So, in the end I’ve decided to just have a couple of short reviews📕, with the same idea — the film (or series) was better than the book. I know, shocking.

❗️Disclaimer before I begin: I really needed to recharge my batteries and have a mental-rest, so I’ve indulged in some questionable reading and series. Bear with me. ❗️

I know, I keep stalling. Here we go.
#ShortReview of 📌You’re beautiful when you smile by Qing Mei (青浼).
📕150-chapered (only in the main part, totally 191) monstrosity of a webtoon from China. Easy read, straightforward plot and semi-relatable characters. As reliable as a billionaire-team-captain falling in love with the female lead can be. The story is funny at times, tries to balance controversial topics and pretends to have a good love line. Don’t let it fool you though, the male lead is quite toxic at times towards the heroine and before they begin dating he puts her down (un)necessarily a couple of times. Let’s just say if someone tried to do this to me and threaten a kitten to force me to date him I would’ve run for the hills. With the kitten.
📌All in all, pretty #mediocre and good for a one-time read.

📱The counterpart is a series Falling Into Your Smile (found on Netflix and Kinopoisk).
Even the name of the show is a play on the main character’s name. It improved on the storyline, glossed the plot’s strange choices, and bettered the dialogues. Even though they weren’t able to use the original game (the book team plays LoL), they were able to create their own version, which brought good dynamics to the story. As you can imagine, watching the matches between teams is much more compelling than reading their descriptions🙃.

📌Even though I can’t say that both the book and the series are great, I enjoyed checking them out. If it’s not still obvious: the show is better by far.

📌Final thoughts: never try to get someone's attention by threatening a kitten.