TTR - The Truth Review

The most irrelevant male lead of all time who became a side character in his own story

I’m gonna keep this brief because this was a pile of absolute garbage. ML IS USELESS PATHETIC WEAK AND RIDICULOUS AND I CAN’T EVEN BE BOTHERED TO TALK ABOUT HIM SO I’M GONNA TALK ABOUT THOSE AROUND HIM . Gu family were top of the food chain until they got betrayed and everything that should’ve been there’s ended up becoming the Qin families. Fast forward and ML becomes bodyguard to the Qin family sister and evil brother is the head of the family. Seven years of humiliation, torture and beatings for our male lead because it’s all part of his great scheme to get revenge on those who slaughtered his family.. turns out the perpetrators of this horrific abuse are the FL who he has fallen in love with and the evil brother. Fast forward some more when it turns out the evil brother and love rival were responsible for the massacre the female lead cries a little bit and says sorry and all is forgiven and they live happily ever after.. WHAT THE ACTUAL……?

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Sweet, delightful and heartwarming

This is a really great show. They’re only 12 episodes approximately 30 minutes each but I enjoyed each one.. the male lead is a vet in the capital city and the female lead is a police officer in a small rural town who once met under tragic circumstances when they were both kids but are finally reunited when the mail lead comes to work at his grandfather’s veterinary hospital in the small town. The female lead recognises him straight away, but it appears as though he’s forgotten her so she pretends not to know him.. it takes awhile before they recognise each other and begin to fall in love and I love every bit of it. It’s an extremely good looking cast with fantastic acting and though I initially thought this wouldn’t be for me it really touched my heart for how endearing and lovely it was.

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Did the female lead even like the male lead at all?

I didn’t really like this drama. Spoiled rich kid slums it in the countryside with a chef and her rundown restaurant. The premise is okay, but I was quickly disappointed with how rude the female lead was to the male lead. It was okay up to a certain point, but it happened from the beginning to the end of this drama. Where she was gentle and demure with the second male lead she was rude, violent, insulting and looked down on the male lead for pretty much the entirety of the drama.. the Mum was diabolical and faced no accountability or self reflected on her behaviour. The brother was pretty horrendous but at least he grew a conscience by the end. The side characters were all meh! and I have to ask the question if the FL even liked the ML at all. He was smitten and she just looked like she settled. The whole thing left a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth.

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A female lead with a bad attitude that leaves a trail of destruction in her path.. Yikes!

So the story started off setting the scene of how pathetic and weak the female lead was, she stalked her ex fiance and tried to kill herself when he rejected her. We then moved onto the arranged marriage bit with her rascal of a new fiance who was a bit of a scumbag but had a decent redemption arc and showed growth. I’m really not sure why people think this is so good because the female lead was horrendous, she had a bad attitude towards everybody, including her best friend who was always trying to help her. I get her father was overbearing but she literally couldn’t give a crap about anybody but her own feelings and the dodgy host who was the male lead. I get people like to see flawed characters but she was just too selfish and self absorbed and she didn’t give a crap about anybody else apart from our own feelings. I’m glad I fast forwarded through most of it because it was rubbish.

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The Kei and Nona show and it’s great

I’m a big fan of this show. The concept is great and they cast a diverse mix of participants.. I will say I was immediately drawn to Kei and Nona the others were good. I was only really invested in their story. I don’t know if it’s a production thing, but I was endlessly frustrated with Nona giving absolutely nothing away it looked clear as daylight that she really liked Kei but she kept giving the other fellow hope I never gave Kei any encouragement. I mean. ABSOLUTELY ZERO ENCOURAGEMENT. However, by episode eight when he was kicked off, she went and proposed and confessed that she’d been in love with him the whole time so I do wonder if production was just stripping so much to keep the drama heightened because it was a frustrating watch for a lot of of it, even though I was enjoying it.

I’ve had a look on their Insta and it is October 2025 and they’re married with a little baby daughter. *chefs kiss*

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What a great idea, but it ended up a mess

I really like the idea of the show having a load of eternally singles trying to come out of the shells and begin dating. The best episode by far was episode four.. we saw jeong-mok and Yi Do reveal they were each other’s first impression and had just been missing each other. We also saw an unbelievably touching scene in the caravan between. Ji-Su and Seung-Li that took my breath away because he was so vulnerable and open about how shy he was and she looked like she fell in love with him and showed so much understanding. I actually thought Jae-yun was going to be the star of the show but he was excruciatingly shy and it was so frustrating watching him not develop grow. He was totally useless but what made it worse was the girl he liked (Kim Yeo-myung) had absolutely no interest in him whatsoever and I actually found her quite cruel and mean. I didn’t like her at all.
They introduce this weird new love interest with two episodes to go which literally came from nowhere and by then I was fast forwarding and had lost interest. Ji-Su and Seung-Li ended up together but I doubt they continued anything after the show.

Must do better for season two.

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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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I wish I could give it less than a one rating

So there’s 40 episodes at approximately 42 minutes each which could’ve easily been 24 episodes at 30 minutes each and you wouldn’t have lost anything. It was excruciatingly slow but was quite a sweet story for the first 15 episodes.
The show had a feel of an epic. I thought it was gonna be similar to the spectacular ‘hidden love’ but that quickly disappeared.
Dad was a bit of a dick, but not the devil. Didn’t like how she left without saying goodbye. I get the familial thing in Chinese culture but the problem was when they reunited she didn’t try to explain. she didn’t seem to want to know the struggle he’s been through and just wanted to start a fresh and sweep everything under the carpet.

It was also a bit of a confusing timeline at one point because we heard somebody say six months she was gone, then roommate said a year then the FL was saying she’d been gone 18 months???
She lied about being at the library when she was at the beach. There was no apology. She caused the whole mess with the secret relationship because her roommates misunderstood when the ML had already clarified the situation regards the senior girl but she still let him handle it and didn’t take any accountability for her ridiculous actions.
Mind blown.
The bratty immature spoiled rich girl at school became her Bestie at college. Urgh!
Why did the writers make this terrible choice when the sweet, timid and shy Ruxi was right there and we could’ve enjoyed her growth to becoming a beautiful confident woman alongside the FL.

Episode 16 I was more invested in her love story with he songnan because I was annoyed at the FL who looked too old for the role anyway.

I love the male lead and his deep, brooding, complex character but by episode 16 I was more annoyed by the female lead always seeming so happy at his jealousy. Pathetic!
It’s become a hard watch now, cause I’m really beginning to dislike the FL.
By episode 18 I’m beginning to like the FL again she seems supportive and confident in her feelings and relationship with the ML. Even the bratty roommate became mature and her budding romance with FL step bro (top level actor by the way) was quite cute.
He definitely fancied his stepsister, which was weird, but I can just about brush over that.

The shooting stuff was quite interesting and intense. I liked it.

In episode 22, we see her mum blackmailing her own daughter. What a wholesome lovely message that is. *Eyes roll*
Filial piety in China must have some limit surely?? no matter what disgusting and despicable actions parents do, it appears you still have to follow their lead. Absolutely horrific!
In episode 27, we get to see Ninghe crying and we’re supposed to feel sorry for him is truly disgusting.
Let’s recap.
He blamed ML for uncle’s death and provoked him relentlessly where he beat Ninghe up and got a year suspension from school. He then released reports about him to his university and FL’s mum to ruin his reputation and get him kicked out of the shooting team, ultimately ruining his participation in the provincial team. He then unlawfully set up an online store selling the uncles designs which caused a big plagiarism dispute which he did nothing but sabotage the ML and FL finding the truth. It then turns out it was his fault that uncle was driving in the rain and I had the accident and it had nothing to do with the ML AT ALL.
The result: he gets given full ownership of the shop naming and propriety rights over his uncle’s designs from the male lead.
I’m absolutely disgusted and I hate this message that if you commit despicable acts from beginning to end you will succeed in life.
Even the guy who stole uncles designs was let off because he gave a written apology. HE STOLE THE DESIGNS, SLANDERED AND DECEIVED THE ML. He got away unscathed…….

I’m horrified and I now hate this show with a passion.
Forgiveness is one thing, but to reward evil it’s just an utterly ridiculous message.

In episode 28 the writers then try to justify this nonsense by letting the male lead give the most ridiculous and nonsensical speech to FL telling her he’s just ‘respecting uncles wishes’.
Do these people think the viewers are stupid? There are some dark forces at play here. It’s quite disturbing.

Even 20 minutes before the end of episode 30 everybody was miserable and driven to despair by life. Just totally awful.

Ending, inconclusive and a disaster. I watched ‘you are desire extra’ and reviewed there..

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If you like watching heros suffer and the villains get away with it, this is for you

It’s okay. It’s not a complete shambles, but it is pretty rubbish..
Female lead was annoying for 75% of the show and the male lead doesn’t have star power but second male lead energy.

The villains in the show do many despicable things including killing many innocent people but don’t really get served proper justice.

Firstly, the villain’s dad thought he killed the male lead 18 years ago but when he realised he hadn’t he planned to murder him and anybody close to him.

After he got found out and was put in prison, he then made our male lead promise not to kill his scumbag son. Why on earth would he agree, is still baffling to me.

The scumbag son then plotted and schemed with evil bro against our heroes throughout using every despicable means and when he got found out, they conveniently turned him crazy so he didn’t have to face any judgement for his crimes.

What the hell happened to evil brother?

All very confusing and easily forgettable.

Shout out to Lin Lin (female lead cousin and best friend) she was a strong and capable character and definitely the highlight of this show.

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It’s not the sweet love I was expecting

This was alright. Just alright..
It was cast quite well and the story was nice. The leads were a bit annoying. And I really liked the best friend and I would’ve loved them to explore her a bit more because she was complex and had real star presence. I really wouldn’t mind a story from her perspective or a sequel. I would definitely watch it.

Poppet is really cute and I don’t know what it is about Chinese dramas but child actors I find, are really excellent. They generally don’t have a lot to do, like in this, but what they do, they seem to do really well unlike those stage school brats from North America, who I find way too cringe.

The love rival couple were a waste of time and I fast forwarded those scenes.

This was billed as a sweet love story. There are 24 episodes under 40 minutes each but we only got the sweet love from episode 23.

Overall, it was nice but utterly forgettable

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