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Life is so bleak

SPOILER ALERT!!!

A YouTube short got me interested in seeing this. Who doesn’t like a payback story. I’m currently reading a manhwa called Mercenary Enrollment aka teenager mercenary (TLDR, a brother gets revenge for his younger sister who he finds out gets bullied in school).

So when I saw that a twin sister gets revenge for her bullied twin I was all in. Like the Mother! Trailer I came in with false expectations. It does seem like it’s a payback story but then the twist is that the bullied girl is all alone and is suffering from multiple personality disorder (so her avenging twin is actually still her). This alone is fine and you think all is well until the very last scene where you find out it’s all a dream. The bullied girl gets no redemption. She dies. This was all a revenge fantasy playing in her head as she was dying.

Talk about a gut punch. Why do bad guys win. It’s bad enough I see that in real life all the time. Let my fiction have happy endings or revenge schemes sated. Anyways, that was quite a mental deflation for me. Just my bias but I was rooting for the victim to come out on top at some capacity. Oh well.

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beautiful bittersweet drama

This drama was quite the build up to then pull at your heartstrings. it begins with a typical premise interaction between a chaebol and a down on her luck heroine. However, in this case, they really give her a bag of lemons that just won’t make a satisfactory pitcher of lemonade to give her the fairytale ending.

Don’t want to spoil too much other than once they get you in the cathartic state of emotional upheaval and the tears start coming down, they do not let up. the light tones they add in between the heavy hearted moments just adds to it (at least for me) and made me bawl all the more.

as I got to the final minutes I was hoping for some crazy deux ex machine moment to save the day but no such luck. It closes with a somewhat open ended ending but you know what is really going to happen and the creative team decided to have some mercy on us and leave it at that.

Anyways, I definitely recommend it if you’re fine with something that isn’t quite light hearted and are ok leaving a little sadder and introspective than when you came.

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I’m perplexed?!

Spoiler Alert!!!

I just finished watching the first season and was excited to watch the second. Well I’m watching first episode of season 2 and it doesn’t make sense. It starts with them getting married (so far so good). But then Chai Xiaoqi gets taken back to home planet because she committed the crime of marrying off-species (no confusion yet).

They decide to give her a second chance to redeem herself as Fang Leng successfully mass produced that hormone inducing perfume from season one. So they brainwash her, change her memories to think of Fang Leng as the enemy and send her on a mission to steal the formula for that hormone perfume because it could be used as a secret weapon against them.

So she’s back but once again Fang Leng doesn’t know who she is?! More perplexing, no one remembers her or the wedding ceremony from the first scene of episode 1?! Just WTH is going on?!

Edited 9/20/22:

Ok so the reason no one remembers is that somehow Chai Xiaoqi went back in time to a year before they met (2018 instead of 2022 when they got married). But ok fine, that doesn’t explain how Fang Leng is immune from her alien powers. In season one, the reason for it was that he had the “annunciation” inside his body, but now we’re in a time period when that incident didn’t happen so he shouldn’t be immune to her abilities like he was in season 1. So yeah, I’m going to try and see a few more episodes, but the inconsistencies are getting to me. I thought just some of the casting changes (Like Fang’s dad and Mr Han) was enough to put me off, but his place of residence and the restaurant she used to work at are also different and just taking me out of my suspension of belief to truly enjoy this show

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