To me I have lower the bar for wuxia genres, esp when they are 45 ep or longer. I just find them to be a drag. This one I made it without contemplating dropping. I think it started really cute. Kinda like romeo and juliet , where the female and male lead fall in love, but their families have hatred towards each other( esp the male's family)

The basic story is the female lead's family leads one city, and then the male lead family is the lead in one city. Male lead fam wants revenge from the female fam ( rong family) because they killed ( na lan family's patriarch) . Then the story leads in a side line , introducing the ultimate evil woman. She is basically the master of the dad of rong's fam and of na lan fam's mom. She is super sinister and looks youthful but she is in fact really old. Everyone gets all caught up about the chi hua zhu which is suppose to be a healing flower? or healing ball thing? Basically if you are sick , it can heal you but theres a price to pay. You get poisoned by it if you dont take it all at once .

I would say the main plot was revenge and then trying to defeat the big boss aka evil old lady.

Romance- like some reviews said, i didnt really feel their romance. I felt in the beginning how they got together was kinda like really? lol that was quick.... to me the female lead's love couldnt pass the test, i mean when something bad happens she would really quietly blame the male lead... but she redeems herself at the end

A cute bit was how each side character got some kind of romantic development which was cute. but not so much for the second male lead :( I cried towards the end because the second male lead dies , he sacrificed his life for the female leads sister. It was totally unrequited love. I liked how the sisters relationship was finally mended at the end ( their relationship was strenuous throughout)

Overall its not a bad watch , but a lot of parts needed skipping lol.