What great actors. So much crying and beautiful poetic language. I'm reading the subtitles. I tell myself that I'm going to stop watching these Kdramas but I can't help myself. Once I have a little peek I have to go all the way. Day and night and day and night I'm glued to my computer no breaks and hardly any food.. Laughing and crying. I tell myself over and over this time I'm not going to cry I'm going to harden up. Next thing tears rolling down my cheeks and I tell you this one was one of the best or worst. Which ever way you look at it. At least the ending was pretty happy apart from one of the best characters dying the kings brother who loved the king wife. The story is a fantasy historical so the authors were able to make the end a bit happy not like those historicals based on fact. You know that they are going to die in the end because that's a fact of life we all going to die in the end. I flick quickly pass the torture scenes but I love the sword fights and the kungfu fighting. Romantic scenes more up to your imagination. Least the kissing is better in this drama but most of these dramas kissing is just lip pressing bit amusing really.
* Really outstanding drama. You’ll love it even more when you rewatch it. So good to see the two brother Princes supporting each other instead of the norm of killing each other. Love the costumes the Royal Family wear. They are so well made and brilliantly decorated with intricate embroidery and gold threat highlights.
* The photography and cinematology were exceptional with very clear pictures that dominated your visual senses. The ending made you feel it was all worthwhile. The bodyguard character was my favourite he was really memorable as an actor.