美人谋略 aka "Beauty Strategy" - this is an excellent Drama with her playing a very capable Merchant Daughter who leaves her fiancé after learning he wants to downgrade her to a concubine.
Not sure what;s going on regarding the last link, but it's definitely not Zhao Huinan playing the FL here. She actually looks a bit like Zhang Chu Xuan.
It could be this one: Title:"Female bandit's soul travels to the modern era to snatch a husband and is adored by the whole family." | 女土匪魂穿现代抢亲后，被全家宠上天
From the perspective, it's quite interesting that this Drama has a "smart female lead" tag, but doesn't have a "badass female lead" one - if I had to choose, Ren Xin was much more "badass" than "smart".
Overall, many months later, it remains a disappointing show with a huge potential, one of the biggest "What if...?" during my ongoing Tour de C-Dramas.
Okay, I finally watched enough to write a few words: - I always felt the word "beautiful" is overused, but Wang Chu Ran is definitely one of the examples where it isn't. - This Drama is bland/boring, yet watchable/cute. However, not on the level of "Blossom" or "Flourished Peonies", it also has a zero repeat factor. - It would be much better with 24 or 32 episodes - It's a rare Drama where both powerful leads are portrayed as equals based on the fighting, scheming and other skills - It's even more rare that the ML barely saves the FL, as she does a splendid job navigating through all kinds of troubles on her own - Of course standards tropes: the FL kills left and right when shooting, but then suddenly misses a bit when the target is someone important. The Drama, of course, has to end with the Rebellion and all the main villains living until the end. - Did I mention that Wang Chu Ran is exceptionally beautiful? :)
My rating is 6/10 (Douban-like, where no Drama is 10/10, Nirvana In Fire is 9/10, and the crap like The Double or Legend of the Female General is 5/10 at max).
It's a very good Drama, with an FL killing 2ML spectacularly in an original timeline.
The only downside is typical - Romance, especially the fact that such a smart, resourceful FL wasn't able to figure things out about the ML's identity because of some shitty mask.
Due to a lot of praise going in FL's way, I still hope to watch it one day. But: 1) Her assassination attempt in the 1st episode was laughably bad, making me worry about how smart she can get later. 2) Her maid's schtick quickly got very tiring.
I really liked the FL here, for once, the writers made Mu Guying badass enough in combat. However, for me, it had way too many supernatural elements to consider it really good.
Just watched some clips and they looked decent, but then I saw posts about the lack of intelligence and poor decision making from the fL, which is a big turn off.
is this better than story of yanxi palace? i remember enjoying that one
Definitely less entertaining than Yanxi, but overall higher quality IMO. Yanxi Palace is like a gold standard of Idol Dramas. Minglan is a gold standard of "Slice of life" Dramas. Both FL's are very smart (but seen smarter), but even between them, there are differences - Yinglou is more proactive, while Minglan is more reactive.
Unfortunately, YouTube recently deleted links with it, so at the moment only Raw versions are available - https://www.qssteelcasting.com/vodplay/198265/5/1.html
Not sure what;s going on regarding the last link, but it's definitely not Zhao Huinan playing the FL here.
She actually looks a bit like Zhang Chu Xuan.
It could be this one:
Title:"Female bandit's soul travels to the modern era to snatch a husband and is adored by the whole family." | 女土匪魂穿现代抢亲后，被全家宠上天
Overall, many months later, it remains a disappointing show with a huge potential, one of the biggest "What if...?" during my ongoing Tour de C-Dramas.
- I always felt the word "beautiful" is overused, but Wang Chu Ran is definitely one of the examples where it isn't.
- This Drama is bland/boring, yet watchable/cute. However, not on the level of "Blossom" or "Flourished Peonies", it also has a zero repeat factor.
- It would be much better with 24 or 32 episodes
- It's a rare Drama where both powerful leads are portrayed as equals based on the fighting, scheming and other skills
- It's even more rare that the ML barely saves the FL, as she does a splendid job navigating through all kinds of troubles on her own
- Of course standards tropes: the FL kills left and right when shooting, but then suddenly misses a bit when the target is someone important. The Drama, of course, has to end with the Rebellion and all the main villains living until the end.
- Did I mention that Wang Chu Ran is exceptionally beautiful? :)
My rating is 6/10 (Douban-like, where no Drama is 10/10, Nirvana In Fire is 9/10, and the crap like The Double or Legend of the Female General is 5/10 at max).
The only downside is typical - Romance, especially the fact that such a smart, resourceful FL wasn't able to figure things out about the ML's identity because of some shitty mask.
1) Her assassination attempt in the 1st episode was laughably bad, making me worry about how smart she can get later.
2) Her maid's schtick quickly got very tiring.
However, for me, it had way too many supernatural elements to consider it really good.
I actually should like "Fated Hearts" due to FL being great in badassery playing in "Song of Glory", but I still couldn't continue after 4-5 episodes.
Yanxi Palace is like a gold standard of Idol Dramas.
Minglan is a gold standard of "Slice of life" Dramas.
Both FL's are very smart (but seen smarter), but even between them, there are differences - Yinglou is more proactive, while Minglan is more reactive.