its speed and love with a better + realistic script
About halfway in, I find it's more like the small worse lower effort cousin of Speed and Love (no budget = no car racing / crime), mixed with some Lighter & Princess (without any of the instant chemistry and an only 15% as good OST) and a completely random dash of Snowstorm's billiards stuff (but without going into any of it).
The plot definitely isn't intelligent so far, and their poor run down housing area is like the low-budget version of SaL's Thailand.
I'm 99.9% convinced that the plot they had prepared ended in ep 14 and everything from ep15 or 16 on was written…
Feels like the AI prompt was "now make it end in a coup to storm the palace and kill the emperor", since that's the most standard costume drama plot anyway.
I'm 99.9% convinced that the plot they had prepared ended in ep 14 and everything from ep15 or 16 on was written by AI ( https://kisskh.at/795106-qi-meng-ling#comment-27264906 ). It's so bad, and really like a completely different show. Not only is it tonally off, but in those episodes there keep being flashbacks adding extra justification for the latest bunch of nonsense (usually in the style of adding new conversations to previous scenes).
Warning:From about episode 16 on, the writing is purely AI-generated garbage. Whatever this was, it didn't come…
... one of the more deserving, a murderous drug addict, is let off with no punishment and just moved off-screen into a new life. It felt like the censorship bureau called and said "you can't kill your husband and have a happy end later on!", or something like that.
This leads to the side effect that the FL is still married at the end of the show, but that's among the bottom 10% of the plot logic issues that arise.
Warning: From about episode 16 on, the writing is purely AI-generated garbage. Whatever this was, it didn't come from a human mind. If you've ever worked with AI on a creative project you will tell immediately.
Initially, it's impressively well produced for a short drama. The FL is really good, while the ML is totally wasted/absent here (little screentime and little presence). Wang LuYun does a very good job, whereas the actor playing the (later) mega-villain is comically bad. Tonally the first 2/3 are dark and revenge-y, then it becomes very unsteady starting with a Vincenzo-style comedy scene in ep 15 (and after that it's just all over the place). Romance is a decent bit more one-sided than in https://kisskh.at/776871-qing-chuan but it's not like this is a non-romance show.
There's a lot of blood/violence in the process of killing all who deserve it, though for some reason...
The ML is super good. The FL is pretty decent. Everyone else is shades of meh. Until it decides to go kind of nowhere, it's incredibly entertaining (with a braindead story). Production is so-so; fighting scenes all bad and could just be deleted.
The FL did a better job than the comments here would make you believe. Unfortunately, the show is kind of meh overall, with only like 3 episodes at the start having some momentum. The ML's acting is about the only consistent highlight. However, that he is "the emperor" is too far beyond belief; at best he's the young master of a moderate household.
The best character, the FL's pet hedgehog, inexplicably disappears just in the middle of getting more screentime and presence. Maybe the actor had somewhere better to be. (The FL also, maybe, has a dog, who vanishes in the same way.)
The ending is total nonsense and the various main characters and their arcs are pretty poor too. There's side plots like starving peasants that are as forgotten as the (un?)fortunate hedgehog.
The modern streaming version seems to be missing a song (or multiple), as there's often lyrics in the subtitles but just a background music track for it. This doesn't help matters.
What it does to the How Dare You story setup is quite imaginative and some of the writing is really excellent. It feels like the writers of this transmigrated from a time where they already saw the 2025 vertical and the 2026 drama and have opinions on both. Unfortunately it has a lot of these "evil side characters torture main lead for no reason at all" scenes though that murkier short dramas use to fill their running time. After a strong start, there's a lot of repetitive plots that essentially take up the bulk of the show. After a strong start, plot holes and anti-logic appear in a worse-than-vertical way. What is established in one minute is already forgotten in the next minute.
The production is primarily incredibly bad. Costumes are chaos, scene lighting is wrong, camerawork ain't good, there are many trashy AI-generated establishing shots. Where Fan Jing's sword strikes land is just amateurish. Speaking of her, the role doesn't exactly play to her strengths. Her character is more of a generic transmigration romcom FL.
Palace protocol is probably the worst I've ever seen in a drama, with characters constantly calling the emperor by his full name to his face with nobody batting an eye.
Overall, a cute adaptation. The FL in particular is good, and her "one outfit" is better than you'd expect a vertical to have. 20-30% of the plot is so rushed, it doesn't make sense if you're not familiar with the full story. Set pieces just get teleported into place without explanation. Chemistry wasn't really there that much. Unlike other commenters, I found Zhong Zheng meh as Xiahou Po. He CongRui is okay, but nothing special.
So, what about the sword? I feel like the sword doesn't have any other purpose?? I thought it was so special to…
Forgotten; other than very mildly injuring evil Miles once and "fixing" the character of Wu Sheng Liu (General Wu) early on, it did more or less nothing.
The plot definitely isn't intelligent so far, and their poor run down housing area is like the low-budget version of SaL's Thailand.
It's so bad, and really like a completely different show. Not only is it tonally off, but in those episodes there keep being flashbacks adding extra justification for the latest bunch of nonsense (usually in the style of adding new conversations to previous scenes).
This leads to the side effect that the FL is still married at the end of the show, but that's among the bottom 10% of the plot logic issues that arise.
From about episode 16 on, the writing is purely AI-generated garbage. Whatever this was, it didn't come from a human mind. If you've ever worked with AI on a creative project you will tell immediately.
Initially, it's impressively well produced for a short drama. The FL is really good, while the ML is totally wasted/absent here (little screentime and little presence). Wang LuYun does a very good job, whereas the actor playing the (later) mega-villain is comically bad.
Tonally the first 2/3 are dark and revenge-y, then it becomes very unsteady starting with a Vincenzo-style comedy scene in ep 15 (and after that it's just all over the place). Romance is a decent bit more one-sided than in https://kisskh.at/776871-qing-chuan but it's not like this is a non-romance show.
There's a lot of blood/violence in the process of killing all who deserve it, though for some reason...
Until it decides to go kind of nowhere, it's incredibly entertaining (with a braindead story).
Production is so-so; fighting scenes all bad and could just be deleted.
The best character, the FL's pet hedgehog, inexplicably disappears just in the middle of getting more screentime and presence. Maybe the actor had somewhere better to be.
(The FL also, maybe, has a dog, who vanishes in the same way.)
The ending is total nonsense and the various main characters and their arcs are pretty poor too. There's side plots like starving peasants that are as forgotten as the (un?)fortunate hedgehog.
The modern streaming version seems to be missing a song (or multiple), as there's often lyrics in the subtitles but just a background music track for it. This doesn't help matters.
https://kisskh.at/778182-this-is-ridiculous
vert https://kisskh.at/792092-cheng-he-ti-tong
short https://kisskh.at/794810-shi-chong
vert My love with the villain both on and off screen / The Villain and I Show Off Our Love—On and Off-Screen / 我和反派剧里剧外秀恩爱 (2026)
vert https://kisskh.at/804776-zui-wo-mei-ren-xi « this
https://kisskh.at/778182-this-is-ridiculous
vert https://kisskh.at/792092-cheng-he-ti-tong
short https://kisskh.at/794810-shi-chong « this
vert My love with the villain both on and off screen / The Villain and I Show Off Our Love—On and Off-Screen / 我和反派剧里剧外秀恩爱 (2026)
vert https://kisskh.at/804776-zui-wo-mei-ren-xi
https://kisskh.at/778182-this-is-ridiculous
vert https://kisskh.at/792092-cheng-he-ti-tong « this
short https://kisskh.at/794810-shi-chong
vert My love with the villain both on and off screen / The Villain and I Show Off Our Love—On and Off-Screen / 我和反派剧里剧外秀恩爱 (2026)
vert https://kisskh.at/804776-zui-wo-mei-ren-xi
The start is really good, and after that it's fairly decent.
The child actor in it is great btw.
watched video on YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXR3NGKPa7g DM
with audio from DM https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa48rpe https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa48soo
What it does to the How Dare You story setup is quite imaginative and some of the writing is really excellent. It feels like the writers of this transmigrated from a time where they already saw the 2025 vertical and the 2026 drama and have opinions on both. Unfortunately it has a lot of these "evil side characters torture main lead for no reason at all" scenes though that murkier short dramas use to fill their running time. After a strong start, there's a lot of repetitive plots that essentially take up the bulk of the show.
After a strong start, plot holes and anti-logic appear in a worse-than-vertical way. What is established in one minute is already forgotten in the next minute.
The production is primarily incredibly bad. Costumes are chaos, scene lighting is wrong, camerawork ain't good, there are many trashy AI-generated establishing shots. Where Fan Jing's sword strikes land is just amateurish.
Speaking of her, the role doesn't exactly play to her strengths. Her character is more of a generic transmigration romcom FL.
Palace protocol is probably the worst I've ever seen in a drama, with characters constantly calling the emperor by his full name to his face with nobody batting an eye.
P.S.: It's really weird that the ML is recycling the https://kisskh.at/photos/eYjddQ_3 https://kisskh.at/photos/2wXvYE_3 headband almost all of the time. Is it just his personal accessory that he likes to wear?
20-30% of the plot is so rushed, it doesn't make sense if you're not familiar with the full story. Set pieces just get teleported into place without explanation.
Chemistry wasn't really there that much. Unlike other commenters, I found Zhong Zheng meh as Xiahou Po. He CongRui is okay, but nothing special.
In other words, it's already in the name.