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The Backlight of Love chinese drama review
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The Backlight of Love
1 people found this review helpful
by Tasnima_329
Feb 22, 2022
11 of 11 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 10
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 10.0

The Backlight of Love; A drama without any love

This is such a twisted drama that you'd think will be about love but is entirely about deception and morally ambiguous (or outright cruel) characters.

A really underrated, with surprisingly low ratings drama but definitely worth the watch especially with its length:
This is a very short 10-20 minute episode, 11 episode drama with an amazing cast, script, storyline and acting.

Dilraba played a girl who was madly in love with Merxat's character, for several years. If it was anyone else I'd say it was obsession, but Dilraba played Jiang Li so well that you know it's love, a somewhat twisted love. She is then 'killed' on her wedding day when she was about to run away from her wedding with the supposed 'love of her life'. You can already guess who the killer is from the stabbing scene alone.

It does not matter who the ML and SML is, I really thought it would matter but they were both equally leads and come with a lot of twists in their 'love'. The casting was PERFECT for everyone.
If you think Qian Qiu was bad, then just wait for the twists that come with Mo Yan.
Jiang Li isn't the saint she's made out to be, but she's definitely the most 'good' person in this drama.

I say this is a drama without love because this entire drama focused on whether the ML's ever loved the FL and the FL trying to remember which one killed her. They were both deceiving her, but I think Qian Qiu (Xu Wen) genuinely loved Jiang Li, the way she loved Mo Yan. And like Yang Xu Wen's character in "The Memory About You" (which I couldn't finish), he deserved so much better from the FL, even if he did deceive her.

This drama does NOT have a happy ending. But I think the happiest ending it could have had was the ending it got. It was the perfect ending.
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