Lovesick

Lovesick (2025) is a Taiwanese romance you can watch online on iFILM — a story about first love that begins with a lie and grows into something far heavier than its teenage hero bargained for.

Ye Zijie is a troublemaker who's always landing in hot water and used to fighting for any scrap of attention. One day, hoping to win some sympathy, he decides to fake an illness. To his surprise it works, and he leans into the act: turns out being "sick" has its perks. Then everything shifts when he learns that a girl in his class is genuinely ill — and that her condition has no cure. The very thing he performed for pity is quietly taking her future away. A pretend sickness pulls them together, and now Ye Zijie has to learn how to stand beside someone he could actually lose.

The director plays teenage bravado against a grown-up subject without tipping into a pure tearjerker. It's a warm, sad film for anyone who loves Asian high-school romances, where the laughter and the ache sit right next to each other. Stream Lovesick (2025) online on iFILM.