Pros: - The revenge really revenges. - Important dialogues are well-written. - The actors all put in the work. - The leads' attitudes to each other. - You don't have to wait to the 75% point for a lame confession, with one hug as it transitions into the credits. It's not that type of show. - The viewer never suffers. It's not that type of angst. - The villains aren't just clownish evil for evil's sake, but have reasonable motivations, with a dash of "once you're too far down the wrong path you can't turn around". - Outside of the leads, there's a lot more characters delivering friendship, loyalty, brotherhood, family bonds, and so on. Compared to something like A Journey To Love though, the supporting characters of the ML's soldier crew are a bit more one-dimensionally loyal and otherwise don't have much personality. - Some of the sets look really refreshing compared to the always-same palaces viewers got used to. The costumes are decent too. - On the female general scale, this female military commander FL is typically more convincing than the average seen in Legend Of The Female General, Shadow Love, Wonderland of Love, etc.
Mixed: - Once in a while, the cinematography or editing impresses you so much that you want to immediately rewind. Sadly, it's rare, and a lot of this powder is fired at the very start. - In the middle, the plot gets a bit weaker for some time, when the twists all twist at once. - The fighting scenes are a mix bag. There is strong attention to detail in the front, but later on you can spot lifeless actors/stuntpeople doing "left-right-left-right" pretend-fighting in the back. Maybe that kind of lazy production is due to budget limitations? - The FL being voice acted by Duan Yi Xuan made me hear the Till The End Of The Moon FL (Bai Lu) all the time. - The comedy is hit and miss; there's only one duo in the later episodes who really deliver. - Kiss-wise 2025 viewers are spoiled by WDBTD, and this isn't it. One wouldn't be wrong to claim that another couple in Fated Hearts has more chemistry than the leads.
Cons: - The OST. There's barely any songs, and the ones they have aren't memorable. If Goblin or anything Chen Xue Ran is 9–10/10, and Till The End Of The Moon like an 8/10 in the OST department, then this is a 5/10 or something. - The ending / post-story could have gotten more screen time.
I know Prince Jingshi was a eunuch in novel. In the drama they showed a scene with Yi Xiao getting a marriage…
In the drama they were supposed to get married after that fateful battle; it did not specify if they had kissed or not, but it seems pretty clear that they did not 'consummate' their relationship. However, finding out the horrendous death camp that trained her into a warrior was actually Jingshi's doing put a permanent stop to anything thoughts or feelings in that direction, plus of course him shooting her off that cliff. She definitely did not "bring scholars home with her" or for that matter have other men.
I feel I've seen this storyline adapted before ("female official and emperor .. who still loves her"). Is this based on something historical or a famous story or so?
Okay sooo would some people who didn’t mind the Storm Alliance arc tell me why you liked it? It felt like it…
It seemed like a pointless sidequest. It's like a "tell but don't show" setup for how amazeballs ML's mother was, to prepare viewers for a spin-off show about her doing jianghu stuff.
(I also thought the first truckload of Jinxiu was really boring.)
why didn't the king kill th father of his concubine? Since he killed the queen, he should have received a capital…
The emperor did not kill the prime minister because the emperor essentially used the prime minister to kill his own wife.
From the moment the empress wanted to abduct the crown prince / heir out of the palace, she 100% *had* to die, no questions asked. Mayyyybe taking the princess, his sister, would have been negotiable to some degree. But taking the only heir? That cannot ever fly.
Since she was threatening the emperor with a sword, stabbing her in the back essentially was a patriotic act.
Perhaps one could say said concubine became the new empress as reward for the Zhuang family's many years of service, *including* their role in killing the previous empress.
hey I have a question ! is it too angsty ? and is it boring like the prisoner of beauty ?( pls pple who find that…
For me POB was "very long and nothing happens".
For this show I completely disagree. Nothing with the main leads is boring, screentime isn't really wasted on stupid stuff. The is a short weaker part in the middle, where there's some drastic twists followed by a lot of time spent on a new place for (necessary) build-up.
Both shows don't really have a strong OST going for them.
For me "tears in the rain" type breakups where the viewer has to suffer for like five episodes are the bad kind of angsty. On that scale, this show isn't angsty at all. There are a lot of villains, but the main couple does not suffer many internal or external attacks on their relationship.
- The revenge really revenges.
- Important dialogues are well-written.
- The actors all put in the work.
- The leads' attitudes to each other.
- You don't have to wait to the 75% point for a lame confession, with one hug as it transitions into the credits. It's not that type of show.
- The viewer never suffers. It's not that type of angst.
- The villains aren't just clownish evil for evil's sake, but have reasonable motivations, with a dash of "once you're too far down the wrong path you can't turn around".
- Outside of the leads, there's a lot more characters delivering friendship, loyalty, brotherhood, family bonds, and so on. Compared to something like A Journey To Love though, the supporting characters of the ML's soldier crew are a bit more one-dimensionally loyal and otherwise don't have much personality.
- Some of the sets look really refreshing compared to the always-same palaces viewers got used to. The costumes are decent too.
- On the female general scale, this female military commander FL is typically more convincing than the average seen in Legend Of The Female General, Shadow Love, Wonderland of Love, etc.
Mixed:
- Once in a while, the cinematography or editing impresses you so much that you want to immediately rewind. Sadly, it's rare, and a lot of this powder is fired at the very start.
- In the middle, the plot gets a bit weaker for some time, when the twists all twist at once.
- The fighting scenes are a mix bag. There is strong attention to detail in the front, but later on you can spot lifeless actors/stuntpeople doing "left-right-left-right" pretend-fighting in the back. Maybe that kind of lazy production is due to budget limitations?
- The FL being voice acted by Duan Yi Xuan made me hear the Till The End Of The Moon FL (Bai Lu) all the time.
- The comedy is hit and miss; there's only one duo in the later episodes who really deliver.
- Kiss-wise 2025 viewers are spoiled by WDBTD, and this isn't it. One wouldn't be wrong to claim that another couple in Fated Hearts has more chemistry than the leads.
Cons:
- The OST. There's barely any songs, and the ones they have aren't memorable. If Goblin or anything Chen Xue Ran is 9–10/10, and Till The End Of The Moon like an 8/10 in the OST department, then this is a 5/10 or something.
- The ending / post-story could have gotten more screen time.
However, finding out the horrendous death camp that trained her into a warrior was actually Jingshi's doing put a permanent stop to anything thoughts or feelings in that direction, plus of course him shooting her off that cliff.
She definitely did not "bring scholars home with her" or for that matter have other men.
Besides the Mulan-ish https://kisskh.at/754387-legend-of-the-female-general your list is also missing https://kisskh.at/776871-qing-chuan
(That just pretend-fight back and forth.)
It's like a "tell but don't show" setup for how amazeballs ML's mother was, to prepare viewers for a spin-off show about her doing jianghu stuff.
(I also thought the first truckload of Jinxiu was really boring.)
That's what those comments discuss, as far as I saw.
Nor can Douban ratings, those are all over the place due to other reasons, like hating on actors.
IMDb ratings are a tiny tiny bit better, but also not useful.
If you want kisses, well you already watched When Destiny Brings the Demon...
From the moment the empress wanted to abduct the crown prince / heir out of the palace, she 100% *had* to die, no questions asked. Mayyyybe taking the princess, his sister, would have been negotiable to some degree. But taking the only heir? That cannot ever fly.
Since she was threatening the emperor with a sword, stabbing her in the back essentially was a patriotic act.
Perhaps one could say said concubine became the new empress as reward for the Zhuang family's many years of service, *including* their role in killing the previous empress.
For this show I completely disagree. Nothing with the main leads is boring, screentime isn't really wasted on stupid stuff. The is a short weaker part in the middle, where there's some drastic twists followed by a lot of time spent on a new place for (necessary) build-up.
Both shows don't really have a strong OST going for them.
For me "tears in the rain" type breakups where the viewer has to suffer for like five episodes are the bad kind of angsty. On that scale, this show isn't angsty at all. There are a lot of villains, but the main couple does not suffer many internal or external attacks on their relationship.
Daddy: EP27
This isn't really a show to skip around in, if that's why you are asking.