Brinda Gupta
A Bad Filler
The story was choppy. The relationship seemed a bit toxic. The plot of blind man wasn't utilized. He could locate things very accurately. The only difficulty blindness seemed to have caused the ML is using braille. I didn't like the FL's casual attitude in the beginning. The care and effort required to take care of a blind man weren't shown. The subtitles were wrong. Though you could guess much of it. The plot had potential but wasn't given enough TLC to produce a good enough script. You can watch it without expectations as a filler while changing genres or looking for a good drama. If you want to watch a good chemistry blind ML drama, I would suggest Crush (2021).Was this review helpful to you?
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A Good drama made like a film
Characters:In Ji, a woman hurt by the concept of marriage decides to take revenge by joining a company New Marriage, which provides an ideal marriage service for people.
Jeong Won is a music producer and son of a wealthy man who gave him tons of trauma in his childhood.
Lee Seo Yeon is the b*tch and Jeong Won's ex-wife.
Yun Ji O, Lee Seo Yeon's husband and a nice party in the square-ship of all four characters.
What I like:
The premise of the plot is something new. Specifically the concept of how In Ji distances herself as identity from the marriage but does everything in the manual to provide an ideal marriage like holding hands for comfort.
All four characters, especially In Ji, are interesting on their own.
The movie-like production with specific silence-filled moments. The director is good.
How the plot shows marriage, dealing with toxic marriage/behaviour, the kind of down-hole a bad marriage can pull you into.
What I don't like:
It is somewhat predictable after 3 episodes. I could guess the next lines of the character.
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A Short Sweet Drama
The synopsis tells you everything. Friends to Lovers trope. You know how it's gonna go. It is a feel-good drama, one that I would definitely watch again. I watched this because of Park Hyung Shik (I was impressed with his performance in Happiness) and because it was short drama. What I really end up liking was the execution and simple closure to the drama.It could have easily been made into a movie but I am not complaining. Music was great. There's not much depth to the characters or story.
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A nice Xin Xia Drama
The Drama "stars Yu Shu Xin as Xiao Lan Hua, the orchid fairy who is the reincarnation of one of the young women from the defeated army, Dylan Wang as Dong Fang Qing Cang, the Lord Devil, who wants to conquer the three realms, Zhang Ling He as Lord Cheng Heng, the God of War.The female Lead's personality was annoying. Usually I don't make a fuss about a character being annoying as long as it's consistent and logical. But she was too much. The high pitch voice irritated me. She was so bubbly it seemed like she had no dimension. But it wasn't so. She wasn't easy to be deterred from her path once she has decided. I like smart female leads who can keep their word. It would have been better for her to have retained some sort of resemblance to her previous incarnation personality. Her peculiar things irritated me. How she always interrupted in places she had no business in. Like Dong Fang QingCang's Court room/throne room (idk). She was always dressed in that white bright costume. I would have liked if she had blended in, not completely but a little.
The ML was coolest, strongest, unfathomable being with cold on the outside, mushy on the inside, cute for FL personality in the drama with the only weakness being FL. Your usual Chinese Novel Male Lead. FL and ML had their own dynamic. It went something like this: My weakness is you. Oh no I can heal you. You were hurt the whole time You were with me. Now I have to suffer to prove my competence. Am I betraying you? Maybe, will you trust me? It was a bit chaotic to be honest. But it was set when there was war brewing between two greatest factions. So emotions are bound to get out of control/
The second ML was your usual Chinese Drama second male Lead. But I did like that even though he had responsibilities, he wasn't like "I don't deserve your love", "I am letting you go" or "I have responsibilities so I need to fulfill them." He was like, "That's the woman I love and I am gonna protect her at all cost." He might not have gotten the FL but he got my respect as a (S)ML. FL made the choice on her own. On the Other hand, FL did that "I have responsibility and I need to fulfill them" thing. Except she's the character to do that and it's perfectly logical she'd do that.
The story did have content but it got boring as it moved further. So rather than anticipating the ending I got bored. I was OK with whatever is gonna happen to the characters. That's not what I expected. I want to feel emotions as the story is entering into the grand Finale. The Visual FX were really good. I mean Watch the drama for the VFX if nothing else. They must have spent a lot on it. I mean you really have to see them. I especially liked the scene where the two friend were having wine on a river except it is shown like a painting. They really decreased the depth and it seemed such a new thing to do. The FL's abode was very pretty. I didn't like the trope where reason behind the greatest war was obsessive love. I would have loved some creativity.
It is one of the better XinXias I have seen. You should give it a try.
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