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Thrilling, convincing storyline and characters
This drama is quite unique from the very start !
We are not used to watch a costume drama where a Scholar buries his wife alive at the very beginning of the plot ! Yet, she survives ! This first episode is quite impressive and striking. I watched the first 5 episodes in a row. Sure you get to think that this drama is something else… Thrilling till the end, good to watch for the plots and the actors.
You dive into a story where greed, revenge, change of identity, manipulations of all kinds are mixed with the eternal notions of status and power, love and hate, righteousness and madness. But above all, you have here a female strategist who fights for justice, she is an avenger!
Yes, women can be as clever as men, as evil as men. Yes, whoever you are and however you act, there is always an explanation for inappropriate or evil behaviors. Still, can everything be forgiven just because you have a good reason to act the way you do ? FL will win it all, redemption is on its way…NOTHING CAN STOP AN AVENGER ! Nothing can stop a psychopath either…
ML is the emperor’s strategist and military general. He investigates attempts to overthrow the emperor and at first will use FL as a pawn. From the very beginning he understands that she is not an ordinary woman. He knows her real identity and admires her way of thinking which is just as his. They have the same « destination » as he says. He is also quite impressed by FL. Of course, they fell in love and get married on last episode... It’s heart warming watching the two together. They have good chemistry. Their love is not passionate, they are rather soul mates. They do understand each other and have the same values.
This drama also grants us with many moving scenes. Wu Jin Yan is really good in moving us very deeply. She is a very talented actress. Wang Qing Yue is very well filmed, XIAO Heng’s character fits him very well. He is quite appealing in here. This may be his best drama so far.
Some people think this drama has a happy ending... Maybe because of the extra episode ? I haven't watched it nor intend to watch it.
On episode 40, Xiao Heng dies on batllefield with his trusty right-hand men (it is so sad). He won’t come back even though FL hopes to see him back and awaits for him under the tree they planted together. He should be back, riding a white horse as a true hero of war but this is her hopeless wish.
We are not used to watch a costume drama where a Scholar buries his wife alive at the very beginning of the plot ! Yet, she survives ! This first episode is quite impressive and striking. I watched the first 5 episodes in a row. Sure you get to think that this drama is something else… Thrilling till the end, good to watch for the plots and the actors.
You dive into a story where greed, revenge, change of identity, manipulations of all kinds are mixed with the eternal notions of status and power, love and hate, righteousness and madness. But above all, you have here a female strategist who fights for justice, she is an avenger!
Yes, women can be as clever as men, as evil as men. Yes, whoever you are and however you act, there is always an explanation for inappropriate or evil behaviors. Still, can everything be forgiven just because you have a good reason to act the way you do ? FL will win it all, redemption is on its way…NOTHING CAN STOP AN AVENGER ! Nothing can stop a psychopath either…
ML is the emperor’s strategist and military general. He investigates attempts to overthrow the emperor and at first will use FL as a pawn. From the very beginning he understands that she is not an ordinary woman. He knows her real identity and admires her way of thinking which is just as his. They have the same « destination » as he says. He is also quite impressed by FL. Of course, they fell in love and get married on last episode... It’s heart warming watching the two together. They have good chemistry. Their love is not passionate, they are rather soul mates. They do understand each other and have the same values.
This drama also grants us with many moving scenes. Wu Jin Yan is really good in moving us very deeply. She is a very talented actress. Wang Qing Yue is very well filmed, XIAO Heng’s character fits him very well. He is quite appealing in here. This may be his best drama so far.
Some people think this drama has a happy ending... Maybe because of the extra episode ? I haven't watched it nor intend to watch it.
On episode 40, Xiao Heng dies on batllefield with his trusty right-hand men (it is so sad). He won’t come back even though FL hopes to see him back and awaits for him under the tree they planted together. He should be back, riding a white horse as a true hero of war but this is her hopeless wish.
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