I started watching Yanxi Palace mostly because I saw that Charmaine Sheh was starting to make the move over to mainland China productions. I grew up on TVB and HK dramas, so of course I'm her fan!

Just like the parent story, I'm not familiar with MANY of the actors in this drama either. But it was a cute/CRAZY follow up to the parent story. I actually thought Rain Wang looked so SIMILAR to Qin Lan (Fuca Rongyin)!

This drama was a huge twist though, from Zhao Hua having some sort of "mental" issues, and then Fu Kang'an being led astray buy his uncle. The story was just so intense and sort of closed some of the loose threads we had from the parent story.

The only qualm I had was this drama was too short! I liked the shenanigans and I felt it was a bit rushed.