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This is a wonderful, and undeservingly underrated series. It's definitely worth watching it
I absolutely loved this series. It's perfect in every way which I can say with outmost confidence having watched my large share of trainwrecks of costume C dramas. I loved everything about this series. beautiful and very, very talented cast, fantastic fight scenes, beautiful scenery and exquisite wardrobe and music. I loved the positive vibe of this show and the friendships of the characters. Ding Yu Xi besides being gorgeous, is a very, very talented actor and his facial acting/expressions are priceless. I also love Victoria Song and her character acting in this show. I think the chemistry between the ML and FL was just perfect and they really looked great together. I don't understand why some people would have a problem with the actors' age difference when in fact they were fantastically compatible in every way. Many thanks for the crew and cast for this wonderful series. Bravo!Was this review helpful to you?
Victoria Song's Wedding Proposal dance- the best scene in the drama.
Good acting from Joe Chen, but the age gap is quite obvious. If the older brother Wei played Han Mei, the age gap wouldn’t be as noticeable.The pairing between Wei Jun and Chu Yu is perfect — I can see the brother being attracted to Chu Yu.
However, I really like Ding in this series. He’s so cute and adorable in Episodes 1 and 2. The sudden transformation from being playful and cheeky to a serious young man and the head of the Wei family shows how versatile he is as an actor.
The pairing between Victoria Song and Ding is also brilliant, as their age gap isn’t as obvious.
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Watchable but won't be amazing
Casting Victoria Song will ensure pretty good martial art scenes with her strong dancer background. The issue is she won't have much chemistry with the ML.What's watchable:
-Nice production quality. Balance of colors with no OTP make up, skin smoothing. I love actors looking human and not AI.
-Decent supporting cast
-Decent story. Nothing unique
-Some good choreographed fight scenes
What's not working for me:
-Chemistry ML/FL - None.
-The sequence they executed the tragic before any character build up makes the audience unable to connect
-Overwhelming bad character scenes. Felt like they killed off all the good characters in the opening and rest of the characters are just bad.
-There are no captivating characters that just makes you want to binge through the whole thing.
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As a fan of the novel I totally dislike it
As a fan of the novel I totally dislike it. It's hard not to compare it but even if I didn't read the novel I don't like how this is shot. It is a different story than the book and it's less serious. There is a lot of useless shots and dialogues. Also there is a lot of characters and they are not really well presented so it is hard to follow who is who and what is their character like.I'm not a fan of how the FL motivations are presented and I know it's because they had to come up with an alternative story to her rebirth but it's not very logical. I'm really stuck at the family allowing her to marry the coffin. MAKES NO SENSE! I wish they left the wedding before he died in the storyline and also the fact that she was betrothed to him since young. Otherwise why does the oldest son not have a wife when all the other younger brothers do and even have kids. And FL's status as a commoner. Why couldn't they leave her as a noble woman anyway?? It would be easier for the marriage plot, the princess connection etc.
I also feel nothing about our ML. He is not interesting at all. He actually annoys me and I don't have a read on what the actor is trying to portray.
I'm disappointed :( I miss all the heavy dilemmas and scheming that make the novel so fun. Dropping after 9 eps without regrets.
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I'm glad I didn't give up after EP1
It started off like not much of gist in episode one but because I like Ding Yuxi, I watched on. Now i'm onto episode 4 and I like the story so far. I'm burning with rage with the bad evil character of Cao Yan. I wish I could tear off his face with that evil smug smile of it. I guess that means his acting is great but still I hated him. I hope both ML and FL will have a good ending.Was this review helpful to you?
The storyline is absurd
The FL is very annoying, she clearly lose against the ML and is actually shameless to be saying she won. The scene about her marrying the dead fir son is even more annoying than her shamelessness when there is clearly another way to enter the family and investigate what she wants. She can marry the last son and investigate as a daughter in law because it was clearly showned that the ML like her from the beginning that they meet, but instead she foolishly comes up with idea of marrying a corpse. ML have absolutely no errors at all, he is perfect and interesting at first before the family was ruined, maybe if i will continue watching it, it will be because of the ML.Was this review helpful to you?
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In my top 2 fav historical drama for 2025
Omg my advice do not listen to reviews its mostly ding fans who were mad he not was upfront but i loved his wei yun green flag engery omg the way he respected and loved chu yu was everything i think they had such great chemistry their fighting scenes with spears together as one loved i. Fan of Victoria song this is the first historical drama ive seen her in he did not disappoint chu yu character is in my top fav female generals. This had such a strong female cast honestly the whole cast was everything. The only character i didnt like wss emperor of sui trying everything to keep the main leads apart he was just jealous and paranoid of two military families coming together. I disappoint i wanted two more episodes for a weddings of all the couples. I def recommend this drama all of the episodes were never boring this my top 2 fav historical dramas 2025 next to prisoner of beauty. This drama def deserves a better rating to me thats just my opinion.Was this review helpful to you?
A FL that puts on pointless showcases of her skills in the oddest of settings and whose true character can only be appreciated by the men (this is what the writers think is a strong well-written character), confrontational ML for no good reason, ex-boyfriend drama introduced in the first 15 minutes, cliché unsupportive family, no good foundation for the relationship between the FL-ML, cliché motivation for the FL, odd camera work and a boring aesthetic to the drama.
Not a single thing managed to grab my attention and make me want to continue. On the contrary, the execution of every other element is done in the style that I dislike most : Big but superficial and superfluous, with no discernable heart.
Dropped
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Pecou na falta de um romance bom e no exagero de episódios.
É um drama bom, envolvente e cheio de personagens com personalidades fortes. Os protas se destacam por serem autênticos e muito verdadeiros ao próprio sentimento, é realmente interessante acompanhar o crescimento e a determinação deles. A motivação pela vingança da família dá um peso emocional muito bonito à história, e desde o começo a gente se conecta com a dor deles. Eu mesma chorei bastante nos primeiros episódios, muita injustiça e dor!!!Mas, ao mesmo tempo, sinto que a produção exagerou na quantidade de sofrimento e na quantidade de episódios. Houve momentos em que o drama parecia prolongado demais. Acredito que, se tivesse 30 episódios, seria perfeito: daria para contar tudo sem arrastar tanto.
Outra coisa que me incomodou um pouco foi o romance. Por mais que eu esperasse um drama romântico, o romance é quase “vago”, simples demais. Não é explorado e até no último episódio, o casal sofre para finalmente ficar junto, e isso só acontece nos últimos dez minutos. Fica evidente que o foco não era romance, e sim vingança, reconciliação e superação. Por mais que o final TODA a luta foi pra que eles pudessem ficar juntos, mas sei lá…
Os casais secundários são fofos, mas nenhum deles é realmente desenvolvido a ponto de vermos algo como casamento ou evolução concreta. Fica faltando algo. Um tempero a mais, digamos assim.
Apesar disso tudo, não é um drama ruim. O enredo é forte, o contexto é emocional, e o final é bonito especialmente a cena da princesa, que se sacrifica. O vilão é bem construído, e a jornada para derrotá-lo deixa um impacto real.
No fim, gostei porque amo dramas intensos, cheios de suspense, e com essas conexões familiares profundas. Mas, na minha humilde opinião, faltou desenvolver melhor o romance e reduzir o excesso de episódios e sofrimento.
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Vi tantas críticas negativas sobre esse drama, que quase desisti de assisti-lo, mas acabei por dar uma chance e não me arrependi. O roteiro é consistente e os personagens agradáveis. Apesar do vilão ter cometido muitos atos ruins, há um lado patético de alguém que se perdeu em sua própria obsessão. O imperador Chun De vai pra minha longa lista de imperadores idiotas, apesar dele não ser vilão, torci muito pra ele deixar o trono rapidamente.As atuações são boas, geralmente, tenho ressalvas sobre o poder de convencimento da atriz protagonista, mas, na minha opinião, a personagem Chu Yu caiu-lhe como uma luva. A direção não privilegiou somente os protagonistas, com isso, é possível ver cenas encantadoras de todo o elenco. O ator Ding Yu Xi está cada vez melhor em expressar as emoções com o olhar.
O figurino é bonito, CGI decente e trilha sonora agradável.
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romance y guerra
Mi personaje favorito de "fight for love" obviamente es ding yuxi (wei ying) 💕 me encanta! Pero sinceramente la princesa lo chang ming, y el loquito que está obsesionado con ella (Zhao Yue)para mí se llevan la trama 😝 creo que son los personajes psicológicamente más complejos y que vuelven la historia más interesante, en tercer lugar me gustan los personajes de los hermanitos tuan tuan quien me parece muy tierna y song wen Chang que cae bien ☺️ lo demás me pareció totalmente equis, como que si faltarán ni afectaría 🤣 sobre todo chu yu, siento que le falta intensidad, emoción, no se, tal vez así es el personaje pero me parece un poco simple, esperaba más del rol femenino protagonistaWas this review helpful to you?
