I watched this series for the first time in 2024. As I am hooked for the past two years or so to binge watching Chinese dramas, I have to say that this 14 year old series is the absolute best. It lands on you like a ton of bricks. Perfection, perfection, perfection! Naming a few would not do justice to the rest, who moved as one to deliver this story. Superb work went into the translation too. That did justice to the scriptwriter and to the actors delivering the lines, because it let us, the non Chinese, fully enjoy this masterpiece too. I saw comments from people yearning for more, and hoping for remakes. That would not do. A masterpiece is a masterpiece. One cannot conceive of a second "Casablanca", or a second "Rashomon". One can only watch the original, again and again and again.