I don’t usually watch historical dramas probably because I grew up having to endure hours and hours of watching these dramas with my grandma and parents... barely understanding anything (no subtitles) and just watching tragedy after tragedy unfold (murders, betrayals, kings with too many wives, heartbreaking forced marriages, family power trips, evil queens, poisoning, bloody battles, etc). Can Chinese dramas be anymore tragic?!

I saw a clip for this drama because I liked the FL and thought I’d give it a shot to see if there was such a thing as a sweet historical romantic comedy. And I have to say I was pleasantly surprised! There wasn’t much to the plot and there were some cliches, but I liked how things were resolved fairly quickly. It was a light and easy watch... exactly what I was looking for. The FL and ML’s chemistry was so sweet and believable ... I wondered too at times (like I’m sure many did), if they actually liked each other in real life! The friendship amongst the 5 friends was also fun to watch and I loved how they all stayed loyal to one another to the very end.

I’m definitely more open to watching more historical dramas after this one, although I still don’t know if I can handle the more traditional tragic ones where it takes them 30 years to reunite and only after 50 episodes ( if one of them doesn’t die first!) ?