Autumn ballad is one of lately popular genres of palace detective historical series.

The Heroine is a smart girl , able to solve the crime like Sherlock Holmes in ancient China.
She then meets our Smart Hero on her journey, sparks fly due to her sharp intellect and the rest is history.

I love that kind of story since Maiden Holmes , so I came to watch Autumn Ballad.

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The Beginning episodes are not bad , which start with the case of our Heroine,Qiu Yan's bethroned death on their wedding day.
The resistance of the heroine who refused to die for a husband ,whom she didn't know and hadn't properly wed yet , is admirable.

But my problem with the drama actually starts after that case had been solved and she came back home .

We are indroduced to many members of Qiu family as supporting characters ,but none of them particularly stands out as an individual , they are described as either selfish or
self-orientated to make the Heroine shine in comparison in drama fashion.

Among them, one particular supporting character is Qiu Min, Heroine step sister.
Qiu Min seems to be jealous of Qiu Yan for her talent and also her biological mom's love for Qiu Yan.

To make the Heroine unique, the story made her fallen in love with other man ,Qin Xuan rather than ML ,Liang Yi at the beginning of story. Coincidentally, Qiu Min also fell in love with that Qin Xuan.

When misfortunes fell upon Qiu family, Qiu Yan broke up with Qin Xuan. ( Not real break up at that time )
The story should be like Qiu Yan broke up with him under difficult circumstances and fell in love with Liang Yi due to their closeness in solving Qiu family case. Simple and Modernized , right ?

But they make Qiu Min dirty again.
They made her rob Qin Xuan ( after she got raped ) from Qiu Yan , so QY had no choice , but to cut QX ( for real this time) and got close to LY , to present QY as a loyal woman ,not as a woman who had change of heart.
(Another problem of mine with chinese dramas .
Why does rape victim suddenly go bad and turn into villain mood ? Also in Prince of Liang Lin )

I mean there are individuals among society, some are strong like Qiu Yan while others can be weak like Qiu Min.
Qiu Min may be unpleasant cause she is a hypocrite, but there is no way to make her dirty to the end ,to make the Heroine shine.


Also I heard the main villain who made all of these happened, wasn't punished either at the end of the story.

Where can I find my satisfaction ?


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I mean I understand it needs a villain to make a hero.
But as a drama which wants to be orientated around a smart female lead and writes about feminism, they make QM totally terrible.

If they are business models who need to be compared for god's sake , I understand.

But it is the two females.
I feel bad for the actress who plays as QM actually.