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Random thoughts on 贵女:

The Mystery of the Eldest Daughter
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In a rebirth story, she would definitely be the earlier version of the FL. Interestingly, so far this series has removed the rebirth element (which was in the original novel) but there are questions:
- why is the ML's daughter 5 yo when his wife died after 2 yrs?
- why do we never see her full face?
- why are there almost no flashbacks to her and the ML's life together?
- why is her name not in the family register?

It is possible she and the FL are one and the same person. If so, this also makes the romance between the FL and ML much more acceptable. Otherwise, the ML is essentially a scheming widower with a child, who was once married to the FL's sister.

ML Actor
Previously only saw this guy in a few scenes in The Legend of Shen Li so moi didn't have any opinion on his acting. However, here, strictly speaking, his acting is not up to mark. The more episodes are out, the more obvious this gets. For example...
Scene 1: When the FL disrobed in front of him, his face is totally blank. His body doesn't move at all, he's just standing there. Wasted opportunity to show complexity/depth in the character.
Scene 2: When the FL tried to kill him the 3rd time, his face is also totally blank. Another wasted opportunity.
It's a pity as the actor is handsome and the character he plays is not boring.
 
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Expected new period dramas for Apr:

淮水竹亭 (Love in Pavilion)

Aka 狐妖小红娘竹业篇.

千香 (The Eternal Fragrance)


榜上佳婿 (Serendipity)


Let's see if these will indeed be out soon :grin:

Two new period dramas which just finished shooting:

长安二十四计 (The Vendetta of An)


梦花廷 (Chasing Dreams)
 

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Completed 贵女. This series is a solid four stars out of four stars. A dark female-centric revenge thriller. How did they slip this through the censors? Best C-period drama of the year so far. Highly recommended.

Much can be discussed but will keep this post short :o
 

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New period drama 千秋令 (Destiny and Saving) will be out on 8 Apr:





With Zhang Yu Xi. 40 episodes. Looks very B-grade and dated. Did a search and this series was actually shot in late-2021. No idea why it was shelved for so long.
 

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Completed 贵女. This series is a solid four stars out of four stars. A dark female-centric revenge thriller. How did they slip this through the censors? Best C-period drama of the year so far. Highly recommended.

Much can be discussed but will keep this post short :o
hehe Ah zhi the cutest liao :) no horse run :)
 

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First trailer for new Cheng Yi period drama 赴山海 (Go to the Mountains and Sea):

穿书+武侠

First trailer for new period romance drama 榜上佳婿 (Serendipity):

With Lu Yu Xiao
 
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以美之名 quite nice. Although the theme is about plastic surgery but the stories about individuals seeking plastic surgery are well written.
 

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First trailer for new Cheng Yi period drama 赴山海 (Go to the Mountains and Sea):

穿书+武侠

First trailer for new period romance drama 榜上佳婿 (Serendipity):

With Lu Yu Xiao

The transmigration drama moi waiting for ish 书卷一梦 (A dream within a dream), tiagong coming out in June
From the trailer, 赴山海 have too many of those 'system UI' thingys inside the ancient world which ML can interact with, dont really fancy this type, kinda break the immersion of the ancient world. Dafeng for example, once ML transmigrated, there was no such modern elements inside other than the ML himself.

榜上佳婿 looks like a more serious period romance. Lu Yu Xiao looks absolutely gorgeous here. Her styling in Perfect Match was :(
 

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以美之名 quite nice. Although the theme is about plastic surgery but the stories about individuals seeking plastic surgery are well written.

I am watching this, but I dun quite like the FL2, she seems too weak to look like a doc, 气场不够
 

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The transmigration drama moi waiting for ish 书卷一梦 (A dream within a dream), tiagong coming out in June
From the trailer, 赴山海 have too many of those 'system UI' thingys inside the ancient world which ML can interact with, dont really fancy this type, kinda break the immersion of the ancient world. Dafeng for example, once ML transmigrated, there was no such modern elements inside other than the ML himself.

榜上佳婿 looks like a more serious period romance. Lu Yu Xiao looks absolutely gorgeous here. Her styling in Perfect Match was :(
Moi read that 书卷一梦 is tentatively scheduled for a summer release there, so maybe it will be out soon :o

The styling in Yu Zheng's dramas is always horrifically bad :s13:
 

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Randomly noticed that 永夜星河 just started showing on MediaCorpse last night:
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And of course 宁安如梦 has been on Channel U for a while...
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It's also shown as 命转皇后 so maybe they bought the TVB re-edited version.
 
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