(Average+) Raven of the Inner Palace

Series in one sentence:
Ghost whisperer is trapped in the most haunted building in the world.

Series in more sentences:
A young palace resident with the revered ability to connect with the spirit world, yet left in solitary confinement, is one day visited by the new emperor with a seemingly random request. Soon, more mysteries concerning the many deaths in and around the palace are unravelled, until Shouxue's origin itself is also looked into by the curious emperor.

He learns of the important connection they share, but also the assumed disaster that may unfold by being in each other's presence.

It starts off alright, but the relationship between the psychic and the emperor is given a backseat for these Saturday morning cartoon Ghostbuster storylines. Every episode features a new ghost haunting the palace -a supposed victim of murder or suicide- which brings me to another personal complaint: I don't really like these Asian emperor palace settings. There's nothing romantic about a building filled with slaves, emperor brides, discarded children, and castrated male servants. It's absolutely tragic, and I can't stop thinking about it whenever a casual storyline is presented.

Honestly, these side stories could've been their own anime. Definitely not all, but some were tragic enough to warrant a full spotlight, because as of now, they just interrupted the one story I wanted to learn about when I clicked to watch this anime. That of Shouxue.
For some reason both she and the emperor are so enthralled in the act of helping wandering ghosts, there're more busy with that than bonding with each other, and I'll accept Shouxue wanting to investigate; it's more or less her job and it's not like she has anything else to do, but why is the emperor involved?

Psychic Princess was highly flawed, and arguably Raven of the Inner Palace is better constructed, but I liked the romance aspect in that a million times better. I wanted to know Shouxue's story, the emperor's story, their story, I don't care about all these other characters sobbing about their incestuous love interest or lute-obsessed colleague..

The ending doesn't have the big climax it thinks it does and is left open, and spoilers, Shouxue and the emperor are just friends who blush at each other sometimes. Good, I suppose, since he acknowledges her to be a child, but those are modern day sensibilities.