I found this drama to be interesting enough to finish for a variety of reasons. Even though it was the typical 'magical school' premise, it had its unique points, such as the mysterious character that kept trying to interfere with the story, the idea that the whole thing was a book, the 'saloon' and its masked proprietor.

I nearly dropped it a couple of times during the first episode--it didn't seem serious at all. The female lead was initially a bit annoying, but I liked her character development over time. She went from silly to serious in a reasonable and believable amount of time.

I had some serious SMLS with this one for two main reasons. The first and key reason was that I could not ship the ML and FL together. While he never thought of her as his biological sister, she believed they were related for most of the entire time she knew him. So all of a sudden when she finds out they're not really related within a couple of minutes she's already starting to think of him differently? Nope, sorry, do not buy that. The cultural taboo against incest is incredibly strong and would take a good long while for her to get over it. (Honestly, here's how I would have done that if I was the writer: give SML and FL more time together but let FL become aware of ML not being her brother relatively early. All of the stuff SML hides from her comes out at a dramatic moment like their engagement ceremony or even their wedding day and ML is the one that picks up the pieces for her. Let's make sure some actual time passes by...like at least a year from the time she finds out ML is not her brother. In the actual show, they've been brother and sister for three years and less than a year passes by between the time that they go to the magic school and get married. Ick.) That ick factor in the whole thing just kept me from liking those two as a couple (until the end when he basically changes the timeline so she never thought of him as her brother)--and I almost dropped it again for that reason.

Second reason: SML almost never put the FL second in anything (except when he tried to convince the 'evil' sect he was on their side by stabbing the FL--and even then he did not kill her). Especially towards the end, the person who supports her the most and takes care of her without question is the SML. At the very end, when he's the proprietor, he is still so in love with her he decides to see if he, too, can change the story. So, I just couldn't get over it, I guess. Though, a lot of his (SML's) problems would have been solved if he had stopped the SFL from following him around all the time...oh and stood up to his master every once and awhile. In many ways, the SML was the main character of the show since the script spent a great deal of time on his character development.

I'm not a big fan of time travel dramas and if I had known in the beginning that it was part of the plot, I do not think I would have started it. So be warned.

In my personal drama rating system of "loved", "liked", "meh", "nah", this one gets a "liked", but I don't see myself rewatching any parts of it.

PS. I've thought about watching the first Legend of Zu, but do not think I will since, despite my love of William Chan, his hair looks ridiculous (but despite that I still got through "Age of Legends") but mostly because I hate plots where men fall in love with women who look the same as their dead wives (one of the reasons I could not get very far into Novoland Pearl Eclipse). Speaking if an "ick" factor...