Wang He Di and Chen Yu Qi the best couple in this drama !

I started watching this drama because of the lead actor Dylan Wang, whose films I've been watching recently. And it turned out that this drama is one of the best I've watched in recent times, despite the many cuts they had to make due to censorship!
Nice plot, although the beginning and the first episodes in the palace are too long ... it's good that then they moved the main characters outside the city and they could continue the development of the relationship.
The main couple is incredibly cute! They both had very good chemistry, it was felt as their love developed. Dylan Wang as Xiao Duo, at the beginning as stiff, unavailable, but with humorous moments, gradually under the influence of Bu Yin Lou, he turns into a sweet, in love man who wants to protect his beloved with all his might. He can joke, flirt and those beautiful scenes when he stares at his beloved BYL with his beautiful unusual eyes, something fantastic, I love this couple! I really regret that the censorship cut out so many nice, romantic scenes with them! And there was so much positive emotional charge in these scenes!
Chen Yu Qi also played very well, she was intelligent, clever and cheerful. Her relationship with the lead lead was fantastic. They supported each other. I didn't know this actress before, but I really liked her. I hope they will play together in another drama someday.
The secondary characters also did very well. Fans that the plot also had a lot of funny elements, it did the whole drama well.
I lost the most nerves because of the character of Murong Gao Gong, the one who was initially undervalued, unsuccessful and fixated on memories of a girl who once helped him in his childhood, a prince, and then a cynical, psychopathic emperor fixated on an imaginary unrequited feeling for his childhood savior WAS. Ruthless if anyone opposed him. Peter Ho played it so well I wanted to strangle him. It's a pity that he took revenge on the main characters until the very end.
I didn't like that the solution was rushed and in the last episode. Fortunately, it worked out well for the main leads. But there are no scenes between the two main leads after they split up and the final scene ends with the main leads running out of town, but it's unclear if they ran out or not because the episode ends here. I know there was a scene of the main leads out of town on a hill in a beautiful romantic setting, and I don't know why they cut it. This scene would have ended the whole thing beautifully. So I am sorry about that. I recommend it for shaving.

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and it could have been a good mini-drama, if not for the beginning...

I watched this drama even though the reviews I read were not encouraging, but were actually discouraging. But I like this actor Deng Kai, so I wanted to form my own opinion.
A drama based on classic themes of love and hate. Two warring countries and their young princes who fall in love beyond the divisions, but unfortunately the situation forces actions that lead to aggression, hatred and pain. Briefly. The initial episodes are full of ML violence towards FL. Even though he loved her, in order to protect her from the hatred of the general of the court and his family, he decided to pretend that FL was foreign to him and an enemy. The only thing is that if the director wanted to convey these emotions, he did not have to use such sophisticated and drastic means as the scene where ML forces his wife FL to watch a scene of lovemaking with another concubine - although in the end it did not happen because he found a bag in the bed with eggs and he thought it was poison, but if he hadn't found it, what would the director have done and FL would have watched them copulate? No, there is no consent to such psychological violence. I don't know why the screenwriter and director came up with such a plot. Mental abuse in the form of showing a pile of bodies with people from FL's country and her brother, although they later explained what it was about, but this scene is cruel mental torture for FL. The opening scenes of Fl and ML's wedding where the general, his hate-sick sister and ML's concubine shoot with a bow at the group of wedding guests and FL is terrifying, but the worst of it all is the hateful expression on ML's face. I don't know why, whether it's a suggestion from the director and the script, or whether the actor came up with this attitude and facial expression, but at the beginning, in the scenes where Fl is already married to him, ML has a look full of hatred towards FL all the time, even when others can't see and they are alone, the expression on his face still didn't change and it wasn't obvious that he really loved her and was suffering because of what he had to do to her. And this was not visible, on the contrary, I had the impression that he took great pleasure in causing her pain... although at the very beginning of the drama, when they met outside the imperial court, he looked at them completely differently, with gentleness and a budding feeling of love. Then, when he found FL after her escape from the palace, the feelings of love for her appeared on his face again, although they were still tinged with emotions of jealousy towards SML, when he tried to find out if FL was his wife who had run away and he didn't know if she really was FL. is the wife of General SML and is she pregnant with him or not.
Finally, after returning to the palace, he changed dramatically and it was clear that he could actually be emotional, understanding, and had no need for revenge (he allowed the release of General SML), unless it concerned the protection of the FL against the family of the evil imperial general.

Now the threads with General SML who helped our heroine FL and did her face change, as we would say now, with plastic surgery, and this is a fantasy thread for me, because looking at those times and skills, it turns us watching into useful idiots, so that be able to accept such skills... the operation, of course, went fantastically well and to such an extent that FL now resembled the general's deceased wife - he was an amazing plastic surgeon, even now they can't make a perfect transplant.
In addition, the ability to heal, especially to deceive the imperial doctor, when he gave FL some medicine to pretend to be pregnant in order to deceive ML... well, bravo, another medical genius... but ok, I assumed that some screenwriters have such a thing that they can't control their lush imagination.
FL herself was so clever in this second part that she was ahead of all the ideas of Prince ML checking her identity and she already knew in advance what moves she would make, so she was prepared for it... it's a bit funny and generally impossible even if she knew him before, but ok I digested the fact that she revealed tactical genius. Generally, from the very beginning, FL lived in violence, first in her childhood, because she had a cruel father who abused her and her mother, so this girl had already experienced trauma in her childhood, and then in her marriage to ML, she experienced further pain and fear, so in fact , then any weak person would have broken down a long time ago, but for me the character of FL had to be mentally strong despite everything to survive it and not hate all those who hurt her. Ultimately, it looks like she forgave her husband ML and the ending shows that she gave him a chance.
In general, to sum up, this drama could have had better reviews if the director had not gone into such far-reaching violence of ML's character towards FL in the initial episodes of the drama, because it could have been shown completely without these drastic violence threads and with threads when FL and ML are together and his eyes , facial expressions and gestures say that he is only pretending to others to protect her, but this was not done, so I am not surprised that most of the reviewers complained that after such traumatic experiences, how can you love your practically tormentor. It may be that the director wanted to show that love conquers all and for these reasons he made these scenes that turned violent...
The themes that still made a negative impression were, first of all, the editing of the film... the episodes were heavily cut up and the episode ends with an open scene and then in the next episode there is a jump and the actors are in a completely different place, there is no connection and coherence.
There is no well-translated English version, so honestly, I don't know if I understood everything correctly because of the translation.
The costumes and wigs were well prepared, the fighting scenes could have been better prepared, the acting of the actors was good, the OST was also ok.

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One of the best historical drama. Perfect combination of script, director, and actors.

I watched this drama because of the main actor Leo Wu, whom I saw in another drama and I was very moved by his performance. I wanted to see how she does in other dramas and I was not disappointed!

This drama is actually complete in every way:
the cinematography - which was very good - the camera manipulation - the slow, steady movement of the camera and showing the emotions of the main characters was amazing!
Indeed, the director went to great lengths to recreate the atmosphere of the era, taking care of the details, from the costumes, the girls' hairstyles, to the scenography - great!
Casting - very good. Virtually everyone did their job. However, I personally do not like the actress Zhaoo Lu Si, whom so many adore. I watched several series with her and she plays very similarly everywhere, she is too childish for me, although funny and intelligent, but for me she lacks femininity, that something that at the end of the development of each character she plays, what should mature in her is a woman about mature emotions... I don't see it in this actress's game, she's like a spoiled kid... and romantic scenes with her participation are directed with a great distance to the partner... those kisses that should be engaged as the main characters' feelings develop, are the kisses of a 5-year-old child...it spoils these romantic moments. I've never seen this actress have more involved kissing scenes with the main characters ... I don't know if it's the fault of the script, the director or the actress herself, who has some restrictions in the contract about these scenes ...

I liked all the characters of the CSS family, even the annoying grandmother who was obnoxious at first, but in the end it turned out that she is not so bad and cares a lot about all her family members. I must also admit that the character of the emperor, who was very involved in the affairs of LBY and was a very positive character in the whole story, was presented very nicely. Also interesting characters of Empress Xuan and Consort Yue - for the first time I saw in the drama that both wives do not compete with each other, they do not fight, on the contrary, they support each other like sisters, which was great to see. They also did not compete when it came to children, and even the empress was objectively able to admit that her son with his character was not suitable for the future emperor. That's an impressive stance. I liked these two emperor's wives very much.
The opposite were the daughters of the emperor, generally these intrigues of the fair sex were unbearable. These young princesses were always competitive and intrigued - they had nothing better to do. Fortunately, the parents of the emperor and empress and consort did not accept these girls' behavior and rebuked them.

In general, in the Part2, I think that the revenge factor was thrown in again at the end, especially since the main characters were separated for 5 years and it wasn't really shown how they get back together... how CSS finally decides to forgive LBY - here's the scene in the last episode when she thought that he died and she would never see him again and in fact it was the only moment when she realized that she loved him .... and that's it ... you could safely throw away these unnecessary threads of revenge in the end, and focus on the close-up of the main characters of CSS and LBY... At the end of the last episode, they focused on a long scene of the CSS family, and you could not waste this time and show a shot of CSS and LBY's wedding, which scene was missing so much and I was waiting for this finale with wedding for so many episodes, and here the director came up with a pasta-like I'm dying with my family and only verbal information spoken by the emperor that there will be a wedding without his participation .... pointless, that's why I lower the plot to 8.5! I hope they can do an extra twist with that wedding scene!!!

In general, the best character for me was LBY - brilliantly played by Leo Wu - a complex character of an intelligent general whose traumatic childhood experiences made him cold, secretive, distrustful, eager for revenge, but with his heart in the right place, especially in relation to CSS., for whom he changes dramatically by showing love, tenderness, passion, infinite patience and indulgence of her, forgives her every time for her mischief. LBY wanted revenge for killing his family and didn't assume he would fall in love in the meantime and that it would be that young 15 year old CSS girl. However, he fell in love, and from now on he had difficulty balancing love and the pursuit of revenge. In the end, he chooses to take revenge on his "alleged father" or rather uncle and does a terrible carnage - this scene was hard to watch and he sacrifices his love of CSS. He knew that CSS was most afraid of being abandoned by his loved ones and "betrayal", he knew that he would be forgiven, but he chose revenge ... only in exile he realized that it was the wrong choice - he alluded to in the last episode in an interview with CSS. For me, the role was brilliantly played and these hot emotions in the LBY and CSS scenes, including in the first part when she pulled the arrowhead out of LBY's body and their first closeness, when LBY zooms in on his face staring at CSS - great.

CSS as the main character in Part 1 was empathetic and likeable. Shaoshang of Part 2 is immature and frustrating to the point of being dislikeable, but it was supposed to be like that, I suppose. However, I couldn't stand her stubbornness, which stayed until the very end of the series, even though it had been 5 years since the breakup with LBY and she was almost 21 years old, she still had this anger towards LBY and his "betrayal" and digested it constantly without sense not being able to forgive.... the scene when after the death of the empress Xuan they made the empress' favorite juice and talked about the future, when the CSS stated that she was going her own way without him, it was heartbreaking... how can you continue to be so stubborn and anger..she didn't give him a chance, even though he asked her for forgiveness...horrible! He had to almost lose his life again for her to get the hang of it and understand that she couldn't live without him... so here I missed the development of this character... after so many years she should mature and not be guided by anger, stubbornness...

What I really liked about this drama was the very nicely intertwined humorous and comic threads... and especially one scene when LBY, in love, decided to become friends with the CSS family and one day he did exercises for them in the yard - I just cried laughing at the the sight of the CSS siblings and the servants exercising with weights... their faces and eyesight... it was not proper to refuse them, so they gave in to these exercises, which turned out to be very demanding - great scene!
The side characters are well developed, bringing both comic relief.
Rewatching value - 10 ! I already rewatched the first and second season. I recommend it - you have to watch it.

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This could have been a great drama, but the author has written a script that has major lead dramas!

I have just watched the last episode of the drama and I can't get over it... the ending was tragic for the main leads... the author of the script had no mercy for them... and this is the main complaint and my low assessment of the plot, which was already saturated from the middle only drama, shocks, misunderstandings between the leads... there was blood spilling, everywhere around were people hungry for power, full of intrigues... it was definitely too much...
The beginning promised that it would be a nice romance, but from episode to episode the plot became darker and harder to bear. I don't know, maybe there are fans of such an accumulation of aggression, hatred, jealousy, deceit... but I am not one of them... I would like there to be some balance and for bad deeds to be justice and compensation... but unfortunately this did not happen in the majority cases of this movie...
What I liked.
FL and ML, i.e. Wang So and Hae Soo, played their roles very well for me, to the extent that the character of Hae SO at one point became obsessed with dreams (by the way, I don't know why she had such dreams from the past, if she hadn't experienced it before this life in those times, she just moved there, so how could she know certain situations? I don't know and it wasn't explained) in fact, she contributed to many bad situations... and she was completely unaware of it... she interfered and wanted to save and reconcile all the brothers, which of course was not possible considering that several of them dreamed of becoming emperor, so they pursued it by all means. Hae Soo allowed herself to be unnecessarily drawn into these intrigues. Her attitude pissed me off when she already knew that Wook had betrayed the emperor, she still had a million excuses... she didn't see and didn't want to see the truth... And besides, she fell in love with him when he still had a wife, by the way, she was her younger sister... great arrangement... These obsessive dreams were the reason for her hostile attitude towards Wang So for a long, long time, and it was only towards the end that one could notice that she was starting to feel something more towards him than just gratitude that ML had saved her many times... I regret that the author of the script did not develop the topic of true love between FL and ML so poorly... there were very few truly committed scenes when they really realized their love for each other, because the plot deviated in the meantime to side plots and supporting roles, which took a lot of time... In the last episodes, I was fed up with this heroine FL and her selfish behavior towards ML... Wang So did everything for her when he became emperor, he wanted her not to feel bad in this palace, despite the fact that everyone around they did everything to divide them and in the end it happened, to such an extent that the author of the script didn't even let them say goodbye in the last moment of Soo's life... a completely hopeless moment... ultimately left them both disappointed and lonely... they fought against adversities and in the end they were not given a chance to explain and forgive each other directly face to face... why, the author of the text, did you have to end things so hopelessly between them? I have huge grudges and that's why my rating for re-watching this drama is so low... I can't see it and experience it again!
The supporting characters did well - some were funny, others were power-hungry, others were irritating... unfortunately, the antagonists practically did not suffer any specific punishment... especially the witch Princess Hwang Bo - a terrible character... she was hungry for power and splendor from the very beginning. , full of envy, jealousy and striving hard to achieve her goal... and in fact she didn't suffer any punishment, on the contrary she got what she wanted... basically everything... so my question is, what's the point of being good and honest if you the good ones ultimately lose their lives, such as 10 Prince Eun and his wife... (victims of power-hungry brothers)... makes no sense...
I won't describe the rest because it would take several pages.
Overall, this drama could be really good, but the author of the script went too far, as they say in our country, "he went astray"... well, as I see, this is the problem of many script writers and few scripts are well written in terms of the beginning, development of characters and plots, and in balanced between good and evil... many questions remain because the plot often wandered and did not provide answers...
Why did So finally give hope that he would find her one day? And no sequel has been made, even though 7 years have passed since the premiere... no sequel... why give viewers hope? another poorly thought-out finale... well, to sum up, I regret that with a few wrong moves you can turn something good into something that arouses frustration and regret of wasted potential... and even the best acting of the actors will not help here....
OST
when it comes to music, I was particularly touched by 2 songs: beautifully sung with a beautiful heart-catching melody (Will Be Back) and beautiful (MY LOVE)...
I also liked Lee Hi's song 'Can You Hear My Heart'

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nice light drama

The drama is set in the early years of the 20th century, so an interesting time of diversification of customs and fashion. The plot tells about the world of fashion designers of that time. The main character ML designs beautiful clothes and is a young creative designer. Another fashion house with traditional designs competes with him, so the owner tries by all means to win against the young main ML. The main character of FL Mi Jiu Er / Superflash turns out to be very similar to the manager of the male leader's clothing workshop and by coincidence switches places with her. ML is kind, good-natured, brave, but doesn't show much brains. Generally, I can neither write nor read, nor can I cook or embroider. She only knows a bit of martial arts, which are of no use to her new job as a fashion house manager. She is also not very eager to learn anything, she is very resistant to knowledge. So I was wondering why both male characters ML and Pay Zhuo fell in love with her and later competed with each other to the point where she almost married Pay Zhuo if ML hadn't kidnapped her at the last minute. Then FM caught up a bit with ML and was more in the know when it came to running a fashion house. However, I was absolutely annoyed by the fact that FM completely failed to realize that ML knew about her, that she was not Lu Yiling. How could you not realize that the tattoo was to mask her birthmark on her arm to protect FL from revealing her true identity. How could you not notice the many other facts that were plain to see that ML knew who she was. So either she was really stupid or she was so fixated on ML just using her to get the book that she was blind to all the facts around her. In general, FM only realized in episode 20 that ML loves her and not Lu Yiling... I missed more chemistry between them for so many episodes and in the last episode where they had a wedding night after the wedding and again they showed it in a not very romantic style.
I also liked the second pair of D - Su Yi and Lvshai. They had nice realities, the script neglected them a bit.
I was very impressed with the clothes - especially since it's a drama that focuses on the clothing industry) they were really beautiful.
To sum up, I recommend the whole thing, because unlike other dramas, the plot is not so annoyingly dramatic and you can watch it without stress that there will be dramatic twists and turns. The drama ends well, so that's fine for me, too.

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Despite some negative comments...just watch it...

I just finished watching all the episodes, although I had serious doubts whether to start at all, and all because of these negative opinions. And I have to say I'm surprised that this drama got me hooked!
Despite the fact that there were a lot of gaps in the plot, some threads were not fully understood or unnecessary, some scenes were funny instead of serious, e.g. the general meeting of the supervisory board, where instead of serious conversations there was a verbal battle and even fist fights ... it looked good to me All right.
I especially liked the main lead couple, which went from disagreement and hostility to learning to love and had some really nice scenes together, very well captured by the cameraman, especially those scenes with the main leads. I also understood that YXC's main inheritance lead had been traumatized and had to fight for survival, therefore the feelings of love were unknown to him. He was driven by a desire for revenge and did not allow the thought of giving love to another person. It is hardly surprising that when he realized that Shen Man Ning was starting to be important in his life, he defended himself against this feeling. He wants to get the job done, but he also doesn't want the girl to get hurt. Twice he rejects her in a terrible way and here is a big credit to SMN's determination to fight for their love. From an intelligent, talented, quiet, weak, calm girl, she became a strong, fighting for her love girl so determined that she managed to finally catch up with her boyfriend in this love, who finally opened up to love, trusted her and was able to express what he feels for her and together they could overcome obstacles. It was beautiful when, after an attempt to drown, he experienced a kind of catharsis - purification and finally chose to trust his beloved, who surrounded him with her love like a shield, which gave YXC confidence and peace and allowed him to bounce back from the bottom in which he found himself having lost everything (so he thought).
A good ending and a message that true, sincere love can do everything, even if there are falls, and even if they lose material things, they have each other and can support each other and lift each other up.
Cool camera shots, scenery, costumes, it was ok. So don't be guided by your opinion, just see for yourself if it's worth it.
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Nice romantic drama

Nice romantic drama with an uncomplicated plot with nice acting of the main leads and a happy ending. What more to add.
I love the acting creations of Zheng Ye Cheng, who has a great presence, but also skillfully shows emotions.
He's cute in the romantic scenes. Lead actress Yuan Bing Yan also did very well, and the two of ZYC had great chemistry.
What can I say, crystal yuan and zheng ye cheng have good chemistry and they both portray each other's characters very well... congrats to them.....The other actors did well too....

Its enjoyable drama for me... bring all the emotion .. sad.. happy...funny... romantic
All in all, a very entertaining piece. Looking forward to the actors future dramas!

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good and funny beginning, then overloaded plots

I'm watching this movie in 2024, 13 years after the premiere, and I was interested in it because of the 2 main actors, Yang Mi and Feng Shao Feng, whom I saw in several newer dramas and I liked them very much.

A historical drama with a frequently used plot of time travel. The girl travels back to the Qing dynasty and becomes involved in the intrigues of the princes and the palace. From the experience of watching this type of films, I already know that they usually don't end well, so I try to avoid them, but I wanted to see these actors Yang and Saho Feng as they acted when they were younger. I can't stand these palace intrigues, especially when blood is constantly spilling and there are corpses, misfortune and fanatical princes rising to power everywhere.
The film had its ups and downs. The beginning was very good and funny, but then everything turned towards drama, which cost me a lot of nerves and anger towards the character of the 4th prince, whose calculation and using everyone around him for his own purposes irritated me so much that I fast-forwarded the scenes with him because I didn't I could stand this character. The bright ray of this drama were the 2 characters of FL Qing Chuan and the 8th Prince Yinsi, who delighted my heart with his beautiful and sincere smile at FL. The chemistry between the two main characters is undeniable, they are made for each other in this drama. All the romantic scenes are beautiful. The rest of the characters, apart from the 14th prince, are negative and pathetic to me. There were a lot of unresolved holes in the plot, which was also irritating, especially the introduction of the second FL in the middle of the drama, which was identical to Qing Chuan and now I completely don't understand why they had to introduce it before the wedding and in such a way that the prince consummated the marriage. not with the real FL - a completely unnecessary thread and bringing nothing but chaos... and who was this twin, did she move from the same time, because where would she come from? Another pointless thread, as the mother of the 8th prince tried every day at night to calculate the place and time of a possible transfer with a compass, but then all she had to do was ask the court astrologer and he was given the approximate time of the solstice and the phenomena of constellations in the sky and it became an unnecessary scandal... then finally, not after the return of the 8th prince's mother, we don't know what happened to her, whether she returned to her own times or not... she was supposed to take care of FL's mother after her return, but then she was gone.
Characters:
FL Qing Chuan, a young girl who accidentally found herself in those times and tried to find herself. There she found her favorite prank from the books of the 4th prince with whom she immediately fell in love, although he did not notice her at the beginning, and Su Yan even wanted to murder her several times because she was preventing him from achieving his goal and so FL continued with her in love until practically the 22nd episode and was often irritating in rejecting the true feeling of the 8th prince, who, although at the beginning treated FL in advance, fell in love with her and played pranks on her, but it was just to get attention. Then FL was actually the cause of the tragedy of the 8th prince, because she persuaded him to ascend to the throne with his brother, and as a result, the 8th prince was finally destroyed by the 4th brother.
8 Prince Yunsi – very nice, with a beautiful smile, sensitive and understanding towards his brothers, who would be the perfect emperor for me, if only they gave him a chance. He could give up his position for his beloved FL, if only she wanted to be with him. He protected and defended FL, he forgave her when she hurt him, he was angry when she rejected him so many times and gave him no hope. underestimated by the Emperor.. I really loved this character and I'm glad that in the finale, at the last moment, the director and the author of the script gave him a chance for a better life together with FL in modern times, it was a very good move and I would like to thank the director for such a finale.
4 prince - for me a figure of evil with elements of a psychopath's character - this was his behavior. He plotted, schemed, intrigued, conspired and did not hesitate to use other people's hands to kill, according to the principles of "the end justifies the means" - this is what we call people in my country who strive to kill dead people and have no remorse. Here I see that it is explained by destiny, which is naturally excessively abused by both the 4th Prince and the Consort De. Halfway through the drama, he suddenly fell in love with FL, probably after the situation when she defended him from the dagger with her own body, because I haven't seen any change in his feelings towards her before. But for me it was still calculation, not love and a matter of having what he wanted, so for me he didn't know how to love. He just wanted to have it like the imperial throne and that's all. And finally, it was obvious that the guy had a problem with relationships and he used all women for his purposes. At the end, he promised FL that he would not hurt his brother, the 8th prince, and he did not keep his word, because out of jealousy and anger, he erased his name from the family genealogy books and threw him in prison for the rest of his life. What a very forgiving and "brotherly" emperor - terrible... For me, people who, striving for power, destroyed others and took advantage of others have the features of a tyrant and dictator, not a good ruler, so I was surprised when the old emperor chose this son as his successor.
Concort De - the mother of the 4th and 14th prince... she looked so decent and good, but in the end she turned out to be an infanticide and an intriguer.
Emperor Kangxi - he disappointed me greatly. I thought he was a really wise ruler, but this man was actually behind all the events that the 4th prince carried out and, as you can see, he allowed the brothers to quarrel and the 4th prince to destroy others. It was shocking to me. Finally, he criticized the work and involvement of the 8th prince, but praised the 14th, for some reason, for sitting on the border with the army. If he had given this army to the 8th prince, he would probably have done well too because he had very good skills. The emperor's decision to announce the 4th prince to his successors was incomprehensible to me, because the 4th prince, despite expressing the opinion that he wanted to take care of the country and the people, due to his character traits and these actions, he denied being a good ruler. Although I come from Europe and Christian values are in my blood, so I probably don't understand the Eastern idea of the prototype of a good ruler. Generally speaking, for me the tradition of having many wives and cocubines is strange, especially since it is obvious that these wives and cocubines and their children will compete with each other for power, so why bring it on yourself and the state by establishing such a harem. Unless it is supposed to serve the purpose of natural segregation and elimination of opponents, and the throne is won by the smartest and cruelest one who defeats everyone else in the family... I can't understand it.
Su Yan - I was completely disappointed with this character, I thought she would develop in a good direction, but she decided differently about her life and went in the wrong direction - blind love led her astray... it's a pity..
Summary
Plot - a good idea, but it had many holes and too many threads were introduced and too many bad things happened - overloaded; beautiful costumes, very good acting, OST music so-so, I rate it as average, unfortunately, the sounds of timpani/drums during the killing scenes were the weakest.
The ending satisfied me, because I think that FL and the 8th prince deserved to live peacefully together - they had no chance for it in the Qing dynasty, so the only chance was to live together in the present day. That's why I'm grateful that the director found such a solution.
However, I won't watch any more, because there were too many bad moments for the main leads, so I don't want to get upset again.

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good story but with a disappointing ending...

I started watching this drama without reading the reviews about the ending. If I had known it was going to end up disappointingly like this, I probably would have stopped somewhere in the good times for major leads in the middle of...

In general, what I liked was a nice idea for the plot, I especially liked the idea of the main lead Empyrean Xuan Shang, who played a total of 4 different characters in this drama.
Chen Xing Xu played it very well and I have to say that I really liked each of these character shards...especially I am impressed by the actor's warm-toned low bass voice, which also gave emotions to the characters played by him :)
Second lead character Chao Feng [ Third Prince] had a nice beginning and middle, but then the authors of the script probably ran out of ideas to develop it to the end, it's a pity, because this character and the actor's abilities could have been used more. As for the two twin flower sisters, both actresses played their roles well. I really liked both couples, they were very cute and sweet and I liked a lot of fun elements in between. Supporting characters like the Empyrean siblings, or Prince Di Lan Jue or Man Man also added a lot to the drama. The negative characters are really villains full of revenge, hatred and obsession to rule the world...there were moments when I got too much of this cold-blooded killing and scheming.
It's nice that the director gave a lot of nice light, comedic moments, it softened these drastic scenes a bit...

OST - when it comes to the music, I must say that it is very good and complements the drama scenes beautifully. For me, one of my favorites is Flawles World performed by Mao Bu Yi, where the instrumental version of the flute and guitar sank into my heart, and Sa Ding Ding with a beautiful flute motif and a female voice in the style of traditional Chinese opera, which was also an interesting solution. Funny and cute is the theme of the song Double flowers :)

The ending - the most disappointing moment of the drama ... for me it was not an open ending, but in my opinion both sisters ended sadly, that's how I perceive it, they were reborn, but only to the original form of a flower of a tree vein, which means for me, the form that they had in the beginning before the destruction of the tree in which both abided as twin flowers. Which means they won't be reborn as human beings, so that made me extremely upset and that's why I didn't give 10 points in the total score and also deducted points for the plot due to this ending. I think it's a big mistake of the writers of the script that they left the ending that way. After all the sacrifices, both couples should have a happy It would be good if the director thought about recording an additional episode with the rebirth of the sisters to human characters :)

Overall, I would say that this drama is worth watching, despite the unfortunate ending... :)

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A light and pleasant film with a good ending

I came across this movie by accident and was wondering if I should watch it. I decided to watch it because of the small number of episodes and short episodes of 30 minutes and the fact that the last historical dramas I watched got me quite depressed with their dramas, so I wanted to watch something to relax. And I don't regret it. It looks nice.

The main leads are young, creative in business. They try to realize their dreams and passions. Although the main ML has a childhood trauma, he finally manages to overcome these demons of the past and bond with the main FL lead.
There is also a caring sister of the main ML who supports him in his struggles with depression. However, I missed more feeling between the main leads, especially FL, which was emotionally distant almost to the end. I didn't feel any deep affection between them. Though the main ML was more expressive about it and had a very nice warm expression in general once he realized he was in love with FL.
I liked the cookies that the main ML created and the way they were made and how he described them...each cookie had its own story and that was cool. So I recommend this movie for relaxation and a break from those dramas with a heavy, depressing plot.

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A good start with a bad ending idea, the screenwriter had no idea for a good ending

I got interested in this drama while looking for a contemporary drama with historical or fantasy threads and found this movie. Generally, I don't watch dramas with contemporary plots much, because I like these historical, costume dramas more, but I wanted a distraction, because I already had too many of these palace intrigues, jealous stepsisters or brothers or vengeful emperors and empresses ... but unfortunately, there are also threads here revenge in the clan dominated the relationships and pursuit of power of some characters. Apparently, the authors of the script follow the simplest scheme, because it does not cost much work on the script ....
The idea was good, although a bit of a fantasy genre. A clan of foxes from a distant planet comes to earth and evolves over the centuries and resembles a human while retaining its abilities and longevity. They watch over the purity of the blood so that there is no mixing with people, as this causes defects in the children being born. And just such a hybrid of a man and a fox is the main character of ML - Helan Jing Ting. The mother was a princess from the Clan of Letters, and the father was an ordinary man. The child is born with a defect and is blind from birth. The only thing that can restore his sight is to drink soup from the liver of someone who loves him. And here begins their whole history in the present with reference to the distant past. Where main ML's girlfriend is married and ML eventually falls in love with each other, but they don't know that main ML's father wanted to sacrifice FL from the beginning so that his son could regain his sight. As a result, FL loses his life, and ML finds out after the fact that his wife was sacrificed to save his sight. He breaks off contact with his own father and for 900 years tries to find a way so that FL, reincarnated in the following centuries, could finally live her whole life.

Anyway, the first episodes seemed interesting and I hoped that it would stay that way when it comes to the plot, pace, etc. Unfortunately, about halfway through, the plot starts to fall apart and holes are made, as if the scriptwriter suddenly lost his inspiration. And finally, the last 2 episodes are a failure in my opinion, I join the opinion of other reviewers that the 24th episode was not needed at all, in the meantime, the threads with ex-boyfriend and friend Guan Pi Pi only took time for the main leads. And the last episode completely lost its energy and had many understatements and gaps.
As for the main leads of Guan Pi Pi and Helan Jing Ting, I don't know them from other dramas. It was my first time watching them, so it will be pure opinion only from the role they played in this movie. Both played very statically, they had little chemistry... at the beginning FL was just getting to know ML and that's understandable, but as she developed a feeling for him, emotions and facial expressions did not change unfortunately. ML also played the same body language and facial expressions all the time, looked at FM like "body" with these eyes and generally the only scene that brought emotions was the one where they first consummated their relationship. I don't know if they played better in other dramas, but here it was as if they were novice actors. You could really build a nice relationship and show it on the screen, but unfortunately either that was the script or the actors had such limited skills, which is a shame. I was disappointed by the ending, when they had a chance to live their lives together, then again the author of the script invented a tragedy for them and separated them senselessly. I had questions why when ML turned into a fox, FL couldn't go along with Xiu Xian and Zhao Kuan Yong to take care of him during his transition to human form. Why had she stayed at home and waited there for six months? I don't understand why in the last scene, seeing him again from the window of the train at the railway station, she didn't run to him, she just went over to the agenda, as if she hadn't been looking for him and waiting for him?! This scene makes absolutely no sense. If she loved him so much and was waiting for his return, she didn't react with joy when she saw him, didn't she run to him? She went to the bar on the train to get something to drink... and that last scene when he comes over and he doesn't remember her at all, however he knows his name and he knows the origin and meaning of his last name... at the end ML states that he will wait with her for her friend ....what does it mean??/ Did he recognize her and was just teasing her, or did he just catch his eye at first sight, not recognizing her? I didn't understand this scene at all. They should have had a good ending after all these experiences that they asked for.

Now the supporting characters. Very cool two characters friends of the main ML Zhao Kuan Yong and Xiu Xian who were funny and fell in love with the same girl Xin Xiao Ju [Pi Pi's best friend]. They had a nice relationship, but it was known that it would not be possible to end it positively, because the triangle was out of the question, and Xin Xiao couldn't decide which one to choose, so the script writer came up with a solution that finally both men returned to their original fox form after devoting his energy to saving ML. I really miss those three...
Another character is Tushan Qian Hua, arranged for marriage with ML 900 years earlier, who was unhappily in love with ML and followed him for centuries hoping that one day he would love her. Ultimately, however, she finally gave up and fell in love with Zhao Song [Left High Priest] the adoptive brother of the main ML who was the villain in this movie and ended up badly in the movie's finale through his choices. I felt sorry for Tushan because she sacrificed her life for Zhao Song as well. The other characters like FL's ex-fiancé and her friend Tian Xin had too many scenes at the expense of the main couple in my opinion, but that's my personal opinion about their characters. Generally, this was the closest group of major leads. The rest were side plots in the drama.
To sum up, I could give this drama a lot more points, but because of these holes and understatements and dragging out unnecessary plot threads and not very warm main scenes, once they realized their feelings for each other and the last scenes of the ending written "on the knee" by the scriptwriter, I gave lower marks unfortunately ...
You can have a small budget for a movie, but if you have a good writer and director, you can make a nice drama.

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A misleading title that has no justification in the drama

The title of the drama had nothing to do with the fight for love, looking at the main leads who, in my opinion, sorry, had no chemistry or development in their love...
The promising first episode made me start watching this drama, but as the episodes passed I had the impression that FL's pretense of being a man and excessively changing himself into masculine poses did not bode well for this character... she wanted to be forcefully masculine... she was supposedly looking for the culprits of her parents, but Cora was more immersed in, as usual, too exalted heroism to defend the country and people... Of course, she forgot herself to such an extent that she forgot about her femininity... the FL and ML romance began to smolder and there was some it was funny, but it quickly faded away and there was actually no chemistry between them and that discouraged me because already in episode 24 I saw that it was only going to FL's friendly treatment of ML, not their love and... this FL character started to piss me off and irritate me, because I can't stand long episodes where a woman (a woman) strives to be a strong man and a hero of the nation, these themes are already tired of me in these dramas, especially since it was obvious that bread won't be made from flour, as the proverb says... that's why I saw the last episode and the shitty ending, so I decided to quit this drama, because it's a waste of my time for such an irritating lack of character and plot development... I don't recommend it...

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nice drama to watch

This is my first modern Korean drama and I'm impressed because I didn't expect to like it...
The story is not new, but quite nicely written, although there were moments in the plot when I didn't know what it was about... in general, it's a pity that the drama is not available on YouTube with automatic translation into various languages, because I was struggling with the English one and maybe that's why some of the threads were unclear to me...
It's a kind of romance with funny, but also dramatic twists.... love turned into a deep feeling by accident, but it was interrupted by a 3-year separation... I didn't understand it at all... ok, Lee Gun's illness was mentioned, but he she was behaving strangely... because when he finally started to develop feelings for Kim Mi Young and first adored her, and then suddenly broke up in such a hopeless way that he contributed to a car accident and the loss of a child... then the action moves 3 years ago forward and they meet again... she is already a famous cartoonist, and he continues his work and is the president of a large company... when he finds out that she is back, he chases after her again and does everything to get her attention, and again he does something so senseless that he suddenly hurts her so painfully and disgusts her... I don't understand it at all... if he knew that he couldn't be with her due to her illness, why does he encourage her and incite mutual feelings... very strange... however, the ending is happy, which I'm glad about, because I don't like tragic endings, especially when the main leads go through so many difficulties and traumatic experiences.

I really liked the main actors, there was a nice chemistry between them - great.... one of the writers accused that the bangs didn't suit ML, but I personally liked it because it fit Lee Gun's character and behavior at the beginning of the episodes and this laughter was also ok at the beginning, but then when they got back together, he actually used this laughter too much, although it was explained at the end why - because of his father, who gave him a message to smile often in life even in difficult situations moments...
Nice role played by Jan Na Ra... she was able to show emotions nicely... I also loved Lee Gun's grandmother, who had a distance to all matters.
OST - it was quite nice, especially the song Good Bye My Love

I recommend

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Pleasant, light romance

I just finished watching all the episodes and I'm glad I reached for this drama. First of all, because of this pair of actors that I recently watched in a drama in which both actors Zeng Shun Xi and Liang Jie played. I've been watching especially for Joseph Zeng, whose acting I really like, I've really enjoyed most of his dramas so far. There's something inherent in him, a magnetic charisma that attracts viewers, and his gaze with those warm, beautiful eyes.
It's a light drama with a simple, romantic plot without any tragic events that did me good after all the previous dramatic plots in other dramas.
I enjoyed watching the romance develop between the two main leads as well as the supporting characters. Healthy relations between these two and between the parents of these two leads, where finally there was no sick ambition to marry a rich heir to a rich girl. ZXQ's main lead's parents were normal, his mother is his son's confidante and talked to him normally and accepted his choice of girlfriend without any problems. Which was a big change in this drama compared to the plots of other dramas. There are also no annoying ex-girlfriends or ex-boyfriends, no toxic relationships. There is, however, a pair of very engaging best friends who later become our beloved side couple. The best friends here, Yao Jiajia (Li Linfei) and Lin Kaiwen (Zhou Zihan), are intelligent and give our couple tips and sound advice, helping them see and find themselves. Which is a rare occurrence in drama plots.

It's a story with a very simple plot and no twists and turns. The dialogues are subtly funny, humorous. Drama is soothing and lighthearted, perfect for erasing stress and anxiety.
However, I blame the author of the script for treating the last scenes so lightly... they were not as engaging as the earlier ones and I had the impression that they were written hastily "on the knee". Especially the scene where the main leads have a conclusion in the scene of consummating their relationship and it was horribly shown! This scene should be especially well prepared. I don't know if the script was written by a young man who treats the first intercourse between two people in love as something ordinary, as if it was of little importance in their lives, and on top of that there is this stupid discussion about securing a condom (by the way, the placement of this product was in an earlier episode of shopping scene for LZX going on a business trip, which surprised me that the censors let it pass). It was not knowing why the most important thing for these two at that moment, not their beautiful relationship, tenderness, closeness. It could have been done so romantic and it begged that the next scene the next day also retained the emotion of waking up together and looking at each other with tenderness. And here they show Ye Shi Lan, who wakes up alone and Lu Zhao Xi is not by her side, because he ran to get some stupid thermos box that he brought to the room in the morning .... and he did not greet her with a kiss or a word after spending the night together... IT WAS LEG! Apparently, also the Chinese youth is currently treating this important event as the youth in the world, i.e. thoughtlessly and without emotions ... they just slept with each other ... I prefer this couple in a similar scene in the drama Time Flies and You are Here, where both understand the importance of this their "first time". So much for my disappointment with the last scene. That's why I didn't give a full 10 for the plot.
Despite this unfortunate written last scene, I highly recommend this drama, especially to lovers of romance and all viewers with tender hearts.

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Amazing cdrama

I have to admit that for me it's one of the best cdramas I've watched recently and I was very drawn into watching it... I couldn't tear myself away. Especially the main characters Chu Bei Jie and Bai Ping Ting. Great performance by Wallace Chung - number one for me among the whole cast. The great experience of this actor is immediately visible. The character of the general played by Wallec was genuine and I liked him immediately ... he was very masculine, handsome, honest, emotional and passionate ... the ideal man ... when necessary he goes and fights, as he loves it with all his heart ... actually in of this relationship of the main characters, it was CBJ that constantly initiated romantic scenes, because BPT was unfortunately very withdrawn, especially at the very beginning, then it got going, but also not enough to initiate romantic moments ... However, I think that you could feel the chemistry between the main characters ...especially I was very positively surprised by the scenes of passionate and bold kisses by CBJ and BPT and the scene in the cave when Ping Ting protects the wounded Bei Jie with his own body - great ... I haven't seen such scenes in other cdramas and I missed it, because the kiss scenes in dramas they are usually so weak, as if children give each other a kiss. So 10 points straight to the director for bravery. The plot is incoherent in places and some threads could be omitted, but it does not affect the whole of my rating. The performance of the other actors was also good, I think that everyone rose to the occasion, especially Sean Sun who played On Xia full of power, who sacrificed even his pregnant wife for his sick ambitions of power and sowed death and destruction around. The music is great, especially the main theme, which was performed by William Wei and Claire Kou in various parts of the film, especially in the scenes with the main characters, especially when they were separated and CBJ missed Ping Ting so much and seemed to sense that he was somewhere nearby and the scene when they met after 3 years at PT's grave and in this house - it broke my heart ... By the way, I didn't like that the main characters were separated for 3 years! I don't know what it was supposed to be for... it was terrible... I don't understand how a wife and mother can not give a chance to be a father, the father of her child... during their separation She had a child and focused on his upbringing, and He had neither her nor the child ... it's terrifying that for a stupid argument that she didn't deserve him or whatever she described, she delayed revealing herself and the child for 3 years ... it's good that she finally took pity and she came out of hiding... but I think this thread is unnecessary... I don't know if it was like that in the original book too, but since they didn't stick to the book version anyway, they could have handled it differently and given the main characters time for themselves, for their family before they start fighting for peace in the kingdom of Jin and the rest of the kingdoms. A positive ending for the bog=haters, because fortunately they did not die and were able to live on, although when CBJ finally became the emperor and Ping Ting the empress, it was not end of her dream, because she wanted to live with him peacefully away from of the imperial court... well, duty towards the country and subjects won, as it happens in these cdramas. But the most important thing is that the main characters are together! For my part, I recommend watching it.

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