Could have written more mature characters.
Peng Xiao Ran is lovely as always but this story could have done with a better ML and the FL to have better people around her. The ML and his gang are arrogant pricks, her maid is an annoying tw*t, her cousin and her lover nag all the time. I can get through with one or 2 annoying people but when most of the so called protagonists are irritating as hell then watching it becomes a chore. She basically left all the good people in her hometown. Her sister is at least a sane and realistic woman. Her ex husband plays the anti-hero to the hilt and has more nuance and character growth than the stale and annoying ML. Her cousin she had a sham married with is far more likeable than the ML. I don't understand why they made Ning Gongzi look like a dead end from the start. I wonder what drove the writer to consider the ML as the unquestionable choice when there is literally zero chemistry between the two and their back story is a big yawner in the first place. A totally pointless pairing.Was this review helpful to you?
Funny, well performance
Story could be stronger. The ld actor is very funny. The lead actress performed well on this drama. She is at best at this one. I watched her in goodbye my princess. That was the worst of her acting.At the beginning of this story, it was too slow development. Then as the story developed there are interesting plots. It is more fun with the male actor who made the story more fun . I laughed through out his scenes.
The ending was too slow. The third actor could be better. I would watch it aSgain later when I have time.
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Start isnt great for me but it does get better so I am glad I stayed watching.
The male lead actor here did good. Having seen him playing different roles, to me he is best suited in antagonistic roles that he had done many of.
This is a good one to binge watch. This is very light on humor, but balanced drama, action and romance. It could have been done with less episodes tho. Lots of fillers to extend episodes.
Production did well with set scenes, props and wardrobe.
My opinion is that it is not worth paying to watch it but good one to add to your list to watch for free. Most likely it is available to watch for free in other apps like Bilibili, Youku, DailyMotion, etc. I think it may be free to watch in Viki app now too.
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I don't know why they encourage this type of character, this not empower the woman nor built man.
Which made me drop Lots of the dramas.
This drama I like the character of the FL, The character was not annoying, childish and stupid The ML was not irrational to leave important matters for one person (FL Which usual unworthy).
Also although FL was loved by Four people, al of them was for the characteristic character not the beauty.
FL maid character sometime cross the line of the maid role. She was maid replies rude to people above her leave in historical era.
I am not happy with the ending.
In general I like this drama I lots.
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君九龄 - Jun Jiu Ling
A well written drama and well performed by all the actors and actresses, especially the main characters, but also the others have made this drama a complete success.The director and the screenwriters should be proud for having be able to create such story, in fact the story is so realistic and beautiful. The dialogues are refined and everything is done with passion, love and dedication. The watchers cannot make any expectations about what will happen.
The composer has written instrumental musics and songs that are the best that i ever heard. It seems that they have done this romatic drama series beginning from the songs.
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Entertaining but dubious
This drama is entertaining with an excellent cast including Peng Xiao Ran and Jin Han as leads and 4 handsome leading actors. Costume is beautiful; cinematography is good. It scored well on all the technical aspects. The story is well paced and has a well developed ending.The story centred around Princess Chu Jiu Ling who discovered that her emperor father was murdered by her uncle, the current emperor. Her attempt to assassinate her uncle at her wedding failed. She was tortured but was rescued by her physician teacher and his daughter Jun ZhenZhen who swapped identity with her. ZhenZhen started a fire in the prison and killed herself. Subsequently the teacher died in a fall while collecting herbs. Jiu Ling then took on ZhenZhen's identity and went to the rich Fang family and took refuge with her 'maternal grandmother'. She then went on to discover further sinister secrets involving the Fang family. Along the way, she won the hearts of 4 different men, went through 2 weddings and broke off an engagement with one of them.
The drama ended well and we did not end up with some ridiculous child emperor. But there were several questionable unrealistic scenes:
1. It was inconceivable that a rookie in medicine could cure diseases that baffled well-known experienced physicians even if she was well taught - ask any medical interns if they could do that. Conversely, it could be explained that in the old days physicians were generally badly trained as there were no medical certifications required.
2. In those days, I do not think they had the plastic surgery skills to transform Jiu Ling's look into ZhenZhen's no matter how skilful the physician was.
3. In one episode, Jiu Ling threw the enemy's camp into chaos by throwing 3 'soldiers' into a camp of 10,000 soldiers, faking infection with smallpox. It was more likely they would throw the 3 soldiers into fire or quarantine instead of being frightened into chaos - these were people who had fought and killed in battles. I expected the writer to come up with something more convincing and on a larger scale.
4. Chu Jiu Ling insisted on keeping the heritage of her teacher's medical clinic retaining the name Jiu Ling for her medical clinic, which was coincidentally also her name. What a convenient coincidence. Since she wanted to keep her real identity a secret, it was rather stupid for a clever girl like her to want to use this name and of course invited a lot of trouble thereafter.
These were stretching imagination. I accept deviation from reality in fantasy dramas. But for period or historical dramas, I expect something more intelligent. The music was melodious and some of the theme songs were really nice but a couple somehow sound quite familiar in some parts. So I say, overall the drama lacked originality and realism.
However, the drama was entertaining. So if you are not too discerning about these, you could still enjoy this drama a lot.
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Jun Jiuling!!!
The female protagonist,Jun Jiuling is very individual,confident,daring,responsible and brave woman.She has the courage and self confidence to face any situations and problems that occur in her life.What I liked the most about her is her responsibility as a princess.This is my second drama of Peng Xiaoran after Goodbye My princess,so I already how good she acts.She was perfectly cast.My most favourite role in this drama is Zhu Zhan,the male lead,played by Jin Han.He is a very excellent actor and he instantly became one of my favourite Chinese actors.He was excellent in emoting every expression on screen.
Zhou Zhan,Wang Youshuo as the other male leads were respectively good.
The last male lead,Du Yafei played a role with negative shades and acted well.
This drama mainly focuses on Jiuling and her revenge on her uncle for her father's death.
What i liked here is the unconditional support of the male protagonist towards the female lead and how he was always there for her in her troubled times and his unconditional love towards her.
A hidden gem which really needs to be explored indeed!!
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Good.......but one small annoyance.
I have been binge watching this show for a few days and have enjoyed it so far. Those who say the ML isn't good looking enough for the part only have to look at the chemistry between the ML and FL to see why they got paired together, it's fantastic. The 'Villain' of the four main guys Lu Yun Qi is played very well, as in you constantly want to smack the character very hard with something heavy. Also the two brothers of Zhu Zan are hilarious and they make up a perfect kind of comedy/action trio as the story progresses.One thing I am beginning to get a little annoyed with though and hope that they solve soon is the Jui Ling/Zhu Zan dynamic. I don't know how long the writers are going to keep up with the whole 'lying' thing but it's wearing thin and honestly sending the character of Zhu Zan a little mad at times. It is also making the character of Jui Ling look a little heartless and part of me is not wanting her to end up with the ML at all. She has seen him breaking down infront of the memorial, heard him calling her name when he was in pain and seen him quite a few times saving her life......yet she still doesn't tell him the truth.
Other than that annoyance though the acting is great, the costumes are fantastic and the music is spot on. I will defiantly be watching this to the conclusion when I will update my review
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At times the storyline is unrealistic and loopy.
I actually found out about this drama via AvenueX's YouTube channel. While I disagree with most of her negative comments about this drama, I can understand why this drama doesn't have a rating over a 8.5.Characters:
The female lead was married as a princess (episode 1), but engaged as the physician's daughter around episode 3; she broke off the engagement, but then got married to her sickly cousin just to treat him, solely because he was too shy to allow her to treat him without clothes on; but again, she broke that off too by getting divorced. The only one she liked was her childhood friend, who was a prince. While the characters don't drive me crazy, I still don't understand why she hated her husband so much, the one who she married when she was a princess in episode 1. Granted, she didn't ask for the marriage but as a princess, this is what came with the title, the fortune, and comfortable life. Her husband, at least in the first 19 episodes actually loved her, and did her a favor by marrying her sister, in order to protect her from their uncle. So, I would have liked for the scriptwriter to have either made his character totally evil (referencing the character the female lead married during episode 1), or given a better reason why the female lead didn't like her husband.
Directing:
The female lead actress, is a great actress. I know this because I've watched Good Bye, My Princess. However, in this drama, she acted with a, 'I don't really give a f,' kind of attitude throughout the whole drama. I don't like the fact that the director directed her to act this way. I believe the director should have directed her to act as a princess would have acted (e.g. a bit arrogant & privileged but strong willed), instead of a princess who is aloof most of the time.
Storyline:
The storyline is actually good, although not great. The reason why I gave this drama a rating of a 8.5, instead of a 10 for the story is because some of the scenes were not well crafted, and there are loopholes in the story. For example, somewhere around episode 2 the princess gets surgery and is turned into looking like the physician's daughter. I thought to myself, this is super unrealistic, and the scriptwriter and editor didn't even bother to come up with a logical explanation to why a ancient physician would be able to change the face of the princess, while in a cave. All she had around her head when she woke up were bandages, which btw, were loosely wrapped around her head... SIGH.
Editing:
Overall, I am enjoying this period drama thus far. I am currently on episode 19, but I did take a break to watch other dramas! For some reason the faces of both the female lead (same actress from Good Bye, My Princess) and the male lead (same actor from The Princess Weiyoung) look strange. I know that these dramas are often edited (e.g. lightening the actors skin to make it appear closer to the color white). However, the editing this time, in terms of changing their facial shape, was not done well. At one point, I even thought that they both may have had plastic surgery, which honestly there's nothing wrong with, but I concluded that it was just bad editing.
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So happy
Look, that actor, Du Ya Fei, who played the psychopathic guard is in my top five C-drama characters and funnily, I think I liked him even more than the lead actors who were already impressive. Very few actors are able to show different emotions just with their eyes and lips alone but he managed to infuse so much energy into being an obsessed, deranged, and evil guy that somehow got the audience's empathy.Wow, where do I start? The story was tight and ALL the actors brought their A-game which has to be a testament to the director and of course the scriptwriters. Not one moment did I think the story unrealistic or the character's behaviors incongruent with the plot. Even the subplots were nicely done.
Then there was our heroine who was intelligent and steadfast even when the tide was against her and not once was she made to be a mary sue. Bravo to the scriptwriters.
Lastly, I was pleasantly surprised that JIn Han could play a good guy for once because he's made being the bad guy enjoyable to watch. I first noticed him in Princess Weiyoung where he played the truly evil general and he looked so hot just going around wreaking havoc everywhere he went.
I can't wait to watch this again.
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Why are Chinese series so long ?
I’m not a fun of Chinese series. However I have to watch them to improve my Chinese. The only choice I have when it comes to Chinese series is between really bad series and the ones that are not that bad. Guess this one falls into the latter category.Characters:
The FL is so good. Her medical skills are top notch. Which is not surprising because as a princess she had time to practice medicine, also just because her best friend and father were doctors, that makes her a doctor too by default. She can cure all manner of sicknesses. I was actually waiting for her to raise the dead or sth. 😂 😂
She turned from an impulsive princess who attempted to assassinate the king in broad daylight in front of guards to a thoughtful and calculating person who had to count the cost of her actions. Damn her luck, she puts herself in very dangerous situations but no worries she has a savior, the ML.
I don’t mind having a strong female lead but making her the only strong woman was just so annoying. I won’t even bother to talk about the other characters. As the title suggests this whole series is about JiuLing. The show made sure you cared about no one but her. It throws in your face, how good she is at everything, how all men like her, how she is so kind and selfless. I guess her only flaw is that she didn’t know Kung fu(that’s okay her battlefield was the sickbed, leave the fighting to her savior).
Honestly I’ve had to endure worse Chinese series for the sake of improving my Chinese. Wish there was any other better way. For those who would like to watch this, it’s honestly not as bad as others out there.
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A traditional drama with medical and political aspects
A strong strategist FL for a change is quite a welcome change. The plot was intriguing at first then it turned unrealistic really fast.FL was supposedly wise, then why did she impulsively attacked the emperor just like than? Of course, she'll be caught and taken to prison. She was suddenly successfully rescued with a new face and a new identity. Then her journey of finding justice begun.
A wise, patient, kind, selfless and pretty FL plus a legal husband, a childhood sweetheart, a sickly cousin and a fiancee from her dead bestfriend is now my new definition of "it's complicated".
Too slow phased for me plus really unrealistic scenes were too much.
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