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USUAL PALACE POLITICS AND A PAIR OF SHAMELESS ALDULTERERS

THE STORY IS ABOUT THE ALDULTERER AKA GREEDY MAN N THE ALDULTERESS, THE GREEDY MAN I BELIEVED HE IS THE ONE WHO SCHEME N PLAN TO DISPOSE THE CROWN PRINCE . SO HE USED THE DOWAGER TO FULFIL HIS PLAN TO PUT HIS DAUGHTER IN THE CROWN PRINCESS POSITION SO THAT HE CAN TAKE OVER THE THRONE AND ALSO THE EMPRESS FATHER WHO ALSO WANTS THE THRONE SO THEY PLOT N PLOT. WATCHING THE 2 ALDULTER COUPLE MAKES ME ANGRY. BUT SINCE THIS IS THE
BACKGROUND OF THE STORY NO CHOICE. THEY ARE BOTH SO SHAMELESS , DONNO WHY IF THE ARMY IS ALREADY OUTSIDE THEY CANNOT DO ANYTHING TO GET BOTH OF THEM PUNISHED. SOME DRAMA JUST DONT HAVE LOGIC.

THE DOWAGER ACTS LIKE SHE CAN GIVE UP THE THRONE BUT THE GREEDY MAN CONTROL HER N DO ALL THE WICKED THINGS.

NOT SURE HOW IT ENDS BECOS ONLY CAN SEE UNTIL EPS 5 NOW .

THINK HIS DAUGHTER WILL BETRAY HIM IN THE END .
ALL THESE STORIES SOUND SIMILIAR . JUST WATCH BECOS I DO NOT PAY FOR THE SUB ONLY WATCH FREE ONE. I NEED TO WAIT UNTIL THE EPS IS OPEN FOR FREE THEN I CAN WATCH.

ALSO WATCH SOME SHOWS BY UTUBE . OR DRAMA APPS.

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Illogical plot and overwhelming cringe

The initial idea seemed brilliant. Fake it till you make it, right? I was really curious how they will present a transformation from a fake to a real relationship. I instantly liked the actors too. But the loopholes in the plot killed me. ML has the other guy's email address and writes to him... That he wants to meet up? Just that? Instead of describing his intentions, he causes a totally cringy misunderstanding. OK, he made a mistake. Instead of correcting that mistake and explaining the whole matter in another email message, he starts following the other guy, again, in a super cringy way. I like a comedy of errors, but these errors here were simply too easy to avoid. It's a pity, because the premise was interesting.

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I've watched "It started with a kiss" (older TW ver), "playful kiss" (KR ver) and planning to watch the Thai ver one soon too. I do not wish to compare between the different versions but since it's a remake, it's also hard for people not to compare between each version. Ariel Lin and Joe Cheng version was the most memorable version for my up to now. If you ask me about the Korean version, I couldn't even remember a scene other than the cast (why?) because there isn't much difference that made me impressed. So my comparison will be based on the two Taiwan versions

Story: Basically storyline doesn't have any much difference but I like it how this version has the comical like graphics to express some emotions. It makes the scenes cuter and hilarious.

Music: Have never doubted any member from 势在必行, all their song have never made me disappointed.

Acting/Cast:
Esther Wu - At first I really didn't want to watch this version the moment I saw that Esther Wu is the main role of the drama. She isn't the type of actress I would prefer and I believed that her acting skill will not be to my expectation esp when she will be compared to goddess Ariel Lin. But for Dino Lee, I decided to give it a go after 3 years. I was right, she indeed will be the reason if I want to drop this drama. I wouldn't say it's her acting that is bad, it's already better than what I expected but I just can't stand that she is forever pouting. Her hairstyle, her smile and the way she behaves, it just makes me feel that this 27 y/o girl is still living in 2009. Even if the drama needs her to look cute and pity, always pouting isn't the way to express it. I believed that without pouting, she still can easily pull it off with just expressing through her eyes. Pouting doesn't make it natural at all, look at ariel lin, which makes her legendary.

Dino Lee - As compared to other versions of Jiang Zhi Shu, Dino Lee gives off more warm and soft ver which I love it more because other versions of Jiang Zhi Shu is too hard to read even for viewers. Hence making this version a more romantic vibe as compared to other versions.

Gong Yi Teng/ Qiu Shi Lun - At first I was confused why there were two listings of him in the list of cast, then I realised that its because he changed his name. First exposure to his projects and was quite impressed by his looks and acting skills. But acting as Ah Jin, he could be better. He can improve more to the way he speaks cause I still feel that he is too soft to be in the character of Ah Jin. Probably his actual character doesn't act on impulse but Ah Jin is a character who acts on impulse and doesn't even think a bit.

Overall still okay. Will continue to watch the rest of the drama.

[updated]Sorry, after I watch till episode 15, I decided to drop the drama... I rather spend my time rewatching the old Taiwan version than this one. Really can't stand the way Esther wu speaks and act.

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DA VOMITARE, ho messo 1 solo perchè non c'è 0

Ho iniziato questa serie perchè tutte le recensioni erano da 10, a quanto pare era piaciuta un botto a tutti e ciò la rendeva qualcosa di promettente.
Ma già dal primo episodio mi è letteralmente scoppiata in faccia un’ondata di CRINGE, stavo per vomitare, gli atteggiamenti con cui ci provava con l’altro, la parola “baby” ripetuta trentamila volte, era tutto così dannatamente cringe.
Sono riuscita a esistere soltanto 3 episodi poi veramente mi ero sfracassata le palle dal cringe e dalla noia, sembrava una storia senza senso.
Per non parlare degli atteggiamenti di quella Pearl, mamma mia che cringe.
Data sta situazione sono andata di nuovo nelle recensioni per capire cosa ci fosse di bello in questa serie e ho trovato scritto che poi si sarebbero incontrati quasi alla fine della serie, lì allora mi è venuto il dubbio di cosa potesse mai succedere fino a quel momento e così mi sono messa a guardare giusto velocemente, quindi senza sapere cosa succedesse, gli episodi seguenti; ne ho skippati tanti e sono arrivata a scoprire che si sarebbero incontrati al 10° episodio allora lì ho guardato solo loro che si incontravano e cazzo che cringe.
Ho visto sti due che si guardavano con un sottofondo di una ballad e praticamente era una parodia di una di quelle scene da k-drama, peccato che faceva a dir poco schifo. Si so messi a piangere così alla bho, sono passata avanti senza neanche vedere cosa si dicevano e poi sono morta, letteralmente il tizio ha portato l'altro davanti un coso di plastica per abbracciarsi senza toccarsi e poi si sono baciati attraverso la plastica, lì sono scoppiata, mi sono messa a ridere come se non ci fosse stato un domani, stavo per piangere dal ridere. Non ci credevo che avessero fatto na cosa del genere, capisco il sottofondo del covid ma cazzo certo che questo era cringe, dannatamente assurdo. Sono morta.
Sono passata così alla seconda stagione (tutto questo dal terzo episodio in poi nel giro di una mezz'oretta, giusto per farvi capire come abbia skippato il tutto senza pietà) e la situazione sinceramente l’ho trovata leggermente migliorata, erano lo stesso così cringe e ho skippato molto ma vi giuro a una certa non ce l’ho fatta più perchè stesso al primo episodio entra un tizio a me sconosciuto nella videochiamata e pronuncia una delle frasi che cazzo non mi sarei mai aspettata…."baby boy”.......non ho parole, appena l’ha detto mi sono soffermata a pensare e ho chiuso tutto. Veramente lì non ce l’ho fatta per l’ultima volta perchè dio mio che cringe, non è normale ma poi il tono di voce. Da non parlare poi Pearl durante la serie che quando ho skippato l’ho trovata due volte ad urlare in videochiamata a quelli di riprendersi il loro baby, poi per non parlare di come fra di loro si chiamassero baby.
MI VIENE DA VOMITARE
È LA COSA PIÙ BRUTTA CHE ABBIA MAI VISTO
IL FATTO CHE ABBIA RESISTITO 3 EPISODI È GIÀ ASSURDO.

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Poor Acting and Tan Jianci and JuJingYi Resemblance

This could've been a good series if it wasn't for the poor acting by most of the actors. Except for the male lead actor. Yes i understand it's a mini series, usually played by newbies, but there are also mini series with good acting skills.
The story isn't that bad, typical reincarnation drama. However i noticed there are some scenes that suddenly jump forward. There are also boring scenes and dialogs that i had to skip. The plot is kinda predictable.

I have to say this btw.
The male lead actor looks like Tan JianCi (especially TJC as Xiang Liu) and the female lead looks like Ju JingYi. I'm pretty sure the producer noticed it and wanted them to be "TJC and JJY" ( judge from how they act and the FL excessive make up and hair accessories).
The male lead actor is good, although many times he's kinda copied TJC's acting gestures. The FL however, needs to improve her acting skill. I hope to see her in other drama with her real self, not as a resemblance of Ju Jingyi.

Overall the drama is good if you need to kill some times. It's short, light and has pretty faces. But if you wanna watch good quality drama, this won't be the choice

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Series begins very dramatically introducing a school built upon the grades divide. Well, I'm glad to have an education that never used this system and just always separated students into classes alphabetically. What we did have was 1 disabled (for ex. wheelchaired) student in each class. That way they always had enough people to help them around, they were included in all the activities, also the healthy kids were used to having them around. But this system reminds me of putting all the disabled people in one class. Teachers don't put real effor in helping any students to actually improve. Good or bad, their performance is already pre-judged by the class they belong to. In this particular school, they go even step further and the A students really act like superiors to the other students, even run a student court where they play a judge and sentence people to punishments, which looks ridiculous. There is a vigilante group calling themselves 'The Black Sheep' that makes various publicly visible statements about the system being wrong. What is kinda undermining it is the group actually consists of F class students. Because it's not just "dumb" students who should protest against this system.

Logically the actions like those of the 'The Black Sheep' would definitely have support of intelligent people, openly or secretly. Therefore the secret group should have unexpected mixture of members, maybe even including class A. But that would have to be in better drama than this one. This particular drama, I wouldn't even be proud of being A class, as it looks like aside the best grades it requires also the best "behavior": including being active in school organizing and doing inspection (or plain snitching) on other students. Not every good student is necessarily like that. On the other hand, class F should have no person capable thinking of any strategies for 'The Black Sheep' else they wouldn't have the problem with doing homework and getting at least a bit better grades than the lowest in the whole school. In short "Black Sheep = Class F" doesn't make sense from any angle.

In this drama, the unexpected element is supposed to be provided by a former A class student who got expelled into a class F. Because she cheated on her test. I hardly found her a sympathy winning heroine. If the school had the class A - F determined on a student's abilities, then if she was not able to pass her test without CHEATING I couldn't help but agree with her failing the A class (personally I didn't understand why she bothered as in such school, I would not want to be neither A nor F). As the cheating got her minus points that were worse than any grade she could achieve without it, she moved as low as to F class where she met the members of 'The Black Sheep' (practically found about their identity immediatelly). They were supposed to be the lowest intelligence students but seemed smart enough. But obviously not enough for the drama having a smarter script.

What we get to learn about the main character is that she previously had sacrificed FRIENDSHIP in order to stay in her A class fellows good graces. Moving into a class F, she is offered her way back into class A (though they tell her that it "still won't be easy", so it's not even assured) if she snitches on them being 'The Black Sheep' (as the director suspects class F above anyone else). She is able to spy on their "secret meetings" very easily. It's really inconsistent whether 'The Black Sheep' are stupid or smart. And it seems this drama doesn't NEED to make sense, it's just there to feature the BNK48 girls (I don't know that group, but I remember coming across a movie "Thibaan x BNK48 (2020)" which I haven't even as much as finished watching). I think the leading girl has a good potential though, sadly I don't mean the leader of 'The Black Sheep', who cannot act, so that also brings their fight for justice down. LOL.

Mond is cute, but one cannot fathom what he is doing there.

Luckilly the characters seem to progress more towards friendship, which SHOULD be important, of course. Especially because students of this school are really pitiful, as each class must live in their own dormitory. Meaning you must live only with people having the same grades as you...

Third episode, I started zoning out. So I dropped this.

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Boring

Story started with a good note that is a family got allegations to kill the princess so whole family had been order to executed. . somehow a girl had saved .then the girl had married to a prince so that she could clear her family name from those allegations and give them justice .
The prince was actually a girl but when she married at that time she didn't know.. Till 6th episode his true identity was not revealed I can't bear the story so dropping it. It was getting bored.
I liked first female lead ,her acting was good but it was nota fault of other actors they were doing their best . Script and direction was not good.

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Very good show, acting is good, drama is there but not overpowering

Very good show, acting is good, drama is there but not overpowering.
Very good show, acting is good, drama is there but not overpowering
Very good show, acting is good, drama is there but not overpowering
Very good show, acting is good, drama is there but not overpowering
Very good show, acting is good, drama is there but not overpowering
Very good show, acting is good, drama is there but not overpowering
Very good show, acting is good, drama is there but not overpowering
Very good show, acting is good, drama is there but not overpowering
Very good show, acting is good, drama is there but not overpowering
Very good show, acting is good, drama is there but not overpowering

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amazing story pace and visuals

*the music, won't say much very beautiful .the artists dropped ????
*story well written, nice pace , feel like there are some easter eggs tobe found once you re-watch
actors ... great!!!
Xiao Zhan, Wang Churang stunning and charismatic as usual, Limingde...the best , Renmin very good for her first major work?....
*the angst?, not unnecessary for the story at all, everything is tied in ......one of the dramas where I genuinely teared up when the ML started weeping.
*Visuals and colour palette on point, not overly done , suits the story and plot.......after all it's not aupposed to be a high fantasy work.
*by the way Shi Ying's mother is the bosss?

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ZHANG RUOYUN!!!!!!

Before I say anything I would love to know if Zhang Ruoyun is actually a genius in real life. This is the third drama am watching him (After 1. Joy of Life 2. Sparrow) and he's still not disappointing. And why is he always a genius when I meet him. It's too early to review after just 4 episodes but 4/14 is a percentage and with such a drama every moment is worth it.

1. STORY
I wont say much because I don't want to spoil for the ones that haven't started. So I'll generalize and say it's a wonderful story in a wonderful world about a mathematical genius in those historic times. And so far so good on that part, no disappointment in the scripts. I wonder how rich he would have been if it was actually someone living among us in our current world with these betting stuff and lotteries. It's a story worth your time, so if you haven't, then better go ahead.

2. CAST
This part they really got me. Ruoyun(ML also in Joy of Life and Sparrow), sentiments aside, was the only best person to take on this role. He does it so well and as I said, he actually looks like the genius he plays. I wouldn't imagine anyone else in this role but maybe Yang Yang (ML in Who Rules the World) would have given it a meaning but in this case he can't beat Ruoyun.
Next perfect placing was the second ML(Also second ML in Lost in the Kunlun Mountains). I watched him last just recently and he's a top notch actor. He's always beside top talents 1. Xu Kai in 2022's Lost in the Kunlun Mountains 2. Zhang Ruoyun in 2016's Joy of Life. and now once again with Ruoyun for the second time am watching them together. He should quit acting acting and become a head of police or a huge business person (Lol, just joking, he has that face).
Over to Wu Gang who also am watching second time together with Ruoyun after Joy of Life. This 'old' man is a talent and he does so great as a villain. I wonder what he would look like if we met on the road. Scary? He reminds of Jin Mu in 2022's KDrama Alchemy of souls.
**This casting was so good and having such three high profile actors would be beneficial to any set-piece.**

MUSIC
The OST is great, not too much noise with vocals and personally I like it that way. The OST carries you into the episode and prepares your brain on what you're about to watch and the world you're about to enter. I liked the same from Princess Silver, Sparrow, Royal Nirvana, Nirvana in Fire, Game of Thrones, Westworld, HOTD and a few more(On the Hollywood side, not Asian), Martial Universe, Legend of the Phoenix, …
Not too much of SFX and it's great where used.

REWATCH VALUE
So far so good, the 4 episodes are rewatchable but early to determine if the rest will be up to standard which I hope they will be.

OVERALL
A must watch if you love historical dramas. Good acting and production. Good story. Let's meet when it ends. Happy watching till then.

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Difficult to say good or bad

I was so hype for this series,first reason is taynew comeback and 2nd it's adaptation of my favourite japnese novel cherry magic... I have already watched japnese version live adaptation and it soon become my favourite bl of all time ... In Thai version it's really difficult to say, bcz sometimes it blew my mind sometimes it looks so cringe I can't help but skipping so many scenes ... In Thai version Karan looks like he fall in love with achi just 1 day ago but in japanese version KUROSAWA looks like he loves adachi for so many years .. there are so many green flags character in BL Industry but we all know why people call Kurosawa green forest bcz his serious and pure thoughts about adachi is what makes his character unique and iconic from other green flag character... But In Thai version Karan looks like he recently fall in love with achi and whenever achi and Karan touch each other and achi reading karan's inner thought that scene looks so fake and weird why the hell people will touch another person for so long while giving weird expression at the same time it's creepy and abnormal behaviour plus Karan looks like pervert which is hungry for sexual desire ....new is doing great job with acting and side characters are good ... But I don't know why they made Thai version fake and cringe

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