I am one of those who did not read the novel, so this is entirely based on my feelings after watching all the episodes of the drama.

Before I started writing this review, I was thinking what I liked about this drama, but unfortunately, except for the fact that it is in my favourite genre of Chinese historical dramas and I have watched many of them, there is really nothing that I can say I like about or find exceptional or worth-mentioning its good in this drama. If given a choice, I wouldn't have picked this drama up again.

As a whole, it was not bad, still watchable and I didn't think about dropping the drama at all at any point in time throughout watching because I wanted to know the ending, how they were going to overcome the odds to return their people to their proper homelands and the outcomes of Su Mo and Bai Ying.

However, I just found the entire drama slow-moving, be it the story, the dubbing voices of Su Mo and Bai Ying or their body language always so soft and gentle, not saying that soft body language and voices are issues, but they made the drama a little boring on top of the already slow-moving story and when it was late at night, I also tended to fall asleep watching them.

And I am sorry to their fans, but no, I do not think that their acting were good in this drama, just okay and more towards the negative. A lot of emotional scenes were not portrayed well, especially the last episode, but if I were to think again, perhaps, their characters in the drama were like that, not tending to show too much emotions, just quietly accepting everything that happened. Okay, I can accept if we put it this way.

And then the last episode. Seriously, the last episode, I guess it is probably the editing, everything to be finished by that episode so instead of showing the audience one by one what happened, they used lots of flashbacks, like Bai Ying would be standing there, staring into space, and then what she encountered earlier on would be shown to the audience for the first time and there were just too many flashbacks. I had to pay attention and watch carefully, otherwise I would have been very lost and confused, even after watching carefully, I was still a little confused.
And Su Mo dying and supposedly to become rainwater soon, suddenly appearing beside Bai Ying at the Flower Blossom tree and then when he finally dissipated into thin air, he appeared again when Bai Ying was crying by the Bi Luo sea, too much of these, really, disappearing and then re-appearing, to be honest, more than being touched, I went "huh?" each time Su Mo appeared again. And their acting weren't exceptional in the first place, so those supposedly touching scenes were not touching to me at all.

Well, I believe everyone will have his/her own subjective opinions and I'm not a professional reviewer either, but these are just my honest feelings after watching the entire drama.