Disappointing
Adaptations always involve changes, but this one cut away everything that made He Yan deserving of the title Female General—her resilience after devastating loss, her grit, and her brilliance on the battlefield. What’s left are speeches about “women can do it all,” without the actions to prove it.
The book Xiao Jue is so cold at the beginning, but there are obvious reasons. We get a hero worth swooning over eventually when he gets to know the FL. Here the writers seems to think just him staring at her with his good looks should have been enough for us.
This was the author’s best novel. Unlike some of his other works, where most women besides the heroine are cast as venomous, here it was much less so, which I appreciated. The strategic scenes were also written with logic, and He Yan’s victories felt earned and exhilarating. By comparison, the drama’s battles and schemes come across as shallow, which feels unfair to both the author and fans of the original work.
The book Xiao Jue is so cold at the beginning, but there are obvious reasons. We get a hero worth swooning over eventually when he gets to know the FL. Here the writers seems to think just him staring at her with his good looks should have been enough for us.
This was the author’s best novel. Unlike some of his other works, where most women besides the heroine are cast as venomous, here it was much less so, which I appreciated. The strategic scenes were also written with logic, and He Yan’s victories felt earned and exhilarating. By comparison, the drama’s battles and schemes come across as shallow, which feels unfair to both the author and fans of the original work.
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