Rosalia Scarlet

FYI, ceo of Yaoke (the production house of this drama), Zhang Meng, gave Meng Ziyi TWO scripts in 2024: Blossoms of Power and Have It All. They waited for her to finish her other drama filming until her schedule is available, which is in Q4 of 2026.

This is Meng Ziyi and Yaoke's FOURTH collaborations: Legend of Heroes/Nine Yin True Sutra, Blossom, Blossoms of Power and Have It All.

I really really really hope the ML is Ao Ruipeng, Ding Yuxi, Quan Yilun or Deng Kai 😁 But we need TWO good looking actors bcos the FL loves both men in different phases of her life.

First: who's ugly? You?

Second: Meng Ziyi has sugar daddy???? You know nothing obviously. Meng Ziyi barely has leading roles in her 10 years of acting. Mostly played supporting or cameo. She barely had any script to choose. She started to received several leading roles offers from 2024 in which she filmed 3 drama in a year.

Third: harassing an actor by claiming you are a fan other actor only embarrass yourself and make you undeniably stupid.

Fourth: talking about sugar daddy, there are few actors who obviously backed by the capital, that's why despite being rookie and have no acting skills, they keep getting leading roles. Thus, their drama flopped.

Fifth: did you randomly type English words you know? Your English is a mess like your sins.

Very short. Less than 70 chapters.
FL is extremely smart. You will be surprised with her brain.
WARNING: there is love triangle and amnesia plot!!
The plot twists are good, but the author doesn't separate backflash with present time, so sometimes it is confusing.

Catfish means additional members who join in the middle of the filming. It has nothing to do with feelings. This term and method was first used in Heart Signal.

Those are clips from ep 8.

Just a few advice if you are pointing at the "harem" or "multiple wives" or "concubine" stuff.

The FL is indeed become the concubine. The ML is 30 (in the novel he is 26). How is he supposed to be single? A prime minister on top of that. The highest position in the cabinet.

This drama is NOT the only drama where the FL becomes a concubine:
1. Flourished Peony: Mudan is a concubine and it was a mutual decision. He also took in another concubine.
2. Love in Pavilion: Huaizhu becomes a concubine to prevent her from getting harm.
3. Lost You Forever: Cang Xuan has a few concubines and A Nian still married him.
4. The Legend of Two Sisters in the Chaos: the FL is the empress and the emperor has another concubine.
5. Story of Yanxi Palace: Wei Yingluo is a concubine among all others.

Well, the marriage between Song Han and Miao Ansu played a big part in the novel as well.

1. Kong Xueer is the 2FL. So of course she gets a lot of screentime. Plus she is Dou Zhao’s best friend, while Song Han is Song Mo's brother.

2. In the novel, Miao Ansu asks Dou Zhak and cooperates with her to help her divorce Song Han.

3. Song Han is one of the major villains who works with the final, so he is heavily involved in the later half of the story.

4. Chen Jia and the cousin (in the drama) are just sub sub sub sub characters that are insignificant to the plot. But in the novel, Chen Jia and Song Mo's sister played a huge part to the plot, and Chen Jia became Song Mo's one of the most trusted subordinates and brother in law.

5. Fact is, in the drama Wu Shan has too much screentime. In the novel he barely exists.

On the contrary with your opinions, the director was pleased with Meng Ziyi. He kept praising her acting and that she need not much direction. But he had to spent a lot of efforts to direct and teach Li Yunrui, to make him more intimidating and ruthless as a general.

Cnetz (passersby) also praised Meng Ziyi's acting. This doesn't come from her fans, but cnetz. Even when TPG failed, cnetz didn't blast her acting. Instead they felt pity for her for getting a trashy script that even her and Liu Xueyi's acting couldn't save the drama.

Meng Ziyi doesn't act with big expressions, but focuses on showing emotions through her eyes.

Different actress has different style of acting. Some uses big expressions to show emotions, while some uses their eyes. You see, the actress on Boyfriend on Demand received a lot of hates for having big expressions.

In summary, I think you are not suitable with her acting, but prefer actress with big expressions. Different people have different taste.

Bcos she isn't God. She can't change everything. What is meant to be will happen. Even the wandering sage told her so.

Li Yunrui had to lose weight to play Song Mo. The reason is, Song Mo works near the emperor. His master told him, working near the emperor must not have too much aura or looking to bulky. He also learned inner fighting skills to prevent his hands to have thick calluses. That's why he has lean body proportions, but enough muscles. The novel describes the reasons in details.

I wanted to like this season, but I can't.
The cast are likeable, the friendship (outside) is lovely, but the staff ruined it all.

1. Evil edit.
In EVERY dating and survival show, there MUST be evil edit for dramatic and rating purposes. The cast get hate for no reason.

2. Unfair screentime.
The PD promised for fair screentime, but what? It is the same cast getting screentime, while Yejin and Haeun barely got a minute in one episode.

3. Awful editing.
The PD just edited what she wanted to show us: nonsense.
There is no story or romance. Only drama, drama, drama.
Viewers didn't get to see the behind story of Heesun and Subeen, Haeun pursuing Jaejin, Goeun rejected Hyunwoo, Sungmin's being the big brother to the girls, Yejin being the comfort zone for Minji.

4. No friendship shown.
The friendship is really strong, but the PD showed none of it! It is always the same drama and the same PD pick.

5. Haters and delulu fans.
Some viewers turned into haters and delusional people who pushed their hatred and anger to some cast. Accusations, malicious comments, even making their own fanfics to deny the results.

I couldn't enjoy and like this season.
Both Transit Love and Single's Inferno are ruined by the PDs.
For real, for dating shows, China wins by a million!🤧

Basically the couples are formed from ep 3, except for 1 love triangle.
There is also catfish-catfish couple.
Total there are 3 couples, but only 2 still dating (check the gallery above).

Here is the after show video:
https://youtu.be/-jdwJcnG-kM?si=wY5dJsnQppFXUEWN

The novel only has 235 chapters. It is short. Read it on mydramanovel for the english translated one.

Check mydramanovel website for better English translation. The title is Rebirth of the Malicious Empress. The website also has hundreds of novels.

Indeed. The novel keeps describing Shen Miao as: cute, innocent. Then the 16 y.o Shen Miao as: not a peerless beauty, but she indeed became more beautiful. It is her aura and how she brings herself makes her look stunning. It is said multiple times that Shen Yue is actually the most beautiful among 4 Shen daughters.

Well "Meng Ziyi is a stunning beauty. How do they plan to top her visual?"
Then comes Kong Xueer as Shen Yue. I thought "Oh yes, that really works!"

https://youtu.be/pEhZyCcDEvk?si=o8DBiZCKtVyRR_xY

https://youtu.be/twB8rILJ_W8?si=4qjO64gNh4SNKD6j

Two couples are still dating (check photos) ❤️
One couple didn't work out.
One couple didn't end up together in the show.

It ended!!!

They sealed it with a kiss! 🥰
Oh how much I love this season ❤️

The reasons why I love and prefer the chinese dating shows:
1. NO EVIL EDIT!
I noticed this since I watched idol survival show, they don't evil edit someone. Everything just flows.

2. Fair screentime
Everyone gets screentime. Even the ones who don't have loveline don't get sidelined like a furniture. There is no "2 minutes screentime in 3 episodes" as consolation for them.

3. Friendship!
They always give screentime for friendship build between the cast. Just seeing them being silly, teasing e/o, supporting this and that couples, playing games make me happy.

4. No mislead
There is no "A and B are so much in love!" plot, but suddenly A chooses C and viewers are confused bcos the staff don't show anything about A and C.

5. Full romance!
All those sweet dates, romantic words, hand in hand, hug, kiss. These Chinese people don't hesitate with skinship and showing their feelings. You can't help but giggling and smiling wide.

You will never get this on korean dating shows 😜

Really, I was praying that Meng Ziyi won't take this drama bcos it is too similar with Blossoms of Power, but...

If Meng Ziyi isn't in those two dramas, I won't even bother to check 🥲

I skipped reading the whole Malicious Empress novel. I stopped at around chapter 180 and jumped to the last chapters to know the ending and the extra chapter about Feng Anning and Shen Qiu. That's all.

Seems like the other 2 novel by Qian Shan Cha Ke are better than Rebirth of Malicious Empress.

Well we are one of the kinds. 99% people who read the novel love XJX, but I don't. I don’t feel sympathy with this kind of ML and will never like him.

There is another novel/drama with the EXACT SAME kind of ML. It is Blossoms of Power (Meng Ziyi, He Yu). I read that novel first. Around chapter 300 I got to know more about the ML and I felt disgusted. The more I read the novel, the more I felt tired with him.

So when I read Rebirth of Malicious Empress novel, I was shocked by the exact similarities, especially with the ML. As if they are duplicates! 💀