Fateful Love Episode 10

This series was doing very well until they…

This series was doing very well until they got to the Lige-kidnaps-Ziqing sub-story. This is just awful. Totally hack plot-contrivance. First off, the whole 'look' of the Lige character is beyond pretentious and it's a wonder that all the other characters don't burst out laughing when they see him. Bust 2nd of all, and more serious, is that he is a kidnapper, holding her prisoner and forcing her to do something to fulfill his psychopathic obsession. Yes, she has something to gain from this (information and Qin skills), but it was not her choice to be doing.. He robbed her of choice. If he respected her as a human with autonomy, he should have returned her to her people after rescuing her and then asked her if he could teach her. Instead, what he's doing is abuse and degrading. If he was just a villain, that would be one thing. But the writers are clearly going out of their way to try to make Lige a 'sympathetic' character. He has an illness (or poison) so we are supposed to feel sorry for him. He has some relationship with her Mother (which feels creepy in itself). He's also pretty-boy handsome. All that feels like cheap manipulation and personally, makes me very disappointed in the show. Because the kidnapping and abuse scenario is not something to be taken lightly. It makes me feel like the writers might be sick people if they think this is entertainment. Hopefully they will turn this around and make Lige pay for his crimes.

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