TTR - The Truth Review

Is forgiving somebody who’s tried to kill you multiple times really a virtue????

So this is 26 episodes at approximately 15 minutes each, but it should’ve finished at 22 episodes because the last arc was this weird rehash of the first phase of this drama.
The Premise is basically after being reborn into a second life, Jiang Xue Ying (FL) decides to change her fate by swapping marriages with her sister, Jiang Yu Er who instigates the whole marriage swapping situation.
She marries Xue Ying (ML) and becomes the Crown Princess, marrying the seemingly "idle" or playboy-like Prince Lu Jun Xing
Within the royal household, she must outmanoeuvre treacherous rivals and the FL is a brilliant strategist whose evil sister makes wrong decisions from beginning to end..
We go through this whole phase of the sister constantly trying to kill her or frame her or humiliate her or everything at once. This happens every other episode so I could probably count about a dozen times the sister has tried to ruin the FL.
The use of comedy music during Jiang Yu Er’s most sadistic moments is jarring to say the least, but I get that it is a stylistic choice that stems from the specific production goals of Chinese short-form mini-drams.
By the end of the weird third arc, the sister had switched sides and they gave her a redemption arc. This is so wrong on so many levels because it doesn’t show virtue it just shows stupidity.
It really bothers me that these specific types of "face-slapping" dramas, the antagonist (the sister) is often stripped of her status as a human being because in the eyes of the writers she is no longer a person; she is a plot device or a "boss" to be defeated.
I guess the logic with these things is: "Because she is evil, any horror that happens to her—or that she inflicts to prove her evil—is not 'real' suffering, but a spectacle."
I don’t like this kind of desensitisation within "revenge-porn" style storytelling where the only thing that matters is the protagonist’s eventual victory.

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The truth is, this is actually a poor show

For some reason they made this 31 episodes at just over 40 minutes each and because of all the procrastinating and messing about they could’ve easily made it a 24 episode half an hour show each and it would’ve lost absolutely nothing.
I’m a bit annoyed at this show. For some reason the writers and director must think it’s really cute, charming and endearing to have the females all behave so insufferably that basically tortures all the men in this show.
It really isn’t entertaining watching these cold, aloof women push there men away constantly and watching the men begging at their feet for a crumb of affection.
As a sidenote, the 2ML was way too old and his head was too big.

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Total rubbish from beginning to end, but just about watchable

A ridiculous reborn and transmigration story. The female lead was reborn and the trans migrator is the antagonist who plots and schemes in every other episode to kill the FL.. she does so many ridiculous things and not only does she not get punished but they completely ignore it.
It’s like, she tries something, it doesn’t work out and it’s like never mind, onto the next evil scheme without anybody even saying a word against her. I know these stories are meant to suspend belief and defy logic, but there has to be some common sense woven into it.. it’s just stupid and ridiculous. I’m not even hate watching. I’m just watching in utter bemusement at this nonsense.

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This was a mistake and I ended up just fast forwarding and hate watching

Childish, immature and entitled FL versus a cold aloof ML who actually was just mature.
This is a horrendous show and I can’t be bothered to review it but the one thing I will say and mention is the ex-girlfriend of the ML.
Firstly, she pursued the ML relentlessly until he agreed even though he was very lukewarm.
She then felt neglected because he was concentrating on his studies and so she decided to cheat on him with one of his friends who happens to be the main antagonist.
She stole his USB drive, for some reason,which contained all the details of his graduation thesis and the villain who was her boyfriend ended up stealing it and accusing the ML of plagiarism for which he got expelled from the school,
Five years later, she ends up trying to pursue the ML again while still with the boyfriend and she’s so shameless that she thinks he’s being petty and asks if it’s to do with what happened five years ago why he’s not interested in her.
I mean, these kind of shows drive me up the wall because she’s not only complicit in what happened to him but she also cheated and has the brazen cheek to try and win him back with no shame or apology.
We get a couple of half hearted apologies from her from what happened but the whole point with what she did was illegal and she should’ve faced legal consequences but the story writing almost framed her as a victim.
What a load of absolute crap.
This was advertised as a romance and sweet love, but it is a complete nonsense idol drama.

Lastly, I really hated the fact that no matter how much the villain brutalised, and yes he brutalised him with an iron rod. he still tried to save him.

Total garbage.

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This is not a revenge thriller, but misery porn for 95% of the show

24 episodes at approximately 10 minutes and with a strong start I thought this could be good because of the short format.
However, it is complete garbage. This is not a revenge thriller because the FL doesn’t actually do anything and all the villains just fall into their own traps.
All the heroes are passive and never proactive. It really is horrendous. The usual tropes of turning the evil stepsister crazy when everything is lost. Killing the evil dad off screen and explaining that the evil stepmother was arrested for murder..
This all happened off screen so why do they have the perverse pleasure of showing us the FL being tortured and humiliated for most of her life, we get the offscreen explanation that everything is sorted and she can live a happy life now with the ML.
They even included the horrendous biological mother and I’m still struggling to understand how this gets through Chinese censorship because there is nothing pure or decent about this character. She is pure evil and greedy for money that she abandons her children and beats the FL at every opportunity because she isn’t showing any filial piety and she just stands there and takes it.
I’m struggling to understand how this gets through such rigid censorship when we are told we can’t see actual rough justice being served to the villains because it will paint our heroes in a negative light but we get to enjoy endless humiliation and torture being dished out to the heroes in pretty graphic and harrowing detail.. Just strange.

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Why do the FL’s have to be so weak and pathetic at the beginning of these shows?

There are 24 episodes at approximately 10 minutes each of this terrible but watchable drama. The FL is given bullet comments of her life through some supernatural thing and can predict the future and while I absolutely hated her just sitting under the bed while her boyfriend cheated on her. I understand why they did it.. the ML is seeking the truth of his mother‘s death and he’s already suspecting his older brother. The older o son is a cretin and soon gets his comeuppance amongst all of the villains.. even though the FL had quite a character arc in terms of development it was really all a bit meh for me after her weak and pathetic efforts in the first half of this show so the emotional release was not there for me because I’d already checked out.

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Meh. Just about watchable I suppose.

There are 24 episodes in approximately 10 minutes each and The FL was a woman who was looking to take revenge on the family for her twin sister’s death and the male lead was a brother in this family looking to uncover the mystery surrounding his families dealings with the Japanese during turbulent times.
Long story short the elder brother was the mastermind who was colluding with the Japanese and dealing opium and he murdered everybody and everyone including family members and the story just made him crazy. After all his dodgy dealings have been uncovered, he ends up shooting himself in the head and our ML and FL literally ride off into the sunset together.

There was no satisfaction, no emotional release and actually the whole thing was a bit stupid. There were plot holes galore and many many loose threads that were never resolved. It really was quite terrible.

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What happened to the evil sister?

It is watchable but it really is total nonsense and ridiculous. The male lead was a prince and the FL was a skilled doctor.. they are both being set up and be betrayed by their respective families and have to fight palace in intrigued as well as several other villains before we get our happy ending. There are 24 episodes at 10 minutes each and our heroes are constantly getting beaten tortured, humiliated and nearly murdered at every time. All the villains die with some having remorse by their end, but I still don’t know what happened to the evil sister who threw all the chaos was allowed to escape never to be seen or heard from again while our main couple got their happily ever after.

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If you enjoy watching heroes suffer for 90% of the show, this is for you

Not good. The show is poor, but at least it was watchable. The FL is looking to infiltrate the new Dynasty to avenge her families massacre and the ML is a spy from the previous dynasty undercover. They go from enemies to lovers but are constantly on the back foot while the villains plan and scheme relentlessly to torture and murder innocents. What really bothers me with this type of show is the usual nonsense where villains like the adopted daughter who decide to redeem themselves are forgiven for all their crimes and face no accountability and have a happy ending and when the villains do get their comeuppance. It’s usually short and sharp and they die instantly where they’ve made the heroes suffer horrendous agony over a long period of time while they’ve been living in luxury and happiness . This kind of perverse pleasure in watching heroes suffer for 90% is quite disturbing and I don’t understand how Chinese audiences enjoy this kind of thing because there is no emotional satisfaction and the payoff is useless by the end.

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Low budget and low intrigue

12 episodes at approximately 20 minutes each and it was still boring. It wasn’t traumatic, horrific or disturbing but just a bit dull.. the story is about the male lead who is an immortal and got separated from the FL back in the day in tragic circumstances. He finds her again in this idyllic island and they rekindle their love and she slowly regained her memories from her past life throughout the show.. he has some curse put on him that doesn’t allow him to touch or kiss or have any intimate contact with the female lead but they decide to get married overcome a couple of difficulties and live happily ever after. The end.

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Quite a nice military medical story

This show isn’t too bad, but I did have trouble scoring it after the disturbing dramas that I’ve recently watched so I was worried I’ve over scored this but I think my score is fair. I’m not gonna get into it too much because it was a few years ago but the FL was excruciatingly annoying and I understand why the story wrote her like that but I didn’t find her redemption or growth particularly compelling all that significant.. there’s 40 episodes of 45 minutes each and even in episode 38 she was still acting petulant and annoying. There are lots of problematic elements but it was worth watching just to pass the time.. easily forgettable

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Another diabolical piece of crap

Just total garbage. The people that produce this content sick in the head because honestly when you advertise something as a romance but continue to brutally torture abuse and humiliate the heroes from beginning to end does that go into the realms of a deep seated demented state of mind? Who finds this kind of stuff entertaining? I’m really curious because there was a bit in the middle where the MLNFL had a bit of respite where they were being lovey-dovey but then five seconds later they decided to arrest him on some trumped up murder charge and we had to witness him being brutally tortured in prison for about three episodes. This show did not want to give us a break. It kept trying to give us like romantic moments but immediately was persistent in ensuring the villains were always having the upper hand until about 10 seconds from the end of episode 23.. I find it utterly disgusting and ridiculous that this content is allowed to be produced. I’m not believing any of the hype about censorship or watching a hero perseverance and resilience because they seem to lap it up when it’s time to torture the heroes, but we can’t ever see the villain taking too big of a loss.. it’s all rather disturbing

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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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