chichi nyanza

His hair turning grey overnight was just too ridiculous. 😂😂😂

You are so right about the vertical drama with high budget part.

Although it was a good drama, i do feel like this is too highly rated at 9.1, it deserves 8.8 at best. Even though the way they showed the plot points required you to think a bit, i liked the plot. It was satisfyingly and beautiful in a heartbreaking way. All the actors were good. Especially wei yan's actor. I loved the lighting and the setting. I love the camerawork. Fight scenes were wayyy too unrealistic tho. Could have expanded the common battle soldier to general arc of the FL. And ML's character could have been a little better written. On the villain's side, the second FL and ML story could have been explored better with more focus on initial meeting rather than big amounts of scenes tormenting the 2nd FL. More emphasis on plot revolving around the dyanamics of how the 2nd ML came into power. That's why i think it doesn't deserve this high of rating despite being a good drama.

I rated this a 2 based upon visuals and visuals solely. There is nothing special about the plot. But the worst thing is the pacing. I have never seen pacing this bad in a drama. Like genuinely it was plot twist after plot twist and then all of it was to achieve the same goal against one single enemy. The ML felt hollow at best and stupid at worst. The villians were underdeveloped and so was the FL. They tried to do episodes worth of charcter development in the first episode. The romantic scenes were placed at the worst time , they seemed so off place. Honestly, both chen duling and zhu yiran are great actors based upon their previous work. But what makes a drama a good drama is the direction and production and screenwriting. All of it was bad in this drama.

Ep 29 and 30 were complete nosedive from a meaningful plot. They are written based upon the so called misunderstanding trope and the trope making something not that big of a deal into obstructing the plot. Here they could have emphasised and lengthened the arc where they win the justice and they could have explored her mental illness into more detail right here[ i.e her martial arts alter ego] but they chose to suddenly make the FL bad at communication after praising her for being eloquent the entire series. Also Ml here is also written so out of character, like she literally cleared his family name, why wouldn't he trust her more than a criminal. This is so stupid and clearly ruins what was a good drama. The emphasis on the main plot point of achieving justice seemed so less and empty. It could have been better with more dramatic editing and a better score.