An Enemies to Lovers story, a political slice of life drama.
This Cdrama is part of the influx of well-made dramas within recent years. And truly, when I say that this script and these actors coming together feel like fate, so much so that when I finished it the first time, I had to take some time to think about what about it affected me so much.
As someone in this day and age, I managed to sit through each episode at a time WITHOUT skipping.
The main characters feel real to me in a way, although it is a concept that has been done many times in the past and will continue to do so in the future: a general and a lady. But the way their stories are told, their history, motivations, aspirations and their promises feel real. Experiencing the events unfold with them, the raw emotions, reading facial expressions and body language, and even the way they spoke left me intrigued; almost like every single word and its meaning mattered, and somehow I understood who these individuals are on a fundamental level within the first few episodes.
Of course, that didn't mean I could predict what would happen. Just that it pulled me in slowly; it made me feel like I was experiencing the life they were living with them. They are emotionally complicated, but incredibly smart and capable, like real people. They can feel many emotions and still be wholly logical or irrational, depending on who they are. Both of the main leads are strong/weak in their own ways, but they also balance each other out.
Of course, I am not saying that this show is perfection; some clichés and tropes exist purely because it is a historical drama, but the script's way of handling these clichés is admirable, and in turn, so is the way the two main characters handle it, and the rest of the character are loveable and some... lets just say that this shouldn't be considered a story with a villain and that every chatacter that disagrees with our main leads are stupid and 'evil', sometimes even foolish (but foolish people also exist in reality too), but since it is a historical cdrama with a general and lady there has to be some conflict, the characters and their stories are truly something to witness.
This story is definitely something I have come back to over and over again because it is a comfort show, a slice of life, growing in love.
As someone in this day and age, I managed to sit through each episode at a time WITHOUT skipping.
The main characters feel real to me in a way, although it is a concept that has been done many times in the past and will continue to do so in the future: a general and a lady. But the way their stories are told, their history, motivations, aspirations and their promises feel real. Experiencing the events unfold with them, the raw emotions, reading facial expressions and body language, and even the way they spoke left me intrigued; almost like every single word and its meaning mattered, and somehow I understood who these individuals are on a fundamental level within the first few episodes.
Of course, that didn't mean I could predict what would happen. Just that it pulled me in slowly; it made me feel like I was experiencing the life they were living with them. They are emotionally complicated, but incredibly smart and capable, like real people. They can feel many emotions and still be wholly logical or irrational, depending on who they are. Both of the main leads are strong/weak in their own ways, but they also balance each other out.
Of course, I am not saying that this show is perfection; some clichés and tropes exist purely because it is a historical drama, but the script's way of handling these clichés is admirable, and in turn, so is the way the two main characters handle it, and the rest of the character are loveable and some... lets just say that this shouldn't be considered a story with a villain and that every chatacter that disagrees with our main leads are stupid and 'evil', sometimes even foolish (but foolish people also exist in reality too), but since it is a historical cdrama with a general and lady there has to be some conflict, the characters and their stories are truly something to witness.
This story is definitely something I have come back to over and over again because it is a comfort show, a slice of life, growing in love.
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