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This deserves a much higher rating. If you have 30 minutes to spare, definitely give this heartbreakingly beautiful little gem a chance.

It's hard to match the greatness (and torture) of this drama, but you might try Beyond The Clouds. It has a similar dynamic where misunderstandings lead the ML to seek revenge against the FL.

Yes it is. :) And they do a great job of changing a few things so it doesn't feel like an exact rehash of the original.

The amazing chemistry between the leads helped to distract from the fact that this was probably 20 episodes longer than it needed to be. Even when the story lagged, I never got tired of seeing them together onscreen.

The trailer made this look so much more intense and interesting than it actually was. I'm still trying to figure out what on earth this movie was even about. I wouldn't even call it open-ended because it just sort of ends in the middle of nowhere with no real answers given. And then I saw where the director said it's supposed to be confusing, so I'm not even sure if there -are- answers.

It's open-ended. One of the leads goes missing and is presumed dead, but his body is never found so it's sort of left up to the viewer to decide what might have happened.

I love how this drama just sort of immediately threw us into the chaos without much explanation and then gradually peeled back the layers of the mystery. It was a really cleverly told story with some amazing acting. Bai Yu's performance in particular was phenomenal!

I think we're supposed to assume that Baek Hee Seung pushed his body over that nearby cliff that Do Min Seok mentioned a few times in order to stage it as a suicide and hide the fact that he was murdered. Some more clarification definitely would've helped tho.

No. There are a few recurring characters, but they can all be watched as standalone films. ^^

I both loved and hated the love triangle in this drama. I really liked that it was genuinely unpredictable who the FL was going to end up with, but at the same time, I felt like they dragged the love triangle drama out way too long. By the time I realized who the endgame was, I was already too invested in the 2ML.

It probably didn't help that I adored Hu Ge's character -- (flaws and all) -- but I just couldn't help rooting (and crying) for him in the end. I kept hoping he would find his own happiness that wasn't tied to Xin Yue, but it almost felt like he became the drama's punching bag instead, especially in the second half.

UVERworld - "AS ONE"

I really liked this, although I do think it would've worked better had it been 12 episodes instead. And usually I can sympathize with the 2nd ML, but hoo boy. This one was incredibly selfish and reached Lifetime movie villain levels of creepy at times.

I can't believe I waited however many episodes for Xia Qingmei to face some sort of retribution for casually framing and murdering people... only for everyone to brush off his crimes like, "Well, I think he learned his lesson. Let's let him go. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

This was one of my biggest complaints. She's supposed to be the sect leader, but she's incredibly passive for such a large stretch of the drama. Muyuan's grandfather got on my nerves, but after a while I started wondering whether he was right and his grandson really would've been a more effective leader.

And then when everything went down in the latter half of the series and the sect was dissolved, I thought it was a perfect chance for the FL to step up and finally take a more proactive role in bringing everyone back together/rebuilding/etc., but lmao nope. She just sort of let the sect fall apart and washed her hands of everything. It was incredibly frustrating.

I really appreciated the directing in this. There were so many scenes where they could've gone for the cheap jump-scare but let something unsettling quietly happen in the background instead, which was even more effective. It was only 3 hours, but there were more than a few disturbing images that'll be stuck with me for a while.

No problem! :D I ended up enjoying it a lot, and I hope you do too!

It's definitely not one of those devastatingly sad endings, but it is bittersweet. You can probably guess how it's going to end early on, so that helps soften the blow a bit.

Kissasian has good subs, although the audio quality isn't the best.

I needed some levity and this delivered. It's definitely not a serious action film in any sense but it was a lot of fun, and Kwon Sang Woo is great in it. :'D

The acting is really good, but it's one of those movies where everything is terrible and everyone is terrible and you're left wondering what the point of it all was.