My Highest Anticipated CDrama since last year, Did NOT Disappoint!!
After savoring the last few episodes, I finally finished 🥲
About a year ago, I came across a BTS of the infamous kiss scene🔥 between our leads and decided I MUST watch this. So I put it in my plan to watch, and here we are a whole 12 months or so later. I must say, I was captivated from the very first episode.
The start of the drama was, in my opinion, faultless. Our FL disguising herself as a man, battling for honor and winning the tournament for years in a row, only to be best by our mysterious ML. Re-embracing her original identity as a woman and approaching him to steal a treasure only he possesses, she infiltrates his life again and again trying to gain his trust. The whole "pretending to be someone I'm not, trying to seduce him to make him fall in love with me so I can steal his hidden antidote" part lasts quite a few episodes, maybe a tiny bit too long, but it was my favorite part. Our FL's witty humor and fake naivety sets an easy to watch vibe for the drama.
The ML on the other hand, is quite hard to read at first. He seems to be a playboy with carnal fixations, but really pushes away anyone who gets too close. That is, until the FL forces her way in. Their chemistry from the beginning is amazing, and he pretends to fall for her too, which has all of us wondering WHY? hmm
Anyways, their romance starts off like that. And gets better and better!! And truly, they are both just really beautiful the more you look at them.
The side characters are also so lovable🐱🐉 and while our second couple doesn't get a lot of screen time, they are just as adorable and visually stunning. Really, there are so many beautiful cast members in this one🤭
The main villain is beautiful and his story is heartbreaking. I must say, I didn't cry at all in this drama except when a certain scene with our villain later on (sorry, don't want to spoil) pulls at my heartstrings. It's really a villain whose backstory is what caused him to become evil, so you can't really blame him to the core...
If I had to find some faults, I would have two main. One is not plot-based, but the voice over for our FL was terrible. I know it's her own voice dubbed but the lips don't match it at all and most of the time it would distract me from really resonating with her character. For example, she's an excellent actress, but in a scene where she's tortured (SORRY minor spoiler) her labored breathing with her dialogue does not match. So I didn't really feel as empathetic as I would have. The other characters are fine though. The second is minor, and I guess it would be considered one of the few plotholes of the drama-- a certain "obvious to everyone except you" secret takes forever to be revealed.
Oh, and that KISS SCENE I saw a BTS of? Scrapped. THEY DIDN'T INCLUDE IT. 😤
About a year ago, I came across a BTS of the infamous kiss scene🔥 between our leads and decided I MUST watch this. So I put it in my plan to watch, and here we are a whole 12 months or so later. I must say, I was captivated from the very first episode.
The start of the drama was, in my opinion, faultless. Our FL disguising herself as a man, battling for honor and winning the tournament for years in a row, only to be best by our mysterious ML. Re-embracing her original identity as a woman and approaching him to steal a treasure only he possesses, she infiltrates his life again and again trying to gain his trust. The whole "pretending to be someone I'm not, trying to seduce him to make him fall in love with me so I can steal his hidden antidote" part lasts quite a few episodes, maybe a tiny bit too long, but it was my favorite part. Our FL's witty humor and fake naivety sets an easy to watch vibe for the drama.
The ML on the other hand, is quite hard to read at first. He seems to be a playboy with carnal fixations, but really pushes away anyone who gets too close. That is, until the FL forces her way in. Their chemistry from the beginning is amazing, and he pretends to fall for her too, which has all of us wondering WHY? hmm
Anyways, their romance starts off like that. And gets better and better!! And truly, they are both just really beautiful the more you look at them.
The side characters are also so lovable🐱🐉 and while our second couple doesn't get a lot of screen time, they are just as adorable and visually stunning. Really, there are so many beautiful cast members in this one🤭
The main villain is beautiful and his story is heartbreaking. I must say, I didn't cry at all in this drama except when a certain scene with our villain later on (sorry, don't want to spoil) pulls at my heartstrings. It's really a villain whose backstory is what caused him to become evil, so you can't really blame him to the core...
If I had to find some faults, I would have two main. One is not plot-based, but the voice over for our FL was terrible. I know it's her own voice dubbed but the lips don't match it at all and most of the time it would distract me from really resonating with her character. For example, she's an excellent actress, but in a scene where she's tortured (SORRY minor spoiler) her labored breathing with her dialogue does not match. So I didn't really feel as empathetic as I would have. The other characters are fine though. The second is minor, and I guess it would be considered one of the few plotholes of the drama-- a certain "obvious to everyone except you" secret takes forever to be revealed.
Oh, and that KISS SCENE I saw a BTS of? Scrapped. THEY DIDN'T INCLUDE IT. 😤
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