Against all odds
To me, this was a powerful story of free will and choice even when the odds are all stacked against you.As I see it, Tan Tai Jin is not evil, and surprisingly sane sane if you look at his circumstances.
When we first see him he is getting tortured - which, as we soon find out, is his normal way of living. And he looks at this with a stoic resilience.
He is said to be evil from birth, but though we hear this repeated over and over, it is not what we see.
In a way, his story is similar to that of Wei Wuxian in the Untamed, where he remains evil in the eyes of the "people" regardless s of what he does.
But in this unforgiving and bleak life of his, Tan Tai Jin gets help in tbe most unexpected way, when Lin Susu is sent back in time to kill him. While in theory, this is just her mission, she can't help but start treating him in a decent, humane way, which TTJ first cannot really think with, as it never happened to him before. But as time goes by, Susu becomes the one ray of light in his life that he holds onto and that ends up changing both of their lives like no one would have expected.
I think this is a great story very beautifully filmed, with lovable characters. Ultimately, despite all the pain and trials this is a story of the power of love.
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Even if my mind forgets you, my heart will remember you.
For me, this was the perfect mix of funny, heart wrenching and beautiful. Just like life that does not fit neatly in any one category.I started watching on a whim, and I got hooked so bad so fast. All this is my opinion and my liking, so please just take it like that. But I like good comedy with a hint of heroic, and this seried did that. Being a short drama made up of short episodes it managed to still build a good story arc for both the main couple and the secondary couple and the chemistry between them was great. And by the time they each have fought their own tribulations to help each other, they really grew on mee and made me feel that I too, would be ready to die for them.
*** SPOILER ***
The two main characters are thrown into a no win situation. A FL that must make the ML drink the warter of forgetting to save her master from the annihilation of her soul, and a ML, who had been dodging heavenly officials to avoid being forced to drink it. A love between them was bound to be a disaster, but they found the way out: love that does not want to own the other but to protect the other no matter the cost.
If your heart is scarred from Till the End of the Moon, this can be a natural remedy.
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