Honestly, “Different Princess” reminds me of Scarlet Heart, my all-time favourite time-travel romance. This however doesn’t discredit the drama’s excellent production, story writing, and it’s ability to keep topics light hearted. Even though the show kills way more of its characters, it felt right for the plot. The plot is amazing because it gives you hints, then does a 180. For example they were hinting Du Wen Shu was a villain, but it was so unexpected for the empress being a villain.

What I love about this drama, Different Princess has the elements I loved from Scarlet Heart: the dimensional thing, not belonging in this world, and pain knowing she has to leave. that’s different from Scarlet Heart is how light and playful watching this show is. In Scarlet Heart the characters would be heartbroken, sad, but those moments don’t drag for episodes. Instead the cast accepts and learns or move on. It’s common in Scarlet Heart for later episodes to have a sad, grieving, heavy mood/theme which isn’t exactly a distress/comfort show. It is my comfort show if I’m feeling like crying, but not all the time.

That said, main casts acting could be improved, but nothing was over the top cringe and unwatchable. In some cases the music saved some moments. The OSTS are reallyyyyy good!! On a second note, the Gui Fei’s acting was horrendous and she didn’t have that “GUi Fei” maturity or cunningness. HOWEVER, they chose the best cast for the Empress, who I would NOT have expected to be so evil. Maybe they chose the Gui Fei to contrast the Empress.

Overall, this show has good comedic qualities and I would totally watch a season 2, in fact they better make one!! Ji Chu’s Gu Zhuang outfits were so delicious, especially him in purple. The modern haircut was questionable.