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Sorry Tian Xi Wei and Ao Rui Peng, but I've had to drop this drama. You both were engaging and charming, but you couldn't overcome the script and styling.

K-dramas work hard at creating believability. Actors lose or gain astonishing amounts of weight to create an authentic portrayal. They take piano lessons for a role as a pianist; they immerse themselves in ballet classes for a role as a ballerino. C-dramas do some hand-wavium, and the viewer isn't supposed to notice the extremely apparent, and jarring, lack of reality. The second female lead dressed like a male to enter a military outpost. She was wearing lipstick and mascara and had breasts. Never mind her pierced ears. I'm accustomed to such nonsensical gender blindness in historical dramas. However, I couldn't overlook her long manicured and polished nails. It was beyond ridiculous. The military camp had a sign posted at the gate stating that any woman entering would be killed; however, they didn't have one soldier capable of noticing the female form or those shapely little hands that bandaged them. Every time she was on screen as a man, I was distracted by those nails!

I was already disgruntled when my nemesis, the love triangle, appeared. This drama featured two couples. I was willing to endure a love triangle for one couple, but when the set up was made for an additional love triangle for the second couple, it was too much to bear. I bowed out early in the 14th episode.