I'm a bit of a sucker for historical detective shows, and when you add in martial arts, this show was pretty much made for me - it's an enjoyable enough series, if a bit predictable at times. To be honest, I mainly watched this because of Dai Lu Wa, after being very impressed with her performance in Cross Fire, and this didn't really give her as much opportunity to demonstrate what a proficient actor she is.

Things I liked:
- the fight scenes were pretty well done
- female characters with actual roles (even if romance does loom a bit larger for them than I'd like)
- some good character development for a number of roles

Things I wasn't so keen on:
- way too much time spent on the romance sub-plots
- casting an actor like Zhang Yu Jian in what's supposed to be a main role but then letting his character have minimal screen time/zero character development
- Xu Ke's character is childish all the time and it gets a bit wearing