Whether it is in political sense or in war-field sense this drama is really weak . It feels like Wind has blown in opposite direction this time on MDL instead of mass downvoting the show , there seems to be an upvoting . I have seen enough of rating manipulation on MLD so it is nothing new , Romance and character development is good but backstory of many character lacks or maybe director failed to show in the way it should be . I do not know if book is better or not but in drama depth is missing . It is 8.5-8.7 max in my opinion .
Wth really why don't they just made a solo drama on FL without ML it was really laughable ML was a general and FL fight all the battle and ML just sit on horse they just made ML a side character it happened all the c drama i have seen that's why i never watch c drama but i heard this drama was good and see the rating was soo high so i give it a try Same things happened in this drama also
FL was greater than ML as always in this drama ML was just for show and for romance nothing else c drama with women empowerment obsession is just soo high the only thing i like about this drama was starting 15 episodes was soo good and fluffy
I just drop this drama at 30 episodes things just don't make sense and look nonsense
what happened to you ZHU yu?!?!?!?! lesson for today: never judge a drama until you finish it!!! sigh. like other dramas, there will be withdrawal, like a drug you can't move on... but this, it leaves you feeling totally knocked-out and waking up to the worst hangover of your life. that's what it felt like to me. i just hope yours is different. lol.
You may check reviews giving full 10 and lower ratings to know what this drama truly is.
Same. I really care about plot and hate when they fall off half way through. Which is a usual problem I’ve noticed with some of the newer Cdramas because they tend to focus more on casting good looking actors and a great start then they lose the plot later on or it just becomes meh.
Okay I just completed poj nd here's my two cents. 1. Less YQQ n QM would have been better. Some of their scns were completely unnecessary. 2. Idk why last 10 eps felt slow to me. 3. In some scns Ml seemed like a supporting character tbh. 4. Where was the angst and seperation arc after knowing the TRUTH of her father???
I really liked this one as a whole, one of the best Chinese dramas I have watched in a while. I would have given it a higher rating if it was not for the last few episodes.
They showed so many scenes and characters that were not that important, even showed us a "what if" in the post-credits but did not bother to show us their wedding (even tho the ML spent a big chunk of the drama promising her a proper one) nor show us their kids (only mentioning them right before the ending like it was just an afterthought).
If they did not reserve so much screen time for Yu Qian Qian and Qi Min (why are they even listed as supporting characters when they got almost as much screen time as the main leads?), maybe there would have been more time to show us what we REALLY wanted to watch.
I hate when I love a drama so much and then the last episodes are disappointing because now I do not leave this drama feeling the way I wanted. I wanted to be so satisfied with the ending and empty on the inside that no other drama would be able to fill this emptiness for a while. Unfortunately, that did not happen. T T
There were several things about the way things were wrapped up that I did not agree with or thought could have been done better but listing them all would take a while and would only make me feel even more disappointed than I already am and I want to remeber this one in a good light so I will stop here.
Replying toHyunelovebot•Mar 27, 2026•Liked Mar 28, 2026
I feel like the 40 episodes restriction really sacrificed the story a bit. Had it been 50 episodes long, I'm sure…
They knew about the 40 episode limit before they even began filming. That the drama feels rushed to some people is the fault of the screenwriter and film editors. They needed to make the plot fit into 40 episodes, not increase the number of episodes. In hindsight I wish they had shortened the scenes with Qi Min and QianQian. The support actors were excellent but the writers gave too much time to secondary characters at the expense of moving the plot forward at an even pace.
the writing fell apart for me in the second half but like the first 10/15 eps of the story and acting were IMMACULATE.…
so true. It started a 10 out of 10 for me and then dropped significantly. I still enjoy watching it but I'm really getting annoyed by the whole Mary Sue aspect of CY like her struggles don't really seem tht big because well others face the consequences of her actions instead of her and of course she can never be defeated. heavy plot armor for the main characters makes it worse. and this whole dragging romance between the leads is very annoying too. I do like the leads together tho if only the writing remained as strong as the first couple of eps...
Replying toSushi88•Mar 28, 2026•Liked Mar 28, 2026
People these days forget to enjoy the moment.I mean when I was young,our national TV showed a lot of C dramas back then. All my classmates, our families watched two episodes per week for any drama with tons of commercials in it.Next morning,everyone talked about how the plot ,heroine ,hero, villains like crazy.Like we never knew their real names of the actors or real name of a drama back then.After many years later and looking back, it's all about decent memory of family gathering, friends I forgot their names or faces , but always remember the thrill we got from that moment of shared experience.It's very nostalgic and unique memory of viewing a drama or film or movie together.Hope POJ passed down the exact experience to all the viewers.
lol im confused. this drama is trying so hard to promote this as a strong FL drama but then makes her journey too easy. we never see her do any martial arts practice, and with no military experience, she kills a bunch of main villains, easily, one by one, without any logic. she then gets promoted to a higher rank, not because she earned it, but because of politics. yup, using a woman as a political pawn! lol that’s not a strong woman. that’s a caricature of a strong woman and simply insulting to women in general.
I have this feeling and I may be in the minority but so far first arc is the strongest, military arc just pissed off half of the comment section myself included except for DK's exceptional job and the little shit that wouldn't die until he self decapitated which I've never seen in any drama; maybe a huge can of 🪳 RAID would have worked.. Now we're slowly moving into the last and truth revealing and sabotaging scheming rebellion arc....I hope it strengthens ML again from Goddess of war's pooch to the Marquis that he is. The writing has been weak and unstable a lot. Even a fictional character has to be written in a way ppl can understand and believe. Had this been a Xianxia or fantasy supernatural something or other, than it would've been understandable but other than surviving cliff diving, everything else was standard historical and too unbelievable to the point of ridiculous. My rating started at 9 but has been falling; won't know till the end and without a review unless I just write out my frustrations, doubt y'all will find that interesting lol. I guess when you don't sleep all night you ramble. Not sure any of this made sense to y'all.
This drama has so many integral characters that the 2nd half of this drama ends up feeling like a completely new drama. I know that the stories of the others have to be told but we end up losing Xie Zheng in the process.
This plot is centered around Changyu so she is the focal point in almost every aspect of this drama. But once Xie Zheng leaves Changyu after their fight Xie Zheng gets relegated to a supporting character until the last few episodes, with only a scene or 2 in each episode. After all the build up and chemistry generated in the first 16 episodes, this feels deflating, especially when episode after episode focus on death and destruction done by 2 psychotic brothers. It weighs down the drama for me.
The romance between the leads is epic. I wished they would have showed more interactions in the military camp but everything seemed disjointed and rushed. Trying to capture all of the multitude of substories that connect to the CP just completely overshadowed them and it made those intimate scenes between them fleeting and not as satisfying. I spent most of my energy watching hoping for their next interactions. In this way, all the other parts that were important made me more impatient with the drama instead.
This drama was not 'bad'. It just suffered from the censorship board and control outside of the hands of the production team. Forcing them to fit this story in a confined box didn't do it justice.
Kudos to all the actors though, not just our CP. They all did a wonderful job in their roles. I wished I could have enjoyed them more. I probably will when I calm down and rewatch it without all the expectations. I say that because, for me, this drama is a solid 8.5/10 right now with the value of rewatching for the acting and cinematography alone. Now that I know how this is going to play out, rewatching may make me revise it higher, despite my current disappointments.
At ep 30, I love the FL but her being overpowered is getting a little too tiring to watch.
I have honestly lost interest once i saw them sky rocketing the FL to a general within 6-7 episodes…like come on…if it was that easy to become a general the whole brigade would have become one. Great director but he annoys me a bit with the woman overempowerment thing….it takes away from the director, the actors and the story line
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It feels like Wind has blown in opposite direction this time on MDL instead of mass downvoting the show , there seems to be an upvoting .
I have seen enough of rating manipulation on MLD so it is nothing new ,
Romance and character development is good but backstory of many character lacks or maybe director failed to show in the way it should be .
I do not know if book is better or not but in drama depth is missing .
It is 8.5-8.7 max in my opinion .
Same things happened in this drama also
FL was greater than ML as always in this drama ML was just for show and for romance nothing else c drama with women empowerment obsession is just soo high the only thing i like about this drama was starting 15 episodes was soo good and fluffy
I just drop this drama at 30 episodes things just don't make sense and look nonsense
1. Less YQQ n QM would have been better. Some of their scns were completely unnecessary.
2. Idk why last 10 eps felt slow to me.
3. In some scns Ml seemed like a supporting character tbh.
4. Where was the angst and seperation arc after knowing the TRUTH of her father???
They showed so many scenes and characters that were not that important, even showed us a "what if" in the post-credits but did not bother to show us their wedding (even tho the ML spent a big chunk of the drama promising her a proper one) nor show us their kids (only mentioning them right before the ending like it was just an afterthought).
If they did not reserve so much screen time for Yu Qian Qian and Qi Min (why are they even listed as supporting characters when they got almost as much screen time as the main leads?), maybe there would have been more time to show us what we REALLY wanted to watch.
I hate when I love a drama so much and then the last episodes are disappointing because now I do not leave this drama feeling the way I wanted. I wanted to be so satisfied with the ending and empty on the inside that no other drama would be able to fill this emptiness for a while. Unfortunately, that did not happen. T T
There were several things about the way things were wrapped up that I did not agree with or thought could have been done better but listing them all would take a while and would only make me feel even more disappointed than I already am and I want to remeber this one in a good light so I will stop here.
This plot is centered around Changyu so she is the focal point in almost every aspect of this drama. But once Xie Zheng leaves Changyu after their fight Xie Zheng gets relegated to a supporting character until the last few episodes, with only a scene or 2 in each episode. After all the build up and chemistry generated in the first 16 episodes, this feels deflating, especially when episode after episode focus on death and destruction done by 2 psychotic brothers. It weighs down the drama for me.
The romance between the leads is epic. I wished they would have showed more interactions in the military camp but everything seemed disjointed and rushed. Trying to capture all of the multitude of substories that connect to the CP just completely overshadowed them and it made those intimate scenes between them fleeting and not as satisfying. I spent most of my energy watching hoping for their next interactions. In this way, all the other parts that were important made me more impatient with the drama instead.
This drama was not 'bad'. It just suffered from the censorship board and control outside of the hands of the production team. Forcing them to fit this story in a confined box didn't do it justice.
Kudos to all the actors though, not just our CP. They all did a wonderful job in their roles. I wished I could have enjoyed them more. I probably will when I calm down and rewatch it without all the expectations. I say that because, for me, this drama is a solid 8.5/10 right now with the value of rewatching for the acting and cinematography alone. Now that I know how this is going to play out, rewatching may make me revise it higher, despite my current disappointments.
Great director but he annoys me a bit with the woman overempowerment thing….it takes away from the director, the actors and the story line