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The Longest Promise chinese drama review
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The Longest Promise
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by MintChocolate
Jun 22, 2025
40 of 40 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.5
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 8.5
This review may contain spoilers

Pretty Nice for Chaotic Love Line

This drama focus is all over the place. The actings are great. It is like a beautiful chaos.

Fantasy theme drama is one hard to pull off. The actors got to be sleek enough with their entire performance to make their scenes ethereal. It’s a lot to bring the imaginary to live. The CGI here is glowing good and still awkwardly executed. Some shapes is just not blending nicely. The sand monster looks like stiff godzilla. Spotted view wobbly feet landing on their fighting and flying scenes.

Their costume is not embellished bejeweled, but the fabrics flow enchantingly. The head pieces very modest nothing is sparking enough to blind the eyes. The mermaids fabrics has beaming light better than any of the jewels. The swords look playful and plastics. Their props team needs serious detailing overview. Luckily the cast ensemble are mostly face card. So anything they wore is just felt breathtakingly pretty. And sugar view is always nicer to watch.

Acting is the all reason of continuing to watch this drama. The acting quality is good decent and somewhat spectacular actually. No lines was spoiled half baked. Every dialogues has depth and the proper execution to bring out each scenes.
Eventhough the storyline and renditions are all over the place. Chaotic. Messy and overlapping. The revenge plots is not vengeful enough. The villains not so bright. Hence the heroes not doing so much either. The way things got dragged just boring and annoying.
ChongMing and Shi Ying bromance felt natural and adorable. ChongMing truly the birdy character preaching awesome performance.
Giving both the child actors and actresses a ten for excellent performance. The fluidly captures all the emotions needed for the build up.

The love triangle, is kind of weak and dry. The ideas was reincarnation lovers clashes with bad omen couples. That should’ve been interesting and juicy to watch.
Zhi Yuan has this mysterious vibes with his wicked smile. Explore that. Bring more latitude of his 200year something kept away desire. They don’t do justice with his character. He becomes this cheesy character and was only left being a shadow of this and that. Then suddenly at the end 10 episodes, he is being shoved here and there to get the intensify love triangle. It felt being rap up at F1 speed level.
Wished they create better build up on the romance, even if it supposedly be lukewarm. The OTP got cute flickers on their romance scenes.
The way hesitation keep overclouding Shi Ying attitudes towards Zhu Yan is just tediously long. When at the start he seemingly sure of having a crush, why detoured it in falling obliviously clueless.
However, there were moments. Not plenty enough. Where Shi Ying is actually felt not robotic. The temporary amnesia moments brings color to Shi Ying face and more warmth.
My favorites scenes would be where at the end Shi Ying played on duo character clashing in one body. And when he stabs himself.
At start my thoughts were like Shi Ying and his plenty magic spells. It never got into that though. Just Shi Yang and his plenty back and forth vagueness.

The ending is pretty predictable. And it is what it is. The way the episode develops on each is not witty and indulging enough. The acting is what kept me going to finish. It is a good thing the cast here are fantastic. Rewatching values are just so so. I do say this, this one still pretty good to watch if you’re on mid series binge watching waiting for that one unstoppable craving drama to start.
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