I didn't expect myself to be too captivated by the performance of Uyghur actress, Dilraba Dilmurat. Her name's obviously not Chinese and she's from an ethnic minority. I tend to joke how Dilraba, not Naomi Scott, should've played Princess Jasmine in the Aladdin movie. I tend to joke Naomi herself should've been playing the Goddess Guanyin in Journey to the West instead. I always thought of Dilraba as an, "She can do it, she's fine." actress. It's pretty much how I treat some South Korean celebrities who can act but can't act that well. I think Dilraba still did a good job overall in her role as Di Ziyuan who later calls herself Ren Anle.
I wonder if having sole survivors of a family is really a cliche in Wuxia drama. The last I remembered that was in the show Princess Weiyoung. Ziyuan was the sole survivor of a wrongful accusation. Like WTF was the emperor thinking of an entire family out of spite rather than just finding the culprit? Yeah, you know typical neurosis in imperial families and the quest to wipe out traitors' blood. The Di family suffers based on some malicious accusation made by a woman (spoiler territory). Fortunately, Ziyuan (or Anle) is also a woman who goes out there to find that malicious woman who orchestrated the murder.
Gong Jun plays as Crown Prince Han Ye. He and Anle develop feelings for each other with enmity in the family. Can Han Ye truly cast aside stupid family traditions for the woman he loves? The journey can be so full of unraveled mysteries, especially with the Han family. Can you truly go against your own family if they did something so malicious? Han Ye himself engages in a family feud all over a woman he falls for.
The series is hard to talk about without Spoiler Territory. I do find every mystery to be either not-so-surprising (such as a wicked old hag within the family). It's not as good as the novels by the late Jin Yong. Meanwhile, it was fun to see what Dilraba could do and she does it well. Not that good but still entertaining in a way.
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