emma

my favorite drama of all time

this was the second zhuyi adaptation and second c drama i ever watched and it was impeccable amazing beautiful perfect incredible i have no words. like i would give it an infinity rating out of 10 if i could because its just that crazily good- at least on my terms. it is my ultimate top tier show of all time and i will not shut up about it and i will never get over it or ever recover from how amazingly good it was; after i finished that show i was genuinely depressed for a week realizing that it was actually over and all i could do was scroll on edits mindlessly, listen to the ost 247 and think about sangyan and wenyifan every waking hour. compared to wifty its a lot more somber and less feel happy but the plot, storyline, and characters are just so beautifully written i actually can’t and will never get over this
the fmc wenyifan suffers from past childhood and family trauma + abuse and has always been more reserved and hesitant since, but sangyan the mmc is the only one who she genuinely trusts and hes the only one who genuinely cares about her and hes shown that through SO MANY different ways and the edits of him are actually so perfect hes an amazing character like hes unreal and basically nonexistent no one will ever be actually like that in real life and the thing with them two its that its a second chance because theres flashbacks to their high school lives and how their friendship grew there
just to prove how good he is i created a 18 point list on everything hes ever done for her thats actually like so thoughtful like it extends beyond princess treatment vs. bare minimum it is higher than queen treatment hes just too incredibly amazing
but okay its not only the characters its literally just the overall vibe and setting of this whole show like it was set in chongqing which is a beautiful city and the aesthetics of every scene thats filmed is just impeccably beautiful and i need new adjectives to describe how amazing it is because these adjectives dont do it justice but the setting is just gorgeous and every scene is absolutely pure bliss and perfection
NOT ONLY THE SETTING AND THE CHARACTERS- the ost is just as good as everything else and it fits it so well i love how the actors’ own songs that they published are also part of the soundtrack too and the songs are just so beautiful and i just can’t accurately describe how perfect they are just go watch it so you’ll understand because this show is life altering
i am absolutely obsessed with the characters and i wlll never get over this drama- 100% my favorite of all time and im still at the restaurant !!!

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loved this so much but

first of all heyu and mengziyi are amazing actors i watched this just for them- i will say i dont understand what was even going on in the beginning and the end (her realiving as a different person and him realiving at the end) but do i even care about the logistics of that?? it was a happy ending and im happy about that

i think something i really liked was xihe's character development throughout the show, i personally saw her depicted as a cold emotionless person in the first half and also super confused why all the princes fell for her despite her barely speaking to them or interacting with them at all in the first place so i really didn't like her character throughout that

but then we saw this gradual progression that i just loved so so much between them and i also grew to love the side couple SO SO much especially in the middle episodes where there wasn't really much going on between the main couple i was just waiting and waiting for a side couple scene and i was definitely not disappointed the way cuijinbai kept loving bushulin despite how many times she rejected him (the progression they made in the illegal mine operation OMGG)

another thing i just loved a lot was the loyalty between mo yu zhu zhun with xihe, and tianyuan with huayong- i find this to be a commonality in most historical dramas where theres a master figure and servant counterpart and i felt like just seeing the relationship between them all was so rare and so valuable the way they would all do anything for their master (esp tianyuan with EITHER xihe or huayong)

i will say the ending was choppy and im not sure how to feel about changqing's redemption arc... can i even call him a villain anymore after that death??? i definitely do wish that there was more solid explanation behind the guqingzhi and shenxihe switch, because that makes no sense at all and she never really went in depth about that so i feel it just leaves us all in confusion

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i usually don't watch movies but i chose to watch this because it had already shattered my soul in the trailer- beyond zhou ye and arthur chen being AMAZING actors, i really want to applaud the aesthetics and beauty of how it was directed; i shed so so many tears for this story and of course, arthur chen's ability to portray such intense emotions hits me every single time !! i had previously watched his lighter and princess last year which i loved so much as well as zhou ye's legend of the female general, and i agree with the vast majority saying that this pairing is impeccable

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