Ming Yu is not a good person, lol.The moment she snitched to the emperor about Yingluo using the Queen's seal,…
Yingluo didn't use the seal - she used only the box , if I remember correctly (it's been a while).
"Never schemed maliciously in the background to destroy her life. " - yeah, just snitched her to hope she would be killed, knowing that without the Empress, it's her only chance to do it. Or lied to Empress about Yongluo not doing her job properly. Or...
If we use a very low bar, then yes, she was a good person :).
Ep 35 "Miss Ming Yu, Don't be sad for what you have lost. When you look back at it 10 years later,it will…
Ming Yu is not a good person, lol.
The moment she snitched to the emperor about Yingluo using the Queen's seal, she should have been killed (her surviving 40 lashes so easily is one of the lazy writing moments in this drama).
No idea. Not my genre exactly, but it has Wang Chu Ran as a female lead, so I am not ruling it out completely (but even WCR couldn't save Overdo for me, so...)
Royal Betrothal douban open score is 5.0 (9k ratings)
Actually, it's a bit higher than I thought - after the trailer and seeing how cheap and artificial everything was looking, I was thinking below 5.0 BEFORE the ending happened.
With directors and writers butchering novels into drama adaptations one after another in 2026, I am really unsure if I would like to see it ever made it into a Big Production.
There are so many things which are atypical for standard C-Drama procedures in the novel: no misunderstandings between the leads or within both main families, no love triangle, the female lead being, by far, the most capable person in the novel, always in control, etc...
This vertical drama here did a good job presenting the source material. Would the big production drama do the same? I seriously doubt it, as the above factors pretty much never happen in a full-time drama.
How dare you?According to tags, she is a "competent female lead", lol :).At least she isn't a "smart…
No, no, that one. There was some big attack inside the city; the good guys got split, and the Fl got attacked in the alley by her longtime (?) friend, and they had a fierce battle. She won, but instead of killing him, she let him go; I think at the end some of her friends arrived too, I thought it was Ep. 13 (I remember checking it because I wanted to see how crap it was), almost definitely somewhere around Ep. 10-15.
How dare you?According to tags, she is a "competent female lead", lol :).At least she isn't a "smart…
I don't think the situation I described had anything in common with her losing her memory. Didn't it happen after she regained her memory? But, I could be wrong.; like I said, I dropped it rather quickly.
And also, "Are you the one?" FL also had amnesia, which didn't stop her from putting a hairpin in the necks of people trying to hurt her ;).
How dare you?According to tags, she is a "competent female lead", lol :).At least she isn't a "smart…
I dropped Fated Hearts after 5 episodes (but I've seen clips from around the 13th, I think, when she let go of a guy who betrayed and tried to kill her in the alley; so I'm not sure how smart she really was..._). Didn't watch the other two you mentioned, although they are both somewhere on my watchlist.
From my side (and I have very high standards for female leads, high enough to accuse writers of dumbing down Minglan or Yingluo later in Story of Minglan and Yanxi Palace), I can recommend female leads in "Are you the One?" and "Kill My Sins".
I can really tell that this was made by the same person who made TPOB because the only other FL that made me feel…
I'm not watching (yet?), but since you brought it up, let's hope the female lead here will be consistently strong and useful until the end. Unlike Manman (whom I loved in episodes 1-11, before the writers dumbed her down and relegated her to childbearing in the finale).
Seems like another good skip; it's getting easier and easier to make decisions regarding C-dramas - just skip/drop them!!! At least here, the trailer was so terrible, and the drama looked so cheap that it was an easy decision. And then you read about "Smart female lead" consistently doing dumb things... and voila.
I'm not sure if I completed even one of those broadcast in 2026. Okay, "Pursuit of Jade" was solid/good, and the one that I watched fully. Now, maybe "Road to Splendor" will be watchable.
Fortunately, at least it's possible to find interesting or/and entertaining vertical dramas (after going through a big pile of shit, though).
"Never schemed maliciously in the background to destroy her life. " - yeah, just snitched her to hope she would be killed, knowing that without the Empress, it's her only chance to do it.
Or lied to Empress about Yongluo not doing her job properly.
Or...
If we use a very low bar, then yes, she was a good person :).
The moment she snitched to the emperor about Yingluo using the Queen's seal, she should have been killed (her surviving 40 lashes so easily is one of the lazy writing moments in this drama).
Yes, I hated ML in "Blossoms of Power" too, heh :).
Disclaimer - I like smart/capable/kickass female leads, don't care much about ML/romance; many of them won't have it.
Not my genre exactly, but it has Wang Chu Ran as a female lead, so I am not ruling it out completely (but even WCR couldn't save Overdo for me, so...)
Thankfully, I rated Royal Betrothal as unwatchable after watching the trailer ;).
There are so many things which are atypical for standard C-Drama procedures in the novel: no misunderstandings between the leads or within both main families, no love triangle, the female lead being, by far, the most capable person in the novel, always in control, etc...
This vertical drama here did a good job presenting the source material.
Would the big production drama do the same? I seriously doubt it, as the above factors pretty much never happen in a full-time drama.
There was some big attack inside the city; the good guys got split, and the Fl got attacked in the alley by her longtime (?) friend, and they had a fierce battle.
She won, but instead of killing him, she let him go; I think at the end some of her friends arrived too,
I thought it was Ep. 13 (I remember checking it because I wanted to see how crap it was), almost definitely somewhere around Ep. 10-15.
Didn't it happen after she regained her memory?
But, I could be wrong.; like I said, I dropped it rather quickly.
And also, "Are you the one?" FL also had amnesia, which didn't stop her from putting a hairpin in the necks of people trying to hurt her ;).
Didn't watch the other two you mentioned, although they are both somewhere on my watchlist.
From my side (and I have very high standards for female leads, high enough to accuse writers of dumbing down Minglan or Yingluo later in Story of Minglan and Yanxi Palace), I can recommend female leads in "Are you the One?" and "Kill My Sins".
According to tags, she is a "competent female lead", lol :).
At least she isn't a "smart female lead" anymore.
My very early prediction was below 5.0 and now, after reading about the final episodes, it actually can happen.
At least here, the trailer was so terrible, and the drama looked so cheap that it was an easy decision.
And then you read about "Smart female lead" consistently doing dumb things... and voila.
I'm not sure if I completed even one of those broadcast in 2026.
Okay, "Pursuit of Jade" was solid/good, and the one that I watched fully.
Now, maybe "Road to Splendor" will be watchable.
Fortunately, at least it's possible to find interesting or/and entertaining vertical dramas (after going through a big pile of shit, though).