nekodesu

I’m new into C dramas. First one was Yanxi Palace. I thought it might be similar but darker. I thought this one had a pretty cool premise - what’s with the feuding brother and sister, the hatred between the divorced couple, who poisoned who, why were they fighting over the throne? Everything fell flat because of the convoluted story and how many plot points were tell and not show. So many times I got lost in the story line because it was all just dialogue, but I couldn’t remember because they told me 10,000 other things already. Sometimes a character would say something the viewer knows but I’m questioning how that character knew?
Music was pretty but had poor timing or its use was almost nonexistent (in the beginning, it got better at the end). The actors did what they could to salvage it the best they could and they did great for the most part. It’s a bad sign when I’m forcing myself to finish the series when I’m just half way.