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So much potential and yet...
I got pulled by the ratings but wasn't convinced at all by this drama.
Maybe as a filler no-brainer drama this does the trick.
The concept was really appealing, no palace intrigue, a pirate king and a super-heroin wannabe, there was so much potential to do something new there... but no.
I was on the fence about the FL at first but by the end of the drama I gave up on her. Her character is so poorly written, it's borderline split personality. She's supposed to be brave, clever, heroic and yet she ends up acting like a child, throwing tantrums and being over the top "cute" to manipulate the ML. Why couldn't she be like Chu Jie, a bit cold but at least with some maturity and consistency? Her skills are all over the place too, she's clueless in combat, next scene she fights with a sword and then again clueless and easily captured.
I agree with other reviewers that poor ML is carrying the entire story. The actor is doing a great job and it's like the same amount of effort was put in writing his character as it was the entire rest of the cast combined. Supporting characters were either cruelly unexplored or cliché after cliché.
The pace of the romance development is very off and all over the place. From hate to love very abruptly is one thing but later in the episodes they go back to bickering, wooing / hard to get as if they just met while they already confessed and are already married!
Plot-wise, all over the place again. There is like 2 subplots and it feels like a second season starting episode 15. It would have been better to drop the subplot with Zhao Yuan Ming and keep a more cohesive story.
I started ignoring all plot holes otherwise that would have been unwatchable, a lot of actions and events make no sense and their outcome even less.
I've seen warnings about the drama being low budget, I usually don't care, costumes and decors were fine. However they really should have saved the money for proper editors and sound technicians, instead of spending it on useless CGIed wolves.
The OST is very forgetable.
If you're looking for a good historical, non palace drama, with bandit boss ML and smart capable FL, with a hate to love and forced marriage romance, I highly recommend Cinderella Chef instead, which does all that much better than the Romance of Hua Rong.
Maybe as a filler no-brainer drama this does the trick.
The concept was really appealing, no palace intrigue, a pirate king and a super-heroin wannabe, there was so much potential to do something new there... but no.
I was on the fence about the FL at first but by the end of the drama I gave up on her. Her character is so poorly written, it's borderline split personality. She's supposed to be brave, clever, heroic and yet she ends up acting like a child, throwing tantrums and being over the top "cute" to manipulate the ML. Why couldn't she be like Chu Jie, a bit cold but at least with some maturity and consistency? Her skills are all over the place too, she's clueless in combat, next scene she fights with a sword and then again clueless and easily captured.
I agree with other reviewers that poor ML is carrying the entire story. The actor is doing a great job and it's like the same amount of effort was put in writing his character as it was the entire rest of the cast combined. Supporting characters were either cruelly unexplored or cliché after cliché.
The pace of the romance development is very off and all over the place. From hate to love very abruptly is one thing but later in the episodes they go back to bickering, wooing / hard to get as if they just met while they already confessed and are already married!
Plot-wise, all over the place again. There is like 2 subplots and it feels like a second season starting episode 15. It would have been better to drop the subplot with Zhao Yuan Ming and keep a more cohesive story.
I started ignoring all plot holes otherwise that would have been unwatchable, a lot of actions and events make no sense and their outcome even less.
I've seen warnings about the drama being low budget, I usually don't care, costumes and decors were fine. However they really should have saved the money for proper editors and sound technicians, instead of spending it on useless CGIed wolves.
The OST is very forgetable.
If you're looking for a good historical, non palace drama, with bandit boss ML and smart capable FL, with a hate to love and forced marriage romance, I highly recommend Cinderella Chef instead, which does all that much better than the Romance of Hua Rong.
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