Find a spouse with same value

So here a bit review on each character, please be noted the drama version is bit different from novel. The drama ver is for fans of Ding Yuxi the actor to gain more fans. Haha.

1. Ning Yuxuan NYX:
Outside: a cold, heartless man
Inside: a puppy heart
A good govt officer, has 2 wives but touch no one. Haha.

2. Nie Sangyu NSY:
Outside and inside: heartless woman
Spoiled since a little, loved to torture maids. Even until last breath still not instrospect her wrongdoings. She created her own bad karma. What a stupid evil lady.

3. Ji Man JM:
Outside: business maker, money lover
Inside: pursue everlasting love
NSY separated since baby, twin sister. She treated everyone either as potential customers, shareholders, or professional employees. Kind, funny.

4. Gui Bai GB:
Inside outside is just like his master NYX. Even copy his master when pursuing a girl and take an oath to love her one and only forever. Lol.

5. Wen Wan WW:
Outside: kind and soft
Inside: evil
Fooled NYX as if she was abducted and raped, so when NYX found her he got no choice but to take her as concubine. WW is evil but too stupid so we can relax.
Later she worked together with enemy against NYX but was betrayed and executed, so she kinda too late to realize her mistakes.

6. Ling Xingjian LXJ:
Outside: coward and evil
Inside: just want to surpass his childhood buddy NYX
Well at least he realized his mistakes and corrects them, so his head is safe from execution.

7. Yuan Lang YL:
Outside: kind hearted bandit
Inside: also a puppy heart
Together with JM and NYX bring down enemy and decided to let go hatred of their parents, as long as they could work together for people.

8. Emperor:
Inside and outside: a god of matchmaker, treated NYX dearly.
You know, just like King Wendy in drama Love Like The Galaxy, he supported 100% NYX and become a matchmaker for our female and male lead.

Conclusions:
1. Sweet moments NYX and JM, ladies, just imagine yourself is JM. Happy watching.
2. Remember to find a spouse with same value, same morality kindness, so you will be willingly share each other burdens.

That's all,
I will be more than happy to watch the drama repeatedly.
Loveeee~

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Another Good Drama To Inspire Your Life

Please noted, this review is from TSY fans point of view.

Its hard not to compare As Beautiful As You (ABAY) vs. Master Of My Own (MOMO).
Both are TSY dramas about work-place and career. The differences mostly rely on the romance side.

But I prefer MOMO because its more realistic and heart-warming. While ABAY is more romantic and sweet, the romance scene could make me blushed just like while watching her drama Road Home.

The ending both following novel with some adjustments. So in short, ABAY is a mix of MOMO (career) and Road Home (romance).

For youngsters, please watch this drama, it might give you some inspirational ideas to do in your career life. It’s all about taking a chance while you can, be brave. Talent is fundamental, but later you need to learn negotiation skills, get fundings, network relation, experiences and much to make this life meaningful to you and ultimately for many people.

Music : Not my style, easily forgotten, not ear-candy. TSY sings 2 songs in this drama, its okay but not as ear-catchy as her songs in Flight To You and Road Home.
Rewatch : It would be, because you will miss the sweet scenes anyway
Story : Bit of typical career-drama, but it's not wonder, because so many novel adaptions, so many dramas produced and released, the storyline would be similar, the differences mostly rely on the casts and acting skills.

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A Journey to Hardships : Love For A Greater Cause

The conclusions of the drama :
1. For all deceased characters during war: Since the drama is during wartime, it's something we often seen for imperial family along with soldiers and able-in-fighting masters to protect the country at all cost.
2. For Yang Ying and Li Tongguang: Since it's also about war and politic, it's nature seeing a princess marrying into another country as part of alliance and such. So, even they don't really love each other, at least they share the same goal, same morality and know how to respect each other.
3. In short, this drama no one got 100% happy ending what they really want. Your love died, you live alone (Chu Yue), Your love died, you marry another because of "greater cause" (Yang Ying, Li Tongguang), Your love died, you also died (Ruyi and Ning Yuanzhou), You love alive, but you cannot be together (Xiaoyan and Danyang).

This is a summary of the characters:

1. Ren Ruyi
Started as an elite special agent (Vermillion Guards) of AN country, betrayed by the emperor and decided to revenge. In her way to seek justice and revenge, she met Ning Yuanzhou and found out that AN emperor colluded with enemy and caused deaths to civilians. Finally the emperor was overthrowned and replaced by regent Li Tongguang, her student. Herself died (sacrifice herself) in mission after killing enemy's commander.

2. Ning Yuanzhou
After reinstated as the leader of Six Realms (also an elite special agent) of WU country, he got a task to escort a prince to rival country AN to exchange prisoner with gold. Together with Ruyi they embark the journey, later found out the AN emperor is such a garbage, they overthrowned him. Then big war happened and he died after saving Ruyi's student Li Tongguang.

3. Yang Ying
A WU princess dressed as a prince to bring ransom to pick his captured brother in AN country. Started as a weakling, grown up as a strong-willed princess under tutleage of Ruyi and Yuanzhou. Using her background as Wu princess, she proposed Li Tongguang and offered him a support from Wu kingdom (military reinforcements) to strengthen Li Tongguang new position in the court as regent (after the emperor been overthrowned).

4. Li Tongguang
Son of AN grand princess with a slave father, his mom didnt want to see him, later adopted by empress dowager and taught by Ruyi. He considered Ruyi as his only love of life, since no one ever been so close to him. Thou he is addicted to Ruyi, still he loves his people and wants to get rid of enemy. During wartime, political turbulences, and seeing so many deaths, he finally let go his unmatured love, agreed marrying Wu princess and do his best as a regent to bring peace in WU country.

5. Yu Shisan
Best friend of Ning Yuanzhou, a womanizer. Later really fell in love with Chu Yue and died in war protecting the city.

6. Yuan Lu
Yuanzhou's friend that guard the Ning mansion, also childhood acquitence of Yang Ying, only to confess his love before his death.

7. Qianzhao, Sun Lang
Two other friends of Ning Yuanzhou

8. Chu Yue
Princess of Shaxi tribe, initially engaged to Li Tongguang, later fell for Shisan, lost her all family members duirng war, then becomes the solely leader of the tribe, considered lived single until her death.

9. Xiaoyan
Empress of WU that her husband being captured by WU kingdom and later killed in war. She wanted to be empress dowager but postponed this idea, let her brother in law became emperor during critical situation of war.

10. Dan Yang
Dan Yang becomes emperor after his brother died, and then he leads troops to help AN country.
Note: enemy invaders actually only attack AN country, but WU cannot stand seeing so many cities being overtaken by enemy and civilians died. So, they join the war, convinced the ministers and court, "for civilians safety", also since the princess already married into AN kingdom and the two countries is now has an marriage alliance.

... Basically its okay if most characters died in this drama, its just eps 1-30+ full of laughters, then started to be dark and finally wipe out entired squad. It's just like you've been given candies and sweets and later forced to drink pest poisons.

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Dreamer's Dream Of The Butterfly

...or the butterfly's dream of the dreamer?

This is Lu Anran's overall situation when facing her "second chance", taken from Chinese famous classic poem.

She loved wholeheartedly her husband that apparently to be bloody heartless killer including his own brother Mu Chuan, and slaughter her whole family. Later she suicide. Cannot stand the hell in the palace.

Waken up, she returned at the first place she met her husband. Tried to save all her relatives from demises, but some deaths cannot be changed. Eventually she married this cruel husband again but with cautious mind and calculative plots.

It worked in the end, thou things not turned out perfectly like she wished for, but at least her father still alive and Mu Chuan also still alive and five years later after her husband's death, she returned to capital to be reunited with Mu Chuan.

Lesson: (in my opinion)
- To Lu Anran, the heroine: Woman should not too loving a man. Not saying to play hard to get, it's just having a naive love is no good.
- To Mu Chuan: He believed "all wells end wells". A stable character, from beginning til end, loyal heart, innocent, simple mind and no overthinking or overeacting.
- To Mu Ze the antagonist lead: Not too clever.

The only OST I love in this drama: Chen Junyu's Jin Xi He Xi.
Just want to say thanks to the production team to create bonus episode which is happy ending thou it is a paid version. Haha.

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Simple but Meaningful Story of Mutual Relationship

-- Review :



First of all, don't read this review if you hate a review that loves comparing things and stuffs.

Second, I'm writing this from female lead point of view

Third, Lets separated it from the novel version because it's a drama despite they said it's adapted (or loosely adapted) from the novel.



FL Female Lead = Shiyi

ML Male Lead = Lingyi



In short, this story is about an independent lady that has talent in embroidering, kind heart but not easily bullied.

As she never thought she would love a person through arranged marriage, more over when she has bad impression for him, but later found out her husband is just that good (ehm perfect) so she finally fell for him and convinced to give all out to manage the family well, went through thick and thin together. Just like the synopsis said. Lol.



Shiyi :

1. Find the killer of her mother

2. Deal with trivial matters (concubine daughter status, harems, sisterhood issues, mother in law, offsprings etc)

3. Together with husband deal with bigger matters/politics/etc

4. Keep embroidering



Lingyi:

1. Lift the sea ban policy + revenge his father's death caused by Ou family + be a good govt official

2. Help Shiyi finds the killer

3. Only wish for one heart despite he got some concubines (it's usually two people said they'd love each other and would be faithful but then the male taking other concubines/cheating, while in this story the male got concubines already but then find his true love--and finally no concubines left in the house, lol).

I don't like point no. 3, but since it's set in historical time, rich people did have 3-4 wives that time.

And also, this is not Lu Yi from Under The Power who said "having one wife is enough because two or more will troublesome"



---Scores :



Story 9.5

It's rather typical, harem conflicts (but not as serious as Yanxi Palace or Ruyi, more or less similar like Minglan Story's harem conflicts), light politics (just like Under The Power but a little bit more serious politic).



The good points are how good the male lead toward female lead while herself isn't overaly dramatic person.

Two people with same moral and virtue, same vision about good governance and serve people, avoid unnecessary conflicts, such a pair made in heaven.


Acting/Cast 10

Male lead is veteran actor, experiences are priceless, his acting skill is unquestionable, while female lead is a well known actress that could deliver different expressions. So good watching them together.



Music 10

Love ALL the OSTs

Too bad not duet, each only sings their own song.



Rewatch Value 10

To be honest, because it's a generally simple storyline, not overly long, not overly dramatical and not tears drenching, it is trully rewatchable. Drama Goodbye My Princess, who's dare to rewatch? Me no. I need almost a year to forget the tragic ending. Also Rises of Phoenix, what a "brutal" ending. No rewatch. Lol.



I should add other scores:

1. Biased: 10 (fan of the actor and actress)

2. Adaption: 7 (to be honest, if the novel to be adapted, it might need 100 episodes and i don't think it's would even getting far and far away from genre idol drama, coz too many "strategies". lol)

3. Ending: 10 (THEY BETTER MAKE IT HAPPY)

4. Costume: 10 (because they retain the crucial points of make ups, clothing, background, etc during Ming dynasty).

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Consistent and Lovely

Cannot really review this drama from a objective point of view, but for sure I love this drama because of:

1. It retains chinese culture (brocade, silk) and eastern style wisdoms, Beautiful.
2. I love the main lead actors TSY and ZYC (oh, this is so biased, lol).
3. Ji Yingying and Yang Jinglan both characters in this drama are very good, can be said emotionally stable, not trying to be cute, spoiled or domineering, just be themselves while also considering others.
4. The highlight of the story is easy to predict, but some details are interesting enough to watch, enjoyable.
I mean, this is not the elaborate story of Ming Lan or Nirvana In Fire... come on.
5. So far (ep 23) I think it's safe to watch all ages (there are killing scenes but not sadist or brutal, and kissing/romance scenes also so far still ... safe.).
6. Novel version is good, happy ending.

The only minus is no OST of ZYC and TSY singing together while we know both could sing ...

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The Story:

JYY: (female lead)
- Talented girl, helpful, brave, has a knack of trading and negotiation skills too
1. inherited her father's skill of dying silk
2. clean her father's name from false accusation
3. clean the silk business from corrupted officials
4, sell her dyed silks to all over the world

YJL: (male lead)
- High martial skils, love JYY as she is.
1. Justice for his master that had been killed by corrupted officials
2. Clean the silk business from corrupted officials
3. Support and protect his loved on JYY

Other villains:
1. very corrupted offiicials Niu Jin
2. psycho ex-lover Zhao Xiuyuan
3. a-bit-good-but-quite-evil Prince Bai from enemy state.

Conclusions:
I have no complaints so far, because this drama is enjoyable, the judgements made by the main leads to overcome situations are all OK, pretty much a good example for all.

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Story of Ning Meng

Ning Meng's Character analysis:
come from loving family, hard worker, cheerful.

Childhood:
wanna be investor because her father business went bad.

College era:
took finance major, a clever student, confessed love to classmate but got rejected, never date anyone ever since.

Graduated:
applied at Joint investment division but ended up as secretary of investment owner/director. Learn a lot from this perfectionist/bossy/arrogant boss about investment, found out this company was not her place to got what she want.

3 Years after working at Joint co, got job at Eaglestone co, got a very kind boss, join a project with her former boss company as representative, the love feelings started develop as she found out her boss is actually good to her:
- start to realize her feelings to her ex boss

- broken hearted seeing her boss already got someone he loved (her ex boss later realized his feelings are actually for Ning Meng but kinda too late)

- accepted her previously rejected her classmate, date this classmate, rejected love confession from her soon-to-bankrupt ex-boss, realized her classmate is psycho but try to go on, kept contact with her now-bankrupt ex-boss (nothing happen between this two 'professional' people), but being hardly slapped by this psycho thought she was cheating and break up.

- her career rocketed since she got out from Joint co to Eaglestone co, because she is smart, got learn many things from ex boss, got good new boss to give her opportunities, she is also hard worker, also kind to everyone and willing to help them.

- "chased" her now-"poverty stricken"-ex boss, resigned from her position as director company, helped him rebuild new company again, sent all criminals that ever "bully" her ex-boss to jail, succeeded, then got proposed by her ex boss.

Conclusion:
1. Hard work and stick on your dream will definitely come true.
2. Be kind, there are many people out there still understand kindness and repaying kindness.
3. To have loved ones support you, cheer you up, when you're down is important.
4. Career or love? Both can!

The End.

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