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Although I was totally smitten with Li Yunrui-Meng Ziyi pairing in Blossom, it seemed they had not been able to keep the flair on Tigers. At least for me of course. For one, the characters themselves were not interesting enough to keep me watching. Meng goes onscreen as Princess Danyang, an overly domineering daughter of owner of the realm, who wreaks havoc when she decided on a whim to “borrow” Yan Shang family’s humble abode upon her carriage being damaged due to the terrain. Borrow being the gentle term as opposed to hostile takeover, which is exactly what she did, complete with kicking out a crippled old man (ML’s father) and a mentally challenged young man (ML’s elder brother), tearing off the doors and walls due to the heat, and tossing out the family’s furnitures to make way for hers. Meanwhile, Li takes the helm as Yan Shang, a timid, lowkey young man who works at a scholar academy, moonlighting as ghostwriter for the students there. When he encounters a military commander who is also his mom’s killer at the government office in town, Yan Shang is determined to make it to the capital and go for government office to plan his revenge, and he sees Princess Danyang as his stepping stone. And when Princess Danyang’s carriage fell into a cliff after she departs from Yan Shang’s home, he tries real hard to find the princess and keep her around him so she would be inclined to help him get to the capital.

That is all I could surmise from the brief 3 episodes that I watched. I decided to drop this altogether when the script tries too hard to insinuate romantic encounter between the leads, desperately at that. Only 3 episodes and i keep rolling my eyes at either FL’s temper tantrums, ML’s timidity or their tacky proximity awkwardness, and I thought I wouldnt want to keep doing this for the next 37 episodes. I guess this is not my cup of tea, i came expecting marriage of convenience for revenge, but it seemed like I can’t handle how the main characters are written. Both characters are not interesting enough for me to keep on watching, and the backstory plot of both characters’ dark angsty past isnt intriguing enough to hold my attention. Sorry dearies. I guess I might have to rewatch Blossom instead to quench my yearn to see the couple. 🤷🏻‍♀️