TTR - The Truth Review

A Masterclass in Gaslighting and Narrative Sickness

If Part 1 was a struggle, Part 2 is a complete, utter narrative shipwreck. The writing abandons all common human decency. When the ML finally takes rough justice against the people who butchered his family, the story has the audacity to demonize him with foreboding music while his hypocritical parents cry self-serving tears.
The final arc is a horrific soap opera. From the ludicrous cliff-side murder attempt by General Zuo to the explosion caused by Wang Yanji, the plot is purely designed to provoke rage. The 5-year time jump is a disaster, and the FL's cold breakup while the ML is half-dead is the height of heartless storytelling. The most insulting part is the expectation that we accept a "Happy Family" finale where the abusive parents are forgiven with a honey cake and the grandmother is treated with reverence. It is pure sickness to frame this level of emotional neglect as "harmony." Wu Lei and Zhao Lusi give elite performances, but they are trapped in a script that is pure, unadulterated nonsense.

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Hating it until episode 31

This is a tricky one because there’s 38 episodes at approximately 40 minutes each. They obviously spent a bit of money on this and the cast are all really good looking people and the acting was pretty good.
However, for the first 30 episodes I thought I was going to score this a 1 because I really hated the fact they kept falling for the villains schemes and traps willingly. I get the trope and I get it’s a vehicle to move the plot forward but the story just felt terrible and I thought it was a pile of horse crap Because they just kept letting the villains go every time they stopped one of their despicable schemes which were all targeted at their deaths.

Anyway, the story got good from episode 31 when he remembered he was a prince and I thought the story was actually good but I couldn’t forget how frustrated I was for the first 75% of the drama hence why I can only score at a five. I liked how the main villains all got their comeuppance and we got a happy ending.

Again, I understand the story was romance driven but the sub plots and political intrigue were lacking. Style over substance..

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A masterpiece of absolute crap, Narcissism and Divine Stupidity

If you enjoy watching a supposedly "elite" military general treat the creator of the universe like a footstool while he thanks her for the privilege, then this is the "masterpiece" for you. For anyone else with a functioning grasp of logic, hierarchy, or basic human decency, The 39 episode 45 minute each The Legend of Shen Li is an infuriating exercise in "Rubbish Writing."
The "General" Who is Just a Bully
The Female Lead, Shen Li, is marketed as a "badass warrior," but by Episode 15, it’s clear she’s just a narcissistic brat with a spear. She struts around the Immortal Realm with a level of "raisin cheek" that defies belief. Whether she’s laughing in the face of her betrothed while he’s literally trying to save a city from lethal miasma, or nearly strangling a prisoner because he said something she didn't like, she is consistently unlikable, impulsive, and cruel. She hasn't earned her status; she just screams the loudest and hits people who can’t hit back.
The Divine Lord Turned "Simp"
Then there’s the Male Lead, Xing Zhi. He is the last Ancient God—the literal pillar of the universe—yet he spends the entire drama "simping" after Shen Li like a brain-dead servant.
She commits a war crime? He feeds her a snack.
She orders him around like a medical intern? He complies with a smile.
She disrespects the entire chain of command? He looks on with "affected indifference."
His "devotion" isn't romantic; it’s pathetic. Watching a cosmic deity lose his dignity for a woman who treats him with contempt isn't "goals"—it’s a character assassination. By Episode 31, when he’s ready to sacrifice the safety of the entire world for her, the writing has officially collapsed into a logic-void.
A World Without Rules
The show completely ignores its own world-building. The Spirit Realm acts like they own the place despite being entirely dependent on the ML’s power to keep the Abyss from swallowing them whole. The Immortal Realm is a collection of useless bureaucrats who let a "vassal" General walk all over them. There are no consequences for her arrogance, no respect for divinity, and no growth.
Verdict
The only reason this show gets high marks is because fans are blinded by the lead actors' previous chemistry. Strip that away, and you’re left with two toxic leads burning down the universe for a relationship that feels entirely unearned. I didn't want to see them win; I wanted to see the Abyss swallow them both so the universe could finally have some peace from their combined ego.
Don't waste your time. It's 39 episodes of a God acting like a waiter for a brat.

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The horrific sickness and diabolical perversion of this drama has left me deeply disturbed

Utterly Horrendous and horrific. On IQIYL it is classed as a romance but this is absolutely a horror sprinkled with inhumane torture and abuse for the female lead throughout.
They’ve already established in the first couple of episodes how horrifically and brutally she was tortured showing us her being beaten to a bloody pulp with open wounds and even losing an eye with blood gushing out and even showing her mum getting thrown off a building and slamming into a parked car to her death. Yet we barely saw the villains get laid a finger on and when they did demise it was short and sharp and quick without any suffering while for 98% of the drama, they were still standing on the female leads neck for most of it.. this can’t be just a cultural thing, it can’t be due to censorship regulations and guidelines because you are more than happy to show us the horrific torture the FL was getting uncensored yet you didn’t really wanna show the villains getting their comeuppance. I really don’t understand. It’s as if the writers just decided that they’re gonna stop pretending to have a moral code because what they want is deeply horrific, physical and emotional abuse to be inflicted on the good guys with little or no accountability for the villains.. and it can’t be just to get clicks and it can’t just be lazy writing. is this something in the psyche of the Chinese? content like this has such massive audiences and are popular. Serious questions need to be asked about this kind of content because all it would do is desensitise Chinese people into the horrors of these horrific crimes and make people believe this is part of the norm. It’s frankly disgusting..

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Every single character is excruciatingly annoying

A couple of questions need to be asked first.
1. Is this the worst Chinese drama of 2025 with so many popular actors?
2. Is this a disaster from beginning to end?
3.Is the female lead in the conversation for worst female lead of all time?

There were only 24 episodes at approximately 45 minutes each and I can answer the second question. The answer is no because the first handful of episodes were okay but then it became a complete and utter shambles.
My first complaint is Yao Fu. She was an integral part of the plot to wipe out Shenqyue Sect and stabbed female lead through the heart to kill her but because yan Qing gave her a scolding she was completely exonerated from all her crimes. Total garbage.
Secondly, every time the villain said anything against anybody it was immediately taken as gospel yet as soon as the heroes had suspicions of the villains villainy they required a copious amount of evidence before they were even allowed to accuse them.

I could go on, but my final thought is on the female lead.

She betrayed, abandoned her sect to cozy up with the sect that were responsible for the slaughter and imprisonment of her people because she loved the male lead who was a top dog there.

Morally bankrupt garbage. TOTALLY USELESS.. and I will forget this before I start my next drama. Waste of time.

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A GCSE Drama Project with an Unlimited Budget

If you’re coming from the strategic brilliance and high-stakes tension of The Prisoner of Beauty, prepare yourself for a massive case of tonal whiplash. I desperately wanted to like this—the lead actors are charming, and the production values are surprisingly polished—but no amount of pretty costumes can mask what is fundamentally a rotten, logic-free script.
The show is a complete parody of itself, yet it lacks the self-awareness to actually be clever. We are served a relentless cycle of "misery porn" where the Emperor and Empress spend thirty episodes being passive door mats. The power dynamic is frankly ridiculous; watching an Emperor act like a helpless puppet while the Empress Dowager and Prince Duan treat the palace like their own personal playground is route-one nonsense.
The writing is strictly GCSE-level. Villains like Prince Duan don't win through tactical genius; they win through "teleportation" logic and literal plot armour. He can stroll into the inner palace for a chat whenever he fancies it, yet the moment our leads try to show an ounce of spine, they’re shackled by "filial piety" or "system" rules that only seem to apply to the heroes.
Then there is the insufferable "pandering." Watching the Female Lead "kiss the arse" of the villainous consort—a character who is a pouty, spoiled brat with a body count—is bizarre. The show tries to hide behind the meta-excuse that she’s "not a real person" to justify the FL acting like a spineless nanny. It completely kills any sense of immersion or stakes.
Even the finale is a shambles. After all the treachery and attempted murders, the wicked consorts are handed "happy endings" and travel funds like they’re off on a girls' holiday, rather than a one-way trip to the executioner. It wraps up with a forced "women’s empowerment" speech at a burial site that feels like a LinkedIn seminar dropped into a massacre.
I’ve given it 3.5 stars solely because the actors did their best with the absolute drivel they were handed. If you enjoy watching a show at 2x speed just to see the "Checkmate" (which is ultimately unsatisfying), then go ahead. Otherwise, don't let the high production values fool you—this is brainless drama at its most frustrating.

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The most incompetent police force in the history of the world

This is a poor show and there are many reasons why. Firstly, the Ninghai police force are just ridiculous. They are useless beyond belief and if I was a citizen living their city, I would be in fear at the incompetent buffoons that are meant to serve and protect me. These guys have guns and generally when they were taking on the villains, they outnumbered them. They always seem to be on the wrong end of the beating. Meant to be highly trained but they were always on the wrong end of any exchange with a villain. Totally useless.
The FL. Now I understand she went through some trauma PTSD and guilt but her behaviour to cut ties with the ML for eight years. Yes, eight years showed her level of maturity and gullibility to be off the scale rock bottom. She clearly didn’t love him. Not in the all consuming way we’re meant to believe to allow him to leave her life for eight years. I found the whole reconciliation way too smooth and easily fixed and I also found her to be quite childlike throughout the whole drama. I wasn’t impressed. The bad guy wasn’t that smart but he seem to always be at least 10 steps ahead of everybody including DML‘s police force which he was the captain of by the way. Now I get you’re supposed to suspend belief for these kind of things but as an audience you’ve got to capture at least some moments of realism and this show completely failed in that regard.

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This is in the conversation for one of the WORST dramas ever made

It is rare to see a show change its main character as quickly and drastically as this one. In the beginning, the female lead was introduced as a refreshing change of pace. She was a shrewd, calculating and genuinely a strong woman. By episode 9, however, that writing seems to have been discarded. She has devolved into an immature brat who spends her time being lovestruck, not even over the actual ML, but over his adopted nephew, a character who acts like a total closed book. Watching a once-promising, intelligent woman turn into a regressive character over a secondary figure can be quite frustrating. The rest of the show does very little to save itself from this writing. While the actual ML is depicted as properly ruthless and competent when dealing with his enemies, the domestic scenes surrounding the FL are difficult to sit through. It is a shame, because the toxic family dynamic itself is likely historically accurate for an abandoned legitimate daughter. The villa is entirely run by the scheming concubine and her wicked daughter, while the female lead's biological mother, who is supposed to be the matriarch, is portrayed as a weak and useless parent who refuses to step up. Ultimately, A Splendid Match is a massive disappointment that can lead to irritation. What started as a promising historical drama with a smart heroine has transitioned into a frustrating, immature mess that may not be worth finishing.

Episodes 10–21 gets marginally better than the absolute bin fire of the first nine episodes, but it is still plagued by major problems. While the plot moves away from the FLs initial infatuation, it replaces it with lazy writing, a complete lack of logic and infuriating character dynamics. The 2ML is a difficult character who completely tanks any potential for second-lead syndrome. Despite a decent appearance, the Marquis’s son is a short-sighted individual who cannot see the bigger picture. The ML is desperately trying to save this man's family from ruin, yet the Marquis always accuses him of being petty and holding grudges, completely blind to the fact that he is the one acting in an immature and petty. Least we forget the fact that early on he actually whipped the FL because he was having one of his petulant tantrums because she was giving him some home truths. Very frustrating.
The romance completely stalls out because the female lead has devolved into a bit of an irritating character. The script cuts ridiculous corners, suddenly turning her into an expert archer out of nowhere just to suit the plot. When the ML behaves like a proper adult by confessing his love and proposing, she flat-out rejects him due to baggage over her dead mother, dragging their dynamic into a childish standstill. To top it all off, the show suffers from severe narrative amnesia regarding its core villains. The half-sister and father, whose cruel crimes defined the start of the series, are suddenly treated like background characters and completely sidelined. Instead of giving any satisfaction by punishing them for their past crimes, the script forces us to focus entirely on the father’s extended family and their wicked schemes, turning the show into a frustrating political slog.

Nb. During the first half of this show there are a couple of moments particularly after episode 10 they’re actually quite nice especially between the ML and FL but they are so few and far between that I lose sight of them and almost forget them because of the frustrating elements.

The narrative completely collapses from episode 22 to 28, transitioning from a potential promising historical thriller into a masterclass in script lobotomy and state-approved propaganda. The fierce, calculating heroine we were promised completely regresses into a passive, skittish martyr who spends her time fixing household problems for her abusers and collapsing into her evil grandmother's arms to satisfy censorship-mandated family harmony codes. Meanwhile, the ruthless ML is thoroughly neutered into a passive bystander, and the 2ML throws a psychotic, sword-wielding, blood-spitting tantrum over a heartbreak he never even earned, considering he never properly courted her and literally whipped the FL earlier in the series. The political stakes completely evaporate as the actual mastermind of the corrupt grain swap is lazily let out of prison, the young Emperor suddenly mutates into a telepathic mastermind and the adopted nephew goes on a literal hunger strike over the wedding. To top off this absolute bonfire of garbage writing, the wedding day rewards the unrepentant scumbag father and toxic cousin, grandmother et al with massive imperial prestige and social immunity simply because the FL is marrying up. The show has officially sacrificed every ounce of character logic and cathartic revenge to serve as a pretty, high-budget piece of ideological stability lecturing that is a total insult to the viewer's intelligence.

From episode 29 to 34, it has transformed into a show that is a logic-defying catastrophe where character consistency is sacrificed for lazy padding and state-approved propaganda. The absurdity begins when the Emperor suddenly strips the Marquis title from the household the second the patriarch dies, backing his top confidant (2ML) into a corner over a nonsense power play. Instead of dealing with this high-stakes political crisis, the script bizarrely stalls to let the MLs ex-fiancée launch into a petty lecture scolding the female lead regards the 2mls unrequited obsession, forcing the heroine to endure this unfair humiliation in submissive silence to satisfy censorship-mandated family harmony codes. The story completely abandons basic human psychology and legal consequences as it barrels through its worst writing loops. The weak Fourth Master gathers the brazen audacity to kidnap the fl with the explicit, vile intent to sell her to a brothel so the "whole world would trample on her", yet the supposedly ruthless ml lets him off the hook with a soft exile and a mere kick to the leg. This legal farce peaks when an ironclad treason petition against the corrupt grain minister is derailed by a single verbal claim, causing the bribe-taking uncle to be dragged off in chains while the actual treasonous mastermind is allowed to casually hang out in his luxury mansion instead of rotting in a cell. The script then drags out a repetitive, rage-baiting subplot of the corrupt official's evil wife trying to frame the female lead's restaurant, completely wasting the viewer's time because the writers have run out of original ideas. The ultimate death of character intelligence happens right after the male lead is injured in an ambush. When he acts like a mature adult and asks a perfectly rational question about her past with his nephew, the female lead completely refuses to answer him. Instead of using her brain to resolve the trust barrier, she simply uses a physical kiss as a conversational mute button while the production blasts sweet music to gaslight the audience into ignoring the total breakdown of logic. The show has officially checked out, trading its somewhat early promise for an exhausted, mechanical product that relies on lazy romantic shortcuts and unpunished villains just to crawl to its 40 episode finish line.

Episode 35 to 40. The structural collapse reaches absolute peak psychosis across the battlefield arcs. The top-tier Metropolitan scholar Chen Xuanqing is completely lobotomized, transforming into a knife-wielding madman who takes the heroine hostage out of pure, unearned spite because his uncle got married. The writers then subject him to an absurd, five-minute suicide speedrun where he is lashed forty times, bashes his own head, and reveals he already drank poison, all while the production blasts unearned, manipulative music to force a synthetic tragedy. This is immediately followed by a gruelling display of misery porn during the invasion battle. The script stubbornly refuses to give the audience a single second of heroic triumph; instead, the entire supporting cast of friends and the male lead's personal guard are pointlessly pulverised in the mud. The second male lead takes a cliché spear to the back to cheat his way out of stalking accountability, triggering a grotesque, ten-minute sequence where the female lead screams uncontrollably and tenderly strokes his corpse, completely ignoring her own husband who is literally bleeding out and fainting into the dirt right in front of her.
The final episode is a masterclass in production panic and structural failure. Out of a 41-minute finale, the first seventeen minutes are entirely wasted on the dead rival's funeral and the female lead weeping over a secret letter hidden behind a painting, completely freezing the political plot. When the male lead finally reappears at the 20-minute mark, the script commits a bizarre act of identity theft by forcing him to cosplay in the dead stalker's armor to lead the remaining army. The grand political climax is entirely outsourced to a kitchen-knife standoff inside the mentor's office. In the final two minutes, the writers suddenly remember that the male lead was supposed to be "ruthless" in episode 1, mutating him from a sophisticated statesman into a blade-throwing action-movie assassin who hurls a piece of steel straight through the hostage-taking wife's chest. Within thirty seconds, the entire mention magically mutates into a CGI inferno, allowing the mass-murdering traitors to get a romantic, peaceful "Romeo and Juliet" deathbed embrace while the male lead scoops up his wife in a bridal carry and strolls out of the flames. By completely erasing the supporting cast, ignoring the total breakdown of marital trust, and replacing human dialogue with cheap visual shortcuts, the show finishes as a mechanical, exhausted joke that actively insults the viewer's intelligence. This show is without a doubt in the running for the gold medal for worst of all time in the history of television.

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If you don’t have power and influence, you are literally nothing

This is an interesting story, but not in a good way, but I’ll get to that.
It takes place in the Qing Dynasty and revolves around our male lead Gu Pingyuan who goes to the capital to take part in the imperial exam but is tricked into thinking his mother is ill and he causes a scene and gets exiled for 10 years in the harshest of lands where he is surrounded by evildoers but uses his wit and intellect to stay alive. He finds love but has to separateand escapes the hell hole and is reunited with his family. He then goes into various different businesses and is constantly challenged by the establishment but manages to thwart their plans at every turn making several enemies.. though these people including his father, ms Su, various officials and royalty all plan his demise and death he always manages to find a way out. The story finishes with him going back to his wife and them living a peaceful life, even though he is declared officially dead..

The problem with this story is too many to list, but the point I will make is that it is supposed to be about Aspiration. The show uses Gu Pingyuan as a highly idealised aspirational figure. The issue I have with this is that it makes it very clear that the average Joe literally has no chance to succeed. The fact that only a person of Gu Pingyuan's extraordinary caliber can survive and effect change highlights just how flawed and brutal that society was.
They also try and show us this is about Nationalism/Patriotism: The core message emphasises that qualities like intelligence, resilience, and integrity, when dedicated to the good of the nation, lead to ultimate triumph and national salvation. This suggests that extraordinary individuals are needed to correct systemic injustice, and shows the average person is disposable.
But in my opinion, all this show does is reinforce Hierarchies. The status quo. Influence matters above all else, and the system is so brutal that typical hard work won't save you. My perspective views the show as subtly discouraging mass dissent and encouraging reliance on exceptional, virtuous leaders.
So while the show aims for a message of "virtue triumphs," the mechanics of how it gets there (requiring the ML to be essentially a genius superhero with incredible luck) inadvertently support the reasoning that the average person doesn't stand a chance.
It’s clearly Chinese state propaganda and this stems from this contrast between an individual's struggle and the state's message of strong, morally sound leadership being necessary to overcome challenges.

My final thought is I also hated the fact that every time somebody did something to the ML not only did he forgive them but he somehow found a way to reward them for their despicable actions by either becoming allies and cooperating with them in business or allowing their business to flourish successfully .

The whole thing is just stupid.

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A One-Sided Devotion. An Unequal age gap Power Dynamic

The central connection between the FL and the ML is defined by a significant imbalance of effort. Throughout the series, the ML is the primary driver of the relationship. He demonstrates a constant, high level of emotional vulnerability and dedication, often at the expense of his own self-respect and social standing.
In contrast, the FL maintains a largely passive and guarded stance. Even after the eight-year time jump into the modern-day 2024 timeline, she frequently treats the ML with coldness or as a stranger. While the narrative frames her behaviour as "cautious" due to her past divorce, it results in a dynamic where she accepts the ML's intense pursuit without offering much vulnerability or accountability in return.
While the ML evolves from a timid student to a successful professional, his emotional position remains subservient. He openly admits to being at the FL's "beck and call," confirming that the power remains entirely in her hands. The FL rarely faces significant personal consequences or emotional pressure to change, as her surrounding environment, including her supportive father eventually accommodates her choices with little resistance.
Unfortunately this drama portrays a fantasy of absolute devotion rather than a balanced partnership. Because the FL is rarely challenged to meet the ML halfway, the relationship feels less like a mutual romance and more like a one-way pursuit that lacks a satisfying emotional payoff.

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Could’ve been so much better had the writers not given up on the last two episodes

There are 21 episodes at approximately 10 minutes each and I really like the story.
Two incognito lovers and it turns out that one of them is the emperor.
There is lots of angst and misunderstanding before the ML and FL finally get together and it all flowed quite well.
However……
The acting was mediocre at best apart from the FL who was actually quite good. The villains were all despicable and over the top in their villainy, but I could accept that.
What I can’t accept is how they completely butchered the last two episodes.
Not only did his half brother and the Empress Dowager try repeatedly to assassinate our ML, the half brother even plotted a rebellion and committed treason.
What did the ML do?
Not only did he let him off, but he actually gave him the throne……..My mind is blown..
If this wasn’t bad enough, we then had the empress dowager poison the female lead making it look like she died after being repeatedly let off by the ML and confined to a luxury palace as punishment. They just completely wrote her out of the story at the end so we don’t know whether she was arrested, executed or was confined to her luxury Palace..
It’s like they gave up in the last two episodes because they could’ve had a hidden gem, but they completely wasted it with the terrible ending. It turns out the FL didn’t die and they lived happily ever after. Whatever. Just total rubbish.

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When apologies, just forgive all you’re ridiculous and henious crimes

I thought this show was fairly non-offensive to begin with. 24 episodes at 10 minutes each and it was generally quite boring.. low budget, low quality where everybody seem to try their best.

Then 75% of the way through at the beginning of episode 18 it turned into a complete nonsensical farce. The Guardian who was by the ML side throughout turns out to be a spy for the villain and he immediately forgives her because she apologises and kneel down.. the FL’s sister prostitutes herself to a villain and kills him but none of this is ever exposed or even mentioned apart from her looking depressed and becoming jealous because the FLNML are together when she was in love with him. She then even kidnaps the FL so she can be sold but is immediately double crossed by the ridiculous love rival for the ML and his immediately forgiven.. the love rival who threatened to kill everybody changes her mind and they let her go without even an apology because she’s powerful and influential. The whole thing just stank and was completely rotten to the core by the end.

What even made it funny was when the spy was apologising to the ML for betraying him she even sounded completely dumbfounded at how ridiculous it was that he was forgiving her. That’s how stupid the show is.

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Quite a hard watch to begin with, but ultimately quite a gripping tale

I enjoyed most of this 24 episode 10 minute drama because it all came together perfectly by the end. The heartless tyrant, Emperor and the naive silly girl resolve all their misunderstanding satisfactorily after her rebirth.. it was quite gripping how we got there with him killing her by mistake because he was insane and her punishing him after her rebirth with pretty brutal torture. Turns out he was drugged by his evil Mum who appeared late in the show which made him act insane. I enjoyed it most of the political intrigue except the Mum’s appearance near the end, but it all worked out well.

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A showcase of Chinese excellence in their emergency services

This is my kind of show. It’s compassionate, empathetic, wholesome and really showcases Chinese excellence in their emergency services through the special police force and skilled doctors.. they dragged it out for 40 episodes at 45 minutes each, but I still enjoyed it. A couple of things I didn’t like were the sister story.. they ended up being rewarded for bad behaviour and though they explained it well because their father was the MLs captain and mentor before he passed away the ML and his sister felt a duty to take care of them but at the point where they were given an opportunity to start living their life properly they could’ve added some remorse or redemption or gratitude from the two sisters rather than them just staring in silence while the sister basically saved their lives. The other part I didn’t really like was the bus hostage scene. It was basically the FL‘s fault because she was sticking her nosing where it wasn’t required trying to be a hero.. even when another passenger who was clearly an undercover police officer because he had a thing in his ear was telling her to mind our own business. She still decided to meddle and caused all the ensuring chaos which nearly cost the ML his life and we didn’t get to see any reflection from her actions after she created that big mess. Overall, I really enjoyed it and it really is my cup of tea this kind of drama. Well done.

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Did the female lead even like the male lead at all?

I didn’t really like this drama. Spoiled rich kid slums it in the countryside with a chef and her rundown restaurant. The premise is okay, but I was quickly disappointed with how rude the female lead was to the male lead. It was okay up to a certain point, but it happened from the beginning to the end of this drama. Where she was gentle and demure with the second male lead she was rude, violent, insulting and looked down on the male lead for pretty much the entirety of the drama.. the Mum was diabolical and faced no accountability or self reflected on her behaviour. The brother was pretty horrendous but at least he grew a conscience by the end. The side characters were all meh! and I have to ask the question if the FL even liked the ML at all. He was smitten and she just looked like she settled. The whole thing left a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth.

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