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The latter episodes really messed up the experience as a whole, which is why the rating dropped so much. It was still an entertaining watch but could have been much better.

It was not bad for lakorn standards BUT...

...the pacing was a bit off, they had too much going on so the romance took a back seat and too many characters did a 180º change, a fast one too, for it to even feel a bit believable...people don't change like that, not that fast and not that many.

I am betting on him having lost someone and thinking it is the ML's fault. He keeps saying the ML disappointed him and stuff like that. He definitely is not doing this for the money, he wants revenge for something, maybe the loss of a wife or child.

The first 2 episodes were ok but there is something missing, it is not thrilling enough, at least not yet. Let's see if next week's episodes are better.

Yeah, although the adult episodes were the smaller part of the drama it was where I felt the writing was weaker. 29 episodes is not the usual episode number, maybe it was supposed to be 32 or 36 episodes long and that messed up the pacing of the later half, not sure.

I really wanted to love it as much as everyone else.

The cast is great, the leads did amazing and make such a nice couple but the plot felt draggy and a bit too soap opera like at points for me. I imagine I would have found a drama with this plot amazing maybe 10 years ago but in 2026 it did not feel as special as it seems to have felt for most people.

I liked it but I did not love it, it just did not feel as exciting to watch as I expected it to feel when I first started it. I quite liked it at first but then somewhere along the way I started feeling less invested. Maybe I will give it another chance in the future and see if I can enjoy it more than I did the first time.

EDIT: Ok, after I read a few more comments I think I know why I did not love this. It is the writing. The cast did great, the leads have amazing chemistry, but the writing is flawed. There are some things characters say and do that do not feel natural in certain situations. I will not go into detail as I would have to use spoilers but yeah, it was some writing decisions that made this drama feel less amazing for me. Hopefully I will be able to see the leads together in another drama.

This is basically a story of revenge and most of the episodes it is just both FLs making out with the brothers... and they swap too. In the same episode you will see the FL making out with both brothers, the SFL doing the same and the SML making out with with the SFL and then coming home and making out with the FL. Yup, this was a swingy mess. (pun intended)

If you are looking for real romance/decent writing, you can safely skip this one.

I like a good slow burn romance but this one was a bit too slow. I liked their interactions while living together and how much their characters grew thanks to each other, but I also ended up skipping a lot of business/secondary couples scenes.

They added so much (a lot of screen time was spent on the secondary couples) but did not bother to show him meeting her father even tho they talked on the phone several times. Maybe they could have done an extra shorter episode with their wedding and life after marriage or something.

I liked the drama but I felt it could have been much better, a lot of wasted potential.

It seems lately a lot of dramas end like this, they wrap up what needs to be wrapped up but do not attempt to make the ending a bit more enjoyable for the viewers.

I mean, was it that hard to show a few more scenes of their married life? Maybe have the FL get pregnant and have a baby. They even spent an entire episode with the sister-in-law doing everything for the FL to get pregnant and even after years of marriage when we know they have slept together several times, she has yet to get pregnant. Unless either of them has some health issue preventing it, it is not normal that she did not get pregant after so long. Throwing in a cute baby at the end or at least a pregnancy diagnosis would not have hurt the plot.

Anyway, I am complaining about this since there really isn't much I can complain about. This drama was overall a very enjoyable watch for me.

Great drama, one of the most complex and interesting characters Bai Lu has played. It had some slow moments as expected from a Chinese historical drama that is 40 episodes long but overall it was very entertaining to watch. If I had to complain about something, is that although the drama was wrapped up nicely...I felt something was missing. (read the spoiler below to find out what)

I predicted pretty early on what had happened and even shared my theories with my mother who is also watching this drama but with subs in her native language. But still, now that things are slowly being revealed, it still hurts to watch and I cannot even imagine going through what Ye Li has gone through.

The last 2 episodes were hard to watch, not because they were bad, they were amazing, but because there was so much heartbreak and trauma.

Decent for a short drama but way too predictable and convoluted. Might seem like a contradiction but exactly because they tried to make it so confusing it became too obvious early on who they were, at least for me.

He got his face serioursly burned and needed plastic surgery anyway so he decided to take his friends identity so he could get close to the FL and investigate what happened 3 years ago. She got plastic surgery because her father decided so since it was more convenient for him to have his legitimate daughter alive instead of the one he had outside of marriage.

Definitely. This feels like a plot for a 40 episode drama, too much to explore. Some conflicts were solved way too fast for how complex they were suposed to be and like you said, I found the 2nd MLs more interesting than the ML.

The ML was good looking and loyal to the FL and that was pretty much it. His character needed more depth, more personality, something that would not make him pale in comparison to the other 2.

Strong start but somewhere along the way the pace felt off, the plot felt rushed and slow at the same time, I cannot really explain but by the end I was like, ok, it's over, next.

I am not saying it is bad, at all, at first I was really into the plot. It just started to get less and less interesting as the plot progressed. Reading previous comments it seems like I was not the only one who felt this way.

Idk what the writers were thinking.

Up until the point they got married I could understand why he was stringing along the SFL, but even after the marriage went from fake to real he left the room he was sleeping with his WIFE to go to the SFL's room and make out with her??

At that point it not only felt unecessary from the plot's point of view but also made the ML look like a cheater instead of the loyal husband the FL deserved.

For lakorn standards this was good but I was not satisfied with the way they wrapped up everything. The "villains" got the easy way out, the ML got it easy too and the FL, the only innocent one in this mess, was the one who ended up suffering the most.

The ML was not a bad person but was too focused on revenge to consider collateral damage and did some other things that were not even needed for the plots sake that made him even less deserving of the FL.

And about the SFL, some people are saying they feel sorry for her...I mean, she is not a "bad" person but like the ML said she is selfish. The FL would never have done what she did if she was in her place, she would have trusted the ML, that is the difference between them - one is selfish and the other is too selfless for her own good.

I have Dazzling on my plan to watch list but have not found time to start it yet but I will share some of the dramas I liked (gave a quick look to my completed list):
- Koe Koi
- In House Marriage Honey
- Hey Sensei, Don't You Know?

And here are some movies I liked too:
- Closest Love to Heaven
- The 8-Year Engagement
- One Liter of Tears (get some tissues ready, based on a real story)

I realised most of the romance dramas I liked are kind of "old". A lot of them are from over 10 years ago. For more recent ones I have mostly liked horror and thrillers. If you do not mind older dramas or other genres I can share some of them too.

Yeah, I think that is why so many people are disappointed with the ending and I totally understand them. If this was a regular drama I might have been too, but it is a horror drama and horror is known for "bad" endings.

I was not bored through the whole thing and that for me is already a win in this genre.

Jdrama has a very different style from cdrama and kdrama. I have only liked a few of the ones I have watched and I can safely say this one is below average so not the best pick for your first jdrama. If there is a specific genre or kind of plot you like let me know and I might be able to recommend you a better one.