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A retold story
I understand that my review may not be well received, as there are too many fans of this drama, rating it 10/10 in each category. Nevertheless, I wanna give my honest review.
I wanna start with what I liked. Both Male and Female leads are good actors. This is my first time watching the female lead actress in any drama. She acts well and doesn't fail to fit right for the character played by her. Liu Yunning, our Male lead, has definitely got a model like physique and height. Those costumes suit him so well. The Music is good, and I guess most songs are sung by Liu Yunning himself. I always love the set of Chinese period dramas, and how they always have a small tree placed in their big courtyard, the one that blooms with white flowers. Besides, the costume, the makeup, the Jewellery, the hairdos, everything represents an era of the Chinese dynasty. There was chemistry between the lead, but I would not give it 10/10 like others. To me, it's 7/10.
Now, what I didn't like:
1. The length of the show: It's a long drama of 36 episodes. I personally think that it could have been done within 26-28 episodes, at the max 30 episodes. But those many episodes were too many.
2. Absurdity of the sub-plots: Some of the sub-plots were a bit meaningless and there was little to no explanation. For instance, when after the wedding of the lead couple, they return to the male lead's home town, where he rules, and the female lead, who by the way is suffering from fever, is left at the gate of the town, until asked to enter. A girl, standing at the gate has been instructed to keep a watch. This was the most stupid plot, as the female lead along with her servant ladies, is stranded at the gate and her husband(male lead) didn't even care for 3 days, if his wife has entered his home or not. Mind you, all this while, that girl was standing there at the gate with an umbrella as it's raining heavily. Upon learning that his wife is suffering from fever, still at the gate, the male lead rises from his chair and goes to the gate to pick her up in his arms, soaking in the rain. I mean he brings her inside his home all the way from the gate. I mean, OKAY, but dude she was cold and suffering from fever. This is just one example, there are many such sub-plots which don't add any value to the story.
3. Forteen year old enmity goes away in a year: Ok! it's not like that it can't happen. But when you have been haunted by the dreams and flashes of your dead family's killing scenes, it just doesn't go away like that. So our female lead wins the trust of the male lead and warms his heart and in this process, also makes him forget what happened 14 year ago. GOT IT!! But just one meeting with the people who caused untimely killing of your family members, doesn't make you forget everything so easily. That was a bit too much for me to digest.
As stated above, it would be better if they had summed up the whole drama in 29-30 episodes.
I wanna start with what I liked. Both Male and Female leads are good actors. This is my first time watching the female lead actress in any drama. She acts well and doesn't fail to fit right for the character played by her. Liu Yunning, our Male lead, has definitely got a model like physique and height. Those costumes suit him so well. The Music is good, and I guess most songs are sung by Liu Yunning himself. I always love the set of Chinese period dramas, and how they always have a small tree placed in their big courtyard, the one that blooms with white flowers. Besides, the costume, the makeup, the Jewellery, the hairdos, everything represents an era of the Chinese dynasty. There was chemistry between the lead, but I would not give it 10/10 like others. To me, it's 7/10.
Now, what I didn't like:
1. The length of the show: It's a long drama of 36 episodes. I personally think that it could have been done within 26-28 episodes, at the max 30 episodes. But those many episodes were too many.
2. Absurdity of the sub-plots: Some of the sub-plots were a bit meaningless and there was little to no explanation. For instance, when after the wedding of the lead couple, they return to the male lead's home town, where he rules, and the female lead, who by the way is suffering from fever, is left at the gate of the town, until asked to enter. A girl, standing at the gate has been instructed to keep a watch. This was the most stupid plot, as the female lead along with her servant ladies, is stranded at the gate and her husband(male lead) didn't even care for 3 days, if his wife has entered his home or not. Mind you, all this while, that girl was standing there at the gate with an umbrella as it's raining heavily. Upon learning that his wife is suffering from fever, still at the gate, the male lead rises from his chair and goes to the gate to pick her up in his arms, soaking in the rain. I mean he brings her inside his home all the way from the gate. I mean, OKAY, but dude she was cold and suffering from fever. This is just one example, there are many such sub-plots which don't add any value to the story.
3. Forteen year old enmity goes away in a year: Ok! it's not like that it can't happen. But when you have been haunted by the dreams and flashes of your dead family's killing scenes, it just doesn't go away like that. So our female lead wins the trust of the male lead and warms his heart and in this process, also makes him forget what happened 14 year ago. GOT IT!! But just one meeting with the people who caused untimely killing of your family members, doesn't make you forget everything so easily. That was a bit too much for me to digest.
As stated above, it would be better if they had summed up the whole drama in 29-30 episodes.
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