Akalia
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Extremely frustrating show
This was a difficult show to rate, because actually there was a lot of things I absolutely loved about it, and there was equally as many things I couldn’t stand.
Zhang Bin Bin and Esther Wu were amazing together. I loved almost everything about them and o found the beginning part of their story quite intriguing. The scenery when they were back in the village was beautiful too and I found the plot concept interesting enough, her initial revenge etc. The couple had stellar chemistry. I loved it up until the ridiculousness of him leaving for a full year and not saying a word about it, she blocked him yes, but my god there was a million other ways to pass a message along to her about what had happened. Why he didn’t for a full year was a ludicrous writing decision.
But I digress
The second leads whole everything was absolutely terrible. I have never skipped portions of a drama in my life before this one, but after suffering thru several episodes of being annoyed by their relationship I came to realize it had 100% nothing to do with the main plot so I started skipping. Best decision ever. What I did see was absolutely awful. Just the guy lying to her over and over again, they drew it out sooooo long before he finally confessed. Strangely, they have so much airtime to this couple. Some episodes it felt like I skipped the majority of the episode cuz it was entirely about their boring relationship.
One thing I did love tho was the music. I would find myself humming the intro song all throughout the day. It’s very beautiful and they played it a lot and I never got bored of it.
I also highly recommend, I think around episode 23 there’s finally an almost kiss scene. It was actually edited out because the FL was drunk in the scene, however you can find it on YouTube and you should stop the show and watch the cut scene imo, because it really hot for one thing, but having it be an actual passionate kiss from both of them totally changes the story.
After that episode tho things really go south. You just get annoyed with the writers for about 10 episodes straight when it’s clear they’re trying to extend the story with nonsense filler. Finally in the last 2 episodes things get back on the rails and it ends really well. But not before driving the viewer crazy with frustration towards the writers. If you watch it, you will understand what I mean.
Zhang Bin Bin and Esther Wu were amazing together. I loved almost everything about them and o found the beginning part of their story quite intriguing. The scenery when they were back in the village was beautiful too and I found the plot concept interesting enough, her initial revenge etc. The couple had stellar chemistry. I loved it up until the ridiculousness of him leaving for a full year and not saying a word about it, she blocked him yes, but my god there was a million other ways to pass a message along to her about what had happened. Why he didn’t for a full year was a ludicrous writing decision.
But I digress
The second leads whole everything was absolutely terrible. I have never skipped portions of a drama in my life before this one, but after suffering thru several episodes of being annoyed by their relationship I came to realize it had 100% nothing to do with the main plot so I started skipping. Best decision ever. What I did see was absolutely awful. Just the guy lying to her over and over again, they drew it out sooooo long before he finally confessed. Strangely, they have so much airtime to this couple. Some episodes it felt like I skipped the majority of the episode cuz it was entirely about their boring relationship.
One thing I did love tho was the music. I would find myself humming the intro song all throughout the day. It’s very beautiful and they played it a lot and I never got bored of it.
I also highly recommend, I think around episode 23 there’s finally an almost kiss scene. It was actually edited out because the FL was drunk in the scene, however you can find it on YouTube and you should stop the show and watch the cut scene imo, because it really hot for one thing, but having it be an actual passionate kiss from both of them totally changes the story.
After that episode tho things really go south. You just get annoyed with the writers for about 10 episodes straight when it’s clear they’re trying to extend the story with nonsense filler. Finally in the last 2 episodes things get back on the rails and it ends really well. But not before driving the viewer crazy with frustration towards the writers. If you watch it, you will understand what I mean.
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