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The Story of Ming Lan chinese drama review
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The Story of Ming Lan
1 people found this review helpful
by KoosKoos
May 31, 2020
78 of 78 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 10
Story 10.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 1.0
Rewatch Value 10.0
THIS STORY TOOK OVER MY LIFE. I've never felt so much distress and frustration and love all at once in any show. This is truly a SOAP OPERA. If you don't want a soap opera, then get out of here now! This isn't a martial arts, fantasy, or political drama. It is a soap opera with awesome humor. :)

My friend and I would literally gush while watching our two main leads together. We were shipping them so hard and later searched if they were dating. AND OMG THEY WERE ALREADY MARRIED IN REAL LIFE. Their chemistry on screen is from them being real life hubby and wifey T_______T

Everything is perfect except two things:
(1) the worst thing about this show is the weird music. Actually, it's the weird sound effects where I don't know if the scene is supposed to be serious or light? The sound effect becomes distracting.
(2) long conversations that could be shortened--the time spent on theses conversations could've been used on something better like giving us more scenes between our two leads.

Once I got used to the direction of the story, I started hitting the fast-forward button during the "screaming women" or "conniving women" scenes.
Funnily enough, our female lead's dad is the worst person in that world. Ambivalence really is quite despicable. Makes me question my own values now.
Our titular character doesn't become the main focus until like... episode 15? I don't remember when exactly, so expect that.

I look forward to RE-watching this in the future! :D Lol
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