"Love" is reminiscent of the Korean drama "Moonlight of Cloud Painting" broadcast in 2016, in "Cloud", Kim Yu-jeong is the inner palace of a woman dressed as a man, and Shizi, played by Park Baojian, fell in love, in the process, Shizi mistakenly thought that he was in love with a boy, feeling absurd, and the love between the two was romantic and funny. The story of "Love" also takes place in the palace, but this time the heroine Park Eun-bin dresses as a man to become Shizi, and her love with the courtier played by Lu Yun has more thrilling and sadistic components.
Park Eun-bin (left) plays the feminine Shizi in "Love", and has an ambiguous relationship with Lu Yun.
The story of "Love" describes shizi's concubine giving birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses Li Hui and Li Yuan, but the royal family did not allow twins, and the king at that time ordered the execution of the baby girl. Concubine Shizi asked the guards to smuggle the child out of the palace to save his life. A few years later, the king passed away, Li Hui's father became the king, and Li Hui was also crowned as a son.
At this time, Li Yuan, who knew nothing about his own life, entered the palace as a palace maid. Li Hui happened to meet Li Yuan in the palace, surprised that the other party looked exactly like himself, and had a clever move, asking Li Yuan to change his identity with himself so that he could leave the palace and see the last side of the teacher who was about to be beheaded.
Li Hui's maternal grandfather Shang Xianjun learned that Li Yuan was not dead, fearing that it would affect Li Hui's succession to the throne, and at the same time, in order to retain his power, he ordered his subordinate Zheng Yanzhu to kill Li Yuan, but Zheng Xianzu mistaken Li Hui for Li Yuan and killed the real Shizi. After Li Hui and Li Yuan's mother learned of it, they told Li Yuan her true identity and asked her to continue to pretend to be Shizi, and before she died of illness, she also reminded her daughter not to trust the people around her and wanted her to live strongly.
The characters of Park Eun-bin (right) and Lu Yun are monarchs, teachers and students, and there are many funny interactions.
From then on, Li Yuan showed a cold look and expression, and also ordered his men to keep a distance of five steps from her and not allow anyone to approach her. This is Li Yuan's way of protecting himself, until Zheng Zhiyun appears, the other party always inadvertently crosses Li Yuan's boundaries, leaving Li Yuan overwhelmed.
Zheng Zhiyun is the son of Zheng Zhiyun, who witnessed his father killing a palace girl when he was a child, could not forgive his father's atrocities, and chose to leave home and live a leisurely life. However, he was forced by his father to become Shizi's teacher in the palace, and when he got along with Shizi, he always felt that the other party exuded femininity, which made him a little difficult to resist.
Li Yuan and Zheng Zhiyun actually had several sides when they were young, which is each other's first love, and Li Yuan has now become a young woman, and it is inevitable that she will be attracted by Zheng Zhiyun's handsome beauty, but Li Yuan knows that Zheng Zhiyun's father is the one who killed her brother, and her feelings are extremely complicated in the face of Zheng Zhiyun. At the same time, Li Yuan also had to be wary of his stepmother, because the stepmother wanted to kill her and make his son the heir to the throne.
Park Eun-bin, a child actor by birth, was featured in two dramas last year, "Stove League" and "Do You Like Brams?" "" has a bright performance, not only the drama road is broad, but the acting skills are more and more affirmed. "Love" is her second appearance in a costume drama after seven years after "The Secret Gate", and the first time that she dressed as a man, which is extremely challenging.
Park Eun-bin's performance is very good, deliberately lowering his voice to make his voice more majestic than the son of the world. Shizi's inner struggle when she meets Zheng Zhiyun, as well as the gentleness in her eyes that can't help but be revealed, she also has a feeling; the rigidity and softness of the role are interpreted just right. Lu Yun's costume is very handsome, his acting skills have also improved, and his interaction with Park Eun-bin is quite natural, and he looks forward to the two of them rubbing out more wonderful sparks next.
Park Eun-bin shared during his visit to South Korea that he felt that this role was a rare one, so even if it was difficult, he was still willing to take it. In order to interpret the perfect Shizi, she learns horseback riding and martial arts, and focuses on the characters to look natural as men.
The director praised Lu Yun very much in line with the role, but laughed and said that he regretted it after deciding to use Lu Yun, because Lu Yun was too tall (190 cm tall), so when recruiting other male actors, he should be at least 187 cm tall.