The Lion's Secret (2021)

it is a very strange world

Imagine a place called China situated in a whatever continent . The people speaks mandarin practicing Chinese customs and yet this is not China. Every signage is in English but nobody speaks English. This is a totally strange strange world. It is more like a parallel world located in a distance galaxy 10 light years away.

There is a strange company called MOOYAN, Frankly to speak the script is full of flaw when dealing on engineering point of view. There is no way to calculate on using purely calculus to design an aircraft engine. Furthermore there is not a single paper drawing seen in every episode other than calculus . Nowdays in the modern world , there is a software to simulate the engine output based on every data input from the user. In every room there are lots of computers for the programmer to work with but why they still need to write down calculations on the board like back in school years or even before 1980s. The author really had a serious under exposure in engineering business where in this modern world everything had been purely automated. During an air craft engine test run I had a good laugh on myself. The scene located inside a corporate HQ building in a city central. It is a total bluff from reality. Do you know how dangerous it is to conduct a test in a dense urban location? If the engine exploded the whole building would collapse equivalent to a 100 TNT strength . I recalled a drama in year 2020 starring Chen xiang yu and Hu bing qing. the drama has a real pure engineering feel. Besides calculation there are simulations , mock ups and best of all paper drawing. It is more real life like . I would much more comfortable if the producer change their business nature into IT software company perhaps. It would much more forgiven for an engineering background personal.

In a location far far a away there is a place called BARZHEN . That place resembles in a small village in Thailand or maybe Laos tropical rainforest where we can encounter the weirdest population I ever seen in my life. There are people who can speak fluent Mandarin and surprisingly American / British English. Even a small local kid have the multilingual talent but one thing makes me wonder THEY DO NOT SPEAK THAI OR LAOS or whatever native language you could find. Over the village we also could find face look like an East Asian and half Caucasion. I could not see any tan skin which native to south east asian skin colour. The movie set itself is like a movie set taken straight from the theme park. It is so fake indeed. Why can't the set director spare more effort study the culture and the architecture of the designated location?

the final shooting location be in DAGON (if I had pronounce it correctly) There are so many major flaws here. First of all there is a quick scene shown the flag of Czech Republic but the geographical location the story describe I believe is somewhere in Russia. You could see a mixture of Cyrillic alphabet and Roman alphabet mix together. Even weird is the population speaks a mixture of English with Italian tone along American and British English. Maybe for Chinese population it does not make any difference for them but as a non Chinese person this contrast is quite striking to me. I believe the scenes is not really shot on any European cities. I would believe it is shot somewhere in Harbin during winter season.

By conclusion this drama had full of flaw in both geographical and culture so to speak. Without doing in-depth study on foreign culture would resulting a numbers of errors appear on the story itself. Overall I do not impress with whole series of episode and I would spend any effort to praise for their effort. My advise to the drama producers, DO WUXIA DRAMA INSTEAD ! it is much more exciting and you would not going to face those common errors happen to this drama again.

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There some mystery, good action, bits of humor. Overall good blend. ML was very entertaining and kept me curious about what he’d do next. The Fl character was smart but her behavior toward the ML annoyed me too long. Not a rewatch for me. Had potential. I watched up-to episode 24 then got a bit frustrated. So first, if you’re in it for romance keep moving. There’s a marriage but it’s a bit coldnesss from one side almost to the very end, well past ep 24. Too long for me

Acting was good
Plot was definitely different
Romance aspects not so great
Chemistry was occasionally present

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Just Don't!

Oh dear what to say. Everything about this just stinks! Bizarre plot lines based on ml and fl childhood pasts, his stint in a security force, her business.
Just know who the villain will turn out to be pretty early on. The ml and fl relationship is noncommunicative and based on his childhood love for her which is flimsy to say the least. Plus with his ptsd and lack of self worth what sense does it make that he believes he can protect her in a marriage where they meet on the wedding day!!!Most of her loved ones incl ml lie to her in one way or another- all in her best interests of course! Incl loving, dying granny!
Ml is just aggravating in how he acts around her for most of the series - do not find his behaviour endearing nor his facial expressions attractive. She is a cold fish and its hard to see anyone warming to her. She was only appealing with her ex who left her in the typical dont explain but come back once he had proved himself scenario - actually i did prefer him to the ml!
After dragging out the business plot in ever more bizarre ways whole thing relocates to scene of his past for evermore ludicrous scenarios. Once back home and thinking it was the last episode witnessed a horrendous birthday party to expose his true feelings - what? Why? As if there was any need. I would have been angry beyond words.
So to my horror another 5 episodes to reveal all.Sorry that party was the last straw for me after fast forwarding for so much of this series as it was. I feel no interest or love for any if the characters and cant be bothered to see the predictable conclusion.
Most disconnected, ill thought out premise and plot lines with unappealling characters and nonsensical scenarios its ever been my mistake to watch! Rrally dint waste your time!

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Really Like this Series

I found out about this title because I really am not a fan of cdramas and the way the cinderella always comes off as a helpless little girl. The little girl act, I assume is preferred by those in the country, is kind of creepy. So I don't watch them at all. The male leads are always better to me. I researched to find some more mature Cdramas because I didn't want to just give up and this is the first series out of the list that I started watching. That was 16 hours ago and now I am on episode 14.
I really like this series, I like the two male leads. I think both of them are extremely handsome with great characters. I actually think Liu Qing is the more handsome because I really like his personality, always smiling though he hides so much pain. Of the two female leads, I didn't like Wan Qing at all. You told your father to pick any husband then you complained about the husband he picked. But as she softened more to her husband, her personality began to grow on me. I don't like JunDie, she's aggravating. She looks like a started puppy and acts like one. I think what I don't like most is she behaves like the cinderella that thinks she is tough but probably gets beat up all the time, especially by life. Seriously don't like her character.
Will update this review as I complete the series.

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