Love it. Great. Go watch it. It's awesome. Really. What I love: 1. not dragging as u think, can skip the relationship parts but nah it adds dynamic so don't skip at all. 2 . too heavy I had to stop watching after every 10 eps I watch, but whenever I come back i'm instantly hooked. Actually the too heavy aspect is a con. I don't feel like watching any more n go to watch a rom-com or something late at night.
Love it. Great. Go watch it. Ok?

Now let's get to the cons (Disclaimer: Contain 5% SPOILERS of minor characters deaths. They're so minor it's not important. Don't continue reading if u haven't watched, but do so if u don't care coz it's not gonna ruin the whole drama 4 you):

FRUSTRATION WITH OUR FEMALE LEAD:
Xu Bi Cheng is the definition of "i wanna slap a b***** so hard til. . . "
At least if I were Tang Shan Hai, I would feel like that. Ep 25 when she said to Chen suggesting for Mr. Tang to seduce Meina, and she said it with a smile, the smile that makes me wanna slap her so hard she'd fly out of Chen's room.
After all this, she makes a kid orphaned, the father is dead. Given the mother (her bestie from the military school) is already a death roll prisoner, so she didn't cause the mother to die but it's fate, but she really caused the father to die. One of the spies from her team, acting as a toilet cleaner maid at the restaurant committed suicide, is dead. Two body counts already from her dumbness.
and they added in a line a few eps ago she said to Tang " You know I was dumber than I am now, and Zhou always helped me in the military school when we studied together."

Zhou is the death roll prisoner, her bestie, mother of a 3 months old child, that is now without BOTH parents. Thanks to Xu Bi Cheng.
She is well aware that she is dumb but cannot help it.
The screenwriter really wanna ease on her, make us like her, but they had to step on her over and over to make plots progress. One arc, the beginning story arc, from ep 10-18 was just about her mistakes and saving her ass. Then it has some sprinkles of that thru out the rest of the drama. At least where I'm at now , ep 35, she hasn't started it again. I CAN't like the actress's acting either, she shouldn't "cry" and then change her emotion to "smile" at the same time when talking to Bi Zhong Liang. It makes her looks like a psychopath; and you know I like Zhou Dong Yu before in her other films.

I haven't felt so frustrated on a Character for so long; I was scratching my head trying to look for who, who is it that makes me this frustrated before!!!! it was Hu Ge. No wonder the Disguiser is also the same genre. Hu Ge was mistakes after mistakes with his plot armour. Zhou Dong Yu, however, is not arrogant and makes different mistakes, a bit of a Mary Sue (got 2 guys after her). Sort of an eye sore if u have 2 guys going after ur love and ur words are like knife cutting second male lead heart, speak without thinking b*****, and u are being a elegant gentle lady and not picking anyone, b*****! Women Audience can't stand her kinds. Basically, the writers for both dramas use their characters as a stepping stool.
Climbing higher and higher with the plot based on a Character's plenty of mistakes.
Poor poor girl, Xu bi Cheng. I should not be too harsh.