Stupid partner

A man whose girlfriend slept with his bestfriend decides to forgive them. This sounds like a terrible political propaganda but there are obviously a lot of proponents to this kind of "righteous" behaviour.

I was ticked off by his so-called bestfriend who kept on chasing him around all puppy eyed and when I found out what he did, the more I despised him. How the ML could stomach his presence and sneering behaviour is beyond. The way he followed the ML around and feeling hurt that the ML does not reciprocate to his "friendly" behaviour is the gaslight scam of the year.

The story was interesting - cohabitation being an interesting if old concept in kdramas. I could not help but look forward to how they would pull it off. Regardless of my excitement, even that could not convince me to hold on.

I am dropping the series because of the "righteousness" morality they are trying to preach. ML makes friends with the people who emasculated him while the FL makes friends with the woman whom her ex cheated with. Such BS is not my cup of tea.

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Questionable "strong" and "independent" lead

Oriental medicine meets western medicine
Old vs new
History vs present day
Time travel

It seems the show runners wanted to cram everything all at once into this drama. And it's okay no problem.

But I am dropping this because of the characterizations.

The series tries to tout a "strong and independent" female lead but drives it in a disappointing direction.

While her becoming a doctor in an almost male dominated profession is certainly remarkable, her character seems to have been written to supposedly embody typical behaviours of what present society considers to be a strong independent woman. This is all well and good if her character is consistent about it. From the initial episodes all I could see was an arrogant and abusive woman who takes sh*t from others and pours all of her frustrations on the male lead. She finds every excuse to throw a tantrum at the male lead and the viewer is supposed to take that as "strong independent woman" behaviour and be grateful for it.

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Smut but vanilla

From episode 1 with political undertones looks like a glorified smut story.

I can't help think of Mulan's story after reading the synopsis but after seeing all the toxic masculinity in the first episode and knowing the Main FL is being set up with her roommate as a romantic interest who literally tried to kidnap a woman just because he liked her made me want to scratch my eyes out. While this may be acceptable in some cultures and the setting of the drama looks like it's from an important part of Chinese history but the toxicity of men playing soldiers is not worth burning my brain cells over.

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