CasualCDfan

Why didn't you like it? I was thinking of watching it.

This show is driven by a boring love story that lacks any real stakes or emotional weight. The show desperately wants you to feel like it's telling some epic love story. It's not. .

This drama’s fatal flaw is that it’s driven by a thoroughly unengaging love story devoid of any real stakes or emotional weight.

That's because the love story has no stakes and is not very interesting, yet it is what's driving the story.

Yea, that's usually the case with the majority of these novel to drama adaptation. They mostly use the source material as an inspiration to craft a story that they think will be suited for the c-drama audience. Otherwise, they'd would the majority of their audience.

I'm curious. How deep was her relationship with the SML?

I mispoke. Yes, there are many shows with romance subplots that are male-oriented. But drama where the romance is one of the primary driving forces behind the story is almost always female-oriented. Let's be honest, the male audience isn't interested in finding out the answers tot he following questions:
1. Happy ending?
2. Story?
3. Chemistry?
4. Kiss scene?

"ML love the FL so deeply.. he is the perfect simp. FL love herself, her family./matters and maybe she has a little feelings for ML"

These types of dramas are often written for a specific subset of audience in mind: narcissistic women. The larger audience typically loves shows where the romance is balanced.

Most of these dramas are.

All dramas with romance are targeted towards the female audience. This show fails to understand that, whoever the targeted audience is, people generally want to root for the ML and don't appreciate seeing him being cucked. But some writers fetishize this kind of behavior.

Incentivizing people to have kids is not the same as forcing people to have kids. The goal is to make sure that the human race survives and thrives into the distant future. Right now, because of widespread anti-natalism, entire countries, cultures, and peoples will vanish.

"This is how the wrong people end up having kids."

Interestingly, the low birthrate issue is a first-world problem. The third world has no problems with having kids. We should encourage everyone to have children because the future of the human race is at stake. Don't worry, in about 20 years, you'll look at countries like Japan, South Korea, and many countries in Europe, and you'll remember this conversation.

Governments have been incentivizing behaviors in humans since antiquity. So it's only fair for government to incentivize what good for society. People getting married and having children is the right thing to do, especially if you're South Korea, Japan, and China. Population collapse will not be pretty.

Well, they should be incentivized one way or another, or many nations will disappear within 100 years.

I disagree. We need a lot more pro-marriage, pro-family, pro children message in these dramas. This anti-marriage mentality is the primary reason why we're facing a low birth crisis all over the developing world. Unless we turn this around, entire countries will disappear. So I hope these governments wake up before it's too late. We need to propagandize the public towards getting married and having children. That's the right thing to do.

Yeah I wished the drama revolved more around the VR game and not architecture lol

Season two.
Title: Fatal Romance
Synopsis: Five years on, Zhi Yu, Hu Xiu, Zhao, and Gong find themselves stuck in an upgraded murder mystery VR game. Some shady figures have locked them and others inside, surrounded by killer NPCs out for blood.

"they bite each other and chain each other"
Whoa! Details please! How did they develop this relationship? So, it's true she never slept with the puppet husband, or she did but wasn't satisfied?

lol

Given how in love those two are, marriage and kids would've been a fitting ending. Instead, they went with a subtle anti-marriage message, which I find weird.

I get this explanation, but the drama makes it seem like she cares more about her career than marrying this man she's madly in love with. Given how long they've been dating, they should've just kept the whole marriage conversation out of it.