Television series

Put Your Head on My Shoulder

Name: Put Your Head on My Shoulder
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 2019
Cast: Fair Xing, Lin Yi, Xiao Tian Tang, Zheng Ying Chen

Romance
Light-hearted

A Chinese romance about a indecisive graduating student and a brilliant physics major forced into unexpected roommate chaos. Warm, funny, and genuinely charming—it nails the anxious-but-endearing quality of young adulthood while building genuine chemistry through shared mundanities. For anyone who believes the best love stories start with people who'd rather stay home.

TVMaze rating

4.0

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you enjoy a slow-burning campus romance built on awkward, everyday closeness and small domestic friction rather than grand gestures, with a lead who drifts before she finds her footing.

Skip it if you want a tight, fast-moving plot; at 24 episodes of roughly 45 minutes, the pacing leans gentle and the comedy of shared-flat mishaps can wear thin for some viewers.

What it asks of you: Settle in for a long haul: two dozen episodes played at an unhurried pace, with lighter moods that stay close to daily life and ask for patience more than close attention.

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