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so her ex didn’t cheat on her but the reason they broke up is actually more complex and shows the reality of relationships and how difficult it is to maintain the same feelings after having experienced such a bad period together oh i’m loving this

In defense of love next door’s plot

There is no extreme-years-long overworking and stress-induced burnout without chronic illness, without your body failing you! Without severe physical and mental side effects!

People saying it’s an unnecessary/cliche/disrespectful/unrealistic plot point, consider this: it’s accurate to what years of a job like that can do to your body, and it’s also valid to discuss in a show about work burnout and the family pressure to succeed no matter the circumstances.

Source: I worked a high-stress corporate job internationally and had to return home when i lost my access to health care & treatment abroad, which I desperately needed. because! when you work 90 hour weeks in a high stress job and never take breaks, you WILL start having organ failure! And you WILL have emergency surgery abroad. and you may return home both sick and feeling like a failure.

You may have “the dream job” on paper, but you may just be working for a company that is going to run you into the ground. You may feel backed into a corner because you don’t have the money or family support to quit. In fact, your achievements might be all you have. But do not dream of labor! Dream of treating your body kindly and spending your days with joy.

DRAMAS in2022:

Once Upon a Small Town (kakao, 2022) — dir. kwon seok jang

Some people are hating on Li Rong after episode 12, saying she is a vicious and vile woman who deserves to be used by Su Rongqing…and that she doesn’t deserve Pei Wenxuan.

I strongly disagree. In fact, I like her character. She has flaws, many flaws and sometimes I have shouted “girl no” at the screen because she does jump to the wrong conclusions a lot. Her personality has been moulded by the palace environment. She is proud, privileged, a hardcore skeptic and keeps her emotions reserved. Imagine a princess (mind you, she’s an eldest daughter) growing up in a palace where almost every person she’s interacted with is power hungry, even her mother and father. The treachery and bloodshed she must have witnessed. All over power. In her past life, she bent to all that. She would do what the powerful people wanted. She would convince her brother, the crown prince, to do what those people wanted.

She desperately wanted to find a trusted companion in Pei Wenxuan because she thought he is not from the palace and won’t go after power. She thought he will choose her and love her for her, Li Rong and not The Princess Royal. But in comes the trust issues when she sees him with Zhenzhen in his arms. She had taken one step forward in trusting him but then she took three steps back. Because trusting and communicating isn’t her forte. Those who have dared to trust in the palace have met with disappointment leading to death. Did her trust issues come in the way of Pei Wenxuan loving her? Yes. Do I hate her for it? No.

She does not become vicious or vile because she is unable to trust people. It is very tempting and easy it is to follow your fears and overthink shit all the time. She spent 40 years living this way so it will take some time for her to rewire her brain and resist and reject the urges to doubt.

I get that people are mad because Pei Wenxuan has put his heart out to her and she is still doubting him. But, that’s why I like her character. Because when she slams open the doors to herself and lets him in, that would be character development moment.

I don’t know what choice she will make in episode 13 but despite whatever choice she makes, I just want to put it out there that her trust issues come from complex, dark emotions and memories and not because the writer wrote a stupid and cruel female lead. Let’s not let the love for the male lead blind us to the point of hating the female lead because she doesn’t reciprocate his trust and feelings.