Legend of Fu Yao (2018)

Good war drama

I've been watching this drama for a long time, this is one of the first 5 Chinese dramas I watch as I remember. At first I didn't know if the story would turn out like this (unexpected) and I really like it if the female lead is like Fuyao! he is great and superwoman. Their chemistry is very good and they match here, maybe there are some episodes that are too monotonous on the issue of war, but it's still good, before this was the first Yangmi drama I watched and I immediately thought she was the most beautiful woman in china hehe, you know this drama exists On YouTube, when the ending song in each episode when Fuyao wears a purple shirt, it's really pretty, I like it.

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The best drama I have ever watched in my life!

How should I begin this review? With all sincerity, after watching almost all fantasy Chinese dramas, I though I would never find a drama to completely adore.
Even trough Ashes of Love, Eternal love etc I skipped some parts that I thought were boring, but I never skipped a part of this drama. I lived it as I was there, part of the cast, and also daydreaming about it.

For some reason, after watching Eternal Love, even if I heard about Legend of Fuyao, I didn't want to watch it until I wanted to give it a try.

The first episode, was a little confusing to me, I thought "good, but probably I am going to drop it later on". The second episode got me so hooked that I was jumping on my bed and my eyes hurt from watching episode after episode haha.

Let's start with with the main actors.

Gosh, I fell in love with Ethan Juan, he deserves an Oscar for his acting, the way he flirted in this drama made me blush and scream like a little girl, then his moments of pain, of courage and total devotion. I am sure you will love him as much as I do.
Yang Mi, I thought her acting and chemistry with Ethan was way, way, way better than in Eternal Love.

This is also first time for me when I actually searched on youtube my favorite scenes of the drama, created a playlist and re-watched them.

I even loved and watched the other love stories and stories of this drama, I didn't feel bored of watching the evil actors, or the second couple, or the other characters, that's how good this drama is.

The music is fantastic, 10 out of 10.

This drama is divided in two parts, so don't be scared that it will change at some point. I personally loved that, it felt like I watched two great dramas in just one.
I felt like it was that way to show the real growth of their love story, the young one that is without real pain, when everything is butterflies and the second one which is more mature and carved with difficulties.

I could have said more and give you an insight about everything, but I don't want to ruin the joy of living it by yourselves.

And now with tears in my eyes because it actually finished, I am going to re-watch it again...the downside of it is that it is so short :(

Ah, now I feel so sad, really amazing, amazing drama.

Good job, cast, director, writer, soundtrack, effects, costumes.

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Killing one's inner witch is a bad idea :-)

Having another wusia drama with Yang Mi and Someone Damn Handsome the first thing that comes to mind is to try to compare it with the Etenal Love. With the Legend of Fu Yao that would be a great mistake to do since this is not a love story even though it unfolds as the one and we are teased with some gorgeous scenes of half-naked Ethan. This is rather a "road adventure" with a bunch of great characters who are on a quest through the 5 worlds to bring back their powers, which is a totally different genre, beautiful in its own way. But, once you get that, you are not dissapointed with something that IS NOT happening here. If we disregard the major failure in the plot around Fu Yao's battle on "killing her inner witch" somewhere at the end of show (which is pointless and inconsistent and, the worst is that I start smelling this early on and this is the only thing that prevented me from giving this show the highest rate), the whole other process of her empowerment is smooth and beautiful. The 5 kingdoms are aaaamaazing, each having its own style. My compliments to the crew. The costumes of main couple's royal wedding are jaw dropping. But my biggest gratitude is to the composer. There aren't many tracks here, but those few are superb. I finished this drama almost a year ago and still keep them on my playlist marked as favs. With a few shortfalls that I have just mentioned, this is still a good show with its own vibe and I may even rewatch it some day (which I don't do often). Too bad it is not a love story, though. The chemistry between the main leads is fantastic.

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ONE OF MY BEST FAVORITE

Legend of FuYao is one of my favorite. Ethan Ruan, Yang Mi had strong chemistry together (Just like Yang Mi with Mark Chao). I love Ethan Ruan here who's manipulative, loyal, high intelligent, sexy, flirty. 66 episodes is a long one, honestly I didn't watch the last 10-8 episodes, skipped till the end. The best episode was ep 17, 21, you know what I meant....lol. But in serious note, the story was great, acting amazing, Soundtrack awesome, a lot of outdoor scenes. Although so many so in visual effect that I don't like, I can over look it as part of enrichment in scenes. Ethan Ruan fitted as Emperor, very imposing figure with distinguish appearance, fallen in love with him just because he did an amazing acts. Ethan Ruan and Yang Mi dynamic - they're compatible in their performance, although I've never seen Ethan in any drama before so to me he was beyond expectation. Fu Yao and Zhang Sun Wu Ji's love affair is a bitter sweet courting.
Gao Wei Guan was kind of a naive but an excellent general...the girl that he married to, is kind of match with his character, serious battle-worn general with happy go lucky dedicated princess who's been in love, adore and follow him around.

Huang YaoMing do great here, first love of FuYao but he betrayed her love for ambition encourage by his father, sorry but he end up dead. So many memorable characters - the supporting actors did tremendous good job - good or bad guys - what a team work. Final scene though is quite disappointing, it still great but wish it ended better.....were they live happily in heaven or mortal world? I mean it's a 'sad ending' if they're dead and happily in heaven as appears in the background sets. I gave 10 overall score just because you don't see a costume drama leading man bared flirting with a girl at the pool...kind of awesome scene. Yang Mi took the credit for Ethan Ruan skill to flirt!!

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Mixed Feelings

So I feel like I have a lot of mixed feelings about LOF. I definitely love the way it started out. Hands down so good. But the end half is super rough. The thing that bothered me the most was the constant reuse of themes (Captured moms, evil brothers, getting knocked out every 5 mins, constant poisoning, blood spitting, etc.). I wish they would have spent more time on the seals and maybe she would have needed to unlock/activate each seal in order to change her tragic fate... ? As in, I wish that was the focus of the story. Her journey to unlock the seals as well as her love story with Wu Ji and their entangled destiny. In a way it was but it was more behind the other stories. I would have liked to know more about the seals and their origins and all that jazz.

Also, I feel like the 2nd half had so much more focus on Wu Ji and that annoys me because Fu Yao is kick-ass and this is HER story. It's called Legend of Fu Yao, not Legend of Wu Ji. It also felt very draggy. It was kind of a struggle there to get through ep42-54ish.

However, I really do love Fu Yao and Wu Ji. I really felt they were destined regardless of the ending, they would be together. I really feel like one cannot live without the other. I just love them. Him yelling at her to leave in the last episode, I felt that. He was so panicked for her to leave and live on.

Also also, I love the friendships. Just the bond between their little family group is so heartwarming. Seeing them fight together in the last 2 episodes made me wish we had seen more of their group together. I wish we would have been able to see them in good times as well as bad together. Even sharing a meal or drinking together would have been really nice. I love those kinds of scenes.

Overall, I enjoyed the drama and I feel like it's given me a push to find other Wuxia dramas that are going to scratch the itch I feel like LOF left me with. Not that this was at all bad but like I want more. More fighting, more powers but with less reused storylines.

Would Recommend
Would Not Re-watch (Mostly because it's 66 episodes long)

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the best c-drama i've ever watched with the beautiful story, good cinematography and the amazing acting from all casts.i watched this series for the first time is because yangmi, i'm yangmi fans. but from this series i totally be ethan fans too. his acting performance is very good. he is talented actor. i wish can see him and yangmi again in another series, if can i prefer in modern series. for acting, i think all casts did their good jobs not only main role, all support role actually their role very well. i like all ost from this series too, the background music is very suitable for every scene too.i think this series is deseves to rewatched again. i definitely will buy the dvd too.

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An unimpressive start but developed beautifully

My initial reaction at the start of the drama was not great - I thought it was going to be boring. But I hung on and the story got more and more intriguing as the plot thickened, and then the mysteries started to unravel bit by bit as they moved from kingdom to kingdom. Easily the top 5 Chinese dramas I had ever watched in recent years.

Acting was great and the character development especially of the hero, Wu Ji, was fantastic. There was an excellent mix of gut wrenching and comic moments. Yang Mi and Ethan Ruan had very good chemistry. The moments when Wu Ji teased and flirted with Fu Yao were hilarious. There were some draggy moments with the story around the general and his silly stalker but not much. It was a nice development too with Fu Yao moving on with her life as her early romantic relationship broke down - quite unlike a lot of Chinese dramas when the heros and heroines kept hanging on their love ones, which is unrealistic.

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Absolutely beautiful! An outstanding job done by all the cast, and crew. Especially Ethan Ruan/Juan and Yang Mi. The chemistry between Ethan Ruan and Yang Mi's characters was so real that every sad moment, every time one of their lives were on the line, every time they were happy you felt it. Beautiful sets, architecture and clothing. I'm looking forward to seeing Ethan Ruan in more roles because I enjoyed seeing him perform, Yang Mi too, snotty tears and all <3

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Must watch , great pace, loved it !

Story is great and well paced . We see a who doesn't know her identity girl going to through hardships to become mature empress at the end . Still playful though. Fu yao is orphan living as slave then it gets exciting when she meets wu ji crown prince of megrez who she believes is imposter , it gets exciting when she learns kung fu under water .
As the story proceeds she gets stronger each time as she lifts seals put on her , gets to know her identity as queen of xuanxi , meeting wu ji in each sect and becoming inseparable and completing their tasks very tactfully.
Ending feels rushed though happy although it is some people are confused it is happy we as non Chinese speakers couldn't understand but i saw a review of a Chinese speaker which says do not be fooled by how fuyao talks about hypothetical world and they may have died , no lived as shown in next scene. So it is happily ever after for the two

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This OTP tops the chemistry chart

I am normally quite picky when it comes to main leads chemistry. This drama is worth the watch for the chemistry alone. Other reasons why I like it are:
- The couple communicate and grow on the same journey to add more layers to the story
- HOT, Ethan and Yang Mi are a hot couple, a powerful hot couple
- The visuals: Costumes, settings, etc are beautifully done
- The fight scenes: I love the direction of the fight scenes in this drama, especially scenes with enough skin showing to be hot but not overly sexual
- The way the OTP touch and tease each other

I could go on, but I hope that you give it a chance and try it out yourself.

It's not perfect, but it's a wonderful, memorable experience.

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