The country girl found her real family. She expected to be sidelined, but they all treasured her. - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZu32iyi3GY
“just my rant”
I actually feel happy that vertical dramas have started showing sweet bonds between two female friends or step/adopted sisters. That part feels refreshing. But even now, the same old bias keeps showing up again and again. Why is it always shown that parents will love, nurture, and prioritize only one daughter? Where is this rule written?
Maybe this mindset can be explained in places like China, where the one-child policy existed for a long time. Large families were uncommon there, so the idea of equal emotional and material distribution among multiple children might not be deeply rooted. That could be one reason why Chinese vertical dramas often show such narratives.
But even in this drama, the parents clearly showed favoritism. They gave 51% of the property to their biological daughter, even though they now have two daughters. If both are their daughters, then it should have been 50–50. On top of that, they even threaten to throw the adopted daughter out of the house. Why? What kind of logic is that?
What bothers me most about vertical dramas is this constant need to treat people as substitutes. If a daughter is lost, they adopt another one to heal themselves. If a girlfriend leaves, they replace her with another life partner. And when the original person returns, they try to give them their “place” back—by hurting the one who filled that space during their absence.
Why can’t each person be given their own rightful position?
Why must someone always be sacrificed emotionally for someone else’s return?
Is it really so difficult to tell stories where relationships exist without replacing, discarding, or emotionally damaging another person?
The female lead (FL) openly treats the second female lead (2nd FL) like a servant rather than a sister or an equal human being.
What’s even more disturbing is the parents’ behavior. They treat the 2nd FL as if she is nobody .
I believe good actions should be rewarded and wrong actions should be punished—that’s the most basic rule of any society. But in the vertical dramas, there is no logic behind love or hatred. Characters are loved or abused without reason, and morality has no consequences at all.