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It's a light costume drama. You won't shed much tears here, but you'll surely laugh. After all, it's Ao Rui Peng, so it has that comedic scenes. I honestly thought I wouldn't be able to finish the drama, but I like how the story progressed. It's sweet too! Two bride got swapped and we're sent to two unknowing grooms. Li Yu Hu was married to the "sickly" Qi Tian Lei (AonRui Peng) to change his unlucky fate. But it was all pretense. Qi Tian Lei eventually found out that he got the wrong bride, but eventually falling for her in the first episodes.
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The main couple were adorable and had the perfect chemistry for a main pairing.
However, when it comes to emotional depth, mutual sacrifice, and deeply touching moments, Couple 2 felt much more endearing.
Even though Ao Ruipeng looked a bit dorky due to his costume, he portrayed his character brilliantly. He was sharp, analytical, and highly strategic, especially when it came to his clever schemes to win his wife’s heart and stop her from running away. His playful, teasing, and slightly deceptive nature was executed so charmingly that the audience found it completely endearing rather than objectionable, recognizing it as a plan born out of love.
Come to think of it, the matchmakers in this story did a terrible job. They paired people up based solely on their profiles rather than their personalities, without truly knowing the individuals involved. Originally, Couple 1 was supposed to be a match between two wealthy elites, while Couple 2 was meant to pair a military general with a martial artist. In real life, those original pairings would have clashed constantly because they shared the exact same dominant traits and backgrounds.
However, the accidental switch turned out to be a blessing, as they perfectly complemented each other:
The general, who possessed military might, benefited from the merchant’s daughter's financial savvy to secure funds and supplies.
The wealthy son found his life re-energized by the courage, vibrance, and fighting spirit of the martial arts school master’s daughter.
Ultimately, it was the mentors of both couples who ended up acting as the true, successful matchmakers.
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A simple light hearted costume drama!!!
Wrong carriage,right groom has been on my watch list for a long time and I am glad that I have watched it.It is a simple light hearted drama with a right mix and a perfect balance of all emotions and elements.The plot was good,though it is not a new one.The way the drama and the story were presented is highly impressive!!
The actors,story, screenplay,pace, costumes,settings,interiors, locations everything were perfect.
I love how the drama ended on a happy note with all the problems solved in a decent manner.
Ao Ruipeng and Tian Xiwei were good as the main couple.
Zhao Shunran and Bai Bing Ke were decent and gentle in their roles.
The drama was quite interesting too with enough twists and turns to keep us glued to it
Overall a very PLEASANT and DECENT watch.
It is highly recommended drama if you are looking for a light hearted, impressive and simple yet interesting costume drama.
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Not so bad not so good
Started watching this series because of the leads. I watched their previous series Poisoned Love & New Life Begins, though I watched the last 5 /10 episodes of each series.I liked Li Yu Hu & Qi Tian Lei teasing & fun-loving moments. Qi Tian Lei is smart & intelligent, whereas Li Yu Hu is not so smart but a quick learner.
2nd couple doesn't have that many scenes. In most C-Dramas, side couples will always have importance or as many scenes as main leads. Whereas when there is a series with two main couples, the 1st one will get more importance than the other as if the 2nd one never existed.
Hated Li Yu Hu voice actress. I mean why in C-Drama they have to use voice actors. Why fuck they don't use the actors' original voices?
The fight scenes would be better.
Liked that the male leads knew about the bride swap quite early.
The story is not extraordinary. If you're looking for a series with a good story, this is not for you.
Like the songs.
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A random beautiful fate of mistaken arranged marriages!!!
What I liked about this drama was the simplicity of the story. The flow of how it was shown was never unfussy and clearly brought me to what I was expecting it to be. Much to my enjoyment, it was very light and contained minimal dramatic scenes. The characters of the five couples were sensibly built as to the role they were playing, noting as well the pleasant screen chemistry of all. It was amusing to watch these five couples supporting each other to protect their relationship, family, and friends.I commend the creator for her candid style of writing. First, in those scenes where the main lead couple (Tian Xi Wei & Ao Rui Peng) always beat the wicked schemes of the adopted grandson in the Qi’s residence, unlike in other shows, the protagonist was inclined to be fooled by the villain and it was so frustrating to watch. Second, in the revelation parts of the switch identities of the brides that were not taken against them and swiftly gained acceptance from the involved parties. Third, the process of exposing and capturing the villain’s characters was done in a rightful end. And finally, it was a nice sight choice to include an interesting prank scene in the final episode that came as a surprise. The whole story ended where it began where the mishap of swapping happened and manifested their faith and gratefulness by going back to the temple.
I considered this drama as “less but more” in the aspect of being simple but substantially full in storytelling. It was a comfort watch, adding to the fact that Tian Xi Wei is one of my favorites.
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Right Idea, Wrong First Pair
It's a testament to the strength of the core concept that I kind of stuck this one out. I don't watch historicals, but the 'bride swap' intrigued me so I gave it a go. By ep 3, the core problem was clear - the WRONG pair was primary lead. I kept hoping for more of Bingyan and her General, but by ep 10, they were bit players. So I skipped to episode 21, where I cracked up laughing at the amount of exposition. It was a totally random pick for where to start watching "the end" but it woked really well as the Old Grandmother helpfully had a conversation with TianLei and Yuhu that filled me in on the 11 eps I'd skipped. It also confirmed that I missed nothing except endless politicking and trickery from the villain and stupidity from the non-villains.Overall not an awful watch, but definitely not worth sitting through all 24 episodes, when so many of them are "rinse and repeat" storylines. Had Bingyang and the General been the primary leads, it could have been a real treat.
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Feeling good...
A little longer than it should, but i liked it.STORY – a typical story where people are wrongfully traded, and happiness appears.
It is a simple story, better, two stories entwined and other 2 or 3 stories going along, all about love.
The villains are non-existent or just bad and uninteresting.
ACTING – good acting for the leading actors and main characters. Did not like the lack of violence toward the killers, treating the ruffians nicely while they try to kill them. Lots of poison involved, a plot with one or two interesting twisted and too many coincidences for my personal taste.
MUSIC – I am not a fan of this kind of music, so it was not important for me.
REWATCH – some scenes I could gladly rewatch. The whole drama I do not think so, but it is not a bad thought to do it.
OVERALL – I was pleased to watch this drama. It is light (too much in some senses), almost seems to me that this is a show for youngsters viewers also, due to the jolly fighting scenes.
Overall, it was a YES for me.
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Light Hearted Rom Com
This drama is not really what I would typically take my time to review, but I had to come here and explain a few things for those in the future unsure if they should watch it. In my personal opinion is not a grand drama, but that’s okay because it never tried to be. It never really took itself seriously so there shouldn’t be any expectations that this drama will be 10. Simply put it’s not. The plot itself is full of wholes and the concepts all throughout reminded me of something I wrote when I was 12 years old. However I wouldn’t completely write it off because of this, like I said this drama is just something lighthearted to enjoy and not think to deeply on what’s going on. There are a lot of couples apart from the main two couples, and a lot of characters which is always a tell tale sign of a story with too much going on. Unfortunately the main couples kind of get overlooked because of this, but like I said it’s just something to watch on the side. Honestly give it a try you might or might not like it. I rated it a bit high because I feel like it’s a bit underrated honestly I would really rate this about a 7.8.Was this review helpful to you?
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It's a cute drama if you like fluff, but it's annoying if you expected angst/misunderstandings.
So it starts with both Li family and Du family setting up a forced-arrange marriage thingie for their daughters because the in-laws are so ready to "destroy" them, that the only way was selling their daughters (yea, thats how i saw the first 20 minutes of this drama).Both the carriages left at the same time, and out of nowhere it started raining so they took shelter in some old abandoned temple, here's where the 2 female leads talk to know each, and exchange gifts given by their in-laws as a remembrance of their friendship.
Due to their maids rushing in, they wore the wrong veil which resulted in them going to the wrong home, Li Yuhu accepts this fact, and being fake Du BingYan..whereas real BingYan is drugged by YuHu's maids so that she doesn't go back to her parent's.
Qi TianLei - Fakes being sick so that he can avoid his family business, and to also expose his maternal cousin- Ke ShiZhao doing frauds in Qi business, murdering people, murdering QTL's 2 older brothers.
Yuan BuQu- an old disciple of yuhu's father is a general in army, his previous 2 wives died (1 due to childbirth and other cuz of illness)but somehow it was portraited as if he abused them.
Real DBY wakes up and decides to meet the general (who's at war, camp) to clear the confusion, and being fake male DuBin, and becomes assistant of master Liu RuoQian (he is common in both stories, QTL's master/doctor and YBQ's camp doctor)
Finally both the main male leads gotta know about this wrong carriage thing, YBQ accepts real BY cuz he fell for her, same goes for QTL and LYH. Now comes the part of QTL helping out LYH so that she doesn't expose herself infront of his family.
In the midst of this, they gotta know about Ke ShiZhao's wrongdoings and start tricking him.
On the other side, General YBQ won the war, and IN REWARD he gets to marry the princess, for which he, DBY, master start planning to make the emperor change his order.
Now comes the dumb, overly loved princess changming who dreams of marrying a brave guy. And through series of plotting, she meets general's assistant Sha PingWei (master liu's nephew) and they start liking e/o, she convinces her father to take back the previous mentioned order.
Ke ShiZhao's all wrongdoings have been presented infront of QTL's paternal grandmother, and which her help, they catch him red handed and hand him over to police (?) and LYH tells her real identity, also she is pregnant.
Queen grants an order that princess marry general, which again he and DBY decline and they are sent to prison. now master, his wife, QTL,LYH, SPW, Princess all join hands to pull the 2nd couple out of prison.
Again 1 whole episode of stupidity and its revealed Master Liu's senior was queen's love interest with whom she planned to elope but from her perspective he betrayed her and when in reality he died, and never got the chance to elope with her.
This reveal suddenly opens her eyes and she allows Priincess to marry SPW, and also 2nd lead couple got out of the prison.
Another formal marriage ceremony is planned for both the lead couples with no mis-match, (and its also revealed both the female leads were pregnant).
So at last total 5 couples were there, QTL-LYH, YBQ-DBY, Princess-SPW, YanShang (QTL's sister/step sister)-Ji JingTang (whose parents were framed and killed by KSZ), Master Liu- Shu DaNiang......and you may also include KSZ-XiaoQiao (grandmother's maid and his helping hand)
OVERALL- a good drama, i wish they had more emotions,cuz even though being revelations were made, past murders were discussed but as audience, we couldnt really feel those emotions.
But yea cute drama, with almost 0 misunderstandings, no fights between main leads, everything is cute in the end.
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A little too light, but not bad
The good:- the main leads healthy relationship is nice to watch, they are actually smart resourceful characters and had an ok chemistry
- it's an easy watch, light-hearted and not too long
The not so good:
- The romance is very underdeveloped for all couples. Everything stays very surface level. The one actual kiss they try to put in there for the main couple did not convince me at all. The second main couple does not even kiss.
- The dialogues were at times very stiff and unnatural, making the characters seem rather simple minded.
- The plot was not interesting enough to keep me engaged and I skipped so so many scenes.
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I liked the basic idea of swapping carriages. Then I was happy with the romantic side of the series.Two brides meet and are swapped and taken to the wrong grooms. Too late for a change, they agree to take their respective roles.
The girl who practices martial arts marries the sickly young man, while the intellectual marries the general.
The stories are alternated, a way to avoid boredom (a break is fine).
All is well until episode 13, when the point comes where they want to separate these two happy couples. On one side, the king orders the general to marry his daughter and thus become prince consort; on the other, the mean cousin convinces an old flame to come between them. With ruse, they manage to circumvent the problem and reunite. The princess has her eye on the general's right-hand man, and the evil cousin will do everything they can to avoid being killed and trap him.
Things that don't add up: dressed as a man one moment, then as a woman with a super sophisticated hairstyle? They drink so much tea that a little poison and they'd all be dead already. Why doesn't the doctor deliver the lotus flower to the queen?
In the 24 episodes, the background music is nice, but they could have added more to avoid being too repetitive.
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Satisfying, fun and romantic!
This is the first historical Chinese drama I've watched, and also the first Chinese drama I've watched that didn't have at least 30 episodes or more. It was a very pleasant surprise nonetheless!Besides the obvious premise of the story, the plot is split in two different settings to show each bride's situation with the "wrong" groom.
Li Yu Hu's side revolves around the conflicts and mysteries in the Qi family. It feels very similar to a soap opera, with lots of secrets, lots of eavesdropping, lots of tricky situations and malicious family members. Despite this, the atmosphere feels light and fun most of the time, mainly thanks to Qi Tian Lei and Li Yu Hu's couple dynamic.
Du Bing Yan's side is more about her trying her best to finally see her husband and clarify the misunderstanding. Her share of screentime was always more thrilling and dynamic and brought most of the action to the story.
Overall, the plot was nice and well-balanced: it kept a lighthearted and fun tone most of the time and didn't have many dramatic elements. Li Yu Hu and Qi Tian Lei's story started to feel a little too static and redundant after a while, but thankfully it wasn't too bad - mostly because their moments together were absolutely adorable. Du Bing Yan's story was quite interesting, but she and Yuan Bu Qu didn't have nearly as much time on screen as the other main couple, so I can't say I was entirely satisfied with them. Personally, I wish we got to see them more, and could have easily done without one or two of the side couples that were introduced in the story little by little.
It's a fun drama, nothing mind-blowing or exceptional by any means, but it was still an enjoyable watch for me. Recommended if you're looking for something with little angst, lots of fluff, and mostly relaxing!
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