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This is hands down my favourite Chinese drama. I love all the characters, the story, the costumes, the music-everything. It has no right being this good, this compelling. Wei Yingluo snatches your heart from the start so everything she experiences hits you where it hurts. She's clever, resourceful and knows well enough to keep her true intentions so close to her vest. Her relationship with Empress Xiao is just... beautiful. And the "villains" of the story are just as compelling too. It's a must watch.

If you want to read a story about a character who sticks to her guns despite everything in her life pushing for the opposite, then this is the story for you. Your heart will break a few times watching this though, so be prepared. It was brilliantly written, brilliantly acted and the perfect drama to get you started if you're new.

This movie is a guilty pleasure. It was a solid fun movie. I wish "bad" movies nowadays were more like this, instead of being strung together nonsense hat barely quantify as movies because they get lost in their own plot or forget to even have one in the pursuit of the checkbox. The acting is solid, the horror is awesome and Doug Jones pops in to leave you with another character to add to your nightmare bank. What's not to love?