mimi0108
This review may contain spoilers
An entertaining drama that suffers from uneven writing in the second part.
I just finished this drama and I'm mitigated.
[NO SPOILER]
The good:
The story is cute, not too dramatic and go quickly without dragging too long. Couples and servants are cute, funny and endearing.
Each "nice" character has their own unique personality which makes them believable.
The couples have a lot of chemistry and share a lot of scenes. The second couple is definitely one of the most interesting, cute, and well-built side couples I've seen in a Chinese drama. They even have more romantic scenes than the main couple. Which is good for them but sad for the main couple.
Neither good nor bad:
Like a lot of Chinese dramas, the editing is not great and there are a lot of things that seem to have been cut but it works if we think it saves us time. This avoids staying too much on things that are not really useful.
The bad:
But the main issue, for me, is the motivation of the villains, the lack of credibility of the context and the lack of confidence in the main couple.
[SPOILERS]
Let's start with the couple:
The progress of the love story was fine until episode 18. From there, apart from a few cute scenes, the romance stagnate or even regress. It's a shame to have 22 episodes of them married only to, in the end, see them so little really act as husband and wife and overcome obstacles as a couple.
In this, the second couple is much more credible in their romance. We see them getting to know each other, falling in love and then being a couple in adversity. It is a pity that the main couple is not entitled to this.
I liked the FL a lot in the first half of the drama. But from the moment she marries ML, the writing of the FL becomes catastrophic. She was portrayed as loyal, eager to believe the best in those around her and with some intelligence. But the writers seem to have forgotten this.
After the death of her master, she does not try to investigate any further nor does she give a chance to the man she loves to explain himself. She declares him guilty and organizes his assassination (which could have her whole family killed). Throughout the second half the ML will not stop declaring his love for his wife, defing his father, risking his career and his life for her. However, she will not stop imagining the worst of him, without giving him a chance, without trusting him. To see a FL continue to believe the worst of the man she claims to love, showing that she doesn't know him at all and doesn't trust him, 3 episodes before the end of the drama is a worry. This couple does not seem strong. How to believe in their future if the heroine doubts him to the end and only realizes her error when the villains come to confess to her?
If I love a man, I have to be confident in his personality, know what he would do or not do, want to give him a chance to prove to me that he is a good man. I do not declare him guilty at the slightest problem and call his servants liars (while they tell me the truth and I know they are good people).
From the start her master tells her to beware of Duke An but she never seems to suspect him while he is very strange, secretive and he agrees without problem to help her murder his nephew.
So I admit I'm a little frustrating about this kind of thing. It is difficult for me to believe in this couple if the FL imagines, after all that they have lived, that her husband is able to have her father killed.
Credibility:
The ML is the target of at least 10 assassination attempts throughout the series, yet his father does not seem more concerned than that. The emperor has no personality/intellect of his own other than following what each of his interlocutors tells him to do.
The villains:
FL's two childhood friends are arguably the most stupid, illogical villains ever. One blames her best friend for... what? Wanting to protect her sister from a criminal!
And the other is angry with a little boy for spilling a candle.
It makes zero sense. Their actions after that are so vicious, devoid of logic and coherence that it's easier to tell yourself that it's 2 terrible lonely people who love to hate than to believe what the script is trying to sale us.
Conclusion:
The beginning was promising despite a few flaws but the second part became redundant, lacking in originality and character development, a little boring even (I put forward several passages) and frustrating by the lack of communication of the main couple as well than by the lack of investigation on their part to find out who their enemy is.
[NO SPOILER]
The good:
The story is cute, not too dramatic and go quickly without dragging too long. Couples and servants are cute, funny and endearing.
Each "nice" character has their own unique personality which makes them believable.
The couples have a lot of chemistry and share a lot of scenes. The second couple is definitely one of the most interesting, cute, and well-built side couples I've seen in a Chinese drama. They even have more romantic scenes than the main couple. Which is good for them but sad for the main couple.
Neither good nor bad:
Like a lot of Chinese dramas, the editing is not great and there are a lot of things that seem to have been cut but it works if we think it saves us time. This avoids staying too much on things that are not really useful.
The bad:
But the main issue, for me, is the motivation of the villains, the lack of credibility of the context and the lack of confidence in the main couple.
[SPOILERS]
Let's start with the couple:
The progress of the love story was fine until episode 18. From there, apart from a few cute scenes, the romance stagnate or even regress. It's a shame to have 22 episodes of them married only to, in the end, see them so little really act as husband and wife and overcome obstacles as a couple.
In this, the second couple is much more credible in their romance. We see them getting to know each other, falling in love and then being a couple in adversity. It is a pity that the main couple is not entitled to this.
I liked the FL a lot in the first half of the drama. But from the moment she marries ML, the writing of the FL becomes catastrophic. She was portrayed as loyal, eager to believe the best in those around her and with some intelligence. But the writers seem to have forgotten this.
After the death of her master, she does not try to investigate any further nor does she give a chance to the man she loves to explain himself. She declares him guilty and organizes his assassination (which could have her whole family killed). Throughout the second half the ML will not stop declaring his love for his wife, defing his father, risking his career and his life for her. However, she will not stop imagining the worst of him, without giving him a chance, without trusting him. To see a FL continue to believe the worst of the man she claims to love, showing that she doesn't know him at all and doesn't trust him, 3 episodes before the end of the drama is a worry. This couple does not seem strong. How to believe in their future if the heroine doubts him to the end and only realizes her error when the villains come to confess to her?
If I love a man, I have to be confident in his personality, know what he would do or not do, want to give him a chance to prove to me that he is a good man. I do not declare him guilty at the slightest problem and call his servants liars (while they tell me the truth and I know they are good people).
From the start her master tells her to beware of Duke An but she never seems to suspect him while he is very strange, secretive and he agrees without problem to help her murder his nephew.
So I admit I'm a little frustrating about this kind of thing. It is difficult for me to believe in this couple if the FL imagines, after all that they have lived, that her husband is able to have her father killed.
Credibility:
The ML is the target of at least 10 assassination attempts throughout the series, yet his father does not seem more concerned than that. The emperor has no personality/intellect of his own other than following what each of his interlocutors tells him to do.
The villains:
FL's two childhood friends are arguably the most stupid, illogical villains ever. One blames her best friend for... what? Wanting to protect her sister from a criminal!
And the other is angry with a little boy for spilling a candle.
It makes zero sense. Their actions after that are so vicious, devoid of logic and coherence that it's easier to tell yourself that it's 2 terrible lonely people who love to hate than to believe what the script is trying to sale us.
Conclusion:
The beginning was promising despite a few flaws but the second part became redundant, lacking in originality and character development, a little boring even (I put forward several passages) and frustrating by the lack of communication of the main couple as well than by the lack of investigation on their part to find out who their enemy is.
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