What is worth in the face of willingness?
This drama has become a bit of a cdrama classic. With raving reviews, endless pity towards the main lead and praise as the love story in the age of many others.
Watching it as it came out (I am currently on a review marathon), there were various thoughts running through my head. It was all those things. A love story that stood the test of tribulations, a sense of selflessness that honestly needed to be studied, and a sense of heartlessness dispite the newly gained emotion.
A very magical and fluffy beginning as we follow the FL as she attempts to navigate the martial world (home) amidst the lack of any real emotion. Dispite this, she is of kidn nature, selfless and compassionate to her sister, family and peers. Always coming from a place of understanding and perseverence. She was always so stuborn and head on, in an almost endering way...so imagine the 180 when I say the ML and the side characters fulled by love for the story as the it went on....and I mean it whole heartedly.
The acting was ML glory. His display of pain, heartbreak, the way his eye wept and rimmed in red. It was a depiction of his character's relentless struggle. It was also so strong and willful, full of desire. He was honestly the embodiment of willingness and that effort is made if they cared enough.
If you don't love the ignorant and frustrating FL...haha boy do I have news for you.
The female lead...I honestly applaud her. I was so interested in her development in the beginning, towards the middle and end though, I was always just so frustrated. She was so headstrong in all the wrong ways. Making efforts towards the wrong things and not realizing what she did until it was all too late. She was so trapped up in her own world and I was constantly gripping my hands in resignation...hoping I could hop into the screen and shake her shoulder. I'm not sure giving someone emotions and a heart...could result in the coldest person...but it did. Well not cold, but..I certainly did not see an ounce of the warm and kind person she once was.
I really did enjoy watching it. The ost, the acting and the ML combined with the side characters that banded around him made it so much more enjoyable. I was still equally as frustrated though. Frustrated by the desire to slap all of them. The desire to rewrite some personalities. I was also needlessly invested...invested in the story, the love, the betrayal, the twisted tale of romeo and juliet lovers. I just wanted it to end with some....magic. Some fluff and some enchanting, almost blinding love and affection that was felt towards the beginning. It was also that desire that drove me towards the end and knew that this love...was a losing game.
This drama gave little me major character development. I was expressive, more outspoken and opinionated....before I developed patience and resignation. I also learned that I hate imposing on others as well as being imposed on. That sometimes, the most beautiful wings can be a secret that one holds with such contempt and disgust. Maybe somewhere out there, just my existence is displeasing someone. HAH it was an interesting thought. Imagine just existing and being the mortal enemy of the entire group of martial clans.
Anyway, I recommend....despite all I said, we can't let all the blood and tears spilt be wasted. It is a watch that will uhh be imprinted in your memory. It was honestly something I can't forget. A drama so fresh in my memory even now...all these years later. It is by no means a right of passage or anything grand like that. But it is a hallmark of cdrama romance. A fantasy wuxia that wrote itself into history as a staple....of suffering, love, and willingness.
Watching it as it came out (I am currently on a review marathon), there were various thoughts running through my head. It was all those things. A love story that stood the test of tribulations, a sense of selflessness that honestly needed to be studied, and a sense of heartlessness dispite the newly gained emotion.
A very magical and fluffy beginning as we follow the FL as she attempts to navigate the martial world (home) amidst the lack of any real emotion. Dispite this, she is of kidn nature, selfless and compassionate to her sister, family and peers. Always coming from a place of understanding and perseverence. She was always so stuborn and head on, in an almost endering way...so imagine the 180 when I say the ML and the side characters fulled by love for the story as the it went on....and I mean it whole heartedly.
The acting was ML glory. His display of pain, heartbreak, the way his eye wept and rimmed in red. It was a depiction of his character's relentless struggle. It was also so strong and willful, full of desire. He was honestly the embodiment of willingness and that effort is made if they cared enough.
If you don't love the ignorant and frustrating FL...haha boy do I have news for you.
The female lead...I honestly applaud her. I was so interested in her development in the beginning, towards the middle and end though, I was always just so frustrated. She was so headstrong in all the wrong ways. Making efforts towards the wrong things and not realizing what she did until it was all too late. She was so trapped up in her own world and I was constantly gripping my hands in resignation...hoping I could hop into the screen and shake her shoulder. I'm not sure giving someone emotions and a heart...could result in the coldest person...but it did. Well not cold, but..I certainly did not see an ounce of the warm and kind person she once was.
I really did enjoy watching it. The ost, the acting and the ML combined with the side characters that banded around him made it so much more enjoyable. I was still equally as frustrated though. Frustrated by the desire to slap all of them. The desire to rewrite some personalities. I was also needlessly invested...invested in the story, the love, the betrayal, the twisted tale of romeo and juliet lovers. I just wanted it to end with some....magic. Some fluff and some enchanting, almost blinding love and affection that was felt towards the beginning. It was also that desire that drove me towards the end and knew that this love...was a losing game.
This drama gave little me major character development. I was expressive, more outspoken and opinionated....before I developed patience and resignation. I also learned that I hate imposing on others as well as being imposed on. That sometimes, the most beautiful wings can be a secret that one holds with such contempt and disgust. Maybe somewhere out there, just my existence is displeasing someone. HAH it was an interesting thought. Imagine just existing and being the mortal enemy of the entire group of martial clans.
Anyway, I recommend....despite all I said, we can't let all the blood and tears spilt be wasted. It is a watch that will uhh be imprinted in your memory. It was honestly something I can't forget. A drama so fresh in my memory even now...all these years later. It is by no means a right of passage or anything grand like that. But it is a hallmark of cdrama romance. A fantasy wuxia that wrote itself into history as a staple....of suffering, love, and willingness.
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