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I won’t even bother to make a proper summary since I only watched up to Ep 3. So far all i can say to summarize the 3 episodes is that Xiao Wuyi the ML is the heir of the Duke and also a general commanding his own troops. He almost lost a battle due to bad weaponry, faked his own death to trap another prince who is responsible for the weapons forgery, whom ML suspects plotting a rebellion. The FL is the only daughter of a minister and mechanical craftman genius who is in love with another prince who turned out to be ML’s friend. ML returned to the capital and asked FL’s hand in marriage from the empress dowager who i assumed acting as regent cuz the emperor is constantly sick. Btw he only did this after he came to know that the rebel prince was eyeing to marry FL. While the ML is planning to trap the rebel prince, FL is busy planning her own escape from the marriage.
First off, i only watched this for Aimee cuz I liked her performance in My Journey to You and Whispers of Fate. I have only seen Huo Minghao in I am Nobody, he was okay there but I was not really looking at him seriously. Basically I have a neutral impression of him, neither a hater nor a fan.
Anyway, the plot kinda threw me off right from the start. In any other shows, a general returning home pretending to be dead is akin to deceiving the emperor, so I failed to see how the heck ML just got away scott free without the empress dowager even questioning his reasons. He didnt look like a prominent figure with own faction in court other than being a general, so for him to get away with almost every nonsensical things he did was beyond me. The writer tried too hard to depict ML as ruthless and unhinged, and those dramatic entrances the ML did were waaaayyy too over the top complete with slow-mos and dramatic background music, every single time. The show incessantly try to shove this powerful image of the ML on the audience but instead of getting wowed, i got cringed.
I don’t know what’s wrong with the makeup department. Why does the makeup on Aimee looked foine as heck but horrible on Huo Minghao? Not only does the skintones are all over the place, it also looked cakey on ML. And was his original skintone too tanned that they had to put on pale foundation on him? I thought he’s a seasoned general, tanned skin is exactly what generals should look like, so why is he so pale here? There were many closeup shots of the ML so it is hard for me not to notice the bad makeup. He looked fine in I Am Nobody so I know he is good looking, so why does he look so weird and unappealing here?
Only episode 3 and the ML is already saving the emperor and stopped a rebellion, that was way too fast, man. Everything looks so hectic and rushed. The amount of ML’s dramatic entrances just put me off big time cuz they were too frequent and looked too exaggerated I just can’t stand to watch them for the next 25 episodes. Sorry Aimee, I can’t even stay for you or the plot.
First off, i only watched this for Aimee cuz I liked her performance in My Journey to You and Whispers of Fate. I have only seen Huo Minghao in I am Nobody, he was okay there but I was not really looking at him seriously. Basically I have a neutral impression of him, neither a hater nor a fan.
Anyway, the plot kinda threw me off right from the start. In any other shows, a general returning home pretending to be dead is akin to deceiving the emperor, so I failed to see how the heck ML just got away scott free without the empress dowager even questioning his reasons. He didnt look like a prominent figure with own faction in court other than being a general, so for him to get away with almost every nonsensical things he did was beyond me. The writer tried too hard to depict ML as ruthless and unhinged, and those dramatic entrances the ML did were waaaayyy too over the top complete with slow-mos and dramatic background music, every single time. The show incessantly try to shove this powerful image of the ML on the audience but instead of getting wowed, i got cringed.
I don’t know what’s wrong with the makeup department. Why does the makeup on Aimee looked foine as heck but horrible on Huo Minghao? Not only does the skintones are all over the place, it also looked cakey on ML. And was his original skintone too tanned that they had to put on pale foundation on him? I thought he’s a seasoned general, tanned skin is exactly what generals should look like, so why is he so pale here? There were many closeup shots of the ML so it is hard for me not to notice the bad makeup. He looked fine in I Am Nobody so I know he is good looking, so why does he look so weird and unappealing here?
Only episode 3 and the ML is already saving the emperor and stopped a rebellion, that was way too fast, man. Everything looks so hectic and rushed. The amount of ML’s dramatic entrances just put me off big time cuz they were too frequent and looked too exaggerated I just can’t stand to watch them for the next 25 episodes. Sorry Aimee, I can’t even stay for you or the plot.
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