TTR - The Truth Review

Righteous sects??? You must be joking. Useless, weak, pathetic losers!

I thought I was gonna write a long summary breaking each episode into sort of segments but I can’t be bothered to be honest because I’m just disappointed.

Firstly, the story is excellent. I really like it. However the execution was woeful. The writing choices were just terrible.

The acting was good, but I marked it down because of the villains annoying, crazy laugh

The music was also good and generally appropriate to the scene but having sad music when the villain meets their demise is just all kinds of wrong.

I’m really annoyed about the female lead stabbing our male lead in the heart TWICE for revenge over her dad‘s death. I understand her impulsive and irrational behaviour but when she actually finds out the truth we get a half hearted apology and she literally does nothing to the actual perpetrator.

She was so determined on taking revenge for her dad‘s death against our hero. Where was this energy for the actual person who did it? Annoying.

I was getting tired of watching EVERY EPISODE seeing our heroes getting wrongly accused, slandered against, tortured and nearly killed. Of course all they said once it was proved they were wronged is that it’s fine, don’t worry about it, I don’t blame you.

They kept overly using the word righteous to describe these heavenly sects. It was funny at first but became came unbearable because every single one of these people were complete and utter scumbags.

As soon as they needed help, they came begging the male lead but as soon as the tiniest little thing went wrong, they were quick to blame him and use torture or other foul means to strip him of his title and position.

To top this off, in the last episode we have to watch for 10 minutes our female lead crying so brokenheartedly over the villain (2ml) who manipulated, ruined her life, basically enslaved her and would’ve had no problem violating her if it wasn’t because of the backlash. Please make it make sense..

For the first half a dozen episode, I thought this was going to be a strong 8 but it quickly unravelled into a complete mess.

I was sceptical watching 40 episodes of 45 minutes but I found myself watching intently without skipping for the first 10 or so episodes. That’s how good this could’ve been.

What a shame!

PS. I’m still waiting for the conversation between the male lead and his mum about the time she tried to kill him.

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Do the ends justify the means?

I like this show. It’s a good Netflix show that has 36 episodes and approximately 45 minutes each. Ming Yi (ming xian) is the FL who loses the Qingyun tournament to the ML Ji Bozai after a seven year win streak. She was always been disguised as the crown Prince and because of our loss,This causes her to be abandoned by her people and she then wants to seek revenge against the ML because she believes he poisoned her.. she turns up in his realm as her original female self and it turns out he didn’t poison her, but it was her scheming brother who wanted the crown Prince title for himself. They eventually work together and become a really good team and I really enjoyed the chemistry between them even though the female lead was a bit infuriating at times and it doesn’t annoy me how the heroes are so passive when it comes to dealing with the villains and with their emotions and feelings. It took me quite a long time to get through this because I wasn’t compelled to binge watch one episode after another so I ended up watching a few going to another drama and then coming back.. the one thing that really did bother me was the MLS master Bo Yulan who incidentally was the FL’s Auntie. The main problem I have is no matter how righteous , kind and decent she was she ultimately nearly killed a baby. She then abandoned this baby into the pits of hell (our ML) and then took him as her apprentice to help him. They reconciled all this quite neatly but ultimately the story framed her as one of the good guys when actually she was the scummiest of scumbags going because of that act of horrendous abuse and neglect. The reason I mentioned this is because the writers clearly wanted us to sympathise with her and always played soft sad music to show the struggle that she’s been through but I’m sorry I find her behaviour absolutely disgusting so the ends do not justify the means at all. The way the story framed it was poor in my opinion and shows a lack of basic human decency to paint her as being so virtuous yet flawed.

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Update: 02/07/25. This will be a long review now I’ve finished it

I usually wait till the end of a drama before I do a review, but I have to do one now.
Great start, fantastic ensemble cast with superstar power throughout. The music is touching and appropriate but episode nine is overwhelmingly frustrating.

Honglian has committed several unspeakable acts, including slaughtering a bunch of innocent sick people that were being treated by the pathetic and weak loser bum Li Mo. She got crazy, weird jealous because he was trying to save people because he practices medicine and she only wanted him to save her.

She tried to kill everybody without mercy but the moment she was defended against by Li Mo she felt so wronged that it was ridiculous.

Even as the episode came to a close and she was about to MASS MURDRR the entire village she was telling us a sob story about how she’s been alone and abandoned by Li Mo (THAT’S BECAUSE YOU’RE A MURDERING SCUMBAG).
We then got this loser bum apologising to her?!??!!?. Promising to stay by her side and not treat anybody ever again until he finds her a cure and declaring his undying love for this demented, evil, murdering psychopath.

What the actual….. what on earth has she done to deserve all this sympathy?

All the while this was happening, our ML and FL are fighting for their lives against her vicious attacks.

The whole thing has blown my mind and I’m tempted to drop it, but I’ll just have a break.

Episode 12. We find ourselves in a pivotal moment where it turns out FL has been faking it all along. I didn’t like that twist.
Episode 16 and 17. Why would our ML agree to this ridiculous 10 year pact? The female lead is a monster trying to kill him constantly and I hate that he’s always simping to her.
I get it, he should have more empathy for humanity but he’s a God FFS. Apparently she’s now some moral Crusader helping him understand his mortality. Give me a break, five minutes ago she hating him to the point of destroying his soul. The show is way too hectic for my tastes.
By the end of episode 19 we find out all her hate and resentment for him is based on getting beaten and tortured by humans that she broke the heavenly laws to save.
Episode 20. It’s all about how she felt abandoned. Boo-hoo. She didn’t reflect on her crimes at all. She’s a God who broke heavenly law but she feels wronged. Where is the accountability? Where is the acknowledgement that she committed a crime? Then I might feel a bit of sympathy.
I love Goldie by the way what a happy and clever dog.
She’s still constantly blaming him for everything. said he broke the promise, abandoned her and she said it’s unclear who is right or wrong!?! SHE HAS NOT TAKEN ACCOUNTABILITY FOR A SINGLE THING. What a frustrating watch. At this point I wanted him to let her die.
Don’t understand why he’s obsessed with her as Lord Yuan said, she’s vicious and ruthless and I’ll add she’s selfish, arrogant, self absorbed and doesn’t actually give a crap about our ML. She has no redeemable qualities but the story wants us to root for her.
Episode 21. So it turns out, as suspected he’s a complete idiot who fell into her trap. Okay, I’ll hold my hands up. This was always the stories design but we are still not clear on the context for this deep, seated hatred from her, which is still a bit frustrating.
Okay. I get her pain. STILL takes no accountability for her choices that led to the very same people. She broke heavenly law to protect to end up causing her unmanageable suffering. I still struggle to understand why it’s all his fault.
Now that’s twice she stabbed him through the heart, mutilated him. All too one-sided for my taste.
Episode 23 and the conversation she has with the master of Jinglin sect. Everything out of her mouth is a lie, she twists everything to suit her own narrative. The people of the sect are not the heroes of this story. She is the villain and has bewitched the innocent disciples into helping her get revenge for her petty grudge.
She only takes accountability in the flashback when her son is dying.
I still find it strange that the people she broke heavenly law for and saved are the same ones that beat her and killed Changqin.
Even in his last breath, he mentioned saving thousands of the same people from drought and further suffering but fails to mention they are the same people that have killed him and will kill her if they had a chance. She still blames the ML. The whole thing is bonkers.
Episode 24. I’m finding it amusing the same people she saved are now burning her at the stake, but remember, it’s all the ML’s fault *I say sarcastically.*
I was all her set up. I get everything that happened, but why was it his fault? She failed to communicate and he was stopping her from betraying heaven? SHE’S TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING.
All the scenes from the sect, including 2ML and Ling’er (amazing actress btw) fell flat. Trying to make it all cutesy as they develop a relationship. She’s a murdering, evil scumbag and he had long joined the Darkside. GET LOST! Fast forward.
I find the rest are just arrogant and really stupid. Hateful characters.
Even by the end of episode 26, I’m shouting at FL to get lost. Still blaming ML for all her terrible and ridiculous choices.
THEY DIDN’T DIE JUST BECAUSE OF HIS CHOICES YOU STUPID, SELFISH, ARROGANT IDIOT. FL is more responsible than he could ever be. I’m annoyed.
Episode 27 so it turns out she was being manipulated and he endured 10 years of unimaginable punishment because of her and yet he’s the one apologising again while spitting up blood. Totally ridiculous.

This is mad that this is so highly rated *I say watching in disbelief shaking my head*
I actually hate the FL. Her attitude stinks and she caused all the problems. All the women in this drama seem to throw pity parties for themselves when they cause their own problems. Ridiculous.
Episode 28 to 30. It was already ridiculous and just became bizarre. The whole ML back to a child like state of mind and FL having to look after him like a mother. Just weird. At this point, I’m on Xiao Jingshan side and hope he wins.
The only one of the ‘good guys’ I like is Lord Yuan and I wish he would’ve rebelled.
Episode 31. Ling’er deserves to die and still had the cheek to blame her useless father for her own foolishness.
Of course ML taking the blame for everything *rolls eyes*
FL crying her eyes out when she was the one who put ML into this position. Is she ever going to recognise her culpability in his struggles and ultimate death??
Anyway, I don’t care. come on Xiao Jingshan. you can win *I say with clenched fists*
Episode 32. He didn’t win.
Just because you sorted everything out with ‘time travel’ doesn’t make any of this any good.

The end.

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Had the potential to be an epic but ultimately disappointing

36 episodes at approximately 35 minutes each but could’ve easily been condensed into 24 episodes of 30 minutes and you would’ve still not missed anything because they laboured on the same point for way too long.

Episode one and I’m already annoyed. ML‘s dad gets killed through betrayal and he’s punished severely and asked to reclaim lost land by the stupid Emperor. Why? he didn’t do anything wrong and it clearly won’t be appreciated by anybody. FL blinded by father and brother, even though she achieved great military credit Substituting for her sick brother..

Episode four good to see the villains are actually punished correctly rather than let off for heinous crimes. The army training camp bloke who went looking for trouble and then tried to frame FL got rightly executed. Should’ve shown it though to give us an emotional release.

Episode seven I’m getting really annoyed having to pretend that she is a boy when it’s clearly a woman. It’s stupid. What is the obsession in letting villains go to plot more despicable acts when you have them in your hands. Getting frustratingly bad this show.

Episode eight. So the villains who they let go before, plot an assassination attempt and because they don’t have ABSOLUTE CONCRETE Evidence against them, they are let go. Total nonsense. Usual rubbish from C dramas. I’m starting to fast forward.
IT’S REALLY RUBBISH and getting more and more ridiculous. I’m so disappointed. There was a moment here in episode nine when I thought we’re making progress but it just went back to usual nonsense when the story could’ve moved forward. It’s just rubbish.
Episode 12 our heroes are just walking into trap after trap after trap after trap after trap. I’m tired.
Episode 13, it makes no sense that the female lead has to hide her origins from the ML. Unnecessary nonsense when they could be collaborating in uniting against the villains. It’s really poor storytelling. I don’t understand why they let the Que city spy leave just cause he had a sickly little brother. He would’ve killed everybody without mercy but his martial art skills were as good as our FL so he couldn’t. Its this kind of nonsense that shows how weak and pathetic C dramas are because if you’re getting this steady stream of propaganda that, if you’re morally bankrupt, it really doesn’t matter because the state will insist on forgiving and you don’t have to take any accountability. Sheesh!
Episode 16 my frustration is slightly waning because of the playful, lighthearted stuff at uncle and Aunty‘s reunion banquet. It’s nice stuff and brings a smile to my face.
17 to 34. Not bad.
The end of the drama really annoys me because we got the stupid Emperor who has been saved countless times by the FL and ML but insist on listening to nonsense from other people. I’m not gonna go through all the problematic elements but ultimately this emperor is going to be remembered as the most stupid idiotic emperor of his generation and it makes me wonder why they blindly follow a ruler who’s so incompetent like this.

I always struggle with these shows because there are so many mistakes that they make, which are not deliberate, but just clear flaws in the ideology they are trying to present.

As a sidenote, I really didn’t buy the chemistry between our leads. They are both very good looking people with strong acting ability, but I just didn’t believe in their romance. To be honest, none of the romantic pairings were particularly captivating. Anyway, finished happily enough but it’s easily forgettable. What a shame.

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Surprisingly not bad for a time travel caper

At less than 15 minutes for 24 episodes I knew I’d be able to get through it quite quickly but actually found myself enjoying it.

The time travel aspect made it quite interesting and though she lost her memory, she was a modern girl transported in time to save our male lead.

The villains always seem to have the upper hand for 95% of the drama otherwise this would’ve been a 7 possibly an 8.

I put this down to Chinese culture always trying to maintain the status quo.

Indoctrinating its people into believing that if you have a high status then everyone else is beneath you and should accept whatever nastiness comes your way even though you’re righteous and a good guy.

The Lord of the city was constantly plotting against our heroes while they were constantly defending against his schemes.

I just wish for once the roles were reversed and we could see our heroes actually fight back and deliver the same kind of ruthlessness to the villains that they receive themselves.

My only major complaint is the wishy-washy ending. She confessed everything to him that she would be leaving in three days and she was from the future which he didn’t seem to understand and then he was asleep by himself after they spent the night together and she was gone , THE END.
I don’t know why the editors must’ve had to chop this up, but it seemed ridiculous.

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It’s been three years and the three women are still damaged goods. Yikes.!

They have literally learned nothing from the first season where they’re leaving a trail of destruction and sleeping around as though it’s no big deal. The story tries to focus on the friendships between the three women but all I see is a trail of bad decisions, choices and regrets. It’s a complete mess and a total waste of time. I don’t understand how come they learned nothing in the three years where we see the female leads groom ditching her at the altar even though she clearly still had some sort of feelings for key. One of her best friends is now married to some loser and is deeply unhappy and the third is miserably lonely and starts sleeping with people randomly on a dating app. There is nothing feel good or empowering about this show.

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This show is bad sheesh!

This is a show about three women who leave a trail of destruction and broken hearts without giving an absolute crap about anybody else’s feelings apart from their own. It’s quite disgusting actually. The female lead slept with anybody who showed any interest in her, one of the best friends was deliberately having an affair with a married man whose wife was about to give birth to his second child and the third was happy being the side chick to her ex-boyfriend. There is nothing good about this show Because they have no redemption arc and are still very selfish to the core.

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This is a hidden gem, but they messed up the ending

At 24 episodes and eight minutes each I really wasn’t expecting much but it really is fantastic except for the ending.
Every single person in this drama has a purpose and you are very clear on their motivations for doing what they do.

It’s low budget, but the cast and the acting is fantastic. The music is poignant and moving and relevant to the scenes and I really enjoyed it except for the ending.

The problem with this drama and why I couldn’t give it a 10 is because even though I understood our FL’s motivations in killing the ML. She should’ve had the same energy for revenge against the Emperor who ultimately was a decision maker in the ML going to war against her state.

She was even best buddies with the Emperors son and plotting against the ML even though he is arguably as culpable as the ML in the destruction of her family and country folk.

So while her motivations were probably correct they were also badly misplaced because if she’s gonna take revenge on the ML, she should’ve taken revenge on everyone but all she did in the end was kill the ML, found out he was her long lost sweetheart who actually saved her seniors and elders rather than executing them and then she just walked away….🤷🏾‍♂️

We never got the sense that she felt the gravity of her decision. I don’t expect her to have any regret, but she didn’t seem to contemplate that maybe she chose the wrong path where our male lead in his letter took accountability for all his actions.

It was all rather disappointing and felt really flat because she took all her revenge on one person who was very much a small cog in the machine that was the Liang state.

Unsatisfying to be honest.

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One of the most disgusting shows about status quo you will ever likely to see

The beginning of this show, I thought this could be quite good.

By the time the English subtitles were only coming up about 25% of the time the whole thing just left a bitter taste in my mouth.

In my opinion, the whole show was based around status quo and if you’re of a ‘low status’ then anybody from a rich background can do what they want, how they want and when they want to you without any accountability.

The whole thing made me sick. We’re in mid 2025 people and this is the moral message you want to send across. Absolutely shameless.

Pros
1. 20 episode episodes at less than 15 minutes each.

Cons
1. Female lead doctor was set up by her future mother-in-law to be raped so she couldn’t marry her weak, pathetic and loser son. She was saved by our male lead just in time.
2. Female lead gets tortured in prison by male leads evil brother.
3. Evil love rival turns up proclaiming to be male leads fiance and immediately sets her up to be raped. Male lead once again saves her just in time. He then explains to evil love rival and evil brother that if they harm his woman, he won’t let them off.
4. The next day.. yes THE NEXT FLIPPING DAY. Evil Love rival has female lead kidnapped and plans to slash her face open with a knife. They get into a scuffle and evil love rival has her face cut and immediately blames female lead for ruining her face.
5. Evil love rival and evil brother then kill the female leads grandad. And while she’s grieving at his burial ground evil brother turns up to kill her and smashes her head against a tree where she loses her memory.
6. After she regained her memory, she decides to give pathetic loser former fiance another chance and during the marriage ceremony he runs off because his mum comes calling.
7. She’s pregnant with male leads baby though she tells him it’s her exes and plans to escape with evil brothers help who obviously double crosses her..
8. Don’t know what was going on with the ending, but the whole thing was just a disaster zone..

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It’s 2025 and we still have to put up with useless damsel in distress trope dramas

There are 24 episodes at under 10 minutes each and I’m still annoyed. The male lead is an alien who is on Earth for some reason and sporadically ends up saving the FL’s life several times from when she was a young girl.. about halfway through she has a lightbulb moment when they fall in love and kiss when she realises it has always been him who has protected her throughout her life.
At this point the question surely should’ve been why have I needed to save you more times than I can count over the course of your life? Why is your life always in danger? That has to be the question at this point, surely? I jest, but only a little.
Anyway, we’ve got a little bit of satisfaction seeing the evil antagonist getting taken away in handcuffs and by the end when the ML has to once again save the FL‘s life. He uses magic which hes not allowed to do and disintegrates in front of her…….anyway some unspecified time later the ML somehow turns up and we get our happy ending. Roll credits.

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The most incompetent police force in the history of the world

This is a poor show and there are many reasons why. Firstly, the Ninghai police force are just ridiculous. They are useless beyond belief and if I was a citizen living their city, I would be in fear at the incompetent buffoons that are meant to serve and protect me. These guys have guns and generally when they were taking on the villains, they outnumbered them. They always seem to be on the wrong end of the beating. Meant to be highly trained but they were always on the wrong end of any exchange with a villain. Totally useless.
The FL. Now I understand she went through some trauma PTSD and guilt but her behaviour to cut ties with the ML for eight years. Yes, eight years showed her level of maturity and gullibility to be off the scale rock bottom. She clearly didn’t love him. Not in the all consuming way we’re meant to believe to allow him to leave her life for eight years. I found the whole reconciliation way too smooth and easily fixed and I also found her to be quite childlike throughout the whole drama. I wasn’t impressed. The bad guy wasn’t that smart but he seem to always be at least 10 steps ahead of everybody including DML‘s police force which he was the captain of by the way. Now I get you’re supposed to suspend belief for these kind of things but as an audience you’ve got to capture at least some moments of realism and this show completely failed in that regard.

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A horrific show that could’ve been a hidden gem

I could write a long review about this show, but I won’t, I could talk about the inconsistent writing or the glaring plot holes, but I won’t.

What I will mention is the fact that this show started off a fairly decent romance but morphed into a grotesque and unpalatable dark and twisted horror show.

I know censorship is an issue but they try to ignore the fact that the FL was held in captivity for three years, forced into marriage and became a drug addict. She would’ve also clearly been subjected to extended periods of sexual violence, but we can ignore that for the genre. *roll eyes*.

Truly a horrific story.

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Not the worst but total nonsense

I like the fact that it’s only 24 episodes and 15 minutes each.

The story is unique and different, but that’s where the positives end.

The usual C drama rubbish where the villains are constantly plotting and scheming to kill our heroes and they are completely oblivious or don’t care.

The biggest crime of this drama is the FL leads sister. She plotted and schemed against our heroine for 75% of the drama until she realised that everybody on her side betrayed her.

She even tried to kill her and our male lead several times, but this was completely brushed under the carpet because she was alone and needed help from our heroes.

There was no accountability, no reflection, no apology, NOTHING.

You lost me then I’m afraid

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Hating it until episode 31

This is a tricky one because there’s 38 episodes at approximately 40 minutes each. They obviously spent a bit of money on this and the cast are all really good looking people and the acting was pretty good.
However, for the first 30 episodes I thought I was going to score this a 1 because I really hated the fact they kept falling for the villains schemes and traps willingly. I get the trope and I get it’s a vehicle to move the plot forward but the story just felt terrible and I thought it was a pile of horse crap Because they just kept letting the villains go every time they stopped one of their despicable schemes which were all targeted at their deaths.

Anyway, the story got good from episode 31 when he remembered he was a prince and I thought the story was actually good but I couldn’t forget how frustrated I was for the first 75% of the drama hence why I can only score at a five. I liked how the main villains all got their comeuppance and we got a happy ending.

Again, I understand the story was romance driven but the sub plots and political intrigue were lacking. Style over substance..

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Every single character is excruciatingly annoying

A couple of questions need to be asked first.
1. Is this the worst Chinese drama of 2025 with so many popular actors?
2. Is this a disaster from beginning to end?
3.Is the female lead in the conversation for worst female lead of all time?

There were only 24 episodes at approximately 45 minutes each and I can answer the second question. The answer is no because the first handful of episodes were okay but then it became a complete and utter shambles.
My first complaint is Yao Fu. She was an integral part of the plot to wipe out Shenqyue Sect and stabbed female lead through the heart to kill her but because yan Qing gave her a scolding she was completely exonerated from all her crimes. Total garbage.
Secondly, every time the villain said anything against anybody it was immediately taken as gospel yet as soon as the heroes had suspicions of the villains villainy they required a copious amount of evidence before they were even allowed to accuse them.

I could go on, but my final thought is on the female lead.

She betrayed, abandoned her sect to cozy up with the sect that were responsible for the slaughter and imprisonment of her people because she loved the male lead who was a top dog there.

Morally bankrupt garbage. TOTALLY USELESS.. and I will forget this before I start my next drama. Waste of time.

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