yonsama

Absolute shit show of a drama. I would rate the political plot of this drama as zero. I would give it a negative if I could. At episode 15, there is absolutely no development in this aspect. The useless ML has achieved a grand total of zero success in the royal court. He walks into traps and gets embroiled in the conspiracies of his opponents in the court and yet can't catch a single damn criminal.

Finally seeing this for the first time and this is complete thrash when you compare it to the brilliance of Scarlet Heart which came out around the same time. This is a mish mash of every terrible Korean court drama plot.

Let's see the checklist:
1. Weakass and useless rulers.
2. Evil, powerful and treacherous ministers.
3. Male lead with grand and ambitious plans for the country but he is a useless puppet. See number 1.
4. Cheesy romance which is even worst than tipid chemistry.
5. Romeo and Juliet plot
6. Intelligent, mysterious, courageous and grounded 2nd leads who are somehow in love with the leads(It's good except for the part where they have unrequited love for the ML and FL)
7. And so on
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Obviously one of the leads will die in the end.

In real life that Empress eventually became regent for her stepson as well. It was obvious even in this fictionalized account nothing would happen to her. I should have realized sooner none of the real instigators and conspirators in these drama would receive due punishment.

I thought you'd gone now. Why are you still stinking this place up? I'm too busy just to waste time trying to understand your gibberish copy pasted from Google Translate.

The door is welcoming you. Your obnoxious attitude is stinking this place all over. Hopefully PXR gets considered for this role.

The last 10 episodes were just marginally better than passing grade. Honestly it has been downhill ever since the story move to the capital. How a writer could completely go off tangent and forget the juice off the story and muddle the plot. This is a perfect example. I think the writer only has talent for romance and maybe action seeing how engaging the first episodes were. Anything else is just a parody. The political story in this drama is lazily and poorly written and frankly a hack job.

This drama just limped to the finish line. It started so well. I can't say I'm happy on how this turned out. So much promise and the main plot got sidelined to squeeze more romantic drama from the main leads. So disappointing.

Really smart female lead or just the writer being ridiculous. Seriously??? carrying all the money she earned while she's peddling illegal stuff instead of stashing it somewhere safe. Everyone knows that's how its done /s.

Yang Mi really has a teeny tiny voice. I actually thought she had a pleasing and elegant voice in Eternal Love. That was before I knew that was not her own and dubbing was pretty much standard procedure in China.

This is so incredibly ignorant and false. Never mine you come off as a low info bias commentator. This is one of the first good high budget fantasy action drama from K-drama land and then suddenly you consider it better than anything China has ever produced. Yeah very objective post there.

There's obviously a strong wuxia element in this drama but I don't see how this drama is a copycat of a known wuxia work. This is only from my fairly limited knowledge of that genre. That said the Hong sisters would be lying if they say this is entirely original idea.

What a stupid comment!

Mkvdrama is your friend.

I'll watch this if the FL dies in the end. There is no way end hell they can justify letting her have a happy ending after she stole a body and put her soul in it. She's Lord Voldermort personified.

Yes she's got the most character development and is constantly improving herself. Frankly if not for her great chemistry with the ML, I would not like the FL. Far too stoic and prideful. Frankly she's just as naive as Yinzhang imo.

Well that's pretty obvious:)

I need something more substantial from this drama for it to be consider a good one. The chemistry of the leads is excellent, one of the best I've seen in drama land, but I expected more from this plot.

Over half episodes have gone by and all I see are the main leads with that incredibly annoying and sassy waitress sideshow scurrying here and there without moving the plot. Seriously where is the Imperial Family, the Empress who has been a constant affair in this drama and she's never seen. The factions of the court that are going head to head and all I see is LYF character going to the Gao's again to give unneeded advice to her ex's current fiancee. Because it's just so fine butting into other people's business. When will they finally end this Ouyang arc. It's becoming tiresome and make the FL look like a thick and jeered woman that can't read the situation and can't move on. Enough!

Yinzhang is again with another rehashed plot line with what looks like another shady character if Hao Hao words are to be believe. Frankly I'm not interested in her story. Hopefully her pipa skills open up another story and avenue because frankly another doom romance is just a plain waste of time. Speaking of waste of time. I'll also add here that new sassy sidekick they've procured that seem to take up precious drama real estate when it looks like she's nothing substantial to the story. My quota of bratty and overbearing characters is ideally zero.

And for the good part at least I'm seeing Sanniang have a change of heart and personality develop. It looks like she might have a reunion with her son very soon. Among the three she seems to have the most development.

Anyway I'm hoping they push this story more to a better direction because I feel this plot is mostly stagnating. Lovey dovey moments between the leads is fine but it should ideally be a filler especially in a historical political drama.

It seems this drama is a train wreck. I was so hoping to see more of Wang Zi Xuan. I don't think I'll start this one as I'm not exactly a fan of the FL and the ML isn't my cup of tea.

The main antagonist in this drama Jeon Tae Soo died(took his life?) a few years ago.