This was a waste of time...56 episodes worth of wasted time! This is one of the worst period/costume dramas I have ever watched. Excruciatingly draggy. Didn't get remotely interesting until about episode 15 then by episode 25 or so it just kept doing downhill from there. I only rooted for it and endured until the very end only because of the FL (Song Zu Er), she is one of my favorite young actresses with so much raw talent and genuine charisma. I thought maybe the ending would redeem the excruciating boring series, but nope it did not.

Storyline:
The storyline was all over the place, so chaotic. Too many tribes and characters that you can't keep up or even remember anyone's names. They threw in 2 additional tribes and sub plots 46 episodes into the series. It was a mess. The battle scenes were drawn out way too long, sometimes a battle scene will last half an entire episode! The scenes were not edited well so it did not keep the viewer engaged. For example, if a character was walking ...no other action or anything happening that adds to the dramatic effect...they're just walking...the camera follows the character just walking and walking in silence for minutes into a scene.

The ML (Asule) was supposed to embody family bond and pride in your tribe/homeland (Qingyang). But he was sent away by his Emperor father at birth, brought back to his father's tribe at 18, but he was not welcomed by his father and 4 older brothers (who fought over the throne). The father only cared about him when Asule saved him from a wolf. Then shortly after that he was sent away to a distant kingdom (Southern Huai) as a hostage prince for a peace treaty. But the remainder of the series Asule talks so lovingly about his father, his tribe, his homeland that he literally spent only a few days in...it made no sense at all.

Acting/Characters:
- FL (Yu Ran) lead was amazing as always. Yes she is type-casted to be the spunky, cute, yet enduring character type, but she always nails it. She did a great job, but she couldn't carry the entire series on her own.
- ML (Asule) was boring, no personality. This is the second series I saw him in (first was Nirvana on Fire 2 - also very boring). He is not a good enough actor to lead a series. His character was supposed to be a physically weak person w/ a big heart and strong morals. But he just came across as an annoying wimp that everyone has to rescue. It was very inconsistent - at times he goes into battles like a true marital artist, but other times even a dainty woman can shove him to the ground or he faints at the site of blood/violence, and at other times when his 'bronze blood power' gets triggered he's a psycho monster. It made no sense.
- Other ML (Ji Ye) was terrible. He was very 2-dimensional - he either looked like a dazed and confused idiot or some raging maniac.
- Support FL (Little Zou) - she was ok, but not anything memorable.
- the two main couples...Ji Ye/Yu Ran and Asule/Little Zou - zero chemistry for both couples. I didn't care if they were in scenes together or if their storylines ended up together.