Cikkari

I had downloaded the OST Sole Love by Liu Yu Ning a while ago but never started on the drama because of some of the negative comments. But let me tell you when I finally watched it, it was amazing!

First of all, some say the powers were too comic like but honestly I love thinking of this show like a superhero in Wuxia world. That's honestly an amazing cross over and helps differentiate it from the rest of the shows. A lot of the Wuxia shows are now literally all about revenge so it's very refreshing to see a kind of different plot.

Best things I love about this show:

- Hidden Identity (HI)- I don't normally count amnesia as HI since other shows have it that everyone knows who the lead is but the lead themselves don't know which is weird. But this one was a kin to HI. There was HI when he was kind of hiding the man in black identity so reveals for that was good. Then there's HI for when his prince identity actually comes to light (to basically all at the same time). So love the many reveals and I live off of that.
- Superhero powers- only ML has this so it's actually quite different than other Wuxia shows where everyone and everywhere pops out a grand master.
- OST amazing, not only the Sole Love song which was played sparingly but epically so you know an epic take over fight was going to go down. But the other songs were great too.
- The leads acted well, both of them. Looks wise not the highest on my books but they have their charms. (I like Cheng Lei better as a Villian or Anti Hero). The side characters Su Mu Yang (prince) and Mo Ying (Wuling) were so hot/cute. I've seen Bi Wen Jun act in A Class of Her Own but he was just meh looking there. Literally trying to compare and see why he's so much hotter here- great job on the hair and styling.
- Side character plots were nice for the most part, ups and downs.
- I'll just sound like a girly girl here but I loved the superhero cross over with vampires as well with all the blood sucking. Also never seen this before in a full length historical C drama.
- Speaking of, drama was pretty hot on the hot scale. Kiss in the first scene and many dispersed. Sweet kisses, rough kisses, very long kisses, in bed kisses. All the variations.
- I also like when one lead stays consistent in suffering more. Which was clearly the FL here. So I can sympathize the whole way with her.

Some things that make me downgrade to 9 from 9.5 (I don't normally ever do 10)

- This is not a scheming show. But even then, it felt like the choices that the characters did were a bit not thought out and sudden.
Some examples- Qing Er taking her own life when being held hostage- with her fighting skills so can probably get out of that hold- don't think they broke her tendons yet.
And then the whole FL and ML in You state parting when she didn't need to go. Why didn't the ML make it clearer that he remembered all the times that they were together?
Then when FL went back to the country, and the ministers were calling for her death??? That was so weird, one esteemed General did one mistake and instead of just punishing them or banishing them etc, you need them to die? They have no other lead generals. And also generally the ministers can be influenced to say certain things when they're your ally. I guess that means that the new Emperor really has no one in his camp and that they're all impartial ministers now or even trying to be against him? But at least the twist ending helped make up.

But overall, amazing show!!! Worth the watch if you like vampiric superhero Wuxia with hidden identity!