Falling Before Fireworks
最食人间烟火色
Completed · Premiered 2023-03-31 · 23 episodes
About this drama
Si Qing is a driven bank loan manager focused on securing a stable future through financial success and property. After a chance encounter with Jing Chen, a stoic traditional craftsman who lives a simple rural life, she impulsively proposes marriage to him on a particularly lonely birthday. Despite their vastly different values and social backgrounds, they enter a contract marriage that begins to transform their outlooks on life and love.
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- iQIYI · Official title pageAvailability varies by region; check the platform.
Cast
Directed by Liang Guo Guan, Wang Hui
- Lu Yang Yang as Si Qing
- Chen Xin Hai as Jing Chen
- Nan Sheng as Yun Pian
- Zhao Zhen Ting as Jing Mu Sheng
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- Assessed as having a strong female lead
- Assessed as having no love triangle
- Romance carries the main plot
Story traits
- Romance
- 8 / 10
- Angst
- 3 / 10
- Comedy
- 5 / 10
- Pacing
- 6 / 10
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Tags
- Comedy
- Drama
- Romance
- Contract marriage
- Enemies to lovers
- Slow burn
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