Rebirth for You (2021)

I will be brutally honest here..

i kind like the main leads character but the plot wasn't good enough to do them any justice ... series went well till ep 12 ML FL met ..they helped each other to achieve personal goals ..fall in love .. got married. story was heart warming and rom-com. but after this the plot turned into bitch slap crap .. kitchen politics and domestic drama phase ... like a total 180 degrees opposite to how it started .... i am pretty sure a lot of viewers must have given up on this series here ...

i sticked around though ... and from ep 25/26 onwards i find the story improved a little .. i mean it was watchable at this point .. then it went okay till ep 37 but as we reached closer to the ending ...writer messed up again ... i mean seriously messed up ... the ending for ML FL was satisfactory ...but for villains , NO ... you will feel a different level of frustration watching the villains who deserve severe punishments were not hold accountable enough even after committing crimes repeatedly.

this was not the type of series you would recommend others but if you happen to come across it and likely to watch it i suggest you read episodes guide side by side so that you can skip the unnecessary parts ..other wise you will be exhausted

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Engaging Drama with a Smart Female Lead

This is one of the few Chinese series I keep rewatching whenever I need a dose of a smart female lead. The plot, centered on political and family power struggles within the kingdom, family, and warfare, is engaging, with problems being solved in clever ways.

One downside is the presence of two characters who are overly obsessed with the main leads. It would have been better if they were more supportive instead of constantly inserting themselves into the main story. The cast delivers decent performances, though their acting can sometimes feel stiff. There's less romantic interaction between the married couple than I expected, and while their chemistry is decent, it’s not particularly captivating.

Despite these shortcomings, I really enjoy the characters of Jiang Bao Ning and Li Qian. Both are intelligent, and it's refreshing to see a female lead who, though not skilled in martial arts, is very clever and resourceful. The music in the series is also enjoyable. Overall, this is a series I will definitely keep rewatching.

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Form your own conclusion

Yea disappointed with this one ALOT, FL/ML got lost in the plots and couldn't find their way out of them, nothing really positive to say about this, a shame cos both leads i like and they were my draw card - good acting, good looking, good characters to develop but the storyline went ga-ga....screen writes think about the diversity of your audience, - don't make plots that go off on tangents and take us the viewers down rabbit holes cos they are so hard to come back from....sequential logic makes good movie making....nah moved on from Ep 14 saw the uselessness of staying longer with the unattractive foreseeable non-sensical plots coming...I had to go to Ep40 to see what would happen and the nemesis should have been gone long ago ?????

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Give it a chance.

I hesitated to watched this because of some of the reviews. But I really enjoyed it.
Very similar to The Blooms of Ruyi Pavillion and Legend of Yunxi. You have the beautiful, carefree, resourceful and kind FL. There's the handsome, heroic, devoted ML. He's also on a mission to solve some mystery or wrong doing.
You also get obsessive second ML&FL (s)who fell for MC because they had a childhood connection or encountered them by chance and was intrigued by them. The acting is good. I rooted for the MC. Found the various characters true to their respective roles.
It's a long drama. I didn't feel cheated with abrupt ending here. Everyone got what they deserved in the end.

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MAIN LEAD CHEMISTRY'S ARE HERO IN THIS CDRAMA! , CZ THE STORY WAS ....!

•STORY

OKAY FIRST! About the 'rebirth' in the title, I mean the story has absolutely nothing to do with it, I don't understand what the director was thinking. Even though the title makes people who see it have high expectations. me too, i feel cheated by the title.

Three episodes confused me and i dropped it，but because i like JJY so much i decided to repeat it. Yes, I found the gist of this story, and it turned out to be quite interesting. I started to enjoy watching it until the tenth episode, there I started to get bored, especially when Baoning married Liqian, I felt the problems at the beginning of the episode disappeared and now the conflict is widening everywhere making me dizzy. And finally I stopped at episode 20, I don't know when I will continue it.

three episodes confused me and i dropped it，but because i like JJY so much i decided to repeat it. Yes, I found the gist of this story, and it turned out to be quite interesting. I started to enjoy watching it until the tenth episode, there I started to get bored, especially when Baoning married Liqian, I felt the problems at the beginning of the episode disappeared and now the conflict is widening everywhere making me dizzy. And finally I stopped at episode 20, I don't know when I will continue it.

The story is quite interesting, and what is most addicting is the chemistry between the main leads which is very pronounced. cz it i say that chemistry main lead is hero in this drama! unfortunately this story focuses too much on many things, many plot holes are not resolved quickly, and are instead added with new conflicts that make you confused. even the two main leads sometimes feel like extras. too. many take other people's scenes that are not the main role. the conflict is good, it's just that in my opinion the screenwriter and director can't execute the plot well. but the film has potential. too many couples also makes it less attractive, I think Cdrama should reduce the number of couples in one drama, after a while it becomes annoying!

•Acting/casting

JJY as Baoning. She is beautiful, i like her so much. I watched this drama too because of her. I think her beautiful face really suits the character of Baoning who becomes a princess and many want to marry her. For me, her slightly complicated style is perfect for her past as a princess, and to be honest, I really like the hanfu she wears, it's really beautiful. it's just that her make up is too thick, I mean it's too much for a costume drama like this. I sometimes get annoyed with her make up even though she looks pretty in it. JJY's acting I think good but it will be better if she improve it even more.

I think I also need to discuss the character of Baoning, to be honest, sometimes I don't like her character. she's a girl who can't be put down easily, especially by the li qian family makes her look cool. It's just that in the first early episodes I didn't really like his arrogant nature and sometimes didn't respect Li Qian. but he is cool and very loyal to li qian, i was touched when he went undercover to find his girlfriend.

JOSEPH ZENG as Li Qian. i know joseph zeng from this drama. he is handsome and plays the character Li Qian very well. his face that is not boring makes me comfortable to watch every action. I don't know what to comment on because I think he is already very good at playing the character Li Qian. Li Qian's own character also has the potential to be liked, apart from being handsome, he is good at fighting, he is also very protective of Baoning, I mean he is great. he keeps protecting baoning even though his girl doesn't know about it.

THEIR CHEMISTRY'S ARE THE SAVIORS IN THIS STORY! even though i dropped this drama but i watched all their bts, they are so sweet and compatible! JJY JSX played the characters Baoning and Liqian very well. especially in describing their love story, because their chemistry is so good, which makes me feel at home watching the interactions between the two, very sweet. only one thing missing, an intense kiss! why are they just sticking their lips??

I hope they will meet in another drama that has a better plot as the main lead.

•MUSIC

I really like the music, even all the soundtracks of this Cdrama are stored on my cellphone. I love JJY's beautiful voice in 'never apart' and 'missing in the rain'. JJY and JSX duet also very well on that song. Of course I didn't forget the songs that songxiran and others sing. to be honest, even though the plot is a bit 'ruined', you certainly won't be able to lie to yourself if all the osts in this drama are good to hear.

•REWATCH VALUE??

ARE U KIDDING ME?! Just watching it once makes me confused, let alone the second time, crazy huh?!

but it's also good if you repeat it and analyze it better, it's quite an interesting story.

i hope i can continue this CDRAMA T T

wish JJY, JSX, OTHER CAST, CREW DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER AND ME LUCk TOO XD

thank u! ♥

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A waste of good actors ಠ_ಠ

PLOT: 1 princess, the FL, raised in freedom, is coveted by the emperor. She participates in a mechanism competition, where she meets 2 nobles, the ML and the ML2. The ML saves her several times and ends up marrying her, to the great annoyance of ML2 and FL3, a childhood friend.

PROS:
+ A great CL: Joseph Zeng and Ju Jing Yi (a little anorexic) who develop great chemistry. lots of sweet scenes :)
+ Dynamic production
+ Light tone

CONS:
- some problems, easy to resolve, last a VERY long time, while dangerous situations are resolved in the blink of an eye ಠ_ಠ
- fight scenes that are too visibly choreographed.
- The 2 villains are REALLY obsessed, fit for the psychiatric hospital.
- the story is poorly written, full of plotholes and inconsistencies.

=> the actors are good, cute, but cannot save a poorly conceived story.
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PLOT: 1 princesse, la FL, élevée en liberté , est convoitée par l'empereur. Elle participe à 1 concours de mécanismes, où elle rencontre 2 nobles, le ML et le ML2. Le ML la sauve à plusieurs reprises et finit par l'épouser, au grand dépit du ML2 et de la FL3, amie d'enfance.

PROS:
+ Un super CL : Joseph Zeng et Ju Jing Yi (un peu anorexique qd mm) qui développent une belle alchimie. bcp de sweet scenes :)
+ Réalisation dynamique
+ Ton léger

CONS:
- certains problèmes, faciles à résoudre, durent TRES longtemps, alors que des situations périlleuses sont réglées en un clin d’œil ಠ_ಠ
- scenes de fight trop visiblement chorégraphiées.
- Les 2 villains sont VRAIMENT obsédés, bons pour l’hôpital psychiatrique.
- la story est mal écrite, pleine de plotholes et d'incohérences.

=> les acteurs sont bons, cute, mais n'arrivent pas à sauver une histoire mal conçue.

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Lets play a game of pick-a-plot

This is the first time I watched a drama where a plot felt like a combination of several dramas glued together, as if a bunch of different people wrote it without communicating with each other. There were several parallel storylines with characters that often crossed paths, but their stories were completely independent of each other. You will miss nothing if you skip entire scenes and focus on the characters you like. So, to save yourself time and sanity, start a game of pick-a-plot and make friends with the fast-forward button.

Li Qian was a valiant and brave soldier. Baoning was a spoiled princess. But the difference in their status did not prevent them from building a loving relationship based on trust and communication until, towards the end, they regressed into complete knuckleheads who refused to communicate, jumped to conclusions, and threw asinine accusations. In the last 5 episodes, Baoning's character drastically changed from a spunky young woman to a calculating persona resembling Wang Xuan from The Rebel Princess. This change showcased Ju Jing Yi's ability to play more serious roles. But, it wasn't necessarily good for the story, because it happened without any actual character development showing Baoning's transition from a care-free princess to a mature woman with experience dealing with scheming villains.

The first 12 episodes were very engaging showing Baoning and Li Qian's blossoming romance. But then, the plot suddenly got hijacked by secondary characters and became a continuous onslaught of love rivals' deranged schemes to break up the happy couple. A love obsessed and jealous villain is one of the worst, most uninspired, uninteresting tropes to manufacture conflict. The writers threw in every cliche and rehashed idea instead of writing an actual story. Zhao Xiao was a nobleman with a bright political future. But, every single action he took was to get into Baoning's pants. And, Miaorong's slimy schemes resulted in the same predictable outcome again and again. The writers did not even try to create compelling villains, but love-obsessed psychos who just wouldn't get the message that the object of their affection couldn't care less.

More often than not, I ended up throwing my hands in the air and screaming "FFS!!" When I did not suffer from second-hand embarrassment, I pressed on the fast-forward button. The drama is a convoluted mess of jealous lover tropes, scattered plot, and a marketing scheme for the supporting cast.

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This is a disastrous historical palace drama with a very poorly executed romance plot. Although the leading couple, on the long run, will do what is right for one another, the female lead is insufferable and selfish for most of the drama duration. This drama is packed with the most ridiculous obsessive and delusional antagonists that, at the end, just got little or no admonishment for their crimes. There is basically no characters development in this drama: the antagonist learned nothing and kept their delusions until the end, the female lead was absurd, and the male lead was constantly at her beck and call trying to make her happy. All in all, watch this drama only if you have time to waste!

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The title is not suitable

One drama that the title really does not describe the story at all. This is the first time I think the title is really far away from what is inside the story. Maybe this drama is supposed to exchange titles with One & Only. Although One & Only & Forever & Ever is really a rhyming title, One & Only more suits this one & rebirth for you really suited for forever & ever from the story side.

I really confuse with the English title of this drama. Rebirth for you, but the story none at all about reincarnation. How can you give rebirth to the title... If you just translate the native title 慕南枝, is more likely to be yearn for something maybe more fit with the story. Because yeah this drama about everything yearning for something, there is character yearning for love (almost obsess even), Qing Tai yearning for power, Li family yearn for clarification about injustice assassination their clan years ago. See... everything about yearning for something.

I haven't for a very long time hated one, let alone some particular character like this one. This drama has 3 stupid people that don't want to let go their love obsessions' & 1 person really be quite delusional too. I really want to slap all the character below to just wake them up. Here they are:
* Gao Miao Rong: She is really one thorn in the flesh for Li Family. In the end she was quite pitiful too.. When she already gives up she must be dragged back to the place where you can say center of the storm for her life. But thanks to the love from Li Lin in the end she still make a right decision. Yeah sometimes people said, to heal the love wound what you need is a new love is just so true.
* Han Tong Xin (the empress): She wants the emperor for herself. But as we all know, emperor never only belong to 1 woman. Yeah a little bit pity actually as her, at the end she has to witness her love died in the arms of her love rival. If only she find about the emperor love sooner maybe the story will gonna be a little bit different for her.
* Zhao Xiao (ZX): maybe among them all the most pitiful but also quite delusional is ZX. His situation reminds me of one particular word from Qin Yue from forever love when he confesses to Xia Lin Xi, "The most painful thing is not having never had it, but for almost being able to make it." Yeah, ZX situation really fit this sentence, he was almost together with Jiang Bao Ning (BN) but never got a chance in the end. But that doesn't make everything what he do in the name of love right, just like BN said, "I don't know if your love is true love or just being stubborn & selfish." Only blind person can't see the love between BN & Li Qian (LQ). But unfortunatelly the problem for ZX is the question of 'what if...' still always hanging in the air...

What I like:
+ I really like all the interaction between the couple here. Jiang Bao Ning (BN) & Li Qian (LQ), Li Dong Zhi & Qing An, even Dong Shan Hu (SH) & Jin Xiao (JX). Unfortunately the interaction between SH & JX is not so often in this drama.
+ Grand Empress Dowager is very cute grandma. Happy to see the actress Cao Cui Fen is still quite healthy to play in the drama.
+ LQ's step mom really one good step mom & quite funny actually in a way. Her interaction with LQ's dad also quite funny.

What a little bit out of place, or could be better in another way:
- The scene after LQ 'kidnap' BN from Qing Tai & having fight scene in the front of BN room. It just so weird BN didn't come out to see all the commotion, even maybe she just see what Bai Su & her husband brought from Grand Empress Dowager, if that me & I hear all the commotion, most probably my love one being beat up by my cousin, I will gonna come out & at least yell for them to stop. And after that what LQ said to ZX is simply just so sweet, if there's the scene where BN hear what he said, isn't it gonna be better...
- Several of the scheme in the drama sometimes just so confusing, not enough explanation in the drama.
- How BN as a princess to be said not getting enough nutrition when she was little (explanation by the monk when BN got potion from the arrow). She is a princess and grow up in the palace, where all the best nutrition stored, doesn't that mean she should be get the best nutrition ever possible... BN also not an outcast princess who can't get the nutrition she needed, even before she enter the palace, she's also not just random orphan girl who can't get food. See doesn't make sense....

Overall this is quite good drama that can suck me from the very first episode. Even though this drama turn out to be more than 45 min, the usual min for c-drama world, usually I often quite bored with longer duration, but I really enjoy this & not find this drama boring,

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Spoilt Princess gets her way

What a waste of time this series is. I looked forward in anticipation to what was billed an exciting. new costume drama only to have my hopes dashed. The two leads tried their hardest - but in the end the story line was so insipid that I gave up.
The only relieving grace, if there was any, was the acting of some of the support roles.. but having said that the actress who played Miaorong should never be on screen again..
As for the story line being billed as a romance between a princess and a palace guard - what a load of hogwash. For a start, Li Qian is not just some palace guard, but a famed general from a noble family. As for Princess Baoning - whoever decided upon her make up and wardrobe should have their head examined.
To call the plot third rate would be too kind. It is as though half way through the writers realised they had a turkey on their hands and decided to throw everything but the kitchen sink at the script. Every kind of 'love story/revenge story' cliche is added often without any sense or benefit.
But my main gripe is with the so called character traits of the main leads. Li Qian is a doormat, while Baoning is portrayed as spoilt, arrogant, self centred, self-entitled and stubborn. Any sane man would have told Baoning to take a running jump. But no - loyal, devoted loving hubby Li Qian doesn't - instead he goes into full masochist mode - the more you hurt me the more I love you - utterly ridiculous.
A much more interesting and realistic plot would have been for the two leads to split up from each other and then have them reconcile with each other, having had a long hard look at themselves and realised their shortcomings - for Li Qian to be more assertive and Baoning to turn over a new leaf - but this would have been too much to ask ...wouldn't it?
All in all 3 out of ten

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Good drama

Good drama ?
Love the cp Ningqian
For the script writer, director, and editor I recommend for next time work or project is need improvement for satisfaction of viewers.
The title rebirth for you is not focusing in the plot of the story or we not seen it about who is from rebirth. So they said the tittle is change to to biography of Jianan so this title is jianan biography is the plot or story we seen it in last episodes at 36 episodes you can understand about the jianan biography. In the beginning of episodes there's no scene and plot focusing in the title. Based on my opinion.. Better the title they change to "the Supreme weapon book" why? Because in the beginning of episodes they talking about and searching about the book till end of episodes . And this book also is every one is related and wanted this book. So this book focused on the plot of story so I think viewers can understand the story about.

I recommend this drama.
They act very well, and custome, make up is ok fit based on there character.. Setting location are good. But some are messy specially in battlefield and capital outside ?? must be arrange well. So anyways we are different views ?
PS. We are different opinions and points of view.

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Sweet but random

Do I enjoy watching this drama? Absolutely.
Is it a good drama? Absolutely not.
Am I crazy for giving it a rating of 8? No! Hear me out:

This drama is greater than the sum of its parts. And its parts consists a very sweet couple, and randomly strung together scenes that serve no plot or purpose.

This drama could have been a very sweet 20 episodes drama. The main couple has amazing chemistry, and the characters are absolutely sweet to each other. Except...after the first 10 episodes, we only see them together 3 minutes per episode. EVEN THEN, they make it worth it for me. They're 90% of the reason why I gave the drama the rating I did. At its best, the drama reminds me of The story of Ming Lan (my absolute favorite), in the way both of the leads are smart and in love with each other. The plot is dumb, but the characters are smart, if that makes sense.

To enjoy this drama like I did, you have to put on a special lens: you either ff through all scenes without the main couple, or watch them in 3x speed. Characters who are not related at all to any main overarching plot - of which there was none - show up and disappear randomly (like a "monster of the week" structure). Events happen, and you have no idea why. On the upside, there's a lot of humor, most of it unintentional; and you're always on the edge of your seat because you literally cannot predict what happens next. Will it be another loser acquaintance? Another failed scheme by the SFL? Unrelated love lives of characters you don't care about? There's plenty to choose from and you can never guess!

You probably can't tell from my review above, but I genuinely enjoyed this drama, except maybe not for the reason the producers intended. Don't watch this drama if you can't fast-forward or are unwilling to speed it up (WeTV app lets you so why not??) I look forward to seeing Joseph and Kiku in another drama again, one I can love for all the right reasons.

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