It's just SOOOO DEPRESSING!!!

I watched this in 2016 when it first aired with my parents. We finished it in three days. Don't remember much about it other than the fact that i was balling my eyes out for the next two weeks every time i thought about it. It's so depressing though. The parents die in a huge fire, that guy that was friendzoned died of that weird flower disease, and that weird gear guy only has one hand left, etc. Super depressing. Great director though. I loved that shot of the butterfly landing on the mask even though it had me crying for months. Kudos to the wardrobe, hair-and-makeup, and set design departments. The dresses were all SOOOO pretty and sets as well.

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Pretty sure that they're going to do a season two based on the ending and them not having 'the end' appear. But I'm sure that all us iqiyi users are wondering; Who the hell is the "hot-blooded man" Zhang Xincheng? (Basically the plot is about this guy with a brother accused of being a traitor to the Song country. The first couple episodes starts off with him tricking three different parties to save his brother and getting the most benefits but ends up being tricked. He's then forced to join an academy that teaches them how to be spies and agents. He makes a few friends and is then forced to go on missions. His first mission is at a prison camp where they were told to find a lost list and they meet a Xia person named "Ding Er"(brought back later with a much more complex name). Then they go on a whole bunch of other journeys and missions and he and Zhao Jian fall in love. Wang Kuan and Pei Jing also fall in love. Then a whole bunch of other crap happens. Then Ding Er gets brought back. They're trying to ruin everything. They solve the issue, etc. Then we learn that his brother was actually a traitor and then he isolates himself from all his friends. Finally, a whole bunch of people die, he and Zhao Jian kiss, he proposes, and then we end with the news that Zhao Jian and her dad have been kidnapped.)

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