The chemistry between the lead characters is next level. It's mostly quite subtle (although not so much when Fang…
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There is a romantic relationship but not a romance like a kdrama romance. There is also a chemistry thing happening between the FL and one other male that you will get second male lead syndrome about. This is a pure revenge drama, though, so it's all about the revenge cake.
No normal person would murder their personal physician and his family immediately after being diagnosed with a…
I was addressing about the drama and its inherent theme of personal revenge. Through it all, XFF tried to be as "good" you want her to be. There is no predictability in the nature of revenge. I'm addressing the question of when had the nature of revenge in any drama been pretty? Or neatly-packaged? You're the one upset that XFF, as a character, was underserving of her revenge and needed to be punished because she didn't seem to have cared enough over the death of the physician--again, my reply to that were the same questions: when had revenge been about being caring and being neatly packaged?
XFF cared about the people she cared about--those around the ones who had wronged her and those who had been wronged. All attached to her enemies--be it a maid, a soldier, a physician, a concubine, two silly jealous maids, jealous students, audiences to plays, officials who are doing their jobs righteously but blindly, court jesters--were not in her sphere of sympathy (for lack of a better word at 5am). I'm responding to your repeated point to all the other posters answering you because that bothered you enough that I felt it needed to be addressed, from a revenge point of view. You felt XFF needed to be punished because of one scene where she neither predicted or actually addressed (She was amused because her cold and usually focused Duke Su demanded who the child was after taking her pulse). So based on that, I choose to defend the same character based on something thematic to your point--revenge as an overall plot point and character point-of-view.
I dare not tell you how many times I have re-watched! š
I just went to rewatch the first episode (The Glory Part 1). Here is how to skip the brutal bullying part--Watch the beginning to the 7 minute mark. This is a good beginning so you can't skip it--you see her driving into town with calm, soothing music on :). Then SKIP TO THE 27th minute because that missing half hour is a flashback to the bully days. The 27th minute on is still flashback but the violence is gone. The first thing you see is the FL (young) accepting the fact that her mother had abandoned her and that her dreams of being an architect was gone. The you see her bullies still at school with a new victim. Then you see the FL's last confrontation with her bullies and then...it begins :). Just imagine the missing part as how the FL was targeted because she was poor and without protection from parent and teacher. No one helped her while she was being bullied and when she was forced to withdraw from school because of the pain and suffering, she found out that her mother had been bribed to sign the reason of her withdrawal away so the school would not investigate the rich kids.
I dare not tell you how many times I have re-watched! š
Destined was okay, quite cute, but totally forgettable for me. And after watching The Double,,,hahaha...need I say more? You and I are still hanging out here, talking scenes....
No normal person would murder their personal physician and his family immediately after being diagnosed with a…
When is a revenge nice and not messy? LOL. When is a revenge about anyone being better? When is a revenge about being no collateral damage? The FL had been whacked in the head, raped, lost her husband and beloved family, buried alive, had seen a whole village destroyed, been threatened, drugged, lied to, almost raped again twice, threatened with a sword, had her new manās life threatened, SO MANY other things in between. I donāt think any viewer is led to think this FL was supposed to be a nice avenger of a plan tied neatly in a bow.
There is your accusation above and another one permeating the Internet about how cruel XFF was about this baby scheme, as if bringing an eye-for-an-eye kind of justice was supposed to be about kindness and forgiveness If one went on the road of personal revenge always playing fireman, putting out all the collateral fires, then the avenger definitely was not built to be the person meant for revenge at all. Better to just turn away, forgive and let bygones be bygones.
There were several kinds of tea being served throughout this drama. Watch which one the protagonist pick to drink and what her (and his) words were in the dialogue of that scene. At the same time, the viewer (you and I) is served the several kinds of tea too. There is romance. There is revenge. And oh, there is the poisoned tea also.
When I read there some audiences blaming main female lead, Xue Fang Fei, yet pitied Princess Wan Ning, I'm really…
They donāt see the beauty of poetic justice/karma. The one who enjoyed the destruction of the purity of innocence (as she had boasted) got punished with her most precious yearningāan innocent life, even though not realātaken from her.
I dare not tell you how many times I have re-watched! š
It is about bullying and the first episode is quite horrifying in that respect. You can skip the first two episodes if that is your trigger. This drama is so worth it, @Frankly. It is my second favorite drama of this year, topping Lu Siās The Last Immortal. However, itās not a romance, although it has one. Itās a pure revenge drama. BUT. The chemistry between the FL and of the characters and the subtext of their conversations are amazing. If you do watch and enjoy it, letās talk about it on that forum! I know youāll be fascinated with Dong Eun and Do Young!
Notice Do-Yeung eating the revenge cake (haha, that's what I called it) to taste what it's like before deciding to off Jae-Jun. Notice also when he KNEW where Jae-Jun was meeting Dong-Eun. I bet DE told him and he planned the cement truck incident. DE's reply to her boyfriend about Jae-Jun's whereabouts was, as usual, pointedly ambiguous, but we know that she knew exactly what happened.
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XFF cared about the people she cared about--those around the ones who had wronged her and those who had been wronged. All attached to her enemies--be it a maid, a soldier, a physician, a concubine, two silly jealous maids, jealous students, audiences to plays, officials who are doing their jobs righteously but blindly, court jesters--were not in her sphere of sympathy (for lack of a better word at 5am). I'm responding to your repeated point to all the other posters answering you because that bothered you enough that I felt it needed to be addressed, from a revenge point of view. You felt XFF needed to be punished because of one scene where she neither predicted or actually addressed (She was amused because her cold and usually focused Duke Su demanded who the child was after taking her pulse). So based on that, I choose to defend the same character based on something thematic to your point--revenge as an overall plot point and character point-of-view.
There is your accusation above and another one permeating the Internet about how cruel XFF was about this baby scheme, as if bringing an eye-for-an-eye kind of justice was supposed to be about kindness and forgiveness If one went on the road of personal revenge always playing fireman, putting out all the collateral fires, then the avenger definitely was not built to be the person meant for revenge at all. Better to just turn away, forgive and let bygones be bygones.
There were several kinds of tea being served throughout this drama. Watch which one the protagonist pick to drink and what her (and his) words were in the dialogue of that scene. At the same time, the viewer (you and I) is served the several kinds of tea too. There is romance. There is revenge. And oh, there is the poisoned tea also.