* Story : This is the story of the first Empress Dowager of Chinese history. This is a story which takes place before the beginning of the Qin dynasty. You are following Miyue, a princess who was told to be in the future the one who will impact greatly on the country. She's has a very strong personality, despite her mother having no social status and was only a servant of another concubine. Miyue and her sister Mishu, the oldest daughter, and the daughter of the queen. Despite their social statues are as different as a lion is different compared to a cat, they have really good and close sister relationship. They grow up, they fall in love, they slowly change, they became enemies. It's a love and hate story. But it is also the story of Miyue, of how, a princess like her, grew up to be the first Empress Dowager of Chinese history, and how she established strong foundation to the unification of China for the later Qin dynasty. I see 3 parts in this story: 1/ Miyue as a Princess, as a big sister, and as a teenage girl with her first love. You will watch her grow up in a very difficult environment despite her being a princess, how she's going to keep herself real and virtuous, and how she starts to spent her time on knowledge, how she's teaching her younger brothers to be a good man when they grow up etc. 2/ Miyue as a servant of the future Queen of the Qin country, her older sister Mishu, then as a concubine of the Qin King, and how this king will impact on her greatly. I won't say much, but this part is really important for Miyue : she's had a strong personality when she was young, but with him, she's going to have more and more ambition and quit being a teenage princess but slowly step by step, becoming an intelligent woman. It's also a part where you see how Mishu is changing because of her selfishness, also because of her misunderstanding, because she's also a mother, and how these sisters are slowly distancing themselves from each other. 3/ Miyue as a responsible mother, then as a political leader + her 3rd love story. To put it shortly, you're going to see how Miyue try to reach her ideals and how she's going to sacrifice herself for the country. /! what is good in this drama, it is also that the script took a lot of fact of the real history :) * Acting / Cast : Nothing to say, perfect. Betty Sun improved so much, she was not acting Miyue, she WAS Miyue. Big up to MaSu, to LiuTao and to Fong Alex, who impressed me with their acting skills! They were great really... * Music : Well, the music disappointed me... speaking the music only, it was not that good, and i think it did not match the drama. like the music in the legend of zhenhuan were a perfect marriage with the drama but here i want the music and the drama to divorce, and ask LiuHuan to create another music, and ask Liu Lianzi from the heaven to sing one more time. But the music with the instrument that Miyue is often playing is really good. * Rewatch value : well it's a very long drama, but if you ever have free time, definitely recommending to rewatch this drama :D * Overall : minus 0.5 for the music. it is not horrible, it is in reality very pleasant to hear, but i just NOOOOOoooooOOOOOOO these musics because it doesn't match at all the drama.