XW is a walking Red flag and this just went from a 10 to a 6. No man should choke or grab any woman regardless…
He is obsessive, possessive and psychotic. Personally, love how he is not prince charming but the beast himself. In most Asian dramas, they show men in a brutal and non gentile way, who play with girls like they're dolls.
They wanted to sexualize his craziness towards her. (His sadistic love complement her masochistic desire to change everything). Even Yan Lin is a red flag in 1st life :cry:
Try to look at the bigger picture. This is a dark love roman. No one is perfect. No one is pure. No one is innocent.
He has been oppressed his whole life. Got love only from his mother (until he was 6), his father is a garbage who wanted him dead. XW loves her in his own way for 4 years and only came closer when she was free ( emotionally ). He prioritized her in every plan he made.
Few more episode and you will see how important she is for him and what he would give up for her. Drama was done well ( we just needed few more episodes). Maybe something isn't your cup of tea, but give it a chance. It's not a fairy tale nor real life drama. Hope until the end you'll see it from different perspective( and that 6 goes way higher ;)) <3
the only family names you need to know in accordance to their frequency1. jiang family- fl's family2. yan family-…
Give yourself time, you will catch all the characters . I needed few episodes too. Mostly is political,but it's not dry politics.. Personal manipulation is the real power here. Just keep watching. Hope you'll like it
Frankly, at this point, i just blame however had the Genius idea of only 40 episodes per drama, come on, like…
They worked on this drama and made it for 60 episodes, but bc of Chinese new restriction that max. show can have 40 episodes, they reduced it. SOKP would be perfect if they gave us more of the story from 1st life and more time to see how Ning fall in love with WX in 2nd life.
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They wanted to sexualize his craziness towards her. (His sadistic love complement her masochistic desire to change everything). Even Yan Lin is a red flag in 1st life :cry:
Try to look at the bigger picture. This is a dark love roman. No one is perfect. No one is pure. No one is innocent.
He has been oppressed his whole life. Got love only from his mother (until he was 6), his father is a garbage who wanted him dead.
XW loves her in his own way for 4 years and only came closer when she was free ( emotionally ). He prioritized her in every plan he made.
Few more episode and you will see how important she is for him and what he would give up for her.
Drama was done well ( we just needed few more episodes). Maybe something isn't your cup of tea, but give it a chance. It's not a fairy tale nor real life drama. Hope until the end you'll see it from different perspective( and that 6 goes way higher ;)) <3
https://m.hetushu.com/book/6500/index.html (this one google automatically translate)
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Story%20of%20Kunning%20Palace%20(TV)