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The Lament of Autumn - A beautiful Republican drama with lots of twists and turns and extraordinary acting scope.

As I have read the novel as well , This drama is slightly different from the novel at the end and gives a convincing closure compared to the novel. In the novel itself there are no answers for certain happenings and clarifications , so the drama also could not give clarifications of many incidents in-between.

Yu Changxuan (Cheng Lei )- ML, The One and Only star of the drama... This man holds the entire drama in his shoulders.. A very convincing and extra ordinary acting , gives complete justice to the role... He brings out the necessary emotions at every level.

Xiang Jueting , Tao Xiyi - The SML and the Villain, A beautiful casting and the actors have given perfect justice to the role.. I started liking tao Xiyi from the mid because her bringing up ,her anger , her empathy are beautifully portrayed . I find her character arc is beautifully matured compared to the FL.
The two Friends of ML, Lan Qing (The opera actress), Yu Jinquan (ML sister) - The cast is perfect and brought out beautifully.

The main let down and the disappointment of this drama is the FL and her Character arc.. It is poorly written and has not matured till the last. The complete infidelity of her character , and juggling between stupid naive ness and try to portray as bold , it becomes very messy...It is just because the mad love of the ML takes through the entire story...

The Chinese story writers want to portray FL as bold and beautiful then let her be and give us convincing actions till the end...If the FL want to move away from ML boldly, then she should just move on..If any small issues, she disturbs him in the name of Love ,comes back to him and accuses him if things dont go on her way, man, that is not boldness of a woman...

Instead you made the FL character as selfish ,unreliable, clueless, meek in the name of Love and try to portray as bold.....
Just standing straight and speaking in bold voice dont make a character bold...She hates ML and go to him again and again... She comes to know the SML has girl friend in japan, She came to know the betrayal of him multiple times and goes to him again and again... Take a stand Lady... She just enjoys her luxury and move out if things dont go in her way.. Many places the truth is known and she dont dare to take a stand...
The Man has been taking care of her for 2 years, and some clue she got that he killed her Mom, she didnt even verify it properly and she left him...The converstion which the ML and FL has had my nerves.. And then the truth is out that he didnt not kill her, she shamelssly came back and say we loved each other... What the hell? She dont even realize her shortcomings ...
Compare to her all the other women characters are beautifully written and the actors did justice..
Xu Ruohan - Even though the character is poorly written at some places, her acting made it worse... She definitely need to take lots of acting classes... Most of the times her face is bland and she dont give any expressions , so it is difficult to predict the mood. There are lots of emotional scenes to prove her acting and she just wasted it.....

It is a very good plot with convincing action sequences , excellent costumes and sets ,great acting by all.. The Major disappointment is the FL character arc and the poor acting by the actor who has made it the worst.

It is definitely one-time watchable...