🦜 in spoiler tag 🏴☠️YouTube with mostly muted music, but good image quality:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9TPg297zrY&list=PLBEgzjAsIRLQnGu0V4uvvvrOM91C8cHVU&index=1YouTube…
Compared to other similar mini dramas, production and script are (even) weaker. Nothing about the overall (political) plot convinced me in any way. However (as I think other users have pointed out below), things like a sequence of small kisses were executed much better than in the vast majority of other dramas.
ML's guard is in https://mydramalist.com/780358-zui-jia playing the exact same role of ... (that) ML's guard [same director] He has very little screentime in the other show. He's much more present here.
It's entertaining, but not sure I would call it objectively good. The villain wrap-up is not the best either. The OST starts out strong at the very start and later, like Shadow Love, just has one nice song that's re-used whenever possible. The chemistry is fine and the leads don't do anything that makes the viewer suffer. Didn't watch their other 2/3 dramas yet.
How *beneficial* is to watch DY and perhaps TBOY first? (I know it's not *necessary* to follow the plot.) I'm more asking how many references there are that a viewer would enjoy/notice.
Would TBOY spoil much of the plot or just the ending between ML1/ML2?
I read on mydramanovel. But personally, if u love the drama, no need to waste your time to read 523 chapters of…
In the novel, how does Dou Shi Ying (FL's father) relate to the treason plot?
In the show, he is listed in the uncle's list of evildoers that he sends to his sister (letter from Jiang Mei Sun to Jiang Hui Sun). Then the leads talk to Dou Shi Ying and it turns out that he is on the jewelry shop investor list. However, the jewelry shop scheme is a new thing, as it's ran by Wei Ting Zhen and relates to the money from the horse market. When Jiang Mei Sun is still alive, there is no horse market, and Wei Ting Zhen lives in a state approaching poverty without access to this much money. The show explains that the villain Dou Shi Shu tricked Dou Shi Ying into the jewelry shop scheme, but this does not at all explain his presence on Jiang Mei Sun's list of traitors.
Is it reasonable for Ming dynasty China eunuchs to act like dukes, with freedom to travel far and wide and to meet all sorts of people? The amount of out-of-palace time they have in Blossom makes them look more like minor/major officials than like palace servants.
Blossom's spin on rebooting life and navigating the hazards inside and outside the household initially feels like it's mixed together from other dramas that aired before & after. It does not have the ruthlessness of SOKP, the actors of LLTG, or the charm of TPR. What it does have is decent production values and plenty of actors that you (or at least I) haven't already seen ten times. However, you also have leads that aren't fully leads material and have so-so chemistry*. One million filler-ish plots of the household villains scheming (usually against the FL), or court scheming of a really flat and boring nature. You have to endure a murky actor like Li Xin Ze for hours upon hours, despite his character being as irrelevant as it gets. Sometimes it's a contender for the worst-dressed FL award. The OST is barely even present.
I thought the first episode was great (the past/original future as a hook), and through the first quarter of the show it kept progressing the overall main plot as well as letting the leads have some meaningful interaction. After that it felt like the C team took over in the writing department. They managed a streak: Every single episode from 09 to 18 contains some huge plot holes or has at least one big scene that is total nonsense. Things that could be resolved in an episode are dragged out endlessly, and the same villains keep getting away with things. The more boring and more minor villains even get more attention than the big bads. The 26 hours contain at most 9 hours of meaningful content.
The ML's look from the opening episode? Criminally underused. They have two(!) sets of *real twins* – but do barely anything with them. The FL gets a whole handbook of the future in the first episode – but that too just becomes part of the wasted potential in the writing department.
In the end, it was very difficult to finish Blossom. At least the ending is fleshed out enough and doesn't just fade out to the credits when the (usual) palace plot concludes.
*: Supposedly they had great chemistry when promoting the show. 🤷♂️
In episode 24(!), after being culpable for like 100 deaths(!), the evil stepmother is... still not executed, merely declared mad in the head and dropped from the story.
Dropped at episode 27. Too boring. First 17 episodes all politics. 18 to 25 with more romance. Now back to mostly…
The politics are the boring kind of politics as well. And otherwise it's boring family intrigue, with characters that were born only to plot and scheme in their own household.
I want to try watching a drama episode in 60 fps, never done that before.
https://kisskh.club/sinful-marriage/sinful-marriage-2025/
Download instead of streaming, notably worse and uglier version of the kisskh stream, with very small file size and two watermarks:
https://9jarocks.net/videodownload/sinful-marriage-season-1-chinese-drama-id351400.html
YouTube with mostly muted music, but good image quality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9TPg297zrY&list=PLBEgzjAsIRLQnGu0V4uvvvrOM91C8cHVU&index=1
YouTube with differently cut episodes (8 instead of 24), no intros, no outros, and I guess muted music and also bad audio quality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR7Xq0QjMpM&list=PLV7fI9wy8e1TH4WoekJWmM6qqhmfrifVL&index=1
All seem to have the same OK-ish (but not always clear or understandable) Mango-quality English subtitles.
Nothing about the overall (political) plot convinced me in any way.
However (as I think other users have pointed out below), things like a sequence of small kisses were executed much better than in the vast majority of other dramas.
He has very little screentime here.
He has very little screentime in the other show. He's much more present here.
The villain wrap-up is not the best either.
The OST starts out strong at the very start and later, like Shadow Love, just has one nice song that's re-used whenever possible.
The chemistry is fine and the leads don't do anything that makes the viewer suffer. Didn't watch their other 2/3 dramas yet.
"Second couple" girl died, earlier.
Everyone's parents died, I guess.
I'm more asking how many references there are that a viewer would enjoy/notice.
Would TBOY spoil much of the plot or just the ending between ML1/ML2?
In the show, he is listed in the uncle's list of evildoers that he sends to his sister (letter from Jiang Mei Sun to Jiang Hui Sun).
Then the leads talk to Dou Shi Ying and it turns out that he is on the jewelry shop investor list. However, the jewelry shop scheme is a new thing, as it's ran by Wei Ting Zhen and relates to the money from the horse market. When Jiang Mei Sun is still alive, there is no horse market, and Wei Ting Zhen lives in a state approaching poverty without access to this much money.
The show explains that the villain Dou Shi Shu tricked Dou Shi Ying into the jewelry shop scheme, but this does not at all explain his presence on Jiang Mei Sun's list of traitors.
However, you also have leads that aren't fully leads material and have so-so chemistry*. One million filler-ish plots of the household villains scheming (usually against the FL), or court scheming of a really flat and boring nature. You have to endure a murky actor like Li Xin Ze for hours upon hours, despite his character being as irrelevant as it gets. Sometimes it's a contender for the worst-dressed FL award. The OST is barely even present.
I thought the first episode was great (the past/original future as a hook), and through the first quarter of the show it kept progressing the overall main plot as well as letting the leads have some meaningful interaction. After that it felt like the C team took over in the writing department. They managed a streak: Every single episode from 09 to 18 contains some huge plot holes or has at least one big scene that is total nonsense. Things that could be resolved in an episode are dragged out endlessly, and the same villains keep getting away with things. The more boring and more minor villains even get more attention than the big bads. The 26 hours contain at most 9 hours of meaningful content.
The ML's look from the opening episode? Criminally underused. They have two(!) sets of *real twins* – but do barely anything with them. The FL gets a whole handbook of the future in the first episode – but that too just becomes part of the wasted potential in the writing department.
In the end, it was very difficult to finish Blossom. At least the ending is fleshed out enough and doesn't just fade out to the credits when the (usual) palace plot concludes.
*: Supposedly they had great chemistry when promoting the show. 🤷♂️
And otherwise it's boring family intrigue, with characters that were born only to plot and scheme in their own household.