This drama left me feeling conflicted at the end 🤧 Took me 6 days to finish this one. Not bad. My actual rating: 8.3/10.

◇The plot: 7.5/10

The plot was just okay and leave much to be desired. I FF many scenes of boring characters that I could care less about ( : Bai sisters & their other halves) .They turned my fav character, Zhi Yuan into this corrupt evil person in the last 2 episodes . Whyyyy him... He was such a green flag walking around so selfless ,kind and understanding for the whole 35 episodes, made him died and wake him up only to make him into this evil -obsessive being that kinda erased all the kindness he did before , I am sad ... :( Also the ending was lacking. That last scene provide more questions than giving us a clear conclusion. I hate it when they ask us to find our own answers with the ending given. Why xianxia's endings are always like this......*sigh*

◇The angst: 7/10

I enjoyed it when my dramas give me lot of heartaches-yes I'm a masochist- it help me feel alive but this one didn't hurt me enough. But I enjoyed the angst present in the last 5 episodes.

◇The acting: 8.5/10

The best acting imo : Xiao Zhan =Alen Fang > Ren Min > Marcus Li. This drama made me a fan of Xiao Zhan & Alen Fang. I will follow their work after this.

◇The romance : 8/10

The romance was cute and.....cute. Considering Ren Min is young I could understand why we only get cute love here like I understand why Wu Lei only hugged Dilreba in TLB. But I need more romance scene between SY & ZY. What we already seen was not enough for me . I need more.. I don't mind the slow burn romance here because they need time to progress from master-disciple relationship to a romantic one but I still think this pair is the slowest leads turned to couple in all romance drama I've seen lol.

◇OST: 8/10

It was not the kind that made me fall in love when I first time hear it . Took me half of the drama to start to enjoy the music. My favourites: Jade Bone Ballad by Hu Xia, Lifetime by Maobuyi & Tell My Inner Emotion -Liu Xijun.

◇Cinematography: 8/10

It was good enough. You need to watch xianxia drama with high resolution video (1080p and above) otherwise all the CGI effect shown will not looking impressive as intended and just look cheap lol. I watched this on VIP -WeTV but I'm not satisfied with the 1080p video quality there. Look more like 720p than 1080p to me.

◇Costumes : 7/10

Just average. Not the best I've seen. I only liked few costumes of Shi Ying and the rest were bland looking. I liked his black attires in the last few episodes the most. I could not remember any Zhu Yan's costume that I like. But I liked Zhi Yuan's costume better. His costumes + hairstyle here made him more good looking. With that expressive eyes too I can hardly take my eyes off him whenever he appeared on screen.

In conclusion, I enjoyed this drama even not to the fullest but it introduced me to the actors that I did not know before. So thats all I wanna say . Just need to record it here before I have amnesia.