Alaskan

The Prisoner of Beauty is a beautifully filmed drama. Although it’s a love story, there are almost constant conflicts and power struggles, as well as good friendships and nice secondary romances, to keep things moving. I thought that the actors were great, especially Song Zuer, Liu Yuning, and Liu Duan Duan. I think that what saves this drama from being the typical enemies to lovers story is the FL, who seems to be more suspicious of the ML and more cunning and slower to trust than usual but also has a strong moral core. I assume that the title refers to the female lead, whose beauty is used by her family to ally themselves with a historic enemy but also, I think, to the antagonist who uses her beauty to manipulate and scheme and turns out to be her own worst enemy.

The humor didn’t always land with me and I thought that the ending left some loose ends but I enjoyed this drama.