The best series I’ve seen in years! No kidding.

It’s sad, that we as the audience mostly get series / dramas of a format “Silly you, silly me. I like you, you like me…What are we going to do for the next 20 episodes? A detective story, or a political conspiracy. Full stop.” to somehow wake up our interest. Very seldom, we can come across a drama that is actually written and directed aimed at our minds, at our knowledge, at our participation in the lives of the protagonists and everything that happens to them. “Heiress” is such a masterpiece! If you want your own mind to be mentally challenged, to relish in the effort to understand the meanings which are hidden over several episodes, to puzzle over the events and enjoy when your idea was the correct one, then start watching “Heiress”! → End of the short review.
What’s the finish, you might ask? Well, that depends on whether you want to read the long review with spoilers.
→ Long review (I unbelievably enjoyed this series, so the long review is definitely “not objective” :) and filled with SPOILERS!! You are warned :) Continue when you’d like your mind fascinated! )
Let’s start with the end. Is this a “happy ending” or a “bad ending”. (I had no opportunity to read the book, because is wasn’t translated into English and I can’t read Chinese, therefore), everything is based on the fact the series provides. It is a “happy ending” aka “She ends up with Him” ending (according to some statements in the book they are happily married, Emperor and Empress, and they have 2 babies – 1 girl and 1 boy :) !). The disturbance in the public of the audience is based on two facts, in the last sequences: 1. she misses (to spot) him, 2. the song states “she is far away / in foreign country”. Well, guys (all of you, unbelievers!), that is a TRAP (for everyone, me included) → but now I am smarter and can explain the “real setting”.
From the very beginning the whole story shows “balance” in everything. Black is balanced out by white, pain by love, revenge by loyalty, female by male, etc. You may find countless examples of this over the whole series. “She” is “His” counterpart, “He” is “Hers”. They belong together. She is the Phoenix. He is the Dragon. As a phoenix → She survives every attack, resurfaces, as a dragon→ He governs the secret army, the country. Both of them are the Emperor and the Empress. Thus, yes, they end up together. As always. As in the beginning. Always.
When you don’t mind some directions for you to watch out (balance) and enjoy as much as I do. Here are just some:
- her “two girls” fight his “two boys” (they come up even → balance)
- she is very strong (the boys bend over when she hits them a little), he is very precise (when he pinches the pebble or the nut). (Strength vs precision → balance)
- she is not afraid of dogs. Han’s residence keeps dogs. (Her fear is faked to make her look more “unable, weak” as a balance to the distrust of the emperor and probably his male child → the 5-th prince)
- during the hunt: she wears white, he wears black.
… (→ leave a message, when you want more of these balances)

Last sequence, detailed → She keeps his love token, the hair pin at all times! The red pendant is not a love token, but a keepsake for the time they are apart. She gifts this pendant to a new born baby as a sign that the old mourn born from the death of the Han army / Han family is gone. (Death vs Birth → balance)

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