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To be fair, I started this show after I finished The Story of Ming Lan, which in my opinion is a must-watch MASTERPIECE, so that might be coloring my opinion slightly. But that’s still no excuse for the multiple writing fumbles present. I’ll keep it short.
1. This is a standard “FL gets revenge for her family by pretending to be a doctor/maid/etc” storyline. This time Tian Qi is trained as a doctor. Except she rarely does any actual doctoring. There are a few cursory scenes where she grinds herbs to make poultices but that’s the extent of anything important she does with it. This job is how she integrates herself into the J mansion. She then proceeds to forget almost entirely about revenge for her family because she meets the ML. Which leads me to point 2…
2. The romance in this story is sloppy at best. The ML is self absorbed and rude to the FL and she falls for him anyway because he’s good looking and they have a tenuous childhood memory together. Which is a terrible reason to fall for someone. The FL has more chemistry with the 2nd ML, the ML’s younger brother. They actually get along and have things in common and they both seem to prefer each other’s company more than she enjoys the ML’s. The entire plot line at the end seemed like they realized they wrote a relationship fumble and came up with the most asinine plot line to try to fix it by making the 2nd ML seem like a villain from out of nowhere.
3. This show is low budget. I won’t judge any set or acting decisions based purely on that. I’ve watched many low budget shows and movies that were wonderful. However, unlike this show, they didn’t write entire subplots around their sponsors like this show did. Word of Honor advertised it’s nuts sponsor at comedic times and did so in an uninvasive way that fulfilled their contractual obligations and made sense. This show devoted an entire episode to Tian Qi making a face mask (the sponsor) and gets in trouble when it causes “rashes” and she has to be rescued by the ML for it. The sponsor should NEVER EVER be any part of the plot of a show. It’s tacky and smacks of bad writing, which this show already has in abundance.
I won’t say it’s good, but if you need something mind numbing to sit through after watching better, more complex shows, this one is… fair. But there are better options.
1. This is a standard “FL gets revenge for her family by pretending to be a doctor/maid/etc” storyline. This time Tian Qi is trained as a doctor. Except she rarely does any actual doctoring. There are a few cursory scenes where she grinds herbs to make poultices but that’s the extent of anything important she does with it. This job is how she integrates herself into the J mansion. She then proceeds to forget almost entirely about revenge for her family because she meets the ML. Which leads me to point 2…
2. The romance in this story is sloppy at best. The ML is self absorbed and rude to the FL and she falls for him anyway because he’s good looking and they have a tenuous childhood memory together. Which is a terrible reason to fall for someone. The FL has more chemistry with the 2nd ML, the ML’s younger brother. They actually get along and have things in common and they both seem to prefer each other’s company more than she enjoys the ML’s. The entire plot line at the end seemed like they realized they wrote a relationship fumble and came up with the most asinine plot line to try to fix it by making the 2nd ML seem like a villain from out of nowhere.
3. This show is low budget. I won’t judge any set or acting decisions based purely on that. I’ve watched many low budget shows and movies that were wonderful. However, unlike this show, they didn’t write entire subplots around their sponsors like this show did. Word of Honor advertised it’s nuts sponsor at comedic times and did so in an uninvasive way that fulfilled their contractual obligations and made sense. This show devoted an entire episode to Tian Qi making a face mask (the sponsor) and gets in trouble when it causes “rashes” and she has to be rescued by the ML for it. The sponsor should NEVER EVER be any part of the plot of a show. It’s tacky and smacks of bad writing, which this show already has in abundance.
I won’t say it’s good, but if you need something mind numbing to sit through after watching better, more complex shows, this one is… fair. But there are better options.
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