Shaoshang's change from the lively girl we met at the beginning of the show to the more mature one after five years hurt me so much. I remember her saying she never wanted to change but she eventually does. She stopped building things, stopped being as playful, and the way she styled her hair changed.
The relationships between characters specifically female characters were a highlight for me. It would've been so easy to make the Empress and Consort Yue hate each other or Yang Yang and Shaoshang hate each other out of jealousy but they didn't. I love that even if Shaoshang and the Empress were jealous of the love Consort Yue and Yang Yang received from someone they wanted love from, they never blamed it on the other. It was such a breath of fresh air and made me really appreciate the drama.
Also love how the main characters are so proactive/didn't just have verbal conflicts (don't really know how to phrase this). This is very much a personal taste but I don't like it when characters spend the whole show scheming and using words just to get what they want. It infuriates me to see people getting away with things just because they're eloquent so I liked that both Buyi and Shaoshang were unafraid to resort to physical means to get back at others.
I felt like after the five year time skip the story felt a little weird. Maybe there should've just been more episodes for the five year time skip portion of the story. It felt like a lot of the story was compressed into these episodes and the story could've benefited from more episodes. The story also felt much more heavier (less comedic moments) but that could just be to reflect on how Shaoshang has matured. Kind of split on how I feel about Shaoshang's character development tbh. Yes she couldn't have stayed as she was at the beginning of the show but I feel like the execution could be better. Also having the final villains being some rando that was mentioned/shown like five times and a vengeful wife feels so weird when for most of the show the villain was the one that betrayed Gu city.
The relationships between characters specifically female characters were a highlight for me. It would've been so easy to make the Empress and Consort Yue hate each other or Yang Yang and Shaoshang hate each other out of jealousy but they didn't. I love that even if Shaoshang and the Empress were jealous of the love Consort Yue and Yang Yang received from someone they wanted love from, they never blamed it on the other. It was such a breath of fresh air and made me really appreciate the drama.
Also love how the main characters are so proactive/didn't just have verbal conflicts (don't really know how to phrase this). This is very much a personal taste but I don't like it when characters spend the whole show scheming and using words just to get what they want. It infuriates me to see people getting away with things just because they're eloquent so I liked that both Buyi and Shaoshang were unafraid to resort to physical means to get back at others.
I felt like after the five year time skip the story felt a little weird. Maybe there should've just been more episodes for the five year time skip portion of the story. It felt like a lot of the story was compressed into these episodes and the story could've benefited from more episodes. The story also felt much more heavier (less comedic moments) but that could just be to reflect on how Shaoshang has matured. Kind of split on how I feel about Shaoshang's character development tbh. Yes she couldn't have stayed as she was at the beginning of the show but I feel like the execution could be better. Also having the final villains being some rando that was mentioned/shown like five times and a vengeful wife feels so weird when for most of the show the villain was the one that betrayed Gu city.
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