The Trust (2023) - Final Review

Final review/rating:  The Trust (2023) - A delightfully funny body-switching drama on the importance of love and mutual trust 

This is 8/10 stars ✮✮✮✮✮✮✮✮ from Pandafan🐼

Overall rating:         8 Stars Plot:                       8 Stars Acting/cast:            8 Stars Couple chemistry:   8 stars Music:                    7 Stars Re-watch value:      8 Stars Enjoyment factor:   8 Stars

The Trust (2023) is a delightful gem of a drama. I have always thought that the body-swapping premise can be hilarious if done right, and I am happy to report that this drama does just that 😆  

As well as providing laughs aplenty, this second-chance romance explores the importance of love and mutual trust.  It posits that to love is to trust (as aptly put by the poem from which the drama's Chinese title takes its name). 

But not to worry, this drama is not preachy or didactic in tone - everything is handled with a light touch and a nod to the whimsy of a modern imagination.  Highly recommend! 

SPOILERS AHEADS

  

The Trust (2023) - Synopsis

Drama info:

Title:  The Trust

Chinese title:  恩愛兩不疑 / 恩爱两不疑  (Eng translation: "Love and mutual trust") 

Episodes: 30

Genre: Historical, comedy, fantasy, romance, palace

Original network:  Mango TV

Release date:        6 April 2023

Airing schedule:    6 April 2023 - 27 April 2023

Synopsis:

As the daughter of a great general, Xu Yu has grown up with a sword in her hand and is brave and forthright.

When she marries the scholarly and proper Emperor Xiao Jin Yun, their marriage is an unhappy one.  Between their marked differences in temperament, and the politics of the inner palace and harem, Xu Yu and Emperor Xiao Jin Yun find themselves estranged from one another.  Things change on a fateful day when they fall into a pool together and wake to find that they have swapped souls.  Xu Yu is horrified to discover that she is trapped in Emperor Xiao Jin Yun's body and he is equally horrified that he is trapped in hers.