I really love the first season despite wanting to see Xiang Liu and Xiao Yao end up together and of course the open ending.
I dislike the character of Tushan Jing so much. His only good quality is that he doesn't love anybody else but Xiao Yao.
He is, for a man that was supposed to have been born in a rich family, an idiot.
He says to Xiao Yao that he loves her but at the same time doesn't fight for their love. This is really important especially because all the people that Xiao Yao loved abandoned her.

Why to me the second season sucks is that the ending (despite not having read the book) is really predictable. There not being a body of Tushan Jing already shows that he did not die. I had hoped that Xiang Liu would not remove the Love Bug and that there would be a struggle of Cang Xuan trying to save Xiao Yao while trying to fight Xang Liu. Unfortunately that didn't happen.

The 23 episodes do not have enough storyline to make it good. Had it been allowed to air it all at once that would have been nice. I would not have liked more but I wouldn't have felt that I wasted months waiting on it for it to disappoint.

Things I do love are the costumes and definitely season 1. I would probably only watch it one more time all at once but then not again. Or only when I feel like seeing Tan Jianci in a beautiful costume with long hair. (Especially while waiting for Winner Is King to finally air, aka until my hair turns white)