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My favorite part is the “But a dream” OST

To start this off, I will say overall this story was nice, the fantasy twist was an inch away from ruining it but it salvaged itself in the end.

I think one of my favorite things about this drama is that there was no 2nd leads, it was all a bunch of people in love trying to actually be together, from beginning to end, which in kdramas I genuinely think is unique.

The fantasy part, the body switching, up to episode 12 I genuinely disliked that, I felt like it was such a useless plot addition that changed absolutely nothing. However, in the last 2 episodes I was proven wrong, I’m glad they gave it an actual purpose, them switching bodies before they infiltrated that mountain base was certainly smarter since our FL genuinely won’t have anything to do there. And the body switching in the end, well when you think logically it feels useless since in the end they both are alive, but it tugged on my heartstrings so much.

The villain story pissed me off more than made me sad, like yea I get it too, he did so much for her for all those years, all he wanted was her, seeing him put the vow in her mirror just because maybe it might help her recover her memories was sweet, I also understand him “giving her away” because he believed that the king has money and will definitely spoil her more, BUT, bro did not even try, genuinely if he wanted to at the time, he could have. But I will say amazing acting cause their end did make me feel sorry for them, in the end they both loved each other.

The OSTs are all so good but “But a dream” is such a good song, I’m basically listening to it every day.

So yea overall, this was worth the watch.

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Amazing music.

My favorite thing about this entire drama is the music, the random action/funny music that would pop in « exciting » scenes. At some scenes I was even more focused on reading the lyrics of the songs than what the characters were saying, genuinely, a job well done in that aspect.
To be fair, I enjoyed this overall, but at the end it felt like it got.. heavy, it felt like the pacing was all over the place. However, I will not deny that the plot itself and the characters were well made in my opinion, so it still is a well worthy watch.
Ps: the accessories were too over the top

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Amazing romantasy.

Writing this review after my second time watching this cause I love this drama.
Honestly I'm usually not a fan of fantasy korean dramas cause I never found watched any that I felt are good, however this drama was an exception for me. I loved it from beginning to end, the journey of Park Shin Hye from how she started as Justitia and slowly learned more about emotions is just amazingly good. The action scenes were also so well done.
I genuinely liked this so much overall that I feel like there's nothing bad to say about it for me. I highly recommend watching this.

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Disappointing

1/ I don’t feel the slightest attraction from the couple (especially from the fl)
2/ You are taking care of a pet hospital, for someone who cares so much about animals girlie just signs and doesn’t care to check things
3/ the ml is too ungrateful, what do you mean she moved in with you cause YOU pretended she was ur doctor and now you get annoyed at the slightest bullshit.
Honestly the only reason I watched so far is because of the animals that were too cute. Overall the plot was not bad, acting was a little bit meh, genuinely think the romance between them was non existent (maybe it gets better after 21 episodes but I’m not sticking around to finish that)

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Amazing drama, absolutely loved it.

I adore this drama. Cast, acting, story, everything (except their 2 spirit animals’ looks in their animal form) was amazing.
It was literally a never ending cycle of sacrifice and it made me tear up so many times. I love how they changed everything and protected everybody. I do think that Situ Ling didn’t have to go down a bad hill (I’m kinda tired of second MlLs turning evil once the Fl rejects, it’s an overused plot line at this point) and Fuyue deserved better, an actual happy ending not one where she’s pining over her dead love.
Either ways, overall, this was genuinely so good, absolutely worth the watch.

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A fun story that gets better the more you dive in.

First things first, in terms of accessories, This drama was on point. I've been slightly annoyed how almost every historical chinese drama I watch always has overrated accessories. This one though was perfect, the FL's over the top accessories make sense because she is literally a concubine in the palace, and every scene makes sense, she is accessorized when is needed to be, and not accessorized when it's clearly unwanted. So genuinely amazing work from the team who picked the accessories.

Now Story, this was very cute. They truly felt like besties who were making mischief at some points and overall just trying to protect each other since they are the only 2 who got transmigrated from their world.
I like in a way the fact that you can see just how badly the FL struggled when she first came to the world of the novel and how even though she kept calling them 2D characters, she truly couldn't fathom the idea of anybody, no matter how random they are, dying. That's kind of what exposed the ML since almost the beginning. He had gotten accustomed to that life after years of being there and he knew that the slightest weakness would make him more prone to attacks.

I love the FL's character growth in which she truly stopped considering the world fake and realized that she was dealing with people who might be from another world, but are just as real as her. We see this most clearly in her scenes with the scholars. All the deaths when nearing the end of the drama felt so..relevant and meaningful (I'm so glad not all of the scholars died it would have been so disappointing)

So all in all, I truly did enjoy this, the plot was fun, the characters were properly created, and the good acting was the cherry on top.

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Not an amazing love story, but amazing friendships

I was rewatching this and I now understand even more why I liked this when I first watched. Yes the story is a bit bland, the plot is a bit messy but there were 2 main things I actually enjoyed.
1/ the trope, honestly I personally am quite a fan of the gamer/gamer trope. This drama executed it.. messily but I still found it relatively funny. The whole 'dynamic' was so messy therefore funny
2/ The friendships. It's very rare that dramas about romance are able to portray friendships in a nice way, but this one did so amazingly. The characters all displayed a certain level of maturity that I don't often see with other 'extremely romantic' stories. I assume this is due to the weird concept of 'if you love somebody, they mean everything to you and you depend on them for everything'. This idea has been portrayed by so many others dramas that it's a bit disturbing. I love how this drama portrayed not only true friendship, but also proper independence from the other partner. Around the ending when the whole company acquisition thing happened, the FL displayed proper backbone instead of just going along with it. In so many instance, we get to see not just the FL and ML but all characters properly treating their friends.

So overall, this might not have been an amazing love story, however I will give it full credit where it's due. This one truly outshined so many other stories for me just because of it's friendship dynamics.

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A true enemies to lovers

A true enemies to lovers.
My favorite thing about this is that those who needed to die, actually died. There were a few sacrifices sadly like every drama, but I’m happy Xiyang didn’t end up with Emperor of Jinxui and that he actually died. Speaking of Xiyang, when the whole marriage situation started, her childishness was highlighted, and by the end, I think she is the character that had the best character development. From how she was at first, to how she used to emperor to what she became in the end, amazing all of it. The funniest thing I found is how the emperor of Jinxui felt like a wattpad bad boy “you hit me? how interesting, now I love you”, this part was genuinely hilarious.
The main couple 😩. Genuinely what a match, I love that when they met they actually hated each other, I hate stories that romanticize meeting in war, it’s brutal and that’s what made it good. Their acting was good overall.
As always, lots of things were expected like how the death camp was ran by Jingshi but it was still nice.
Either ways, overall, a really nice enjoyable watch.
Technicalities wise, at some scenes, the volume of the music was higher than the sounds of people talking so that tilted me a bit.

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Overall, an enjoyable watch (with potentially a some tears)

There’s a lot I want to say about this, starting from the fact that it felt like somebody took all the clichés in romantasy enemies to lovers books and made a story, HOWEVER, I still ate this up, regardless of how predictable every single step was (figuring out who bai xi is from the 1st episode was.. anticlimactic), the way everything was put together was nice. As every historical chinese drama, the ending felt rushed sadly, it took us so long to get there, but then in 5min everything wraps up, that’s frustrating.

The actors did a really good job honestly, I was sad when they were sad, and happy when they were happy.

The music is amazing, I enjoyed it so much and they worked really well with the entire drama.

I think my least favorite thing about this entire drama is the accessories, fiction aside, why are the main actors always so loaded with so many accessories, it felt like bombardement at some point honestly.

Either ways, overall I really enjoyed this, it was certainly worth the time I spent on it.

PS: I was not sad over Jin Lei’s death cause bro is the most impulsive brat I’ve ever seen (literally with his ‘job’ he is comparable to if a doctor went into a surgery being like ‘oh let me open this person up and decide then what to do’

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A fun watch if you like psychotic characters

To start this off, the acting 😩The acting was so good I don’t care what anybody says, almost every single character did their job perfectly from beginning to end.
I think my favorite part of this drama is that it’s not actually revenge, it’s just a story about a psychopath that wants to destroy almost everything. If anything I found this a really fun watch.
I do understand the people who said the ending was meh, but honestly I found the ending okay, not amazing, but acceptable. In the end she got exposed, and the best part about it, is that her biggest confidant did it, not even because he hated her, but because till the end he loved her.
Either ways, overall I actually enjoyed this, it was a short nice watch.

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Overall, super fun.

So let’s start this off, I will list down the things I liked and the things I didn’t like in this.
- Plot overall, I enjoyed it. I’m quite a fan of mystery and triller novels so I found this fun to pursue, I started suspecting both of the Drs around mid drama but I felt like there wasn’t enough conclusive evidence. I never truly suspected that Yang Jungho was the killer but I was sure he was either an accomplice or knew the killer. And that led me to « oh so he must be protecting an orphan from the orphanage he lived in » but the question was who? Considering that we didn’t know enough about the Drs and everybody else, it was a bit tough to navigate but that made it all the more fun.
- I think a vital part of mystery and triller series or novels, is actually explaining how the murders were done, so I’m relatively sad that didn’t happen here, I’m glad we got a small clue as to why lee miyoung’s death was prolonged compared to the others (the music) but it didn’t feel satisfactory in a way not showing the murders, even though Ena in her analysis did predict pretty accurately how they did happen.
- I think that showcasing Ena as a bit emotionaless is supposed to be « oh she has a higher IQ and less EQ than the average person » so it’s more than her being quirky or weird, it’s that she genuinely has less EQ which crumbles a bit at the end when we see her talk with Lee Seujong and trying to convince her to not kill herself. There were definitely other scenes where you see her emotions seep up a bit, but that one was the only one in which we see her vulnerable in a way.
I think that’s overall it, I don’t have a lot of complaints because I genuinely felt excited watching this, it gave me that thrill of « oh let’s actually try to find the killer before Ena does » which was fun.

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A good love story. That’s it.

The first credit I would like to give to this story, is that it relatively feels real. Usually dramas are too fictional to relate to (ceo/yn, rich/poor), obviously this had a few aspects like that, but they didn’t take over the plot. The story is real, that’s what it was that attracted me to it. I actually felt the character growth in a way (a bit lacking) but still the ml especially deserved an honorable mention. By the end, the ml didn’t blame her, or anybody else, he knew that he saw some signs and he ignored them, and that he shouldn’t have done that. For the fl, the steps she had taken, are inspiring. Having gone through such traumatic events, she managed to slowly find herself and even got to her own conclusion by herself, that running away won’t get her anywhere. HOWEVER, one thing that bothered me till the end, is their relationship with their best friends. I know that this is a romance story, I know that the result is supposed to be « Now they can be together happily ever after forever », but at the end it felt like the fl genuinely did not care about anybody but the ml, she created a dependency which in real life would be too frightening. And even putting that aside, they were both bad friends, not once did they value their best friends enough to prioritize them. The ml outright skimmed through the dog passing away part and the fl never cared about her best friend’s feelings when she disappeared or even just when it’s obvious that she’s upset. Keeping in mind that their best friends both respectively prioritized them at so many other occasions.
So overall, if we’re just focusing on the romance, it was a nice story, but the best friends aspect was genuinely disappointing.

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A surprisingly good multiple leads story.

This was genuinely super fun. To be honest, I’ve never liked multiple leads stories, but this one was an exception for me. I can’t deny that I do have certain favorite couples over others (in my case it’s the 3rd sister and 5th sister stories), but I did find all of them enjoyable. Not gonna lie, a lot of cliché thrown together, but it was still done in a nice way that made me appreciate it. I really love the sister relationship in the entire story, and the daughter mother relationship, it was precious and I love how at any obstacle, they’re all willing to throw hands. The later on developed relationship between the brothers in law was also very wholesome yet funny.
Overall, I enjoyed this a lot. At some points the pacing felt a bit off, but to be honest I ignored that and just enjoyed my time.
Ps: I loved the accessories in this one.

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