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A Dream within a Dream chinese drama review
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A Dream within a Dream
2 people found this review helpful
by LiFeS_G0oD
Aug 22, 2025
40 of 40 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.5
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
This review may contain spoilers

You just have to persevere! Haha

Like the title said, you just need some perseverance to finish this and perhaps you might find that the series is not that bad after all. Lol. Frankly, it gives almost, if not one of the best endings so far in the history of costume dramas. Lol. Apart from giving us a child by the end of it, the ending was so lovey dovey and satisfying to watch. Love it!

The plot. Well. It was quite a fresh theme, usually we just see the lead being transmigrate into the story and off they go taking the place of the character and there is that. However, in this, the element of transmigration is kept on being main focus in the plot until the end. It needs quite a while for me to enjoy it, especially since the FL seems to be quite focus on it and hard-headedly rejecting the ML because of it and it kills us as viewers and some might drop this halfway due to the frustration. Lol. But looking at it from the FL’s view, of course she would be quite hardheaded, i mean, the ML quite literally breaks her heart, used her, stab her in the back and screw her sister before making her a human swine (second time watching this being used after scum villain system lol), so it was quite understandable for her to refuse Nang Heng at first. But the plot also brings a lot of laugh as well. So many funny things happened and it was basically a comedy drama. Haha. However, the plot for CGH almost had me coughing blood in rage i swear to god that character irks me so much with no redemption until the end. I also would like to string the emperor’s feet to a torture device at first (he was basically the most unjust ruler and father so far in the history of emperor father) but at least he changed lol. Some plots was half baked like the plot of NH looking for Qianyu’s Army method for sword welding and i always find the plot having 2 different army in the capital doesnt make much sense, especially if the emperor’s army is not that established it seems

Nang Heng was Nang Heng, and of course LYN did splendid in his role as authoritative loving prince (and oh my, he was good at being those) who is secretly a puppy in disguise when in love. Lol. I did watch LYT before but it was in Glory of the Special Force, and her role there was not quite much, so basically this is my first drama of hers as FL, and tbh, she was almost a carbon copy of Bailu in my eyes, cant believe they look so much alike! Her acting is fine, she did well in comedy and crying scenes (even though Song Yimeng almost always cried while scolding NH during the sad scenes. Lol. Like Song Yiting and Shangguan He’s characters, it was refreshing not to have an annoying second FL, instead we got a smart and supportive one.

OST was of course chef kissed, especially the one of LYN’s. Totally keeping the vibe of the scenes each time. The costumes were all an eye candy, be it for the main leads or for the supporting casts, seems like they have a high budget for it. I especially like the costumes for Nang Heng, super luxurious and godlooking
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