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Princess Jieyou chinese drama review
Ongoing 42/45
Princess Jieyou
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by Terrica18
Nov 25, 2018
42 of 45 episodes seen
Ongoing 2
Overall 6.0
Story 4.5
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 3.5
This review may contain spoilers
I was really excited to watch this series. After several months I realized that there was no end in sight for the subtitles to be completed. I took a chance and started watching the series on various sites and managed to get several episodes translated. I repeat I was super excited about the series but I am completely disappointed. If you’re into romantic series with great chemistry this is not it. If you are into lost loves, unrequited love and that odd guy out staring at the girl that he love that he could never have this is it.


The acting was great, the wardrobe was good and the scenery was pretty nice as well. I will not rewatch this even with subtitles. The beginning of the series started off fun, exciting and cute. This added with the two main leads will really get you hooked, unfortunately after episode seven or eight it goes downhill. The preview and the beginning credits scenes with leads you to believe that it is the romantic and loving series, to me it was the complete opposite. She does not end up with the person that she originally liked and it was her choice with no explanation. In the beginning of the series she was a smart, fearless, and an independent person, but by episode nine she seems to lose her wits by sacrificing herself for people that she did not know and giving up someone that she loved for nothing.

Spoiler summary***the story is about a lost princess who finds her way back home and is sent out as a bargaining chip to unite two countries. The princess meets the male lead in the beginning of the series and they really hit it off unfortunately she is sent to marry his brother and goes through with it even after she is somewhat rejected. This somewhat turned me off because she liked the brother and he liked her but she forced her way into the palace to marry the Emperor. To me it made no sense because she wasn’t a greedy person and there was nothing for her to gain. Half of this series covers her entering the palace and struggling to survive all while still caring for the main brother she rejected. It appears that she ended up falling for a guy that she married which is not quite satisfying for the viewers since the two main leads clearly loved each other and had such great chemistry. It would’ve helped if one does like the other but they clearly both liked each other. I’m not a fan of self-inflicted suffering or stupidity and I’m sad to say that this one fell right into that category.
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