Unexpectedly great drama
Usually, I don't have high expectations for the short dramas, as they tend to have more plot issues than the long ones.
This is definitely not the case here. "Fortune Writer" has impeccable pacing, lots of very emotional scenes, fantastic chemistry, surprising twists and a quite fresh treatment of some usual tropes.
In this last aspect it resembles "Dream within a dream". The ML is not as awsome as Liu Juning, but the FL is absolutely not worse than Li Yitong, and maybe even better. The secondary characters are not so good, but fortunately they don't occupy too much of screen time, so this doesn't really matter.
The idea of rebelling against the Fate / the Writer (as the narrative takes place inside a book) has been already explored, but in this drama it is presented in a different, very entertaing way.
I especially like the fact that the leads are not intrinsicaly good people and the heroine is not trying to become good person and redeem herself. She is just normal, with flaws and virtues, and just try to save herself.
In some points the plot was showing some inconsistencies or seemed to lack logic, but at the end all of it was resolved in a quite acceptable manner, which is a very good result for a story about fiction characters rebelling against their author, as such concept is already logically challenging.
Overall, I think that this drama really merits more attention and higher rating.
This is definitely not the case here. "Fortune Writer" has impeccable pacing, lots of very emotional scenes, fantastic chemistry, surprising twists and a quite fresh treatment of some usual tropes.
In this last aspect it resembles "Dream within a dream". The ML is not as awsome as Liu Juning, but the FL is absolutely not worse than Li Yitong, and maybe even better. The secondary characters are not so good, but fortunately they don't occupy too much of screen time, so this doesn't really matter.
The idea of rebelling against the Fate / the Writer (as the narrative takes place inside a book) has been already explored, but in this drama it is presented in a different, very entertaing way.
I especially like the fact that the leads are not intrinsicaly good people and the heroine is not trying to become good person and redeem herself. She is just normal, with flaws and virtues, and just try to save herself.
In some points the plot was showing some inconsistencies or seemed to lack logic, but at the end all of it was resolved in a quite acceptable manner, which is a very good result for a story about fiction characters rebelling against their author, as such concept is already logically challenging.
Overall, I think that this drama really merits more attention and higher rating.
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