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Confusing to say the least

I love C dramas from the 1920 era, except, this one. Customs/wardrobes are gorgeous, loved the music but that's about it. Cast are young and beautiful but it appears that high schoolers were leading the armies, controlling the cities and overall in control of the whole political system., according to this movie. How ridiculous! When will script writers and the casting agents understand that casting actors too young for specific roles brings all stories down to look like a highschool play, none takes it seriously. There are plenty of gorgeous, talented age appropriate actors for these roles that would actually enhance the production quality and bring/give these stories credibility. Other stuff, my one word for the FL part is ridiculous. She is a good actor but her role and character is ridiculous. The storyline is also confusing, going back and forth in timeline, then the FL going from naive to dumb and vicious, back to dumb again, vicious again...seriously? She is portrayed as a feme fatale without much redeaming qualities, pretty but not a beauty queen, in one scene she is a fighter then the next scene she becomes a rabbit and shudders in fear honestly... Also, ML supposedly an army man, let's himself being stabbed over and over again by the FL. Then, in one scene when a grenade is thrown into the room, he is just standing there looking instead of jumping out to safety.. seriously? And the ending.....OMG how dumb can it be? Yes, very, very dumb.. ML was killed right in front of FL and yet ..here he is, just came back for more kissing.. please, for the sake of your viewers, just replace your highschool level screenwriters with actual talents.
I would not watch this series again, barely hung on only to see the end.

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Refreshingly creative

I loved, loved this show. Refreshingly creative and very funny. Loved the actors and the young, happy vibes, creative, positive energy of this C drama. It had lots of funny scenes, like when the FL begins the snowboarding lessons ( reminded me of myself when I started learning skiing). I was laughing out loud throughout the movie, very funny/hilarious scenes. I also loved the cartoonish characters at the end of each episode, extremely creative. The scenery/photography was superb and the music perfect for the scenes. I also really liked the customs, stylish, latest styles. This is one of the best C dramas I have seen, perfect to cheer you up and put you in a sunny/happy mood. Bravo!!! Thank you for giving us this fantastic entertainment. Definitely a 10 rewatch value.

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Great show

I absolutely loved this show. This is my second time watching this and I am keeping it on my watch list for future watch. Before this, just watched The Princess's Gambit also with Liu Xue Yi ( one of my favorite actors) and that show being such a downer/ depressing, I needed something happy and actually romantic so I am rewatching this show. I love the ML/FL chemistry, really liked the storyline and all the actors. Maybe a little bit too much time spent on the sideline relationships but overall it's a great show! Thank you all of you for making this wonderful entertainment.

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What a wonderful movie

I loved, loved this movie. One of the best coming of age stories I have ever seen. Beautiful, intelligent storytelling with wonderful, talented young actors. Chen Fei Yu is not only gorgeous but also an insanely talented young actor. I suppose it helps to have a famous director dad and talented actress as mom, so Chen Fei Yu' s enormous talent maybe partially due to DNA but one can also tell that he is an extremely hard working actor who is only relying on himself and hard work to perfect his acting skills. As for the FL, this is the first time I have seen He Lan Dou and like her a lot. She is also a very talented young actress whose talent is not relying on appearance ( like many other actresses in the entertainment industry) but on her great skills. This was an excellent casting as the ML/FL have really made this story very real and memorable. Thanks to the whole crew and actors for making this great movie.

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Boring Nonsense

I must say I started watching this C drama because of the awesome cast. I love Jeremy Tsui as he is a very prolific actor, very talented and likeable. In this drama, I barely recognized Tsui and loved his cute, young, lovable character. Usually, most of his later roles are of older characters, especially his period/costume drama roles which I also love. I also like Yang Shuo as he is a very, very talented seasoned actor who is also incredibly attractive and his dimples are swoon worthy. I was not overly impressed with FL as her acting skills are very one dimensional and she has no face acting skills. Her face looked like a robot without expression and perpetually mad, cold, depressed or just simply unhappy throughout the show.
Good stuff:
-Great clothes/wardrobe designs although some of the outfits looked like they were trying too hard
,- Scenery, photography excellent
- beautiful and talented actors,/cast
Not so good stuff
- the most ridiculous, Qi Lei's character having a plastic surgery so none, (even his girlfriend) recognizes him??? Seriously?? So, along with the face reconstruction surgery, apparently his voice has also changed, the shape of his face's bone structure changed ( as the young version had a much larger face with a square jawline) he acquired two beautiful dimples, his body shape, height has changed, his mannerisms, smile and teeth seemed to have ALL became unrecognizable even to his closest friends and to his lover?? What a bunch of hogwash! Apparently, whoever wrote this scrip forgot to check with a plastic surgeon as to what is actually possible!! This nonsense made me drop the whole series.
-furthermore, there is absolutely no romance at all, only argument after argument with the FL's vile temper and viscious competition/characters
- Too much "industry" boardroom talk, arguments over monies, very boring
Really too bad as the show had wonderful, talented cast and the storyline could have been interesting and believable minus the nonsense and ridiculous spy side stories.

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Worst FL ever

I started watching this show because one of my favorite actors Xiao Zhan but I honestly can't continue to watch any longer. FL Yang Zi is one of the most annoying, unlikeable actresses I can think of. Especially in this role as a FL, terrible acting, whining, spoiled, ignorant character with no redeeming qualities. I hope Xiao Zhan will get a better FL in his. next drama. The other actors/cast are fantastic professionals, especially Zhai ZiLu, very talented young actor. However, a bad lead actor/actress (FL in this case) can bring down even the best of shows. I am definitely dropping this drama.

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Bizarre...Love to see a remake with age appropriate cast

I have been saving this C Drama in my watchlist for awhile now as I have seen the high ratings and finally have the time to check it out. I don't have a problem with long 70+ episodes dramas and also love some older productions, if it's a good drama, I will watch it no matter how long it is. So.. The drama started with an interesting storyline, sad but interesting, and I was especially excited and looking forward to the young ML/FL story development. And what followed was sooo . Bizarre that I am still wondering what happened. Namely, you see the young men and young/kids, ladies sitting in a school and reciting some poems and in the next take..ready for this... ? In the same school there are these older, middle aged men in their 40s and ladies in their 30' s sitting in the seats, it's like the story travelled 30 years into the future? How do you go from the kids/students aged between 8 - 14 to age 40 or so and still in school at that age? Then they keep saying " young master this and young master that". Like they are trying to hypnotize the audience to believing that these guys are in their youth/20's... and at a marieagble age which according to history, in ancient China, girls start at 15-16 up to mid twenties and men in their 20' ( definitely not in their 40's). So how did we jump the huge age gap in time? Also, bizarre age discrepancies like 5th Miss aged to 30 something and yet, her mother's concubines' age appearance stayed the same. Or the ML father appears to be almost the same age as his son? What are the casting agents and directors were thinking? Did they not read the original story/ book? The actors are great and very professional but maybe not for a role that calls for 20 some years old men and very young women. Sorry. I just simply can't watch 70+episodes forcing my brain to imagine the cast being the age that they are supposed to be and not even close to being in this drama . A+ for effort and I would really like to watch this story if it was ever remade with the age appropriate cast. I am sure the original story writer would agree. I have also noticed that in some C dramas the actors' ages are reversed, namely teenagers are playing roles that calls for a more mature cast and that makes the drama look like a highschool play, or as in this case, middle aged man/women are playing 20 somethings role. What is that about?

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All this vitriol

Can't get past episode 4. The FL being a very aggressive, bitter, vengeful person is extremely unappealing and hard to watch. Generally, you would want to start a drama series with something, possibly positive, appealing to hook your audience to become interested and to like the characters. Here this series starts with a ridiculous Spanish tango between two feuding siblings ( how tacky is that?). Then continues with a violent, aggressive, vindictive entitled girl trying to ruin everything for everyone. Can't continue to watch something so awful and depressing, FL is definitely unlikeable and don't want more of her vitriol.
Life is short, love C dramas that are positive with likeable characters and intelligent storyline. A big NO for me.

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