What in the character assassination is this?

The writer-director took it upon himself to dumb down multiple characters, kill all character growth, and fundamentally change kep plot points just to extend his run time. This is how you fuck up an adaptation of a romance written by a woman. All this director seems to want to focus on are the traumatic elements. The SA...the SA that never existed in the source material so that she can meet the intern. No. No. No. "Her room looked rather emtpy" no shit Sherlock. This is "but what do we do now" levels of taking away a woman's intelligence to further a plot point for a male character. Wen YiFan GOES TO Sang Yan in YiHe. SHE DOES NOT GO INTO FUCKING HIDDING SCARYING THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF HIM. Sang Yan does not find out from other people what the fuck is happening with his girlfriend. She goes to HIM & SHE tells him her story. I get want to show a visual of him discovering what she went through over the years, but there were better ways to show the audience this information without undoing all character development & placing everyone back at square fucking one.

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