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Beautiful story with badass FL
Really really happy to watch this drama. Really sad when it's over, I just want to keep watching them, not ready yet to say goodbye... Really hope what in the final scene is really happening.... :(In this drama we get friendships, brotherhood, maturity of a character & yet the perfect examples of people foolish & selfishness and every character imperfection.
In here we got very badass FL that not often we see in dramaland. Ren Ru Yi (RY) is one ruthless killing machine that usually move by herself, trust no one but once she trust someone she's willing to risk everything for that person.
Ning Yuan Zhou (YZ) as ML on the other hand is a perfect spy & leader that everyone looked up to.
Together with the task on hand, to save the King of Wu Kingdom that's been capture by An Kingdom, start their journey. And in this journey also come YZ's brothers / companion & Princess Yang Ying, who disguised herself as a man / prince.
What i really like about this drama:
+ How RY shamelessly tease & seduce YZ at first. At first, her goal only to have baby with YZ, not make YZ be her husband. Haha... She got a 'task' from Empress Wu to have baby instead husband, so yeah she's try to complete that 'task'.
+ But of course with given time both RY & YZ start really falling in love & have trust with each other. Really like the growth of their relationship.
+ The badass Princess Yang Ying (YY). Oh this maybe one of my most beloved support character. Really like the growth in YY's character. She's really grown from scaredy & childish princess into amazing prince & in the end amazing princess & woman. The aura when she must act as the prince is really something. And I really like how in the end, when she get back home to be with the 'family' she still became herself, a little chilish & spoiled.
+ All the brother of YZ's group. From playboy Yu Shi San, to the stoik Qian Zhao, to the youngest Yuan Lu & the foolish Sun Lang. I really like to see how they interact with each other. How they sometimes act like a woman who like gossip to how they act like boys when they decide to make fun of Li Tong Guang jealousy.
+ The growth of Wu Di [Emperor Wu]. He also grow from selfish brat that doesn't care about everyone else except himself to someone that have remorse & decided to do better.
+ Xiao Yan [Empress of Wu State] & Chu Yue (CY). 2 strong & interesting woman. I really like to see the relationship between CY & Shi San.
+ Alen Fang... I really like Alen Fang as Yu Shi San here... I think this is the best role for him
+ This drama had one of the best sword dance... Haha... Seeing them fighting really like watching sword dance....
The stupid selfish human:
* Li Tong Guang. OMG i don't know what the heck inside his head. He's over and over can't overcome his own feeling for RY. But this is also i feel is the minus in writing his character. He's such fickle human being. One minute he so determined to make RY as his own, but the other minute, after RY or YZ talk sense into him, he just change his mind so instantly. And that's just continue the pattern till the end... UGH!!!
* Li Zhun [Emperor of An State] & his prince. This is the perfect example of apple fall not far from its tree. Like father like son, both are very selfish till the end of the stage they don't care about their country & just about themselves.
* The third prince of Wu (I don't know his name, nor I found in the cast). I know he's been wrongly treated for his entire life. But when ur Kingdom in state of war & yet u still think of urself is really something...
Overall this really good drama to open this year....
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The story revolve around Chun Family. The single mother that raise 4 daughter, with their character & uniqueness themselves.
1st daughter, Chun Jin Rong (JR). With materialistic characters, that turn out offer more that the eyes meet the first time.
3rd daughter, Chun Ban Xia (BX). With smart & stubborn character, that in the end learn not all her ways is always right.
4th daughter, Chun Ke Ling (KL). The youngest & childish one in the family, that in the end learn to group up & take her responsibility in the world & in the household.
And finally our FL, 2nd daughter, Chun Pei Lan (PL). One woman that at first, take the responsibility to care of the house herself, to the end learn to let go her 'responsibility' & choose her own path, with her man... Haha...
Really interesting to see how these woman grow to be the better self of themselves through out the drama. Of course with each conflict in the family we can experience ourselves in our real world or no stranger in drama world.
Overall this really one interesting drama to watch. With grounded characters & actor/ess.
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Everybody has a history in their life, unless you know them from the baby & follow every thing that they do, never judge people from their past.Just like AthenaTheStorierX wrote. This will be much more enjoyable if the story had more focus on the FL & her friend. Or if they just steer the plot better, with better ML whose even though know his wife past he still stand by her side not just judge her instead.
Really hate this kinda plot, where someone judge us by our past. Especially here they also talked how biased man & the worst kind of prejudice against woman can be. Men can be 'naughty' but want their woman remain pure, or in this case the 'pure' man get 'pure' woman. & to make it the story even worse the man keep listen to stupid advise his friend give him.
Just like Shiro, I also want to kick the man in the ball & give him just 1⭐But I also really like the FL & her friends. So yeah 5⭐ for all I guess...
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End of the journey
Finally our drama comes to the end. Or is it...? Haha... Keep reading till the end to know what I mean, or if you don't want be spoiled you can just skip reading the end of my review.The story continue by the problem:
1. Qin Yu is paper people, which mean he don't bleed. Qin Chuan (QC) & his friend start to notice this. So Yian Yi Yi (YY) has to think fast how to fool these people or anybody from noticing this problem.
2. QC's mom start making problem with YY. Cause she think YY is the main reason why her son (QC) start to rebel against her. And I'm quite happy later on after QC & his mom have 1 on 1 talk she finally understand QC's feeling.
3. Like season 3, QY comes to real life has consequences for both QY & YY. And this season/part that consequences start to reveal itself. It start effecting QY & YY health, especially YY's health. Cause like Book Officer already explained in season 4, QY kinda take a little bit like life source/energy from YY.
Overall this little short drama serve us with full plate. Haha... One good & complete story to tell. This season (4 & 5) given take with 45 Min duration it's about 12 ep or with 30 min duration it's about 17 ep. Yeah longer than previous season & in my opinion kinda bored. I'm more enjoy previous season than this one.
The spoiler!!! Just keep reading if you want to know. If not just stop until here! Read with your own risk!
They keep the open ending with possible future story!!! Don't know should be happy & excited to watch the continuing of their story or just being indifferent. Because for me this season already quite bored. That's why I lower the score.
And also comes the inconsistency with the plot. Book officer clearly tell QY that he will not gonna remember YY when he return to book. But in the end the writer still decided to leave QY memory intact, cause he still comes back to real life again....
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Just like Unique Lady
This story is like our dream, where we fall into the book & become character in the book & become FL/ML & falling in love with main character there. It's become lucky if the story is our own writing, so we know inside out about all the character & plot.This part/season of the drama is only the beginning where we get to know all the important character & plot. We see how FL, Yan Yi Yi/Consort Rong (YY), maneuver the story so she can save herself. In that maneuver, she create new characteristic for her character that make ML/emperor fall in love with her.
The reason I gave the title Just like Unique Lady, because this part of the story end like Unique Lady, which mid-part. Actually in my opinion the more fit to give the title of this drama not season, but part 1. And how much I really hope MDL not separate them, cause it suck to separate the review like this....
Overall all the story for this drama just the beginning in here & I quite excited to continue follow this journey
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One calm movie
This is heart warming movie, tell a story about a girl that sick of a life in city & she decided to back to her small hometown & live there for a period of time, healing herself & re-build the relationship with her neighbor & friends.If you also kinda sick with the life in the city, with all the hardship in the big city & all the stuff the big city can offer you. You can take a peek of what kind of life the little village can offer you.
This movie have very calm environment that can bring peace to your soul. No conflict or anything in the movie, just like Booklover_95 wrote in her/his review: "No angst, no forced laughter, no tears but just sit through it and feel refreshed just watching it." Really one movie to heal your head from all the problem you have in your real life & enjoy the ride for this movie
The one point about this movie for me that I don't too like. The time is so damn slow.... Even after watch it with double speed still so damn slow for me.... But if you want to watch something refreshing & for playing in the background this movie can be your choice. But in the end to watch this kind of movie sometimes still quite good & refreshing for our soul....
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What the heck!!!!!!
Oh hell I really want to hang the director big time!!!! and oh hell yeah I'm about to write another rampage review again about this series & the big reveal in the end. If you don't want to know just don't read it!!!The save review first. So you can at least read safely...
What I like about this mini series:
+ The relationship between He Dun (HD) & Qian Kai Yi (KY) is more blooming. I really like how KY support HD with her trauma & assist HD to overcome her trauma/past.
+ Finally HD can forgive herself about her brother pass away & how she finally mend her relationship with her dad.
+ Some light into HD past, the truth relationship between HD and her parent.
+ The story about grief & how important support group is.
Overall this really just like the title He Dun's Happiness, so yeah everything about her happiness.
And that's the good things end about this mini series
Now the rampage & the reveal!!!! Read it with your own risk!!!!
They leave us with another cliffhanger!!!!! Why!!! Why!!! Why!!!
Will we got another mini series and this time about Ye Jia Hui (JH)!!!!
Why in the end they talk about JH & his dad and also HD & KY!!! What happen with HD????!!! Did JH's crazy dad really kidnap her or not????!!!! And what happen with JH & his leg???!!! And And And also what happen with JH's crazy dad in the end???!!! What is actually the true purpose of JH's crazy dad
Why!!! Why!!! Why!!! You're not using the rest of duration for explaining us the whole situation, but shot another scene that not even connected with the whole situation???!!! So many mystery to unravel....
At this point I really think they really try to prolong this series as long and as many series as possible! Really pissed me off!!!
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Unexpected ending
Consider a few times to watch or not this drama, because I don't too like Shen Yue. But I quite like our ML, Chen Zhe Yuan, so I still decided to watch this.At first I really though this just our regular imagination story. Where our FL get her dream man from the story. Although I really like where the 'dream man' that came out not our regular hero/good man, but more of a bad/villain man at first. But however Xiao Wu Di (WD) still our ML, so he must change from bad man to good man. Hehe... And the method to call WD every time to Nan Xing is also really fun & very unusual. I like it...Haha...
So yeah at first I only plan to give it score between 7-8. But it all change in the very last episode. Really interesting how they change all the perspective of our story. Maybe that due to the new regulation in China where they limited this kind of time travel story or whatever. But I really intrigue by the explanation of the last episode.
Oh btw, I really like our second couple Lu Zi Chen (ZC) & Ye Qing. I quite glad they're not our main couple. If not we got the usual story, where very straight, cold and naïve man like get advice from his best friend how to chase girl, or they will gonna create 1001 cheesy way to make them finally become a couple.... ZC himself sometimes remind me of Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. Haha.... Some stupidity.... :P
Overall this quite unique & original story to watch for...
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another cliffanger
Another director that I want to hang.... Ugh... While My Roommate Is a Detective itself still end with cliffhanger he has the gut to start another drama that also end with another cliffhanger!!! And the cliffhanger even worse than in My Roommate Is a Detective.OK enough rampage to give you idea for you who don't like cliffhanger in the end of the show.
What I like:
+ The bromance between Hu Yi Tian & Leon Zhang still one of the top. Always enjoy their interaction in the drama.
+ The woman more compatible than in My Roommate Is a Detective. I more like Zhou Mo Wan than Bai You Ning for Hu Yi Tian character. Feel more fit & perfect.
What I don't like:
- Feel like they forcing the story. It's like every story must have connection one and another.
- Kinda bored to watch Hu Yi Tian always play the serious part. If they can flip the character for Hu Yi Tian & Leon Zhang that's more interesting. Haha...
Overall this drama is about detective in the revolution era that end with big cliffhanger.
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Part 1
Quite some time I've not found some drama that really binge worthy like this. This drama make me lack sleeping because I really want to keep my eyes open & continue watch that story. Haha...I don't want much talk about what this drama about, because from what I've read quite some people already wrote about that & their description quite accurate. So I don't wanna bored you guys with another summary or talk about what this drama about. Let's we just jump to what I like & dislike about this drama... :P
What I like:
+ Adorable young couple. Many historical c-drama talk about young marriage couple, especially the woman, because you know old days they're married quite young, but mostly our FL character quite mature (quiet, composed, calm whatever you want to called it) and we can't really imagine they actually quite young in their supposed age in the drama. Here we can see Cheng Shao Shang / Niao Niao (NN) (age 15) actually quite childish in her nature, like how witty or active she is. But what make her different than other character is how she look at marriage really portray how actually she herself still a child, like her conversation with Wan Qi Qi: "What's it like to be in love? It is better to find a playmate as a husband," she describe marriage like playing house. Or later on we can see how fickle her with her love feeling tpward Ling Bu Yi / Zi Sheng (ZS)
+ How fast Xiao Yuan Yi (NN mom) to eliminate annoying character, which is Cheng Yang's mother. I really think at first she will continue bother us in our drama, but it's false & I really glad they don't took time to eliminate one annoying character. Even the grandmother become quite subdue for the rest of the drama. Haha...
+ The looked in ZS face, especially his eyes when he see NN. Even from the smallest glance we can see that it's love at the first sight. And how gentle his eyes every time he see NN. Haha...
+ The funny king, kind hearted queen & the dynamic of the king family. But more of them at part 2.
+ The adorable sidekick, Liang Qiu Qi and Liang Qiu Fei (QF). Sometimes really funny to see the interaction with ZS with his 2 assistant, especially QF, how sometimes his mouth is just incontrollable and spitting out words.
What I don't like:
- How partial NN mom is & not to NN herself, a daughter that she already left behind for 15 years, yet not get the love from her mother & must witness how partial her mother with Cheng Yang/Yang Yang (YY).
- How stupid or childish Yuan Shen (YS) is. Hey you love NN, yet you do nothing to prove it & what you can only do is teasing & annoyed NN & after that just jealous to see the other get her love & attention. It's not nice & I don't too like this kind of love that YS show.
Overall this part like everybody wrote, mostly talk about family dynamic, the feeling that our couple try to develop & how to shape NN character. Really exciting to looked for answer in the part 2.
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different kind of opinion
Here I have different point of view than mostly everyone here.... From what I read mostly everyone don't like the FL because of she kinda selfish & like to sacrifice everything especially after she is in the top. But me, what make me downgrade the point actually the ML. Haha...Why...?
Because even though yes ML is cute, handsome, rich & super kind to our FL. But mostly all of us forgot how he manipulate everything to make the FL fall into his hand. Once more the thing that if we like became cute, but if we don't like become creepy happen. Because all the (+) character our ML have he became cute in our eyes, but if we get rid every (+) thing and only remember the ML is the one manipulate everything to make the FL fall into his hand then it became creepy....
Time out!!! I'll gonna write everything that happen in drama or you can say big spoiler. If you don't want to know / read just skip my review then....
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Ok let's discuss more:
Lu Bo Yan (BY) manipulate Su Jia Nan (JN) to go to marriage market. He set up everything so ONLY his mom is allowed to go near JN & of course after that marriage happen. After that, BY still publish their marriage to the public while JN specifically already reject & they also have agreement about keeping their marriage private. Some people could argue, like BY also said, it's to protect JN from the public if they know they're the one already marriage & JN not the third wheel in BY & Han Ruo Xi (RX) relationship. Yes maybe that's true, but I think he can think other way if he at least respect JN opinion about not making their relationship public, still he deliberately do it because he want to tied JN to himself.
Ok I not say the FL not selfish. FL yes also selfish, childish & a little bit pampered if you can say.
* Yes she is bigger in her head when she already on the top. But I can also argue everything for the reason. Mostly us don't like when JN reject Luo Xiao Xi (XX) her own best friend to play the part in her drama, but I say when JN don't see XX fit for the role, why can't she reject her, just because that's her best friend that's why she has to choose her...? Sometime when we choose over the relationship over someone qualified for the job, the job itself become sacrifice & fall apart. No I'm not saying it will not gonna succeed, but that doesn't mean it can't fall apart too. That's why I can't blame JN to reject XX in her drama. Not to mention how about when we see in our drama our fav actor/ess just become support actor/ess while the new comer become the ML/FL, that's what will happen if JN keep XX in her drama, don't forget they already casting RX (who already famous actress) to become the antagonist in the drama, what her fans will feel to see RX only become the antagonist and XX (the new actress) become the FL, will they not making commotion to the drama itself....
* Same thing happen to Jiang Shao Kai (SK) & his advertising choice. Yes OK I quite agree when JN just angry to SK about his adv choice is kinda rude. But I also can understand her. The kind of adv that SK choose always just one kind, the one that doesn't fit the drama. But yeah like SK said, her drama is new and not many company want to invest. I think if she said it in the different tone it will not gonna have that bad effect....
* About spending the night in the room with other man & the tumbling after that... Haha... we can argue all night about this because everyone opinion is different. But my focus is how lack the trust BY has for JN. If BY trust JN everything will not gonna happen, because didn't what JN said is true...? Didn't she work all day, didn't at first there were someone else in the room with them...? See if only BY trust JN everything will not gonna happen. It's only happen because he is another jealous king that we feel OK and worship, jealous mean love, for me trust mean love & you just get jealous over everything mean you don't trust your partner. Like what happen to BY here, he simply doesn't trust JN & Kang Rui Cheng together in the room even when he's there to see what they're doing....
OK I think enough for our FL.
Apart from all what I write above I still have more to say. Haha...
+ I like the chemistry between our FL & ML
+ I like how in the end XX being together with SK. They have they own unique story & also quite messed up too. Really funny how they start their relationship & the way JN find out their relationship...
+ Really like when the reality hit RX face when Shen Yue Chuan confess his love to her. I really want to slap RX face when she said to BY about let go his obsessions over JN & I really want to give mirror to her and said take a look in the reflection, how can you said that to BY when you also have obsessions over him yourself.
Overall this just another drama for you to watch.
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Watch this because of Chen Xiao, but turn out I enjoy it more than I expected.This drama talk about friendship, family, politic and of course love.... Take place where they still underestimate woman, especially if they come from entertainment background, like Zhao Pan Er (PE) & Song Yin Zhang (YZ). Yeah sometimes they have a very thin line to separate performer with prostitute. This story revolve around how PE and her friends make different, talk about feminism.
What I like:
+ I really like the point of view that Zhang Hao Hao take, if you proud enough with your status, no matter people how look it, it still one very proud profession, but also vise versa if you think it's something shameful it will become shameful.
+ The chemistry between Chen Xiao & Liu Yi Fei. I really like how Gu Qian Fan (QF) see PE. We can see how deep their feeling toward each other.
+ How to separate past & future. Especially when it's about revenging your father died. Really like the point of view PE take, usually with c-drama family problem is big problem, and when other family murder must get revenge.
+ The growth of our girls, especially Song Yin Zhang. We can see in our screen one immature girl turn into mature woman.
What I don't like:
- How they shape the bad guy, Ou Yang Xu.
- How perfect looking for PE. It's like she is one complete package that everyone eventually grow to like her.
- The pulling & pushing between PE & QF.
Overall this is one good historical drama. but it think I quite agreed with some reviewer who wrote the story have nosedive in the end. Somehow I also feel this have quite meaningless end, it's like they lack something when they close the curtain....
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For me the dependency between Wen Heng (WH) & Yan Xi (YX) quite hard to grab. OK maybe they just find the right person at the right time. Like when WH just find new environment & family, where she still not belong, YX give her place of belong or their word 'home'. But being depressed & wait for him to come back all that years kinda BS. And after that the turn over kinda too fast too....
And also YX being depressed & got PTSD just because he see his mom suicide is also kinda BS. & the time he need to recover himself quite long.... I more buy the story in the drama summary, where YX got cancer & have to go to America. It's better I think
Yeah I know this is a movie & everything kinda happen so fast. Really hopping I can watch the drama version & finger cross the drama cast won't disappoint me.
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happy sad ending
From the synopsis you already know this one will gonna be 'sad ending' for both our main lead. But the journey toward the ending is so real & kinda sad but still beautiful. But in the end this is still a happy ending for our couple.Yeah their love story is so real & deep. Especially their break up story it's really so deep & real. What you consider light word is sometimes cut deeply into someone heart & more hurtful than a mouthful full of sharp words, especially if that said by someone important for us. Sometimes other drama the word like that doesn't consider as something as important as in here & not become the reason to break up or maybe gonna make them fight but still get back together at the end because love & everything else more important than the 'light' word.
Actually even Zhou Xiao Qi (XQ) doesn't said it. I'll gonna wonder is the fact that XQ never ever regret about the accident. Even though we still can see how happy they are together. But the fact still hanging in the air just wait to drop like a bomb...
I also really like when You Yong Ci (YC) dare to admit that she is a women that never feel safe. & it's really cut deep when XQ the one she put the trust wholeheartedly hurt her just like that. If that me, yeah I also can't possibly jump over that word & just forget & forgive everything. I also will gonna make the same decision with her.
In the end just like XQ word: "In the end don't know which one is worse, never have it or ever have but lose it."
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how to be brave
This drama tell us about a story that most of us having trouble maybe in some or everyday of our days. Let me explain...1. The trouble of fat woman. Yeah our world is cruel, especially to a fat woman. We can see in the lift how every fat woman expected to be self-aware that they need to be get off, even when they not the last person who get into the lift. And the world is perception never good in a fat woman, we woman sometimes getting reminded of that everyday with every thing around us hoping for a slim woman rather fat one, that sometimes makes us very unsecure with our own body.
2. Everything have price. Like the 'rabbit' said, we sometimes don't know what price we must pay for something & only realize it when everything already too late... From the first the 'rabbit' already said everything have price, I already scream to my screen, 'What the price...?!' But our FL never even bother to ask that. Yeah we human sometimes never even consider what the 'price' we have to pay for something 'magical', we just hoping for the best & just jump into it.
3. We need bravery. Our ML & FL have classic problem of friend that falling in love with each other but too scared to confess and change the status. What if is always became the question. But in here also there are they're bad thoughts play the role, all the misheard & bad assumption make things worsen for our couple. In love, or maybe in anything in our life, sometimes a little bravery make a big important impact in our life.
I don't know this better or not. But how about if in the end the FL wake up & all the story that happen in the drama happen only in the dream.... Hehe....
Overall I quite satisfied with Guan Xiao Tong & Johnny Huang here. Quite good movie to spend ur afternoon...
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