Fateful Love Episode 32

The writers once again rely on cheap plot…

The writers once again rely on cheap plot tricks. Most notably, they suddenly transform the up-until-now quite clever and well-informed Baili Wei Sheng into a gullible idiot. They also have nearly completed the transformation of Ten from a street smart punk turned fiercely loyal maid-friend of ZiQing ... into a stupid, gullible henchman of Meng Wan Yue. These character transformations are jarring and totally not believable but of course are apparently necessary for the plot the writers are contrstructing. Other lame tricks are of course keeping Xiao Sheng - a key witness to something important - unconscious so they can drag out the reveal as long as possible. The frustrating thing is that the overall plot they've constructed seems like they could have gotten there without using such cheap, lazy tricks. They could have gotten to the current scenario with consistent characters and fewer coincidental contrivances.

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