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Shallow but watchable
WHAT I LIKE:• Gorgeous female costumes, hair and makeup depsite not having a high budget.✅
• Strong female characters that won't throw away their lives for a man.✅
• Support and trust FL, ML and SML have for each other.✅
• Villains aren't completely bad and one dimensional, there's motives behind their actions.✅
• ML and his mother being kind and brave enough to take FL in after what happened to her family.✅
• Lu Yuxiao. She's convincing in every role she plays.✅
WHAT I DON'T LIKE:
• How the story is written... Even mini dramas you see on TikTok have more compelling writing that keeps you on the edge of your seat guessing. In this drama the writing is undercooked, they're ALMOST there but then fumble it. Whenever they're solving a problem they make all the answers so obvious to the audience or you've already seen this exact scene in other dramas a billion times and can tell exactly what's going to happen next.
They could lie to other characters to get what they want and when the characters find out they accept the fact they've been deceived(even if it's for a good cause, where is your shock?...) so fast, and suddenly trust main characters 100% and follow up with the plans of the main characters. Every act plays in favor of main leads, their plans never fail.
For example a female character's husband is a cheater, he has cheated on this said character multiple times, one time the character tried to confront one of her husband's side girl and changed her whole mind after hearing what FL said(FL saw her coming into the room and said that on purpose too) about women being tools of men, why make life harder for ourselves.... does that mean this character would have gone ahead and confronted her husband's side girl and stay in that marriage forever?? Can't tell if the writer did this on purpose or not. What should I be excited for then?
Do they think the audience is dumb and they need to spell everything out? Where's the jaw dropping moment? Plot twists that make you stay up late watching? But to be fair I didn't have much expectations from the beginning.
• The dubbing not matching the actor's mouth movement and you can tell it's not the actor's own voice.
• Dull male characters. Both ML and SML seem to be just there. Can't tell if it's once again the script that doesn't let them shine or their acting itself.
Would've rounded up my score and gave it an 8 but it's not on par with other dramas I've given an 8.
Watch if you have nothing else and want to pass time.
Dropping cause I can't be watching one episode for a week.
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very unfortunate
the storyline is interesting but the acting is kind of bland, the whole execution feels flat and they have zero chemistry between them( very much prefer them to be sibling ) also the need to lie with this plot just does not make sense to me i feel like it is just dumb .Wang Zi Qi acting is good not spectacular, i think he just stay in his comfort zone a bit too much and would like to see him branch out and try different expression otherwise all his dramas will seems a bit like a copy past of the same person.
As for Lu Yu Xiao, her acting is definitely better than some other female actress but she has a lot room to grow especially in term of expression and delivery. i have a hard time believing her as the main lead in these period drama, she lack the demeanor and presence to make me believe her as the main character which is the same issue i had with her in perfect match. In contrast to when she was in Blossom in adversity where her acting truly shined as a supporting character. i hope than she gets better in the future
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Low Budget, Bad acting except the 2 Male Leads
A total disappointment! I was looking forward to this due to the awesome actors like Wang Qizi and Wang Hong Yi. I have seen both in many dramas and although they are not as well promoted, they have been great. But even both of their power can’t save this one. Although I have only watched 5 episodes, things don’t get better. Instead it gets worse with more characters introduced and they reinforce the issue of low level of acting skills.Storyline
Nothing fresh or exciting. The overused plot of FL family being murdered and ML trying to seek revenge for his framed teacher and a love triangle. This is not an issue if it’s done well. The issue is it’s so lazy. Everything seems too convenient eg someone wants to get to know a VVIP, suddenly his friend has an invitation to the VVIP’s house. There is rain and the carriage broke down. Out of no where a hotel popped up. Cmon! Maybe I haven’t given it more time, but honestly there is zero way this can turn into something better.
Acting
Aside from WQZ and WHY, everyone including the FL is not ready for their roles. They are like C or D level actresses and actors. No expression. Can’t act and frankly sometimes not even fitting the description of their roles eg the handsome prince or beautiful spoilt lady. This makes the MLs carry the entire drama and it shows. Such a waste of talent. This drama must have been on shelf for a while as I don’t think WHY especially would take this role given his current successes.
Production
The budget is next to none. I think they must have rented the cheapest set in Hengdian. It’s super unbelievable for the high minister’s house to have unpolished wooden doors. It’s crazy obvious. And the super rich ladies have maid-level hairpins of better productions. I don’t understand why is this so poorly funded and yet they want to be a full length drama. I don’t even want to mention the costumes. They should have done a mini drama that doesn’t need to do much except lots of hot kisses and romance.
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El CP se conoce desde la infancia y por cosas de la vida la FL en el ep.1 pierde la memoria, en ese mismo episodio el ML le da una nueva identidad para protegerla y a la vez ella conoce al SML, todo iba genial, ellos casi que se enamoran pero ella recupera la memoria en el episodio 30 de 40 , al recuperar la memoria , va y aleja al SML diciéndole que lo confundió con el ML en sus sueños, o sea estuvieron de amigos a notarse los sentimientos en aprox 30 episodios y luego chaoo, porque cuando recupero la memoria también recordó todo lo que experimento en su amnesia e incluso cuando el ML rechazaba sus sentimientos. El ML es otro caso, se da cuenta que le gusta la FL solo porque veía que ella se llevaba muy bien con el SML , plop!! en fin dramas son dramas! , La historia de las parejas secundarias, la trama política y familiar es interesante.Toda mi admiración por los actores protagónicos tratando de sacar adelante el drama, los he visto en otros dramas y se que son fantásticos, espero les den mejores historias.
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