Echo of Her Voice (2024)

Beautiful Fantasy Romcom -A tale entangled with music, love and fate ❣️

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The Theme is unique, Sets and Costumes are beautiful, Plot is smooth and Acting skills are excellent. Each character has his/her own connotations and thoughts and storyline.

The highlight for me is the music and the musical performances ?❤️
I already enjoy Chinese music a lot but there is a bonanza of musical instruments that accompany here which is a treat to watch for viewers with musical interest! The actors are so good with the instruments that it gives us a very natural , relaxed feel while we watch them play! All songs are beautiful ❤️

ML, YunMu, Young Master and the only Son and potential heir of the ruler of Dongsheng, pretends to be playful on the surface and keeps a low key but is actually quite resourceful, strong in martial arts and has amazing musical knowledge and is extremely handsome! But he has to put up that act due to an undisclosed secret! Only his closest aide Xiaoqi knows this. Miles Wei with his amazing looks, talents (sings, dances, musical instruments, martial arts!!!) and excellent acting skills fits the bill perfectly! He has sung the song "Acquiescence" which is beautiful. It is just that much more impactful when the actors sing the tracks!

FL, Su RuoFei, is an exceptional talent in music and looks forward to establishing her Green Flash Music Workshop and help talented fellow musicians. She is fated (through the green light/Jade) with the ability to help YunMu with his secret and through some comic situations ends up being his private entertainer! Kiki Xu, plays her character well. She has strong dancing ability and I am so looking forward for the "Highlight Clip" of her "dancing on the drums"! She has sung the OST "Living up to the encounter " which is amazing! She probably knows how to play musical instruments too.

Su Ruoshan, FL's sister, owner of Melody Musical workshop, is power hungry to become the Music Minister and uses every means possible to achieve this! Zhang Yue's acting is very good as the evil sister! This actress is so easy on the Harp that it makes me wonder if she can actually play it irl!

Then there is an Uncle, Yun Shang (His Majesty's brother) who eyes the throne and had schemed against his nephew previously. His love interest is the sister of FL.

SML, Jin Shangyu played by Caesar Wu, is a childhood friend of FL and another musical genius! He is hot and amazing as always! He is the calmer and the sensible one of the lot and he is in love with our FL.

Huang Ying, daughter of SML's teacher, whom he cares for (and doesn't love!) only because her parents die in floods, is pursuing him against all odds! Her character is like an obsessed stalker at the beginning but it develops into a nice kind helpful one in the later episodes!

Will these characters come together and become a couple? How will their characters develop? Will Su RuoFei help YunMu with his secret? Will YunMu become the Royal Advisor and successor to the throne? Who becomes the Music Minister? Will there be a redemption arc for the villains?? The rest of the story seems to be about all this!

It's only 24 episodes and nicely paced. The first 14 episodes are light-hearted and entertaining. There is some angst from episode 14-19 as the FL gets framed! There is a bounce back from 19 onwards with some real musical performance challenges, martial arts, romance and enjoyable friendships!

Considering that it's a low budget production, the sets, costumes, music , cast, visual effects are all great!! Remember this was filmed in 2021 and C drama has evolved since and so have the actors!

Overall it's a well made, light-hearted , thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable drama!!

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have been following this drama since rumor days
from February 19th 2021 until October 1st 2024
from the original title Our Land, and then change to Meet Me In Your Sound around the time of filming, and then change to Echo of Her Voice in early 2023
the rumor it should've been air in Q1 of 2022, then postponed each quarter until July of 2024
finally, after 1320 days this drama is a wrapped
glad it's a total light romance, the angst wasn't overweight the story (though I can bear a slightly worse angst)
it could be better, but for a non S/A drama I'm really satisfied with this drama
Kiki was doing much better as Su Ruo Fei than a role she did in the same year, too bad it's air way too long after it's a wrapped
Miles, well, what can I say about him, he's good
Kiki and Miles chemistry as Su Ruo Fei and Yun Mu were great, their bickering and bantering, the misunderstanding, and then understanding each other's positions at the end, and the proposal was cute, I just love these two eye candies, too bad their kissing scenes were cut a fcking lot I can't believe it they failed to maximized Miles talent ?
Wu Xi Ze as Jin Shang Yu was so hot, still can't move on from Shang Yu's puppet show but really hate with how he hung Huang Ying until the very end
Zhang Yue as Su Ruo Shan was unreasonably delusional and she really did great to make me hate (and slightly pity) her, Zhang Yue's acting as "psychotic" was soooo good
Huang You Ming as Yun Shang was so good, his character was annoying and was too whipped for Su Ruo Shan, understandably so because Shan Shan is pretty but he's too blinded that makes his character dumb
Lu Zhao Hua can not make hate Huang Ying despite her antique at the beginning because she's soooooo cute
also love Xu Fang Zhou as Xiao Qi
Glad in the end Ruo Fei got to be music minister and touring, Yun Mu got to be royal advisor and "crown prince" despite many people know he's deaf, my power couple
Yun Shang and Ruo Shan got their karma even though in the end they're together, they deserve worse than the ending, my match made in dooms
I just want to say Huang Ying deserves better (sided eyeing you Shang Yu)
also all the music scenes were great, I'm glad even thou everything it's still center around music

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