Taz_X

I did not think I would get SLS in this type of drama. I didn't go into this thinking it was a romance drama.
I watched this drama for the mystery and the thriller, especially all the psychological aspects of the storyline, which were amazing btw. The last thing I expected was to get heartbroken on behalf of the SML. I didn't read the synopsis or anything for this drama, I just went straight in, but with these types of storylines I have never found romance to be one of the bigger aspects of the drama until now.

I had such bad SLS for Jiang Cheng 😭. He was the best written character in the entire drama. I've watched a few other dramas staring Qin Jun Jie and I've always found him playing characters that seem like the SL but ends up being the ML, this is the first time seeing him actually be the SL and I hated it.

Jiang Cheng went undercover to find his best friends killer (his long term girlfriend and fiance at the time's brother). He was raised by Zhou Jin's family, he even calls her parents "mum" and "dad" as they were his parents long before they got together. He did everything he could to find out who killed essentially his brother, it took him a lot longer than he expected and he had to live a miserable and lonely life those 5 years just to get a lead on his case. I don't blame the FL for moving on after 5 years, if she waited just a little bit longer than everything would have been perfect for them. But, literally the year she married the ML (not out of love in her part, but more like an arranged marriage), she finds out Jiang Cheng is an undercover agent, that he never cheated in her and that he did everything to find her brother's killer. I genuinely don't hate Zhou Jin for moving on from Jiang Cheng, their break up was HORRIBLE. He set it up to seem like he was a heartless cheater in possession of drugs. She still waited for him for 5 years, despite thinking that he was trash she couldn't move on from, to the point that it kind of made me angry that she still held any feelings for a cheater. That is why despite how sad it is that they didn't end up together, I get it.

Jiang Hansheng was great, a good love interest and his storyline with the villain was good. The villain was obsessed with Hansheng in the sense that the guy literally wanted to torture Hansheng to death. Habsheng was really good at annoying the villain in order to destroy the villain, whilst Jiang Cheng was good at getting close to the villain and destroying them from the inside out. Both MLs had a very different way of going about their mission and it was very interesting to see how these two characters with essentially the same goal go about it.

In the romance aspect, Jiang Cheng storyline was a LOT better and made more sense. The Jiang Hansheng had a huge crush on the FL even though he hardly knew her and interacted with her only twice as a child. His immediate love for the FL was weird AF (if this was any other drama people would call it a toxic obsession), he hardly knew her and was chasing after her for years and literally stalking her (he admitted this). Jiang Cheng and the FL had a better storyline, their love for each other made sense, they knew each other their entire lives, from best friends to lovers. Jiang Cheng as a character made sense, everything he did and why he did was realistic considering his background with the FLs family, but the MLs obsession made no sense. Zhou Jin and Hansheng together were really good, they were never toxic or anything. I am not saying they were a bad match, it's just their story starts off weird but at the end they are really good together and Hansheng was genuinely a huge green flag for her. He knew what he was getting into when he married Zhou Jin, he knew she was still not over Jiang Cheng at the start and that she did not marry him out of love.