One of the best 2025 historical dramas
The acting of the cast was good...too good. You couldn't help getting attached to each and every character (obviously hating upon the villains...that just means their acting was good)It is an enemy to lovers trope ...a mixture of bickering, drama and obviously romance.
Although the ending was quite rushed and not satisfactory but it is an amazing watch!
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Tears, Trauma, Love that goes beyond time!
Twelve Letters wasn't a drama I planned to watch. I was ready to drop it just 15 mins into the first episode. I couldn't understand where it was going, with all the switches between present and past. But I decided to at least finish the first episode - and honestly, that was a good decision. (Though I cried buckets at the end of almost every episode after 6th?)This drama gives you a glimpse at what life really is: Things rarely turning out the way we want... Every time we hope for something good to happen, something bad or even worse happens.
Twelve letters is both realistic and unrealistic. Realistic, in how it portrays human relations and emotions. Unrealistic, because we don't get second chances at life like they did.
Shen Cheng deciding to give his mother a second chance at her life really touched my heart. He knew that if she gets another chance, he wouldn't exist yet he still chose it, because he wanted her to be happy with the love of her life. And Yu Nian... finding out the man she lived with her entire life actually wasn't her father — still calling him "dad", searching for his name in her contacts.
Ye Haitang & Tang Yixun — the trauma these two suffered. Watching everything unfold and crying at every scene because it hurt. Living your life with no one to care for you and then suddenly having someone who cares about you so deeply they would risk everything to protect you (even themselves). And not just the male lead — female lead did the same. Her visiting his grave every year? Divorcing her husband just to stay by his side? (Some might say that was wrong but it was not since he was and always would be, her family) She lived only for him. She tried to live his share of life, just like he wanted her to. [I would skip what he did for her since you need to see the drama to know that]
Ps. I remembered every thing while writing this, and now I am teary again.
Do watch the drama. It's worth it.
And yes — People may fear only trauma, but let me be clear: it's not all trauma. There's so much more.
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