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I want to comment about the mother part, in my opinion, as much as that make her sound like a bad person, irl I would say there would be more mothers who would make the same choice as her than not.

Like it's pretty logical for her to be against her daughter marrying a blind orphan, while quickly changed her mind the other way around once she saw that he is healthy, handsome, and rich. In fact the only thing that makes this remotely realistic is that the ML is supposedly really good looking, which was why the FL fell in love in first sight, otherwise yeah, no happy ending.

So which actresses do you think will fit these roles better?

ML personality is always shit from the beginning though. In fact, his dad, step mom, aunt, FL, her families and friends, etc all have better personality and all would make a better friend irl. Like the way he treated his step mom and aunt from the beginning of the show is like how an unfilial villain would act.

ML is super entitled, selfish person, acts like everyone owes him while taking everything for granted, but the show wanted me to sympathize with him like oh he's disabled and sad, but meh, I actually sympathize much more with all the other characters around him. Just because he was traumatized in the past doesn't mean he should get free pass for everything since.

You mean you don't like the actress? Damn, I mean, she's my 2nd most favorite actress...

Yeah, this drama succeeded in making me feel bad for the ML so many times throughout the show. I much prefer shows where the leads have a much healthier relationship. I watched many CN historical dramas and CSS still top the list as the most worst written FL I've ever seen.

LOL so true... so many reverse-harem dramas and no one say anything. Just like how all these female viewers complain whenever they encounter ML that are controlling and try to dominate FL, but if it's the other way around, eg. henpecked submissive male characters (very common trope), no one would say anything.

Portrayal corruption in chinese government is actually allowed by Chinese censors. For example, In The Name of The People, People's Property, etc are about corruption in Chinese government, in particular, corruption committed by fictional Chinese communist party members.

There is this misconception that China don't allow depiction of corrupted officials but this is not true. You can't shit on the party/country as a whole (tbh, this is true in every country, there's no country that produce a movie/drama that shits on their own country as a whole) but you can definitely have a bad government official, cop, party member, etc as a character. When it comes to cdrama censorship, it is 99.99% just censoring things to make it watchable by kids really.

What you need to know about China is the average level of patriotism of it's people is indeed higher than your average country (and these nationalist "patriots" will write pro-government bias on their own without censors asking them to), and the main reason is actually because the government actually performed really well in the last few decades overall, look at how China was in the 90s and now, huge gap, meanwhile most other countries don't change anywhere as much in the same period, if anything many stagnated and declined. Poverty alleviation and improvement of standard of living in China is something that their citizen can see, even the educated urbanites with their vpn, frequent surfing of western websites, and foreign degrees, have very high approval rating of their government because they can see tangible results and can compare it with all these inefficient democratic governments in other countries.

This is the reason why there are many cdramas littered with "propaganda" and patriotic message, despite being written and produced by ordinary civilians without the intervention of government propaganda arms. It's something people don't understand if they don't have friends living in China.

If this drama is sexist, the chief wouldn't be a woman. In fact all the detectives would be men just like how it is in real life China.

Can't call a show sexist when it is less sexist than real life.

Underrated drama. It's just very enjoyable to watch overall. If you like "historical" investigation mystery this is the best cdrama for that.

Fang Lie is just your usual lazy, unreliable, nice guy. Except that here he has talent in drawing and that's about it.

Overrated, it's draggy and kinda boring, had to slog through it. Only managed to finish it because the FL actress is very cute and pretty.

There is a reason for this type of female character to be common, because many men like that kind of character, the same way that women simps for the typical male lead in xianxia.

Not sure what you're talking about. I thought her voice is so cute, and she is a master at acting cute and innocent. She's great at singing too. Best actress imho. Only watched this because she's here otherwise I won't bother. Now, speaking of her character, as a guy, I actually like this type of girl...

Uh, military dramas are all propaganda, doesn't matter the country. You think US are making military dramas that make their military look bad?

The difference here is if you don't like China govt in the first place then you would subconsciously think that anything that portray them as good is propaganda, while other countries that you might like, you won't even think that way when they show how heroic their military is.

What you said is just subjective opinion. I don't even like kdramas they sucked even at 8 rating. Meanwhile I'm watching some cdramas below 8 rating. If you ask me, kdramas are overrated.

However despite all that, I do agree that this drama in particular is overrated. Should be an 8 at best. From my observation, "esports" dramas are all overrated in general for some reason.

Can you name some better cdramas with the same genre though? Otherwise, it can't really be overrated when there's nothing better in its category.

Wan Peng is simply the best at this "bright girl chasing a cold guy" role, she does it in many dramas and always nail it perfectly.

The actress that plays Xiao Lu is pretty but this is the only drama she ever acted on, what a shame.

> You often see the youngsters who are blinded by the superficial beauty that they don't see what happening inside.

See, the problem is that most people judge by appearance and everyone knows that appearance affect life opportunities from jobs to romance. As much as everyone like to talk about inner beauty, in the end, it is much easier for people to fall in love with a pretty face, of course in a relationship, eventually other things like personality and character matters too, but looks determines the amount of choices you get, really.

This is why appearance anxiety becomes a problem, all the "born ugly" people knows that they are generally treated worse than their good looking peers, they see that the popular good looking girls/guys getting better school life and such, then they graduate and have advantage in the job market, etc. I remember when I was in high school, the most attractive girls has many suitors, while of course the least good looking girls have 0 suitor, all the guys don't even know any of their personality, they just see pretty face and then go chase mode, the so called "good looking guys" who wanna waste time with ugly girls to try to get to know her only exist in dramaland. Even the ugly guys all dream of the school beauties. Later when these guys will grow up to be a creepy ugly old uncle and if they happen to be rich, they'll probably still chasing after young pretty faces to be their mistresses.

Of course, no one needs to have tv star looks to find true love and such, but one always wonder if their life might be better if they have better looks. My take on this is, those people with above average, say 7 or 8/10 looks still feel the need for surgeries and such, that's excessive, but think about people who look below average, it's hard to imagine how they can chase that ideal life in tv like intense romance and such without full makeover. Life sucks, I remember reading a chinese interview with a girl who was asked why she wants a cosmetic surgery, she said that she sees people on the street looking like "influencers" and feel very insecure. Imagine yourself in her shoes, feeling like shit when watching these good looking people on the street are being affectionate with their good looking partners...

Societies and idols cannot be blamed. Why should idols be not allowed to look good? Surely in the free world they should be allowed to look as good as they want. Naturally this create a chain reaction where a bunch of "ordinary" people looking at these pretty people and then idolize/dream of having a partner like them. This is normal biological reaction, attempting to normalize ugliness/discourage excessively attractive faces makes absolutely no sense for the society going forward, if anything humanity should eventually figure out how to make everyone a 10/10 face. That way no one would be left behind anymore and can live their perfect ideal romance with another 10/10 face. This is the most fair outcome.

Speaking of dramaland, sometimes I see fictional characters, like pretty FL, having only 1-2 suitor and every other men aren't attracted to her at all, or SML attracted to SFL as first choice which is clearly uglier than FL, those are very very unrealistic irl. In practice, the society is way more shallow and the 10s will have the most suitors followed by the 9s and so on. Of course people have their own preference for categories and a 10 will not attract everyone, eg. a man who's into cute petite girls might not necessarily like a tall beautiful model, but he will definitely like a top tier face in his "strike zone."

I'm surprised people actually watch credits, I always skip them. In fact wetv even have "skip credit" mode lol.

Gotcha, that tag make it sound like she's gonna have relationship with multiple men, if it's like what you said it should be more like love triangle or not even tagged because a non-toxic love rival is pretty common.

I'm watching the first episode and I have to say that I am not a fan of the "dream forecast" thingy, I might watch a couple more episode and see if I want to continue or not.