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Is forgiving somebody who’s tried to kill you multiple times really a virtue????
So this is 26 episodes at approximately 15 minutes each, but it should’ve finished at 22 episodes because the last arc was this weird rehash of the first phase of this drama.
The Premise is basically after being reborn into a second life, Jiang Xue Ying (FL) decides to change her fate by swapping marriages with her sister, Jiang Yu Er who instigates the whole marriage swapping situation.
She marries Xue Ying (ML) and becomes the Crown Princess, marrying the seemingly "idle" or playboy-like Prince Lu Jun Xing
Within the royal household, she must outmanoeuvre treacherous rivals and the FL is a brilliant strategist whose evil sister makes wrong decisions from beginning to end..
We go through this whole phase of the sister constantly trying to kill her or frame her or humiliate her or everything at once. This happens every other episode so I could probably count about a dozen times the sister has tried to ruin the FL.
The use of comedy music during Jiang Yu Er’s most sadistic moments is jarring to say the least, but I get that it is a stylistic choice that stems from the specific production goals of Chinese short-form mini-drams.
By the end of the weird third arc, the sister had switched sides and they gave her a redemption arc. This is so wrong on so many levels because it doesn’t show virtue it just shows stupidity.
It really bothers me that these specific types of "face-slapping" dramas, the antagonist (the sister) is often stripped of her status as a human being because in the eyes of the writers she is no longer a person; she is a plot device or a "boss" to be defeated.
I guess the logic with these things is: "Because she is evil, any horror that happens to her—or that she inflicts to prove her evil—is not 'real' suffering, but a spectacle."
I don’t like this kind of desensitisation within "revenge-porn" style storytelling where the only thing that matters is the protagonist’s eventual victory.
The Premise is basically after being reborn into a second life, Jiang Xue Ying (FL) decides to change her fate by swapping marriages with her sister, Jiang Yu Er who instigates the whole marriage swapping situation.
She marries Xue Ying (ML) and becomes the Crown Princess, marrying the seemingly "idle" or playboy-like Prince Lu Jun Xing
Within the royal household, she must outmanoeuvre treacherous rivals and the FL is a brilliant strategist whose evil sister makes wrong decisions from beginning to end..
We go through this whole phase of the sister constantly trying to kill her or frame her or humiliate her or everything at once. This happens every other episode so I could probably count about a dozen times the sister has tried to ruin the FL.
The use of comedy music during Jiang Yu Er’s most sadistic moments is jarring to say the least, but I get that it is a stylistic choice that stems from the specific production goals of Chinese short-form mini-drams.
By the end of the weird third arc, the sister had switched sides and they gave her a redemption arc. This is so wrong on so many levels because it doesn’t show virtue it just shows stupidity.
It really bothers me that these specific types of "face-slapping" dramas, the antagonist (the sister) is often stripped of her status as a human being because in the eyes of the writers she is no longer a person; she is a plot device or a "boss" to be defeated.
I guess the logic with these things is: "Because she is evil, any horror that happens to her—or that she inflicts to prove her evil—is not 'real' suffering, but a spectacle."
I don’t like this kind of desensitisation within "revenge-porn" style storytelling where the only thing that matters is the protagonist’s eventual victory.
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