I have dropped every drama of Yang Mi I ever tried to watch. I thought my love for Gong Jun was strong enough to make me push through and complete this drama but alas it wasn’t so. I’m sad to drop a Gong Jun drama but even my love for him wasn’t strong enough to get past the stoic pouty one face expression from Yang Mi.
PS: anyone coming under this comment trying to give me a piece of their mind, I advice you to not bother yourself because you will be wasting your time as my opinion will not change.
I do like the story and the acting, the acting which is a pet peeve of mine from Thai dramas & has resulted in me dropping a lot of their dramas is fortunately not an issue here as the plot and acting in this one is really good. Currently @ ep 10 and I’m seriously frustrated with Kawi. He claims to want an equal relationship but that’s not what’s happening, Pisaeng still always has to give in to his wishes and demands, every thing they do is on Kawi’s terms, Pisaeng wanted to stay home but Kawi forced or cajoled however you wanna look at it, to go to the amusement park, Pisaeng ok we are here now, let’s get on a ride, in true Kawi form, he says no and sulks/walks back to the car, like seriously, that really pissed me off. As long as Kawhi bats his eyelashes and says please Pisaeng will just give in like a simp, while it was tolerable before they became official now it’s just plain stupid especially after the whole “be equal in the relationship” passionate speech. Rewatch Value 4/10 Overall Value 7.5/10
PS: will update review and rating after completing the drama Update: completed the drama. I will slightly change my rating from 7.5/10 to 8/10. Their domestic montage in ep11 was cute and adorable.
I really had to bite the bullet during the first few episodes to get through Song Yi (Liu Yuru) staring off into…
Your review has made me decide to continue with the drama, because I dropped it after ep1 as the FLs acting or rather lack of acting chops was just too much for me to bear and tolerate. So I will continue it and endure for 3 more episodes, hopefully it gets better for me as it did you 🤞
I am 12 minutes into ep2 and I’m really struggling to continue with this, I have read quite a number of comments and most people’s complaints are about the plot but mine so far is the acting, aside from the guy playing Ming, the rest of the cast are not doing anything for me at all. I guess I'm not seeing the top notch acting some commenters have alluded to. That pool scene at the beginning of ep2 was my 2nd to last straw with the acting in this, I will give this drama ep2-3, if I continue to cringe with the acting, then I will just drop it.
I’m at ep2 and I’m finding it extremely hard to get into this drama. I wouldn’t consider myself a fan of both leads but I like them and have watched some of their other dramas and I have nothing against the acting especially from the female lead but I’m just not feeling anything when watching the drama, I haven’t connected with the drama at all. I will give the drama 3 more episodes before I decide to drop or continue as I have been looking forward to it since I saw the teasers
I have never watched an ongoing drama as I am a binge watcher but for some reason I decided to watch the first few episodes and lemme tell you I couldn’t stop. It was so bad I payed for YOUKU vip pass even though I had a feeling it was going to come to VIKI but viki is always so slow with Eng subs especially on CDramas and god knows I was not willing to wait. It is indeed going to come out on Viki like I originally thought it would. The wait for more episodes has been pure torture lemme tell you, I visit this page almost 3 times a day. Anyways the only consolation is that I get to rewatch it on Viki while waiting for new episodes on YOUKU. My absolute favorite drama of the year so far and no other drama is even close. I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND Overall value 10/10 so far
PS: I forgot to add, Duke Su’s fan is definitely the main character of this drama.
Just watched this for the first time and although it’s been 14years since its release, the overall vibe is not too bad. Although the ML was a combination of Superman, IronMan & Jackie Chan all rolled in one unbelievable package, you just have suspend your disbelief and enjoy the ride. The prosecutor guy got way too much screen time for someone with such bad acting, he’s acting was so bad, I rolled my eyes every time he was on screen plus he’s self righteous indignation was beyond my tolerance. He knew not 1️⃣ but 2️⃣ of his father’s crimes but other than begging him to confess he never went after him like he did with the other people. I don’t know what this series was trying to portray with his character because the justice seeking hill he was claiming to die on was rocky as hell, as it was shrouded in hypocrisy. I really wish they gave the FL more screen time because she ended up being more or less a supporting character in the drama, which was a shame, she had spunk and skills. Well as for that twist in the final eps, I sure as hell didn’t see it coming. So many unbelievable and eye roll moments in this drama but overall, it’s a drama that if you turn your brain off, you will most likely enjoy it, Overall Value 8/10
Thanks to the writers of this drama for giving us less common trope filled plot. This is the one drama that the romance being as muted as it was, was actually not bad at all. The focus of the drama was overcoming adversity and doing it with love and our FL did it with such aplomb. Although her family members took sometime to come around to her way of thinking when they finally did the family became unstoppable. I have seen a lot of horrible emperors in CDramas but this one does take the cake because he was horrible for no reason other than he was d emperor. I especially liked that the fight scenes were not flowery and beautiful but dark and gritty. No spinning and twirling in the fight scenes, well except for that one time between the leads (you can take everything out of a CDrama but you can never take twirling between the leads out, as it’s almost a taboo not to have that one moment, and lemme just say when done well I’m all for it) Anyways to say I highly recommend this drama will be an understatement. Happy viewing new viewers, enjoy the ride
So lemme get this straight, if you had a plan to go somewhere with someone or a group of people but for whatever reason you cancel and the other party continues with the journey and unfortunately gets injured or dies in an accident that had nothing to do with you, you are to be held responsible for that? CDrama plots always portrays their citizens as very toxic/hateful/vile/evil people especially the female ones and honestly lacking of critical thinking. CDrama writers need to do better in portraying their female characters. The constant extreme vengeful characterization of the female gender is seriously disturbing That Yun Character is one of the worst characters I have ever seen. Her self righteous woe is me countenance was so off putting. I fast forwarded more than 65% of the drama. I’m not opposed to a lot of kiss scenes and they were a lot in this drama but I agree with some other reviewers, some of the kiss scenes just felt forced somehow. The acting in this drama left a lot to be desired, and why the hell do all the characters have to call each others names every single time they talk? I obviously do no recommend this if you are looking for a quality drama but if you wanna watch numerous make out sessions (which a lot of CDramas don’t offer) then this one is for you. Rewatch value 1/10 Overall value 4/10
Story 1.0 Acting/Cast 4.0 Music 1.0 Rewatch Value 1.0 It’s worse than I expected
I unfortunately completed this drama but with the help of the fast forward ⏩. When you have to fast forward a drama with 15min run time then you already know it’s a terrible drama, Funny enough it really could have been a decent enough drama even with the run time but I don’t even know how much a better developed plot could have saved this especially with how bad the acting from Mew was, I wanted to give the acting 1/10 but I ended up giving it 4/10 because the SML did a really decent enough job and shouldn’t be punished for the bad job the more experienced actor did. If you haven’t watched this drama and thinking should I go for it just to see for myself, I sincerely employ you to not do it. Some people in the earlier comments when the drama started airing accusing people of hating on the drama because of Gulf, do you think everyone is a delusional hormonal teenager without a brain like you?, if majority of people say something is bad, then there should be some modicum of truth to it? There is no ifs and buts about this drama though, it’s really bad, a no plot drama with horrible acting. For me it was so painful to watch actually. I obviously DO NOT recommend
I highly recommend seeking medical treatment for your visual impairment. Further, past his god given features…
Lmao. I don’t know how I got to this comment but I sure as hell I’m glad I did because you made me laugh so hard and you are so right. I 💯 agree with you that there are so many self righteous people on anonymous public forums with their narcissistic agenda to lord their self imposed “moral superiority” over others. So I’m glad other people are speaking on this. Sorry for my long reply
I’m sad to drop a Gong Jun drama but even my love for him wasn’t strong enough to get past the stoic pouty one face expression from Yang Mi.
PS: anyone coming under this comment trying to give me a piece of their mind, I advice you to not bother yourself because you will be wasting your time as my opinion will not change.
Currently @ ep 10 and I’m seriously frustrated with Kawi. He claims to want an equal relationship but that’s not what’s happening, Pisaeng still always has to give in to his wishes and demands, every thing they do is on Kawi’s terms, Pisaeng wanted to stay home but Kawi forced or cajoled however you wanna look at it, to go to the amusement park, Pisaeng ok we are here now, let’s get on a ride, in true Kawi form, he says no and sulks/walks back to the car, like seriously, that really pissed me off.
As long as Kawhi bats his eyelashes and says please Pisaeng will just give in like a simp, while it was tolerable before they became official now it’s just plain stupid especially after the whole “be equal in the relationship” passionate speech.
Rewatch Value 4/10
Overall Value 7.5/10
PS: will update review and rating after completing the drama
Update: completed the drama. I will slightly change my rating from 7.5/10 to 8/10.
Their domestic montage in ep11 was cute and adorable.
I guess I'm not seeing the top notch acting some commenters have alluded to. That pool scene at the beginning of ep2 was my 2nd to last straw with the acting in this, I will give this drama ep2-3, if I continue to cringe with the acting, then I will just drop it.
Anyways the only consolation is that I get to rewatch it on Viki while waiting for new episodes on YOUKU.
My absolute favorite drama of the year so far and no other drama is even close.
I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND
Overall value 10/10 so far
PS: I forgot to add, Duke Su’s fan is definitely the main character of this drama.
The prosecutor guy got way too much screen time for someone with such bad acting, he’s acting was so bad, I rolled my eyes every time he was on screen plus he’s self righteous indignation was beyond my tolerance. He knew not 1️⃣ but 2️⃣ of his father’s crimes but other than begging him to confess he never went after him like he did with the other people. I don’t know what this series was trying to portray with his character because the justice seeking hill he was claiming to die on was rocky as hell, as it was shrouded in hypocrisy.
I really wish they gave the FL more screen time because she ended up being more or less a supporting character in the drama, which was a shame, she had spunk and skills.
Well as for that twist in the final eps, I sure as hell didn’t see it coming.
So many unbelievable and eye roll moments in this drama but overall, it’s a drama that if you turn your brain off, you will most likely enjoy it,
Overall Value 8/10
I have seen a lot of horrible emperors in CDramas but this one does take the cake because he was horrible for no reason other than he was d emperor.
I especially liked that the fight scenes were not flowery and beautiful but dark and gritty. No spinning and twirling in the fight scenes, well except for that one time between the leads (you can take everything out of a CDrama but you can never take twirling between the leads out, as it’s almost a taboo not to have that one moment, and lemme just say when done well I’m all for it)
Anyways to say I highly recommend this drama will be an understatement.
Happy viewing new viewers, enjoy the ride
Rewatch Value 7/10
Overall Value 10/10
CDrama plots always portrays their citizens as very toxic/hateful/vile/evil people especially the female ones and honestly lacking of critical thinking.
CDrama writers need to do better in portraying their female characters. The constant extreme vengeful characterization of the female gender is seriously disturbing
That Yun Character is one of the worst characters I have ever seen. Her self righteous woe is me countenance was so off putting.
I fast forwarded more than 65% of the drama.
I’m not opposed to a lot of kiss scenes and they were a lot in this drama but I agree with some other reviewers, some of the kiss scenes just felt forced somehow. The acting in this drama left a lot to be desired, and why the hell do all the characters have to call each others names every single time they talk? I obviously do no recommend this if you are looking for a quality drama but if you wanna watch numerous make out sessions (which a lot of CDramas don’t offer) then this one is for you.
Rewatch value 1/10
Overall value 4/10
Acting/Cast 4.0
Music 1.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
It’s worse than I expected
I unfortunately completed this drama but with the help of the fast forward ⏩. When you have to fast forward a drama with 15min run time then you already know it’s a terrible drama,
Funny enough it really could have been a decent enough drama even with the run time but I don’t even know how much a better developed plot could have saved this especially with how bad the acting from Mew was, I wanted to give the acting 1/10 but I ended up giving it 4/10 because the SML did a really decent enough job and shouldn’t be punished for the bad job the more experienced actor did.
If you haven’t watched this drama and thinking should I go for it just to see for myself, I sincerely employ you to not do it.
Some people in the earlier comments when the drama started airing accusing people of hating on the drama because of Gulf, do you think everyone is a delusional hormonal teenager without a brain like you?, if majority of people say something is bad, then there should be some modicum of truth to it?
There is no ifs and buts about this drama though, it’s really bad, a no plot drama with horrible acting. For me it was so painful to watch actually.
I obviously DO NOT recommend
I 💯 agree with you that there are so many self righteous people on anonymous public forums with their narcissistic agenda to lord their self imposed “moral superiority” over others.
So I’m glad other people are speaking on this. Sorry for my long reply
Anyways thanks again for your efforts.