So I know everyone loved this drama... but even though the leads’s chemistry was great, I didn’t like the fact that the female lead was treated more like an object than a human being by everyone...
Like the male lead who pretends to have raped her so that she would be too ashamed to go back to her home and his dad would feel satisfied... and yet, he didn’t understand why she was so angry at him (even if he didn’t really rape her, he should have told her from the beginning, I felt heartbroken for her when she thought he raped her ; I don’t even get how she could fall in love with him after that or how the male lead couldn’t see what he did wrong ; he obviously thought that there was no real problem since he didn’t really rape her)
Or the fact that everyone at the camp had no problem with the fact of kidnapping an innocent girl and organizing her forced marriage/rape and they would even make jokes about her wedding night.
Or his adoptive mother who would even contribute to this whole rape thing by preparing aphrodisiac for her and yet, the writers present her as a good woman and this anecdote as being funny.
Or the ex-wife of the male lead who would go slap her whenever she wanted.
Even the male lead would sometimes be really rude to her, apart from the « let’s let you think I raped you » : like when he splashed water on her because she was becoming mad thinking her ex-fiancé was dead, and they present it like he was just reasoning her ; or when he was mad because she had tried to exchange her marriage with another girl and he asked « how could you try to marry me to someone I didn’t like? » (seriously ? So you can marry her against her will but she can’t do the same to you ? ») or when he kissed her against her will at the beginning before their marriage because she insulted him and refused to marry him. To be honest, even Mike’s charm and performance couldn’t make me like his character, even though they try to present him as a hero

So basically, I felt annoyed because everyone was persecuting the female lead at some point, even being accomplices of forced marriage/rape, and yet, they have the nerve to blame her when she would try to escape or indirectly cause the male lead to be hurt. And when she gets persecuted by the chief of the camp or by the evil girl, no one defends her. And yet, the writers try to present these characters as good people.

So overall, the female lead is treated like an object ALL ALONG, with no one, and certainly not the male lead, having any consideration for her feelings, or respect for her, even physically. And yet, the show found plenty of excuses to pretend the situation was okay.
The fact that she fell for him when thinking he had raped her (he didn’t even say he was sorry, whether it was for supposedly raping her, or having lied about it and let her cry in despair for that ; when he first let her think they slept together, he even got surprised and annoyed by her being upset), kept her detained, yelled at her, splashed water on her, got annoyed whenever she would be upset about the situation, is clearly à Stockholm syndrom and yet, the show presents it as being okay : I mean, how many times in the show did she wake up next to him, half-naked, thinking « oh crap, he fucked me while I was asleep again ». AND WE’RE SUPPPOSED TO BE OKAY WITH THAT ?!
(seriously, why do Asian people think a woman can love a man who would rape her ?)

I know everyone loved this but I couldn’t force myself.
The whole « bandit » thing was actually original and the fact that the male lead kidnapped her to marry her wasn’t detestable either but I feel like the writers could have exploited this differently and still keep the chemistry between the leads.

I feel this is really a pity because the leads have a super good chemistry and their love scenes are really cute but the whole context really annoyed me as the writers presented it like it was okay and this stopped me from really enjoying the lakorn, even feeling irritated most of the time. I kept watching it only for the leads, who are two of my favorite actors and who had an awesome chemistry. I’m glad to know they’ll soon have another drama where Mookda’s character will actually dominate the situation (at least, if they follow the original drama). And I hope to see them again someday in other dramas, sweeter ones. And I also hope to see Mookda facing Anisa Nugraha (Krachao) again someday and giving her plenty of slaps because I REALLY hated how she would keep slapping her whenever she wanted and I want my revenge ! (I know the actress isn’t to blame for that but now, whenever I see her, I can’t her but hate her)