What I like:
- The colors n tones for this drama is amazing! Beautiful costumes with vibrant colors... The settings r also nice... Visually u’ll def enjoy watching this drama, u can tell it’s not a low budget kinda drama...
- I like the mainleads... they look good n their acting is ok... the side casts r good too, like the Eunuch who saved her, that guy from Untamed, the uncle, that Ani&Qiuning, even the villains play their roles good...
- I rarely enjoy crossdressing kinda story, but this plot of her disguising as a man within the palace wardrobe dept is not that common background, so I find it a bit refreshing... however, I find it hard to believe that nobody suspects her as a woman all those years she was in palace... have u seen her? She’s prettier than any other women around even in disguise...

What I find lacking:
- The screen time of the main leads being together r just not enough... they r visually super goodlooking people, so I was hoping to see their interactions more...
- The FL character is just too annoying sometimes... like I get that she’s mad when ML gave her mom’s golden pin to the enemy, but it doesn’t need that long for her to forgive him, right? She was mad at him n being sulky for more than 5eps! By the time she isn’t anymore, she got poisoned n ML gotta leave her to find the cure... then luv triangle starts, CP wants FL for himself n forbids them to meet for 5years which is 2eps long of mainleads being apart and that’s already near the end of the drama...
- Plotwise: I’m not a big fan of too much palace politics, so I admit that I skipped some of the CP scenes esp with the king, his bro n even Concubine Wu... I wish they keep the palace part shortened, sometimes they r dragging n too boring IMO...
- I wish the drama is half palace story, n half mainleads story when they r already married... I wanna see them handling the life outside of palace, plus I wanna see how FL acts in the household being n looking like a woman... coz I don’t get why they introduce another villain near the end n it’s not even resolved... supposed some say there’ll be 2nd part? Have no idea, not sure if it’s an interesting enough story for another long drama... I wish they just put them together to complete the drama...
- There r some absurd scenes... for example: how FL knows how to dance that good when she spends her whole life disguising as a man in the palace? However this doesn’t bother me that much, so I just enjoyed the beautiful dancing scene... the example of a bothering scene is when ML, the one who is supposedly smart, couldn’t even recognize her when she disguises as a man... that’s almost always a problem with the crossdressing kinda drama IMO...

Overall I think it’s an ok drama... I agree some things could’ve been better esp storywise, but again it’s not that bad as some people say... I enjoy watching it, n it’s a happy ending...