Beautiful relationships, costumes, cinematography, music

Beautiful cinematography, outstanding OST, loving, romantic relationships (both main couple and secondary couple), and the shorter format makes it well edited and easy/fast to watch. In the latter half, the relationship between the big bad Marquis and his wife is surprisingly entertaining. There are also cameos from couples from the director's other short dramas, and now I have to go search for them. The voices of the main and secondary couples are also soft and lovely to listen to.

Highly recommended. I rarely watch any c-drama all the way through, but this drama was utterly charming and beautiful. The only downside was the lighting/makeup on very close kissing closeups.

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Gorgeous mini drama

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.

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