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Yeah sadly, what you say is mostly what I felt as well. I did watch all the episodes from start to end, but that's mainly because I love the leads. But yeah as you said was not as good as I expected it to be.

Your not alone at all. The story is a complete mess

Yeahh exactly. I think for me I went into this seeing the hype around the drama and these very forced coincidences and made up rules to make song Han go from nothing to be able to marry a princess?? Where did that come from. It felt like all the conflicts were forced. The characters took unwarranted decisions and acted as if they had no choice. And as you said the clearly evident plot holes also kept me from enjoying this drama. If I went into this just for watching it for time pass I might have enjoyed it more.

Really well put. I honestly don't understand the hype around this drama. The direction felt good in some episodes and felt there were sudden skips or choppy editing in some others.
I guess I really have different tastes than most. I felt the same about "The Prisoner of Beauty". I guess these are just not for me personally.

In terms of historical or costume drama, I have not seen one that I could rate a 10 but here are some of the ones I enjoyed.

If you like the revenge trope similar to Blossom:
- The Double (it's not perfect but felt it better than Blossom)
Costume Dramas:
- Coroner's Diary
- Princess Royal (The ending is a bit rushed but I enjoyed the rest)
- Fated Hearts
- How dare you

If you like romance :

- Be passionately in love (Hidden Gem and personal favorite)
- The Best thing
- Shine on me

These are just some, which you may already have watched 😅. But I enjoyed these.

Yeahh exactly. The Birthday moments solidified it for me. There are Too many dramas where ML is mostly the only one who puts in all the effort. In this the feelings from both the leads were made very clear and it was evident how much they cared for each other. There were Soo many highlights moments between the leads and were never over shadowed by side characters.

Oh my God. this is my thoughts exactly. For some time I put off watching the drama because of some negative comments. But when I finally did, this turned out to be probably in my top 3 drama (at least in terms of romance). The characters and relationships are Soo good. And this one of the very few drama where it stayed interesting and good (maybe even better) even after they get together. It was such a mature relationship, with meaningful effort from BOTH sides. There were so many highlights to remember this by and certainly has high rewatch value.

I completely understand this. But where I find the problem is the FL tantrums when she finds out the ML was investigating the letters before sending them. I mean what else can one expect? And the funny thing was that she infact actually was sending secret info that gave the others strategic advantage. I understand why FL should send the letters but the reaction does not fit their situation. This was just one of the things. There is the ML being oblivious to the cousin intentions for too long and being childish to he FL

I'll just put it here. I really really wanted to like this drama. But I just somehow can't. It's clearly doing something right as there are a lot of raving reviews. But I find this to have a lot of forced conflicts and main leads behaviour to be completely conflicting of either the situation they are in (For the FL) and the buildup and progress of the relationship (for the ML). This is just my opinion, and I am all for the enemies to the lovers trope, but this was just not it for me. The action, and acting are great, and I like the leads (especially the FL) but just can't seem to enjoy how the story is progressing.

Some may like it some may not. I'm about in the middle. The cinimatography is great. The acting is okay. The plot, initially was great, but there really was a lot of inconsistencies in the characters that was honestly off-putting. The drama I would say is very much over rated, like one of the most overrated ones out there, but that is not to say you should not watch it. Its an oscillating situation of good episodes and definitely not good ones. I guess its a decent revenge drama.

I would highly recommend watching, "Be passionately in love" (this is my personal favorite), "Shine on me" , "The Best thing" (was already mentioned by someone else) but watch these if you haven't Im positive you'll like it.

I will never understand the raving reviews for this drama. Love the leads but really could not bear to watch this. I have no problem with this drama except for the script. Just like there are dramas with business and medical themes, s this seems to have a Core misunderstanding theme. As in, just like new medical cases, there are new misunderstandings that don't get resolved for the majority of the drama. I really wanted to like this but sadly it was not the case.

Yeahh. I was put off by the reviews, but found it to be one of my favorites once I actually watched it. The progression, chemistry, the bickering and the care for each other is soo good and naturally done.