Watched first 5 episodes and in my opinion, You just have to suspend disbelief to enjoy this drama because He Yan looks like a woman, acts like a woman, talks like a woman, smells like a woman…to cut the long story short, she is just not believable at all as a man, but since the commander has no issues with it, I don’t have either. It will be interesting to see what funny scenarios play out between them as she keeps pretending to be a man though.
One other critic I have is that the drama didn’t allow He Yan time to really grieve and contemplate her next steps, and it lessened the emotional impact of what she went through in the hands of her family. It seemed like she fell off a cliff in one scene, and in the next scene, she is all good, and in the next scene she sets off to join the army with a goofy persona. For someone who has been subjected to such horrible tragedy back to back, it’s frankly a bizarre reaction.
In the double, another drama adaptation of this author’s work, I recall XFF was quite depressed and suicidal after her ordeal, and JL had to hold her back. In this drama, I guess He Yan is supposed to have a happy-go-lucky personality, but even a saint will be heartbroken for a short while at least after going through all that before moving on.
When I saw her fall from the cliff I said “not again! Please spare us the amnesia plot.” I thought they’d do like Princess Gambit again.
FL standing in the middle of all the soldiers clearly has the shape of a woman. Even next to the one who said he was the shortest before, she looks like a woman. Like you said, a more masculine looking FL would have been better OR more feminine looking men like in “Dominion and Devotion”.
I was really looking forward to this drama, it’s an unfortunate start.
Liu Xueyi oh Liu Xueyi, why did you always choose drama that flopped. I've not finish watching this drama, I am…
This drama didn't flop. In china the heat index reached 26000. It ranked 1st on the first week and maintained on top 3 several times. Liu Xueyi's character reached 100M popularity, while Meng Ziyi's reached 40M. This is an A level investment drama, but the broadcast impact exceeded expectations and went up to S level, which is rare for drama aired in this year. The douban rating is low bcos only 11k people voted and yk douban is mostly filled with idol haters and passersby.
You might not know. On the first day of airing, people on MDL thought this is a harem drama and they voted low scores. So this drama started with 6+ scores. But real viewers voted reasonably that it went up to 8+.
Just bcos the scores went from 8.3 to 8.1 doesn't mean the drama flopped bcos what matters is the data in china, not MDL.
This ost is so good, especially the one that ends the drama, and the hero's song (Missed gem), as well as the opening, are all very beautiful.These songs stay in my head.
This is a good drama to watch...story is good with minimum glitch. Actings by ML and FL are good and suited to their roles. The Director and production should be more alert in costume suitability for FL in some of the scenes which sometimes don't made sense. The role of 3rd Prince was also played well by GH. Anyway, I still enjoy watching this drama.
There were so many negative comments, but I worried for nothing. It’s not the best, but it’s not bad enough to drop. The peach blossom is better than the snow ending in Kill Me Love Me. 😭
I’m surprised by so many negative comments here. I actually like this drama. Liu Xue Yi delivers a phenomenal performance, and Meng Zi Yi’s acting is also quite good, although she was somewhat limited by how the FL was written midway through the drama. I also love the OST. The first 18 episodes were excellent, episodes 19-29 were just okay, and episodes 30-36 were good. I looked forward to the new episodes every day and couldn’t stop thinking about this drama each night! I can really feel the chemistry and love between the ML and FL. It would have been better if Mu Wu Yin had become the ML's love rival, but instead, he falls for the Empress, which doesn’t quite convince me
I beg to differ from most of you. I watch this drama primarily to see how they write the villains. Princess's…
Absolutely agreed! It’s rare in C dramas that villains are written in such a satisfying way and that their character traits/stories become their downfall. What a wasted potential though as I found the rest of the story lacking and not well written. Also the romance was unsatisfying imo, and it was not LXY‘s fault. He definitely delivered.
I beg to differ from most of you. I watch this drama primarily to see how they write the villains. Princess's…
Loved your perspective & I totally agree that a villain without depth or main leads who don’t undergo a growth arc shaped by moral dilemma, water down the show. In that sense, this drama managed to flesh out strong characters & weave intriguing plots connecting them. The costumes, cinematography & the OST are brilliant & can be an example worth following for future dramas. But the editing could have been a LOT better. The narrative felt like a ‘buffering live soccer match’ where we see the start & the goal scoring moment but can’t feel excited as we missed the juicy part of ‘assists, defence & offence’.
The novel readers could connect the dots & resonate with the characters but in the drama we were robbed of that joy in more than one instance due to lacklustre editing & screenplay. Especially the 3rd Prince arc with the FL’s memory loss. This could’ve been an angst filled love & hate intertwined battle of wits scenario, testing loyalties but they let it crumble down to a plain old ‘ML turns soft & FL an indifferent damsel in distress’ plot. Many characters were left unexplored like Concubine Lan, SZY’s concubines, the Qin family/ 2nd Prince, Qian Mo Chen. & so on. They amplified the 3rd Prince arc & the poisoning plot so much that it overshadowed the tense 1st half & left little room for other characters to shine.
Overall I love it, the characters and story but of course there were a few scenes didn’t make sense. The flow is great and I feel the two mains had equal scenes, they were equally smart…. etc. Really didn’t like those focus only on ML or FL especially FL 😅 making the ML looking “dumb” 😅 well maybe a little ML were all over her at one point…..
Okay gotta give it to them for this episode. The past episodes were lacking and I'm glad the battle scenes did not disappoint. We're reaching climax and it's starting to get better again
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One other critic I have is that the drama didn’t allow He Yan time to really grieve and contemplate her next steps, and it lessened the emotional impact of what she went through in the hands of her family. It seemed like she fell off a cliff in one scene, and in the next scene, she is all good, and in the next scene she sets off to join the army with a goofy persona. For someone who has been subjected to such horrible tragedy back to back, it’s frankly a bizarre reaction.
In the double, another drama adaptation of this author’s work, I recall XFF was quite depressed and suicidal after her ordeal, and JL had to hold her back. In this drama, I guess He Yan is supposed to have a happy-go-lucky personality, but even a saint will be heartbroken for a short while at least after going through all that before moving on.
FL standing in the middle of all the soldiers clearly has the shape of a woman. Even next to the one who said he was the shortest before, she looks like a woman. Like you said, a more masculine looking FL would have been better OR more feminine looking men like in “Dominion and Devotion”.
I was really looking forward to this drama, it’s an unfortunate start.
You might not know. On the first day of airing, people on MDL thought this is a harem drama and they voted low scores. So this drama started with 6+ scores. But real viewers voted reasonably that it went up to 8+.
Just bcos the scores went from 8.3 to 8.1 doesn't mean the drama flopped bcos what matters is the data in china, not MDL.
Love the couple & chemistry.. 💕🔥
LiuXueYi looking hot... 👀💋🔥💟
OST is also good.. 🎵🎶
#LiuXueYi #MengZiYi ❤
The first 18 episodes were excellent, episodes 19-29 were just okay, and episodes 30-36 were good. I looked forward to the new episodes every day and couldn’t stop thinking about this drama each night! I can really feel the chemistry and love between the ML and FL. It would have been better if Mu Wu Yin had become the ML's love rival, but instead, he falls for the Empress, which doesn’t quite convince me
The novel readers could connect the dots & resonate with the characters but in the drama we were robbed of that joy in more than one instance due to lacklustre editing & screenplay. Especially the 3rd Prince arc with the FL’s memory loss. This could’ve been an angst filled love & hate intertwined battle of wits scenario, testing loyalties but they let it crumble down to a plain old ‘ML turns soft & FL an indifferent damsel in distress’ plot. Many characters were left unexplored like Concubine Lan, SZY’s concubines, the Qin family/ 2nd Prince, Qian Mo Chen. & so on. They amplified the 3rd Prince arc & the poisoning plot so much that it overshadowed the tense 1st half & left little room for other characters to shine.
look forward for more