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Royal Rumours chinese drama review
Dropped 18/24
Royal Rumours
1 people found this review helpful
by Shin
3 days ago
18 of 24 episodes seen
Dropped
Overall 3.0
Story 3.5
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 1.5
Rewatch Value 2.0

18 episodes later, still asking why ???

The drama looked promising at first. I picked it purely for the tags since I'm not particularly attached to the cast.

Big mistake.

By the time I reached episode 9-10, it became painfully obvious that the plot is not progressing at all and nothing meaningful is happening . Unfortunately, it couldn't deliver even 20% of what it promised.

Let's talk about the comedy first.

What comedy???

Every pun. Every punchline. Every supposedly funny scene. All of it felt painfully forced.The natural humour, the kind that actually catches you off guard, is completely absent.

The leads didn't help either. Their cutesy antics are tolerable at first, then quickly become a sugar overdose. By the tenth episode, Everything became so overly cute that it started feeling nauseating and cringe.
Unfortunately, this affected their chemistry too. Because beneath all the flirting and cute moments, I couldn't feel any real connection between them.

The biggest reason?👇

Their goals are never in sync.

The FL spends most of the drama hiding her martial arts abilities behind a fragile-girl facade. Meanwhile, the ML spends most of *his* time manipulating situations for his own plans......Even when she needs help, he acts less like a partner and more like a chess player ... And she becomes another piece on the board.

So where exactly is the couple dynamic?

where is the romance?

Where is the trust?...the teamwork???

Because all I saw was flirting.

Lots of flirting.... Cheap thrills, teasing, accidental closeness, and those *"oops, we fell into each other's arms for the seventeenth time"* moments. But The romance itself?...Missing.


In a nutshell ~~

This was by far the most ridiculous romance plot I have ever seen. I spent 45 mins per episode and watched 18 episodes so far yet I am not sure why, when and how the leads started falling for each other.

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