This is a show that could have been better. Concept was interesting, a female warrior, I cannot say if she had a military rank cause I already forgot, goes back in time to prevent a revolution from happening that ruins the country and hurts a lot of people. She tries to assassinate the General that causes the future revolution but is stopped by Feng Xi, a minister on the government,

Cool concept but then it fails to deliver anything interesting. As I have stated in other reviews there are 2 things that always annoy me: Stupid and silly female leads, and stupid and silly misunderstandings. This drama has both. Having come back in time you would think Dong Yue the female lead would be intelligent and have a plan. Instead she is really stupid and has no concept of anything. She totally misunderstands Feng Xi. At first that is alright cause we manipulates and lies so people think he is power hungry and a bad person. The issue is after she failed the first time and Feng Xi dies, she comes back to fix the problem again. The second time she comes back she still doesn't trust him and makes a bunch of really stupid decisions. Plus half way through it felt like the story was more about her falling in love than actually stopping the revolt,

I lost interest after like episode 10 and only half paid attention. I did start to get more interested again in the last 10 or so episodes, when female lead came back a third time and had a portion of a brain.

As for acting the ML is the true star of the show. I had an initial reaction of I do not like him, so kudos to him for his work in Princess Agents, that I had to get over. He was great at the moral grayness of the character, who is not evil but is certainly not pristine or perfect. The second male lead plays the third prince. He was a little on the slow side, but was a generally good character and when faced with his father's moral imperfection he stayed true to himself and doing the right thing, Every time I thought he would move into the gray area he stayed true., which was exactly what Feng Xi wanted was him to stay good. The FL was mediocre at best and did nothing to impress, Second couple was cute, almost too much so.

The one distracting thing was the music. It was generally ok, but there was one part where the music was the exact music used in The Untamed. I mean not like the music but the exact music. Not sure if that is normal, but seemed strange to me.

Overall, it was an interesting concept but the story never followed through on the premise. So the story which could have been interesting back the same old story in a ton of c dramas. It did get better but it was hard to watch and pay attention to episodes. Plus the ML acting was great, while the FL was not and it was more obvious with how good he was.

This falls into the what could have been category.