Yeah I can understand why people find this drama kinda boring. I myself pause it for several times, not because bored but merely because I have to watch it in download version while I sometimes travel & not convenience to bring it with me ^_^.

For me this drama instead of boring it's more like you can see a lifetime of someone & how everything changes in lifetime. So, no I'm not so bored watch this drama. But funny thing toward the end I find myself a little bit bored with all the drama in this drama, maybe it's just too political for me.

In my opinion this drama divided into 3 part. First part, of course where they falling in love & made the family, but apart of that this part also about how to revenge & overthrow the prime minister. Second part, the peaceful time. The last part is about when they already became king & queen & also about the political time of the royal family.

Is this drama too long...? Maybe. Sometimes I think they actually can shorten this drama in the middle part. But sometimes I think this drama just fit the way they are.

But of course there is some part that i don't understand:
1. Why Yang Li Hua must hate her mother [Du Gu Jia Luo (JL)]
2. Why Yuchi Rong must make JL into the bad guy in her mind about what happen to her family. What happen to her father & brother is because the stupidity of themselves.
3. Why Yu Wen Hu still insist he wanna be prime minister instead king when the first king dead. This doesn't mean he didn't have the ambition to became king, because we can see in the end of his life, he indeed have the ambition...

Overall: Good drama where we can see everyone develop their own way in this drama. But doesn't really need to be include in list of watch drama. Must compare it with dugu legend ^_^.