I’m actually not connecting with this drama so I think that it’s time to just give up at ep 20. It’s not for me. The ideas were good but the execution was lacking. I mean it truly didn’t find a good way to give both genders the respect it was trying to demand. Yes Xin state rules were archaic and the other state had different rules. But the way they try to make Li Wei and her female friends reform Xin states just scream blatant hypocrisy and disrespect to me. More than once Li Wei overstep her boundaries into other people problems without truly considering the troubles she would cause all the party involved, and they try to disguised it as a feminism manifesto in spreading. And Zheng as the feminist king incarnate for going ahead with his little wife crazy ideas all the time. I’m a woman and I had a hard time buying into this because of the way it was implemented. I believe they could have found less disruptive and respectful way to portray all this. It quite sad because it actually had beautiful sisterhood moment and it was quite interesting to see a drama with a harem of women not trying to outdo each other but support each others. But the execution is truly loss on me. There is no need to come out me. I do see why other people may have love it. I’m just saying that it wasn’t it for me. And someone. This view relevant it making them decide if they want to watch this.

Don’t get me wrong this drama had great sceneries, and the acting was actually great with tons of veterans actors. It’s just that for somewhat time period it was trying to emulate I felt like they were trying to force feed me moderns ideas and not in a good way either. Li Wei character either came out as chaotic, pushy or plain incentive sometimes. Like she seriously had no alarm for the preservation of others. Her ideas and her feelings were what mattered above all else. I don’t know she may get better later but I did feel the pull to sit through all of it and go through that journey. I sat and gave them 20 episodes to convince me and sadly it fail. Someone reading this may go if you didn’t like it why give it a 8.5. My answer to that is because I like the acting and the scenery and to some instance the plot. My biggest disappointment is the execution and also to uncomfortable feeling I’m getting as if I’m getting judge for not approving the way Li Wei does things and the way Zheng just indulges her.