My Queen (2021)

♡ Who wrote this sweet and hilarious script?! ♡

Story (10/10):
It was funny and cute how Meng Meng was trying to find her heroine. During her journey, she met Murong Chen and decided to get Xue Tan Hua (a magical flower) for their own purposes. After that, she encountered the cool and charming hero, Yun Ya, who she fell in love with and eventually changed her objective. Yun Ya unknowingly rescued her especially when she was in danger every time even though she did not call for him. Not realizing they were actually the same person, she escaped the palace to avoid her engagement and continued her journey in the Jiang Hu (martial arts) world together with her friends as they developed strong friendship. Meanwhile, she learnt many things, when you love someone, you are willing to be there for him and help him without anything in return. She also learnt that when you truly love each other, you don't make sacrifices. The sweet romance begins between Murong Chen and Meng Meng as they experience many obstacles but still believing in each other and together, they overcome each mission along the way.

Acting/Cast (10/10):
All the casts did a fantastic job in their roles, like you can really see their effort and the comedy they put in this historical romantic drama. June Wu portrayed two roles differently, like I could not tell it was same person in a way that they had totally different personalities. I hope June Wu will have more main roles in the future!!♡ Lai Mei Yun played Meng Meng as a cute and funny character which she did a great job, the way she express herself, the humor she brings, I really enjoy it. Hu Wei as well as Wen Zhu did a splendid job too, we have one cute and strong couple here! Haha it was pretty obvious that Xiao Ai and Chang Kong like each other, so I can say the actors themselves (Tan Qin Xuan and Qu Tian Rui) did a good job, thank you to all the casts from My Queen for their hard work!♡

Music (10/10):
I love the opening ost 弱水三千 (Ruò shuǐ sānqiān) sang by our male lead, June Wu, he really has a beautiful and nice voice. I didn't really skip either the opening ost or ending ost 江湖策马 (Jiānghú cè mǎ) during the entire 24 episodes since the songs catch my attention so I'll give the music a 10/10 hehe :)

Rewatch Value (10/10):
The comedy is hilarious so I wouldn't mind re-watching all those cute and funny scenes again to make my day especially after a tired day or maybe after a heartbreaking show XD

Overall (10/10):
If you're looking for a sweet, fluffy, cute and romantic comedy drama, I highly recommend My Queen :D Hey, it's really a great drama, I was looking forward to every Friday and Saturday so I could watch My Queen, it was not easy waiting, I was anticipating every moment of My Queen and hoping each episode didn't end fast. Let's enjoy this lovely drama together! :)

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Almost made it

I started watching this series with high expectations. I was also pleasantly surprised to see some elements of improvisational acting games that I have participated in here in the States. So again, really had high hopes for this.

PROS
Song Che - this character was probably IMO the best one. His comic timing and reactions were phenomenal. His facial expressions were great. He lit up the screen every time he was on it. Then the interaction between him and Zhe Xiang just sang. His last line to her about letting him lose to her forever was epic.

Murong Chen - this character was a perfect foil for Yun Ya. His ability to deduct and get out of doing things was fantastic and funny at the same time.

Chang Kong and Xiao Ai were perfect as servants And their love story was touching and heartbreaking.

The use of video game actions at the beginning of the series was well done. I liked how each character had a particular part to play, similar to a party of players in a D&D game.

CONS
Now the bad. Jiang Meng Meng - I had a major issue with the main character of the series. Her immaturity when presented with the fact that her love interest is living a double life just blew my mind. While her character in the "game" was 17, I was under the impression that she was at least 25 in real-time. But the level of childishness she showed, her unwillingness to listen to someone she had been traveling with for some time and who had put his life on the line more than once for her, by this time I was ready to reach thru the screen and slap her silly.

Then when she is presented with her love interest making the decision to save his brother, which he has told her he was going to do all along, her irrational reaction was way overboard. She had already decided that he didn't love her or wanted her, so why was she getting all bent out of shape?

I was also not impressed with the dark downturn the storyline took. Throughout the first half of the story, you portrayed the heroine as fairly upbeat and happy-go-lucky. But the minute she is presented with dark forces, it's like she doesn't even exist. I'm sorry, most people who are naturally upbeat and happy are pretty hard to change personality-wise. But she flipped 180. Blew the story for me.

And the last 4 episodes or so, when she had reached level 4 of her training, and her love interest had come back for her and then accepted the treatment she gave him, it was all I could do to finish the series. But by then I was committed to finishing it. But it was difficult.

But none of this compares to the last episode. WTH guys?! What kind of ending was that? I just about threw my drink at my TV I was so frustrated with how the series ended. Not a happy camper.

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Funny, hilarious and I needed more

This was such a fun drama. Too bad there were very few scenes of the actual world. I needed more scenes of Xiaomeng with her boss.

Since this is supposed to be in a VR world, I expected a lot of arcs that may be seen as fillers or maybe have no sense. This drama did have that but not to the point that it deviated a lot from the main storyline.

After Love better than Immortality, I really wanted to see if June Wu can give me flutters in another drama. This series proved to me that June Wu had it in him to play the main lead. He was really sweet and romantic in this one and had great chemistry with Lai Mei Yun. He was able to show that he liked Xiaomeng in the very few scenes as Quin Han. I also loved him as Murong Chen, the prince with a secret identity.

This is the first time I've seen Lai Mei Yun and I really would have liked to see more of her as Xiaomeng. I found it funny that her date with her TV was so important to her. I didn't particularly liked her Mengmeng when she just entered the game. She was kind of loud, brassy and boy crazy. It improved when she finally met Yunya, the secret identity of Murong Chen. From hereon, the fluff began.

Hu Wei as the SML Song Che was unexpectedly over the top funny. I initially thought his character stupid but was charmed as the series went on. This bright eyed boy is meant for comedy.

I would not rewatch this anytime soon but yeah this is a good drama.

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Oh my gahhhhh I loved this show!!!!
I loved how they had a little bit of everything rolled into this. I find it very unique in it's own way and I can't hate it at all.

I think what really hooked me though was the humor and bubbly moments. When it first started off in current times, I legit thought I had started watching the wrong show but I was like "eh let's see how it goes" -- to find out it was the right show, just a game. Lol But when I say this show was so freaking amazing, I forgot she was in a game. Even when she forgets and then reminds herself during the first few episodes, was never much longer later that I forgot she was in a game. LOL!
But I love that! I really wonder if I would be as obsessed with this show if it didn't feel "authentic". Wonder how much (if at all) my thoughts would change if I remembered the whole time it was a game.

I think what trips me out even more was not knowing I had seen Murong Chen / Yun Ya before it all even started. My sister had to point it out like "hey ... isn't that the guy that was [...]" bruh the gasp I left out when it clicked, but I never in my LIFE would have expected ALL (assume) of the characters working in the same place! That very last part made me super giddy. It was PERFECT!!! Again though, they could have ended it with them fighting over her journal and I would have been happy. Least.... until it dawned on me that real life existed. Lol Then I would question, so I'm really glad they ended it the way they did.

I have questions though. Why the bottles and umbrella? Did they talk about bringing those just to see who was who? Orrrr was it raining and that just so happened to be their drinks they picked up? I feel like this was probably explained in the book (which I really should read). But if anyone knows or has any ideas, I'd be glad to hear it. Till then, I'm just going to assume it was raining and they all brought something to drink but how they held everything shows who their character was since they all held their swords/objects a certain way through the show. Lol

All in all, I don't really have any complaints. Even the "bad guy" didn't seem like the ultimate "bad guy" which made her different to me. Her back story is so heartbreaking I really just want to give her a hug.
Sucks what had to happen though. But for how everything turned out I really did love this show. Wish it had showed what happened to Yi.

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Cliche but enjoyable

First this drama is quite cliche. No originality. But very relaxing drama. No heavy plot. No biggest plot twist. No overly evil characters. And no dragging plot. Unlike other ancient drama, this drama lacks fighting scene too. But if you’re looking for romance. This is not the one for you. The ML and FL development are quite slow. And there are not much romance going on.

But overall it is enjoyable and funny.
Rewatch ? I dont think so tho. But if they make the 2nd season with same lead and in the modern settings. I’ll watch that. Cause both lead are cute together.

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Lacks originality but quite decently done

I was reminded of Love & the Emperor when I started watching this series as both are about a female protagonist who enters a game world. While Love & the Emperor suffers from some problems with its switches between "reality" to the game world, My Queen largely avoids such problems at the expense of making the "real world" quite redundant. Why not just tell the same story without making it a story within a game the protagonist is playing? Sure, there won't be the moments when the protagonist is self-consciously analyzing the plot and commenting on the clichés, but that's not really a big loss. If the plot is full of clichés, it doesn't really help to have the protagonist openly calling a spade a spade.

The series has its entertainment value--expect some laughs, but don't expect it to move you to tears or make you think deeply about life. (That can be a good thing if all you want is something light enough to escape into.) One of the countries in the world of the game is supposedly one in which women are dominant, but don't expect any interesting feminist thought coming from the story. Somehow, even in a world where women are dominant, women from the palace somehow have to go out dressed as men? Think too much about the story, and you will likely be disappointed. Just sit back and enjoy the flight of fancy if it happens to be your cup of tea.

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Look at the stars I gave to story and actors. Only If they didn't delay storyline at that part...

FL' s blood is tken for some summoning etc. She gets seperatedd by force, trains. Supresses everyone who fight her at some point. Gets ngry at ML, for no reasonable reason. She makes stupid decisions and the story gets stuck, you watch many meaningless episodes.
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FL' s blood is tken for some summoning etc. She gets seperatedd by force, trains. Supresses everyone who fight her at some point. Gets ngry at ML, for no reasonable reason. She makes stupid decisions and the story gets stuck, you watch many meaningless episodes.

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Nothing new, and way too cliché

I'm dropping this drama because it's too brong.

The FL is nice, and she is really expressive and kinda cute/fun, but the ML is boring and his face doesn't move it's so weird, like he has botox or something. He does the "stone faced" male protagonist all the time.

The plot is non-existent, I mean, the FL goes back to past in the way of a game to find love (I know you have probably seen this before many times). There she goes through lots of clichés (which I usually enjoy, but here they don't do a good job using them to forward the plot) and find love.

I usually like the bubbly, and not to much to think about, type of drama, but this one is really bad. I caught myself checking out my instagram, and fast-fowarding the heck of this drama.

This one was not for me. So save you time.

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Lots of fluff in a drama that doesn't take itself too seriously

This entertaining and fun to watch drama is not that bad as it seems but well.

Story: the first 6 or 7 eps were almost perfect and really drew me in. But as it progressed, the pacing became a trouble, sometimes very quick, sometimes felt slow. Also often there felt a lack of coordination in the story. The story was nice in itself, but it's execution wasn't done too well. The comic relief of the first 10ish eps was amazing, i almost choked of laughter. That was somewhat toned down in the later eps. That ending was too quick though like i understood that all of them were in the same game world and those umbrellas and bottles were gifts for successfully completing the game beta, but maybe a little less rush could be better. But overall it was something really lightweight and feel good kind of drama with nothing serious going on.

Characters: Song che's character and acting was gold. He was so hilarious, almost comical and cute kind of dumb. He was my favourite character. Others were also okay. The characters were flat, negligible character development, but that wasn't boring or repulsive. The ml was very handsome and pretty funny too. The fl was smart in a way, and super funny with her monologues. Their acting was on point. The villain was actually rather pitiful. The fl had the best brothers, esp the 8th, and her sis queen was also soo good, 2 minor characters that i really loved.

Production: didn't really notice the music much, but wasn't something that annoyed me. The scenes with special effects looked meh, like below average but i didn't mind. The editing was horrible, like many scenes had no connection to the previous, so sometimes it didn't completely make sense.

But tbh, i really liked this show. It sometimes didn't make sense, progressed too quick, but nevertheless it was very entertaining. Would actually suggest binging on it. It can be a nice lightweight transition between heavier dramas.

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