Ru Yi (2024)

Remarkably Good Cast and Production for a Short Drama

**This is just my opinion. I truly appreciate all of the hard work and dedication that went into the making of this drama. Thank you.**

I was truly impressed by the cast, production and OST for this drama. In a lot of the short dramas that I've watched, it's been very obvious from the beginning that they were low budget and the actors appeared to be very inexperienced. The dialogue and close captioning for those dramas can be so poor that they are painful to watch. That is not the case for this drama, thankfully. While the closed captioning isn't perfect, the dialogue is normal.

The cast all do a very good job with their characters, with the exception of the villain. He's not terrible. He just reminded me of watching a B movie. I wish that there was a full list of credits for all the actors in this drama because I would definitely follow quite a few of them and watch their other works. The main characters themselves had backstories, growth and were likeable.

This was, after all, a short drama so we can't have everything. I think the plot itself is silly. There have been quite a few dramas about someone entering a story in one way or another and attempting to change it. This is another one. It was actually doing well with the story within a story, establishing the romances, the struggles that the characters were going through and making you care for them all in a short period of time. I thought it floundered in the last few episodes but it is still well worth watching.

As far as the production goes, it was so much better than I had ever expected from a short drama. The costumes were very good. The camera work was nice. The sets were tasteful. I know that the drama I watched just before this was really, really bad so I may just be grateful for the improvement, but I don't think so.

Overall, I would definitely recommend this drama and it's actors. I hope to see them in a lot more dramas in the future.

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