I don't think it needed to be 50 episodes, especially with the way they crammed everything together at the end. REWATCH VALUE: I don't think I would sit down and watch this drama again even if it was fully subbed because I felt like it was too long. Sometimes all you need are nice instrumentals to help carry the story of historical dramas and this was one of those cases. MUSIC: There were only a few ost songs played and they were decent, but most of the time traditional instrumentals were used. This was my first time seeing him in a drama and his performance left a good impression. At times I felt like he had more chemistry with Zheng Shuang than Ma Tian Yu, but it might've also been because he had more screen time with her. Steven Jiang played his part well as a royal and I liked how his character showed a different kind of love and affection for Yu Die. Overall I did enjoy seeing how their love story played out. Li Ma's character was different, in a sense that he seemed to feel unworthy of her love after learning about her birth secret even though he still loved her. What I did like about Yu Die though is that she was persistent with her love for Li Ma, even after becoming royalty. But they did look very cute together during their scenes. The characters would long for each other, but when they'd see each other, they would only hug and seemed a bit distant at times, which made me feel they had more a friend/sibling relationship rather than one of lovers. In this drama though, I wasn't able to get invested into the romantic relationship between their characters because most of the time they were separated. I believe they were in a previous drama together in the past as potential love interests, but I haven't watched it so I can't compare their performances. The way it ended was odd to me as well, I think they could've executed a better closing had they not crammed all the action to the final 10 episodes.ĪCTING/CAST: I love both Zheng Shuang and Ma Tian Yu and was excited to see them together as main leads, but I can honestly say that this wasn't a stand-out drama for either of them. I really wanted to like this drama, especially since I loved the cast, but that was not enough to hold my interest.
After so many episodes of the same thing, I started to lose interest and eventually stopped watching this drama for quite awhile before picking it up again. And of course a lot of cooking scenes which isn't helpful when you're hungry (lol). While I was interested in how/if her adoptive mother and her lover Li Ma would find her again, there was a lot of scheming both in the palace and at war between the rivaling countries that seemed to make up a good portion of the story. Through her experiences and after spending time at the palace with the royal prince, whom she had met before, she eventually comes to learn her true identity as a royal princess. The nice twist to this story is that Yu Die is a fantastic chef thanks to the talent of her adoptive mother and throughout the drama, she is cooking delicious food as she journeys through the country after an unfortunate event separates her from her adoptive family. The story itself was familiar, with a royal having a birth secret and living as a commoner since childhood, as well as having a childhood sweetheart. When I read the synopsis, I was under the impression that the marriage was going to happen sometime in the beginning or the middle of the story, and maybe show how she managed to thrive as a chef and survive living amongst the enemy, all while watching her first love fight to save her, but I was very wrong (lol). Everything seemed to get jumbled together in the final episodes which is something that I do not care for as a viewer, especially when I'm watching a drama that is 50 episodes long. I literally watched 40 episodes and the marriage still hadn't happened yet.
STORY: The synopsis, although it is correct, had me confused while watching because the marriage to the leader of the rivaling country does not happen until the last portion of the drama.
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If you're okay with that, then feel free to keep reading :) I had been waiting to watch this drama for a long time, but it was never subbed even up until now, so I ended up just watching it without them. Rewatch Value 2.0 Before I get into my review, please keep in mind that my thoughts about this drama are based on what I understood from the raw episodes and my knowledge of the language itself is limited.
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