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great but still lacking...

this drama has a great premise and strong start you just get drawn in and keep wanting to find the truth .

all actors did a solid job which made the whole drama great to watch, yet the plot was dragged in the middle and left alot of things weren't explained well or left to chance .

like Feng and feifei meeting for the first it didn't clarify it that much yet she called him bestie , like when did it happen , we got no solid background just some fast flashbacks, maybe the plot made them know each other just to make it more dramatic in the end .

wu guohao is a monster , the ultimate manipulator , the actor did a great job , couldn't keep myself from wanting to slap him , yet the ending was very unsatisfying after all the evil deeds he has done he got the easy way out, he deserved to suffer .

the thing that alot of people may hate about this drama is it slow storytelling and some nonsense at some points like how can you hide a very important confession letter in a old sneaker , I mean what he had thrown it away .

nonetheless this was truly great .

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A must watch drama ...

what started as a simple crime mystery drama turned out to be more intricate and emotional one .
for me this was one of xu kai 's best works so far , overall the plot and acting were superbe .

in the beginning , you think that chen hui is that simple boy running his skating rink and trying to gather money for his girlfriend's kidney transplant surgery but as this goes on we discover that he is a drug trafficker , from him he was doing it to gather the money for the operation yet the more he tried to get out of this illegal business the more he sank deep.
ML was a big manipulator , he manipulated huo kaiming which lead him to killing lu yuan , he even tricked his family into believing he was paralyzed so his father won't ask him why he was kidnapped by huo kaiming , but here is what didn't make sense, songge was supposedly sick and weak why did he let her do the drug dealings ? even after lu yuan attacked her and her fistula bleed and she almost died, I mean he got into drug trafficking for her operation but couldn't think she might be attacked and killed in one of those drug dealings ????

songge is she really loved him why didn't she convince him to stop selling drugs ? couldn't she think of the consequences ? she should tried to stop him at some point instead of doing everything he asked her to do , but did it out of guilt that he is doing all this for her.

hui's father was sos hell bent on accusing and putting is son behind bars which was really annoying , I am talking about the first part when he doubted his son might be the drug trafficker , he had no solid evidence but he kept accusing him , even when hui did something to remove that doubt he still didn't believe it and kept digging deeper , did he trust his son in the first place??

chen hui 's character development came along way as they showed us how he sank deeper into darkness from killing tian jin hai and huo kaiming to pinning tian jian hai's death on detective liu.

the ending was very tragic , he managed to save her life and she had the operation but at what cost.
despite the tragic ending this is a must watch drama and truly deserves your time .

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started strong then lost its potential..

this drama in its first 19 - 20 episodes was great on many different level , great script, acting and character building, then when the second arc began when xie zheng returned to the army and linan mascara everything was going downhill real fast , the kept dragging and focusing at something ridiculous 'ML real identity' which could have been revealed to FL early on than 26th ending they kept dragging and forgot that they had a main storyline they had to finish , the palace arc was so rushed ,wei yan supposedly the main villain yet he never got any decent screen time on the other hand qi min who kept planning revenge for so many years was defeated so easily in half of an episode maybe less😕 wondering what was all this building for if we are going to get a rushed ending .

this drama kept focus on 2 couples qi min and yu qianqian and our main couple but why did they leave out gongsun yin and princess royal ?

what also annoyed me is the war scenes were extremely rushed, and the very small number of soldiers that appeared despite saying the sui army had 30,000 soldiers obviously that was not the case (may it was a budget issue) but it was really annoying watching soldiers appear and suddenly disappear in the next shot .

when ML knew that changyu was wei qilin's daughter (supposedly the traitor who cause his father's death 17 years ago) of course changyu had nothing to do with it but at least you could have showed us he was reluctant to be with her or at least didn't forget his goal to avenge his father and that he cared it seemed like he only cared about changyu , it was the opposite way around changyu was the one who distanced herself .

last episodes were a bit rushed yet it held some great plots , li huaian coming to his senses and stop helping his grandfather with his plan to put qi min on the throne , grand tutor li already knew that qi min was an unfit and ruthless ruler yet he was doing it for power and that li family becomes stronger than wei family in court .

sui yuan qing's ending was also well deserved (betrayed and alone ) but at least he did a good deed before he died.

what wei yan did 17 years ago they made it seem that it was the emperor's fault but he was not free of guilt as him trying to get rid on FL and her sister afterwards was extreme and unjustified .

wei xuan sacrificing his life to XZ was a bit confusing , he said it was because he saved his mother but throughout the whole drama we saw wei xuan complaining to wei yan that he prefered XZ over him and was clearly jealous and about it , I thought he hated him so that scene was out of nowhere for me.

this drama has the most ridiculously funny emperor 😂 laughed at almost all his scenes , not your typical cdrama emperor , yet his ending was sad .
song yan's discovery of ML 's identity and that FL became a general was quite funny and his dismissal of his position was well deserved after what he did to FL .

after all what has been said , this was a great drama that lost potential midway .

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Greed , betrayal and a game of thrones

from the start you think this one is just another enemies to lovers drama but it is not that simple , the more you watch it's not just about romance , this drama has it all greed , betrayal , brotherhood and family issues .

loved how they turned from enemies to lovers , it took time to build their trust and to understand one another , they went through life and death together which made it more enjoyable to watch .

the emperor of susha is such a complex character you hate him for manipulating suige all his life to make him hate him and overtake the throne which suige never wanted in the first place , but in the end you pity him as he was blinded by power as all emperors 😒 and died all alone and betrayed.

xia jingshi such a despicable and obsessive charater he was also blinded by power and wanted to take the throne from his half brother as he was a playboy who never cared about state affairs , it's his method that makes you hate him he was willing to sacrifice yixiao for the throne yet after she lost her memories of the incident , he was willing to do whatever to get her back although she didn't want to go with him yet you pity him for the treatment he was getting since he was young for being a bastard yet it doesn't justify his actions .

Feng xiyang truly had it the hard way from the spoiled princess of susha who had her father and brother's protection to being all alone in jingxiu , i didn't get how she fell in love with xia jingshi after seeing him once and for sparing life , yet she was so nauve to leave everything behind for him but she got nothing in return except him trying to kill her .

emperor of jingxiu changed for the better after falling in love with xiyang , wished for a better ending for him .

zhang shen and the empress was a well deserved ending .

the murong family, I don't get why general murong tried to kill suige after the emperor spared Yao , like he was obsessed with protecting his son but from whom .

truly a masterpiece yet I think the ending was a bit rushed nevertheless it was great .

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great start that went downhill really fast

so this series has a great idea or story to tell , that you will never understand human nature , if you had the chance to kill those who wronged you will you do it or will you let go ?

with this great idea this drama started strong but will poor execution and rushed ending it turned out really disappointing.

we didn't get to see why moon baek [blue brown ] wanted to sell guns in Korea I mean I don't think It was just business , we didn't get to see his motives , even that he took revenge on the people who harmed him when young ,he just continued selling guns to the whole country , so what was his plan ? was it just for chaos???

the ending was so rushed like in ep 9 lee do was shot and was in a coma when he woke up the whole country was turned against each other , I mean time was flying in the last 2 episodes and I don't get what they were building for in the first 8 episodes no character development nor did we get to see the main character motives instead we focused on the secondary characters which was great nonetheless, but we neglected the main storyline .

overall great idea that wasn't executed so greatly .

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A relatable superhero...

first of all I didn't read the manhwa so this is my opinion based on the drama and I am not comparing it with the manhwa .

so this a superhero drama with a bit of twist which made it relatable , a young man working hard and saving for an apartment to marry his girlfriend suddenly inherits superpower that will drain his money everytime he uses it , so will be use his superpower to save others or will he keep his money to fulfill his dream .

minsuk at first seemed so selfish 🙄all she wanted to do was to earn and save money , she even started selling sang ung stuff and he had nothing to say about and when he told her about his superpowers and that it required money she kept telling him not to help anyone , yet as we go along she sees what is important and gives him money to his superhero business .

sang ung the whole life turned upside down when he got those powers yet he still helped other people even if it meant losing his savings , although he wanted to sell those powers sometimes and get money like every normal human being would do which makes him relatable .

the villains were so badly written and rushed like the were there to do harm and bad stuff with no clear motive , they left us speculating really .

if we say cho Anna is doing all this to be heir , why is her father even doing it we never got a backstory , when was that mundane association or whatever it is called created ?
why cho Anna hated and tried to kill cho Nathan?
if cho won do 's great grandfather borrowed money from park jeong ja's great grandfather is the paper jeong ja found even eligible to be controlling cho won do in the end ???
so cho Anna was basically killed off like it was nothing , her father didn't get a great contribution either so was the main protagonist ist cho Nathan?

what was Nathan even talking about when he said that he planned it all along from the bus incident when sang un stopped the bus from falling and saved everyone , they tried to make him look like a mastermind but failed like he knew sang un 's father true identity and kept following him these years and knew exactly when he transferred his powers to his son and came up with master plan so why didn't we get a flashback or an explanation?

alot of questions were left unanswered and it was rushed along some points , nonetheless it deserves to give it a chance.

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Fabricated city all over again....

so if you have seen ji chang wook's movie fabricated city this series has the same premise with a very big difference ; the movie had a better satisfying end .

so it starts strong and keeps you hooked until it became flat in the middle with our ML clueless and looking for who did this to him and we get drawn into a mini squid game in the middle just to give us an excuse how ML got out of jail .

acting was 10 out 10 especially kyungso perfect ruthless psychopath you can tell even from his eyes that he is crazy.

so many charaters introduced without a background they were just added to kill someone or to be killed [ Chinese girl with the knives , the guy with glasses who killed tae joong brother ].

we never got to see what happened to yohan's biological mother , we got subtle hints that she caused his parents death but we never got to know how.

we didn't even have a proper background for yohan when he started this whole idea for fabricating evidence , why he turned out to be what he is now we will never know

what bothers me the most we didn't get to see him get sentenced or paying for what he has done .

this one had potential and a strong start yet it ended up lacking alot of details in the end although they had 12 episodes they could have explained somethings better than what they had done .

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heartwarming , extremely funny but nothing special ....

although this drama's plot is quite cliche yet it keeps you watching , almost all of the cases were heartwarming especially when he helped those wronged souls who couldn't get the justice they deserve after their death , the drama was great on so many levels yet nothing was special about it even when they tried to give it some depth it was rushed multiple times.

the case with the will where the wife forged her husband's will to give some shares of the company to her friend's son it really annoyed me although that friend helped in building their company , the wife had to right to forge her husband's will as she could have discussed it with her son and when we get to know it was out of guilt because she caused her friend's arrest back then as a north korean spy it even became more annoying although that friend turned out to be alive and the government were keeping an eye on her as they suspected her to spy it didn't make it better for me .

Do gyeong's is the most characterless person I have ever seen , like what was he doing he admired na hyeon and he let the gang attack her and ML all for the recorder his father wanted , I mean she could have been killed , and when he got the recorder he didn't tell his father , why exactly ? he didn't trust his father or wanted to held it as a leverage ? not a smart character and a very indecisive one .

usually any drama would have a main antagonist , so who was the main antagonist here was Do gyeong or his father ? from the events I guess it was the father , he even didn't get that much screen time , for me either Do gyeong or his father were both weak antagonist .

although the romance was barely there , i glad they didn't force it.

the last case with shin gi jung , was quite rushed , at first I was frustrated like how ML didn't trust his father and wanted to let him go without trying to know the truth I mean he should know the man who raised him better than anyone , and when he didn't remember how he died and that byeong il injected him with drugs before his death didn't make sense as he clearly saw him before he died , I mean this was supposed to be the biggest case in all of this , the great finale yet it ended up being rushed and unsatisfying.

overall a quite funny and heartwarming drama with a lot of wasted potential .

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Too short to get anywhere ...

so this basically was another example of a great potential wasted .
it started strong yet the plot fell flat and didn't make any sense so many times , everything in this drama was rushed maybe because it was only 12 episodes " the only explanation I could think of " .
you may lose interest before you reach half of the show , I don't get why this was so hyped to begin with , they showed us a lot of stories yi an story with his father and his mother death in an accident and showed us the rumors about them being killed yrt all of that went to trash and was never spoken of again , hui ju and her father at first they showed us he didn't care about her and that he hated and in the end he begin to show care and kindness towards his daughter that was very sudden for me as the actor who played her father didn't show that much which made me feel that the transition was quite fast and rushed .

the worst thing for me was the prime minister character development , I mean what happened ? all of a sudden he became the main villain what made his character reach that point was it hui ju's poisoning or that she loved yi an or was it all for power ? the explanation he gave yi an inthe end for trying to kill him didn't make sense .

on the other hand , yun I rang's character development was great he understood that there will be no turning back if she stayed silent and reported both her father and prime minister which was great .

ML's character was giving me mixed signals at first he wanted the throne then when he had it he didn't want it , why exactly ? was it all about freedom as prime minister said ?

overall I felt this was quite rushed , confusing and anti - climactic at many points .

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Not as good as first season ....

this season definitely is not as good as season 1 , the plot for me doesn't make much sense , I get that they were running an illegal site and will do anything for views and money but them insisting on geon u fighting despite him refusing multiple times and even going as far as trying to kidnap and finally kidnapping his mother , not to mention killing police officers and bombing a building with police officer inside was way too extreme to convince him to fight , I mean they made the previous champion fight and still they made a lot of money out of it , couldn't they have found someone else , I don't know the plot didn't seem that strong for me .

this season was very fast paced than season 1 , the first season we got some character development we watched them getting defeated and not giving up , this season i guess there wasn't much time " i mean it's just 7 episodes ".

the fight scenes were great , first time seeing rain as the antagonist yet it was great .

maybe you'll enjoy watching its fighting scenes , but don't expect it to make much sense .

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great yet very devastating .....

this drama isn't for the faint of heart , didn't think I would like it at first but I was very wrong .
a great thriller with great emotional depth that kept us on edge till the very end even though the killer was revealed before the last episodes yet you kept going wanting to see justice served .

kang tae ju's character was very well written , he was willing to sacrifice everything for the truth and justice to be served even going as far to making an alliance with his school bully , man I thought they would be on the same side and set their difference aside for catching the serial killer , yet the ending was devastating , I truly hated when he had to leave town before catching the real killer to save his sister.

cha si yeong can't make my mind about his character yet for me he was a gray character it wasn't his intention to do wrong yet he aided the serial killer to escape jail all those years one way or the other and went as far as convicting innocent people to get credit , raise and his father's approval , he was a very despicable person for what he did in the little girl's case and no even giving her family a closure or an apology .

Gi Beom 's death was truly sad and devastating , didn't think it would end that way.
Gi hwan's character was quite rushed like we didn't get where did his obsession with stocking come from? and what really annoyed me is that he didn't get what he deserve he seemed to enjoy his time in jail and talking to tae ju .

the ending was truly devastating no one got what they deserve , the only who was being criticized was tae ju and that little girl's family never got justice for their daughter's death.

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great but still lacking...

the beginning was strong and it will keep you watching to uncover the mysteries yet it dragged and became boring for a while in the middle and leave us with unsatisfying ending.

gong ziyu's character had many flaws and he had things going his way only because he was the protagonist I can't see it any other way , a stubborn and a crybaby I mean shangjue's character , yuanzhi and even jin fan had better characters, I can't believe the supporting character is what kept me going .

overall the drama was great especially with the plot twists towards the end , shangjue and ziyu working together , and yue weishan switching sides and helping the gong family.

I don't get the ending , when weishan went to see her twin sister she found wufeng leader there and we will never know what happened like did she return to the gongs?
why wasn't wufeng leader shown?

I don't get why everyone was helping and rooting for zi yu his character was very annoying 🙄 .

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Not your typical revenge drama ...

it started like a simple revenge drama with some strategies and scheming but turned out to be more complex.

ML isn't your typical protagonist he is ruthless, calculating and always one step ahead "which bothered me in the first half of the drama " no matter how smart you are , you just can't see every move your enemy will make .
this all changed with the death of his sister bai wen , although her death scene didn't make any sense because they were looking for a man yet she clearly had a female physique yet they killed her 🫠 guess that was necessary for another plot later .

xiao wenjing character development is the greatest I have seen recently from a spoiled brat to reliable emperor " yet he chose not to rule"and a loyal brother .

the drama always kept you nervous of what was going to happen next only to discover that is was xie huai an 's game all along , even in the end they hinted that he is not really dead.

ye zheng loyalty to huai an was touching.
the way huai an tricked yan fengshan and killed him was genius only for us to to discover later that he wasn't dead and huai an had a bigger paln.

this was great on so many levels and truly a masterpiece .

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An okay drama ....

so the first two episodes didn't encourage me to keep going yet I have finished it somehow .
before starting this , the plot summary suggested that it was going to be a rom com with some depth to it yet after watching it ended up superficial and rushed for me .

the first thing that didn't work for me was the love triangle , it came out of no where and ended up adding nothing why was it there in the first place " maybe to fill some episodes ?!!".
min uk and min ran may ended have something in the end " they started dating i guess" but of course they also didn't focus on this they just hinted .

we never got to see a proper healing process for du jun or hui won , it just like in the end he was able finally hold her hand and his trauma was healed , of course he visited his brother's grave and his sister in law apologize and told him she forgave him yet it was rushed and as for hui won she gust forgave her mother after all she has done , like she forgot all of that easily .

of course this had a lot of cute scenes that made FL see that ML cared about her and made her want to have a family yet this also had all cliche scenes of a rom com .

for me this was an okay drama , if you want something light and funny give it a go .

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should've seen the writings on the wall ...

so this is the same screenwriter for sword and beloved , that being said ; here's what went wrong

from the start everything was confusing and tended to be rushed and made non sense , the scene where she stabs him in the beginning , her running away and getting caught , the wedding by the way you get all of this in first episode , then we get a flashback without even giving us a hint that was a flashback , you find out from the context that they don't know each other yet

the ML with his cold illness like he is dying and getting poisoned every episode and FL is crying for him it was really tiring .

FL indecisiveness like make up your mind do you love ML or wanna kill him for kill your master , one minute she is plotting to hurt him and the other she is in love with him .

a lot of dragging in the middle she gets kidnapped , he tries to save her by using a stronger poison to suppress his cold poison and we drag for a little bit

prince of yuzhang the most clueless person i've ever seen or he is playing dumb don't know , nevertheless he the one who gets to live in the end ,

Du tingxin can't remember her name , however , for 19 episodes no sure of the number , she is all about i want to save xiao huan he is my savior , suddenly she discovers she is his half sister and a princess and get that hunger for power and goes into i am gonna kill everyone phase .

for ep 20 onward everything becomes a whole lot messier .

ML role here was all about suffering and dying the end , don't know what was I expecting from allen ren drama usually they all have sad endings or he dies .

everyone dies empress dowager , FL , ML , du tingxin "not sure " , zhong lin "don't know why she died " , xiao ying .

on the bright side acting was superb and music also and that's it can't think of something else .

if you watch this drama don't expect much .

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