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i started watching cu it had two of my most favorite things in a cdrama - marriage of convenience and ding yuxi lmao, like these were actually my only two reasons
i was waiting for prisoner of beauty to air and melody of golden age was the closest to it and bonus bonus i get ding yuxi so i started watching it. i had almost no epectations from the female lead as i had never seen her before (imagine the mental turmoil i had to go through when i got to know she is younger than me and got to be with ding yuxi imma cry) and she did impress me with her skills. this might be a bit off-topic but i love her nose scrunch sm like ive never seen someone wrinkling their nose like that i found it so oddly cute lmao.
the story started out great with fl being married off to ml in the first few episodes for her to work as a spy for another palace official but she never wanted to be a spy but to only follow her passion, that is, solving mysteries and becoming an official. she does just that, all through the drama she solved quite a few cases advancing in rank as she did so. one thing i did not like about her was that she was rewarded way too often for absolute no reason at times, other than that i loved everything about her
ding yuxi was just the perfect ml wehn it all started but once he became soft for fl it was all gone with the tide amen (mind you im not saying the character went bad or something) he became a loser in love (with all due respect) and i love him for that, go baby boy. he was everything fr like girls this is the standard, however, the way his character progressed in the last two episodes did not really apeal with me that much. the ending they gave him was good but not good enough
the story is nice, it starts off nice and slows down quite a bit at the latter half like they were solving cases so well and the main mystery had so much potential but they revealed it so half-hazardly i did not enjoy it much, the explanation was good but the directory was just not it, it couldve been so much better.
i loved the side characters sm AND GOD FORBID i loved that no one i loved had to be unalived oh my god. i knew lai louzhi would die but still had some hope for him idk why but he kinda was a softie at heart kinda person even though i knew he was the most bipolar person there.
nevertheless i enjoyed it and i want ding yuxi in another character like this(who am i kidding all his costume dramas are the same character)