Amazingly good. If you are reading this review to decide whether to watch it and are into fantasy dramas, I say I highly recommend it. Story was intense and held you in suspense, and was overall well-paced. 56 episodes is a good length to cover sufficient development and yet not get draggy. The plot was unpredictable as there were a lot of twists and turns in the story.

And of course, those of you who had watched Xu Kai in Yanxi Palace and liked him would enjoy watching him again in this drama. I must say there are a lot of excellent acting talents in China and good-looking as well. Every Chinese drama I watched, which was rated above 8 on mydramalist did well on this point. This is no exception.

Music was not highly impressive. A theme song was consistently muted in the drama whenever it was played - I could only suspect that it was awful or had copyright issues.

The ending was a little sad as of all the couples in love in the story, only 1 couple eventually live happy ever after. But it could hardly be rated as a tragedy and I should not say the reason so as not to be a spoiler alert.