The chemistry was elementary school throughout. Nothing changed with them as years went by. The kisses (a whole 3-wow) got even more awkward and cringe. I'm going to have to rewatch the Cdrama one to get over my disappointment and annoyingness 😭😭 And the 2 scenes where they 'slowly touched each others' faces', their hands shook so bad it even made me uncomfortable. They both could have done so much better. They didn't seem comfortable with each other at all. Sad.
The Tale of Rose is a literal copy and paste of my life. This was crazy to watch. I also had a first love, husband/ex-husband, and a soulmate.
When I was a teen, I was insanely pretty to the point where boys would pull right up into our driveway or stalk our house. I also had an older brother who brought most of the boys into the house that got crazy obsessed with me. I'm not being modest because it's the truth LOL. I even had agencies try to recruit me to model, but my parents refused to let me. My parents were so strict and conservative they ended up pulling me out of school at 14 to homeschool me because they were tired of dealing with all the attention I would get. It got so bad they would accuse ME of doing bad things (and I never did and wasn't). They would even hit me during arguments over it too like they did Rose when it was never my fault and I didn't lead any of the random guys on that would try to pull in and ask to date me, even after I was homeschooled. For 2 years, my mom wouldn't even let me go out to shop with her anymore, so I was just stuck at home for 2 years with no schooling or anything.
My first love went just like Rose's. He was 11 years older than me, much older at the time. We were extremely passionate and thought we would get married, but he was always secretive and disappearing (because of work) and would never tell me anything. He rented a house without even telling me about it, which it wasn't a big deal to me. I started college and would go and stay there between classes and stuff (I lived on campus-this might bother some, but I was 16. It's a really long story (I told my mom I could no longer live the way I was with my stepfather and told her to choose him or me and she said 'you can leave' so I had permission and was emancipated. I took my GED and started college at 16 and lived on my own like an adult and was very mature for my age). Then, all of a sudden he tells me after we had a conversation about getting married that he joined the army and was being stationed out of the country and 'assumed' I would just move with him. I had just started college and was happy, I never wanted to move out of the country and I was happy at the college I was going to. We never fought face to face, but I up and left after raging like Rose did, but I didn't destroy his house over it LOL. He fought tooth and nail to try to get me back for years and has also not remarried or dated anyone else. He still follows me on social medias and tries to talk to me sometimes.
2nd- my husband/ex-husband, was EXACTLY the same as Rose's. He was completely fine and sweet when we were dating and we also met at the same college, I also didn't know a thing about his family because they lived far away. It took a while for me to finally agree to date him, but I didn't see the 'controlling' signs until it was too late too. We got married because his grandparents pushed him too. They told him he was not allowed to live with a girl without us being married (their excuse was, they were Catholic). I ended up going along with it and we didn't have a wedding or a ring, we just got our marriage license and had a 2 min 'get married at the courthouse' wedding. I also got pregnant and it was a girl. His family and him was exactly the same with her being a girl. They all treated her and me like trash and said 'keep trying until you have a boy' and didn't treat our daughter ever (even 16 years later) without much care. He would lock me in rooms, snap my phone in half, tell me I'm not allowed to work, demand we try for a boy (to the point of sneaking up on top of me at night when I was sleeping with our daughter instead of him), ripped landlines out of walls, hid the car keys from me, told me I wasn't allowed to talk to any other guys or even girls sometimes. Using the excuse of 'I'm your husband you have to listen to me.' Anytime I would even look or talk to another guy he would go into a crazy rage. I was also not allowed to go out and grocery shop. IT was wild, until I was able to up and disappear in the middle of the night after much secretive planning to get away. Except, my daughter's father got a girl pregnant after me 10 years after our divorce and he is finally happy with 2 sons and completely ignores our daughter (they married and divorced but he has the kids). She's 16 now. *The good thing about this that Rose SHOULD HAVE DONE is I didn't tell my husband anything about my ex or know of his existence or talk to him again until I had already left my husband* I'm sure it would have been 100x worse if he knew about him lol. And the whole cctv scenario, my ex-husband would have done that too. He use to hack into even my computer and change my password so that I couldn't log into my own computer. He would read all my messages and go into my sm accounts and even unfriend my 'male' family members.
3rd-My soulmate. Except he's still alive, we got married (after my ex-husband fought and refused to divorce me for years), and we had 2 more girls. Married 13 very happy years now :)
Would have loved to see Rose get her 'super happy ending' with her soulmate. But I still enjoyed the ending. I'm sure if I had a 4th, it would be a younger guy too (LOL! seriously jkjk).
Close to none. There was mushy/fluffy build ups, but as soon as it got anywhere close to development, an angsty triangle/ex was brought to swoop in and ruin it. No skinship and 2 awkward kissing scenes (1 forced during a fight). And a s3xual assault scene that got completely overlooked/ignored.
Fun fact everyone liked this drama except haters so ......
I'm with you on all of this lol. I'm sure there are very few of us, but I just kept saying 'girl, he's nothing but a pretty face, move on.' His whole 'my ex-gf needs me and she's #1 priority, so just wait for me until I'm done with her' back and forth was annoying. There was more skinship/chemistry between the ML and the ex (current and flashbacks) than the FL. I think this was my first show where I wanted the FL with literally anyone except the ML. I only got the 'good friends' vibe from them the whole show. Besides the ending/last episode, it felt like the gaming-side was also lacking imo. I'm pretty open-minded and love all C-dramas (and e-sports/professional gamers is my fave genre), but I didn't like this one much at all, so I guess I'm just a 'hater' for it lol.
Honestly, I recommend watching this one first. If you dive into "The Blood of Youth" before it, you'll end up…
Some sequels (with descendants/next gens) are just better to watch first, but if the story from before flows into the next nicely and doesn't veer too far from the storyline/change characters/chop too much out, then I like to wait and watch the prequel's first. For ex: Last Immortal had me go and watch Ancient Love Poetry and I liked that 'aw, look at how his parents got together' feeling. So I was glad I watched it first (I feel like it would have been more frustrating the other way around because they they changed their names and timeframe some).
Dropped this drama on episode 6 . Because ML was annoyingly childish and he never listens to others also, he was…
I'm a sucker for the cold man/CEO boss/aloof/bully male leads, so at first his crying annoyed tf out of me not gonna lie. But as it went on, they start to show he's not immature at all or childish or annoying, he's just really passionate about and responsible for what he loves and what he wants and that makes him emotional. I really enjoyed the ML finally not having a cold/emotionless trait, and one that gives his all that depicts more emotions in one show for a ML character I've ever seen in a Cdrama. Episode 11 was so raw and real, it had my chest feeling so heavy (I hadn't felt that way about a drama in a long while-and I've watched 100s of dramas). Glad I stuck through this one until the end. But it did take me until almost ep 18 to get out of that same feeling you had. (I don't make comments a lot, but I put this one off for forever and regretted it. I honestly feel bad for those who haven't watched it until the end or gave up because how weak the start was.)
Not 'real' cheating, but lots of 'fake' cheating and 'misunderstandings' that the other person is cheating.
I'm glad it didn't go that way, because in this one, FL loved ML and chased him for many many years and when he found out (after she left him and disappeared) he decided it was his time to chase her. So even though he thought she was carrying another man's child, he was already deeply in love with her and said he'd raise the child as his own and still wanted to be with her and remarry. So, he full on dedicates himself to her and he finally realizes all the nasty shiiii his ex did to make all their (business meetings) look like 'personal meetings' towards the FL. So, he drops her (the ex) as soon as he finds out.
Not 'real' cheating, but lots of 'fake' cheating and 'misunderstandings' that the other person is cheating.
This show takes up the longest possible time a show can to clear up misunderstandingss 😂😭 Although, I'm happy with how long it took for him to discover she was a girl, not a guy. That was fairly quick.
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When I was a teen, I was insanely pretty to the point where boys would pull right up into our driveway or stalk our house. I also had an older brother who brought most of the boys into the house that got crazy obsessed with me. I'm not being modest because it's the truth LOL. I even had agencies try to recruit me to model, but my parents refused to let me. My parents were so strict and conservative they ended up pulling me out of school at 14 to homeschool me because they were tired of dealing with all the attention I would get. It got so bad they would accuse ME of doing bad things (and I never did and wasn't). They would even hit me during arguments over it too like they did Rose when it was never my fault and I didn't lead any of the random guys on that would try to pull in and ask to date me, even after I was homeschooled. For 2 years, my mom wouldn't even let me go out to shop with her anymore, so I was just stuck at home for 2 years with no schooling or anything.
My first love went just like Rose's. He was 11 years older than me, much older at the time. We were extremely passionate and thought we would get married, but he was always secretive and disappearing (because of work) and would never tell me anything. He rented a house without even telling me about it, which it wasn't a big deal to me. I started college and would go and stay there between classes and stuff (I lived on campus-this might bother some, but I was 16. It's a really long story (I told my mom I could no longer live the way I was with my stepfather and told her to choose him or me and she said 'you can leave' so I had permission and was emancipated. I took my GED and started college at 16 and lived on my own like an adult and was very mature for my age). Then, all of a sudden he tells me after we had a conversation about getting married that he joined the army and was being stationed out of the country and 'assumed' I would just move with him. I had just started college and was happy, I never wanted to move out of the country and I was happy at the college I was going to. We never fought face to face, but I up and left after raging like Rose did, but I didn't destroy his house over it LOL. He fought tooth and nail to try to get me back for years and has also not remarried or dated anyone else. He still follows me on social medias and tries to talk to me sometimes.
2nd- my husband/ex-husband, was EXACTLY the same as Rose's. He was completely fine and sweet when we were dating and we also met at the same college, I also didn't know a thing about his family because they lived far away. It took a while for me to finally agree to date him, but I didn't see the 'controlling' signs until it was too late too. We got married because his grandparents pushed him too. They told him he was not allowed to live with a girl without us being married (their excuse was, they were Catholic). I ended up going along with it and we didn't have a wedding or a ring, we just got our marriage license and had a 2 min 'get married at the courthouse' wedding. I also got pregnant and it was a girl. His family and him was exactly the same with her being a girl. They all treated her and me like trash and said 'keep trying until you have a boy' and didn't treat our daughter ever (even 16 years later) without much care. He would lock me in rooms, snap my phone in half, tell me I'm not allowed to work, demand we try for a boy (to the point of sneaking up on top of me at night when I was sleeping with our daughter instead of him), ripped landlines out of walls, hid the car keys from me, told me I wasn't allowed to talk to any other guys or even girls sometimes. Using the excuse of 'I'm your husband you have to listen to me.' Anytime I would even look or talk to another guy he would go into a crazy rage. I was also not allowed to go out and grocery shop. IT was wild, until I was able to up and disappear in the middle of the night after much secretive planning to get away. Except, my daughter's father got a girl pregnant after me 10 years after our divorce and he is finally happy with 2 sons and completely ignores our daughter (they married and divorced but he has the kids). She's 16 now. *The good thing about this that Rose SHOULD HAVE DONE is I didn't tell my husband anything about my ex or know of his existence or talk to him again until I had already left my husband* I'm sure it would have been 100x worse if he knew about him lol. And the whole cctv scenario, my ex-husband would have done that too. He use to hack into even my computer and change my password so that I couldn't log into my own computer. He would read all my messages and go into my sm accounts and even unfriend my 'male' family members.
3rd-My soulmate. Except he's still alive, we got married (after my ex-husband fought and refused to divorce me for years), and we had 2 more girls. Married 13 very happy years now :)
Would have loved to see Rose get her 'super happy ending' with her soulmate. But I still enjoyed the ending. I'm sure if I had a 4th, it would be a younger guy too (LOL! seriously jkjk).
For ex: Last Immortal had me go and watch Ancient Love Poetry and I liked that 'aw, look at how his parents got together' feeling. So I was glad I watched it first (I feel like it would have been more frustrating the other way around because they they changed their names and timeframe some).