8 episodes x 20 min on Viki. Gorgeous costumes, excellent acting, riveting plot (with major plot twist), beautiful OST and vivid cinematography to grab your heart strings, and really interesting characters. Tightly edited, with just the right sumptuous scenes to flesh out the characters and their relationships, the drama kept me watching to the end. No fast forwarding.

The plot is basically Face Off (the movie starring Nicholas Cage) in ancient China, between two women.

After watching Butterflied Lovers (22 episodes x 20 min (I think) also on Viki), another drama by the same Director, I'm now a huge fan of his works. (I'd also like to watch The Killer Is Romantic, as the main couple cameo'd in Butterflied Lovers.)

Highly recommended, as is Butterflied Lovers.