RetiredProf

Oh, yes, please! 😂

I’m happy to see independent, decisive female roles appear but am beginning to think writers of Asian dramas have confusion over what constitutes a strong female lead. It shouldn’t mean they treat the ML worse than a wild dog in the street, kicking him to the curb for no good reason while spreading love and sunshine to everyone else. When a ML persists trying to win the love of such a female, I am honestly bewildered and disappointed; I don’t see it as romantic at all. What I’d love to watch is a ML who takes the hint and finds someone who appreciates him enough to treat him as a human being. Then the FL realizes she has made a terrible mistake and spends the rest of the drama trying to get him back. But no, he stays with the 2FL and has a marvelous, peaceful life while the FL grows from this step into reality and either stays alone or tentatively starts dating again. Just once! Please.

Right?

One of the hallmarks of certain mental illnesses is the inability to make good, logical choices. To put it plainly, with depression (and other mental conditions), cognitive functioning is impaired. They will make the same wrong choices over and over. I have seen many such people in real life who appear to be their own worst enemy. The ML was basically abandoned as a child with no loving guidance in his life to help him form logical choices good for him. Despise him for not immediately becoming sensible after brain surgery? I will never do it. He literally has no one on his side to guide him or empathize with his miserable life. If I stop following this drama, it will be because I can no longer watch the abuse toward this sweet person; it won’t have anything to do with supposed lacks in his character.

It seems harsh to me to call a mentally ill character spineless. Clearly he started in a deeply depressed state with PTSD, and losing his memories/having a personality transplant due to experimental procedures he didn’t acquiesce to hasn’t helped him all that much. Personally, I find him the only person interesting and complex enough to keep watching for and have much sympathy for him.

Cold as ice.

I seem to be skipping parts of this drama and sometimes nodding off when I’m not fighting rage at how incomprehensible it all is. I wonder if someone could take pity on me and explain what just happened between episodes 11 and 12, because I must have missed something. Did the 2ML actually punch ML into the pool so that he remembered what happened and practically drowned, but was rescued by 2ML and FL, or did ML dream it all while having a fever? Because if it really happened, why didn’t they take him to the hospital? In either case, why leave him in the incompetent supervision of the 2FL? Does no one truly care about him except me?! While I’m asking, why is every conversation with the FL one step from gibberish, particularly with the deranged 2ML? I don’t know when I’ve been this frustrated with a drama. This is a mean spirited one with horrible people in it except for ML and quirky 2FL. I feel like the script has dug itself into a hole with no chance of redemption, but hopefully I’m wrong. 😑

I so agree with your thoughts on this drama. I am frequently surprised at how often China (and South Korea) turn out stories with FLs who are labeled as “independent” which would be great, but who in actuality are stubborn, defiant, mule-headed and just plain mean to the ML while being charming as heck to 2ML, their bestie, and everyone else in the world including the villain. I have seen so many of these that I can’t take it anymore, even when I want to view a favorite actor such as in this one. If I sense a new drama is going this way, I usually leave and come back periodically to check episodes further down the line to see if things are more tolerable. What have I found here? The same pouty, aggrieved expression on the FL’s face as was in the beginning. I have nothing against her, just the character. I wanted to be excited but am disappointed instead.

Thanks so much! 🌸

Thank you!🌸

Does anyone know of a Richard Li drama where he gets to clearly live at the end? (I know some have suggested that Dawn Is Breaking can be interpreted either way, but call me a pessimist☺️). I love and appreciate him so much, but why is he in so many tragedies? I hate SE the most!

Absolutely true for me. I used to get so excited about my Asian dramas and look forward to each new episode. Now I’m dropping nearly every one I start. This is so disappointing! What’s left for entertainment? I already dislike American TV and have become disinterested in British…Maybe it’s me! Perhaps you watch so many, you become saturated. Ugh, never mind. 😭

I’m going to pop in here and agree with you. I thought the way he forgave and 100% supported her was unrealistic and made me wonder if his character had been super traumatized at some point. I understand PTSD can sometimes have this effect. It made me CRAZY. I skimmed through it.

I would like to nominate Wang Churan for actress of the universe for her silent depiction of dismay, sadness, grief, growing horror, and embers of anger while the ML wove an idyllic tale of their lives together in the capital as they lay side by side in bed. Lawdy! When she wept in disappointment, I did, too. I was moved even though it’s hard to move me after viewing 50 million Chinese dramas. I’m so glad to be watching this one!

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After the first five seconds of this drama, I put it away as too sleazy for me. Then I don’t know what happened, but I was so bored one evening that I went a little further in and discovered they are managing to skirt juuuust this side of too much but sure are short of polite. Then I became somewhat interested in the shenanigans of the ML and his half buttoned shirt. Before I knew it, I was up to episode 6. Is this how people get hooked on drugs? 😁🤭🤭🤭

😂 It’s not that we like it all the time but only under certain circumstances! If the sleaze fits, wear it! 🤭😁😭😂

Gosh, yes, all over the place

It made me so mad and turned me against the FL character, who really showed what a b#$*! she was in the first part. No amount of acting pitiful later brought me to her side after that.

It made me so mad and turned me against the FL character, who really showed what a b#$*! she was in the first part. No amount of acting pitiful later brought me to her side after that.