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Good start but too many inconsistency

At the start of the story, in his first apprerance Xia Min the ML is found persuading his uncle to get TK independent and that goal drove him to scheme big until episode 30+ but at the end, which I feel very rushed and broken, Xia Min's mind game result is to support the director of Yinghai and works for him, saying that he was too narrow-minded before. The ending is promoring a public company who is owned by each employee which is a nice concept but the comapny itself was about to be bankrupt and they don't give any solution to that problem, suddenly at the end it's pictured as a company that's making alot of profit and will continue to do so.

FL lead is pictured as a rare talent in cost analysis who is also straightforward and plays no politic. But within such a short time she also develops management skills and brilliant ideas that made the director of Yinghai promote her to be vice director of finance.
However, I'm very disappointed by her turning on her word so quickly just by promise of "big responsibility" from the director, no wonder Wang Yang very angry with the director and her.

This drama really has alot of inconsistency of characters, except for Wang Ming Yu who's a consistent jerk, but despite that the drama didn't give us any scene on his punishment as he still sits on the board til the end..

Too many questions unanswered by the end of the drama.
How's XiaMin going to explain to his uncle about not delivering his promise to get TK independent?

Maria has played such a bully to Hong Mei, i thought she would also rise in her career but instead she was seen to host the director in her house.. That's huge disappointment really. But I'm guessing the message is not everone needs promotion and she's better to stay simple mind and settle with a good suitor?
And Maria at the end was a character with "meat and blood" who chose to do right despite potentially offering her future boss which is out of character.

Overall the drama does show alot of unexpected turn of events but they are really out of sync and quite random and with no explanation so not a good one.

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One of the best historical drama

I have to admit taking 4 episodes until the main characters grow up feels too much at first, but it gets so good after that. This is probably the longest drama I ever watched and I don't regret it, I actually wanted more... 70+ episodes and I can watch it again.

I find that it has a balance of dramatic characters in the otherwise tense story of scheming elders and treacherous politics, such as crazy Man Niang who's so pretentious and her initial act in Yu family even makes me laugh. And then there's the concubine who keeps fainting for pity lol

Except for Man Ning being able to steal the boy under his nose, the ML seems to be solid calculative strategist, I wonder just how he didn't watch the kids after rebuking the evil woman, maybe he just didn't expect her to be so evil.

Other than that, it still a drama with bias for the FL and ML being saved by luck / fate multiple times in facing death situations. But I like how consistent the characters are, and they didn't force the romance above all. It also shows how struggling the women in that era against not just gender bias but also legitimate vs concubine born and how Ming Lan used her brain going along with the culture instead of fighting it heads on (except when it involves her mom and grandmother she confronted the enemy plainly). And she did say that she will risk her life for these two, and Gu Ting Ye should be happy to be the third person. I really like this moment as this is when Gu Ting Ye replied her, "How about your future husband?" Turns out he's already aiming for that position back then.

A small disappointment for me is how at the end Mo Lan was still not divorced by the Count even after all her scheming and killing the babies were revealed. And then she found comfort in Shen family welcoming her warmly in the Gu residence.. She better has learnt her lesson then.

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