The Confidence (阳光之下), which used to be called The Controllers, has undergone a name change and began airing yesterday 12/26! I thought it was just another modern drama sets in a corporation backdrop but the novel is very, very dark. Maybe pitch black? I’m quite horrified at the quick reviews I read from novel readers. Let’s call the dark character played by Peng Guan Ying as the main character and not male lead because he’s not one in my book. His love (??) for the female lead is possessive, obsessive, and just down right bat-crap crazy. Our female lead chances upon three criminals on her way to see her boyfriend and they want to “have fun” with her. She luckily escapes and kills one of them, but the main one gets away and he’s our main character, son of a mafia organization.
He plots his revenge against her, threatening her with her husband’s life if she doesn’t follow his needs. He proceeds to torture and rape her multiple times. O_O In the middle of this horrendous nightmare, our heroine discovers that his right hand man at the company is an undercover cop. She works together with him to gather evidence to take down the psychopath.
Wow-ster.
I’m sure the drama version will cut/change out a lot of the details. I hope. Lol.
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Possible mild suppliers for the novel in my comment.
Bat-crap crazy doesn’t even begins to cover it. The female lead suffers horrifically. She, luckily is a tough cookie and didn’t fall in love with the “male lead” *gag*. Unsurprisingly, there are people out there who makes excuses for that psychopath and wants her to reciprocate his feelings. Unfortunately, society have conditioned too many women into seeing toxic masculinity as romantic.
With regards to the drama. I’d imagine there will be plenty of changes. The trailer leans heavily towards a crime show,. Hopefully they’ll depict the male lead for what he really is regardless of his sob story.
3 thoughts on “Cai Wen Jing and Peng Guan Ying’s The Controllers gets a name change and surprise broadcast”
This sounds crazy!!
So what of the ending? They took him down and she didn’t fall in love right…. To think this novel gets adapted….
3 thoughts on “Cai Wen Jing and Peng Guan Ying’s The Controllers gets a name change and surprise broadcast”
Oh boy novel was too dark.. called Who is the prey. Like it’s name she doesn’t end up falling for him but he instead.. karma is a #####.
I never felt pity for him he did awful thing to the FL and deserved his ending.