I found the Chinese drama called Twelve Letters by chance on a drama watching website while searching for another drama.
Of course, sign me up in anything that deals with letters.
The drama is the definition of bittersweet in so many aspects. It shows a love story that is not based on physical affection. Being each other's safe place is the love language of Tang and Xun.
The bond of friendship that developed between those people who had a good heart but grew up in a dark, dirty environment, it's so beautiful too. It made me root for them - all of them - and pray for their happy ending. They fall, they stand on the verge of giving up, but they give one another the push to get back up...In a world where the society and the adults failed them, they had the back of one another.
Misfortune kept chasing the characters, so much so that every happy moment shared among the character felt like the calm before the storm. What was happy ending for them? Being with each other, or making out of their dark situation alive to see a future? Would it be too greedy to want both?
Now the mystery part. The suspense was so well-built and it kept me at the edge of my seat until the very end. I kept guessing and brainstorming. I was not a big fan of the present-day character. Shen Cheng especially annoyed me...til the last episode. The ending. It blew my mind. I won't say a word about it, other than saying that I didn't see it coming at all. It was, like the rest of the drama, bittersweet. That one sequence near the end got stuck in my head and I keep thinking about it with a heavy heart... The OSTs. My favourite would be the song that plays at the end of the drama.
