NickB

How is it the FL has no problem stabbing the ML, but didn't want to kill the villain when she had the chance? Her luke-warm revenge plot never made any sense. She gave herself more trouble being stupid and wasting opportunities. And I think that is why I found her character so annoying to me. Her smug looks weren't backed by intelligent scheming. It was just her throwing the ML under the bus, while allowing others to get one and two over on her. Had she been as vicious with the 2nd ML as she was with MML, this drama would have been over with by ep. 20 and would have been more logical and tightly written.

I also hate the trope of ML hurting the FL or vice versa in the name of "Helping" them. Just tell them what the plan is and act accordingly. It's such a lazy writing tactic to manufacture unnecessary drama between the leads. Like the ML is a badass fighter, you mean to tell me that he couldn't kill the male villain with one arrow to the head or chest? This series dragged out the simple plot to a painful length to endure.

There was no reason why the Xiao Hujin should have lasted as long as he did. Couldn't the writers come up with a better villain than him? They continued to give him opportunities to survive just so that he could be a foil, which makes the lead characters stupid. Just because it's a short series drama, doesn't mean it should have crappy story-telling.