More like Prisoner of Cliche and Bad Writing!!!
The first few episodes feel like a completely different drama. The serious tone suggests a dark and brooding drama with interesting political intrigue and a lot of scheming, where both FL and ML are trying to outdo each other. Instead, what you get is a half-baked romance filled with cliches, plotholes, repetitive storylines, soap opera-level MIL(mother-in-law) drama, dumb villains, and one-dimensional characters.
The ML is supposed to be this powerful, ruthless, and intelligent warlord, but throughout the drama, he just comes across as irrational, dense, and silly.
Everyone keeps saying that this drama has a strong FL character, who is smart and uses her cleverness to gain advantage, but honestly, most of the time, it's either plot armor, or her competitor is just plain stupid. She uses all of her brain power in the first 10 episodes and then just becomes a dutiful wifey whose whole character arc is to serve her husband.
Villains are cartoonishly stupid with no nuance, making drama even more boring. Plotlines keep repeating, like just make fewer episodes rather than showing the same story arc again. *sigh*
Acting is alright, considering they don't have much to work with. The characters and their relationships are so poorly developed that even good actors like SZE and LYN couldn't make them likable.
I am genuinely baffled by the high rating and praises of this drama. It´s mediocre at best.
It promises intense enemies-to-lovers romance with political intrigue, but only delivers fluff romance with half-baked characters and crazy plot holes.
The ML is supposed to be this powerful, ruthless, and intelligent warlord, but throughout the drama, he just comes across as irrational, dense, and silly.
Everyone keeps saying that this drama has a strong FL character, who is smart and uses her cleverness to gain advantage, but honestly, most of the time, it's either plot armor, or her competitor is just plain stupid. She uses all of her brain power in the first 10 episodes and then just becomes a dutiful wifey whose whole character arc is to serve her husband.
Villains are cartoonishly stupid with no nuance, making drama even more boring. Plotlines keep repeating, like just make fewer episodes rather than showing the same story arc again. *sigh*
Acting is alright, considering they don't have much to work with. The characters and their relationships are so poorly developed that even good actors like SZE and LYN couldn't make them likable.
I am genuinely baffled by the high rating and praises of this drama. It´s mediocre at best.
It promises intense enemies-to-lovers romance with political intrigue, but only delivers fluff romance with half-baked characters and crazy plot holes.
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