Gorgeous, tricky, crafty plot! I see a lot of female schemers in drama but this guy tops them all. Mei Changsu. Brilliant characters, fantastic acting, wow storytelling.
This is based on a novel and the author wrote the screenplay, so guarantee of quality right there. This proves my theory of originality, if the original source/canon producer does the second part, with the same passion and interest, the standard remains excellent.
Love it all, from the good guys to the bad guys, no one strikes me as false. There is no noise in this harmony. Bravo, may all creative people bring forth more dramas like this one. Wish the ending was not so tragic, but still perfect. Made me cry. I actually wanted more. And I don't enjoy things that cause me tears. Khaled Hosseini!
No SPOILERS cause you really should watch this on your own. I can't steal into your house and tie you up in front of your computer, even though I really want to. Addictive show.
ok, ok, ok, ok, I'll do it, super secret spoilers begin now -
12 years ago,( timelines are a little off track but who cares for that tiny detail,) there was a great battle at a frozen mountain ridge, actually, there were two battles, one with their enemies (and directly afterward as they were tending their wounds and catching their breaths,) the other with their own forces, when they were framed of treason and plotting against the paranoid king.
Fast forward and the sole survivor of that battle comes seeking vengeance, cause he won't get justice from that awful crazy king. Plus the king intermarried a lot of families using his harem, so everybody is related to a traitor or is mourning for their loss, but no one says a word, lest the king orders a head chop. It's this unspoken secret that everyone shares and there are no mourning tablets for any of the dead. Think no coffins, no graves, no funeral procession. The spirits are not at peace.
Mei Changsui is the name he adopts. His survival was touch and go for years; only an experimental treatment has kept him alive all this time. He builds the world's top secret alliance that acts as a spy service for him from nothing.
He reinvents himself, he was the brave soldier who scoffed at political intrigue and sneered at scheming in the shadows. He becomes the thing he hated the most, a puppeteer of human lives.
He does what he must do, he regrets the innocence he destroys, but he does it all for justice, for the dead.
I can't retell it all without infecting myself with the desire to rewatch this series. I don't have enough time, this is 50-plus episodes of breathless moments and rewind to watch that again.
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