This novel was highly praised in NU, lot of people rated this novel a 5 stars. I didn't have much expectation because this was an impulse read.
The beginning was extremely boring. Pang Wan is such a narcissist and naive female lead. I nearly dropped it around chapter 15 but continue to read it after I saw one of the review on NU that warned people not to drop it and give this novel a chance until around chapter 20+.
This novel was described as full of plot twists. It's like a plot twist on top of a plot twist and on top of another plot twist. It intrigued me, I want to know the plot twists, and before I know it, I'm already at chapter 38. Chapter 38 is the ending for the first arc that are called Book Of The White Lotus Flower and the next arc is called Book Of The Fire Phoenix.
Again, it pique my interest and I continue reading it. It filled me with so much frustration because Pang Wan except for being a bit mature, she's still useless as in the first arc. Her ideas are childish and she's become very weak because she lost all of her internal energy. She can't do martial arts anymore. Although she's dumb in the first arc, at least she was strong and can defend for herself. Now she just become a liability.
He Qing Lu is a nice male lead, I think so. He's very tsundere and most of the time, he's in the tsun mode lol. Their romance is nice, I guess. Nothing about this novel move my emotion except for frustration. The plot twists aren't worth all the trouble of reading the whole novel. I couldn't care less about the plot twists. I just want to finish it as soon as possible because I was bored out of my mind and can't dropped it because there were just a few chapters left.
In conclusion, this novel is overrated. It's a very mediocre story line with a frustrating female lead.