My highlights:

1. The main couple’s chemistry r just what u expect... if u luv them in LOY, u’ll def luv them in this...

2. The casts r good... main couple for sure, the 2nd couple is cute, XuJin’s entourage r so loyal n even funny, Fu family r a warm loving family (really like the lil bro, he’s cute!) The villains r hateable, so I guess they r good... not a fan of the king though, he’s just not a wise one IMO, so quick to make a judgement and give punishment, and when he is wrong (which he almost always is), he just dismiss the case n make it not a big deal... I guess that’s ur right as a king? Liking how some casts from LOY made an appearance here n there...

3. Liking the OST and the costumes... I also like some references they made about LOY...

4. Storywise I like it a lot from begining till eps 28, since first angst happened in eps 29 (first wedding with
big misunderstanding)... but after the reconciliation in eps32-33 till the end, not a big fan of how things unfold... repeated mistakes r just annoying n to make that the major conflict is just not my fave part... n the divorce plot again n again? Not a fan how they make something like a divorce some kind of a play...


My list of things I wish had and hadn’t happened:

1. The “I hate u, u kill my father n we r now enemies” plot which dragged a few angsty eps... I wish instead FuRong & XuJin had an investigation together side by side to prove how he isn’t the killer and Ruyi’s Pavilion isn’t that bad organization... I hate how FuRong’s character repeated her mistake by not trusting her beloved Xu, she should’ve known by that time how he is as a person, n to think he kills her dad? Come on!

2. My main reason watching this is coz I wanna see the chems between the main leads... n yes the 2nd couple r cute, but since they r not the reason I watch this in the 1st place, I think the main couple deserved more romance near the end to kinda conclude their journey.... they deserve those moments! N so do we! Even LOY had more defining moments, even if it was sad near the end...

3. I wish there was a scene of XuJin visited Fu Residence and had interactions with FuRong’s whole family... He didn’t even visit them the whole drama! (unless if u count when FuRong’s father die in the funeral scene, which is one of the worst scenes IMO...)

4. I wish they had a proper wedding with a good kiss to end the drama...

5. That lightning thing? Don’t really get that part... don’t know why she had to die first then resurrected?

6. I wish the SML XuPing had a more important reason to be the main villain... IMO his reason is just so dumb! N how he kept claiming he likes FuRong but did everything that he did? I just hate him n I have no sympathy for him in anyway... he’s just a jealous delusional person who needs reason to hate XuJin, so he just assumed XuJin kills his mom n his hate goes on from that... plus FuRong (the girl he claims to like) is XuJin’s wife n in luv with her hubby, so he hates him more for that...

Anyway, overal a very enjoyable drama... I like it eventhough there were some unnecessary plots n too many angst! I guess C-drama is like that? at least it’s a happy ending, so there’s that... I hope we’ll get to see them together again in another historical or even modern drama, just luv their chems!

Waiting for that extra scenes in modern world impatiently... hoping they’ll release them also with the supposedly 8eps worth of deleted scenes... crossing my fingers!