mystic exiler

yea I was weirded out by that user's comment because I don't remember any Cdrama this year having a rape scene. Their comment felt more like a general rant than something related to this drama.

rape?

Yay this is the first breakup/ghosting trope drama I've actually finished without resorting to skip-watching. That's an achievement in itself

Were modern Cdramas really this different just three years ago? FL comes across as somewhere between naive and outright foolish. ML realized he liked her ages ago but never actually pursued her. After their kiss, when she was confused, he said something like just let it happen. I have more important things to focus on at work lmao😭

It's realistic. But in today's modern Cdramas, no matter the ML's job, loving the FL is practically his full time occupation🥴He'd liked her for so long but there was barely any yearning from his side and he wasn't even sure about marrying her.

I wouldn't want other dramas to copy this dynamic but it was refreshing to watch something different and I'm only talking about the main leads. The supporting characters were absolutely unbearable, they existed for no reason except to waste screentime.

what did he do?

Is the ML a tsundere? Ngl in the trailer he felt kind of washed out next to the FL's aura. Are they hiding his real personality and saving it as a surprise for later?

How is it dark romance? They just fall for eac other

I don't like Jiang Yan but putting gender aside, imagine your closest friend, the person you spend all your time with and walk home with every day, slowly drifting away because they've become interested in someone else. That would hurt anyone. 😭

umm I'm guessing It's an old drama before cdrama fandom became big

I see. Thanks for replying. I'll give it a try. 😭 I just hope the one who's on the receiving end of all the neglect actually pushes back sometimes instead of being a saint

Mostly because both love stories felt one sided to me. I don’t enjoy dramas where the woman loves more, which is why Lighter & Princess put me off. In The First Frost, it felt like only Sang Yan was in love and he was just too nice,like never even questioned her even after being abandoned two times. I really dislike that imbalance in relationships. So is this drama similar in vibe?

I really wanted to watch it but I saw a post saying it's similar to Lighter & Princess and The First Frost. I didn't like either of those dramas, so I wanted to ask, does it actually have the same vibe?

I couldn't finish Amidst a Snowstorm of Love for the same reason and the same thing happened with Rising with the Wind. The visuals looked so rich, especially considering when it was released but the whole drama ended up revolving around shoes and business. I just watched clips of the leads afterward.

I also agree about The Best Thing. If a drama wants to focus on a profession, it should pick something interesting and weave it into the story, like The Best Thing did, instead of making us sit through someone's mundane workday.

About your last point regarding Road Home, I haven't watched it but I feel the same way about the male lead in this drama.

As I said, I couldn't even make it to their first kiss, so there wasn't really anything I liked. I usually leave a drama unrated if I drop it early, like around 4 eps. But if I've watched more and it still doesn't impress me, then I don't mind giving it a low rating.

I've no complaints about the leads. They're the reason I kept forcing myself to watch. I liked their story and was even following the side plots but then they suddenly introduced so many new characters. I started wondering, do I really need to keep track of this much just to unwind and be entertained after a long day? Ig it's not for me

What's the billing situation?

Twitter would be in full meltdown if an actress in her early 20s had that many kissing scenes with a male actor in his 40s

If the roles were reversed, I wonder how people would react to a love story about a divorced man having a fling with a high school girl he had taken in and helped raise.

The kissing scenes looked hot when I came across them on social media but the actual story gave me the ick. My biggest issue, though, is the pacing. It's painfully slow. This kind of story would work much better as a short drama with tighter pacing and less filler.

This is the kind of story with a lot going on but I kept wondering if I really needed to know all of it just to be entertained.

I liked both leads and tried to stick around for the visuals or at least until the first kiss but I just couldn't. Dropped. I hope these two work together again, because visually they're a perfect match

Haters attacked or maybe people didn’t like it that much