The story woul've been perfect if not for the FL and her actress.
I did my best to like the FL and her actress, but I only felt pain for the ML the more I watch.More than halfway through the series and the FL wa still a self-righteous, narrow-minded, person. She's indifferent to people's feelings and would would only sympathize when it's convenient for her. She truly believes that what she thinks and says about the characters in the script are the 'right' thing just because they were written that way. Not even halfway through the series, she have met more than 10 characters who did not 'act' the way they were written she's still adamant on believing that script would be faithfully followed. By the number of things that already happened at around the 10 episode mark, she would've realized that the goal (or was it?) of the script is for the ML and the FL to end up together. From then on, instead of going against the script, she could've thought of ways to safely go through the script by tweaking some things without conpromising hers and others' safety. Instead, she just made things more complicated and hurt the ML with every word she breathe (exaggerated ik).
You know how we can ignore that a person is acting and just think of it as a real emotions and the characters are real people? Yi Tong performance is not it. Her acting screams 'fake', aside from the indifferent side of the FL which she portrayed perfectly. Nan Heng's actor (I'm not good at memorizing Chinese names, sorry) can portray more emotions with half of his face covered compared to Yi Tong whose whole face is exposed in every scene. I'm not a hater, just a disappointed watcher.
The story is good, and the characters (both main and support) have substance. I would've given this series a 9.5 if not for the FL and her actor's performance. The 0.5 deficit is because of the hairnet clearly seen in an episode (It's from a close up frame in either ep. 17 or 18 where Nan Heng is provoking Guihong by hugging Yimeng at the royal stable).
Lastly, the ML. I only feel pain for him everytime the FL speaks either to his two identities.
As for the ending, just watch until the end.
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