Dextran77

I think the hate comes from many recent kdramas making it so that fl dates and ml doesn't. It feels lopsided. It would be fine if one or two did it but a lot of recent kdramas I've tried do this.

Yes. Don't know about fl and ml getting back together anytime soon. Honestly getting a bit uncomfortable that the breakup between fl and 2nd ml is finalized at the same time that she starts getting "close" to the ml again.

Problem with the "romance" is that it was very one sided. Even after the misunderstanding was cleared, it was still mainly one sided from the ml's side. Maybe I've forgotten but I don't remember ever thinking the fl was truly in love with the ml when it was airing, there were just signs from time to time

She's batman😭

Genuinely curious on why the fl didn't give the ml even a tiny bit of reassurance in ep29? She instead did the opposite by giving him "closure".

Even if for whatever reason she didn't want to tell him her plans, at the bare minimum why couldn't she just tell him she didn't plan to actually marry the Yan guy? I genuinely don't get this part, was there any reason to make him believe even more that she was marrying someone else?

Ep28 and it's completely lopsided. Everything the ml does is for the fl. On the fl's side, so far there's only one instance where her love didn't feel calculated. She is seemingly getting married to someone else in ep 29..again lol. There will obviously be circumstances that explain it but still.

If the "marriage" doesn't have a plan they both worked on/know about, I'm probably gonna drop. The other things in the drama may all be good but their relationship hasn't developed enough for me and that's the main thing I was looking forward to.

I disagree with that first part. Kdrama romances suck imo. It's usually very one sided. It's as if kdrama FLs are not allowed to express their love for the ml at all. Even the romance cdramas with lopsided relationships, I don't ask myself whether the fl actually loves the ml or not at the end. It's the opposite with kdramas because even when the leads are finally together, the fl doesn't express her love in a way that doesn't feel superficial.

Love rival...typical.

Wish more kdramas had 2nd and/or 3rd couples to fill up time instead of love triangles and every dumb,annoying trope linked to them. Will hold out until that's resolved before deciding on whether I continue or not.

I find more cdramas have far more balanced relationships than kdramas. I tried a few popular kdramas last year and every single one of them had the ml basically providing 99.9% of the "love" in the relationship. Kdrama MLs are just left with no dignity at all when pursuing the fl

Admittedly this one is also extremely lopsided but a lot usually aren't this lopsided from my experience. I honestly wish we got to see more of them scheming/guarding against each other after the ml regained his memories instead of him just being head over heals for her.

Not a fan of it either but there are 4 guys who were/are literally obsessed with the fl

That's actually somewhat common. I remember in new life begins, the ml was made the "whetstone" for the crown prince by their father. The leaders don't view their family as actual family, the only one that matters is the heir and they will do everything to make them a worthy heir. I wouldn't be surprised is the grandmother is the one who made almost all the fl's sisters isolate her to try and make the fl a stronger heir. She's the one keeping the "potential" husbands around despite some of them having committed serious crimes against the Rong family and the fl having already chosen a husband. It's all because she believes the Yan guy will bring more benefits and be a better support for the fl.

Another recent one is Fated hearts. The emperor puts the ml through hell and does nothing to help him, all because he thinks it makes the ml a better heir/ruler.

First episode was great. I'll still keep my expectations in check, too many kdramas in 2025 had great 1-3 episodes followed by disaster.

I just don't understand how the He guy was still allowed to stay after his deception and attempt to poison was revealed. Like how??

"Also, what if he regains his memory back and doesn't recognize Shan Bao or remembers nothing during his stay at Rong Mansion?" That's one of the dumbest and most frustrating parts of the amnesia trope. It makes 0 sense that someone regaining their memories means they lose the memories of when they had amnesia. I really hope they don't go that route

I think it was supposed to be today or tomorrow's eps if they continued following the novel but it seems starting episode 14, they are no longer following the novel closely. iirc, it's right before she goes home for the holidays and before they start dating

Was a bit surprised because so far it has been an almost 1 to 1 adaptation with the novel including the dialogue. Ep 14 and 15 are very different though. I guess they didn't want them to start dating this early, honestly a bit of a bummer.

I was honestly in disbelief. People will give the excuse that she prioritized finding her sister but the entire drama has just been excuses for fl to not prioritize the ml. It got annoying real quick.

Kdrama FLs seem like they aren't allowed to take a step towards the ml until he takes a thousand steps towards her and even after those thousand steps, he still has to pull her for her to take that one singular step towards him. That isn't romance, that ain't love.

The entire drama we're just told she loves him but they never show it. Why not do a mini compilation of that month to show that she cares?

As soon as he called her pathetic I started hating him lol. He was just a rude prick to the fl on their first 2 interactions that I just started half skipping his scenes. Not her fault that she's well off

Is the novel mostly a love triangle?