monstersnroses

This is the review I needed, ty! I'm too old to pretend I'm entertained by sanitized romances.

I never mix. To me that's like mixing your mashed potatoes with your gravy.

I thought it was boring. ML is a bit of a cardboard actor with not a lot of nuance to his acting abilities, plus he seems like he has a strabismus or a pseudo-strabismus. I hated the FL's character and couldn't get behind the things she does and says. The chemistry between the leads was so-so. This drama is also mighty plot-heavy for a short-length series, to the point that it drags down any spice or fire that they could have created between the leads.

I'm used to short-length series being more fiery and spicy than this one was. I thought it was a snoozer and was relieved when it was finally over. I gave it a 5.

The only redeeming aspect of this drama is the kiss scenes between ML and FL. That's it. Everything else sucked. The OST is awful. The styling is a little off, even with allowances for the drama's age. 3FL is distractingly ugly. The relationships portrayed are shallow and dysfunctional. But the worst part of all of it, is the FL's character. The actress is fine. She's pretty enough, she's a good actress. But the character she portrays, is the problem. She's a complete fucking bitch with a ROCK BOTTOM EQ. There's nothing lovable about her, and very little about her to even like.

Other reviewers saying this drama is full of sex, are total pearl clutchers, there is very little about this drama that's racy or kilig or spicy. Just those ML/FL kisses. Which are quite fiery, but hardly scandalous or explicit. It was less explicit than WWWSK, Nevertheless, or Kakafukaka.

It just seems like a trashy show because the relationships portrayed in it are so low-EQ and messed up and shallow. Lots of game-playing going on in it.

Spoken like a true narcissist. Children aren't your assets. They are your responsibility. Who tf has kids just to use them to better your own life and give yourself a greater sense of security. My parents were just like this, and it drove my brother to suicide from the pressure and lack of real parental love.

Now that I have my own kids, I see it as even more cruel. I invest in my children because I love them beyond measure and want them to lead a self-determined and happy life. Not because of what they can give me later or what they can do for me. Instead of being so focused on how your kids can be an asset to you, why don't you focus on how YOU can be an asset to your kids.

Imagine defending arranged marriages in current year. smh.

"A man and woman came together, treated each other with respect which led to “real love” and built a long lasting family,"

If you are honestly so deluded that you think arranged marriages all consist of "treating eachother with respect" and "leading to real love" then you are part of the reason misogyny exists.... pretending there is no problem with the way women have been treated in arranged-marriage cultures.

mmmm salty!

Wrong.

Call me back when you've seen as many dramas as I have. You have a habit of phrasing your opinions as indisputable fact. For example when you said "lets not sit and act like this k-drama is bad". Since I have said I think it's bad, you are accusing me of "acting". What that means is you are accusing everyone in here who left a negative review of lying.

How egotistical and deluded does one have to be, to think that everyone with a different opinion than you is simply a liar who actually deep down agrees with you. The hubris is staggering.


And don't even get me started on the condescending arrogance of starting a sentence like that with "Let's".

I suppose for someone like this, it would be natural to assume if someone counters your agrument, that it must be because they simply don't understand your opinion.

I saw that one too!

mmmm It's been a while but I am pretty sure this one was an HE for the ML+FL, or else I would have mentioned it or bitched about it. Although I honestly can't remember. And this was only 6 months ago!

It's crazy how I can barely remember anything I watched before SoKP... but anyways, I rated it a 7... probably because there was barely any meat on the plot is what I'm guessing. For me a 7 is what I'd call "decent".

I was raised on heavy metal, so I think almost all of them look better with long hair. But LH especially. He was so fire as Xie Wei, I still can't get over it. Gottdang he's such a good actor when he's playing a dark, passionate ML... nobody does it better.

I wish someone would cast him as a spicy and obsessed hot vampire/demon ML.

The first time I saw him, I was like "wtf is that?!" I thought he looked like a plastic person. I thought it was strange and mildly disturbing. Then I saw him in a few more things, and I found myself transfixed by his weird look. Sometimes I think he's so hot I could scream, and other times I think "omg he looks like an alien" and am creeped out.

I think if he was in a fluff romance, I would skip it. But if he grows into a better actor with experience, and he gets a dark ML role with some quality kiss scenes and a decent script, I would watch it.

Wee-woo wee-wooo... here comes the opinion police!

Thank god you've arrived, nobody should get away with voicing their own thoughts on a public forum! But thankfully you saved the day with your self-righteous sermonizing to put everybody back on the right track. Whew!

The ML character was really awesome, at least for me who likes obsessive/red-flag/dark ML's. However... they could have gone darker with his character and it would only have been better for it.

The FL did a really great job of portraying two distinct people. However, as the FL I found her to be slightly off-key. It was nothing major, I just thought she was overacting a bit and her bubbliness sometimes seemed really forced/fake.

The bgm and ost were okay, but they occasionally changed the tone of a scene in a way that detracted from the acting or killed the mood by being out of sync with the actors and what was going on.

However by far the biggest fault of this drama was the sanitization of the romance. There are two or three kisses total, each of those kisses is deer-in-the-headlights, where one of them is trying to kiss the other, and the other remains motionless and frozen in place. Not only that, but the FL lives with the ML while they fall in love and date, and she has her own room.... so you'd think some kind of spicy situations would naturally ensue, but they don't. This romance is so tame, it's safe for an eight year old to watch. So tame that it's perplexing and strange.

A great idea for a story, a great ML, decent dialogue and supporting cast.... and yet so much wasted potential from a romantic angle. I give it a 7.

yep

> lets not sit and act like this kdrama is bad.

lolllllllllll

Should I break it down how presumptuous that sentence is, or does the vapidity speak for itself.

No, helena. Bad dramas are not my cup of tea. smh

I've always thought Bau Lu was hit-or-miss, but she won me over completely with SoKP. It was the best performance I've ever seen her give, and it made me realize that sometimes when I've seen Bai Lu and not liked it so much, it was producers/directors/stylists not bringing out her best.

There are several actors in here that I think this was their best performance I've ever seen. I bet actors are falling all over themselves to work with this producer, because he makes everybody look so good.

wait for it.... waaiiiittt forrrr itttt.........

"Is there a way to cut a single room's electricity and water supply?"

waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh this ML got me all !!!

I gave it a 7.5 and I thought it was a little bit crappy. Yes yes the music is nice, the costumes are nice, the casting is nice, etc etc, and if it were just about that, I'd give it maybe an 8.5.....

However, I am a hopeless romantic. This is a story about an FL who doesn't have one true love. She has a guy she likes, but not enough to fight for. She has another guy that she settles for, when clearly in an ideal world she wouldn't have chosen him first.

I don't mind reverse harems when done well, but this one has a very cheesy feel to it.... all the men drool over her like she's the chinese messiah, and all the women (except for her!) are petty, jealous, stupid and -by the end- fawning all over her with "I was wrong and you were right".

There is a megaton of chemistry between the Lord ML and the FL, all they have to do is be less than 12 inches away from eachother and you can feel it radiating off them like a nuclear reactor on fire. But this chemistry is only seen in brief flashes, less than a handful of magical moments.... and not only does she not end up with him, but the entire story has ZERO kiss scenes. What a criminal waste of potential.

Thus the lowering of my score despite many aspects of the drama that were more than decent.

Im on ep 20, and that's one of the things that I really liked about this one, not necessarily the ost (which is fine too), but the BGM is distinctly non-repetitive, and kind of unpredictable and novel. It adds to the scenes in interesting ways, and stays fresh.