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I mean, if this was real life one would have to say that the writer was on the paybook of FL's PR team. Basically every other phrase was about how prefect she was, and how useless her husband was (until, I would say, the end of the drama, where it was frankly too little and too late for her to "confess" and restore the roles of victim and perpetrator), essentially pointing out any of his flaws, real or imagined (and he did have flaws, but let's not forget who was the one that was ready to deceive him forever without a shred of guilt... not that not being perfect means you are not entitled to any loyalty and honesty: that should just require you being willing to be loyal and honest in return).

At the end they did try to revert course and have a more equitable characterization, with FL absurdly having to prevent the netizens readers of ML's blog from thrashing him in the comments, talking about how she callously and cruelly would have deceived him forever without any guilt, etc. But it's rather hard to take seriously after the whole show had been a constant fawning after FL and putting down of ML, and he himself was so beaten down that he considered himself to be the architect of his own betrayal, which frankly was just insulting in terms of FL's agency: she is a grown woman with agency that can and should be expected to be capable of being responsible for and accountable for her own actions.

Plus ML's mother's unrealistic behavior towards FL: I thought she was so nice to her after the affair only in the JDrama version, turns out i was wrong.

I do tend to agree about those other dramas. One thing they didn't do that I felt this one did, was pandering: if it was real life, I would have been half convinced that the writer had been writer by a certain character's PR team to run damage control.

Yup