PastaAasta

I want to start by saying a few positives to this first season. I enjoyed the OST, arguably the best part of this drama, the songs are beautiful. I also loved the costumes and set, all really gorgeous and lovely to watch. I also would say this first season is way way way better the S2, especially story wise. I love how the FL is presented as a smart strong character willing to fight for herself, doing everything she can. I also wanted to applaud the acting. The actors really did a good job here; whenever a character died their conveyed their emotions so wonderfully leaving me in tears and devastated even though we only so that character on screen for a couple episodes. The actors truly made them laugh and cry with them; if only the screen writing was better.

Now the endless negatives. The first being that out of both seasons, all 56 episodes, the leads are together for 7! 7 episodes! To say that this romance is a slow burn is an understatement, they had wonderful chemistry from ep 10 onwards in s1, it was completely unreasonable for the writers to put of such a key part of the show (I will discuss this more in my S2 review). Additionally, the whole story got really really predictable, with Liu Chang pining for Mu Dan, the You Zhen getting mad and harming Mu Dan, it just got very irritating fast. Honestly I had such high hopes for this drama due to its celebration both internationally and in the mainland, but it was so not worth it. Do not watch this please for your own sake!