Moonshine and Valentine, or otherwise known as His Excellency's First Love isn't a perfect story, but it's better than what I expected at least.

The story overall isn't smooth in transition and plot. There are a lot of bumps in the plot that often make it confusing to understand or just simply hard to believe that the drama you're watching is still considered the same one. However, I think many aspects such as the main idea of the story makes up for most of these holes in the plot. As Guan Pi Pi is thrown into the world of foxes, He Lan is reunited with his lover that faces an early death and is reincarnated later on. The cycle continues viciously for the two lovers and its refreshing to see that in this lifetime their love isn't as easy to obtain. I do think that the beginning of the show is more stable than the rest, as it does kind of get odd around that point. It's not the best plot I've seen while watching dramas, but I've seen worse. I think what saved this drama for me is that it stuck with its initial intent to focus on their love story, which it mainly did. This isn't the case as they're constant misunderstandings and forces that plot against them but it's nothing that's too off course from the main story. I did like the overall bow on top between the small side stories and such that were probably more stable than the main plot in my opinion (such as Xiao Ju's story or even Qian Hua's).

For the cast, I can't say I didn't love them cause I absolutely fell in love with them. Victoria does an amazing portrayal of her character and I can't say that she didn't impress me with her acting in this drama. There's also her male co-star, Johnny Huang, who also blew me away with his acting. I mean, their chemistry? To me it was what saved the drama (again, this is my first time seeing BOTH of their work). I think the side characters of the drama also performed a good job throughout as they navigate you through their own story.

The music wasn't really in your face due to the opening sequence being narration (which was something I found odd since not many, if any, shows do that) but it's still nice and subtle throughout the drama. For my music preference, nothing really stood out to me but nothing made me want to rip my ears off. That's just my music preference though.

Would I watch this drama again? Probably only some parts of it. I would skip the filler material of the drama as I did want to focus more on the main story, not that I didn't enjoy the stories of the other characters. If I truly wanted to relive the whole drama, I probably would if I had time.

This has been The Love Knot: His Excellency's First Love.