Okay, I will brutally honest.
The acting is 10/10, music is haunting,screens 10/10, the outfits 10/10, storyline 10/10 in some parts and I want to discuss why.

I didn't like part of the Forgetting lake, that's where everything dropped from 10 to 3 to me. I was just like,why? For the new chapter for like 2 years and then everything goes back where it ends and give a sorrowful ending? Nah, that's not how it goes.

The first part of the story was, oh wow, liked the romanticism, the scheming, the playfulness and all what the FM characterized, now for the ML, first I didn't agree with him at all, but as the story gone by, I could. He's from a world where ever is hard, where you can stabbed in the back any minutes, that's where he grew up,so he always watched after the FM not to get her in serious consequences, in a rude way, but as I was say he knows what he's doing.

The second part of the story is so tingly when it comes to fitting into the imperial world,that the characters get to know each other more and more like it's chapter two but painful outcome.
We got some romance some jealousy, and a lot of deviousness. And i didn't mention the revenge from the ML part.

And the final, where everything is collapsed, that was bit meaningless and heart wrenching. The other characters didn't deserved their fate. I could see the ML was lost his mind when he executed the second ML. He was determined to keep FM for him and only him. That scared me a lot. But I give the FM a plus one, she didn't lost her spiritual beginning,just when there was no hope for her homeland and the Li dynasty to reconcile. I wouldn't have better idea in that situation,maybe too sit down and speak things up, but in the end they stood in a wrong path.

The FMs natural and playful charter and the MLs softheart(yes he has), strong will and sharp witted mind, cunningness, i say they make a pretty good math to rule the empire

So all in all I would recommend to see this drama but the outcome is not only is it heartbreaking, but it could have been avoided. Like there is a part where FM knew that her tribe was killed, she was sad for a while but she still fell for the ML again, I mean that was ment to happen.

I say, I would skipped the part of the water, and have some, FM escape ML capture parts, some battle and makeup with second ML, some little hysteria and then realization that she can't do anything just bare and do what she can do which beyond her strength. I would have white this to far more out of the palace, to get them together, to realize that they are humans and not puppets.

I hope I didn't crashed anyone, i know it's easier to talk afterwards, but I was thinking way more during I watched it.