Mysterious Love Twin (2024)

stands up in the crowd

I've been watching vertical dramas recently, most of them are just garbage, but this one is nice in so many ways, and it's so funny and normal... Watch here if not deleted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-0aNolViRM
But can we really be fussy? These vertical C-dramas are a new genre, like lakorn reinterpreted... The ML - who is called Mr LU or Mr FU - is always domineering, aggressive - even in bed - and cruel (rich and powerful go without saying), while the FL is always sweet, poor and virginal, wearing a lot of white, and she constantly needs to be saved from attempted sexual abuse!
The FL is usually an orphan raised by an abusive family that solds her, or she solds herself to make money for a sick grannie/ sibling/ parent, which causes more misunderstanding and abuse from the ML who mistakes her as a prostitute etc. ALLLL the FL's - despite being in college or whatever - seem to know nothing abt protection, and discover "in shock" to be pregnant with one, two or up to five kids that she must gloriously raise alone.
We get one thing straight: MEN want sex with some young pure girls, while WOMEN want marriage to rich heirs!!! There are some sub-genres to this, where the ML or FL or their child has some disability that can be miraculously cured - be it mute, blind, crippled, allergic, rare blood group etc.
And oh! Lets not forget that they are childhood sweethearts, you know, the kind of love that starts in kindergarten…
The love-making usually happens while either the ML or the FL is drugged by the villain, so we get this dubious consent or rape that turns into love. The leads find each other again thanks to some birth mark or some jade pendant or whatever... But? i guess everybody knows these by now.
SPECIAL MENTION: A BIG APPLAUD TO ALLLLL THOSE "ASSISTANTS" THAT PLAY SUPPORT ROLES SO WELL, ADDING THE NECESSARY HUMOUR AND REALITY-CHECK TO THE DRAMA... CONGRATS, YOU ARE SEEN!

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