This was a really easy one because I don’t think any OTP can be worse than Ling Yi Zhou and Xia Lin from Well Intended Love. This was not a romance but a horror pretending to be a romance. This drama felt like the biography of an abused woman and was really disturbing to watch.
The ML Ling Yi Zhou is super controlling, manipulative, and emotionally abusive. He tries and succeeds to control and exert his power over the FL countless times throughout the drama. Xia Lin is an aspiring actress who has only been able to get small side roles so far, but she finally gets her break to play a large role in an upcoming drama. But Yi Zhou doesn’t like how close she is to her co-actor, so out of jealousy and a powerful need to control her, he uses his influence and power to get the drama shut down, ruining her big break. Since she is an aspiring actress she didn’t want to go public with her relationship, fearing to be the center of gossip since he is a powerful and popular CEO. But he goes behind her back and manipulates things to “accidentally” reveal to the world they are married. At another point he (of course) gets amnesia and is cruel and awful to her since he can’t remember this is the woman he loves.
But all this isn’t even the worst part. The worst part is the whole premise of the drama. The drama starts by her finding out she has lymphoma and discovers the only compatible bone marrow donor is him. So she confronts him asking if he would be willing to be a donor and save her life. He leads her on a merry chase before agreeing with the added stipulation that they enter a marriage contract because it is his dying grandmothers wish that he marry before she passes. This is all fine, until you discover later on that she never had cancer, he used his power and influence to fake she had cancer and he was the only donor to get her to marry him. This was beyond horrifying. What normal human being makes the person you like have fake cancer as a ploy to date and marry? He is this powerful CEO who could have any woman he wants but it never crossed his mind to simply talk to her and get to know her. On top of all this, when she sensibly tries to break up with him, he locks her in the house so she won’t leave him. Do yourself a favor and don’t watch this drama.
Normally I post pictures to accompany my posts, but I don’t want to mar my wall by posting images of this drama.
Glad I dodged the bullet there and didn’t have to go through all that experience myself. I only had to hear this story told from one beanie to another and another and another to get the hint that this is not the drama to touch on. 🙈🙈 I wish writers have respect for women when they form these fantasies in their head…… Women shouldn’t fall for these kinds of scumbags.
I remember someone posting about this before and I was just like – WTF? This cannot be an actual romantic story. I was sure it must be some kind of stalker thriller. Lord. This is why I can’t do CDramas as much – I feel like a lot of the contemporary ones devolve into this kind of f*ckery (not this bad, but in the same vein).
I watched that drama but it was so disturbing that I had to stop it. I was so horrible! Boss is handsome and the actor who plays him is so charismatic but the manipulation and deceit were sickening!
Trinity 🍆
May 8, 2020 at 9:51 AM
Day 8: Worst NOPT
(THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS)
This was a really easy one because I don’t think any OTP can be worse than Ling Yi Zhou and Xia Lin from Well Intended Love. This was not a romance but a horror pretending to be a romance. This drama felt like the biography of an abused woman and was really disturbing to watch.
The ML Ling Yi Zhou is super controlling, manipulative, and emotionally abusive. He tries and succeeds to control and exert his power over the FL countless times throughout the drama. Xia Lin is an aspiring actress who has only been able to get small side roles so far, but she finally gets her break to play a large role in an upcoming drama. But Yi Zhou doesn’t like how close she is to her co-actor, so out of jealousy and a powerful need to control her, he uses his influence and power to get the drama shut down, ruining her big break. Since she is an aspiring actress she didn’t want to go public with her relationship, fearing to be the center of gossip since he is a powerful and popular CEO. But he goes behind her back and manipulates things to “accidentally” reveal to the world they are married. At another point he (of course) gets amnesia and is cruel and awful to her since he can’t remember this is the woman he loves.
But all this isn’t even the worst part. The worst part is the whole premise of the drama. The drama starts by her finding out she has lymphoma and discovers the only compatible bone marrow donor is him. So she confronts him asking if he would be willing to be a donor and save her life. He leads her on a merry chase before agreeing with the added stipulation that they enter a marriage contract because it is his dying grandmothers wish that he marry before she passes. This is all fine, until you discover later on that she never had cancer, he used his power and influence to fake she had cancer and he was the only donor to get her to marry him. This was beyond horrifying. What normal human being makes the person you like have fake cancer as a ploy to date and marry? He is this powerful CEO who could have any woman he wants but it never crossed his mind to simply talk to her and get to know her. On top of all this, when she sensibly tries to break up with him, he locks her in the house so she won’t leave him. Do yourself a favor and don’t watch this drama.
Normally I post pictures to accompany my posts, but I don’t want to mar my wall by posting images of this drama.
Honorable Mentions: Playful Kiss
13infamyss
May 8, 2020 at 10:03 AM
Glad I dodged the bullet there and didn’t have to go through all that experience myself. I only had to hear this story told from one beanie to another and another and another to get the hint that this is not the drama to touch on. 🙈🙈 I wish writers have respect for women when they form these fantasies in their head…… Women shouldn’t fall for these kinds of scumbags.
SnarkyJellyfish
May 8, 2020 at 10:51 AM
I remember someone posting about this before and I was just like – WTF? This cannot be an actual romantic story. I was sure it must be some kind of stalker thriller. Lord. This is why I can’t do CDramas as much – I feel like a lot of the contemporary ones devolve into this kind of f*ckery (not this bad, but in the same vein).
Karmen ~ 🍜🏢🎭 ~ 📚☔🦋 ~ 🪂🌱💘 ~ ✨🍊💫 ~
May 8, 2020 at 2:12 PM
This really seems a horror!!
purplesheesh
May 8, 2020 at 2:48 PM
I watched that drama but it was so disturbing that I had to stop it. I was so horrible! Boss is handsome and the actor who plays him is so charismatic but the manipulation and deceit were sickening!
snowy
May 8, 2020 at 10:58 PM
….what? Definitely not a Well Intended Love. Or a love at all.
Kudo Ran
May 9, 2020 at 12:59 AM
*yikes* sounds horrible, thanks for the warning, will stay away from this