The entire cast of this series is beyond amazing!!!!!

Yang Zi as Hu Xiangxiang is mature, prominent, and profound. Yang Zi's ability to become Xiangxiang, I have no words to describe how beautifully she portray this character, better than any other than I have seen, given the dynamics and weight of Xiangxiang. Yang Zi wears her character well.

Wallace Huo is no less as Officer Gu Qingming. He is also profound and prominent and wears his character well.

Every single actor in this series owned their character and each actor jived beautifully together, which is a rare thing.

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The relationships were beautifully and exquisitely portrayed and intermingle to illustrate the depth of the relationship between everyone from family to friends to lovers to Chinese Officers to Japanese Officers, to Government, and last but not least to the Chinese and Japanese. The loves and likes were equally demonstrated as was the hatred amongst the Chinese and Japanese. Indeed a rainbow of emotions were clearly captured .

This series has fun, laughter, seriousness, love, hate, sibling bonding, pain, rebellion of sorts, angst, you name the emotion, it's there.

The Battle of Changsha is one of the best I have seen to depict not just the battle, but to demonstrate how it affect everyone and everything. The Battle of Changsha brings life to history.

The writer definitely put time and effort into writing the dialogues. They were impactful, hard hitting, full of reality of then and today. The delivery of the dialogues were executed beautifully with the right hand gestures to the right look, just flawless.

The creatives of this series did not hold back anything. The used very resource to make a magnificent series to illustrate what happened years ago.

The color scheme was on point, the clothing, the hairstyle all of it were on point.

I only have appreciation for this series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My heart ached throughout the series just as it did when I studied history.