The Twin Flower Legend (2020)

I’ll be completely honest. The acting, plot, scenery were good but the logic behind choices was crazy. The series started off great. You were able to see all of the cast members in there you and how they developed over time. There was a special bond that happened and there was action and intelligence shown in each of the cast members. They seem to work together well but something happened as they got older. Things just seemed to fall apart immediately. The trust was out the window, along with loyalty and friendship.

I continued watching this series because it is more historical drama with a few romantic aspects to it and it’s what I enjoy. However I was so frustrated with it. I get the whole point of having a second lead and I understand that developing second lead syndrome is very common however this one was so different. The female lead spent more time on the screen with a second lead and that includes living together, fighting against bad people together, him rescuing her and defending her.

The man leaves were together for a few episodes and then they were apart or any ternity, during that time see if someone developed a family with someone else although it was that romantic it was still a family but she was still hung up on the moving who she had very little time with him so little interaction. That is what I do not like about it. I’m not sure if the writers just tried to make the leads be together just because but the logic is nuts. It essentially just has the female lead acting like an infatuated women.
I suppose it would’ve been better if they had given the male and female lead more screen time together but instead that time was given to the second male lead and the main female lead which made you want them together and also feel their connection. Most of the time I was shaking my head at her.

I mean I know you can’t help who you love but the writers left human logic and emotion out of the script or maybe they just disregarded the competence of the viewer. We humans find it hard to not develop an inkling of feelings or emotions for an individual that we live with for three years, that we fight alongside and defended for three years, a person that cared for you, claimed you and would sacrifice all for you.

All this was done for for our female lead but she was like aaanh! I will repeat second lead seemed to get more screen time, have more interaction and greater chemistry but the writers decided on a ship that had no foundation.

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Heck that was BRUTAL

I remember how i started watching this, I just finished Oh! my sweet liar and wanted something new. I didn't even check what the drama was about, it had subs on Youtube and I was there lol. First thing I noticed was the drama is not cheap, the actors were beautiful, the costumes were extravagant and expensive. Secondly the story was well thought, but it became fairly brutal mentally to watch pretty soon. Not even like reaching 20 eps there was a rape scene, and it was so brutal. Don't keep faith on the characters, they will betray you. Amazing acting by the cast, I really liked Prince Yuerong, and still I would ship Hibiscus with him no buts. I hated Yuan Feibai from the start lmao, but I was kinda partial to him later on.

Someone in the Youtube comments said that he has eyes liked the Buddha (gg) and bruh I can't stop thinking about his eyes after that. It DOES look like the buddha's and that makes him look sacred. The actor of Non-white did a very good job doing double roles, amazing in fact that I actually thought they were two different people. I really liked Jinxiu as well, and I know the audience did as well. Do read the novel of this drama Mujin Hua Xi Yue Jin Xiu which would really give a lot of emphasis to the story. A girl in the youtube comments shed light onto some of the characters in the story after probs reading the novel, and boyyyy if you watch the drama after reading the novel, it would explain a lot of plot holes. There were weird stuff on feibai's part tbh, like some stuff he did was very suspicious.

The music of the drama is super good and beautiful, I really liked the OSTS. Overall an amazing drama to watch, it's not light comedy at all and has some insane plot twists and a secret hidden backstory with the novel.

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Mediocre Cast Selection and Chaotic Story Lines

Overall, the first episodes were the best until the main characters grew up. The only reason I wanted to enter my review is because I feel the cast selection and story development was annoyingly bad.
Mail Lead: Decent looking guy, but he should concentrate on modeling. His facial expressions and line delivery had very little range. I think they decided to select him because he was really tall and they thought it would translate as “heroic”. Epic fail.
Female Lead: “Smart” twin. She was actually okay. Much better actress.
Female Lead: “aggressive twin” who went bad. She was a decent actress but the character development and the twin’s relationship wasn’t believable. In some ways, I think the two leads should have had the opposite roles.
The other cast of note that did a good job and I feel like should have been the main male lead was the prince from the south, that helped the smart twin when she ran away and dressed as a woman to hide his identity as the prince. He was a much better actor and could have handled the main character role much better.
Other than cast, the big problem with the series was that the transitions were very abrupt- at first I thought that I had accidentally sat on the remote and fast forwarded by accident. So much so that I would rewind only to realize that it was just poor transitions.
Another big issue is that there would be one story line going along, then, suddenly, to a different story line. Then it was as if they forgot that story line until many episodes later. Currently, I’m trying to figure out what happened to the big burly character who came to help them fight a big battle. He didn’t want to leave his quiet seclusion, they convinced him to join them—— after the battle I am still waiting to see if he went home to his wife or he’s wandering somewhere in the desert having been left there by his “friends”, the MAIN main characters……
I always finish a series, once I invest a few episodes, but the last 15 episodes have been really hard to stay interested in….

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I honestly lost after over 20 episodes. Only Kenny Kwan who dressed up as a female was the best actor and funny.
The story is very boring.

The writer could add some surprise .. The Twin met the Purple eyes Princes (Rosemallow met the Prince Kenny Kwan). She should act surprise, "Oh! My twin sister also has purple eyes like yours." This will sparkup the story. No, it just simply boring.

THen the twin males should be able to explain to the twin females that they had twin. But the writer made it a secret that these two men can't reveal they were twin.

Honestly Chinese dramas are made for low IQ audiences.

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I didn't finish, sorry.

Review for episodes 1 -10
Of course, I'm all about the romance and drama storyline. However, the storylines are dragging. I have fast-forwarded through a few parts. Now that I'm ten episodes in and there aren't any established romance storylines, it's losing my interest. However, some shady characters appear in every episode. They are enemies that you want to see brought to justice.

I'll update my review as the series continues. I hope I can get through 60 episodes.

Review for episodes 11 -19
We are coming to a full circle in the following 9 episodes by distinguishing the many romantic connections. The first 10 episodes were diluted with origin mystery and serious infatuations. The characters seem to narrow down their doubtful love interests and began by confessing or staying quite for the next person to exercise their right to pursue the same love interest. There is plenty of action and revenge that is actually satisfying. The writing is good and the language is risky as for as innuendos, but no obscenity. The action comes back in battles for days. You'll like that some characters reveal their true intentions.

Review for episodes 20 - 26
Now, we are back to having doubts about everyone's choices and their decision for love or revenge. Characters that you want to like leave and those that annoy stay. The cutest character is the 4th prince. He reminds me of a cute puppy. Other than that I skipped a good bit of the scenes because the storylines were too obvious. An old character returns and finds a rival for the Lord's affection. There are two unexpected marriages. One marriage was sweet and organically connected and the other isn't and pitiful to watch. While our leading lady is now dressed like a man and her new love interest a woman, they are on the run with a bundle in hand.


Okay, it drags through to episode 41. I found my life slipping away while watching the series and I don't think I'll be able to take the ending.

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This is a Tough One

I have to say I agree with previous reviews. This drama is really hard to swallow. It starts off well with a simple premise. Then it gets absurdly complicated. You can feel the desperation of this drama to be epic but the director did not know what they were doing.

So many cast members, how ridiculous. I say this after watching Snow Tower and Lost Love in Times. I did not think anyone could beat those dramas on extra cast members but this drama certainly did. You could feel the money go down the drain. The acting out of the gate is bad. FL "genius" is terrible and then becomes annoying because she is so freaking terrible. You just want her to stop. She has moments of glory but it doesn't match her overall character. This is the director's fault, they saw how bad she was but kept filming without coaching. ML has no connection to anyone not even playing two faces. He doesn't work at all. He's totally overshadowed by the second leads. FL "purple eyes" kept us watching because she's good but not great but her story follows the usual cdrama plotlines and her interactions played well with other characters. You even forget about her eyes after awhile. She's why the audience stays.

I'm sure the studio regretted the money they poured into this because it does look expensive. Next time keep it simple. Beauty does NOT equate to acting skill. This is the lowest score I have ever given to a cdrama but it honestly deserves it because it's such a mess.

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The costumes are amazing ,the male lead is Hottttt!!! ,but for me it was rather messy this twin dual think going on didn’t work for me for both the female and male lead. The female lead makes you like her a lot and the show dims the twin sisters part she is sexually molested and all that and has difficulties whilst the other twin breezes through .

The male lead has twin who isn liked etc etc and the messy bit is both sisters like the same dude but here is the catch there are twins 2different male leads??‍♀️With the same face and sisters don’t like the same guy .....explaining is even more yahhh !!!!

I think that part was soo unnecessary caused confusion between the sisters it’s a miss for me and getting your head around the twin huhah no thanks sorry but I dropped it I think I’m going to give this a miss.

I tried watching a couple episodes to give it a chance yah it didn’t cut it

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