Lengthy, but stellar

POSITIVES

A wonderful drama.

Music, acting, and plot were all realistic and touching (the highs were high and the lows were low), and the characters were solid and were developed well. I especially loved Wu Zhiqi and Si Feng. However, I do think Hao Chen should have been executed or tortured for everything he did to him.

NEGATIVES

Something that did annoy me was that the female lead was kind of mentally inhibited. The fact that she was so mentally inhibited led to Si Feng unnecessarily suffering for her on her behalf. Also, I couldn't help but notice that there was not one episode where Si Feng was not vomiting blood. I thought that was very repetitive and incessant. The directors were trying to over dramatize the event, but in an unappealing manner.

While, I would definitely not re-watch this because it's simply too long, the show itself is high-quality. While, I'm not going to grind through 59 episodes all over again (you would have to poison me to do that), I'm sure someone else would.

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