Initially, I loved the tension and chemistry between the two leads and that the FL was independent and clever. However, almost as soon as the FL & ML confessed their love, their chemistry, FL’s plot & personality, and the entire storyline quickly plummeted into slow quality series.

The FL was daring and intelligent, and I was excited to see her grow into a heroine as the plot progressed. Rather, she wilted into a weak and fragile girl in need of saving & was easily tossed around by most of the characters. She had so many street smarts; where did those go when she was kidnapped 50 times? She just became a limp body waiting to be saved by the ML. Early in the series, she mentioned that she would like to learn martial arts, so I expected perhaps since most main characters around her were martial arts experts, someone could teach her some basic skills. In the final episode, she was unable to even combat her most significant enemy or avenge her family’s deaths. Her mother almost killed her moments after she was born to avoid the FL having a miserable life! She spent her entire life on the streets with her uncle fleeing from people! Where was any drive to push back!? This character was initially so strong and experienced so much, yet at the end never obtained any sort of justice because she only passively waited for help like a limp damsel in distress. This weak character was so different from the earlier episodes where she was independent and used her street smarts to maneuver and overcome her challenges - to me, it was tragically lazy writing.

The second ML started to show some real potential to be a very dynamic, interesting character midway through the serious. I liked his chemistry with the FL (while the ML was completely absent for 12 episodes). Unfortunately, as the series progressed, this character tragically became one dimensional and predictable.

As others have mentioned, the final episode was a weird rushed bloodbath without any meaning or purpose. There were so many loose ends, and the characters each made weird out-of-character decisions at the end that seemed unimaginably distant from their more interesting selves at the beginning of the series

Overall the serious had so so much potential, but for me the plot became lazy and dull, which absolutely was a disservice to the actors and intricate characters portrayed at the beginning. It was upsetting to see what could have been an interesting journey of growth for unique characters just turn into a sputtering disaster.