I'd watched the teaser and I'd heard it was a hit so I had very high expectations for this drama but I must admit that it hugely disappointed me!
Unlikable MC with little chemistry, repetitive plot, mediocre story, weak, always damsel in distress FL and what the heck villain were the main reasons finishing it became a chore for me!

**Repetitive plot**: I don't like too much slow burn dramas or haters turned to lovers but at the same time I don't like love at the first sight as well, because in my experience dramas of this kind turn to ups and downs, obsessive, jealous love rivals and meaningless melos with a break up and make up every 3 eps to fill their timelines. ATWIL was no exception in this. MC were attracted to each other by the end of ep 2 and were already idiots in love by 10 So what to do to make it lasts through 48 eps? Throwing them into a loop.

**Mediocre story**: Main plot (Everyone being after top marital arts manual) isn't that original and it hasn't been handled very good. Characters aren't very deep and there are several characters who had no impact on story whatsoever, being introduced in an episode only to get killed shortly after.
Marital world plotting against FL is acceptable, but main villain targeting her and trying to kill her even before the start of their animosity was a bit annoying to me. I mean she was a nobody then, if he took a grudge against her after she humiliated him at his banquet it would make more sense.
One other thing that bothered me greatly was that for a wuxia drama it hasdso much talking and very little action. Every episode was full of long and repetitive conversations about the same subjects.

**Weak, always damsel in distress FL**: I started watching from ep2 and she had been saved like twice already. I stopped counting the times ML appeared to save her around ep 12. They stopped counting too, as we don't hear "I'm indebted to you again or it's the nth time you saved me, I'll pay you later" after some times.
She's been characterized so weak and fragile that her fighting scenes are such a joke. She was like, first scene was her choking on her own saliva and ML had to slap her on her back and in the next scene she was flying in the air defeating seasoned leaders of other sects left and right!!

**WTH Villain**: What was the matter with him?? He wanted to be a marital artist but was too weak to be? Or he just had gone insane from too few attention and wanted to do something big?? He made no sense to me. By episode 31 everybody knew he was the culprit but they did absolutely nothing. The ones that actually did something either get themselves killed or committed suicide.

**Acting**: I don't have much to say about acting. They were decent, imo. ML was better than FL though. I'm not sure if this was their first leading role or not but if it was, I won't be surprised, they were obvious. They didn't overshadow other people in the scenes. Secondary characters were far better than the leads, even though they didn't have much to do. I didn't like love triangle very much too, it made a fool of two unrequited lovers and they mostly did nothing but pining after the leads.