Watching mainland Chinese dramas are always fun because they're messy as fukk. I used to watch all kinds of Asian dramas back in the day and Korean ones were always the best in production quality, content, and acting. Taiwan had better romance dramas compared to Japan but their production quality has always been pretty shyt tier, but there have been some great filming in some.
Anyway, when it comes to fukkery, China and Taiwan do it best. It be some of the most ghetto, petty debauchery on television and its no wonder that China has set rules on what type of plots are appropriate for viewing.
I didn't even plan to watch the drama I picked over the weekend. It's on Netflix called Eternal Love, a wuxia period drama so I just knew it would be riddled with bad dubbing, terrible CGI, obvious plot devices out the ass and trifling ass women (and men surprisingly in this series).
My favorite history drama was Handsome Brothers I watched yeeeeaarrrsss ago. It started off lighthearted and fun, then shyt started to get real and by the end of it only two people, out of every single character in the show introduced, had survived
shyt was tragic and over the top.
Now this drama, Eternal Love, not as over the top and violent, is still one of the messiest romance dramas I've seen.
I wasn't paying attention to it until episode 5 when the first couple fell apart. A demon prince fell in love with a high goddess, the MC, despite the controversy their relationship would entail. He pursues her pretty thoroughly, helping her escape his evil father, following her to a realm he isn't wanted and telling her sweet nothings. She gives in and they decide to be together. Cute but he isn't the main male character so you know something is going to happen to tear them apart. The MC's relative is a cute lively girl that ran away from home to marry who she wants. She sets eyes on the demon prince and tells him half lies about the MC. He's easily convinced, sad because he feels unworthy of the high goddess, and the relative has magic abilities to make her look like the MC so she'll do. He decides he's going to bang her in the cave he's been holding up in and sure enough the high goddess catches them in the act.
The whole time this was happening I was saying out loud: he ain't shyt
He has instant regret and post but clarity when MC cuts him loose. Literally, the rest of the series this guy is miserable and looks like
What killed me is when he goes back home, taking his side piece with him, his dad is ready to kill them both off gp. The side piece INSTANTLY goes Snowden and starts data dumping all kinds of Intel on her people to save her neck. THE ENTIRE TIME she was speaking the prince was looking at her sideways like
Straight trifling. She does other hoodrat shyt throughout the show as well. Aside from her, there's this princess goddess in love with the crown prince, the male main character and obviously the man fated to be with the female MC. He pays the princess straight dust from the get. At one point he's so fed up with her because she did everything in her power to sabotage his relationship with the MC that he stabs her in the heart on their wedding day
she's a concubine so basically part of his harem. He never aknowledes her. "I have no wife.
"
Then there was the debacle where the female MC fought the demon king, lost all her memories and became mortal. She met the male MC this way which is why the hating ass princess wasn't having it. They all live in heaven but it's like hell for the MC couple from being forced to live in isolation, accused of almost killing the princess, getting her eyes taken ass punishment and then being tricked into killing herself by jumping into oblivion.
She basically "dies" as a mortal but regains all her memories transitioning to a immortal. She's basically so fed up with the bullshyt that she doesn't even want to remember it so she erases her memory and becomes a boss ass bytch as a 140,000 year old goddess. With no recollection of the crown prince, but still starts to fall for him because that's fate, her second round in heaven, which she thinks is her first, is way different and she takes no shyt from no one. More fukkery ensues.
That's only 2% of what's going on in the show. I could rant and write about this drama for pages but I know no one gives a fukk and I'm just killing time right now.