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A Dream within a Dream chinese drama review
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A Dream within a Dream
3 people found this review helpful
by insouciante
Jul 24, 2025
40 of 40 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 10
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 10.0

Awesome. I couldn’t resist watching the next episode.

This is one of the drama’s that leaves you speechless. I personally enjoyed it. Now don’t think of me as a liu yuning fan supporting his drama, I am just a drama fan supporting a good drama. I would give this a 10 out of 10, which is a solid score.
The story happens in a weird yet common setting. The female lead is an actress who has to work with a famous actor. The story they are doing is not that great and the female lead feels like this will only work because of the fame her co actor has. As she was studying the script, she gets transmigrated into the story. In the story she is supposed to betray her fiancé and marry the male lead. but the male lead cheats on her with her sister and in the end, she dies a tragic death. So now that the female lead knows this she would naturally try to stay away from this end. This is the hilarious path she takes to stay clear from death.

The pros. The main thing about the drama is its story. It is compelling, serious yet awesomely hilarious. We care and fall for the charcter not just because they are the leads or because they are handsome, we are complled by the plot to do that and thus this attraction is super strong. The script is precise and delivers what they have intended and is well paced. The second thing to talk about is naturally the actors. Weather it is liu yuning or li yitong or any onther character, they were all well casted. The acting was soooo good. We could feel the fresh wounds of nan heng through liu yuning and the confusion within song yi meng through li yitong. Special mention includes zhang zheng yang (the emperor, like I hated the charcter to core), chang long (nan rui, I mean he always brought laughter to the group) zhu xu dan, riley wang and many others. Another ood thing was the props. They were realistic. We can tell that a good amount of the budget went into it. The costumes were also great. Another notable and very much appreciable part of the drama is the music-weather it is the ost sang by the leads or other songs- they were lit. the music director chen xuren is amazing. He manged to bring in new sound effect and in corporate modern music to the scenes.
The cons. Not many but I think the jewellery used by everyone is a bit too much at times. Everything else is well placed and paced but the jewels were a bit too shiny and hua chengy (a tgcf reference, means jingling)

Now please do watch this drama the rewatch worth is also so high. The motions are real; wounds are raw and there is an undeniable attraction we feel towards the leads and the drama. Its beautiful. Its marvellous and funny.
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