Excellent acting! Love the chemistry of the two leads! The storyline about two leads seeking revenge to find the truth and gradually developed feeling for each other. The ending was definitely sad but also on the positive note.
Visual effects was brilliant!
Totally tell a great love story between the two leads! I love the series! Just wish the ending could soothe the heart break!
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Perfect ! exciting all the time
One of the best dramas I've ever seen!!! Just watch it! There wasn't a single dull episode. Every episode is exciting, it's very painful and tragic. If you can't stand watching dramas like this, don't even watch it to then criticize such a good drama for no reason. And to think it took me a year to watch this gem because of the negative comments. What a regret for not having seen it sooner!! I know there are people who will compare it to the novel, I don't even know the novel so I can't compare or have anything to say. But as someone who hates boring, monotonous, or too perfect stories and characters, I loved this drama! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷10/10
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Broke me in a good way
I absolutely loved this drama contrary to many others who seem to have been quite disappointed.Sure if you expect a steaming hot romance show, as the trailer and the first episode indicate, you won‘t be satisfied. But after all it is a C-Drama… if you expect to watch something similar to the Borgias, you for sure will be disappointed.
The second reason why many did not like the show was that the ending was changed compared to the original novel. Since I am a sucker for sad endings, I truthfully enjoyed every heartwrenching minute of it! But yeah if you are hoping for a happy end you will get disappointed again.
I loved the chemistry not just between the leads but also between the other actors. Liu Xueyi is for me on an other level of acting and so is Wu Jinyan! I loved Liu Xueyi already in Blood of Youth and fell hard for his portrayal of Murong Jinghe. The scene of them lying on the bed both crying will hunt me to my death it was so beautiful, sad and full of feelings!
To sum up my rant: I love it! I loved the pacing, I was okay with Murong Jinghe‘s 180 degree character change (because it made sense) and I also found it understandable why the General fell for the Crown Prince (and don‘t get me started on the execution scene… beautiful!). It is a beautiful drama for people who love a good tragic story, who want to cry and feel as if their heart has been crushed and put together again.
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Great historical drama
Just finished watching this drama. In my point of view, this is one of the best dramas in which Liu Xue Yi is the main lead. The acting of both Liu Xue Yi and FL are outstanding! The visual, costumes and cinematography are perfect. The story line is great until episode 23. This drama would be perfect if it ended there. The later episodes are not my cup of tea but in overall I did enjoy watching this drama and will suggest to those who like watching a quality historical drama.Was this review helpful to you?
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Watch it all the way through before judging this one! (Don't skip or you may miss key plotpoints!)
This is my first cdrama and definitely still the best costume period cdrama in my opinion. The two main leads are gorgeous, and their natural acting and the lush visuals and production quality of the series is better than any other costume cdrama I've seen before and is what got me interested in watching cdramas in the first place.This is not a conventional romance. It's about political intrigue first. There is a huge revenge arc for 2/3rd of the series but for the remaining half of the series, it is about fate and bad choices and star-crossed lovers who never seem to catch a break. The ending is a sad one but so meaningful for the protagonist and changes him for the better.
Liu Xueyi as Murong Jinghe steals every scene he shows up in and is in his best role yet as a sinister, unhinged, disillusioned prince. He looks amazing in period costume long hair and makeup and the camera seems to eat him up. He oozes a non-chalant sex appeal and the commanding presence of someone who is supremely confident in his abilities and his power over others.
Wu Jinyan matches him beat for beat as the assassin trained beauty, Meilin, who stands up to him and then beside him as his ally and ultimately as his partner. Her earnestness and willingness to die for her cause is both endearing and captivating and it's easy to see why Jinghe falls for her quickly. (She essentially plays the same personality as she does in The Double.)
The surprising thing about this series is there are hardly any plotholes but it took several rewatches for me to catch all the details. Jinghe is the narrator and if you listen to what he says, you can see what he is thinking, where the storyline is headed and a lot of perceived plotholes are actually explained. That's why I caveat that this is not a series you want to fast forward or else you'll quickly lose track of the plot! For example, how they go from trying to escape the crown prince to frolicking in laowozi village as a couple is ALL explained.
The only major plothole I could find is that the series never explains how Jinghe was able to disguise himself as the Momai Shadow Master without anyone ever finding out. Having the full back story to the Momai warriors and what happens to them when they get disbanded would have been nice. Also, it was just plain dumb to poison her without having a real antidote at the ready, even if he got what he deserved in the end for doing it.
Overall rating: 9.5/10.
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Must watch
One of the best historical romance Cdrama I've watched,it has all the right elements, and unlike most cdramas where things get dull and boring at a certain point,it doesn't in this one,and I'm so excited to read the novel,because apparently murong jing he is messed up and way more ruthless at the start and doesn't show his gentle side straight away like it happened in the drama.Was this review helpful to you?
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Liu Xue Yi
Liu Xue Yi is a handsome man, I watch his drama and mesmerize by his good look, it's too bad his Female Leads weren't as compatible as him - not only in appearance but most importantly in skills. I dropped 'In Blossom' because his co-star Ju Jing Yi ruined the drama. Her pretty face didn't make a cut.This time his co-star is Wu Jin Yan played as Mei Lin - a blank face actress, can't really read her emotion in any given situation. It's her frozen face, can't ignore it. Her eyes empty, doesn't communicate her trauma or hatred or sad or pain to her character has experienced it. 1st to 3rd episodes I enjoyed to watch Liu Xue Yi which wasn't only a great vision, but his snarling/pouting /glowering/glaring/frowning is appalling. His beautiful face makes more sinister to the contorting situation - his barely smile brings out menacing character and unknown to anyone his secret of morbid plan of avenges. That's what I see him in this drama, value of his skill to the character. Liu Xue Yi is a promising actor if he can find a female lead that can bring out his personality in collaboration of future project.
Prince Murong Jing He (Liu Xue Yi) of the Great Yan Dynasty led his Weibei Army to reclaim Qingzhou, a lost territory. Became infamously 'Butchered General' from accusation of burning down a town and killed it's citizen. A misunderstood General that hold hatred to take on revenge to family who wrong him. Mei Lin's (Wu Jin Yan) family burned to death by, as she believed, Weibei Army which under Prince Murong Jing He's leadership. She dedicated herself to take on revenge to the man who responsible with horrendous act, Murong Jing He. Disguised as one of a hundred Xiyan beauties sent to the Great Yan as part of a political marriage alliance, she patiently waits for her chance to strike. But what Mei Lin doesn't know is that the man who masterminded her entire assassination mission—setting her on this path of revenge—is none other than Murong Jing He himself. That's the plot.
With the basic synopsis I wouldn't imagine the character Prince Murong Jing He; he's taking his time in finding the culprit, he takes on the blames, he receives scold, hateful profanity and scorn, thrown-rotten egg/vegetables from public humiliation, he bare it all with sinister sneers. His deep sarcastic voice (I heard it's his real voice) play important part for his edgy character, irony situation with his statuesque and stunning face.
I hate to drop this drama just because of FL...still many episodes to watch though.
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What happens when two crazy people interact?
They create toxic fireworks that burns through the screen. Two crazy people who are ready to die at any time to accomplish their goals... (one openly crazy, the other silently crazy😂)*This is a preliminary review based on three episodes out so far*
So far, this is a well written and well acted show based on a general known far and wide as a mass murderer. The show starts with the FL dad being burned to death. (alive). We find out that the general (ML) army set the fire to their town. The FL swore revenge on the ML and went through a decade of training as an assassin just to kill ML.
Big plot twist: It was the ML all along who was training her to kill him... (she doesn't know). The ML also wants to use her to investigate the past. Anyway, that's the premise of the show. And the story is built off that. The ML in this show is crazy... But the FL is also crazier... (he poisoned her, she stabbed him. Etc... you get the gist of it)...
Anyways, the thing that's drawing every one in is the way the story is told. LXY & WJN are doing a good job of portraying these characters. You will totally believe they are who they say they are. They live and breath these characters and we see them in action all the time. whether it's through emotions (eye movements, facial movements, mechanical laugh, etc) they make make these characters intriguing. It also helps that their chemistry is very good and works well together!!
The story is intriguing. Each smaller plot that's revealed makes you want to know more. I'm intrigued by all the smaller plots that will eventually intertwine with the main plot.
So far so good, I really love their toxic chemistry.😂💀 They are giving everything I want in an enemies to lovers. THIS RIGHT HERE, IS THE REAL ENEMIES TO LOVERS. This is how it should be done. Not a damsel in distress who get hurt by ML repeatedly and ends up "falling in love" 🙄
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It's giving everything it should.
Wow what a drama, it's serving. The visuals are so good. The actors did a very good job. It's definitely a high budget drama. There were some parts that were annoying like the Sml towards the end but it's not that big of a deal. The fl and ml have good chemistry. Though the ending is sad it's understandable.Was this review helpful to you?
It's a gem for me
LIKEInsane scripwriter I cried so much- I want more of her works!
When Qing Yan changed voice because of a whitening pill - LOL
All the princes’ generals really loyal dying for their masters
Crown prince’s love for Yin Luo Mei and vice versa - that moment when he was asking her what kind of husband she likes.. soso touching
When Third Prince got his revenge and looked at Wei Bei Army for the last time
Concubine Yan's life - I cried a lot
Jing He and his poor life always parting ways with others
The love Yue Qin has for Mei Lin is on par with Jing He
When Mei Lin said what everyone in Qing Zhou should do for Wei Bei Army
When Jing He confessed his love - woohoo
DISLIKE
Nothing
MUSIC - personal fav
春花厌 Chun Hua Yan - 张靓颖 Zhang Liang Ying
不敢逢春 Bu Gan Feng Chun - 刘宇宁 Liu Yu Ning
焰 Yan - 希林娜依高 Xi Lin Na Yi Gao
飞花入梦 Fei Hua Ru Meng - 等什么君 Deng Shen Me Jun
有憾 You Han - 林凡 Lin Fan 韦礼安 Wei Li’an
REWATCH VALUE
Yes and I rewatched immediately right after I completed it
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Magnificent actor’s skills
I’ve enjoyed this drama thanks to Liu xieyi: he’s handsome, very strong actor with a deep cold beautiful voice. His costumes were just royal and his hair style was the best among all his period dramas.Thus actor made me look for his other dramas and I’m currently enjoying the princess gambit, I was looking forward for his royal outfits but it’s not like kill ne love me, as he’s here a prime minister and not a prince.
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Desolada ???
A ansiedade pelo "happy ending" que não vem machuca o coração de quem assiste. Tantas provações e nenhum resultado positivo para os personagens principais. O altruísmo com certeza tava em dia, mas a que custo?É um dorama com uma história interessante, com música, foto, cenário e roupas belíssimas. Tudo envolve você na trama histórica.
Mas me mata quando personagens com potencial para recomeçar ou até mesmo continuarem sendo bons são corrompidos pelos outros e a redenção é pela morte ou pior isolamento.
Acho que o "e se" do final poderia ter sido o final real. O principezinho podia ter sido uma realidade. A cura, a busca tão árdua por ela poderia ter sido um sucesso.
Pai e filho poderiam ter se ajudado. E o príncipe herdeiro de Xian poderia ter recomeçado.
Hipóteses que kill me, love me não considerou e depois do embate entre Jinghe e o príncipe herdeiro, foram completamente esquecidas. O único ponto positivo, foi ele ter seu nome limpo e o reconhecimento do povo.
Altruísmo que fala, né?
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