Melody of Golden Age (2024)

The drama that deserved a chance

One of the best adaptations, from a less interesting book.
Neither the story (after reading) nor the male character particularly attracted me.

But, I watched it and fell in love with the lead pair. I started because I basically like romantic crime stories. I like it when the leaders are intelligent, naivety is not a sin, but I hate stupid characters.
I was not disappointed. The chemistry, the dialogues and the visuals, the costumes and the music are also perfect. I re-watched it several times even after The End. / I'll probably watch it a few more times.

Don't look if you like ML with another boat. (Because FL and ML's romance is the point, without that you will only see their faults)

faults: (and there are many) - The supporting characters are confusing (e.g. the queen, the best friend, the girl's father...etc)
- rough cuts / sometimes we think we missed something, or we skip time or because of cuts, hasty and funny

Just give the drama a chance....it's worth it, .... it's worth it, .....it's worth it....
Both the actors and the director put their heart and soul into it.
And because they managed to enchant: 10

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I don't understand why anyone likes this

I honestly do not understand why people give this show a rating that isn't garbage. All the reviews are about how The ML is the highlight of the show and how he is so good, and about how the female is so strong and capable. But the show starts off with the male lead shown to beat cruel and honestly evil. No of course they're going to towed all that back as the show goes on and they're going to show why he did these things and none of the reasons are good. The literal opening act for him was enjoying killing people not doing it because it was his job not doing it because he had to but enjoying it. And then he is repeatedly shown to enjoy inflicting cruelty on people including the woman who he has essentially forced to accept being treated like a piece of garbage. He's fully aware she does not have the ability to turn down the marriage he tries to force her out but if he does succeed her whole family will die so not exactly a good look. He disrespects her in literally every way a man could back in that time without actually raping her. And then he gives the idea that's what he's going to do because they haven't actually gotten married he just ignores the entire marriage process and declares that it's happened. He watches her drowning and just stands there. Sure he doesn't let her drown but a person who is capable of literally standing there and watching someone drown has serious problems. Now sure he thinks that she was sent in as a plant and to cause him problems which would explain some of what he does but it doesn't explain it all. The only way somebody acts like this is if they are legitimately a psychopath. I honestly hate that I wasted the time watching this because sure they eventually get to the loving and the caring but the foundation of this entire story is disgusting.

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First Impression.

First impression (8 episodes in..) I have just started in on this series of 40 episodes.
Initial set up for cdrama historical detective court love story.
I do find the first few episodes a bit long in establishing the charaters nad trying to keep track of all the parties for future reference will be challenging. I am eager to see hoe much then continue to uncover of the childhood connections with each episode. I feel it would be sweeter to see more of why the FL is so open minded and trusting towards the ML.

Ryan Ding has matured so much into this charater, I Love it. Cant wait to see more of his signature facial geestures.

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another low quality writing

CDramaa just keeps on spouting crappy production one after another. The writing of the main FL is trash. As a young lady in ancient times, to be able to secure a position in a government office, no matter how small, should be smart and capable right? But she kept on spouting idiotic dialogue. In ancient time, going against high ranking official is punishable by death, not only that, she even dare to question Empress Dowager edict, that'll get your whole family exterminated. Lost interest immediately after this scene, the writer can't even get that very basic knowledge. Not going to waste my time... Not the actors fault by the way, I just can't stand watching crappy writing.

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The Battle of the Brained Titans

‘Melody of Golden Age’ (2024) Mystery Romance

I am excited about the new Chinese Costume Drama Melody of Golden Age. There is much attention to cinematic details in this Chinese drama, like camera angles, film and cinematography quality, and scene composition. All this is to raise the drama suspense level. The drama’s opening minutes are so eye catching.

Strong cold male with high intelligence battles with focused and fearless intelligent female.

Shen Du (Ding Yu Xi) is an illegitimate son whose intelligence and keen observation skills allows him to solve crimes easily. This has gotten him promoted to Great Chief of the Internal Imperial Guard Office. He is an expert archer with a full life and it does not have room for romance. Consequently, when the Queen keeps trying to marry him off, he scares the wits out of the prospective brides and they call off the engagement. Yan Xing is from nobility and daughter of a Concubine, but she is a trailblazer. She is the Sixth Miss of the Yan Clan. Yan Xing is a woman who takes advantage of a program advanced by the Queen. Woman are being selected for a male dominate position of Clerk of the Ministry of Justice, an investigative bureau.

The sister of Yan Xing is selected to be the next victim bride of Shen Du. When the sister runs off, Yan Xing steps in to protect the family name and becomes the bride candidate. Shen Du soon tries his old tricks again, but Yan Xing is intelligent and bold enough to call his bluff. The situation reduces to The Battle of the Brained Titans. These two learn to coexist and become a crime solving team.

Melody of Golden Age is adapted from the Webnovel ‘Chang A Tong Que Ming’, written by Feng Huang Xi. I think that Melody of Golden Age should be added to your Chinese Drama View List.

Actors

Acting since 2017, Ding Yu Xi made a big splash in the 2020 Chinese Drama hit ‘Romance of Tiger and Rose”, my first meeting with him. Ding Yu Xi has a magnetism about him. You don’t easily forget his bravado. Ding Yu Xi has “cold male” down to a science. Since 2020, Ding Yu Xi began to carve his niche in Period Dramas. His bravado works so well with this genre. Ding Yu Xi has appeared in nine Chinese Dramas since 2020, with seven dramas being costume dramas. Ding Yu Xi is shooting up the A-List meter fast.

Chinese actress Ancy Deng is a new comer too. She started acting in 2017 as well. Her status is a slow climb, landing guest, support, and main roles. Flourish in Time (2021) was a hit for Andy Deng. Melody of Golden Age (2024) is a hit for her thus far.

Interesting Note: Ding Yu Xi is a Guy’s Guy who bites his nails. He has football fingers. I find it interesting in the opening scene, a male hand model with delicate hands is used for this pivotal scene for the close up of the fingers strumming a bow. I saw his hands in Romance of Tiger and Rose.

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C-dramaland is really underwhelming this year

The acting was a joke (the FL, her mother ..etc i can't stand their acting), even if i usually like the ML (not in this drama obviously!) i just couldn't get into his character.

The production was very very poor, like how come the dogs have a collar !? at that time??? if your are making a period drama , please do make a period drama. Didn't the bodies the FL examinated stink ? then why wasn't she hinting at it, acting like those were fresh bodies....I mean make it make sense PLEASE!

After going painfully through 5 episodes, i gracefully decided to show myself some mercy and quit watching this show.

I don't recommend it.

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Keseluruhan drama ini sangat bagus. Dari set, kostum, alur cerita, sinematografi sangat sempurna. Chemistry ML dan FL juga bagus sekali, walaupun adegannya simple tapi rasa yang mereka sampaikan sangat dalam. Sangat sulit menemukan drama yang terasa nyata seperti ini, tapi mereka berhasil membawaku masuk ke dalam dunia mereka dan ikut merasakan apa yang mereka rasakan dari awal sampai akhir.
Sangat berharap ada kelanjutan dari drama ini, karena mungkin akan sulit menemukan drama yang sebagus ini dengan vibes yang sama. Aku juga sangat berharap ding yuxi dan deng enxi bisa bekerja sama lagi di drama lain.

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Shen Du es el salvador de esta serie

Ding yu la mayoría del tiempo interpreta personajes juguetones, así que más allá de la belleza de verlo en su traje militar. Me interesa ver que tan bien podría retratar un personaje serio y estoico como Shen Du. Por supuesto no es una sorpresa que su actuación me dejó muy satisfecha, como se esperaba de DYX, cada escena en la que esta cubierta de detalles y matices emocionales que reflejan su estudio actoral. Su personaje es un hombre triste, con una coraza dura qué se derrite conforme enfrenta su vida de casado.

Sin embargo, no puedo decir que sea una historia totalmente de mi gusto. Liu niang es un personaje que siempre está en aprietos debido a su inocente sentido de la justicia, lo que la obliga a ser constantemente rescatada por su marido. En cierto punto es desesperante y molesta. La historia está hecha para hacerla ver como una mujer fuerte pero que aún depende de su marido. Un mensaje contradictorio que le quita fuerza a la FL.

La historia sigue la misma trama qué cualquier historia enemies to lovers tiene. Nada nuevo. Por otro lado, ¿que no es eso lo que nos encanta?

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