frustrating male characters
If you're here for politics the female lead will probably carry you through. If you're here for the love story you're probably in for a rough ride.
I was invested in all the characters and rooting for things to go well...right up until the leads met in their new life.
The male lead and his army make their re-entrance by plotting to murder everyone in the female leads home in order to keep their secret, then when she manages to outwit them immediately start talking about how wicked and twisted and suspicious she is. Because apparently a good person would have just laid down to die quietly.
Unfortunately things don't get better from there.
The Ding Army characters are brash, suspicious, and damn stupid. They're constantly charging headfirst into danger, trying to handle political intrigue and court maneuvering the same way they would a sword fight. The female lead then has to bail them out, usually against their will and while the lot of them hiss and mutter about how vicious and scheming she is.
According to the male leads subordinates, anything bad that happens to them must be the fault of the female lead. And I do mean anything, right down to the emperor disbanding their army (which he did because he got word that the male lead's subordinates had come back to the capital without orders) has got to be her direct fault. Nevermind all the effort she's put into hauling their asses out of the fire, including the time she had to lock them in a coal shed to prevent them storming the imperial prison.
A friend of mine said it's because they have trust issues over their commander being betrayed by his emperor, but the female lead has done nothing but try to help them. Yes her family is working against them, but they know from their own information network she's at odds with her family AND she helped them at great risk to herself before her family ever started making trouble for the ding army.
Honestly I dropped this because by episode 10 all I wanted was for the female lead to wash her hands of the whole ungrateful lot of them, but I know she won't.
I was invested in all the characters and rooting for things to go well...right up until the leads met in their new life.
The male lead and his army make their re-entrance by plotting to murder everyone in the female leads home in order to keep their secret, then when she manages to outwit them immediately start talking about how wicked and twisted and suspicious she is. Because apparently a good person would have just laid down to die quietly.
Unfortunately things don't get better from there.
The Ding Army characters are brash, suspicious, and damn stupid. They're constantly charging headfirst into danger, trying to handle political intrigue and court maneuvering the same way they would a sword fight. The female lead then has to bail them out, usually against their will and while the lot of them hiss and mutter about how vicious and scheming she is.
According to the male leads subordinates, anything bad that happens to them must be the fault of the female lead. And I do mean anything, right down to the emperor disbanding their army (which he did because he got word that the male lead's subordinates had come back to the capital without orders) has got to be her direct fault. Nevermind all the effort she's put into hauling their asses out of the fire, including the time she had to lock them in a coal shed to prevent them storming the imperial prison.
A friend of mine said it's because they have trust issues over their commander being betrayed by his emperor, but the female lead has done nothing but try to help them. Yes her family is working against them, but they know from their own information network she's at odds with her family AND she helped them at great risk to herself before her family ever started making trouble for the ding army.
Honestly I dropped this because by episode 10 all I wanted was for the female lead to wash her hands of the whole ungrateful lot of them, but I know she won't.
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