I'll start with the good points;
+ Xie Xiang was a great female lead, one of the best, she was smart, cool, caring, independent and strong

+ Gu Yan Zhen was playful and a playboy but a total sweetheart, I mean he literally fell for her in the first few eps

+ the cross dressing was done well

+ Xie Xiang and Xiao Jun's sismance was adorable

+ Man Ting and Yan Zhen also had great friendship

+ the friendship between Huang Song and both Yan Zhen and Xie Xiang was sweet, the whole gang were a great team

+ the outfits and filmography was beautiful

+ those 2eps Xie Xiang saved herself/others (plus the ending)

+ the chemistry between Xie Xiang and Yan Zhen was off the charts~



now the things I hated
- the million of subplots! every other ep had a new unrelated story, I was losing my mind

- in the early eps Xie Xiang always had to be saved (though granted they were being realistic since she was physically weak and tiny)

- they literally wasted the romance ;/ I would've gotten it if they didn't want romance to be the focus, but they literally spent 40eps developing a main lead x 2nd lead love line ;/

- they ruined Man Ting and Yan Zhen's pure sibling like relationship when they added a sad pathetic 1 sided love..

- they made me really angry when even Huang Song fell for "the sister" and she literally went out with him as a girl and never tried to turn him down (and I wished she'd told him everything from the start and stayed as pure friends)

- the 2nd lead was slightly obsessive. he changed Xie Xiang's room without asking and he'd tell her "I won't take no for an answer" as if he owned her ;/

- they spent more time on the side characters than on the main, heck the evil girl had more screentime

- the evil girl felt unrealistic, she was young and weak, there's no way the bad guys would've given her that much authority

- Huang Song's death was unnecessary. he should've died with a bullet to the head or they shouldn't have left him to get shot 5 times

- the forgetful girl. agh I hated her the most..

- there was no consistency, it felt like the writer had 1 plot move "girl cross dresses and goes to a military school" and then she just added whatever that came to her.

- the romance took 40eps and 2seconds for them to confess and then it ended with them "walking" along towards the sunset... that was it. after such a long chase and misunderstandings, that was it......

- I was ready to give this a 10, but I didn't know it'd be that messy and draggy. I'll never watch another cdrama,

- the ahahahahahah ost drove me crazy!

I wish someone just made a cut of the 2 main leads, especially when they were together, that'd have saved me 30eps ;D