After watching this drama from the beginning until the end, i have different opinion than the other reviewers here. To me, the story starting to get weird around eps28 (or as early as eps23 when the past is mentioned), and everything is like one big mess. The revenge that's more like a long makjang drama, with all the people somehow got involved in the mess. You will get confused on which revenge is this. Zhuo Qingci? Su Yunluo? Wen Siyuan? Shen Manqing? Zhu Yan? Or even Jiang Er? Like, what revenge we're looking at? It's just so unclear

And Su Yunluo, who was so badass in the beginning become such a weakling starting from eps15. She's either hurt, fainted, or getting poisoned. People mention about Zhuo Qingci's stalker behaviour, but they forgot about Su Yunluo's indecisiveness that's just so... indecisive. Do you like Zhuo Qingci or not? One moment, she'll be all over him. The next moment, she'll say "we have no relationship anymore". Repeat this by 10x (or even more), and their love story is getting repetitive. And she never really got better in the end (when she's supposed to learn some sword technique beforehand, but none of it is actually shown). This girl is either talking about helping her master or revenging her master. Yeah, do that when you actually have the skill. And not to actually just cry like a weakling

The only saving grace is Wen Siyuan. His character is good, his past is so well-written. I feel like he's more of the main lead than the actual main lead himself. The main lead has no good backstory that make me connected to him. After so long hating his father, suddenly he went: I can't let you die? Yeah. You don't convince me. I really love Wen Siyuan and his arc is really moving me. He's such a good character that's wasted on this weird drama that no longer make any sense starting from eps28

We also got this arc about Zhu Yan that's so long, so unneeded, and so unnecessary. His whole character itself is unnecessary. Why would you even keep him in the drama? He's like so not important. He's not even the second male lead (the second male lead is actually Wen Siyuan) but we got his whole backstory with tragic birth secret (that's so not tragic) and love story that didn't come to fruition (why you like Su Yunluo is a mystery to me because, yeah, that girl has been nothing but a pain). I would like to see more of Wen Siyuan than Zhu Yan, because really, his arc don't even have any relation to the main story. So why he was there? Just to make the story go longer?

Overall, I think I give this drama a high score already, around 7/10 because of the first 10eps that's just so good
Those who wanted to watch this, better be careful. This drama is really good in the beginning, then after that, well, I can say that it's a mess