TTR - The Truth Review

From a rich spoiled kid to letting go of past regrets to becoming a new energy business boss

This is a good show. It really is. Despite my initial frustrations at the FL. Nie Xiguang’s lack of awareness and archetypal spoiled rich kid. the second half of the show was extremely good except for the last episode. This is the reason why I gave it a 7.5 because I feel giving it an 8 endorses this as a must watch but I can’t say that because of how they handled the last episode but I will get to that.

Our ML. Yin Lusen is a Doctor who has a car accident which ruins his left hand so he can’t operate anymore and goes into business with the backing of his powerful and influential family, even though, as his mothers son, he doesn’t have any inheritance rights. The FL is a college student also from a very influential and powerful family.

My initial frustration is the set up for the show where we see the spoiled rich kid female lead going into the workplace where she’s working alongside the ML yet she shows him no respect is constantly defensive and the atmosphere is pretty hostile if not a little toxic.

It turns out he’s always been in love with her and because her father’s first love’s daughter has been using her name for clout he misunderstands that his accident was caused because she wanted to see him and he was a little resentful to her because she never visited him in hospital but it turns out it was all a misunderstanding due to that wicked stepdaughter trope.

Anyway, one of my other really frustrating points about this show and I don’t know if this was by design but it feel again like another status quo propaganda piece from China. If you’re rich and powerful then anybody beneath you is not worthy of you. That was the impression you got from the 2ML, even though the FL had been pursuing him and he did like her, he could never tell her because he didn’t think he was worthy of her because he was from a poor family.

What was interesting after she started dating the FL and there was a big confrontation with the 2ML she said something that really disturbed me.

After he was too late in confessing to her and became a bit obsessed and mad, she made the point that she would’ve chosen the ML anyway because they were always going to be together. I don’t know if this was intentional, but it really reinforced that trope of status and power only belong together and if you’re below that you can just forget about it.

Anyway, we see the FL going from this very spoiled shielded up bringing little girl, with a stunning lack of self-awareness into this slow burn growth arc, becoming a powerful business woman with clear goals and ability. Our ML went back into medicine and became a leading figure in his field.

The main problem why I had to deduct points is because of the last episode. The time jumps just got totally out of hand.
It’s like the writers forgot that this was set around 2012 2013 and they needed to catch up so they just decided to throw it all into the last episode.

Firstly, we jumped two years to their wedding and we watched that for 30 seconds and I thought, okay, that’s fine.
Then incredibly, we jumped 10 years to 2025 and I thought, okay that’s fine, I guess, because the technology that they were trying to develop was in its infancy so they needed to catch up to modern times and I thought, fair enough. Just about. We watched that for about a minute.

Then inexplicably, we jumped another three years to 2028.

I’m not really sure why they did that because all these people now are near their 40s but of course, haven’t aged a day since 2012,

The other thing that slightly bothered me was the FL was in Saudi Arabia signing a big deal for this new energy business and when she came back I got the impression she’s been away for quite awhile because when they were talking to their little daughter, she wasn’t aware of her academic development, which is a bit troubling.
Also this last episode plodded along and it was just the two of them reminiscing about the good old days.

They made a bit of a mess of it so I can only give it a 7.5 as it is good but it is definitely not a must watch.

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The way the female lead is written is ridiculous

So I understand the script is a complete disaster and I also understand why the female lead was written as she was.

However you’ve made her a pilot and yes, she’s immature but why make her so childish, reckless, impulsive and annoying.

I am not rooting for her, and I hope she gets fired. I will eventually get through it, but I have a feeling it’s gonna take me a long time..

I got she’s talented, but her attitude and temperament stinks and I hate that she’s being constantly protected where she shows absolutely no gratitude or understanding for what is happening in her own selfish and absorbed existence.

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It’s absolute psychopathic writing. There is no other way to describe it.

So this one is 24 episodes at approximately 45 minutes and if I thought flourished peony was bad this sequel is probably worse.

In the writing of In the Name of Blossom, the creators have confused "moral superiority" with "total lack of self-preservation." They are using a tired, outdated trope to keep the plot moving, and it fails for several reasons.

Writers often think a "perfect" FL must never descend to the level of the villains. By making her find excuses for them, they try to prove she has a "big heart." In reality, it just makes her an enabler who is responsible for the next victim the villain hurts.
If she actually finished off villains like the Flower Guild leader, teribble stepmother or the Princess when she had the chance, the show would end in 10 episodes. Her "mercy" is a cheap tool to ensure the villains can return to frame her again in the next arc.
I also understand that there is a traditional cultural trope where maintaining social harmony and showing "forgiveness" is seen as the ultimate female strength. However, applying this to people who are literally whipping you is a logic failure that feels like gaslighting the audience.

In the first season, she came across as a relatively smart businesswoman. In this sequel, her IQ has been lowered so the Male Lead has a reason to exist. If she were competent and ruthless, she wouldn't need him to "save" her every three episodes.
The whole thing was a complete mess, from the concubine trying to poison her and being let off. To the princess trying to burn her alive and throwing a tantrum with the writers playing sad music for us to try and feel sorry for her when she was literally trying to kill a load of people five minutes before.. to finally the inexplicable scene where the 2ML goes to the ML’s mansion and literally breaks down the wall but it’s only asked to apologise. He doesn’t receive any punishment he doesn’t even have to compensate him for breaking his wall.. property rights seem to have gone out of the window and the whole thing just descended into a complete mess.

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Sister is a nightmare and female lead is annoying, but I actually really enjoyed it

I’ve given this a 7, but it should’ve been much higher because it was actually a really good show from beginning to end. 30 episode approximately 45 minutes each.

The male lead really carries the show and I’m sure he is a very popular actor.

The things that annoyed me were the spoilt and entitled female lead who the minute somebody said something about our male lead she immediately switched up on him and doubted him. I didn’t mind this in the beginning because she didn’t know him but halfway through the drama when the chancellor was filling her head with rubbish about the prince she once again doubted him and for me, she surely should’ve known his intentions by now to trust him.

The other annoying trait she had was immediately becoming spoilt and entitled. The moment he spoke to another woman when it seemed to be fine for her to be receiving the attention of several different men without any accountability.

The sister was too much and the fact that she was a willing accomplice in trying to get her sister RAPED made it ridiculous that they kept forgiving her and gave her this weird redemption arc after all of the demented schemes that she did.

Anyway, the story was excellent. The acting was really good. I even enjoyed the side characters and their couples,, including her annoying cousin.

There were a couple of unnecessary time jumps throughout the show, which really didn’t add anything.

The villains were good and we didn’t labour too much on our heroes having their necks stood on for the entirety of the drama. They had some successes and the demise of all the villains was generally satisfying and a good payoff.

I enjoyed the ending because the last episode was completely devoted to happy times after all the villains have been defeated so it wrapped up the drama quite beautifully I think.

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Trauma or Tyranny? How Rebirth Fails to Gaslight Me Into Hating the Victim

This show has a big big problem. Now ,I’m only two episodes in and granted I didn’t watch the original and I haven’t read the source material but… by showing the Jiuyou Platform massacre in such visceral, soul-crushing detail, the writers created a hole so deep that no amount of moral fibre from the other characters can fill it.
The show has backed itself into a corner because the emotional math doesn't add up for me. They gave Yan Xun (2ML and main antagonist) a 10/10 trauma, but they expect the audience to turn on him when he reacts with 10/10 ruthlessness.
The moral lead looks weak compared to a man who watched his family’s heads rolled out on a plate.
Are they trying to show how scary Yan Xun is becoming, because to me he seems to be the most proactive and honest character. He isn't hiding behind grand stability, he’s calling out a corrupt system.
I can already tell that the show is basically going to spend the next 38 episodes trying to gaslight me into thinking the people who stayed silent during the massacre are the "good guys."

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Brilliant leads trapped in preachy, propaganda-laden nonsense

I can’t give this more than a 2/10, and honestly, those two points belong entirely to the lead actors. Ren Jialun and Wang Herun do an absolutely fantastic job with the garbage script they were handed. Their chemistry is great, the fight choreography in the early episodes is epic, and they genuinely try to elevate the material.
Unfortunately, the story itself is an absolute farce. I was completely hooked by episode three when the female lead started kicking serious arse, but the narrative immediately collapses under the weight of heavy-handed, sugarcoated state propaganda. The moral messaging here is completely broken. We are forced to sit through infuriating levels of injustice, only for the male lead to let a despicable, traitorous tyrant of an Emperor off the hook just to preserve societal stability. It is insultingly preachy. Instead of a satisfying story driven by common human decency or earned justice, the script treats the audience like idiots. It uses lazy, industrialised tropes to drag out a bloated, frustrating plot just to meet an episode quota.
If you want a smart historical drama where actions have real consequences and bad people actually get punished, avoid this at all costs. Don't let the high production values or the great cast trick you into wasting 40 episodes on this formulaic, compliant nonsense.

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