Couldn't get through it...
It seems like a lot of the 10s here are foreign bot accounts. But I'm happy to see there are a lot of other reviews that agree with what I'm about to say...
I tried this out of curiosity. They really did this drama a disservice by casting a minor as the FL. The action is good. The story is okay. I do see the potential and I want to like this which is why I didn't give it a 1. But I just can't unsee the lead's ages unfortunately. Ai Mi looks like a little girl to me and HMH looks his age, 28-29. I've seen Ai Mi in a handful of dramas before this. We've all watched her grow up and while I'm excited to see her debut as a FL, I wasn't able to stomach the ML being HMH. I felt similar to this watching Deng En Xi and Ding Yu Xi in Melody of a Golden Age as well knowing she was 19 and he was 29. But at least she wasn't a minor during filming. Ai Mi is still very clearly a young, innocent looking girl. So the romance they are trying to push with a grown man almost 30 just makes me sick when I see their scenes. I don't really care if she is playing a teenager in the drama because old men used to get with teenage girls during ancient times. This isn't ancient times anymore and we know it's gross and wrong now. There are so many historical dramas where they cast an older actress in a teen role. They could've done that here easily. And Ai Mi could've debuted in another drama alongside a ML closer to her age. Maybe a cute high school drama or something. Putting her in this situation just comes off as grooming behavior to me and knowing she was probably casted by pervy old men is not a mental hurtle I can overcome to finish watching this.
I tried this out of curiosity. They really did this drama a disservice by casting a minor as the FL. The action is good. The story is okay. I do see the potential and I want to like this which is why I didn't give it a 1. But I just can't unsee the lead's ages unfortunately. Ai Mi looks like a little girl to me and HMH looks his age, 28-29. I've seen Ai Mi in a handful of dramas before this. We've all watched her grow up and while I'm excited to see her debut as a FL, I wasn't able to stomach the ML being HMH. I felt similar to this watching Deng En Xi and Ding Yu Xi in Melody of a Golden Age as well knowing she was 19 and he was 29. But at least she wasn't a minor during filming. Ai Mi is still very clearly a young, innocent looking girl. So the romance they are trying to push with a grown man almost 30 just makes me sick when I see their scenes. I don't really care if she is playing a teenager in the drama because old men used to get with teenage girls during ancient times. This isn't ancient times anymore and we know it's gross and wrong now. There are so many historical dramas where they cast an older actress in a teen role. They could've done that here easily. And Ai Mi could've debuted in another drama alongside a ML closer to her age. Maybe a cute high school drama or something. Putting her in this situation just comes off as grooming behavior to me and knowing she was probably casted by pervy old men is not a mental hurtle I can overcome to finish watching this.
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