STORY & PLOT: started off nicely. felt the urge to continue. I was damn confused for who the main Male lead (aka whos gonna win the girl) is as i never read comments cause they are full of spoilers and I did not check any reviews intentionally,it kept me guessing for a long time (I was utterly enjoying the dilemma anyway) . it was going really good and i often got excited for the later and later episodes.
something that really disappointed me is, they tried to romanticize the dominance of Yuwen Yong over Yuan Quingsuo at first few eps. ABUSE AND DOMINANCE IS NEVER ROMANTIC. Yuwen Yong is smart, Yuan Qingsuo was dumb after amnesia but kept getting better.

till ep 27 the dilemma lasted for me and i could finally guess Guo Changgomg is gonna get YQS. (good lord i was so wrong) and the episodes became a little draggy and full of unnecessary plots. the same story of everyone chasing behind soul pearl was repeated in a cycle. the show somehow lost the track and quality in the middle. unexpectedly they maintained the balance between the leads till the end which i admire so much!
the opponents were extremely powerful and it was always hard for the main leads to cope up with them. as for the drama mainly focuses on YY-YQS-GC love triangle, i can pardon that. Yuwen Hu committed heinous crimes. and schemed perfectly. and naturally i had expected YY and YQS to come up with something brilliant so viewers could be satisfied. but i think the net was fabricated too neatly that the directors became confused as to how to take Yuwen Hu down so at ep 36 they introduced Empress Dowager out of nowhere and somehow managed to kill YH so fast (a Martial Arts god was literally killed by a YY with no Martial Arts. i mean what???) and kept YY harmless. and it was unsatisfactory that YH didnt get the proper punishment and sufferings he deserved.

another disgusting fact is YQS doesn't know wtf she wants. this time she's crying and vowing to stay beside YY the next second the maid,dancers,even YY himself needs to beg/explain her HOW THE HECK YY LOVES HER. HOW THE HECK SHE MEANS THE WORLD TO HIM. but our YQS still remains uncertain??? at this point i haggard myself to continue.
there was no character development for gao changgong .he remained stubborn and almost like a puppet of his personal feelings till the end. i seriously dislike that.

ENDING: there's no way to denay the ending is extremely nice and touched my heart. compared to the whole drama the ending was 100 times better and probably the only reason for me to rate it higher.


CAST: i have no say in this cause each and every actor is hella sexy (specially Yuwen Yong just look at his height!)

ACTING & COSTUME: its easy to convince me with acting. i can appreciate a extraordinary acting but cant point out a weak one. so i can only tell no one did extraordinarily good.
personally saying Gao Changgong was my fav even tho i shipped YY and YQS
the costume was real bad. like what on earth did the royal officials wear?? thats a total turn off !! the maids too wore bad dresses i wasnt convinced. and i wish the poor ZuGe WuXue and WuChen could get a couple more dresses so i hadn't see him wear the same green/white gown everytime.

OST/MUSIC: it totally depends. this was average for me. and could vary person to person.

REWATCH: you better not unless youre so in love with the drama.

THANKS FOR READING!