Tong Ling Fei

When Qian Yunshang's marriage to Ye Youming is arranged by the emperor, she is terrified that the bad blood between their families will lead to her being treated miserably in the Ye household. Torn between duty and concern for his daughter, Qian Aotian devises a reckless plan. He summons his firstborn daughter—her existence unknown to all but his own family—to be the stand-in for her younger sister.

Due to her unusual powers, Qian Yun Xi was exiled by her family when she was a child. Deprived of filial affection, she made a life of her own amid the wilderness on Mt. Ling Yun. However, everything begins to change when she marries Ye Youming in her sister's stead.

Harboring immense contempt for the family of Qian, Ye Youming refuses to acknowledge Qian Yun Xi as his wife and treats her coldly, going so far as to banish her from his palace grounds. But he can only resist her childlike charm and boldness for so long...

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Qian, Yun Xi Main

Ye, Youming Main

Sesame Seed Main

Yu, Zimo Supporting

Xiao, Po Supporting

Qian, Yunshang Supporting

Jun, Yi Qing Supporting

Qian, Aotian Supporting

Nan, Qingwan Supporting

Su, Rong Supporting

Li, Haoling Director

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Jul 11, 2024

YOLIMIN

Recommended

Expected nothing and enjoyed a lot. It is pretty mediocre in almost all aspects (animation, soundtrack, script, etc.), but if you just relax and let this anime entertain you - it will do its job prefectly.

The MC is fun, very active and assertive, befriends ghosts and horses left and right. The main dude is the right type, possessive control freak, exactly what one would want from "enemies to lovers" plot. The story is simple and lighthearted, don't expect much of it, just a nice background for the romance.

If you enjoy this type of trope, it's worth a shot. One important note: don't trust the opening, ... it's incredibly awkward and looks like a really bad fever dream.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 28, 2022

Tcherie035

Mixed Feelings

I decided to watch this anime because usually it is rare for a romance to have close to an 80% rating unless it is really good, but this show really disappointed me. The art style is beautiful, and I thought the plot was intriguing that being centered around a psychic woman who has to marry a Prince for her family. This is the typical and ideal fantasy for those of us who watch romance; girl marries "cold" prince, and he actually ends up being kind natured and loving and romance blossoms. Perfect.

Well, this show is the exact opposite. I'm a sucker for the mean guy ... turns nice cliche, but the lead male MC - Prince Ye, is actually so heartless and rude it turned me off completely. I had to constantly remind myself that this show is set in a historical time period where women basically didn't have rights and men in positions of power were assholes who got whatever they wanted. But the whole point of this being a shoujo romance with fantasy elements, you would think it would be a fun romantic watch OR at least grow into that. But Prince Ye was rude, abusive, forceful and borderline narcissistic to the point where I didn't even want the lead girl to end up with him. Not to mention, the show mentions multiple times how the men, especially the princes, have mistresses and other women so it makes the romance feel flat. The show also plays at harem themes for the lead lady which I didn't prefer either for this plot, going into this show I thought the primary focus would be on the lead lady and male, regardless of if it was historical or not.

Qian Yunxi was a decent lead. I liked how she was not a "woman of the times" and actually would stick up for herself. But other than that, the show doesn't delve too deep into her abilities like I would have hoped. She honestly had no personality outside of fighting and talking back - I feel like the creators would sometimes force this "I'm not a pushover" type of personality too much to make a point, but by them doing this over and over it makes you realize how crappy all the male characters are. Regardless she was my favorite character.

The plot seemed to drag and drag, 11 episodes (out of a mere 16) in and the romance between the two leads is basically nonexistent. All you have are instances of Ye abusing Qian (making her sleep in a raggedy palace, making her sleep in a wood cabin, having his mistresses' maids abuse her, believing his mistress over her, etc.) and the princes discussing this upcoming tension between them and the west, but it is so vague you don't know what is going on until the show is practically over. It feels like majority of the show is just you watching Qian get into trouble and get abused. The other characters really aren't worth mentioning, I didn't like any of them. The only character I liked was Prince Yu (Ye's brother) he was actually sympathetic and funny at times. I found myself rooting for him to be with Qian, honestly.

The show is alright. I think the harshness of the lead male MC turned me off a lot, the plot at certain points was very slow and wasn't interesting enough to really allow me to invest in the show, and the jokes fell most of the time - it just felt boring. This is nice as a quick watch, something to pass the time - but this isn't one of those romances that you need to see.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Oct 2, 2020

Danila-K

Not Recommended

Utter Shit

Story:3/10
Qian Yunxi is sent to marry a prince instead of her bitch sister, she doesn't like said prince who is a cunt but due to his good looks and forceful nature (maybe some good o'l Stockholm syndrome) and you have a shitty palace romance where the male lead does whatever he wants because "hey you're a concubine and i'm the prince so I do whatever the fuck I want to".

Art:5/10
Its a generic anime art style nothing outstanding though I guess the clothing and architecture are different if you're not used to watching Donghua.

Sound:3/10
The Opening is one of the worst and most annoying things I ... have ever heard in my life, whoever made it should have all of their social credits docked. The voice acting is fine I guess.

Characters:1/10
Qian Yunxi a psychic with great martial arts abilities except when she's not and just gets captured over and over again, why establish in the first couple of episodes that she is a capable martial artist only to have her be the damsel in distress every other fucking episode.

Bastard Ye (Male Lead) un-ironically the worst male lead in a series that I have ever seen, so get this, he marries Yunxi, throws in her into a shitty dilapidated palace with a ghost in it, nearly chokes her to death, forces several kisses on her after she has told him she doesn't care for it but you know she's his wife so her opinion doesn't matter.

Overall the romance between the two is poorly forced that I honestly can't believe anyone would believe it.

Enjoyment:3/10
Qian Yunxi is getting confronted ? oh man i'm excited for her to kick their asses with her magic or martial arts........ oh she just got easily captured by a bunch of maids....Bastard Ye who she traded blows with easily in episode 1 is now able to easily grab her and hold her down. So yeah if you thought you'd get a nice romance between the her and the male lead though shit they have the chemistry of a banana and mayonnaise.

Subs:2/10
So as any of you who have watched enough Donghua know the sub quality is either hit or miss and in this case most of the subs are by Kalopbazz so yeah its a definite miss, unless you speak fluent Mandarin most of this will either be gibberish or the TL's are just too fucking lazy to even translate what is being said half the time

Overall:3/10
No fun whatsoever, no fun fights with our protag, no sweet chemistry between the characters, no memorable soundtrack, so overall there was nothing of enjoyment.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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