scrunkly

this drama has every kind of story that i like: romance, women empowerment, friendships, found family, politics, and star-crossed lover :] got bored at the first few episodes because i am not really into dynasty settings drama like this, then i thought it's only some kind of stockholm syndrome drama BUT IT'S MORE THAN THAT!!! throughout the plot, it gives me the feeling of second lead syndrome, good boy goes to heaven but bad boy brings heaven to you, we'll find our equal partner. :") i hope the emperor & law in everywhere could be like in this drama, we need more zhang jinran for justice!! and i love how the women characters are all bound to get a grip of themselves, they grow, they know their values, they can rule the world. :3 the missing 1 point is for some questionable scenes: how zhang ended up in a ship with black dragon bandits' stolen deeds, how zijing gets away with every threatenings & wrongdoings (like poisoning) he made.

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my personal favorite scene highlights but not from the male lead:
“i am an adult already,” “i have the right to pursue you.”
“no you don’t.”
“then do i have the right to take you out for dinner?”
“that one’s acceptable.”
“the right to walk/drive you home?” “the right to buy you clothes?” “the right to travel & play games with you?”
*nods nods*.
“then, all those boyfriend privileges, i don't need them anymore.”
it's funny and sweet to think there are many ways to refuse rejections if you're making efforts enough, if you're clever enough, if you really want to be with your love. xD

again i watched it because of JADE JIA i think i fell in love with her. the story's premise is interesting; it makes me anticipate the plot. earlier plot is kind of complicated, in the middle it has a lot of comedic scenes, and in the end i actually didn't really satisfied because it felt like oh? just like that? we need the fl to know her fiancé too! all these times we want everything to be exposed throughout these whole 80 episodes but then the complicated things ended JUST LIKE THAT in like 2 episodes? my time was wasted.

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