1st episodes are important people!

This drama is definitely worse than what the rating is given is my honest opinion. Overall, this drama was just another drama in the rush of BL dramas. I read the first half of the novel and although the original novel wasn't anything special, it was just a sweet story, the drama destroyed it. So. Bad.

First episode, 2 minutes in and I was already grossed out at how bad the editing and script-writing was. They started off with a phone-call between the main character and his friend and for some reason added some weird and useless scenes. Added no detail or emotion at all. What were they even trying to do? People don't realize but 1st episodes are so important to let the audience know what the drama is about and why they should stay. I wanted to close the video as soon as the opening started. After the opening, they started somewhere later into the story, only to flashback 5 minutes later. Like??? Such horrible directing and script-writing. I only continued this drama because I had literally nothing to do when I was neglecting my schooling.

The actors were decent. Their character didn't have much depth so I don't know what they could've worked with there. I'd say out of the main couple, the male lead was the worse actor of the two. His scenes when he acted angry were so... off and he's just eye candy to be honest. But he can get better, maybe he's just not that experienced. The couple were cute at times though, when the shots were pretty decent.

The only thing I liked was the music which is one (1) song. Were there even other songs? I feel like I heard the same song a thousands times in the drama.

Overall, skip this drama. Go watch some other BL dramas. Or just watch this when you don't have anything to do.

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Who okay-ed this storyline?

The drama had so much potential with the vibe they were going for and the skills of the main leads but the plot was a very big question mark.

Writing

The main conflict and the writing of the show was so underwhelming, that I honestly questioned "who the hell said this was good enough?". It was honestly one of the most stupid and lack-lustre conflicts to ever be made. With how they were directing the mood of the show, I was expecting them to make this more mysterious and darker instead they made it... rainbow? While forcing the dark, that really was not dark at all. Even the writing for the more simpler scenes that concentrate more on the relationship of the main characters, Akk and Ayan, was very bland and felt extremely forced (luckily their chemistry was able to save majority of the scenes). In the first few episodes, Akk and Ayan kept meeting the same exact way, they kept reusing so much of the writing, that their conversations were just going in circles the whole entire first 3 episodes. I really do not know what the writers wanted to say through this drama.

Acting/Cast

First and Khaotung had great chemistry in this drama, I think these two are fairly good actors and could've had a lot to show with the type of genre this drama was promoting. But I feel like the writing of this drama was so bad, that all the actors could do was just show a different kind of personality rather than a whole character. Like seeing Khaotung act so straightforward and brave compared to his other characters in other dramas, is fairly amusing.

Music

The music was forgettable. I don't remember any particular music piece or song in the drama.

Re-watch value

Would I re-watch this drama? Maybe, but only the main couple scenes before they officially got together. Everything else is not really worth watching and I do not want to see the character I want to punch in the face.

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I feel like this drama would've been better if they had a better screen-writer and director. I think the concept of the story had a lot of potential but it just wasn't brought out in the right way. Story wise it felt kind of dull and quite shallow, there wasn't much depth to feel happy or sad for anyone. It was just watching things happen without having that much thoughts to it. The side characters, especially the second lead, felt quite useless as he didn't do much and didn't even give that much second lead (which I'm grateful for, 'cause I loathe heavy love triangles). He would've been much more livelier if he was the male lead's loyal but childish best/childhood friend instead of falling in love and doing stuff just because of the female lead. The antagonists motive was weak as well, didn't feel much of him. Same goes for the leads, their motive didn't feel very strong and emotional even though it was; family, death and revenge. Everyone knows how good of a motive that is, it's because of how the writer and director portrayed it, that it just fell flat. And the worst thing was the main couples' progress, they both have such good and crazy chemistry, it is so sad they couldn't portray it better. When we were on episode 12, it felt like their relationship was on episode 4. Their relationship was just barely there. I feel like the best scene was the rain scene, that felt like something was happening. But everything else just... happened because it did.

The casting of the drama is exceptional, I watched this drama firstly because of Kim Yoojung, the queen of historical dramas, and Ahn Hyoseop, who I've been a fan of for a while. The leads did great but I feel like, I mean Ahn Hyoseop did mention this in interviews, there were times where Ahn Hyoseop forgot he was blind? It was weird when he would look and maybe? accidentally make eye contact? but otherwise their acting was top notch like always.

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This drama was beautiful despite having a lot of flaws. Personally, the storyline of this drama is what made me sit through everything. I enjoyed the arcs throughout this drama although I do think they overdid the number of deaths. The bromance was also nicely done. As for someone who has read the novel, I think they chose the right characters to gender swap, especially Bai sister, because it was so hard for me to like the original couple in the novel. The flaw about this drama is entirely based on the fact they had no budget. The CGI, makeup, music, cinematography, voice dubbing and sets were a huge problem. The CGI in this drama made me cringe so much. All the fake CGI explosions looked so stupid, especially episode 6 like I'm still questioning about how that could happen if it looks like nothing happened at all? And the bloody hands made me laugh so much. For the music, I don't think I heard that much OSTs in the drama, the opening wasn't that good either. The voice dubbing was always a problem for me in most Chinese dramas so. I also think they overused the sets, I don't know but the sets all looked very similar. Overall, this drama was still interesting and it still got me deep into the characters and story. Keen for season 2!

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