Often in dramas, when the male lead feels he was involved in something that caused the female lead's unhappiness,…
I think the plot is supposed to be that he instigated all of the events, but did not necessarily want her whole 130 person household to die. What he said in that episode seemed like: When he came with his forces, it was too late to change anything (besides to help the FL escape alive). But he's still the mastermind in the back who set those things in motion, by pretending to ally with his brother the 5th prince while actually planning for all his brothers to die and him being the last candidate for the throne.
I didn't really understand under what identity he talks to the FL in that first scene, or with what information he sends her out on her revenge quest.
I already don't watch those uncomfortable-to-watch Korean horror movies because it's just not my thing. This show surprisingly is the C-drama equivalent.
You might wonder why the teased 'red flag MLs' in big budget dramas always become harmless misunderstood kittens, no matter how vile they might have been in the original novel. Don't worry, for Love & Bid Farewell is here to show you what you get when the ML isn't just teased as Captain Evil.
Bad-ish ending. Most characters are killed. Two couples; of each one dies.
Besides one of each couple and an off-screen emperor, I can't even recall any characters that aren't murdered.
At least the only child isn't killed in the womb or anything, and that kid even ages at double speed for a short timeskip scene. There's a dog for a few minutes and the dog presumably also doesn't get killed.
Production is on the murky side. The colors and lighting, the camera work, the super visibly fake hair... I'd mostly praise that blood (spitting) is better than in high budget dramas. The fighting scenes are decent at the start but become quite bad towards the end. The plot is mostly okay, often going simply for shock value, but the last episodes derail in many ways.
P.S.: There's a lot of GL. The early episodes also try to throw random nudity scenes and taboo topics at the screen to see what sticks.
when I first browsed the comment section around release time, my spoiler summary for the drama was "double happy ending, but one popular cute character killed"
What he said in that episode seemed like: When he came with his forces, it was too late to change anything (besides to help the FL escape alive).
But he's still the mastermind in the back who set those things in motion, by pretending to ally with his brother the 5th prince while actually planning for all his brothers to die and him being the last candidate for the throne.
I didn't really understand under what identity he talks to the FL in that first scene, or with what information he sends her out on her revenge quest.
This show surprisingly is the C-drama equivalent.
You might wonder why the teased 'red flag MLs' in big budget dramas always become harmless misunderstood kittens, no matter how vile they might have been in the original novel.
Don't worry, for Love & Bid Farewell is here to show you what you get when the ML isn't just teased as Captain Evil.
Besides one of each couple and an off-screen emperor, I can't even recall any characters that aren't murdered.
At least the only child isn't killed in the womb or anything, and that kid even ages at double speed for a short timeskip scene.
There's a dog for a few minutes and the dog presumably also doesn't get killed.
The fighting scenes are decent at the start but become quite bad towards the end.
The plot is mostly okay, often going simply for shock value, but the last episodes derail in many ways.
P.S.: There's a lot of GL. The early episodes also try to throw random nudity scenes and taboo topics at the screen to see what sticks.
...the last part doesn't even happen.
for what it is worth the emperor does a 180° later
Then comes the final still from another scene.
THEN come the credits from 44 minutes to 46:30.
Then come the post-credits scene(s), which are not about the topics of this conversation thread.
Besides the twist before the end that the English name already spoils.
For me (as so often) the very start was the best part of this show. Others like the last episodes. Haven't seen much praise of the middle.
And a bit better than https://kisskh.at/748565-mang-ai-qian-jin , https://kisskh.at/776871-qing-chuan , https://kisskh.at/771433-bu-fu-jiang-jun-bu-fu-qing which I'd also recommend.
That's why short dramas get over the top racy plots, and long ones have every red flag ML whitewashed until he's a forest.