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Where The Mask Ends had No Mask to Begin With
The FL was pretending to be Wei Rao, the daughter of a noble family. So that she could marry a nobleman, Lu Zhou, in the place of the “real” Wei Rao who had no desire to be trapped in a marriage with a man who was incapacitated and would soon die. Turns out Lu Zhou lives, and the woman pretending to be Wei Rao wasn’t a fake after all but was actually the real Wei Rao.
How we got here was entertaining but convoluted. And did suffer from characters waiting to ask questions that should’ve been posed from the start only when it was convenient to the story. For example, how it was possible for Wei Rao and A Chou to look identical when they were supposedly not related. The FL was excellent in this, really all the actors playing the female characters were. However, I’m sorry to say Yan An was no more than eye candy in this. He barely had any opportunities to act because his character had very little to do. So, he spent most of his time walking around looking good. But at least he exudes charisma which made him interesting to look at. Lol.
Though this was entertaining, the story didn’t really seem to be driving towards anything. The FL was trying to keep up the lie that she was Wei Rao, which turns out wasn’t a lie at all, and keep the fake Wei Rao and her allies from sending her back to a life of poverty or worse, but beyond that there was no drive towards e.g. a revenge, or a plot to uncover a conspiracy. It was just the FL episode after episode successfully thwarting her enemies.
Though the leads had nice chemistry, there wasn’t even an interesting love story. The ML was obviously smitten with the FL, but her interest in him was lukewarm at best. Once the show resolved the imposter storyline in episodes 16-17 and geared up to introduce a new antagonist who’d undoubtedly be hellbent on revenge against the real Wei Rao. For reasons, I don’t care to get into, I lost interest in the show and stopped watching. Again, this wasn’t a bad show. It was actually quite entertaining, but halfway through the plots did start to get a bit repetitive and by the time the main plot resolved, I was not compelled to continue with the show for another 10+ episodes.
How we got here was entertaining but convoluted. And did suffer from characters waiting to ask questions that should’ve been posed from the start only when it was convenient to the story. For example, how it was possible for Wei Rao and A Chou to look identical when they were supposedly not related. The FL was excellent in this, really all the actors playing the female characters were. However, I’m sorry to say Yan An was no more than eye candy in this. He barely had any opportunities to act because his character had very little to do. So, he spent most of his time walking around looking good. But at least he exudes charisma which made him interesting to look at. Lol.
Though this was entertaining, the story didn’t really seem to be driving towards anything. The FL was trying to keep up the lie that she was Wei Rao, which turns out wasn’t a lie at all, and keep the fake Wei Rao and her allies from sending her back to a life of poverty or worse, but beyond that there was no drive towards e.g. a revenge, or a plot to uncover a conspiracy. It was just the FL episode after episode successfully thwarting her enemies.
Though the leads had nice chemistry, there wasn’t even an interesting love story. The ML was obviously smitten with the FL, but her interest in him was lukewarm at best. Once the show resolved the imposter storyline in episodes 16-17 and geared up to introduce a new antagonist who’d undoubtedly be hellbent on revenge against the real Wei Rao. For reasons, I don’t care to get into, I lost interest in the show and stopped watching. Again, this wasn’t a bad show. It was actually quite entertaining, but halfway through the plots did start to get a bit repetitive and by the time the main plot resolved, I was not compelled to continue with the show for another 10+ episodes.
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