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This looked like so much fun when it was airing, and I finally watched it too now! What I loved the most were probably the female lead’s dresses and overall styling – it was IMMACULATE. Tens across the board. Her clothes and hair were always intricate, detailed, and so stunning, wow. Another thing I loved was the soundtrack. The instrumentals really turned so many scenes into highlights, I love listening to it (as I am right now as I am typing this 🤭🤭). The show was also genuinely very funny and I think that Li Yi Tong delivered her devastating scenes perfectly – as did Liu Yu Ning!

The only thing is that I wasn’t as emotionally attached to the plot, so even though I was empathizing with the male lead (because everyone treated him so unjustly!), I did not really cry with him. However, this was a GREAT performance from Liu Yu Ning, he has the subtle eye acting down and does yearning just so well… 🥹🤭 (though I AM biased when it comes to him lol).

There were some things in the show that were handled badly though (or not at all). The emperor switching up on Nan Heng and making him Crown Prince was… weird. All of a sudden, his behavior was civil, basically loving, while his previous hatred towards the male lead was so irrational (like, why is he blaming a NINE-year-old boy for the death of his beloved empress? Makes no sense). The second thing that left a really bad taste in my mouth is Song Yi Ting sexually harassing Li Shi Liu/Nan Heng and staging a scene that suggests they were intimate in order to decide her marriage herself. This is wrong for obvious reasons as she drugged Nan Heng, undressed him and then herself… and this was NEVER mentioned ever again? She never apologized to him?! She actually wanted Shan Guan He (due to his cosplay as Li Shi Liu), but this doesn’t make this whole situation less rapey! And since they never cleared this whole thing up, her mother ended up being so rude towards Nan Heng after he got married to Song Yi Meng! That lady fully on thought he was a rapist?? And the show didn’t think to clear this up? So weird.

Overall, this show was fun and visually pleasing! The OST is stunning and honestly one of the most intricate and best soundtracks of the year for me! The characters could be quite irritating at times (yes, you, Song Yi Meng! AND especially Chu Gui Hong), and the whole Li Shi Liu/Nan Heng mystery took some time for SYM to finally uncover, and THEN it took time for her to finally be with Nan Heng (like damn, the patience Nan Heng and I had to exert…). But, you know, at least we get a double happy ending, so it’s okay, I guess!