Warning: My opinions on the drama may not agree with everyone. Take this review with a grain of salt if you decide to watch this drama. Know that I am also a human like you, but as I do not have the same brain as you, a character you adore may be a character I dislike greatly.

First things first, our two leads:
Bai Qian - While I really loved her character because she's actually relatable and realistic (like, she’s not the stereotypical ridiculously over-the-top kind female lead we always see where they literally just let the villains step all over them), her lives as Si Yin and Su Su where at times hard to watch. I couldn't handle how naughty she was when she was Si Yin (and caused so much problems that she indirectly causes the death of two loved ones), nor could I handle Su Su's meekness. My biggest issue with Su Su was when Ye Hua told her to not do something (i.e. leave the hut on Mount Junji, don’t commingle with Su Jin, the crazy obsessive villainess), and then she wouldn’t listen/do exactly what he told her not too. The first reason on why she didn’t listen, I can let her go on that. But the second one, not so much (and my mom agreed with me). Overall, it was refreshing to see a female lead who actually stands up for herself (when she’s Bai Qian) and make people who hurt her get payback (unless she has to look at the bigger picture).

Ye Hua – Like Bai Qian, I loved him. However, my biggest issue was the lack of communication on his part. As much as I loved Ye Hua, I also wanted to pull my hair twice (due to watching the drama twice) when he was given the cliché “secretly sacrificing” for the FL but does not expect anything back. His inability to properly communicate caused him loads (and caused my brain to hurt and my heart to ache for him and Bai Qian), just like how he never properly communicated with Su Su that he was a celestial and that’s why he’s gone months to years all the time.

Overall, my final verdict is that both actress and actor for Bai Qian (Yang Mi) and Ye Hua (Mark Chao) did a phenomenal job of even making the stone-hearted me shed a few tears.

Second things, the “key” secondary characters (and some ranting):
Feng Jiu – I warned you that my opinions may not align with yours. While I see many people saying stuff like “I loved Feng Jiu,” “I preferred Feng Jiu over Bai Qian,” etc., etc. I have to disagree. I could not dislike a character as much as Feng Jiu. She had zero self-worth and literally chasing Dong Hua (I’ll get to him in a bit) around. Additionally, she, in my opinion, had the least to no character development and was the most useless character in the sense that she added NOTHING to the main storyline. Don’t even get me started when Bai Qian leaves parting words to her that sounds borderline suicidal, and Feng Jiu’s first instinct is not to look for her Aunt Bai Qian (who she so claims to be close too) but instead go chase Dong Hua like a little puppy once she wakes up when the sleeping spell that Bai Qian put on her wears off. I dislike her character to the point where I believe that if Feng Jiu was not in the series, the story could still go on without her.

Dong Hua – While he didn’t have the zero self-worth issue like Feng Jiu, I was not a fan of him either. Can’t rip apart a stone-faced character besides the fact that I wished he would have just made his stance firmer with Feng Jiu instead of letting her hang around him like a puppy and caused her to be even more madly in love with him. There were many ways he could have handled their situation but failed to execute anything properly.

Su Jin – Can I say more? I hate her! And it’s not even just on the fact that she’s the villain, so I’m bound to hate her but like, woman, do you have no self-worth as well? Maybe her and Feng Jiu should have gone to attend sessions on how to love yourself and stop chasing a guy around despite him rebuffing you like 100x. At least for Feng Jiu, I could argue that Dong Hua does love her but has some “celestial” duty issues that prevents him from expressing it. However, for Su Jin, Ye Hua did not just sister-zoned her, he literally auntie-zoned her. And how can you even still love someone who literally says things to purposely spite you so that you would hopefully get into your thick skull that he is JUST NOT INTO you? Like, which part of that did she not get? So, did the actress do a good job portraying this obsessively in-love villainess? Of course, or else I wouldn’t have dedicated a part of my review to her.

Before this review gets out of hand with length, just wanted to give a shout out to the following supporting characters: Mo Yuan, Bai Zhen, Si Ming, Lian Song, Ah Li, Mi Gu, and Nai Nai. These were the top supporting characters that I definitely loved and actually enjoyed their presence when they were on-screen. Besides this, everyone did well with their parts (even if you make it on my annoying supporting characters list).

As for supporting characters that I did not enjoy, it would have to be these characters: Heavenly Lord, Li Jing (swear I made a mental tally count of how many times he said “A-Yin” as this was apparently the only thing Li Jing was capable of saying besides being slob of a Ghost Lord), Xuan Nu (she’s practically Su Jin’s twin in both obsessive much and crazy), Zhi Yue (she’s Ye Hua’s cousin and in my opinion, she’s seriously super annoying), and literally every other ladies on the show that would just have baseless crushes and obsessions over Ye Hua and literally throw themselves at him when it’s dead clear that he’s not interested.

Re-watch value? As the title of my review, I watched this drama two times (crazy I know but first time was when it first came out, second time was due to COVID and spending time with my mom as we both share the same love for some good Chinese historical/fantasy setting drama). While I enjoyed the drama both times watching it, the 2nd time of watching confirmed my issues/stance with the drama/characters.

P.S. My mom also enjoyed the show
P.S.S. And in case anyone is curious, the OST is great and definitely used appropriately for the scenes.