oof, Mao's watching his superficial puppy love getting cooked. This drama does an excellent job of showing the difference between superficial puppy love and love created through emotional development. While the politics is nice, the romance is well-crafted.
I was refraining from saying too much about the script as I read the novel. But to people who are talking about…
"It's like the scriptwriter took the novel and wrote a new story over it" This seems to be the case for most novel-to-drama adaptations I've seen. They often use the novel as a vague reference to write an almost brand-new story. I suspect this is the case because these dramas have to follow a strict generic formula.
The fact that the director give us 2ml and fl more screentime together make me furious ππ..
The worst part is the fact that they made her continue to interact with him after he said Xiu Yuan was a demon who deserved to die. Like, who wrote this garbage?
Tong Zhou tells Li Fei that Xiu Yuan deserved to die to her face, and she brushes it off and continues interacting with him like he never said that. In the preview for the next episode, she calls him her closest friend. Like WTF? lol This is so badly written.
The ML literally serves no purpose other than following the FL around, begging for her forgiveness like a sad dog, and protecting her. My God, he's so horribly written.
i think you are being way too critical. Can you pls understand their motives behind what they did? this is a very…
She repeatedly asked him to respect her boundaries. He kept breaking them. I feel sorry for her in that situation, not him. Being lonely doesn't permit you to stalk people.
This seems to be the case for most novel-to-drama adaptations I've seen. They often use the novel as a vague reference to write an almost brand-new story. I suspect this is the case because these dramas have to follow a strict generic formula.
Straight off the generic Cdrama factory line. π€£