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This is not a revenge thriller, but misery porn for 95% of the show
24 episodes at approximately 10 minutes and with a strong start I thought this could be good because of the short format.
However, it is complete garbage. This is not a revenge thriller because the FL doesn’t actually do anything and all the villains just fall into their own traps.
All the heroes are passive and never proactive. It really is horrendous. The usual tropes of turning the evil stepsister crazy when everything is lost. Killing the evil dad off screen and explaining that the evil stepmother was arrested for murder..
This all happened off screen so why do they have the perverse pleasure of showing us the FL being tortured and humiliated for most of her life, we get the offscreen explanation that everything is sorted and she can live a happy life now with the ML.
They even included the horrendous biological mother and I’m still struggling to understand how this gets through Chinese censorship because there is nothing pure or decent about this character. She is pure evil and greedy for money that she abandons her children and beats the FL at every opportunity because she isn’t showing any filial piety and she just stands there and takes it.
I’m struggling to understand how this gets through such rigid censorship when we are told we can’t see actual rough justice being served to the villains because it will paint our heroes in a negative light but we get to enjoy endless humiliation and torture being dished out to the heroes in pretty graphic and harrowing detail.. Just strange.
However, it is complete garbage. This is not a revenge thriller because the FL doesn’t actually do anything and all the villains just fall into their own traps.
All the heroes are passive and never proactive. It really is horrendous. The usual tropes of turning the evil stepsister crazy when everything is lost. Killing the evil dad off screen and explaining that the evil stepmother was arrested for murder..
This all happened off screen so why do they have the perverse pleasure of showing us the FL being tortured and humiliated for most of her life, we get the offscreen explanation that everything is sorted and she can live a happy life now with the ML.
They even included the horrendous biological mother and I’m still struggling to understand how this gets through Chinese censorship because there is nothing pure or decent about this character. She is pure evil and greedy for money that she abandons her children and beats the FL at every opportunity because she isn’t showing any filial piety and she just stands there and takes it.
I’m struggling to understand how this gets through such rigid censorship when we are told we can’t see actual rough justice being served to the villains because it will paint our heroes in a negative light but we get to enjoy endless humiliation and torture being dished out to the heroes in pretty graphic and harrowing detail.. Just strange.
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