I would recommend this drama. Although it has many similarities with "Ten Miles of Peach Blossom," I find it worth watching because the scriptwriter and the director did a great job to bring this film to a level where it deserves. Also, many pieces in the show worked very well like the storyline, plot, acting, humor, the chemistry between the male and the female leads, music, camera work and all. This is something I wouldn't mind watching again. It's a very sweet and heartfelt love story that shows good moral, ethics, and is also very gripping. Even supporting actors did their parts very well. This drama has quite a lot of episodes, so if you have time to kill, I would definitely recommend watching. It is also good for your mind!

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Heart-Warming story

I enjoyed this drama. First of all, I have been looking for Xiao Zhan’s drama and was very happy to find one. I like the character development and the growth of the main as well as supporting characters throughout the story. I also like the idea of the openness of Shrek Academy that teaches students thinking outside the box and giving them more experiential learning opportunities although those opportunities involve many dangers and adventures. One of my biggest take-away from Shrek Academy is “do not judge a book by its cover.” They were many relationships, friendships, love, sacrifice, and redemption evolving around the characters, which was kind of old school but it was enough to warm my heart during this pandemic period. Although the storyline could have been more solid, especially with Xiao Zhan’s father, story development of other supporting characters, and the ending, this give me something to look forward to in season 2. To me, Ou Si Ke seems like the most funny and hilarious character that spies up the show. He stood out as the most fun actor to watch (Pretty surprised to see this side of him after seeing him in arsenal academy). Also like Xiao Zhan’s character, which matches well with him and his previous role of WWX in Untamed. Because I was watching with an app, I didn’t really get a chance to listen to any music but I didn’t have any problem with much. Chinese fantasy drama always fascinates me because they have so many different topics, themes, study object, creative aspects embedded in the story. It was nice to see another beautiful fantasy, adventure, and action drama.

In short, if you like light-hearted fantasy and adventure drama, I would recommend watching it.

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This drama is something that I cannot make sense out of. I didn’t like the storyline because there are many pieces that a viewer cannot emphasize. With so much of the production cost, it could have been more intellectual and gripping. The series seems to drag itself too long with meaningless love and separation stories. Also, the characters themselves seem to be prescribed and confined to their destined roles and I don’t see much of dynamic, evolving characterization over time. Overall, it didn’t grip me that much and none of the characters themselves were very charming. I do like some of the acting like Sean Sun even though he became evil, he portrayed the emotions and the character very well in the drama. CBJ as main lead is supposed to be charming, but I didn’t find him much charming but the fact that the drama made him so invincible like a god of war in any battle made it so unrealistic. BPT’s character is also hard to understand in a sense she fell for the enemy’s general so quickly right after she witnessed the massacre of HX’s family and was sworn to his parents’ grave that she would avenge. Her make-up made her look so pale and frail all the time, which didn’t fit well with her characterization as a brilliant strategist. All in all, there is many flawed storyline but music and some of the scenes were shot very nicely, but more attention could have been paid to storyline, plot, and characterization. I would not watch it again.

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