Charming! Visually beautiful! It delighted me from the very first scenes and kept me in love and admiration for several episodes. The action was a bit slow, sometimes very boring, somehow I was not interested in the problem of creating water channels, discussed for seven minutes by two men sitting opposite each other, but I was still in the binds of the beauty of this story. Unfortunately, one single element disqualified the whole drama in my eyes and I just couldn't look at it anymore. An actor tall as an oak, 40 years old plays a 12-year-old child - forgive me, my imagination and sense of aesthetics cannot bear when a mature man falls on his knees in front of a woman who looks 30 years old (his screen mother) and calls out like a small, clumsy child " Mommy! ". And this is not any child who needs special care, he is the first king of a mighty empire.
Despite my interest in the history of China and its beautiful portrayal in this drama, this scene haunted me too much for me to watch the drama to the end. I really regret it that the producers decided that in such an important production of such an important character a real child cannot play.