I'll start off with saying that I loved the cast. I've never seen any of the actors before except the main couple, but I ended up feeling for most of the characters, especially the second male lead Dongfang Shi and the girl who sacrificed all for love but received none in return, Lin Dansha.

My own biased opinion but I prefer lighthearted and fun shows, which was what this show was at the start. Female lead was witty, funny and cute. She was overall a really fun character to watch (irrrelevant but I was so surprised when I learnt of the actress's age because she seems so much younger). The male lead was pretty funny at the start too, playing double roles as a prince and a masked hero.

However, towards the back part of the show, when war and what not started to be brought in (typical of Chinese dramas, the show didn't entertain me as much anymore. Although the side characters were oftentimes amusing, the female lead seemed to have died towards the back. Rather than the smart girl she was before, she became impulsive and just kept wanting to go to wherever the male lead was, disregarding her own life and the people around her that would be implicated. It felt as if she lost all her ability to think rationally. To sum up the two male leads, the male lead was the good guy who was nice to everyone but in the meantime sacrificed the female lead, while the second male lead was the guy who schemed and sacrificed everyone else but was always good to the female lead and her only.

The one thing that I am most unhappy about is the forced happy ending. It felt like they crammed everything into the second half of the last episode and forced it from a normal ending (not even a sad one) to a happy ending (which didn't make me feel happy at all.

Overall, worth a watch but towards the end I was just hanging on to see how it would end, rather than because I enjoyed the show.