It is a fantasy drama, not about martial arts. Knowing this from the first episode, I could have just dropped it, but I stayed on for the ‘new comer’ Zhang Yi Shang. She is charming and suits well for her role as the FL, Duanmu Cui. I got hooked up with the FL’s character, which is strong, determined, and shows confident on what she does. A good role model for many these days. The 10 rating is for her.

The problem for me comes from the ML, Zhan Yan. To me, his characters is too possessive, but weak. He sacrifices his main duty of protecting people for the sake of following his love interest? The FL should have been given more chance to resolve issues herself without having the ML always around. The storyline could have been developed much better without him having to be too protective and cheesy.

In all, the story is strong in the beginning but getting drifted away towards the end, plus a cliffhanger to lead to the season 2. There are not many wasteful characters, which is a good thing, even though I am not sure why we need a porcelain cup and jug who can walk and speak..

Not sure if I want to continue for Season 2.

Oh, am I the only person annoyed with the way the officers hold their swords from the side? I could not imagine how inconvenience that would be, to walk around the city holding a sword like that in real life! ;)