I came in without expectation only to watch Xing Fei but pretty pleased at the authentic wuxia and like many others said the awesome fighting scenes. The script get quite messy sometimes though but the action scenes always become the saviour.

While I'm not pleased the drama's fxxcked up ending I'm pleased at Xing Fei's acting and how her character is written. Cheng Lingsu is sooo loveable and it shows Xing Fei is not just an idol drama heroine. Her one sided love and sacrifice for ML is touching and moving. I'm also pleased at other her other costars acting Liang Jie, Lin Yushen, Qin Junjie, Maggie Huang, Ye Xiangming, little Xiao Mei all did a good job. I just don't like Peter Ho's OTT acting. Other than Cheng Lingsu I also like MRF character, he is the soul of jianghu in the drama and I think his ending was written badly. Lingsu's arch nemesis Shi Wanchen baldy was a bad guy but he was entertaining too, I wished there are more cool poison wars.