"Water cuts through rock, not because of its strength, but because of its persistence"
The idiom used from right the beginning is the gist of the story.
✅️ Overcome family/clan hatred
✅️ Navigate marriage in historical times
✅️ Strong ML and Strong intelligent FL
✅️ Some scheme and politics
✅️ Some slice of life, and humour
✅️ Poignant to deep felt love
Qiao Man is like the water, seemingly gentle and harmless but inner strength and utmost perverance. This and her beauty captured Wei Shao's heart and changed the course of their lives and the two clans' future.
It's also a story that showed how trust can be earned and how two people at opposing ends find themselves adjusting their footsteps to match each other and finally in tandem. In life and in love, somtimes one needs to 'bend over', tolerate and give in first. That doesnt mean one loses. And thats the thing we see QM and WS gained as they navigated their marriage.
Despite a seemily heavy trailer, prologue and first episode, about 70% is littered with feel good and lighter moments. These ranged from the comedic F4 Weis as well as the advisor, the bubbling cute story of XT and WL, the daily life and bickering of our main couple and the sweet marriage of her sis with BZ. So if you are adverse to dark themes, this can be right up your ally.
The drama surpassed by expectation because to me it was a upgrade compared to the novel:
1. ML was a much bigger jerk in the novel. They've really tone down his violence
2. Novel waited until the end for ML to redeem himself. Whereas the drama, he was much more approachable, gentle and expressed more of himself
3. FL had more backbone and much more interesting with her intelligence, wisdom beypnd her year as well as an understanding and patient temperament.
Its been truly engaging from start to finish. Its not without flaws but the performance from our leads keep you hooked. I did not expect such moving acting from both and was even swept away by their intensity. The sizzling scenes are bonuses we hoped but didnt dare to expect.
Disclaimer: Im not a LYN or SZE fan. His best work for me was probably in A long ballad. Som others i didnt finish. While hers was The Bond. I watched TPOB cause the trailer pulled me in and ive put it on my to watchlist for so long. The novel I've read and was curious how they would adapt it. My curiosity has been rewarded.
✅️ Overcome family/clan hatred
✅️ Navigate marriage in historical times
✅️ Strong ML and Strong intelligent FL
✅️ Some scheme and politics
✅️ Some slice of life, and humour
✅️ Poignant to deep felt love
Qiao Man is like the water, seemingly gentle and harmless but inner strength and utmost perverance. This and her beauty captured Wei Shao's heart and changed the course of their lives and the two clans' future.
It's also a story that showed how trust can be earned and how two people at opposing ends find themselves adjusting their footsteps to match each other and finally in tandem. In life and in love, somtimes one needs to 'bend over', tolerate and give in first. That doesnt mean one loses. And thats the thing we see QM and WS gained as they navigated their marriage.
Despite a seemily heavy trailer, prologue and first episode, about 70% is littered with feel good and lighter moments. These ranged from the comedic F4 Weis as well as the advisor, the bubbling cute story of XT and WL, the daily life and bickering of our main couple and the sweet marriage of her sis with BZ. So if you are adverse to dark themes, this can be right up your ally.
The drama surpassed by expectation because to me it was a upgrade compared to the novel:
1. ML was a much bigger jerk in the novel. They've really tone down his violence
2. Novel waited until the end for ML to redeem himself. Whereas the drama, he was much more approachable, gentle and expressed more of himself
3. FL had more backbone and much more interesting with her intelligence, wisdom beypnd her year as well as an understanding and patient temperament.
Its been truly engaging from start to finish. Its not without flaws but the performance from our leads keep you hooked. I did not expect such moving acting from both and was even swept away by their intensity. The sizzling scenes are bonuses we hoped but didnt dare to expect.
Disclaimer: Im not a LYN or SZE fan. His best work for me was probably in A long ballad. Som others i didnt finish. While hers was The Bond. I watched TPOB cause the trailer pulled me in and ive put it on my to watchlist for so long. The novel I've read and was curious how they would adapt it. My curiosity has been rewarded.
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