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Delightful feel good story, not to be missed
I truly loved this C drama. Fresh, heart warming storyline with beautiful, talented young actors. Fantastic chemistry between ML and FL and they looked really, really good together. I loved the whole friendship and family vibes as well. To see such enduring love is very uplifting and one can only wish to have such love in real life. The whole production is superb. I especially loved the music. Finally a drama that uplifts the spirit and gives warmth to the heart without any negativity or sadness. Many thanks to the whole crew for creating such a wonderful entertainment for us! Bravo!Was this review helpful to you?
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One of the best Fantasy C Dramas I have seen, truly magical
I absolutely love, love this Fantasy Drama. What a wonderful story and production. It immediately engaged, captivated me within the first two episodes as the "chicken scenes" were hilarious and got me laughing. I read some reviews that said the talking chicken was not believable. Seriously? Just a reminder to those viewers that this is called a Fantasy Drama in which everything is possible, like talking chicken Coi fish as kids, etc. I watched this wonderful production to immerse myself in a beautiful fantasy world with gorgeous scenery, beautiful and talented actors, enduring romance/love, die for costumes/wardrobe and heavenly music. I only wish I could live in such heavenly place in such beautiful nature. What a wonderful unforgettable story and production. I am sure I will be rewatching this story many more times in the future. Many thanks to the hardworking crew/team for creating us such a magical experience. Bravo!Was this review helpful to you?
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Most ridiculous nonsense ever
Total trainwreck! It appears the script has been written by high schoolers and directed by an amateur would be director. The storyline is ridiculous and complete nonsense. It supposed to be a rom com but instead it became a bad comedy in someone's nightmare. To be honest, the only reason I watched it is because Ryan Ren is one of my very favorite actors; however, unfortunately even he couldn't save this trainwreck. The FL character is a very unlikeable sociopath and compulsive liar who is ( according to the script writer geniuses) always in the right and everything is someone else's fault at all time. Let's not even talk about all the psychopathic criminals/relatives who will never get punished no matter what horrible crimes they commit. This is a perfect message to the wievers, i.e. "commit any crime you want as there will be no consequences or punishment at all" great message geniuses!!!What a waste of time, monies and talent to throw away on this trainwreck.
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Great beginning of 2026 with this wonderful C Drama
This is a wonderful very creative C Drama. The storyline is very entertaining and enjoyable. The casting is superb with all the talented actors leads and supporting. Chen Xing Xu is one of my favorite actors he is not only extremely handsome and talented but he also has a huge screen presence. He is absolutely perfect for his role as Qin Xiao Yi. I also love the very talented Lu Yu Xiao and her character as Hu Xiu. The FL/ML has wonderful chemistry throughout the show. Finally an intelligent show without the usual whiney, baby talking FL that is so typical in many C Dramas. Thank you casting agents for sparing us. Overall it's a fantastic production that definitely deserves the highest mark. Thank you production team for this wonderful series. A must rewatch!Was this review helpful to you?
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Wonderful story, one of the best C dramas of 2025
I really loved this C drama series. For starters, I simply don't understand the many comments and preoccupation of some people with the age gap between the FL and ML in real life and as the main leading characters in this drama. So, if you are one of the "age police" and believe that love between two people should adhere to age restrictions, then this drama is definitely NOT for you, so please keep your low score negativity to yourself instead of bringing the show's ratings down. Also, speed, fast action lovers, this story is not for you either. It's a wonderful, slowly developing drama of love and complex human emotions between two people. I love both leading characters and their chemistry throughout the show. Finally an intelligent show with superb, talented actors and an interesting storyline. The only small issue I have with this and most other 2025 C dramas is the portrayal of women in current modern society, namely how young women seems to have adopted the "career first above everything else" mentality that is truly detrimental to society and establishing families. So, the last episode of this drama was a bit disappointing but not unexpected where the FL choose her career and became anti marriage even though the ML lead very clearly stated how important marriage and having a family was to him. So the FL seemed not to understand that she really didn't have eternity on her side if she wanted to have a family with this man she completely loved. I suppose, her denial of the existence of a "biological clock" for women eventually wanting to have families is the sign of our times in the career oriented, hussle culture of today. Thanking the whole crew and production team for this wonderful series.Was this review helpful to you?
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Wonderful C Drama
I really loved this Drama. Beautiful and very professional actors and an interesting storyline that will keep your full attention throughout the show. The customs, scenery and the music are all fantastic. This is a real quality production with a wonderful, talented cast. Kudos to the whole production team. I will be rewatching this show many more times for sure.Was this review helpful to you?
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Great story/writing but not so great adaptation
I truly wanted to love this drama but I got bored quite quickly and skipped through lots of the boring blah, blah, blah conversations. It's probably just me but I felt that there was absolutely no chemistry between the leads, even when FL tried to play cutesy, her acting felt totally fake. The screen writers also made the mistake of keeping the FL lying act, schemes way too prolonged (23 episodes ) so by the time the truth was revealed, nobody cared anymore as viewers got bored already. I also had a bit of an issue with almost all of the actors/actresses looked exactly the same and it was hard to figure out who was whom, (example the FL and the Princess and some of the dancers looked almost identical) same with many of the male characters, very similar faces, age etc.ML has a beautiful , very distinctive face/features and shows lots of emotions on his face throughout the show. On the other hand, the FL has a very average, non distinctive looking face that barely shows any emotions throughout the drama. Their "romance" looks fake and cold, lacks real emotional connection between the two actors. The Vibe/Chemistry was definitely off between the ML and FL characters
Overall, I found the storyline very interesting but the adoption not so much as up until past 23 episodes, it was pretty boring with the never ending poisoned then healed, injured and healed, more injury and healing over and over again plus the same schemes, same villains, same FL lying over and over..... Besides boredom, it became pretty exhausting to watch and I had to use my fast forward quite a lot
Good stuff: I absolutely loved, loved the spirit animals ( the dragon and the cat) and their friendship was especially heartwarming, good actors. Visually, it was probably one of the best fantasy dramas I have seen. Fantastic scenery, dream world, wonderful special effects . Loved the music and the beautiful costumes. You can tell that great efforts, lots of creativity and hard work went into this production. Excellent job team!! Thank you for the dreamy beautiful world, experience.
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Loved the music
I really enjoyed the music. especially the OST songs and the "events" 's productions. I wish they had more of those and longer ones instead of the non stop cooking and eating scenes. I also really loved the scenery like the 1000 mountains and lakes. Such an awesomely beautiful places and scenery. However, I wasn't too crazy about some of the acting parts as no matter how much it was forced by lots of hugging and hands holdings, the chemistry between the FL and ML was pretty much zero. The ML did his best to try to create a somewhat romantic atmosphere but the FL' acting came across as flat, one dimensional and phony. Most of their interaction was embarrassingly cringe worthy with the female lead acting like a 12 year old shy, non verbal, without any character whatsoever. Her language skills consisted of hm, oh, yes. ok, hmm... so it's pretty unbelievable that a highly educated, talented ML character would fall for someone mediocre looking and really boring. The FL simply has no screen presence and her acting ability is very limited. I actually liked the rest of the characters and couples. Most of the other female characters were way more outstanding and interesting than the FL , especially Dou Dou, beautiful, talented and incredible screen presence. Overall, it was a fairly entertaining drama, especially the music scenes, although, fast forwarding had its use in the many boring and repetitive scenes. I would watch this show again but only the music scenes and listening to the beautiful songs....for the rest....I would avoid, especially the embarrassing cringe worthy dating scenes between the FL and ML as well as the second FL&ML' painfully ackward interactions.Was this review helpful to you?
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Delightfully Unhinged
I loved this off beat, unhinged, refreshing original movie. It's funny, playful and quirky but underneath it all, the movie actually addresses the question that many of us has at least once asked in our life time. namely...what is the meaning of life? Are we just all blindly following a scripted destiny pathway or can one really change ones life and destiny? Brilliantly, this serious question was asked in the silliest, craziest way by the ML "fighting" the aliens for the remote control ( aka to take over his life's control) on the mother ship. And yet. in the end he did stop fighting and let destiny take it's course.. . meaning, sometimes in life, no matter how hard one fights for something. it will never happen if it wasn't meant to be. Plenty of examples in my and many friends' real life story.Bravo! Truly brilliant!! Loved it! Highly recommend it for people with imagination and for those who/whom are able to focus on and understand the actual meaning beneath the silliness.
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What a disappointing nonsense
I watched this show because of the high ratings and are now wondering how this mess got such high ratings?I love rom coms/fantasy comedy genres but I honestly can't tell what this is supposed to be. My rating is strictly based on my opinion of this C drama.
The whole storyline and supposed romance lack even the smallest grain of believablity. Gorgeous, hot, successful CEO and his cute, talented brother both deeply fall in love with a not so attractive, without personality or charm FL who is dumping both guys multiple times during the show. Seriously? Terrible casting for the FL role as her character is childish, ridiculous and stays exactly the same without any character growth or development throughout the whole show. The script writers have created a truly unlikeable messed up, lying, female character who supposedly has superpowers which manifests in one scene as she freeze time and space but in the next scene she is afraid to cross the street. Then with all her strength and superpower, she lets a human tie her up and beat her, etc. Then .. the FL is all over men and is totally and shamelessly turned on,,, and yet.. when it comes to the hugging scenes, she is faking "a deer in a headlight" reaction totally out of what the reaction should be for a romantic encounter. What a terrible performance/acting! The whole thing is ridiculous. The kissing scenes are probably the worst part, they are awful, and fake with the FL open eyes and the close ups make it even worse. The storyline and dialogues are repetitive and boring. The same love you, don't love you, breaking up, making up, now I don't want you, now I do.....on and on and on it goes in a loop. Same exact thing. Even the dialogues are exactly the same in many scenes. Boring and very uncreative. Thank God for fast forwarding.
Music is nice. Wardrobe has some nice pieces but the actors mostly wear the same garments over and over.
It appears that whoever wrote this may never been in a relationship ever and have no idea how to portray a real romantic relationship. Honestly, I consider this drama, (supposed romantic comedy) a huge waste of time and if it wasn't for the talented, hot ML who at least tried to save this mess, I probably wouldn't had the patience to finish this without a total brain freeze. Waste of production budget. And finally, .....we have 21st Century technology and superb special effects technology to portray superpowers in an interesting way, which would have probably saved this production if applied .
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Love story in slow mo
I was excited to watch this show given the high ratings. Overall, I really liked the storyline and the actors were all very good and professional. Not to mention the two ML being really, really hot. I also liked Zao Jin Mai the FL as she is cute and very talented. However, somehow I felt that the chemistry between the FL and ML were a bit off, especially in the last episode, the airport scene was really cringeworthy with ML/FL acting truly awkward towards each other plus all their "colleagues" weirdly standing around and watching them in silence. What was that? I was also not fan of the boring family scenes at the end as the whole thing looked pretty fake and the leads looked somewhat uncomfortable acting as Mom and Dad probably because being at a young age they are not that experienced with the kiddie, family type of situation.yet. That's just my observation. Otherwise I really enjoyed the show and thank the whole crew for their fantastic job.
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Too much and too long conflict between FL&ML to be enjoyable plus the highly unlikeable FL
I am not impressed with this series. I felt the chemistry was way off between the FL and ML, or to be precise, there was none. The FL actress' lack of emotional depth and flat, mostly sour faced expression and bland performance has totally ruined the supposed love and chemistry between the lead characters. And to save the lack of chemistry Chen Fei Yu has been over acting, way above what a normal love relationship would look like in real life. Hence, this whole "love affair" is far from believable, i.e. a gorgeous, smart, talented, kind, from a privileged background ML falls head over heels for a very plain looking, no personality or talent, stubborn, cold, hateful and mean, materialistic, playing hard to get poor girl. Seriously? Totally unrealistic . All the supposed love scenes look like the actors are just reading off the script, no warmth, or any kind of chemistry. Maybe if they cast a more likeable actress as the FL, at least the romance would have been more believable. Perfect example of wrong casting ruinning a perfectly good story. The second FL / ML romance and chemistry was much better and more believable. And what's with all these career obsessed, hard core aggressive young female characters lacking any feminity or compassion and warmth? I hope young women in real life are not taken in by the b.s. of "career above everything else" as the highly competitive "Profit above integrity" business motto actually doesn't care much about young people or their dreams, profit is the only king.Was this review helpful to you?
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Underwhelming
Easy watch, pretty bland. Storyline is not bad and the potential was there to make it into an exciting romance, story but they missed and the story flatlined. I didn't feel much chemistry between neither the first couple ML/FL nor the second couple ML/FL. Actually the second couple was a bit more interesting and funny, however on the romance part, there were visible signs of avoidance of kissing by the actors and you could tell that there was absolutely no physical attraction between the characters. First couple also seemed to lack real chemistry and in fact they were more awkward with each other than anything else. Maybe a better pairing of actors would have made the "love" story more believable. And the final 3 episodes..OMG ..I have never seen a more boring, mundane ending of a supposed double couple romance story. Pretty disappointing.Was this review helpful to you?
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Entertaining
It's a good/entertaining storyline and like most costume C dramas it has pretty much everything, i.e. court intrigue, politics, excellent fighting scenes, scheming bad guys, good guys winning, love and attraction between beautiful male and female leads, wedding, happy ending. It's not a completely unique storyline but I was entertained. However, at times I was a little bit confused as most of the "elders/parents" actors all look a like and hard to distinguish whom are who. Same with the plots, too confusing because of the similarities of the characters and their looks. In any case, great job crew! Thanks for the great entertainment.Was this review helpful to you?
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Great production
I watched this show because one of my favorite actors Liu Xue Yi. He is a gorgeous, very talented versatile actor and I wasn't disappointed with how he portrayed his character in this drama. The female lead Ju Jing Yi is also a very beautiful talented actress although I found her character portrayal a bit bland and the chemistry between ML/FL lukewarm at best. I actually found the original Yang CaWe character more interesting and more of a natural beauty. Too bad she didn't get much screen time. I also really loved Li Ge Yang, an upcoming young talent. Overall, the storyline was very interesting and entertaining if you can overlook a few inconsistencies here and there. Beautiful music, great customes and fantastic photography, scenery. Loved it and highly recommend it. Thanks for the great entertainmentWas this review helpful to you?