. The drama itself was not too long, actually I still wanted it to continue, possibly to have another season/sequel to the story. Or maybe even a movie type of thing, showing what their live would have been afterwards. I know that in the manga itself, the story doesn't stop at the drama's very end. It showed that they both got married...awe...that would have been more interesting :) Definately watch this one!

Rating out of 10: ********** ♥