Good Bye, My Princess (2019)

I will drink or swim in that forgetfulness river if i want to just so i could watch this again.

Best xianxia drama for me!

Bro this is the best drama in 2019 and in xianxia genre overall. I've enjoyed every bit of this drama and if you are looking for a sign to watch it, but be ready and prepare some tissue paper because you are gonna shed a lot of tears, especially when it's about to end.

First of all, I didn't really think of watching this because I don't like tearjerking dramas but I ran out of dramas to watch and I will bore to death if I don't watch dramas, so I tried watching the first few episodes and I got hooked and so here I am writing a review on how much I loved it.

The acting was good between the leads, (not to mention they all are visuals so that's also a reason I watched this lol) especially the one who plays li chengyin, he looks like he's truly in love with her and he conveys his emotions so well using his eyes. I love their chemistry and would love to see them again in another drama.

I hated how the prince was so cold towards her and will literally kill everyone that gets in the way of them and he literally killed her family just for the sake of power, I know he wouldn't and can't do that to xiaofeng but imagine if he loses his feeling, he was once infatuated with sese but he disrespected her right after they got married...he was a huge redflag but he was hot sooooo and also both male lead and second lead doesn't deserve xiaofeng lol at one point they both used her i just wanted her to yk live and be happy by herself or besides adu and her friends at the brothel but she had to do it. Someone told me to watch the directors cut so I will watch it and hopefully i get to see and understand where chengyin is coming from.

The story was well written, I loved how my emotions were a rollercoaster while watching this, I would definitely rewatch this again in the future if I want to shed tears again lmao

The music makes me want to cry everytime I listen to it. I loved the theme song and I listen to it every now and then lol I will forever miss this drama and would watch it again. This drama is so underrated it's sad Y'ALL BETTER WATCH IT.

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Drink from the fountain of forgetfulness, to experience this drama again.

This remarkable drama captured my heart and mind and made me feel like a true witness to each characters happiness and pain. The characters were well developed, the production was amazing, the OSTs are crafted to make you long for the sweet happiness that comes with belonging to a "home" that all of the characters are searching for. There are multiple moments, happy and sad, where the scene is so captivating, I found myself tunnel visioned into the characters emotions and experience, as if I was there with them.
The actors, Pang Xiao Ran and Cheng Xi Xui completely transformed into Xiao Feng and Gu Xiao Wu (Li Chenying) and had me believing that these two characters are real human beings with complex personalities and lives. The characters are shown as young and pure of heart. That purity is never completely lost, eventhough we see Li Chenying make detrimental decisions that causes death, destruction and pain at the expense of Xiao Feng. He has remorse for her, but at the same time, because he does not understand the loving world outside of the treacherous imperial family, he cannot control who he was molded to become and continues to make selfish self depracating decisions, forcing his one chance at happiness to move further and further away from him.
On the other hand Xiao Feng, who is easily accepted into the imperial family, wants nothing to do with the imprisonment that comes along with the riches of being a part of the imperial family. She only wants to find a place in the world, that can be home. As much as she loves Li Chingyin, he will never be able to give that to her. Had he truly been Gu Xiaowu, they would've enjoyed true happiness, building a home and living for each other instead of for their states.
Any future remakes of this drama will be hard pressed for comparable success, as all of the pieces for this version of Goodbye My Princess, which includes all of the side characters and their experiences, so don't fast forward anything, worked to make this the most epic historical tragedy that I've ever seen.

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unforgettable lovestory for lovers of angst

I am actually listening to the ost, love catastrophe, as I write this review. Even after finishing this drama, the story continues to linger with me. This is the power of the original book and also the scriptwriting, acting, pacing, and original soundtrack.

Now, this drama isn't for anyone who cannot handle angst that will make you want to pull your hair a little bit at the character's actions, lol. Yet still, in my opinion, I cannot imagine my life without it now. It is just such a powerful story that I have to keep thinking about it and how everything ended. Trust me, this drama will stick with you if you let it.

I think one of my favorite aspects of this drama is the pacing of tragedy. You see, there are dramas I have tried that have similar plots (The wolf is an example) but the pacing was too fast. Basically, we are introduced to them and get to know them before it all goes to hell first, seeing all the happy memories play out slowly and learning the motives.

The acting was amazing and I always think of how it was so hard for Chen Xingxu to break character that he continued crying during one of the powerful scenes & Peng Xiaoran had to comfort him, so heartbreaking. Anyway, I can't imagine anyone else in their characters and this is a testament to their acting.

The ost is one of my favorites ever and at first, I'd tear up every time I heard it again, LMAO.

**spoilers now**

Whilst the ending is for a lot of people, a reason they may not watch, I can understand why. I was even spoiled the ending before I watched and I still cried for like a day after. But it made sense. It was not a non-sensical ending or rushed, it fits with what happened and her suicide was absolutely preventable if ML had chosen love over power in the first place, which made it all the more heart-wrenching. You could feel his denial and regret in his old age. He and many other events caused her to lose everything and he foolishly believed he could still be with her after when she proved this was not the case.

Overall, I think I'll remember this story forever.

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A supposed wonderful love story shattered tragically by inexorable revenge. + Prepare your Hearts~

Just 1 piece of advice. If you ever encounter my review and is contemplating whether to watch this show or not due to its obvious sad ending; Then I highly encourage you to do so because you're about to miss a good drama if you don't!!!

I have always hated such tragic and sad ending stories ever since, and this is most probably the very 1st time I was not able to feel overly disappointed and irritated on how such story ended.

Even though this drama showed cruelty, betrayal and revenge over and over again, the entire context will just make you understand how and why they have decided to do it that way. I admit that I terribly hated it at first but eventually you'll realize how brilliant the writing of this story is and how well thought the entire drama is (story wise). Yes!! It may not be the most reasonable and logical plot you usually encounter out there but this story surely offered something new; it was an act of driving a drama in a complete misery without dragging and making the entire story non-sensical instead making it substantial and worthwhile.

To give you all more insights— The Male Leads' of this drama were all highly conflicted. The ML is highly driven by revenge and eventually greed that he's ready to take every possible step needed (even if it has to inflict inexplicable damage to his most beloved one) just to achieve his goal. While the 2nd ML was initially burdened by his supposed fate and responsibility that made him cause great pain to his loved one but immediately realizes everything and sorted to doing all his best to make sure that the FL won't suffer from any of it over again.

This drama can make you feel how grief and pain truly is in the most heartbreaking way. How sorrowful love can be. and how can revenge and vengeance ruin everything for you slowly but surely. The amount of anguish it can make you feel may be overwhelming at times but this drama was able to balance it by presenting lovely and bickering scenes from the Main Leads as well as giving us reasons why it has to be done in the first place.

One of the major issue I found over the Protagonists of this show is... ML lack the ability to express his feelings does making the FL even more indifferent from him. While the FL is simply too carefree, earnest and pure to even do something bad or even realize all the scheming happening around her; which causes their great misunderstandings and eventually grew them apart.

Story - 10, Up until this very moment I'm still thinking whether to give this drama a perfect 10 or not. One thing about this show is that, as you watch through it you'll realize the real purpose of the story and how it was created while thinking of the best possible outcome on how to make the story beautiful yet heart-wrenching. It may sound cruel and heartbreaking (cause it is lol) but that's also the greatest asset of this drama. If only they gave us happy ending. ><

Acting - 10, The set of actors and actresses on this show were really good. They all delivered their characters with such intensity and accuracy that you'll see yourself getting drawn to them naturally and effortlessly.

Music - 10, I'm so drawn to the Music in this drama. Specially those sad and dramatic scene inserts. I often find myself getting all emotional and teary-eyed about it. Kudos to the music and sound department.

Rewatch Value - 10 Unexpedtedly, I enjoyed this drama so much to the point where I don't feel any hatred and remorse after finishing it. I'll surely still watch it if given a chance and that's because of its overall good story progression and plot.

Overall - 10, Despite the sad ending and heartbreaking scenes, this drama proves that a good writing and script can cover and mend all that. It is a 1 in a million drama everyone should definitely watch. Don't get intimidated by its outcome and instead enjoy the long-ass-ride. I swear to god, it's all worth it~!!

IF you find my review helpful please let me know.

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This is my first historical C-Drama I’ve ever watched, and now that I’m finished with it, I can’t seem to find any dramas like this one where it has a great storyline, cast, acting and soundtrack. I was skeptical at first due to it being a tragedy, and being a historical C-drama as I’ve never been interested in historical dramas. And I’m pleased to say that I’m glad I did watch this drama.

Eps. 1-12 are the best as we’re being introduced into the characters and the relationship between Xiao Feng and Gu Xiao Wu/Li Chengyin is blossoming. The firefly scene, following up with the wolf and wedding scenes where one of my favorite moments of the whole drama. The drama began to drag after they both lose their memories and I began to skip parts that involved political issues however, watching the two leads fall in love all over again kept me going.

The chemistry and acting in this drama just BLEW me out of this universe. Although the two leads are newbie actors, they did an amazing job of portraying their characters. It was a constant rollercoaster of sadness, betrayal, denial (at least for me), and more. There were times where I’d watch Peng Xiaoran’s crying scenes, and it made me feel so uncomfortable and sad to just watch her cry and be so devastated but not be able to do anything about her situation. Chen Xingxu’s crying scene at the very end was just so amazing, he literally deserves an award for it. After shooting that scene, the whole crew and Peng Xiaoran had to snap him out of character because he was just so heartbroken. There were also times where he acted so well as LCY, where it was SCARY to see him pull off this psycho that could be so obsessive over XF, and even kill to be able to control her.

The soundtrack was amazing, as I still listen to it on repeat. The Fox song has such an amazing story that goes right along with this drama.
The only problems that I really had with the drama was that LCY seemed to take his ‘acting’ of dislike towards XF too far at times. I did not like Sese, and although I love Peng Xiaoran’s acting of XF, they made her character look too foolish at times. I don’t understand why XF has to use her life as a way to prevent war, but it’s a tragedy.

Overall, this drama is worth the 10 stars. There aren’t too much sweet moments/scenes after they fall in love the first time, but they do have their moments here and there as they fall in love again the second time around. It’s a drama that definitely leaves you lingering and wanting more despite the tragic ending.

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东宫 - Good Bye, My Princess

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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Did Not Understand The Ending.

I started the drama because my sister was watching this and it looked interesting. So I gave it a try.
STORY:
It started out amazing, but then it started dragging. I watched it until episode 10, then took a break. I decided to watch the whole thing so I can write an review. The story line was ok. I thought it needed a little more work. My Opinion. The male lead's decision was a bit hard to understand sometimes. He would often bully/tease her, and she would never defend herself. So in other words, toxic. The end was kind of confusing. He kept denying her death, and thinking she wasn't dead and that she was waiting for him to go find her. The plot wasn't what I was expecting, but it was ok for the most part.
ACTING/CAST:
The acting was amazing. Both leads did have great chemistry, though. The male lead was...ignorant. The female lead was...naive and fearless. She did love her master, but because of the misunderstanding between them, she started hating him.She went from naive princess to a brave princess who loved and protected her people. The male lead was ok. Not what I was expecting, but his acting was good. He also was too secretive sometimes. He made her do things she didn't want to do and ended up killing her master in the end and forced her to look. They got in fight often, and like I said, toxic.
MUSIC
I love the music. I even added it to my play list on repeat.
RE-WATCH VALUE:
I would re-watch some parts if I ever get bored. Other than that, I don't really don't fell like re-watching it.
Like I Said, This Is My Opinion, If You Don't Agree, Than That's Fine.

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I chanced upon some snippets on youtube and it was so endearing. Young prince and princess married and getting to know each other...young love all that......I was so glad it was on Netflix. Now that I've finished it in 3 days...I wished I did not watch the whole 52 episodes.....I feel the acting is very good, both the lead actress and the lead actor, the prince. However many small parts of the story is not very plausable. Royal family members only marry for diplomatic relations, the princess did not seem to understand this untill very late and how she can leave the palace so easily to roam the streets and get drunk ..often. It's cute for a while but it just goes on to be weary and sad and I just wanted to give up by the 40+ episodes....then sometimes i think maybe there'll be a happy ending.....NO...it gets worse...it is the worst ending and I feel that I've wasted so much time...I must say though, that...it's just personal...I want to be entertained and I need to have a happy ending.. life is already a drag.

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I've read dozens of reviews about this well the reviews are telling that this one is a good one but you'll be annoyed at the ML so I'm kinda curious about that ; so I've watched it including the EXTRA EPISODE!!! WHICH IS GREAT BECAUSE YOU'LL BE ANGRY TO BE LEFT IN THE LAST EPISODE LMAO?
IT'S FUNNY AND I LIKE HOW THE FL IS!!! SHE'S SO KIND AND THE WAY SHE ACTS IS SO NATURAL!!! WHILE YEAH THE ROLE OF THE ML MAKES ME ANGRY LMAO I KNOW HE HAD TO DO THAT BUT IF I'M THE FL I'LL JUST KILL MYSELF RIGHT AWAY BCS I CAN'T TAKE IT!!!! THE STORYLINE IS GREAT BUT IT YOU'D BE ANNOYED OR WHAT LMAO GOODLUCK WATCHING THIS!!!

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