What’s wrong with my princess? (mini drama, review)

General Murong Qiu Yu was infatuated with the second prince Li Mo, she aided him in seizing the throne. However, Li Mo and her sister Murong Xin Er betrays and kills her. But the gods are merciful and she is reborn; Qiu Yu found herself back on her wedding night with the seventh prince, Li Jian. Qiu Yu decided to join forces with Li Mo’s rival, Li Jian, to ensure that Murong Xin Er and Li Mo face the punishment they deserve

What drew me to watch this?

Found this short drama through a random search and am enjoying it immensely. Each episode is 10 minutes. I would have preferred it to be 30-minute long so that I don’t have to repeatedly watch the opening theme song 😆

The premise caught me immediately. Everyone wants a do-over, a second chance, especially after you’ve effed up so majorly in your life that you were betrayed by people whom you thought loved you.

What I like about the show

• The acting was quite good, not Zhang Yi Mou material, but good enough not to distract me.
• The sets were not the best. But it wasn’t flimsy or cheap.
• The premise was great though I felt the prince trusted her too quickly.
• The show demonstrates that you really do not need 40 over episodes to tell a good story! The tone is largely serious but there were some comedic moments, like when our main couple realised that they have started to like each other but our Murong was just too clueless to get Li Jian’s advances!

What I didn’t like about the show

• I felt that our heroine succeeded too easily and I waited for the inevitable middle arc where she will fail only to rise up again … only, well, she outwitted them all because of her knowledge from her previous life. But hey, that’s what makes it satisfying.
• The world also don’t seem well fleshed out. The world felt very “small”, more like a fiefdom than a kingdom.
• I had a hard time believing that Murong was such a capable general. They never really showed that part of her, but instead highlighted her as a wife, daughter, sister and daughter.
• The characters the villains were nothing really extraordinary. We do not know why the step sister is the way she is, nor why the second prince wanted to kill his brother. (I’m just assuming it’s the usual, “I want to be crown prince” motivation.) But having too much sympathy for the villains of a revenge drama is probably counter-productive! That said, the actors for the villains acted their socks off and was quite despicable, which made their ends satisfying. I felt a smidgen of sympathy with the ruthless way one of them was dispatched.

Rating: 7.5

This is a tightly written story and the quality of the production isn’t bad at all. A satisfying revenge drama! 😁
You can watch the series on Youtube, condensed into a 3-hour movie.