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The characters deserved a plot more consistent but it's still enjoyable
I had a good time watching this drama even I have mixed feelings.
Firstly the costumes and the cinematography (love how they highlighted the colour pink it’s so rare in c-drama land) were exquisite. It was respectfully Zhou Yiran’s best look 🤌🏾. The acting was cool too, I think everyone did their part specially the main leads.
The relationship between Mu Qingyan and Cai Zhao was interesting. Since the story was too fast paced in the beginning we failed to understand why he was so attached to her in this little spam of time but I liked how their relationship developed afterward.
However it was a little one sided at some point. I agreed with Cai Zhao for the matter of abandoning her family and sect at first because yes we don't want to see women abandoning their all life for the sake of man.
But the more we saw the different members of the Six Righteous Sects, the more we came across their hypocrisy and selfishness. So you can’t just seek a little peaceful and happy life when the people around you are clearly off. Does that not make you an hypocrite as well ? What is freedom and happiness when you turn blind toward injustice ? I wish the plot confronted this contradiction more deeply : not following MQY blindly but yes reflecting about the world around her.
My Qingyan is a great part of why this drama was good to me. He was cunning, manipulative, did not fret about using people to get what he wanted, ruthless when it was necessary. And I liked that about him : Many ML character’s are presented this way these days but turn into softies in the middle which can be disappointing sometimes.
I wished they also gave him a true purpose for his life, to make his relationship with Zhao’s more healthy though. I did not want him to be stripped oh his personality just a little change to make his character more deeper.
The main vilain is predictable, I had my doubts from the start so it wasn’t a surprise. I was disappointed for the reasons he did that though. Maybe if they revealed it sooner and added more depth to him I could’ve understood him to some extent but for what it worth no. The side characters are good, I quite liked a few of them, some are annoying but their role makes sense.
For the parts that makes the drama very mixed for me :
First, the editing is truly horrible in the 5 first episodes, it gets little bit better after but sometimes it’s getting odd again. And it’s a big problem because it prevent the audience to understand the plot. They introduced way too more characters in a little spam of time, and it’s too fast-paced to understand the story properly. I persevered and had a good time but not everyone has the patience clearly.
I feel the characters and the world building deserved more. Honestly with more consistency, a better beginning and editing, a proper presentation of the old generation it could’ve been lit.
Firstly the costumes and the cinematography (love how they highlighted the colour pink it’s so rare in c-drama land) were exquisite. It was respectfully Zhou Yiran’s best look 🤌🏾. The acting was cool too, I think everyone did their part specially the main leads.
The relationship between Mu Qingyan and Cai Zhao was interesting. Since the story was too fast paced in the beginning we failed to understand why he was so attached to her in this little spam of time but I liked how their relationship developed afterward.
However it was a little one sided at some point. I agreed with Cai Zhao for the matter of abandoning her family and sect at first because yes we don't want to see women abandoning their all life for the sake of man.
But the more we saw the different members of the Six Righteous Sects, the more we came across their hypocrisy and selfishness. So you can’t just seek a little peaceful and happy life when the people around you are clearly off. Does that not make you an hypocrite as well ? What is freedom and happiness when you turn blind toward injustice ? I wish the plot confronted this contradiction more deeply : not following MQY blindly but yes reflecting about the world around her.
My Qingyan is a great part of why this drama was good to me. He was cunning, manipulative, did not fret about using people to get what he wanted, ruthless when it was necessary. And I liked that about him : Many ML character’s are presented this way these days but turn into softies in the middle which can be disappointing sometimes.
I wished they also gave him a true purpose for his life, to make his relationship with Zhao’s more healthy though. I did not want him to be stripped oh his personality just a little change to make his character more deeper.
The main vilain is predictable, I had my doubts from the start so it wasn’t a surprise. I was disappointed for the reasons he did that though. Maybe if they revealed it sooner and added more depth to him I could’ve understood him to some extent but for what it worth no. The side characters are good, I quite liked a few of them, some are annoying but their role makes sense.
For the parts that makes the drama very mixed for me :
First, the editing is truly horrible in the 5 first episodes, it gets little bit better after but sometimes it’s getting odd again. And it’s a big problem because it prevent the audience to understand the plot. They introduced way too more characters in a little spam of time, and it’s too fast-paced to understand the story properly. I persevered and had a good time but not everyone has the patience clearly.
I feel the characters and the world building deserved more. Honestly with more consistency, a better beginning and editing, a proper presentation of the old generation it could’ve been lit.
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