I never watched the original, but could be tempted. I decided to watch this as browsing through netflix and was not disappointed! Absolutely loved it binge watched the whole thing as I couldn't stop thinking about it and needed to know if daoming si and shancai would be together in the end! Loved everything about all of the characters and as many people have said the outfits were great. My favourite character was daoming si of course, Dylan Wang played it perfectly and really felt all the love he had for shancai. May re watch as I'm sad now I've finished it