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Light of Dawn chinese drama review
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Light of Dawn
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by SooReneccs
1 day ago
18 of 18 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.5
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 9.0
This review may contain spoilers

Enlightening secret desires in love-hate relationships

Dawn , the period between the  darkness of the night disappearing into the brightness of the morning light. The darkness that hide secret desires of people in the drama.
Drama started with a female driver crashing onto a lion statue of a big company, which fell down and revealed a  skeleton. The driver died on the spot. As police investigated and discovered  it was a desperate angry act of revenge of a scorned woman as her lover was going to be the future son-in-law of the Chairman of the big company. A love hate-relationship, that she rather died to revenge against her ex lover.

While police was investigating  who instigated and who knew a corpse was buried there they discovered a man was waiting for hours before the crash at the statue. That man committed suicide that night. That man was the ML's .GF, adopted father. Another  love hate-relationship, for GF never called his adopted father as "father" for he was beaten every time he wanted to know about his biological parents but otherwise his adopted parents were loving and caring. They in turn  thought he hated them for he never called his parents as father and mother and were cold and unloving, leaving  home as soon as possible. Hints of secret longings when  he knelt down and cried acknowledging  him as father. From then his relationship with his adopted mother gradually improved till he even came every day for lunch just to make sure she was fine and not harmed as he tried to find his biological parents amid harassment of the Chairman, WGH,  as the daughter, FF, was his contact because the buried corpse was his mother OM, and she was an ex- employee of the company.

Drama  dropped  lots of  hints, as another love hate-relationship and  secret desires was GF relationship with his ex girl friend. They had broken up, but her inner longings in the depth of her feelings was still deep that  she gave him a job in her bar, free food and lodgings, Plus support with encouragement in  his quest to find who killed his mother. That love  was so deep that she even  risked her life to rescue him single handedly in a house fire set by the villain's attempt to kill him.

So it should come  as no surprise that the villain WGH, had a secret desire for his mother, OM, a singer and hostess of WGH's night club. Again drama dropped many clues, the lady in red painting hanging in his room, was OM, when in 1 scene, drama  directly panned from  the painting to her singing dressed in red at the nightclub. Clear hint .Clues dropped, almost all conversations between HY, WGH's wife, the  madam of the nightclub  and WGH, there were mentions of OM. Odd thing  also , was OM was never  beaten unlike his wife, HY, who was beaten blue and black for going against him and  even when OM was forced to acquiesce to return to nightclub  while  other gangster dramas she would likely be beaten  along with her lover, YWY. When YWY was killed , she was offered lots of compensated money which she would have used to escape . Meanwhile  WGH was subtly hinting she would be better off with him but she rejected and flee by saying a client was waiting, that scene showed he lusted after her. She was only killed when she fled with incriminating evidence of his crimes .She was buried beneath a lion statue like some sacred and precious object beneath a Sphinx, where he can see her daily when he went to work. Twisted  unrequited love.

The ending was that he was finally destroyed by his fruits of  unrequited love, the twins, for the brother was ,GF and sister was FF. During 1 scene showing he forced  himself on the unconscious and heavily drugged OM. Karmic ironic twist. FF would probably be stuck in love-hate feelings for him for gaslighting her for so many years but not GF, who hated him. WGH must have hated it when his flesh and blood, just like OM, had a hand to destroy him ,destiny and karma had the last laugh at him.

Re-watch for it's about  courage with efforts of persistence and perseverance  to change the odds even for the oppressed and the suppressed to walk towards the   light of  a new  dawn.
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