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Gave it a try
I like historical k dramas but I have noticed I like more modern story cdramas. I watch a lot of slow vibes one. Right before this now at her THE BEST THING, and liked it. This one I wanted intensity but it never really delivered with romance or political intrigue. The story line was fine for first half, then things got dragged out for not much reason then at the end just loosely tied. The thing that really started annoying me was there are plenty of villains but they didn’t put them one by one but dragged out the younger brother as villain eventhough he should have died. They basically then massacred the town of Linan to give the FL a revenge plot but the revenge plot never really closed off, she got distracted. It was like everything was picked up but it all fizzled, even the romance. The romance was strong but the ML had not much lines and it was so not like this character of a general. I’m not sure if it was written thoughtfully because the casting was good with what we got. The female lead also has unusually high heroine story line, and also she basically could have died once but ofcourse she didn’t. She was also sworn enemy of many but they never came after her full force. The same villains didn’t like ML MARQUIS for his position and strength but they stopped going after him, because politics takes over the last third then he has to insert himself on the court side. I think it’s ok to make the main characters have weakness and not too perfect and that’s what was so not right in second half as FL basically becomes a military hero and overshadows the ML MARQUIS and the writer just gives up on the ML. The last episode was so bad and annoying. We got random thought about oh what if that one big incident which this story is about never happened. Don’t really care because it did happen and what they Iive with good and bad now is what’s more interesting . This is probably one of the hyped dramas that didn’t do it for me and I was usually super lax about that. I will say I am not even sure the controversies about “pretty general” is the problem with this show. I think ZLH was same for me here and the best thing because the characters were similar, ad I haven’t watched him in anything else.
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