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Beautiful and great story
Visually amazing, sets, costumes and cinematography all 10/10. (And fragrances and incense are so woven in the plot that you can almost smell them!)
I made a Spotify playlist of the OST, it’s that good especially the Hua Yong theme song.
The MMC is a different from your staple Cdrama hero. He is sick and in pain throughout and they’re not sugarcoating it. He’s a hero in a different way, fighting the odds and only sometimes coming out on top.
For a Crown Prince, he’s not power hungry and quite happy to leave his mastermind wife to handle business.
Xi He is one of the most powerful and clever female character in Cdrama-land, but she’s often quite unpleasant and cold, and she resists Hua Yong’s constant flirting beyond what is humanly possible! He Yu is devastatingly charming in this role, from the bedroom eyes to rocking his armour!
It’s a crying shame there is virtually no chemistry between He Yu and Meng Zi Yi or this would have Pursuit of Jade/Prisoner of Beauty perfection.
Also the plot drags in the last third, especially after it becomes clear that the romance build up leads nowhere, due to aforementioned lack of chemistry or the 12+ rating. It’s a cry-fest though, so it might sustain your interest if you like drenching tissues.
Well worth a watch and the first half is brilliant enough to carry you through the remaining 18 épisodes.
I made a Spotify playlist of the OST, it’s that good especially the Hua Yong theme song.
The MMC is a different from your staple Cdrama hero. He is sick and in pain throughout and they’re not sugarcoating it. He’s a hero in a different way, fighting the odds and only sometimes coming out on top.
For a Crown Prince, he’s not power hungry and quite happy to leave his mastermind wife to handle business.
Xi He is one of the most powerful and clever female character in Cdrama-land, but she’s often quite unpleasant and cold, and she resists Hua Yong’s constant flirting beyond what is humanly possible! He Yu is devastatingly charming in this role, from the bedroom eyes to rocking his armour!
It’s a crying shame there is virtually no chemistry between He Yu and Meng Zi Yi or this would have Pursuit of Jade/Prisoner of Beauty perfection.
Also the plot drags in the last third, especially after it becomes clear that the romance build up leads nowhere, due to aforementioned lack of chemistry or the 12+ rating. It’s a cry-fest though, so it might sustain your interest if you like drenching tissues.
Well worth a watch and the first half is brilliant enough to carry you through the remaining 18 épisodes.
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