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Be Not Meant to Be chinese drama review
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Be Not Meant to Be
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by ColourMePurple
6 days ago
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 4.0
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The Absurdity Will Make You Laugh

The show is not great to be honest and the acting lackluster but this drama made me laugh a lot simply because of how ridiculous situations get. I have given it a 7 just because I was entertained. Just not in the way it was intended. If you need to uplift your mood, watch this for the heck of it.

The writer decided to throw every possible trope into this. Abusive husband, dead child, twin sister, step-mother step-son relationship, concubine, a ML that just won't die, childhood friend, buried alive, drowning, forced kisses, revenge, phobia, kidnapping, blindness, amnesia, attempted rape, death of a parent, death of a sibling, etc etc.

The supporting cast even asks the male lead why he won't do a common sense thing and then exclaims, " The scriptwriter won't allow it". 😆 I wish the whole drama actually did some tongue-in-cheek breaking the fourth wall type of stuff so that it was more obvious that they are going to extremes on purpose. It would have become more enjoyable.

For the most part I enjoyed it but I was just a bit annoyed towards the end. I had had enough with these pop-up villains. I actually raised the rating from 6.5 to 7 because the FL gives her evil husband a good beating and her revenge idea was actually interesting. If only there was more of that version of the FL till the end.

In any case, it was a quick watch. I wouldn't recommend it as such but if you do watch it, try to enjoy the silliness of it all rather than taking it too seriously.
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