Falling Into Your Smile is a 31 part Chinese romantic series of 45-minute episodes. The story follows Tong "Smiling" Yao (Cheng Xiao) as she joins ZDGX and becomes the first woman to join a top-tier e-sports team. She struggles with developing her skills while building a fan base, dealing with an ex-boyfriend that's on another team (and the unwanted attention of a couple of other players), and a budding romance with team captain Lu "Chessman" Sicheng (Xu Kai) which brings a lot of Internet trolls against her.

The series takes place during one season of the top tier league. I'm fairly sure they're playing League of Legends though probably a fictionalized version with new characters but the gameplay seems LoL from what I know: three lanes with a jungle in between; trying to take out the opponent's base; top, mid, solo, jungler, support roles; banning characters before a match; farming kills and gold to upgrade your character... A good amount of time is spent on the game action -- seeing players, seeing their screens, and then animated sequences of big fights.

The LoL stuff was done well and with an audience I kind of see the appeal of watching games live in a stadium. It does feel a bit weird that a match can be two or three games (first to win 2 games wins the match) since games are 45 minutes it's a high variance between a normal match and one that goes into overtime.

The romance itself is not too badly done. There is not that much pushback against it in terms of the team or Yao and Sicheng's families. It's mostly Internet pressure that puts obstacles in their romance so I felt the stakes weren't as high as in other romance drama's I've watched.

Overall I'd say it's a B for the romance story but an A for the e-sports stuff of the fictional behind the scenes and actual game play.