I’ve never seen Bai Lu in anything before, and I’m impressed with her pulling off all three different stages of Zhaoyao’s life. Xu Kai’s character is relatively underdeveloped, but he’s so cute and loves Zhaoyao so much and that’s more than enough for the role. He’s like the dock that’s always waiting for Zhaoyao to return, while Zhiyan is the wind that constantly pushes her on her way. All his scenes with Zhaoyao are adorable. He has always loved Zhaoyao unconditionally, and does anything she asks of him without exceptions. He actually recognized her! He spends much of the drama enjoying her failed attempts at killing and/or seducing him. He remembered all her grand dreams even when she forgot them. Unknown to Zhaoyao, Li Chenlan has been in love with her since she saved him. “After I have given up on those dreams, I just realized now that someone else has been continuing it for me.” – Zhaoyao when she realized Li Chenlan has building the world she dreams of. In her attempts to rejoin her sect and interactions with Qin Zhiyan and Li Chenlan, she slowly regains her belief in humanity and remembers her original dreams. Since Zhaoyao is partly dead, she also has to maintain strength by doing good deeds in exchange for money for the dead. Through their journey together, the two women learn from and support each other in a way that I haven’t seen in a female-female relationship in a wuxia-esque drama in forever. In the book at least, Zhiyan even takes over the sect in the end and continues to build Zhaoyao’s dreams.
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Similarly, Zhaoyao spent day after day teaching Zhiyan how to fight, how to talk, and how to stand up for herself. Zhiyan repeatedly pushes Zhaoyao out of her comfort zone, tells her over and over again that she deserves to be and already is loved, and forces Zhaoyao to be true to herself. She’s terrified to even talk to strangers, but forces herself to be brave for the people who she cares about。 She is indecisive and timid and far from a hero, but once she has her mind made up she won’t give up. When her father was murdered, the sheltered Qin Zhiyan escapes from the righteous sects to avenge him and protect herself. Meanwhile, Qin Zhiyan (Xiao Yan) is the body that Zhaoyao shares after coming back from death. Zhaoyao: Who would be so shameless as to want to care for the most wicked person alive? Zhiyan: I’m that shameless. All this happens in the first five episodes! Enraged by this sign of betrayal, she goes back to her sect undercover and spends every day trying to seduce and/or kill Li Chenlan. When she magically returns from death, she finds that her acres of traps and torture equipment have all been converted to pastures and tools for the villagers.
The youth she saved, Li Chenlan (Xu Kai), takes over her sect and rebuilds it in her original vision. She sets out to build a ruthless empire, killing both her mentor and her old dreams along the way.įive years later, the “righteous” sects gang up on her and she is killed. After being told repeatedly she’s wicked by everyone, Zhaoyao chooses to become wicked. Her mentor ends up killing her grandfather while she saves the youth. Yet when he condemns to death an innocent youth prophecied for evil, she is horrified and rebels against him. Zhaoyao (Bai Lu) starts off as a young girl fed naive visions of helping her people “become good” by her mentor and first crush.
Everyone becomes out of character and the plot is a mix of cringe+boring+? after that.
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Update: You should stop watching the moment Zhaoyao explodes because that is when the series also explodes as they go into original content. The romance plot reminds me of The Disguiser, with the male lead being in love with not just the female lead but her visions for the world. One of them is pushed into wickedness after being called so by the leader of the land, but the other believes in her even after the world has deemed her wicked. It reminds me of Wicked the musical with its polar-opposite female leads who share a room and who change each other for good. The currently-airing drama is still a funny, cute rom-com at heart, but it’s one of the few wuxia that treats its female leads’ ambitions no different than a male lead. The Legends招摇 might be the best wuxia-ish drama with a female lead out yet (I know, low bar), and the three leads might have my favorite drama lead dynamic since The Disguiser. Featuring two female leads with character flaws and character growth, The Legends has one of the best written female friendships of late.
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