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This one looks gorgeous! Doesn’t look like there is romance in it though?

So I realized that I’m almost done with this one and don’t have another show lined up to watch 🙇🏼‍♀️What should I watch? I dropped LITC cause I hated the deceit and not communicating. Maybe I’ll rewatch Shadow Love or LotFG. I’m looking for a show with a similar vibe as this one - with a mature romance, good intrigue, some fight scenes, and a happy ending. Sadly I think I have probably watched all of the comparable ones to Fated Hearts that are good 🤦🏼‍♀️

What episode are you on?

Cool - I would say yes, but give it a try and see if you like it :)

The whole show is about misunderstandings, lying and keeping secrets. Like the whole show. So if that’s not your thing, I would pass on this one.

Yeah it didn’t bother me when he captured her and beat her - that made sense to me because she cost him a war and almost killed him. I wrestled a bit more with her retaliation until looked at how it would have looked if she did NOT beat him back in the woods. When I recognized that it was because of the power differential, it all changed for me.

Sure! It’s rough the first three episodes or so, but there is a mutual respect between the leads that develops fairly quickly. I would even say that the respect is there even in the midst of the violence. They did become one of my favorite TV couples.

Depends on what your personal tastes are. A lot of people loved it, some didn’t. If you like romance with good communication and mutual respect, and pretty graphics and OST, you would probably like this one.

Agreed! The intimate scenes were wonderful, but they were wonderful because of the chemistry and bond between the leads.

Isn’t Manman amazing 😍 ❤️ I may be about due for a rewatch

So I’m about to wrap up the show and have been glancing through the discussion. I wanted to share some thoughts about the first few episodes as some people struggled a bit with the lead’s mutual violence towards each other. I was one of them and had the hardest time viewing the beatings just as “petty revenge” or “tit for tat”. After talking with my partner about it, I realized that it was a lot more than just “tit for tat”. It was about the FL voiding out the imbalance of power in episode 3. If she had not “settled the score” with him, then there would have been a very large differential of power. He would have captured her, beat / water boarded her, taken her captive in his city and then made demands that she join forces with him to discover who wanted her dead. And she hadn’t recovered her memories. Talk about a big power imbalance. I saw her retaliation in the woods not as “petty revenge”, but as away to put herself back on equal footing with the ML by getting rid of that unequal balance of power and putting them on the same level. Just my two cents.

Interesting. I’ll think about this. I plan on doing a rewatch when it’s all over, I think the sudden change in pacing and this supposed raid plot caught me off guard. Obviously I remembered the Storm Alliance being referred to early on, but I didn’t remember there being much else said about it prior to when they got there.

Thanks! I will circle back to this when I finish the show today

Yeah but it’s used for humor and not for angsty drama, so I see it differently. :)

Through mutual respect :) The violence towards each other ends after like episode 3 I think.

Okay sooo would some people who didn’t mind the Storm Alliance arc tell me why you liked it? It felt like it came out of nowhere, introduced a bunch if new characters aaaaand created this new plot that was largely unrelated to the main one. It felt like it went from this FANTASTIC buildup to what went down in the capital… and then turned into a completely new show for a handful of episodes. How come you guys liked it? How did you guys see it fitting into the overall story? I am still midway through 34, so I have not made it to the end yet. I’ll probably be finishing it tomorrow 😊

It’s a lot better.

It took me quite a bit of time to process the first few episodes with the beatings and water boarding. I got into a conversation with my partner about it, as he didn’t have any issues at all with those scenes. He said that he interpreted her “settling the score” with him as her way of evening the playing field and putting them back on equal footing. I thought about it, and thought about what it would have been like if she didn’t beat him back in episode 3. She would have done her job as a general in a war by shooting him, but then him torturing her after she lost her memories created a very big power differential between them. Then he took her captive in his city and then demanded that she join forces with him to help find out who tried to kill her. There was a very large imbalance of power, so I now see her beating him back in episode 3 as her way of voiding that power imbalance rather than it being “petty revenge”. Seeing it like that helped me see the first few episodes in a totally different light.

I loved how they shot the intimacy scene! Beautiful 😍(I know it’s an unpopular opinion). And the sweet buildup to that scene was wonderful ❤️

And then the sister got hit so Nevermind lol