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a romance with unusual setting
I am on the Chen Tian Xiang (ML) spree watching everything he played in 2025 and there is a lot! (23 dramas 20 of which he plays as lead). So I have a chance to compare him in different roles (mostly costume) and I am impressed. He is a very good, expressive and natural actor. Here he plays two versions of self: the ruthless regent and meek scholar - both to win the girl he fell in love with.The premise is simple and plot predictable so -with little surprises - we can indulge in clever moves, growing romance (plenty of kisses! and other intimate moments) and an interesting attitude of the leads.
FL is living her life second time around, so we watch how she sets up her husband and his family into ruin and while she makes choices to accomplish that she is expressing definitely modern ideas about women's rights, needs and independence to choose. The ML somehow follows her lead and so we can enjoy him being almost perfect boyfriend/lover who in the end marries into her family (matrilocal).
This feels completely like Please Come into My Heart (with the same lead actress which I rated 8/10) minus modern transmigrated FL in the plot. ML is a submissive boytoy who only shows his fangs to defend his girl. It was not as much fun as Yun Meng Gui with the same lead actor (which I rated 8/10 as well).
If you have nothing to do and like cute couples with a woman who calls the shots, you can spend 2.5 hours on this.
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