I’d seen so many fan-made videos of this movie on YouTube that I told myself I had to watch it.

The two leads were really good, especially Meng Rui. He played a thoroughly conflicted person who was struggling with what’s considered as unnatural feelings by their society. As Xie Yan, his emotions were swinging back and forth with the object of his desire, his so-called life servant, Nian, who was brought into the family when the latter was young. You could see Xie Yan’s inner struggles as he channeled them, unfortunately, towards Nian in a very bad way.

Wang Bo Wen who played Nian’s role was gentle, kind and submissive, yet I saw him fighting back against certain people. As first, I thought he was a submissive person overall however I noticed he was only so with Yan and the Xie family.

The leads definitely carried this movie. The music was good especially for the song sung by Wang Bo Wen.