The premise for this series is so overdone. It seems like every other Chinese Costume Drama starts off in the modern world and ends up in a VR game version of ancient China. This set-up needs to stop. Having said that, this costume drama somehow won me over, reluctantly, to the point that it is now my guilty pleasure drama.

The FL definitely started off as the stereotypical annoying brat, but I prefered this to the docile, perpetual victim self-pitying human doormat trope. She may be uneducated, uncultured, and loud (nothing wrong with being loud if you are also intelligent, but if you aren't, then it's annoying). Over time, however, her natural charm and relatability won me over, and she stopped being annoying.

She was kind, and cared about people, and like all of us, enjoyed lusting after all the hot guys in her VR reverse-harem. Gong Jun's character is the overly stern and cold prince type who doesn't treats the FL quite badly but she chooses him over the SML who literally sacrificed everything for her. That's a rather unfortunate trope that the self-sacrificing lover doesn't get the girl, but the lover that treats her badly does.

Anyway, this isn't meant to be a deep, thoughtful drama. It's meant to be an entertaining and fun watch, which it is.