Mini drama doesn't mean it wasn't licensed. Short dramas can be a kind of wild west but just like radio plays and other transformations, there is a way for these producers to license from the IP holder. They kept all the original names so that tells me they probably licensed it.
A very faithful Chinese vertical drama version of the Korean drama, marry my husband. Scene after scene was copied.…
I disagree. I think the casting in this one was great. I loved the webcomic but feel very mixed feelings about the Korean adaptation. I actually did not finish despite being very excited for it to come out. This Chinese adaptation gave me a lot of the same satisfaction of the webcomic, although it's much abbreviated because it's a short form drama.
This drama needs a trigger warning for disturbing content presented in a reckless and inappropriate way. At least it starts early on so you can drop the drama early.
Yeah, that's why I dropped. I've watched dramas with equally dark content but they didn't present it in the way this drama did, which wants you to not feel sadness or anger, but anxiety and awe at how "powerful" this villain is. Some people have said everyone's motivations in this drama make sense. They must have implicitly mean only the ML's family.
This guy isn't a "worthy adversary" he's just an out of control beast. And there's no reason to be so explicit in the screen play either except to arouse and satisfy evil thoughts. This drama really needs a trigger warning, IMO. I have watched plenty of other dramas which had threats, torture, murder, and rape, but none of them were as inherently triggering as this drama, and it's because of how the topic is handled and presented. Extremely inappropriate, IMO.
This is that show that I keep putting on hold........ for months...... come back only to watch the next couple…
I feel you Bai Jing Ting is great. I hope to see him in another drama, hopefully a better one. I thought his romance in "New Life Begins" was really weak sauce but I saw his potential. The FL from that has been amazing in "Moonlit Reunion" so apparently her character was just too insipid for her acting to shine there.
This drama to me is not just bad but awful. Early in my CDrama journey I watched some terrible dramas just for an actor I liked. I watched "Destiny of the White Snake", an absolutely godawful drama, from beginning to end just for Yang Zi. At this point I'm no longer willing to do that. There are lots of dramas and life is too short.
Worse 😂 it becomes war - rinse and repeat. followed by palace politics - rinse and repeat. The antagonist will…
"I feel like no one is winning. Everyone is just miserable." You just validated my decision to drop this drama. I noticed some really disgusting writing/directing choices early on and decided this drama was not for me. I posted about it on another website and got dog-piled and called crazy. Told I don't understand real life. I sure do, that's why I don't care for dramas where they validate an evil person's point of view and instigate evil thoughts in the viewer.
I've gotten really good at sussing out where a drama is going. It's a shame as I thought the "immature husband" arc had potential. In the end I got a version of that story in "Are You The One?" which is a drama that is a lot more ethically grounded (and satisfying to watch). I can watch immoral things, it's all about the framing, and it's not just writing, it's directing too. Directors manipulate the audience, it's a question of willingness. And I was not willing.
Things get very heavy and intense in a couple episodes from where you are. Also I felt the same about the FL's…
She plays every role the same way. I don't understand the hook she has in some fans because for me it's like watching Allen Ren. He just does a blank cold face and never shows any emotion. She just has a pinched face all the time like she's smelling a fart. Maybe they should star in dramas together for all the viewers who are good at projecting things on a blank face instead of pairing them with someone super charismatic and ruining that person's hard work of a full length drama by making it a chore and unwatchable.
I feel like you overpraised this one. Perhaps because we've had so many bad idol dramas lately that some basic competence seems like a revelation. I did notice that competence, but that's what makes this drama, as you said, weird. Because the base plot is really bad. It seems like they took a really trash novel and tried to make it into a semi-serious story, but it just makes the journey weirder. The original writer was so lacking in self confidence that she gives her Mary Sue not one, but multiple golden fingers? WTF. And I just couldn't get past from the beginning that she is a middle aged woman starting again yet she lacks the maturity or perspective or even the basic social skills I would expect from an accomplished Houfu Furen. Compare to "Princess Royal", a drama I love because she really spoke to me as a middle aged person myself! The main character of Princess Royal shows that kind of ruthlessness of middle aged cognition where she doesn't get caught up in petty drama and zeroes in on planning for her younger brother and worrying about her father's political legacy. I could say the same of the first few acts of "Kunning Palace" (before the drama got weighed down by its stupid plot) where the main character's outlook on life as a middle aged person who has loved and lost is so profoundly different from the immature girls around her.
It was so disorienting to watch Blossom where they tell you in the first episode, "this is who this character is" and then by episode 3 they seem to have completely forgotten?
I get that she's supposed to win all the time. I don't mind watching that. But her abilities rise and fall like the Dow Jones Industrial Average depending on the writer's need at that moment. Apparently a Houfu Furen can't handle a petty little Evil Stepwitch but can have hardened military guys eating out of her hand. Note her back story would support the first, not the second. So wtf? This story makes no sense at all.
I did take some dark comedy out of the fact that one of her golden fingers ("business genius!") becomes her weakness (bapi, skin tearing off) in front of the Evil Stepfamily. That shit was too funny. The show isn't self aware of its bizarre setups and payoffs though. Unlike the Double. I appreciated that the director paused and winked at the audience from time to time! The Double is based on a TRULY terrible webnovel but you completely forget about the novel it's based on while watching. The illusion is complete. You get drawn into its world. Not so with Blossom. One is constantly conscious of this being an IP drama. The scriptwriters keep "correcting" the novel's mistakes but can't seem to find the courage to go all the way, so we get this wavering between attempts at "proper" dramatic storytelling and Mary Sue stupidity.
Remember these novels are often written as short chapters competing with hundreds of other short chapters for coins and tips. Successful authors write small episodes that deliver a particular scenario and emotion for the stressed out worker/student readers to read before bed or during dinner. Then tomorrow, post more of the same. I once read a face slapping novel that was OVER 1000 CHAPTERS of face slapping, the same kind of thing over and over, although she had a certain genius for drawing the scenarios out and always having some new over the top thing to add even though you'd think she'd run out. But in the end it's not satisfying to read at all. It had no substance. There was no point. And it was also a Mary Sue with a golden finger and a super tropey ML as well. Actually, I hated the novel at the end because Mary Sue hadn't learned or changed or grown a single whit from the beginning of the story.
I just couldn't get into Blossom and despite the production values and general competence on a surface level, it completely left me cold. I feel like it's one of the most hackneyed and overrated dramas in the last two years. Even Coroner's Diary is better because it knows what it is and delivers on that. Blossom is an attempt to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse but it still smells like hog.
The leads are really nice looking, great costumes on them despite very low budget. It's spicy with a side of face slapping. Not the most genius script ever but it doesn't drag. It really sucked me in for the first half. Better than average short, especially for ancient setting. I like that they mostly center the main characters and not the villains.
Good choice for language learners. Most of the vocabulary is HSK5, clear, standard Mandarin and easy to read subtitles. When they destroy the audio to remove the music it probably makes it harder to understand, but fortunately I got to watch an ahoy matey version with very good audio.
Hope this helps you and anyone else resdinf this 😅This is a popcorn/trash mini with a LOT of emotional tension…
The plot has holes you can drive a truck through. I would rather recommend watching this drama while very drunk or high. It will then seem like a reasonable and logical story.
Addictive, despite being totally ridiculous at times. 🌸 Cruel FL (towards ML). Some might hate her but I didn’t…
You can just watch first few episodes and just watch the kiss scenes, because the rest of it is not worth watching. Also you need to like BDSM stuff ... just saying.
Based on the comments below, I am understanding that the FL didn't do any revenge thing for seven years! SEVEN…
Exactly. Also, how is it that supposedly super capable mother in law can't do basic math and doesn't realize she's raising a cuckoo chick? FL is dumb as fuck.
This guy isn't a "worthy adversary" he's just an out of control beast. And there's no reason to be so explicit in the screen play either except to arouse and satisfy evil thoughts. This drama really needs a trigger warning, IMO. I have watched plenty of other dramas which had threats, torture, murder, and rape, but none of them were as inherently triggering as this drama, and it's because of how the topic is handled and presented. Extremely inappropriate, IMO.
This drama to me is not just bad but awful. Early in my CDrama journey I watched some terrible dramas just for an actor I liked. I watched "Destiny of the White Snake", an absolutely godawful drama, from beginning to end just for Yang Zi. At this point I'm no longer willing to do that. There are lots of dramas and life is too short.
I've gotten really good at sussing out where a drama is going. It's a shame as I thought the "immature husband" arc had potential. In the end I got a version of that story in "Are You The One?" which is a drama that is a lot more ethically grounded (and satisfying to watch). I can watch immoral things, it's all about the framing, and it's not just writing, it's directing too. Directors manipulate the audience, it's a question of willingness. And I was not willing.
It was so disorienting to watch Blossom where they tell you in the first episode, "this is who this character is" and then by episode 3 they seem to have completely forgotten?
I get that she's supposed to win all the time. I don't mind watching that. But her abilities rise and fall like the Dow Jones Industrial Average depending on the writer's need at that moment. Apparently a Houfu Furen can't handle a petty little Evil Stepwitch but can have hardened military guys eating out of her hand. Note her back story would support the first, not the second. So wtf? This story makes no sense at all.
I did take some dark comedy out of the fact that one of her golden fingers ("business genius!") becomes her weakness (bapi, skin tearing off) in front of the Evil Stepfamily. That shit was too funny. The show isn't self aware of its bizarre setups and payoffs though. Unlike the Double. I appreciated that the director paused and winked at the audience from time to time! The Double is based on a TRULY terrible webnovel but you completely forget about the novel it's based on while watching. The illusion is complete. You get drawn into its world. Not so with Blossom. One is constantly conscious of this being an IP drama. The scriptwriters keep "correcting" the novel's mistakes but can't seem to find the courage to go all the way, so we get this wavering between attempts at "proper" dramatic storytelling and Mary Sue stupidity.
Remember these novels are often written as short chapters competing with hundreds of other short chapters for coins and tips. Successful authors write small episodes that deliver a particular scenario and emotion for the stressed out worker/student readers to read before bed or during dinner. Then tomorrow, post more of the same. I once read a face slapping novel that was OVER 1000 CHAPTERS of face slapping, the same kind of thing over and over, although she had a certain genius for drawing the scenarios out and always having some new over the top thing to add even though you'd think she'd run out. But in the end it's not satisfying to read at all. It had no substance. There was no point. And it was also a Mary Sue with a golden finger and a super tropey ML as well. Actually, I hated the novel at the end because Mary Sue hadn't learned or changed or grown a single whit from the beginning of the story.
I just couldn't get into Blossom and despite the production values and general competence on a surface level, it completely left me cold. I feel like it's one of the most hackneyed and overrated dramas in the last two years. Even Coroner's Diary is better because it knows what it is and delivers on that. Blossom is an attempt to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse but it still smells like hog.
Good choice for language learners. Most of the vocabulary is HSK5, clear, standard Mandarin and easy to read subtitles. When they destroy the audio to remove the music it probably makes it harder to understand, but fortunately I got to watch an ahoy matey version with very good audio.