TTR - The Truth Review

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This show is an 11/10

The best show and by far the best Chinese drama I have ever seen. I love the story, the cast, the music the side characters. EVERYTHING. I’ve re-watched it three times in the space of 18 months.

Key moments for me:
1. Looking after him while he was getting his appendix removed because he had no family was very moving, tender and touching.
2. Defending him in the restaurant when the stalker girl confronted him was exquisite.
3. In a flashback scene with him bowing to her parents for looking after him after his mother‘s death had me in floods of tears.
4. The scene at the airport when she thought her parents had scared him away and she chased back after him was absolutely everything. The sincerity of her confession, the way the realisation of her hidden love came across his face was giving so much and more.

I even like the villains, especially the stalker girl whose dad was killed by his dad was just the right side of demented.
The brother was a top boy and both sets of friends had depth and character.

I must watch for anyone who likes sweet love with not too much angst.

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Female lead is annoying from the beginning to the end

This is a weird one because it’s a pile of rubbish, but it’s not a complete shambles.

FL and ML were in a virtual reality game but I don’t think the FL realised the ML was real?????? But I’m not really sure. A bit confusing.

Anyway, the female lead was wilful and stubborn to put it politely. I think her objective was to get a divorce letter from the ML and his objective in the game was to win her heart.??? But I’m not really sure.

The palace intrigued stuff was quite interesting, but I was a bit annoyed at the female lead and her ridiculous antics for me to enjoy that side of the story.

They’re 24 episodes at approximately 8 minutes each so you can get through it quite quickly and easily forget.

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I HATE THIS SHOW!

Great cast, nice story but the nuance and execution was diabolical.

The moral of the story is to lie, manipulate, lie, deceive, lie and stalk your love interest until your hearts content and you will succeed in life.

There are 35 episodes at approximately 45 minutes and all we get is the female lead deceiving and manipulating the male lead for most of the show and we don’t know why he allowed it all. Female lead boss was doing the exact same thing to the female lead best friend.

Annoying, annoying, annoying.

We had an irrelevant love rival who was just taking up space and by episode 10 I was done and was fast forwarding as much as possible. The whole thing is not cute or sweet but disturbing that this is regarded as entertainment. Yuck.!

The only good thing was the fl best friend watching go-go squid throughout the first half, which was quite funny. We had this weird villain girl plotting and scheming, but the whole thing was very meh!
We even had this bizarre portion where gangsters were trying to make money from the conservation site by stealing some rare birds. Surely gangsters can find easier ways of making money rather than this very niche and specialised area *I say while laughing out loud* Funny!

The whole thing is so problematic, I’d be here all day listing the issues. Avoid this at all costs.

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The worst ML and FL in history???

Update: 23/06/2025: The actors are fantastic but were poorly written. No scores have been changed and I knew my reviews were authentic because I gave the actors a decent rating.

So this is another one of these messes from these Chinese drama people that tells the story of a rich spoilt, psychotic brat of a male lead being able to do any nasty and vile thing he wants to our female lead knowing that they will end up with their happy ever after. Know your place girl.

Mr Grabby ml is completely psychotic, and stalkerish and our female lead is a total pushover who clearly enjoys making bad decisions for her life. She loves a toxic, damaging relationship..

Every single character in this pile of rubbish is the worst.

From demented MLs mom who loves to slap the FL. To the SFL who also loves to slap our female lead but also causes her to miscarriage.

Before you know it, FL and mother-in-law become best friends and she’s supportive of the relationship.
Never mind the fact that she engineered SML‘s grudge against the gu family.

Our FL never once gives SML the benefit of the doubt and was always supportive of the nasty, vindictive and grabby ML.

I realised I must’ve watched this when this was released but dropped it after eight episodes. I managed to fast forward through most of it this time to get to the end and I realised why I dropped it..

Total rubbish!

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Where is season two?

I’ve just finished watching this in 2025.

31 episodes at 10 minutes each and I was still bored for most of it.

Episode 16 to 18 was a complete mess. Why didn’t our female lead just tell our male lead that it was wheelchair boy who was the big bad villain when she was arrested? Instead, she just screamed that it was all a misunderstanding and she needed to explain.

The writing choices in the show were atrocious. I get it in low budget, but does that mean we can’t have a decent story?

The only good thing out of this was the male lead who definitely has something. I don’t know if it’s the X factor or stage presence but he was the only one I was convinced of that had some level of talent and acting skills.

I knew that by the time we got to episode 29 the ending was gonna be a disaster because there was way too much to be done to cover in 20 minutes of two episodes.

Turns out it was a set up for a second season, but I’m not surprised it hasn’t got one because it was total rubbish.

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Had to knock a point off for the ending

It’s a good show, the story has lots of palace intrigue, convincing villains. I like the heroes and the actors were top-notch..

This seemed like a big budget but 16 episodes ant approximately 20 minutes each it packed quite a story.

The biggest problem I had with this show is the FL‘s best friend Yin Cong.

Let’s recap, she actually killed the ML and was fully involved in the plot for the FL to have a miscarriage and was front and centre in the rebellion to take the throne from the ML and FL.

Just because she did one decent thing doesn’t forgive the fact that she’s a total and utter scumbag.

And the reason I took a point off my score is because the FL was crying so hard at her friends death she seemed more distraught than when the ML died.

Still a pretty good show, nevertheless.

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It took me an absolute age to get through this drama

33 episodes at approximately 42 minutes each of pure boredom.

Could’ve been an interesting story I was a bit tired of the female lead and her best friend acting so spoilt and entitled at the beginning while the men simped after them constantly.

It took a weird turn as well from all the corporate intrigue to where they all just suddenly disappeared and it became some military drama in the country.

It had lots of star power and the acting was fantastic. The story was just boring and too convoluted..

Anyway, it’s very easy to forgettable and did she ever regain her memory from when they were kids? 🤷🏾‍♂️

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