The Dark Side of the Sun

Nice Thriller for duanju class

Its first Bad Ending for Zhai Yiying drama since almost all of her drama are Happy Ending. Shen Haonan suits for this kind of character (schizophrenic person). Zhai Yiying tries to get dark character and her effort is paid well.

The Plot is about ML who wants to get revenge for his girlfriend (FL) murderers since he want to propose her but he saw her friends kill her until he hallucinated about his late girlfriend and admitted to psychiatric hospital. Few times later, He got test for being sane (He pretends to being normal to get out while he always hear FL whisper) and start his revenge against his girlfriend murderers.

For revenge arc is quite sad and satisfying ending for the enemies with ML struggles to being sane.

Recommended to watch.

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The drama said ‘trust me,’ and I absolutely did not

I went into this drama mostly out of curiosity, and honestly, by the end I felt like the writer must have been smoking something potent because the plot doesn’t just go off the rails—it launches itself into orbit. The entertainment value is undeniable, but the logic? Absolutely feral. The show asks you to accept that a doctor who has been mentally ill for years can just stroll back into medical practice like it’s a casual hobby, and we’re supposed to trust him with scalpels and human lives. Meanwhile, the four villains commit crimes so outrageous they should require a multi‑episode legal arc, yet the story conveniently sweeps everything under the rug as if accountability is optional in this universe. It’s fiction, sure, but even fiction usually pretends to care about consequences.

And yet, despite all that chaos, I kept watching. Not because it made sense—because I wanted to see how much crazier it could get. There’s a strange charm in witnessing a drama fully surrender to its own absurdity. The pacing lurches, the emotional logic collapses, and the plot twists feel like they were generated by a malfunctioning slot machine, but the sheer audacity of it becomes its own kind of entertainment. I finished it with the same energy you have when you watch a storm from the window: fascinated, confused, mildly concerned, but unable to look away. It’s chaotic, it’s messy, it’s unbelievable—but I can’t deny it was entertaining.

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Not Expected Coming from China

Woah. Did not expect this out of China. The ML's fiance was 🍇 and murdered by chaebols. After biding his time in a mental hospital he gets his revenge by taking them down from the inside. Using their own secrets, betrayals, and abhorrent actions to have them bring each other down. Throughout the entire show he sees his dead fiance interacting with him, showing just how far hone he was. In a world where Yu Menglong did not get justice (and given corruption in China/entertainment industry) and likely never will, the end was a stark warning to those who would think about vigilante justice. Almost as if this (IMHO award winning) entire drama was made to deter netizens from taking revenge on the people who murdered him.

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Mental Heartbreak

This more than a revenge drama. For me, it is a heartbreaking story about love, trauma, grief, and what can happen to a person's mind when the one person they love most is violently taken away.

The FL suffered a horrific injustice at the hands of four people who believed their wealthy and powerful families placed them above the law. She was sexually assaulted and stabbed and ultimately lost her life because of their cruelty. What makes this part of the story especially disturbing is the sense of entitlement behind their actions. They believed their status and family connections would protect them from consequences.

But they didn't understand what her death would do to Xiao Muchen.

The ML's character is what made this drama unforgettable for me. Xiao Muchen didn't simply lose the woman he loved. He lost the person around whom he had built his future. Her death broke something inside him that could never truly be repaired.

His mental illness is an important part of understanding his character. I didn't see his visions and conversations with the FL as the drama simply portraying him as "crazy." I saw them as his mind's way of surviving something he couldn't accept. His reality became intertwined with the woman he loved. In his world, she could still speak to him, sit beside him, love him, and accompany him.

And together, they had one thing left to accomplish. Revenge.

Xiao Muchen couldn't save her from what those four people did, but he could make sure they didn't escape the consequences. His broken mind, intelligence, grief, and love seemed to become one. He methodically went after the people responsible and made them pay.

That is what made his revenge feel different to me. It wasn't about power or money. It wasn't even simply about anger.

It was the final thing he could still do for the woman he loved.

There is something both beautiful and terribly sad about the relationship between the ML and FL after her death. We know she is gone, yet through Xiao Muchen's eyes she never completely leaves. She continues existing in the private world his mind has created for the two of them.

The ending is where this drama truly stayed with me.

Jonathan Buchanan's "The Prophets" playing over the final scenes was a beautiful choice. Then we see the world Xiao Muchen has created—the ML and FL together, surrounded by flowers, with nobody else around them. It is peaceful and almost dreamlike.

Then reality returns.

Xiao Muchen is in the mental hospital.

But in his mind, she is still beside him.

The writer's final words were the perfect way to end the story. Xiao Muchen's life has settled inside his "sun-drenched cage." To everyone outside, when he repeatedly asks his wife, "What flower is this?", they see a man whose mind has been lost to time.

But Xiao Muchen sees something completely different.

He sees their little home surrounded by flowers. He sees the woman he loves. He talks to her. She has never left him.

The line that affected me most was the idea that what withered was not Xiao Muchen, but the world outside his window.

That completely changed the meaning of the ending for me.

To us, Xiao Muchen is a patient in a mental hospital, forever living inside a reality that doesn't exist. But to him, the outside world no longer matters. The four people responsible for destroying their future have paid for what they did. His revenge is finished.

Now there is only her.

The woman he couldn't save in reality became the woman his mind refused to lose.

And perhaps that is why the title The Dark Side of the Sun fits this story so beautifully. There are darkness, violence, grief, and madness—but somewhere inside Xiao Muchen's broken mind, there is still sunlight, flowers, a little house, and the woman he loves.

The world believes Xiao Muchen lost his mind.

Xiao Muchen believes he went home to his wife.

And in the only world that remains real to him, they will live happily together in that never-ending moment forever.

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