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Ended 2025 and started 2026 with a modern drama that will set the standards high.
I’m short of words to describe this masterpiece, the cast 10/10. Everyone came and cleared their individual roles, a well executed dynamic between unrequited love and finding love again. Nie xiguang moving from zhuang xu to Lin yusen just made something clear, if you’re not getting the love you deserve never ever blame yourself, you are special and you deserve love, to avoid ruining so many aspects of your life go for someone who treats you like you deserve, see love is shown as what it should be, a two way street. A give and take. Zhuang xu was looking for Santa in xiguang, which she wasn’t.Career focus, this was highlighted so well, two people in love but still being able to flourish excellently in their individual career paths.
Family ties and relationships between parents and children.
Over all Gu man and the entire cast did their big thing here. I’m afraid it will be difficult for any modern drama to cross this threshold, but we will be expectant.
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SO FAR THE BEST COSTUME DRAMA OF 2025
the main issues costume romance/political dramas have is that they fail to balance out the two genres, one always outweighs the other. but prisoner of beauty somehow created that balance where we were able to get enough political information and still witness the romance between xiao man and wei shao. the villains successfully made me hate them. welldone!thumbs up to the entire cast and crew, enemies to lovers done well 10/10.
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Absolute rubbish of a drama
The story beings with a girl who goes to see her long lost “brother”. And immediately starts lusting after him. The first off putting aspect about the drama, from there onwards everything went downhill. The fuelling of delusions among young or stupid audiences is something cdramas have been aiming for and unsurprisingly it’s working. Lots of people justifying jiang mu placing her entire life around a man, and doing everything to satisfy him, will never sit well with me.But again cdrama fans are divided into two groups, the sensible ones who aren’t afraid to call out complete nonsense like speed and love and the empty headed ones who don’t care about the message a drama is spreading, as long as it satisfies their delusions and hallucinations.
The latter group makes up 90% of speed and love viewers.
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