it's the first time I really enjoy this kind of drama, where sword fight meet political & historical. Usually this kind of genre they made it pretty boring, although usually there is romance to help light the drama. But here they put comedy that place very cleverly with the character.

This is really one of the most interesting drama with every character place their chess game very cleverly & interested. Expecially Xu Xiao (XX), he is one amazing chess player, he pave every stone to make the way for his son, Xu Feng Nian (FN). But FN himself also one interesting chess player, he refuse to follow the path that his father already pave for him & try to make his own way. Really interesting to see at first how FN is like always in the palm of XX, because XX can already predict what way FN will gonna take & already prepare his stone there too, but upon more episode we can see how FN actually also have hidden stone that he prepare for himself & to break the way that his father prepare for him.

This drama also have very unusual concept of martial art world. They have all that level that I don't too understand nor too care. But to see how they combine martial art & nature is really interesting.

This is the first time I'm not mad nor upset when they break the drama with season & cliffhanger to close the season 1. I really excited to wait for the season 2. This season close with how FN is preparing himself to be King of Bei Liang. I really want to see how FN is planning to make Jiang Ni his queen & how he will gonna handle the royal family...