I remember how i started watching this, I just finished Oh! my sweet liar and wanted something new. I didn't even check what the drama was about, it had subs on Youtube and I was there lol. First thing I noticed was the drama is not cheap, the actors were beautiful, the costumes were extravagant and expensive. Secondly the story was well thought, but it became fairly brutal mentally to watch pretty soon. Not even like reaching 20 eps there was a rape scene, and it was so brutal. Don't keep faith on the characters, they will betray you. Amazing acting by the cast, I really liked Prince Yuerong, and still I would ship Hibiscus with him no buts. I hated Yuan Feibai from the start lmao, but I was kinda partial to him later on.

Someone in the Youtube comments said that he has eyes liked the Buddha (gg) and bruh I can't stop thinking about his eyes after that. It DOES look like the buddha's and that makes him look sacred. The actor of Non-white did a very good job doing double roles, amazing in fact that I actually thought they were two different people. I really liked Jinxiu as well, and I know the audience did as well. Do read the novel of this drama Mujin Hua Xi Yue Jin Xiu which would really give a lot of emphasis to the story. A girl in the youtube comments shed light onto some of the characters in the story after probs reading the novel, and boyyyy if you watch the drama after reading the novel, it would explain a lot of plot holes. There were weird stuff on feibai's part tbh, like some stuff he did was very suspicious.

The music of the drama is super good and beautiful, I really liked the OSTS. Overall an amazing drama to watch, it's not light comedy at all and has some insane plot twists and a secret hidden backstory with the novel.