My overall impression of Sword and Brocade is its just so pretty...

- The look and feel - everything is beautiful - I love Shiyi's room asthetics.
- Each costume is beautifully detailed (especially the lady characters) The embroadery is beautiful.
- Their love story is beautiful. Learning to trust and love was realistically portrayed and I really felt the beauty of their married relationship.
- All the prettiness certainly made up for the couple of glitches (eg having a mustache in the 2nd to last scene and then not in the last scene)
- The OST is simply beautiful and tells the story beautifully (you just cant go wrong with Charlie Zhou).
- Wallace Chung and Seven Tang protrayed Lingyi ans Shiyi beautifully and reamin 2 of my all time favourite actors
- Rewatch rating - 10 - to appreciate the finer details once you've watched the story