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It's like a talented writer wrote the first 24 episodes and then some little kid without any knowledge of writing did the final episodes.It should have been the historical of the year with such a refreshing heroine, and I had been waiting for a Jeremy Tsui led drama since Dugu. But the last ten or so episodes were so bizarre with characters doing weird things you would never expect them to do. The most irritating of the villains, for me it was Qiu Min and Yuan Lang, just get what they wanted without any redemption whatsoever. Introducing unnecessary twists simply for the sake of it at the last thirty minutes just pushed it further into the pit of 7 or below. Was this review helpful to you?
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.
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