I personally dont like BE (bad endings) but i liked this drama series. personally i think thats quite an achievement in itself. usually, as long as the series has a BE, i stop liking it. cuz whats the point when pretty much every character in the series are probably better off if the series never existed? why does the director have to be so cruel as that everytime i think about the series i feel a strong wave of sad sympathy towards the people in it? i would have probably given this series a 10 for everything, had it not been so sad. It's such sad love. the 2 leads were never truly happy. ShiYi's dad left her when she was little, her marriage was arranged before she was even born, she fell in love with a man that couldnt marry, she was forced to marry a man she barely knew. and Zhou Shen Cheng was sent to the outskirts when he was barely a teenager, he was forced to take a vow and never marry or have children, he couldnt be with ShiYi even tho they loved each other and knew it. He ends up dying becuz he is too powerful for the Emperors liking, and She ends up commiting suicide by jumping off the palace wall cuz hes dead. Quite sad, really.