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Whoever wrote this story needs counseling
I started this drama twice. The second time I made it to about episode 10, and I can't keep watching it anymore.
The dynamic between the characters makes no sense. The "male lead" Wei Zhou is a bitter psychopath with murderous tendencies. He tries to kill Ci multiple times. He tortures her in every episode. He has zero redeeming qualities.
Allen Ren did such a masterful job of playing him that I hate his guts (Wei Zhao's, not Allen Ren's 😄).
The second male lead is an intelligent and caring man, placed in a precarious position. He tries to make the best of the cards he's been dealt. He's carefully balancing his position and the emperor's favour in order to stay alive. Jeremy Xu also did an excellent job with this character.
Jiang Ci is an innocent caught up in the court intrigues she doesn't understand. She keeps making dumb decisions, but that's understandable given her lack of experience with a wider world - she practically spend her whole life alone or just with her Master, running around the mountain collecting plants and keeping cats for company.
So after ten episodes of Wei Zhou's truly despicable behaviour, I have no idea why he's supposed to be the "good guy", or why Jiang Ci suddenly starts developing feelings for him. There's no reason except "the writers want it so the plot happens".
It's stupid and unbelievable. No woman in her right mind would fall for a man that violent. Nothing in this world excuses the level of violence he's shown in the fist ten episodes, I don't care how tragic his childhood was.
Anyway, I gave up after 10 episodes, this show not being good for my health as every time I saw Wei Zhou my blood began to boil. I skipped to the end to see him die, but that's was a pathetic ending - he deserved worse.
I'm going to have to remember the writers so I never have to watch anything similar ever again.
The dynamic between the characters makes no sense. The "male lead" Wei Zhou is a bitter psychopath with murderous tendencies. He tries to kill Ci multiple times. He tortures her in every episode. He has zero redeeming qualities.
Allen Ren did such a masterful job of playing him that I hate his guts (Wei Zhao's, not Allen Ren's 😄).
The second male lead is an intelligent and caring man, placed in a precarious position. He tries to make the best of the cards he's been dealt. He's carefully balancing his position and the emperor's favour in order to stay alive. Jeremy Xu also did an excellent job with this character.
Jiang Ci is an innocent caught up in the court intrigues she doesn't understand. She keeps making dumb decisions, but that's understandable given her lack of experience with a wider world - she practically spend her whole life alone or just with her Master, running around the mountain collecting plants and keeping cats for company.
So after ten episodes of Wei Zhou's truly despicable behaviour, I have no idea why he's supposed to be the "good guy", or why Jiang Ci suddenly starts developing feelings for him. There's no reason except "the writers want it so the plot happens".
It's stupid and unbelievable. No woman in her right mind would fall for a man that violent. Nothing in this world excuses the level of violence he's shown in the fist ten episodes, I don't care how tragic his childhood was.
Anyway, I gave up after 10 episodes, this show not being good for my health as every time I saw Wei Zhou my blood began to boil. I skipped to the end to see him die, but that's was a pathetic ending - he deserved worse.
I'm going to have to remember the writers so I never have to watch anything similar ever again.
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