The novel gave me a headache as the writing felt so lazy. But the drama is handling the story much better. That said, I did love Tao Hua’s shamelessness in the novel.
What an underrated drama! I'm so glad I didn't trust the rating. Wonderful, moving story and some very deep and meaningful themes. Whoever wrote the script deserves a raise.
I love the ending. It matches the tone of the drama and makes complete sense. This is easily the best fantasy C-drama I've seen. The characters are well-fleshed out and consistent and the actors did justice to the roles. The plot is A+. The world-building is excellent. I have zero complaints. This is a 9+ drama. Don't let the rating stop you.
i read the posts here with much interest, and a little sadness. Everyone here seems to dissect the drama into small pieces. You say i like this or that, but this was too slow, or the cutting of kissing scenes. For me as an average viewer, I watch the dramas relax and to enjoy. I find the cutting of some scenes a blessing. I have given up watching the western films and series because i find they have gone over the line of decency. I really loved this drama, it was really well put together, film beautifully, with a coherent story. I thought the cast were on the whole brilliant, especially the ML and FL who seem to work extremely well together. They bring the characters to life, and take you along through the story. Then ending was for once really well done. I will look out for this director again, to see more of his works. The second half did slow a little, but surely that was the build up to the end, why skip it. Nothing is perfect, so for me i rated this 9.5 just for the enjoyment, i am really old and have time on my hands to relax, and i hope to find other works to watch, if anyone has any suggestion i would welcome your guidance.
A satisfying ending that's finally done well. All Chinese screenwriters should take a lesson from this. Overall, I got a bit bored in the second half, so I sped up the episodes, but this ending is really well done. It was worth it for that.
Actually I enjoyed second half of the show more 😅 been kinda done with all dramas stopping at marriage or even before marriage, so it was nice to see a happily married couple for once. The show wasn't outstanding or anything, but was good enough in this current cdrama drought. My main complaint was that for most of the show I felt too little emotions. Dunno if it was the acting, or the dubbing being mostly pretty tame, but I could have used a stronger connections to the characters.
I enjoy the drama. I think I like how the FL have the knowledge about the future but she is not being obnoxious about it and everything is still unpredictable for her
One of the best idol dramas. A solid 9 I would give a 10 if they cut the drama and clean up some story mistakes. Also can we all colective agree that teh ML si a green flag. Such a powerful and support couple so refreshing seeing the chinese dramaland. If have doubts about watching but you love powerful woman, and strong healthy romance with a good politic story line, give this drama a chance. I love this drama so much taht I put my best friend ( she doenst watch any asian content) watching and she love it
it’s not random, if we think of it this way, previous life SM helped the prince in the rebellion, so because things changed so much and he didn’t kill his brother this life, SH ended up helping the prince . Think of it as they switched places. that’s why they had to show why SH flipped, even though he was already brained washed like crazy by their father.