Amazing Drama of 2024
Hey why havent I heard of this show before? I thought it was just one of those low budget show with mediocre production, especially when my impression upon finishing the novel that it was very forgettable. It turned out to be an amazing drama, one of the best ones I’ve seen so far with fast paced, engaging plot and stellar performance by the actors.
First off, i like that they used child actors to portray the main leads in real timeline instead of mere flashbacks. Im tired of those adaptations that conveniently skips the childhood part of the main characters and start the story straight away as late teenagers just because they wanted to use the main actors from the very beginning, despite them not looking all that young even. Seeing zhang ziyi as a 15yo when she was 35 in The Rebel Princess was utterly hilarious. Glad this show hadnt suffered from this as well. Although they skipped Dou Zhao’s baby and toddlerhood, at least they hired a real child actor to start her character young.
I love it that the show is a thousand times better than the novel, which i felt too slow paced with winding and unnecessary plot. My only drive for finishing the novel is I wanted to see the showdown of the rebelling prince. Compared to other novels that ive read, it seemed too mediocre and super draggy, I even mentioned in my novel review that i hoped they make the adaptation with better plot or else it would take forever to finish, and yes, im glad that my wish came true! The show’s opening of how Dou Zhao’s and Song Mo’s fate was entertwined before their rebirths was brilliant, picqueing the audience’s interest and engagement, compared to the super draggy novel’s plot of Dou Zhao never encountering Song Mo until 13years after her rebirth (Song Mo only appeared after 100 chapters 😭imagine that!). The adaptation is super engaging with no draggy episode at all, my FF button practically took a back seat this time.
I also love that the show made the story more beautiful with amazing love story instead of the awfully dysfunctional relationships throughout the novel. In the novel, other than Dou Zhou and her people, the rest of the couples hated each other and plotted against each other. Whereas the show made the couples to be loving (although some came to tragic endings especially with the villains) which adds positive vibe to the already gloomy and sad plot. The show was able to make me cry buckets despite the novel never able to leave much of an impression, let alone stir my emotions after 523 chapters, but the adaptation did. It’s truly amazing because before this, I’ve always prefer novels than adaptation as i feel with novels it is much easier to convey more back story, emotion and inner thoughts of characters which adaptations usually fail to. But when it comes to Blossom, the production team definitely did a stellar job of turning a rather boring and mediocre novel into a fast paced drama filled with engaging plots. Kudos to the team.
I had to commend the actor for ML, Li YunRui. I’ve only seen him in Love Like the Galaxy looking handsome and demure as Ling Buyi’s love rival, so I had not expected him to wield the sword and fight like a real warrior in Blossom, his moves looked even better than Ling Buyi’s in Love Like the Galaxy 😂. The action choreograph had been impressive, and ML (and his double) executed it immaculately perfect. I felt that the character Song Mo was created for Li Yun Rui as he successfully embodied the novel’s Song Mo as an astounding beauty that rivals even young ladies and yet manage to exude terrifying aura of a fearless warrior with top tier skill on military strategy and martial prowess. Despite known throughout the show as a fierce warrior, he looked super cute when he was sulking at Dou Zhao cuz he thought the Crown Prince was admiring his wife. Now i can’t wait to see Rebirth especially the novel had been my all time favourite and that Zhuge Yue and Xing er is my most fav couple ever. I truly hope they hired good writers for that one and not botch the adaptation like Princess Agent did. Li Yun Rui deserves to play more main leads, his acting is amazing!
Meng Ziyi carried herself exceptionally well as Dou Zhao, a weak woman with no martial ability at all, estranged from her family, but able to protect and sustain herself by strategically employing useful people around her. I have only seen her as Hua Liu Li in Royal Rumours and one of the masked hero in Love in Pavilion, and both characters didnt leave much of an impression. But this time, she truly proved her worth. And her chemistry with Li Yun Rui had been spectacular. I honestly think they looked good with each other, and the characters are made for them. The only downside that I see on this show is how fragile they made Dou Zhao to be after she got pregnant. In the novel Dou Zhao almost never got sick or injured despite all the ordeal they went through, let alone fainting due to intense emotional distress. In the show, they made Dou Zhao’s health so fragile she keeps on fainting one scene after another, and lastly bedridden. Gosh I just can’t get over that cuz I just can’t stand physically weak characters.
Other than that, yes yes yes this show is super amazing. Those who are like me, who love action filled story with a tinge of love story, go ahead and watch, you won’t regret it.
And no, dont waste your time reading the 523 chapters. I regretted that i wasted my time reading it. The novel is nowhere near even a breadth of the adaptation’s spectacular performance. And the redemption of Duke of Ding and retributions of the villains in the adaptation is much more satisfying than the novel. Although I must say if I hadnt picked the novel up with belief that it only has 100 chapters (it turned out the page where I was reading from had an incomplete translated chapters, found another with complete chapters and my jaw practically dropped to see the number of chapters), I wouldnt have watched this show. I thought since I’ve wasted enough days reading the novel, I might as well watch the adaptation with hope that they did better than the novel. And they did! Hurrah to the production! Thank you for your hard work! Please do more beautiful work like this and lets stop botching good novels.
First off, i like that they used child actors to portray the main leads in real timeline instead of mere flashbacks. Im tired of those adaptations that conveniently skips the childhood part of the main characters and start the story straight away as late teenagers just because they wanted to use the main actors from the very beginning, despite them not looking all that young even. Seeing zhang ziyi as a 15yo when she was 35 in The Rebel Princess was utterly hilarious. Glad this show hadnt suffered from this as well. Although they skipped Dou Zhao’s baby and toddlerhood, at least they hired a real child actor to start her character young.
I love it that the show is a thousand times better than the novel, which i felt too slow paced with winding and unnecessary plot. My only drive for finishing the novel is I wanted to see the showdown of the rebelling prince. Compared to other novels that ive read, it seemed too mediocre and super draggy, I even mentioned in my novel review that i hoped they make the adaptation with better plot or else it would take forever to finish, and yes, im glad that my wish came true! The show’s opening of how Dou Zhao’s and Song Mo’s fate was entertwined before their rebirths was brilliant, picqueing the audience’s interest and engagement, compared to the super draggy novel’s plot of Dou Zhao never encountering Song Mo until 13years after her rebirth (Song Mo only appeared after 100 chapters 😭imagine that!). The adaptation is super engaging with no draggy episode at all, my FF button practically took a back seat this time.
I also love that the show made the story more beautiful with amazing love story instead of the awfully dysfunctional relationships throughout the novel. In the novel, other than Dou Zhou and her people, the rest of the couples hated each other and plotted against each other. Whereas the show made the couples to be loving (although some came to tragic endings especially with the villains) which adds positive vibe to the already gloomy and sad plot. The show was able to make me cry buckets despite the novel never able to leave much of an impression, let alone stir my emotions after 523 chapters, but the adaptation did. It’s truly amazing because before this, I’ve always prefer novels than adaptation as i feel with novels it is much easier to convey more back story, emotion and inner thoughts of characters which adaptations usually fail to. But when it comes to Blossom, the production team definitely did a stellar job of turning a rather boring and mediocre novel into a fast paced drama filled with engaging plots. Kudos to the team.
I had to commend the actor for ML, Li YunRui. I’ve only seen him in Love Like the Galaxy looking handsome and demure as Ling Buyi’s love rival, so I had not expected him to wield the sword and fight like a real warrior in Blossom, his moves looked even better than Ling Buyi’s in Love Like the Galaxy 😂. The action choreograph had been impressive, and ML (and his double) executed it immaculately perfect. I felt that the character Song Mo was created for Li Yun Rui as he successfully embodied the novel’s Song Mo as an astounding beauty that rivals even young ladies and yet manage to exude terrifying aura of a fearless warrior with top tier skill on military strategy and martial prowess. Despite known throughout the show as a fierce warrior, he looked super cute when he was sulking at Dou Zhao cuz he thought the Crown Prince was admiring his wife. Now i can’t wait to see Rebirth especially the novel had been my all time favourite and that Zhuge Yue and Xing er is my most fav couple ever. I truly hope they hired good writers for that one and not botch the adaptation like Princess Agent did. Li Yun Rui deserves to play more main leads, his acting is amazing!
Meng Ziyi carried herself exceptionally well as Dou Zhao, a weak woman with no martial ability at all, estranged from her family, but able to protect and sustain herself by strategically employing useful people around her. I have only seen her as Hua Liu Li in Royal Rumours and one of the masked hero in Love in Pavilion, and both characters didnt leave much of an impression. But this time, she truly proved her worth. And her chemistry with Li Yun Rui had been spectacular. I honestly think they looked good with each other, and the characters are made for them. The only downside that I see on this show is how fragile they made Dou Zhao to be after she got pregnant. In the novel Dou Zhao almost never got sick or injured despite all the ordeal they went through, let alone fainting due to intense emotional distress. In the show, they made Dou Zhao’s health so fragile she keeps on fainting one scene after another, and lastly bedridden. Gosh I just can’t get over that cuz I just can’t stand physically weak characters.
Other than that, yes yes yes this show is super amazing. Those who are like me, who love action filled story with a tinge of love story, go ahead and watch, you won’t regret it.
And no, dont waste your time reading the 523 chapters. I regretted that i wasted my time reading it. The novel is nowhere near even a breadth of the adaptation’s spectacular performance. And the redemption of Duke of Ding and retributions of the villains in the adaptation is much more satisfying than the novel. Although I must say if I hadnt picked the novel up with belief that it only has 100 chapters (it turned out the page where I was reading from had an incomplete translated chapters, found another with complete chapters and my jaw practically dropped to see the number of chapters), I wouldnt have watched this show. I thought since I’ve wasted enough days reading the novel, I might as well watch the adaptation with hope that they did better than the novel. And they did! Hurrah to the production! Thank you for your hard work! Please do more beautiful work like this and lets stop botching good novels.
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