first of all I watched this drama with a mixed feeling. My love plus hate
tangle up together till I felt I wish to quit this drama halfway. But what
me stay on until to the end is my intuation promise me the next episode would
be very much exciting. I could felt some climax into it but it is not enough.
The main couprit is the the length of the episodes are too long. 58 episodes
in total.The storyline does not have what we called as express editing which
cuts all the unnesasary scenes and focus towards the objective instead. It explains
the origin of the plot by the most stunning detail. Each details contains a
very comprehensive explainations which left no confusing potholes.

In the last episode. Cong Li Ming said : I made 2 choices leaving or not leaving.
for a decade I served the imperial family. I had been to so many places, I had done
so many things.Witness so many good bye and death, persue on many hard faught things.
In the end I felt so empty. After so many years Yan Shi Fan already decommission.
The imperial government I once served had gone into ashes. Other than guarding this
past imperial relics, what more I could do? What more I could stay on? Does this
country really needs me in the coming future? I Cong Li Ming really could get out
from this tanglement?

The comes his imagination seeing all his dead brothers and family members. All of
them advice him to move forward leaving the past behind. Start a new chapter and
persue a new hope.

I replay this scene 5 times in total and until now I still not yet bored. Personally
it touched my as an human. Most of us experience the lost somewhere at a time. When
we drop, we clean our wound and wipe our tears determine to rise up again. Never
let the past continue to hunt us again. Let it be a lesson to step higher and not
a rope to tie us back from advancing.

I had to admit this drama is really very well made. It slips a lot of real time
genuine human experience in a different way. Suffering is unavoidable. suffering is
everywhere. Suffering is a step to make us to become a better person. It is not made
to watch twice. but it is made to engrave the human experience deep into our mind
reminding us that life is indeed not perfect. Many suffering and sacrifies had to be
made before we could see the light of victory. Yet still once victory comes by there
will be a large void of emptiness to be filled into. Be prepare for new life adjustment
because it would not be same again as it used to be.