First, I would like to say I’ve never ever watched a drama like this before. The concept, the story, the creativity is great!!!!! The male dominated city irked my soul lol especially the ML dad, he got on my nerves. The ML mother though ooooof what a power move to divorce that piece of trash!

Story: I was hesitant to watch this drama as it’s “overrated” right now and with most overrated dramas, it tends to disappoint me a little bit. Especially when the story has something to do with entering video games or entering a dream instead of true wu xia or xian xia. However, as I began watching, I can’t help but keep going lol. I love the female dominated city and I love the story arc of the princesses. I think the FL and ML and 2nd ML did drag their romance a bit but it wasn’t too bad. I was annoyed at how the FL didn’t realize or fall in love with ML earlier and was annoyed with her always setting him up with the 2nd FL. I also didn’t like how most of the time she neglected his feelings but then I realized that she probably thinks he doesn’t have feelings bc technically he’s not real as he’s just a character in her script. I thought that was pretty clever. Other than that, I like the pacing of this drama and the problems were quickly resolved which is great bc it’s boring when things get dragged out. I always forget that this is a lighthearted drama so I was anticipating more angst moments but the comedic moments made up for it. I do think that it would’ve benefitted with a bit more angst tho.

Acting: The leads are perfect for these roles lol especially ZLS, she typically plays these roles and she executed them nicely in my opinion. The male lead is great too, I really like how he looks at FL lol even I get butterflies. I adore Su Mu and first princess I think the acting was weirdly addicting or their characters were weirdly addicting lol. They seem so perfect for eachother. The second princess and Pei Heng were characters that I don’t mind. I think the second princess definitely had a reason to be mad and I think PH was cool. Their characters were executed nicely in my opinion. The side characters were my favorite especially Zi Rui omg he’s so sassy and funny. I want to see him as lead or second lead one day lol.

Cinematography: The colors were great and the scenery was pretty. The editing of the scenes were nice as well. I thought the flow or transition of this drama was good and it wasn’t really choppy. I enjoyed the flashbacks and I enjoyed the foreshadowing of FL plans.

Overall: I enjoyed this drama and I binged watch within three to four days lol I forgot but I didn’t expect I’d like it this much. The concept is cute and I look forward to a season 2. The only let down about this was that it’s not wu xia lol bc I prefer historical dramas than modern chinese dramas but that’s just me.