Revenge is a dish best served cold
I don’t have much to say but I really enjoyed it despite not picking it up when it first aired.
I’m a avid fan of revenge stories, as I’ll always be in for a good, juicy revenge story and when I heard this had a romance subplot? Like, count me in (I had nothing to watch T-T).
This is the first drama that I’ve watched of XZ and I didn’t notice much about the acting but he did really well. I was rather more focused on the story lol.
Some would have preferred there would be no romance, others wish the romance would have been a higher percentage of the story, but I think the balance was done nicely, at least because a lot of stories liked these or have two very opposite genres would usually have a hard time finding a balance between the two, so it would leave either one of the genres badly done. With how the story was, the romance wasn’t done badly or interfered too much with the defence plot, unlike badly done revenge stories I've seen, so I think it was nicely done, and romance wasn’t the main focus anyway.
There were some rather commonly used plot devices or tropes in the revenge that made it kinda predictable, but they were still able to write a rather original story.
The story arcs can be separated into 3 arcs, so arc 1 being enemy 1, enemy2, enemy 3
In Arc 3, it was rather surprising who the final enemy was. It reminded me of the quote “keep your friends close but your enemies closer” and was a shock factor. Tho whenever they started to talk about tombs and contraptions like puzzles, I kinda got bored or sometimes lost.
Overall, I would def rewatch this in the future whenever I'm in the mood for a revenge story
I’m a avid fan of revenge stories, as I’ll always be in for a good, juicy revenge story and when I heard this had a romance subplot? Like, count me in (I had nothing to watch T-T).
This is the first drama that I’ve watched of XZ and I didn’t notice much about the acting but he did really well. I was rather more focused on the story lol.
Some would have preferred there would be no romance, others wish the romance would have been a higher percentage of the story, but I think the balance was done nicely, at least because a lot of stories liked these or have two very opposite genres would usually have a hard time finding a balance between the two, so it would leave either one of the genres badly done. With how the story was, the romance wasn’t done badly or interfered too much with the defence plot, unlike badly done revenge stories I've seen, so I think it was nicely done, and romance wasn’t the main focus anyway.
There were some rather commonly used plot devices or tropes in the revenge that made it kinda predictable, but they were still able to write a rather original story.
The story arcs can be separated into 3 arcs, so arc 1 being enemy 1, enemy2, enemy 3
In Arc 3, it was rather surprising who the final enemy was. It reminded me of the quote “keep your friends close but your enemies closer” and was a shock factor. Tho whenever they started to talk about tombs and contraptions like puzzles, I kinda got bored or sometimes lost.
Overall, I would def rewatch this in the future whenever I'm in the mood for a revenge story
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