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Someone's Idea of Feminism on Crack!! ?
*Deep spiritual sigh* if you like this drama I love that for you but after ep 16 it was a bunch of nonsense 😂😂.
This drama 😒 🙄...is as if 3 different writers from 3 different genre came together and decided they were going to merge their style to script the best drama to rule them all. They sought to be a "realistic" romance, a female-centric revenge à la Alexandre Dumas, and last but not least a breathtaking idol drama with gorgeous idol leads to pull in the idol fans.
Listen, they could have gotten away with it too had it not been the revenge writer's hubris and the idol drama writer's sillines 😂. Them folks were cooking for a cool 16 episodes. They gave us a banger meal.
1. Acting: The show started with the main actress playing Jundai who is not the main character of the story but the cousin of said character. There was a little case of illegal baby swapping at some point, you see. Anyways, Jundai was fire!! Malicious, and rotten to the bone. She gave us one of the best performance as a scene opener to set the story. And then when you thought she couldn't be anymore villainous she bashes someone head ON SCREEN. 10 out of 10. I was hollering and hooting the whole time. Because what do you mean?!! And then halfway to the story when they took out the main antagonists (and quite frankly the best and only ones that mattered) down, we got 2 veteran actress who gave us a master class in acting. Just raw feeling in the screen bro!! This lady said "You weren't trying to break me, you were trying to break my soul" just because I'm pretty, have a fat ass, and you man didn't want you so he dropped you for me? Ok i added the last part but yeah just chef kiss good. And then the evil Aunt monologue...my god that ish still gives me the chills. That little nasty half whisper and breath screech talk she does when she want to sound even more disturbed lol. Oh so good!she was the stepmother in Story Of MingLan and I have loved her ever since. She is such an amazinf actress. Tian Xiwei is a solid actress. It ain't her fault the script got stupid at the end. From episode 1-17 I enjoyed her acting and shenanigans. Obviously, she has room to grow but I'd say this was one of her best performance.
2. Story: 🤣🤣🤣🤣 because I have already said SO VEHEMENTLY how stupid I find the 2nd half in the comments sections already of this show main age on here, I don't have the strength to muster anything else. But we went from a peasant girl who used to go around to scoop rich folks excrements to noble lady who can take down noble families, rixh and influential lords, princes and crown princes, and 2 empresses, accurately predicts and emperor every move with little no consequences within a period of 1-2 years. And also be a secret vigilante and part-time ninja at night lol. Can't forget that one! I know you think I'm pulling your leg but I am deadass. The story ends with her about to act like a possible "regent " of some sort to her nephew until he comes of age. And yeah her nephew rigth, is also conveniently the child of her half-brother the emperor and her foster sister. You know because the emperor had 2 wives BUT ONLY HER SISTER can pregnant duh! How convenient 🤔 ! When I tell you it's feminism "TM" on crack!! Or whatever these people think feminism is I guess lol.
Between the 3 writer or writing style I don't know who decided they were gonna add a dash of the "feminist herbs" to the recipe, but couldn't have been the romance writer. The romance was barely there.
Anyways the 2nd half of the show was so ridiculous that it removed all of the good will I had for the 1st half. If you're a romance girlie and really want to watch it because the ML pairing is so tempting, I say watch ep1-16 and then watch the rest at 1.5x speed. If you're a "smart revenge show" type of fan, there is revenge in the second half but none of the characters were well fleshed-out or developed so I don't know how much you can enjoy this mess. I guess you can try to make the scheming and "strategies " make sense but only if you go in it knowing that everyone in the shownisnjust a bunch of dumbasses with no common sense and she is the only smart one lol. And of course, her arm candy of a husband can be too but only when it serves HER SIDE of the story...because feminism duh🫠. If you're for Yan An...prepare to be disappointed lol. We barely got to see him being "an idol" actor because the FL was too busy running around with that one other guy for no good reason that serves the plot if you ask me🙄🙄...except well she's a Mary-Sue so of course ALL OF THE MAIN BOYS love her and her only. No other girl exist in the supposedly "girl's girl" show.
Alright now go on and be happy. It's a harmless nonsense show to couch rot on.
This drama 😒 🙄...is as if 3 different writers from 3 different genre came together and decided they were going to merge their style to script the best drama to rule them all. They sought to be a "realistic" romance, a female-centric revenge à la Alexandre Dumas, and last but not least a breathtaking idol drama with gorgeous idol leads to pull in the idol fans.
Listen, they could have gotten away with it too had it not been the revenge writer's hubris and the idol drama writer's sillines 😂. Them folks were cooking for a cool 16 episodes. They gave us a banger meal.
1. Acting: The show started with the main actress playing Jundai who is not the main character of the story but the cousin of said character. There was a little case of illegal baby swapping at some point, you see. Anyways, Jundai was fire!! Malicious, and rotten to the bone. She gave us one of the best performance as a scene opener to set the story. And then when you thought she couldn't be anymore villainous she bashes someone head ON SCREEN. 10 out of 10. I was hollering and hooting the whole time. Because what do you mean?!! And then halfway to the story when they took out the main antagonists (and quite frankly the best and only ones that mattered) down, we got 2 veteran actress who gave us a master class in acting. Just raw feeling in the screen bro!! This lady said "You weren't trying to break me, you were trying to break my soul" just because I'm pretty, have a fat ass, and you man didn't want you so he dropped you for me? Ok i added the last part but yeah just chef kiss good. And then the evil Aunt monologue...my god that ish still gives me the chills. That little nasty half whisper and breath screech talk she does when she want to sound even more disturbed lol. Oh so good!she was the stepmother in Story Of MingLan and I have loved her ever since. She is such an amazinf actress. Tian Xiwei is a solid actress. It ain't her fault the script got stupid at the end. From episode 1-17 I enjoyed her acting and shenanigans. Obviously, she has room to grow but I'd say this was one of her best performance.
2. Story: 🤣🤣🤣🤣 because I have already said SO VEHEMENTLY how stupid I find the 2nd half in the comments sections already of this show main age on here, I don't have the strength to muster anything else. But we went from a peasant girl who used to go around to scoop rich folks excrements to noble lady who can take down noble families, rixh and influential lords, princes and crown princes, and 2 empresses, accurately predicts and emperor every move with little no consequences within a period of 1-2 years. And also be a secret vigilante and part-time ninja at night lol. Can't forget that one! I know you think I'm pulling your leg but I am deadass. The story ends with her about to act like a possible "regent " of some sort to her nephew until he comes of age. And yeah her nephew rigth, is also conveniently the child of her half-brother the emperor and her foster sister. You know because the emperor had 2 wives BUT ONLY HER SISTER can pregnant duh! How convenient 🤔 ! When I tell you it's feminism "TM" on crack!! Or whatever these people think feminism is I guess lol.
Between the 3 writer or writing style I don't know who decided they were gonna add a dash of the "feminist herbs" to the recipe, but couldn't have been the romance writer. The romance was barely there.
Anyways the 2nd half of the show was so ridiculous that it removed all of the good will I had for the 1st half. If you're a romance girlie and really want to watch it because the ML pairing is so tempting, I say watch ep1-16 and then watch the rest at 1.5x speed. If you're a "smart revenge show" type of fan, there is revenge in the second half but none of the characters were well fleshed-out or developed so I don't know how much you can enjoy this mess. I guess you can try to make the scheming and "strategies " make sense but only if you go in it knowing that everyone in the shownisnjust a bunch of dumbasses with no common sense and she is the only smart one lol. And of course, her arm candy of a husband can be too but only when it serves HER SIDE of the story...because feminism duh🫠. If you're for Yan An...prepare to be disappointed lol. We barely got to see him being "an idol" actor because the FL was too busy running around with that one other guy for no good reason that serves the plot if you ask me🙄🙄...except well she's a Mary-Sue so of course ALL OF THE MAIN BOYS love her and her only. No other girl exist in the supposedly "girl's girl" show.
Alright now go on and be happy. It's a harmless nonsense show to couch rot on.
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