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I came here for LYN and left with more than I bargained for
I can't rave enough about HOW GOOD this drama is. You want something that will make you laugh, cry and scream? This is it. It is both heartwrenching and heart warming. I hardly hold dramas this high in my ranking but this was just THAT amazing.
Honestly, this drama was not at all anything I expected it to be. I truly had no or super low expectations for this BUT this drama just blew me away.
I initially felt like this drama was a little slow. I was pretty close to dropping it about 12 episodes or so in but I'm glad I didn't. I initially didn't understand Shi Yuan (the cousin's) purpose in all this but I let some parts of it slide because I knew it would come back eventually. Even throughout I felt like they could have hurried it up with some montages and some scenes where a character was mourning over a very unimportant character. Definitely felt like they were trying to drag parts out.
Okay let's start with the male lead, my beloved Liu Yuning. The main and biggest reason for my starting this drama was for this man. I love him to bits so I knew I had to watch this. His acting is just chef's kiss at this point. He's perfected the subtleties of his expressions and because this drama was not redubbed, his voice and his range was amazing. It was so genuine when he stumbled on his words or when the pitch of his voice changed. I think it added so much depth to this character.
I definitely was questioning his character at first. How twisted can one's morals be after having their whole family betrayed and then slayed? I truly loved that he was very very morally grey especially when he cut off that guy's body parts into bits. I think that perfectly painted an extremely good image of the kind of person Wei Shao is. This wasn't some half assed revenge story, this guy was committed and he was cruel. I like 😏
But I didn't like it when he almost low key strangled our FL but I was like NO MUST NOT GIVE UP ON THIS DRAMA.
I also was iffy about Song Zuer and how well she might fit this role and fit LYN since she's much younger than him. BUT DAMN! She was PERFECT! I think I'm tired of seeing "strong FL" where you hand them a sword and tell them swing it around and then call them strong but they're just seriously overbearing. I loved that she showed strength appropriate for women of that time. She was strategic and smart, cunning and calculative in order to achieve the things she needed to ensure her safety, her husband's and her clans. Song Zuer mastered that strength perfectly balanced with her adorableness. She's one of those actresses where I find myself going "GAH SHE'S SO CUTE!" every few minutes.
OKAY AND THEN THE CHEMISTRY 🔥🔥🔥 WOW JUST WOW I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN. THESE PEOPLE KISS LIKE HOT KISS FOR REAL KISS. This ain't some half ass lip touching, this was like for realz for realz. And some scenes were just almost low-key too raunchy for C-drama BUT DAMN! THEY WERE SO COMFORTABLE WITH EACH OTHER AND THEY ACTUALLY LOOKED LIKE THEY LIKED EACH OTHER. LYN always has great chemistry with his FLs BUT THIS TOPS EVERYTHING.
LYN and SZE really owe it to them already knowing each other well enough that it lent itself perfectly to their onscreen chem. I love how much she roasts him (lines with which LYN come up with himself 😂). They played the soft hubby whipped for his tiny wife so well. I love that scene where she's mad at him and he's basically begging her not to be mad and she just turns to him and then she smiles and then they start laughing. I think that's so genuine and something you don't see in Chinese dramas. The director gave them so much creative freedom in this drama to come up with scenes themselves and I think that's what made this drama so perfect.
After finishing this drama, I went back and watched it AGAIN. That was how good it was. Look, if you don't watch this, you're missing out on something life changing.
Honestly, this drama was not at all anything I expected it to be. I truly had no or super low expectations for this BUT this drama just blew me away.
I initially felt like this drama was a little slow. I was pretty close to dropping it about 12 episodes or so in but I'm glad I didn't. I initially didn't understand Shi Yuan (the cousin's) purpose in all this but I let some parts of it slide because I knew it would come back eventually. Even throughout I felt like they could have hurried it up with some montages and some scenes where a character was mourning over a very unimportant character. Definitely felt like they were trying to drag parts out.
Okay let's start with the male lead, my beloved Liu Yuning. The main and biggest reason for my starting this drama was for this man. I love him to bits so I knew I had to watch this. His acting is just chef's kiss at this point. He's perfected the subtleties of his expressions and because this drama was not redubbed, his voice and his range was amazing. It was so genuine when he stumbled on his words or when the pitch of his voice changed. I think it added so much depth to this character.
I definitely was questioning his character at first. How twisted can one's morals be after having their whole family betrayed and then slayed? I truly loved that he was very very morally grey especially when he cut off that guy's body parts into bits. I think that perfectly painted an extremely good image of the kind of person Wei Shao is. This wasn't some half assed revenge story, this guy was committed and he was cruel. I like 😏
But I didn't like it when he almost low key strangled our FL but I was like NO MUST NOT GIVE UP ON THIS DRAMA.
I also was iffy about Song Zuer and how well she might fit this role and fit LYN since she's much younger than him. BUT DAMN! She was PERFECT! I think I'm tired of seeing "strong FL" where you hand them a sword and tell them swing it around and then call them strong but they're just seriously overbearing. I loved that she showed strength appropriate for women of that time. She was strategic and smart, cunning and calculative in order to achieve the things she needed to ensure her safety, her husband's and her clans. Song Zuer mastered that strength perfectly balanced with her adorableness. She's one of those actresses where I find myself going "GAH SHE'S SO CUTE!" every few minutes.
OKAY AND THEN THE CHEMISTRY 🔥🔥🔥 WOW JUST WOW I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN. THESE PEOPLE KISS LIKE HOT KISS FOR REAL KISS. This ain't some half ass lip touching, this was like for realz for realz. And some scenes were just almost low-key too raunchy for C-drama BUT DAMN! THEY WERE SO COMFORTABLE WITH EACH OTHER AND THEY ACTUALLY LOOKED LIKE THEY LIKED EACH OTHER. LYN always has great chemistry with his FLs BUT THIS TOPS EVERYTHING.
LYN and SZE really owe it to them already knowing each other well enough that it lent itself perfectly to their onscreen chem. I love how much she roasts him (lines with which LYN come up with himself 😂). They played the soft hubby whipped for his tiny wife so well. I love that scene where she's mad at him and he's basically begging her not to be mad and she just turns to him and then she smiles and then they start laughing. I think that's so genuine and something you don't see in Chinese dramas. The director gave them so much creative freedom in this drama to come up with scenes themselves and I think that's what made this drama so perfect.
After finishing this drama, I went back and watched it AGAIN. That was how good it was. Look, if you don't watch this, you're missing out on something life changing.
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