What is 'intimacy' in the tag and who the heck added it there??? When I clicked on the tag, 2 other dramas with the same tag are racy and have also 'sexual content' in it, lmao. Knowing it's a Cdrama, that's not gonna happen ;D
IMO FL is too cringey to watch so we dropped this.
There is logical explanation about the FL's 'cringiness'. First, she is from a remote countryside area who is not exposed of the sophisticated life as depicted in the capital. Moreover, she is raised by only males in her family: grandfather, father, and brother. Finally, they are shunned by people surround them, since as coroners they touch dead people. So FL is more of a naive person instead of cringey, and doesn't have any chance to practice social skills neither acts appropriately as a girl as per custom.
Hmm... since you mentioned BOF... I got something to say, lol! But first things first: congrats on your first article, what an insightful one! BOF is the third drama I watched since I was born in dramaland. BOF is purposely set up for the SLS and the Kdrama did a darned good job to plot this comparing to the other HDY versions. Even only in the first episode when the drama introduces us to the F4 characters we should have already fell for the Second ML. The FL Jan Di meets and falls for the angelic SML Ji Hoo first before meeting ML Joon Pyo. Us the audience is given a delicious fanservice of dramatic slo-mo scene of Ji Hoo putting his white shirt on compares to the pampering of the spoiled Joon Pyo served by myriad of servants. Even their hairstyle difference already persuades viewers to choose sides ;D. Luckily as Asian romantic dramas evolve we see more and more kindhearted and gentle MLs. But interestingly, the evolution also makes more and more sly and pushy SMLs. A fascinating phenomena in which you or other writer probably want to take that as an idea to write as an article ;D I myself tend to watch romantic dramas in which the second leads, both SML and SFL, don't have romantic interest at all towards the main leads. At least I don't have to skip/FF scenes and enjoy the particular dramas more. Your take on Female Lead Agency is very interesting, and thanks for your keen observation as I am usually are not aware neither bothered by the lack of the agency in characters (having watched The Legends and TMOPB).
Dear Jojo, whoa... finally I got to see this article!!! You must be as happy as the girl in the first GIF (⌒.−)! Thank you for being our lovely editor and to write this long-awaited article. I am sure to give this link to anyone asking me about writing articles. So, 300-500 words and 1/2 inch length scroll bar? OK, noted. And yes, please write a second part of it, we appreciate your effort to make us better writers. ❤️
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Luckily as Asian romantic dramas evolve we see more and more kindhearted and gentle MLs. But interestingly, the evolution also makes more and more sly and pushy SMLs. A fascinating phenomena in which you or other writer probably want to take that as an idea to write as an article ;D
I myself tend to watch romantic dramas in which the second leads, both SML and SFL, don't have romantic interest at all towards the main leads. At least I don't have to skip/FF scenes and enjoy the particular dramas more.
Your take on Female Lead Agency is very interesting, and thanks for your keen observation as I am usually are not aware neither bothered by the lack of the agency in characters (having watched The Legends and TMOPB).