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This series was spicy, it was hawt, it was steamy and it was every BL’s fan fantasy come to life. That being said for some reason I didn’t love it as much as most people seem to do. I liked it enough but it didn’t grab my heart the way TharnType, KinnPorche & CutiePie did.

I was so looking forward to this, it started off so strong and good. The swimming/death story arc was good and drove the 1st part of the series. I didn’t like UWMA and dropped that half way (the incessant weeping of Pharm was such a turn off, I get the trauma and all but it was way too much for me to endure), you have trauma but won’t go seek help from a professional so you cope by crying A LOT. So that wasn’t my cup of tea , so I didn’t care much about Pharm&Dean here either. Could have done without their presence.
As for Win&Team, they were great until the last few episodes. Team now turned into Pharm with the incessant crying. The level of cringe that was the last few episodes was intolerable. So freaking disappointed with how they finished this. The skinship wasn’t even that great to save this. I expected so much especially from Win. They took him from being too cool for school (which was his appeal) to being way below average.

Wei YingLuo is the greatest Asian TV character ever made and IMO one of the greatest TV character ever made anywhere in the film Industry in the world. OMG what a woman, what a one army avenging warrior, what a wrong righter, what a QUEEN, take a bow my QUEEN.
The thought of watching 70eps was daunting to say the least and I put it off for so many years because I honestly wasn’t a fan of the hairstyle for the men and the overall ambience of it. But I kept reading rave reviews and decided to take the leap of faith and oh boy am I so glad I did. It was so damn good I wished there was 70more eps. I would have watched even if it was 200eps that’s how good it was. Her tunnel vision in enacting revenge and righting wrongs even minor ones was a thing of beauty.
There is nothing I hate more than goody2shoes characters and best believe there was absolutely none of that here. She was who she was and made no apologies for it. A lot of viewers wanted her to end up with Fu but I’m with the minority, the Emperor was way more suited for her. Only the most powerful man in the country was good enough for our powerful protagonist.
Her targets knew she was going to come for them and boy did they all try to get her before she got them, but they were playing checkers while my girl was playing chess, so it wasn’t even a fair fight to start with.
That thunder scene, I have just two words for it Gloriously Epic.
The only part that was weird for me was the 2-3 years they spent apart. With the way the emperor was in love and obsessed with her I was shocked that he was able to stay away from her for that long. I guess maybe it’s because he still had lots of women in the harem so it was easy for him to endure the separation.
I am actually currently rewatching it. It really is soooooooo good.
Please watch if you are thinking about it after reading this review.

My love for Wen Kexing is unexplainable and indescribable. Gong Jun aka Simon Gong thank you so much for bringing Wen Kexing to life and embodying everything he was supposed to be and so much more. You deserve all the accolades and stardom that comes from such a powerful performance.
It’s not often I love an actor/actress as much as I love the character they are playing and vice versa.
This is one of those rare moments.
I love Wen Kexing so damn much especially in all his Ghost Valley Chief glory, I have rewatched so many time and plan to keep rewatching.
I also love Simon so damn much and I can’t wait to watch all of his upcoming projects.
Keep soaring high my majestic beautiful man.