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This is a very optimistic POV for a show where the writing has consistently let us down for 66% of it but I guess only time can tell.

Tbh I think the rating is a bit high for how terrible the last five or so episodes are. They should have explained how he escaped to join her in the real world instead of that "director's note". After his memory loss, the show just drags the plot around for many episodes at a time just trying to prolong her stay in the other world.

The concept was really good, the execution especially towards the end needed to be tighter and if you look through the comments there's a lot of people also echoing that the show lost them in the last bit.

Yes, he was always meant to “fail” bc he wasn’t sent to the past to try and stop his father’s accident, he was sent there to understand his parents - their pain, their fears and their flaws. The accident happened bc it was supposed to happen but he impacted their lives in a way that they were able to grow and change and thrive. The writers couldn’t address every plot point but his parents fell in love, they both went to college, they found each other somehow and they grabbed onto a bright future.

Not sure why they're still giving him work when all his shows are under 7.7, it's very frustrating to have good cast and good story ruined by bad direction.

I mean one of my fav kdrama scenes is when they hold hands under the table in Something in the Rain, it still gives butterflies, you can build strong intimacy without kissing but it has to feel deserved and earned. It has to feel like the intimacy is there because they literally can't shy away from it anymore. Literally watched a cdrama the other day and the first time they held hands was 30 hours in and I squealed because the build up to physical intimacy was SO good. In contrast, in this drama since she's already pregnant, you're starting off at a different point so the director has to make intentional choices so the audience understands that these two ppl love each other.

Have you met any 26 yos? Most of them don't have toddlers dropped into their lives overnight.

The character has had about 0.02 seconds to adjust to like five massive life altering shifts. It hasn't even been a month since the story started.

This is true for pretty much every actor in this drama, it's borderline alarming.

They referred to a plotline like that in the first or second episode when the brother is trying to call the ML

It’s still not available on Viki, maybe it’s not EST?

An actual slog that ruined my Valentine’s Day 🫠 why they ruined a good concept and excellent acting with terrible terrible plot and pacing I don’t understand. They should have just cut the last story line, removed the second couple and explained some things with that time bc what was that ending??

Honestly the last five episodes were just the writer edging us towards the end and I’m still baffled by the last episode. Who wrote this show?? Genuinely idk if they know how plot works.

Just went through your watch list - I'd recommend Love between Lines (26'), Love in the Clouds (25'), the Double (24') and Legend of the Female General (24').

Unfortunately for me, life as we know it is a piece of media I love DEARLY and so I will be sat for this show. Every single week sat.

My deep deep love for Chen Xiag Xu and Wang Yu Wen will not allow me to rate this lower than a 7.5 but....the plot, the direction, the editing....my god it's giving Youtube webdrama circa 2014.

Yes let’s not judge the dynamics of how women are treated by our 2026 standards but judge EVERYTHING else through a 2026 lens to make the ML palatable to a modern audience and so we don’t actively hate him.

It’s totally accurate that a conquering warlord would treat the opposing citizens with respect and courtesy and not pillage its resources especially when his own ppl are starving. That’s not weird at all but when it comes to how the ML treats his wife, it’s just women who need to endure trauma porn. This is totally a 100% faithful adaptation of how life was hundreds of years ago and NOT a drama made for a modern audience who is and will judge it through their perspective. That’s ludicrous.

I’m really struggling to understand these reviews bc this series is such a HARD DNF for me after epi 7 where he STRANGLES his wife and she apologizes for to him for “causing him to do it”. I cannot, I really really cannot.

Listen I don't wanna yuck anyone's yum but if the ML wasn't hot this would be 1000% SA but he is hot so....next episode I guess?

Man this show is terrible *clicks on the next episode* my brain says turn it off but my lesser brain says "next"

The ending of this show is bad even outside of the reason most ppl are upset with it, so this cool smart accomplished woman gets married, everyone she knows leaves the capital and she just sits around waiting for him to come home from the war?? What kind of happily ever after is that?

It’s just visuals of her haunting his large empty manor for multiple seasons alone waiting for him. Why did I watch 40, FOURTY episodes of her kicking ass and taking names for her to turn into some little lady with nothing to do except be someone’s wife. It’s like once the central plot is resolved the writers have no idea what to do with her so she finally has her own character arc of turning into the ghost she was supposed to be all along.