Highly recommended!
I think this is my most favourite chinese drama of the past year so far. The chemistry is great, there are really interesting and original plots or at least I haven't seen any of them in a drama before. You can see their bond building up with each moment. Also, the side-characters are mostly funny and nice people. It mostly focuses on Tong Yao and Lu Si Cheng, but there's lots of scenes that contain other characters' stories. Don't even get me started about the music. I love the background soundtracks. My most favourites are Everytime by WayV, Warriors by SEVENTEEN, Edge by Naomi Wang and Heroes by Air League Band.Right now, all the episodes are out but not all of them are on YouTube. There's a page where you can watch all the episodes with English subtitles for free. You can either watch it on dramacool.so (DramaCool) or you can watch it on trolldrama.com (DramaVery). I recommend DramaVery because the episodes there are much faster uploaded than on DramaCool.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy this drama as much as I do. It isn't a basic cliché, it's a really refreshing drama. I love it. Thank you for your attention.
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An absolute must-watch
I have never expected this to become my new favourite costume drama. My favourites among costume dramas are usually deduced from the amount of tears I cried while watching because I'm not someone who cries easily.I just finished watching so I'll keep this short and maybe update it later once I take it all in.
Honestly, you have no idea what you're getting into. It starts fun, unserious, a little silly. Around EP 10, it goes downhill FAST. Currently, I don't even have the words to describe the atmosphere, the music, the characters, nothing.
The reason I put 9 stars for the story instead of 10 is that in the middle, the plot was a little hard to follow. It might be because of the English translation therefore I don't want to take off more than one star.
The acting and casting was absolutely incredible. The music was well chosen for every scene and beautiful. Rewatch value is a 10 because it was that good. I'm definitely going to rewatch it once I forget about it a little bit.
Another thing this drama (and especially the actors!) did very well is playing with sympathy. No matter how much or how little screentime a character has, you will absolutely cry when they die. So many characters died and I bawled my eyes out during every single death.
The only one I have never felt sympathy for was Prince Duan. Tang XiaoTian did a magnificent job portraying him because I hated every single scene he appeared in.
This is a must-watch.
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