Legend of Fei

Short review.

In the most simplest words no baseless arguments between the lead couple, irrelevant sacrifices or unnecessary love triangle and drama. The rest of the characters had a good story going on . At the beginning didn't like Li Sheng's character, I thought he was impulsive but as the story progressed, his character matured and got to learn why he acted like that at the beginning. I had no problem with the rest of the characters. All of them had good acting skills.
Wang Yibo's character Xie Yun really impressed me, him being mostly quiet while the character being talkative was definitely new to me.
I loved the OSTs they brought the right "feel" to the scenes. There wasn't over the top CGI and most things looked almost natural.
It is a wholesome drama with I little bit of everything: action, comedy(especially Xie Yun), sensible grief(not over the top exaggeration. Just the right amount). I really do wish though that Duan Jiuniang(wilted flourish palm, the eccentric lady who said she was Zhou Fei grandma)had a longer interaction with Zhou Fei. I would definitely recommend this to everyone.

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The Drama is a Masterpiece ^_^. DON'T MISS IT!!

I freakin loved this Drama because:
#My Favourite Genre WUXIA!!

#Zhao Liying and Wang Yibo (Cute and Sweet couple in this Drama)

I was waiting for a Wuxia Drama with Zhao Liying because she left me with a Impression after Princess Agents and There were many Second leads but our Female Lead A'fei like ignored all of them and had only eyes for our Male Lead (another reason why I liked the Drama) and Jealous Wang Yibo was so Cute and I loved all the Fighting Scenes of Zhao Liying and Wang Yibo in this Drama, you could see the effort they both and the whole Crew have put into this Drama. And the Character of A'fei's Cousin ( I found him Annoying ) but I loved his Love story with his Female Lead and THIS DRAMA HAS A HAPPY ENDING!!

SO, GO AND WATCH IT RIGHT NOW IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY ( I am Currently for Rewatching )

Thank you ;) for Reading My Review,I have tried my best to try not to Spoil anymore

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Only worth watching if you're fan of W Yi Bo or Zhao Li Ying

The play of main actors if nice and after a while you'll start liking their characters. The chemistry between FL and ML is also very nice to follow. There are also a two side-couples that are both funny in their own way. So the love part in those series is quite nicely done. BUT, otherwise the whole story is difficult to bear.
At the beginning the story is really messy. It is hard to follow - who went where and for what purpose. Not only this is because there are often several separate story lines going at the same time but also because antagonists goals as well as main heroes goals keep changing quickly without much connection or clear logic. Some parts of the drama are clearly cut out, loosing some plot to the point I had to rewatch one of the series twise to understand why did this shit happened....
By the middle of the drama - the logic starts to be clear - no matter what happens, and how sometimes childish or stupid main charachters behave - our heroes will win the battle and bad guys will be punished time after time ))) At this point you just stop believing in the story, because you know real people would never act like that and you know there will be some miraculous saving of their lives, and you stop taking shit seriously and worrieing for ML and FL for reals and then just all the fun of watching is gone .....))) I would say the story is a bit too fary-tale like and childish. By around 30th episode I started thinking of dropping it.... But I did finish - otherwise, how would I be eligible to write this review )))
On another hand, I f you just want an easy drama, which won't leave much heavy feelings on you, wouldn't get you glued to the screen and mesmerised by the beauty, unwilling to let any detail to slip. And you just want something to watch on your way to work ( or school) this just might be it...)
Thanks!

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Watch it Now!

I came here to specially leave a review for this drama. I was soo involved in a wuxia drama after so long and I completed this within days. Even though I like wuxia dramas my attention span is short so I drop most of them when they start getting boring or annoying but I didn't feel bored for one second in this drama. I loved all of it so much.

The story in this drama had a nice flow to it and action scenes were really good but the main driving factor of this drama would be the two main lead's chemistry and their heartwarming and unconditional love for each other. I was so in love with both of them the whole time. I loved their characters e.g. the calm, cool and talented female lead and a charming, lovely and knowledgeable male lead. Yibo was especially so smiley in this drama and he looked so good! >.<

Watch this drama now. Once you click on the 1st episode there wouldn't be any breaks ;)

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The sword and her shield + A bunch of naive and troublemaker supporting characters!

"Don't always bother about the ending. The ending you want may not be what others want. Why don't you just follow your heart? - Madaam Nichang

This whole drama as the title suggests, is all about Zhou Fei and her adventure to get stronger and powerful while protecting the oppressed people by fighting the demon sect.

Looking back... We can divide this whole drama into 3 major parts. First (1-20 episodes) would be the introduction of the FL and how her love story started and went on while improving her skills by going in missions and meeting several masters who taught her techniques to better build her martial arts skills. Second (21-40) is her pursuit to deepen her romance with Xie Yun while strengthening her skills by gradually defeating some mid to high ranking enemies. Lastly (41-51) is where she deals with everything on her way while achieving great heights with her fighting skills to vanquish the main villain and to achieve peace and order.

Everything considered, I'd say that this drama did good in terms of the FLs improvements when it comes to her martial arts skills. Although I'd also admit that some of it is simply ridiculous at some point (For example is the way she dealt with the enemies during the rare-medicinal-plant searching is plain questionable and stupid) but one thing I love about it is that they never went extremely overboard and it was a rather stable process of hardwork, strong will and perseverance.

If anything, one of the main problem I've had with this is the amount of foolish and burden side characters they have. It made the story slower and more eventful in an irritating way. I honestly felt like things could've been resolved quickly without their stupid interferance and random interventions. They're always the major reason why things are escalating badly and I hated how they constantly do it without suffering heavy consequences. Mind you!! I'm not talking about 1-3 characters here, it is beyond that! Probably around 6-7 maximum. Just imagine!!

And even when I admire and appreciate how they executed this very thought of "Stay calm, be brave and you'll win" there's always a limitation to everything! I hated how they can still freaking take their time like they're on a field trip while all the mess is happening— Sense of crisis and urgency was sacrificed for some romantic scenes... Which is stupid. And lastly, is how their kindness tends to bite them back, always. I detested the constant kindness and sympathy they showed to their enemies only to be betrayed right at the next moment.

Anyways, looking at the brighter side. I just love the CPs in this drama. Despite their incompetence and flaws, they managed to liven up the whole vibe of the show and make it more exciting and fun to watch. Of course! special mention to our Main Leads who devoured everyone in terms of chemistry. Wang Yibo's smile is so enchanting and charming that you can get lost in it. I swear!

Lastly, the Ending... I'm still hesitant whether to feel good or displeased about it. It made me go "that's it? after all the chaos and fighting?" because of how simple and fast it all went on after all the dramas. It's disappointing how they settled for less after going through great lengths to build up and intensify the whole story. It was very underwhelming and unexpected in a negative way. A waste of energy, time and money. Well, I guess, atleast they all got happy ending? Lol

P.S. "True love, means you can't even stand her eating someone else's dishes" I just love this phrase so much. + Their love language of pulling each other's hair was such a bliss to see. <3

Story - 8.0, Actually, It wasn't bad. It just that they added so much unnecessary plots and dramas that made the story boring and bland here and there. Would've been better if they stick on solving problems without making the supporting characters a bait and stop them from being completely reliant to the Main leads to rescue them. Also, they could've invested on a more signifant and impactful ending. Unfortunately... they did not!

Acting/Cast - 9.5, Acting is actually good. Oh God, Wang Yibo is mesmerizing while Zhao Liying deadass nailed it. I just wish to get more smiles from her specially during the lighter and romantic scenes. Also, better character improvement and structure for the CPs. They all shined but their roles made them seem incapable. it irked me!

Music - 9.5, The overall BGM is good and I love how I can feel at ease listening to them while watching the scenes. The only issue I got with it is that they often overlaps with the conversions in almost the same volume as the dialogues; to the point where it's distracting me already. They should've focused on better music placement and sound control i'd say.

Rewatch Value - 8.0, If i were to watch this drama again, I'd probably do a lot of skips and will only watch the moments I find memorable and fun. The story was dragged so much in the middle so watching it as a whole would be a tough job for me to do.

Overall - 8.5, This is considerably a good drama with its flaws and imperfection. I just think that improvements could've been implemented in various areas to make the characters and story more structured and exciting to watch.

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Everything in this drama is amazing. From the story/plot to the music

ZLY and WY are both one of my favourite actors, so I started this drama with a lot of eagerness and hope. And the drama definitely satisfied me. It's now part of my top five favourite dramas. And once I finished it, I could not get over the it. I think I
re-watched it again like two times after finishing it. The plot did move slowly, and I only realised that after I re-watched it because they made it up to you by keeping you occupied with something else. There were a few bit that sent me stumbling. And I definitely cried at least twice during this drama(by that I mean the acting was that good, not that the drama was that sad).

The chemistry between ZLY and WY was also great. I think you could kind of see the awkwardness, but also the love they possess for each other at the same time. All of the actors did a great job, in fact I sometimes even forgot that this was a drama and not real. I really loved ZJQ's character (Li Yan) in this. Whenever she appeared on screen I would make sure that I wasn't eating or drinking anything for fear of the fact that she would make me choke while laughing. And the chemistry between Chuchu and Li Sheng and Yang Jin and Li Yan was so cute. It was literally to die for.

As you can see from the rating I gave the music a perfect score of 10, because I personally fell in love with the music. I made sure I listened to the opening song for each and every sing episode, so that the song and music would be stuck in my head. Yeah, that's a bit weird...okay really weird, but that just shows how much I like the music for this drama. And I also felt the appropriate music was played at an appropriate time.

ALERT!THIS IS A VERY SMALL SPOILER THAT MAY OR MAY NOT AFFECT YOU!
Also if you hate dramas that have a sad ending. You don't have to worry about that for this one.
So I think on a whole this is my dream drama. It has ZLY and WY. Great plot, acting and music.
It is definitely worth your time. I recommend this drama to you a 100%. Hope you can watch and enjoy this drama like me.
❤ ❤Thanks for reading this awfully long review!❤ ❤

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Love the chemistry of Zhaoliying and WangYibo

A Fei and Xie Yun onscreen chemistry is top notch! ………..They are so natural, overall, the series is quite decent and better than many other C-Drama series. love it!……… I recommend you to be patient when watching it, the beginning is a bit slow and a bit hard to understand but later on you realise that everything has sense. This is the best wuxia drama performed by the great and adorable actress, Zhao Liying and a Yi Bo. Their strong CP chemistry will melt your heart. ………Liying break her own record again and will definitely be inspired by Yibo. They are the rare jewels of China and Asia…………..and make audience happy with their acting skill.....Hopefully can seen them in another project together in the future……..

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Watch for the Love, don't pay close attention to the Plot, and you'll be in for some enjoyable time.

Legend of Fei was one of the most anticipated Cdrama ever, with a meaty original story, a mostly capable and well-loved cast; interested parties invested a lot into the project so it was definitely not lacking in resources. With that many things going for it, you'd think the drama would be good if they just treat it well enough, yet it fell short in so many aspects.

The story is a coming of age classic - thrown into a turbulent world, our young, inexperienced protagonists proceed to learn new, terrible and beautiful things from people (old and young) they meet along the way, make friends, and find love and their places in the world - but this time it is a wuxia with a female lead. The drama focuses on the romance between FL and ML, which is rooted in deep respect, where Xie Yun truly admired Zhou Fei and yearned for the life in her, and Zhou Fei saw herself reflected in XY's eyes and came to really know and value herself. It is *chef's kiss*. Having read the novel, I am most interested in how they present that story.

Camera work and editing - 4/10
It is just horrendous. The framing and camera angles are so often odd and confusing. The transition between scenes is very abrupt at times. Some sequences of shots are either weird or monotonous. The techniques and effects employed can be the very opposite of effective (shaky camera, zoom...). For a wuxia, the fight scenes are rarely good or exciting, with a lot of weird focusing (mostly put on the actors' faces). I grew up watching wuxia, and in this LoF is worse than wuxia from 15 years ago. This is at a level that is impossible to overlook and highkey disruptive to the story telling.

Acting/cast - 6.5/10
I have to say, everyone in this drama is really really good-looking (even compared to other really good-looking cast), the costume and styling contributed greatly (the bangs, though, is a sore spot).
+ Leads:
When I read the novel, I thought ZLY and WYB are perfect for their roles. ZLY's look, with her big, expressive eyes and pure, radiant countenance, suits Zhou Fei's aura to a tee. Xie Yun is perfect for WYB to show his many expressions and playfulness which I saw in the BTS of The Untamed.
Overall, their performance seems solid, but not captivating. The chemistry is off and on, with the best of it found at around the middle, when ZF realized she cared for XY deeply and that she could lose him, but she was not the type to show it openly, and XY was aware of their feelings but refrained, to keep her at a distance from a dying man, so they just kept to teasing and bantering, while obviously cared for each other so much. The tension there was just delicious.
I think ZLY studied ZFei very closely and tried to portray her in an understated way, and she really went for it. However, there is a certain lack of energy to her portrayal, which undermined ZF's determination and sharpness. ZLY seemed unfocused in many scenes in the beginning (and her aura was kinda too mature for the naive ZF), and when ZF has opened up, at times I found ZLY just smiled softly and prettily, not brought out a particular emotion. Her most emotional scenes are quite lackluster. The zoomed in camera and thick, sometimes overly white make up also did not help her.
WYB did fine and appeared natural enough, but somehow, his portrayal of XY seemed very surface-level. I find that he had talent and a special sensitivity which wowed me in The Untamed, but did not impress here. For the two leads, I'd give an 8. Their acting was good but did not hit hard when it came to the important parts. The voice dubbing did not help, either, with ZF's sounding too soft and mumbling, and XY's high-pitched laughters being a little off.
+ Supporting roles:
I liked most of the supporting actors and actresses for the good and grey side. They were convincing and attractive (except for some annoying characters like Li Yan and that Third Prince). I applauded Chen Ruo Xuan and most of the actors/actresses for the senior roles.
However, the acting for the bad guys really got on my nerves. They all had some kind of evil laughs, evil-scheming expressions and some comical exaggerated evil gestures. There are like 7 or 8 bad guys, and it got boring and irritating.

The writing - 5.5/10
Gosh, this is the bane of the drama. The writing was all over the place and it made all the previous imperfections stand out. Looking back, I think on paper I like the direction they took for many characters and I believe it could work. But somehow when put together, the whole thing felt very loose and redundant. In theory, I like Li Sheng's development process, Li Yan - Yang Jin - Ying He Cong trio's adventures, Ying He Cong's whole story, the invention of Hu Tian Ying character,...

That makes me think of why, and I came to realize these problems:
- So many pointless happenings and chit-chats that it made the pace uneven and really drag at times.
- So many illogical and stupid things, minor and major (Chuchu's brother, the conflicting plans of Xie Yun at Hua Rong, characters suddenly lost and died when they were winning two seconds before, characters stopped to chat while being chased by the enemy, a general took a walk alone in the forest with the most hunted girl and left her there, Hu Tian Ying's plan at 48 Zhai...) Every episodes had some of them, and there are just too many to list them all.
- Dialogues were arranged and written in a very boring manner, even those taken from the books were not put in effectively.
- LoF had the skill to tell back-stories in the most unspiring way ever. The scenes from the past were very cliche and dull. I wish they had left some of it to our imagination. Sometimes less is more.
- They took away brain cells of almost every character. They all made dumb decisions at some point, with the lucky ones did it like 2, 3 times and unlucky characters were just hopeless. The bad guys were especially stupid (their plans were like child's plays, they forgot their plans halfway, they did not give chase when they were winning and kept rushing to death when they should escape,...) There was this man at 48 Zhai that was always loud and brash and dumb, when he's not like that in the novel. I find this treatment of his character so problematic and off-putting. A lot of senior characters were turned incapable and witless to make the younger generation smarter and better, which is just... NO. And the fact that most villains were older did not help this impression.
- The dumbing down of the whole story. All characters lost some edge to their personality. Everything was held together by the thinnest thread of logic.

I think the main reason for this is, so many scenes were written just for the sake of increasing screen time for certain characters, to have something (anything) happen, or to create drama (the whole love story between Li Sheng - Chu Chu - Yin Pei was just... ugh). The story was not driven forward by our characters, but by the writers doing whatever they like.

Music - 8
Wu Hua and one or two other songs sound nice, but the way they added it to create Moments is quite repetitive and not effective.

Conclusion: There are certain enjoyable and cute moments. Characters are likable enough. The relationship between the leads is lovely and quite well-built. Don't watch it too closely and you'll be fine. Just go in for some light-hearted fun and cuteness. (Also, watch it for the hot people!)

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Don't Even Bother -

The quality of this drama is so bad that I am here write this review. My first review on MDL ever.

Unless you're watching LOF for the actors, do not watch this drama. The plot is super faulty. Not cohesive at all. It's like person 1 wrote eps 1-3 and then person 2 wrote 4-6 without reviewing what person 1 wrote.

ZF's character is super stiff - very different from the novel. There is more character growth for the side characters than the main. Towards the 2nd half, you wonder if this story is still about ZF. Is she really the center of this story? Like if you take her out of the plot, the story will probably still continue.

Production work is just bad. A group of film students with no experience can do better. Just pure wonky - The lighting is never consistent. Half the time, the character's faces aren't lit. Camera compositions are off - or you wonder why you're looking at one thing when the characters are talking about something entirely different. There's zero visual storytelling. What the dialogue says is what you will probably see.

When a production crew loves the work they do, it will be obvious to the viewers. Unfortunately for LOF, the message I received from their production crew is, "let's just get this over with and make money." Why this drama has such high ratings is unknown to me.

You may ask, "if you hate it so much, why did you finish the whole thing?" Welp, I don't know how to answer that. I just know, when I think back, the only memorable part is in Episode 1 where there’s a Wang Yibo sitting a tree wearing nice black robes.

(I just want to say, actors do not determine the success of a film/drama. Good story, good script, good directors, good technical hands, and more are ALL equally important.)

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Wuxia Drama

WangYibo acting is improved and he can perform his active & cheerful character very well. He can show with his eyes about Xie Yun really fall in love to Zhou fei. Overall Script and story is not bad but not excellent & still have some flaws . I really enjoy watching as wuxia drama and will re-watch again. OST are nice and match with storyline. Fighting / action scenes are good and nice especially zly and yibo ones . If story phase of drama is a bit fast in first 15 episodes, will be more nice. I like happy ending of drama .
There are a few wuxia drama series in these days , plenty of xianxia drama . I like to watch Chinese wuxia drama since I was young. That is why I like and enjoy “legend of fei” although it has some flaws.

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So worth rewatching

It’s one of my favorite dramas now. I love the cast and the story line and the music that I’m planning to rewatch so many times. I watched this because of wang yibo, now I can see how much his acting improved from when he first started. I’m not putting any spoilers here because if you want to know what happened you have to watch it yourself. But I PROMISE ITS WORTH WATCHING. If you don’t have IQIYI you can watch it with subs on dramacool or YouTube.
When the story first starts it may be a little boring, but after a fei help xie yun in the start they start a friendship. Then they help each other along the trip. When the poison in xie yun started killing him, it’s really a cliff hanger after the episode end and you have wait the next day to watch it.
In the story it shows what friendship, romance, and bravery can do

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