A summary of my thoughts: - The things that really made this series work were the interesting storyline, worldbuilding, and a selection of the major characters. The main character was quite charming if oblivious, Xiang Shu's irritation was fun to watch, and the wolf and deer were intriguing. - Out of all the danmei series I've watched recently, this one in particular was obviously lower budget. There were a lot of production issues like lower-quality CG art and poorly-handled storyboarding and novel-to-screen conversion problems. - I will say that Legend of Exorcist, to which this is a prequel of sorts, has similar storyboarding issues,so I suspect a small part of the problem may be the author's writing style not being in distinct movie-able "scenes".

- I haven't read the novel and have found that I enjoy series more this way. I didn't have any issues with the adaptation and am actually interested in knowing more about everything.

Overall, not the best danmei series of the lot, but I still enjoyed following the story. Also, if you've seen Legend of Exorcist first, there are some fun tie-ins as you go.