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This is one of those titles that features a charcter being reborn in ancient time from modern era. Guo Qilin played a successful businessman of modern era who got struck after a brawl with his treacherous business partner. He woke up to find himself transmigrating into the body of Ning Yi, a young man about to be married into Su family as payment for his debts. Su family is a prominent merchant in Jiangning and his bride-to-be, Su Tan Er played by Song Yi, was fighting for the family seal which would designate her as the family head and owner of the family business. Ning Yi reached an agreement with her, that he would help her get the seal and she would settle his debts and divorce him once she obtained the power. Originally focussed on freeing himself from the shackle of marriage, Ning Yi realized he had more things tied up to Su Tan Er, one of them being his heart.

I have been putting off this title for so long cuz i am not quite a romance/drama enthusiast but the lead actor was kinda interesting since i first saw him in Joy of Life as Fan Sizhe, the elder brother of the main character Fan Xian. After i’ve finished up all my watchlist, i am left with no interesting title to watch, so i decided to finally start on this after adding it to my watchlist since months ago. Oh boy i almost missed a rather good piece. At first I thought it was romance comedy genre because it was marked as such on the platform i watched, but truthfully romance made up like less than a quarter of the whole show. But comedy it definitely is. The plot takes off right from episode 1 with no boring acts at all. The comedy was on point and worked really fine, and the mainleads were not as bad as i thought they would be. They were actually really good and they clicked right from the start, the chemistry is just too apparent despite their characters being together by marriage of convenience. On a side note, this show is like a whole reunion of Joy of Life with the actors playing Fan Sizhe’s mom and dad in Joy of Life returning here as his mom-in-law and mentor.

The ML surprised me with his acting performance. He displayed much wider range of emotion here on My Heroic Husband than what I saw him of in Joy of Life. Being the main lead played a part of course, and his acting ability played even bigger part. I don’t get why people would criticize his appearance when his ability overshines that. And since I don’t regard looks as the appealing factor for main characters, he is just perfect as Ning Yi for me. So what if his looks is average? He’s a far cry from ugly so I can’t understand the hate. Plus I am very surprised that he can really cry. After numerous miserably undelivered crying by casts of The Journey of Legend, it made me appreciate the crying ability of Guo Qilin. He is in fact waaay better than some actors I have seen. The quivering of his chin as he started to cry and shaking of his extremities during intense scenes is very convincing. Another note is that he did not play a perfect hero. Although Ning Yi displayed his skill in boxing as he fought off some characters in the earlier episode, he is generally a character with little self defense skills. He might be able to fight off those who doesnt normally fight like family guards or entitled young masters of other merchant families, but in the face of real martial practitioners, he is totally defenseless. So we get to see this character needing saving quite a lot. But rest assured, he is not the annoying kind of don-in-distress.

And I must say this is Song Yi’s best role among the 3 that i’ve seen her as. Su Tan Er was not as irritating as Liu Ran in Luoyang and not as physically unconvincing as Li Shuang in Shadow Love. Su Tan Er is perfect for Song Yi in terms of built and character, packing a will of steel with sheer determination and talent in trading. However, this character’s supposed limelight is dimmed when many of her successful business strategies came from Ning Yi. But either way, they make up one formidable power couple with Su Tan Er providing resources and Ning Yi being the brain.

It’s also really nice to see the one who played wei liang from The Prisoner of Beauty. It’s the third show I saw of his, and they all had him portray such a loveable loyal sidekick. He’s truly a natural at comedic scenes. And it surprised me to see the exact scene from Prisoner of Beauty here. Or i should say PoB had the same exact scene as My Heroic Husband, since this series came out first. The scene i was referring to was when they were being led around by Geng Zhi looking for tourist spots but ended up finding a whole different things. That plum drink tavern turned into public toilet, hot spring into a mud puddle and not finding the beach were exactly the same in both dramas. It was hilarious. Then i realized both had the same director so i guess thats how the scenes got duplicated especially with the same actor playing the goofy guide.

All in all, this show is entertaining and not boring to watch. There are some plotholes, like why would the rebel gang decide to make Ning Yi their military advisor out of the blue, and what role did Grand Preceptor He really play cuz he kinds got offed quite too suddenly, or how did the emperor’s son in law looked older when the emperor seemed just in his early 30s, but honestly these shortcomings get overseen by the whole entertaining plot. Like for real, give it a shot. Even an action packed lover like me found this title entertaining 😆