# Perfect and Casual (2020)

> A sunny university student and her icy professor enter a contract marriage and must hide their growing feelings from everyone around them.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/92579

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 24
- Episode runtime: 40 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: romance, comedy
- Network: Mango TV
- Cast: Miles Wei, Xu Ruohan, Dai Yunfan, Zhao Luoran, Ma Ge, Sheng Gangshuai, Qi Shenghan, Arthur Ma
- TMDB rating: 7.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13161710/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: none
- Tone: sweet, playful, warm, light, teasing, cozy

## Synopsis

Perfect and Casual (2020) is a Chinese romantic comedy series created for Mango TV, adapted from a web novel and running for a single 24-episode season. Miles Wei plays Zhang Sinian, an aloof and finicky university professor known as a cold male god, while Xu Ruohan plays Yun Shu, a calm and sunny student who unexpectedly discovers he is her lecturer after a rocky first meeting. Supporting roles are filled by Dai Yunfan as Lu Yu, Zhao Luoran as Gao Zhiyi, and Ma Ge as Yun Lan. A chain of coincidental encounters pushes the two into a contractual marriage, and the story's engine is the constant effort to keep their arrangement secret from classmates, colleagues and family while their feelings quietly grow. Each episode is built from small domestic moments, misunderstandings and playful bickering, so the drama unfolds as a steady slow burn rather than a sprawling plot. The tone is light, warm and affectionate, with the comedy coming from the gap between his prickly exterior and her easy cheerfulness. Fans of Meteor Garden, Hidden Love and Fake Marriage will find the same blend of teasing romance and cozy contract-relationship comedy here.

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