What to say about this drama...... HMMM . It didn't stand out much. It was an IDOL DRAMA that did not leave much impression. Everything was luke-warm water. It wasn't cold enough to cool someone down or hot enough to heat someone up.

So the story starts out with two sister who enter the palace one becoming a cook and one sister who take the identity of another woman and become the Emperor's Concubine.

Each sister faces their own tragedy and it slowly begins to change their relationship with one another.

Our FL is the sister who enters the palace as the cook, who fall in love with a talented lord, who is also sword man/investigator. With her loud and outspoken character our ML fall madly in love with her. Their relationship is put to the test when people of the court and palace attempted to separate them through small and dumb schemes. Their relationship is put to the ultimate test right before their marriage when our FL discovers that her parents were killed by the ML father. (typical plot twist)

The other sister who become the Emperor's Concubine is torn when she reunited with her first love after becoming the Emperor's woman. When sent into exile she attempts to escape with him to a far away palace but fail to do so when he comes down with cold feet after suffering from an injury he received from saving her life. Their relationship becomes dangerous with their back and forth interaction is question by the people in the palace and eventually the Emperor himself.

ML is a boring and uninteresting character who is just used a filler to assist the FL when she is unable to solve her own problem. Don't get me wrong, the actor did a wonderful job playing his character, whoever the character himself was bland.

The Emperor was dumb.

The female Concubine that always trying to discredit the FL and her sister was also bland/boring and very stupid. She accomplished nothing.

The FL rival for the ML was extremely childish and stupid. I could not understand the purpose of her character and her ability to get away with all the BS that she pulled when her uncle was only a small time official. DOES NOT MAKE SENSE.


The revenge element was poorly written and developed and delivered. The scheming was short and very simplistic and so dumb, I don't even understand how or why the character fell for those traps. The use of politics was not for a lack of better words urm.... very poorly executed and used in plot development. The Romance was also very strange, I felt like all of a suddenly this cold hearten man feel in love with this foolish woman. Strange. It did not fit my bill of a good romances. And the behavior of the FL is outrageously over the top. In a serious historical drama, I honesty doubt she could get away with her outrageous behavior and attitude, she would have been killed if she had that behavior in Yanxi Palace.

Honesty don't waste your time. It is very disappointing.