If God is real, why did he let me see this?

I struggled to watch it to the end just to be able to criticise it without some loudmouth saying "if you haven't seen the whole thing you can't have an opinion" and I feel like I wasted my life, I feel like I could sue for emotional damages.

The only two things I liked were the set design, I thought it was quite aesthetically pleasing, the locations looked elegant and luxurious, plus, the male actors along with Byeon Seo Yoon and Pyo Young Seo served face and looked great in every shot. I also liked the way the parent-child relationships were portrayed, I know from someone close to me that those rich people are usually like that with their children. And that's all the good I can say, all of it.

Things I didn't like in no specific order:

+ The make-up: What the hell happened to them? Those pink blushes they put on He-ra, I understand if they wanted to make her look exaggerated, but it looks more like a hate crime towards the actress because she looks stupid, my mother thought she was playing the role of a drunk middle aged woman when she passed by me. At times I could see the 7 make up masks they put on the main actress, she looked like a plastic doll, it made me sick to my stomach, it was like watching a soulless doll that for some reason WAS ON THE SCREEN 90% OF THE TIME, MORE THAN THE PROTAGONIST. It was horrible.

+ The execution: I feel that I didn't see a drama, but a collage of various scenes that perhaps should have been approached and ordered differently. Revenge is supposed to be the central point, so where is it? It's the worst story of its kind, Senior High (Filipino series) did it better. 5 episodes went by and no one did anything either for revenge or protection, I don't remember a single interesting or shocking moment in all this, it got to a point where I just gave a dead stare at the screen and used it as a backdrop to do the dishes. Revenge is relegated to make way for nothing, because I don't feel like they built good characters, only He-ra was interesting to me, she was the only one doing anything in particular besides... Talking? Remembering? That was all the rest of the people did beyond looking cute. They should have put all that luxury of the sets, the cars and the outfits into the story and its development as well, make it all dramatic and fake like they are rich in real life.
I remember this scene where the lead actress touches the main character's bracelet and remembers that the dead scholarship kid had the same one, I almost cried from laughter and anger. Are you telling me no one else noticed? No one? If they were bullying him they should have at least noticed that. Besides, how come that idiot Ri-an didn't think of who shot that video? Pay some brain cells with that money please. If it's a private residence just for one person's family, IT'S OBVIOUS WHO THE MAIN SUSPECTS ARE. I guess they wanted to go slow so that everything would explode in the final chapters, but even that didn't work. If you want to do that you should at least put effort into your characters and the story, the background of everything. The only redeemable thing was Ri-an's handsome friend being the traitor, what a bastard.

+ The protagonist: If someone is the MC they should be the one with the most development and story, they should be a good character even if they are there for me to love or hate with every fibre in my body. Kang Ha is the main character, but it's not until chapter 6 that we are let to know Kang Ha for a 1 minute scene revolving around that girl, the FL, I didn't even learn her name, even He-ra feels more real as a character. I understand that there are more main characters, but damn, it's even Kang Ha who is talked about in the synopsis, where is he then, why does he appear so little? We know next to nothing about him, his personality, how he was raised to have that "I don't care if someone so rich threatens me" energy because he seems to think he's going to be resurrected if the rich decide to annihilate him. It would be nice if they had shown that, also that maybe he had taken fighting classes when his brother died, because it seems like he went into that school without a plan or skills to get out of there unscathed. The type of protagonist in these stories should be brave and smart, or at least thoughtful and brave, not just daring. Or AT LEAST GET ON SCREEN AND ACT, even if he's just going to be an observer at first before he puts a plan together, he needs to do something on screen, show us where he lives and the information he's gathered, the allies he gets in the shadows, SOMETHING. The only chapter where he is really the protagonist is in chapters 6 and 7, when he is trying to create a revolt of the scholarship students, but that doesn't make sense either. They hated him because he broke the rules that protected them all, there were never any interactions that would bring Kang Ha closer to them, he's a selfish person and it's obvious to everyone, he even prefers to protect the plastic face girl over them, why would they join him for anything? What nonsense. If you want to make a kind of story where the oppressed are liberated, at least take a history book, a country like Korea knows what struggle and revolution is, why would you make something so bland and shallow then? Don't make a story like that just because you think it's cool. AT LEAST GIVE A GOOD PROTAGONIST. The fool even put revenge aside for a girl who really has no charm, how can two men fight over chicken breast soup with no seasoning? It's just water with tasteless chicken.

Not much more to say, nothing happened. Although, what was that moment of evangelising those rich kids at the end? Does anyone really think that rich people care that much about karma? Those people are aware of who they are, they don't give a damn about the damage they do, don't make me laugh. There was so little chemistry between the men and women here that they might as well have made a bl and at least had something interesting.

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This uh... It's like a mixture of a lot of things

I don't feel like the supposed main couple has even a little chemistry, sorry, they really fell in love instantly and don't even look good together.
I think the beginning is too slow for my taste, I feel like they tried to establish the characters, but none of them are interesting enough to capture my attention or sympathy.

The story has potential, especially with the Japanese invasion theme, but I feel it is wasted and handled very poorly. It's identical to every other story of the style, I already knew what was going to happen in each chapter before it happened, the dialogues for some reason feel awkward. I was bored out of my mind while watching it, but my friend forced me to watch it to the end.

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