So it took me long enough to write this review as I should have done so since, but I was busy and forgot, I only remembered now so here it goes??

Firstly, I'm one of the ppl that have been looking forward to this drama as it is my favorite Chinese novel till date and Yang Zi is my all time favorite actress.
I loved the novel, because of the dynamics of it, it isn't a normal drama in which the FL falls for one guy alone, and love isn't the only focus, there is so much more and so many wonderful plots and it is so unique ??

To the drama now, I was so anxious when the 1st 4 episodes came out cause I thought that it might not live up to my expectations (not YZ's acting though), but I was so shocked from the the first episode and got hooked till the end.

The children's acting was SO GOOD!!!, scenery was beautiful and then I loved how they were able to give life to the side characters in Qing Shui village ??.

P.S haters said that YZ looked ugly as WXL??, like was he supposed to be pretty??

I loved the acting of the, main and supporting characters, they were all very good, I was looking forward to who play Ru Shou and I was impressed by the actor ??

The pacing was good, the tension btw Xiao Yao and Xiang Liu was ??, the puppy love btw Xiao Yao and Tu Shan Jing was also good??

In all this drama followed the novel and I am very happy for that

What I thought they should have done better????
The OST's weren't really the best, they were good, but not the best, I loved some of the BGM music too, that could have been improved on

The set where they were acting, sometimes looked real and sometimes fake, I didn't really have a problem with this though as it wasn't really noticable

These are the only things that I saw, but either way it still remains the best cdrama of 2023 for me??