I like the actor Liu Xue Yi and I totally agree with you about the bad pairing or bad script. I dropped almost all his recent dramas and didn’t even bother to watch the one with the red-eye make up actress with ornaments in her hair that shall not be named lol
This drama is honestly terrible, yet somehow it got me to buy Tencent VIP and even the express package for the…
I did the same thing too. I still can’t believe I paid express for this, and did so after watching 3 episodes and could not wait to watch the 4th. smh at myself lol
I dropped Love never Fails and Love in Pavillon, but finished Serendipity because I had bought the express package. Serendipity was anticlimactic. The story, the acting, the pacing and editing, the plot, the chemistry were all not good in my opinion. I would not recommend it, but hey, that’s just my opinion.
If you want to watch a good historical: Rebel Princess
What happened? I thought you had rated this drama a 10?
So, after ep 30, from what I gathered watching this on fast forward x10.
-leads get together at ep 32. Some cute scenes, but I don’t really feel the chemistry.
-ep 34: fl recovers her memories after hitting her head while escaping a fire with the ml who also hits his head. When she wakes up, she runs to the streets looking for her dad, but she remembers that her whole family is gon and breaks down crying in the rain. Literally after that scene, we see her taking care of the ml day and night while he is a brief coma after hitting his head. So we don’t really see her mourn the loss of her whole family (37 members in total), aside from that brief scene in the rain!
-35-36: breaks up and leaves the ml to go on her revenge quest. It’s a case of noble idiocy: pushes the ml to protect him and not get involved in her revenge. Oh, she also wrote a petition letter to the emperor in which she reveals her identity and declines to marry the sml (which was a royal decree!!). Luckily for her, the letter is conveniently intercepted, otherwise she would be dead if it had reached the eyes of the emperor. lol
I watched ep 36 to 40 in 30 min, but from what I what gathered: - leads= happy ending, wedding at the end - second couple = happy ending, the prince becomes the emperor and his wife, the empress - Third couple = the prince tries to stage a coup (I think), but it was unsuccessful and he is cornered. He and the third fl do this kind of Shakespearean play in the throne room before they both die while everyone watches (ml, fl, sml, all the guards lol). The third fl stabs him while hugging him and we believe he stabs her in retaliation (but it’s super unclear). - ml’s biological father dies. - We don’t know if the ml’s mom gets together with her suitor. - Ml’s guard friend lives.
Overall, the whole drama was anticlimactic. I believe there is a kiss scene at ep 32 (meeting of lips, very meh) and 2 at the very end of ep 37 (nothing extraordinary).
Wei Yan is an entertaining villain. The actor is always fun to watch; and in another drama, he was the most unlucky villain trying to unalive the ml, because the ml had so many connections left, right, north, south, and he was like, “how can I win against someone born with a golden spoon” lol
1. The pair are together from the first episode. But the fake sibling relationship and amnesia stretches the will…
I don’t recall them getting together from the first episode? At the first ep, the ml rejected the fl and would not marry her, and they went their separate ways, only to meet again on ep 2 when the fl fell off a cliff and the ml found her and told everyone she was his sister to protect her. At that time, he was not in love with her.
If you want to watch a good historical: Rebel Princess
-leads get together at ep 32. Some cute scenes, but I don’t really feel the chemistry.
-ep 34: fl recovers her memories after hitting her head while escaping a fire with the ml who also hits his head. When she wakes up, she runs to the streets looking for her dad, but she remembers that her whole family is gon and breaks down crying in the rain. Literally after that scene, we see her taking care of the ml day and night while he is a brief coma after hitting his head. So we don’t really
see her mourn the loss of her whole family (37 members in total), aside from that brief scene in the rain!
-35-36: breaks up and leaves the ml to go on her revenge quest. It’s a case of noble idiocy: pushes the ml to protect him and not get involved
in her revenge. Oh, she also wrote a petition letter to the emperor in which she reveals her identity and declines to marry the sml (which was a royal decree!!). Luckily for her, the letter is conveniently intercepted, otherwise she would be dead if it had reached the eyes of the emperor. lol
I watched ep 36 to 40 in 30 min, but from what I what gathered:
- leads= happy ending, wedding at the end
- second couple = happy ending, the prince becomes the emperor and his wife, the empress
- Third couple = the prince tries to stage a coup (I think), but it was unsuccessful and he is cornered. He and the third fl do this kind of Shakespearean play in the throne room before they both die while everyone watches (ml, fl, sml, all the guards lol). The third fl stabs him while hugging him and we believe he stabs her in retaliation (but it’s super unclear).
- ml’s biological father dies.
- We don’t know if the ml’s mom gets together with her suitor.
- Ml’s guard friend lives.
Overall, the whole drama was anticlimactic. I believe there is a kiss scene at ep 32 (meeting of lips, very meh) and 2 at the very end of ep 37 (nothing extraordinary).