A Journey to Love

Love in All Forms

She is the famed assassin, Ren Ru Yi. He is the famed leader of the Wu State's Six Realms Hall, Ning Yuan Zhou. Together alongside free-spirited Yu Shi Yan, intelligent and cunning Yuan Lu, stern and courageous Qian Zhao, as well as the young and brave Princess Yang Ying, they journey to the State of An as Wu State's escort delegation to save their king. Along their journey, they encountered brotherhood, sisterhood, friendship, love, growth, loyalty, betrayal, glory, and death.

This was a surprisingly funny drama despite its patriotic task of a delegation journey. There is suspense with every challenge, yet the humor packed in this drama is enough to give you a breather amidst the heavy responsibilities that each character carries. This is one of the few dramas that will make you fall in love and root for the supporting characters. Aside from the well-written and well-paced story, the character development here were also very evident. I particularly like how there remains a constant amount of action scenes throughout the drama with the respective characters all continuously showing their martial arts skills until the end.

They team did well in casting Liu Shi Shi and Liu Yu Ning as lead roles. Both actors exudes the charisma, intelligence, and power befitting for each of their characters. The build up of their chemistry was full of humor, flirtation, and cuteness while their love was a mature love built on mutual respect and trust. However, what stole the show are not the two leads but rather the supporting actors playing the team of Wu State's delegation envoys. All the actors did a great job at portraying each characters very distinctive personalities. Watching them would make you feel like you're part of the group and part of the journey, feeling what all the characters are feeling. I would like to give a shoutout to the He Lan Dou. She was amazing at acting out Princess Yang Ying who cosplayed as a prince. Not to mention the side burns. It made her nailed her role as a princess cosplaying as a prince.

The production quality of this drama was enough to be called top tier. The action scenes were impeccably done with all the figure actors doing their job well, the set and costume were beautiful, the visual effects were great, and the OSTs as well as the sound effects were perfect at supporting the whole nuance and build up of the story. Even from the start, this drama makes you feel what the characters are feeling and you can already expect a bittersweet ending despite your hopes for a miracle in the end.

A Journey to Love is definitely one of the dramas worth praising for its high quality production, script, and casting. The drama lives up to its fame and easily makes it to my recommended list!

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i love this drama huhuhu

oh i love Liu Yuning and Liu Shishi in this drama. Their performance really captivated me when I saw this drama. I also like all the cast, they tell the story very well!

I watched this drama and finished it in 3 days.

acting, ost, production, story, visual effects, cinematography and other small details are really beautiful in this drama. I keep putting off watching this drama because I find it quite difficult to finish dramas with lots of episodes and heavy conflicts. but this drama refutes all my principles!

This is like watching the film Train To Busan, namely a storyline that leads to a place with various conflicts and obstacles experienced. I really like how all the characters develop and find their best point. However, in episodes 35-39 I didn't watch it because I couldn't bear to see the characters die one by one.

I hope to watch similar dramas like this again.

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Be prepared to cry your heart out!!

where do I start? This drama is truly great. The female lead is so badass and strong. She doesn't need no man to save her. Who would've thought she would find a guy ask him to give her baby and actually fall in love with him?

She was raised as a Scarlett guard which are assassin's. she was the left red envoy, the highest rank possible and she was a favourite of the empress. However the empress died and the emperor blamed her, having her executed.

She of course does not die and instead hides under a new identity. her goal is to find out who betrayed the empress and made her the scapegoat. So by a twist of fate she meets the ML. Their chemistry was amazing and their acting skills on point.

We watch them journey together to her home country bec the ml has a mission to complete for the state of wu to get their emperor back who's a war prisoner. This is how the ml and fl get stuck together and feelings develop.

The ml is so caring to her and a raging jealous idiot that causes them to fight. However they show us how truly mature couples should handle fights like that and talk about. (although not always in the beginning, they do eventually talk about their issues) in a very mature way, listening to each other and not imposing their opinions or ideas on one another and actually admitting their wrongs and changing their behaviour in correspondence.

The side characters are an absolute blast as well. they give us that comedic touch that just makes this show all the more better. For one they are the main couples number one shippers and try their best to help them out, they add on some hilarious comments or some funny actions. the comedy did not felt forced and it was natural per scene they added it too. it was just fitting.

All this leads up to a very dramatic war between the different states and a tribe. In said battles all the side characters die one by one, it leaves us with a very heart shattering feeling. You will definitely get so attached to them and seeing them die will make you cry your eyes out.

they don't have time to mourn however as the war continues, it eventually leads up to our ml dying in order to save his wife's first disciple. they win the war and the fl just feels empty without him and sees no purpose to live anymore and blows herself up along with the enemies saving the country.

the open ending we get was a tad confusing and left me flabbergasted. it's 10 or so years later and we see a bow on a horse making his way towards a woman who back then had feelings for one of the side characters. the boy was named after said character and they talk. he tells them all about his parents who sound like our main couple. she wants to see them so the boy agrees and takes her to them and that's where it ends. it leaves us to speculate they faked their deaths and are now living happily with their two kids.

so yeah prepare for emotional trauma. it's very worth watching you'll just cry a lot.

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Wasted Potential

If the plot and pacing could be on par with its characters building and their acting, this will be my top drama of all time.

Acting: The chemistry between the two main leads is really great! Their acting is wonderful, and I really enjoyed watching them interact. The supporting characters' acting are good, with some better than others.

Storyline: Pretty good, but some plot points and dialogue can be predictable at times.

The tiny nuggets of comedy (accompanied by the impeccable sound effects timing) in the drama are gold, highlighting the characters' relationship and personalities.

The first half of the show makes this my new favorite c-drama, while the second half is a big let down. The pacing was thrown off and the plot became messy. The story became rushed and I find myself unable to enjoy it as much. I feel that it became needlessly too heavy, with things happening (character deaths) seemingly for the sake of it and served no true purpose.

The beauty of this drama lies in its characters and yet the chemistry between the characters are butchered and lost in the plot and pacing of the second half. Such wasted potential of incredible characters and their personalities and acting.

Rewatch value: 100/10 for the first half, 3/10 for the second. That being said, I would still recommend this drama if you are looking to experience some romance, laughter and tears. Hope that you will fall in love with the characters, main or supporting, just like I did.

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The type of FMC I've been looking for!

I was initially skeptical of the cdrama when it looked like Ren Ruyi was a weak FMC at the start of the first episode. But imagine my surprise when it turned out she was just pretending to be weak and was actually a strong FMC the entire time! I love strong female characters, but I love it even more when they have fighting skills. When Ruyi's skills were revealed, I knew she was going to be one of my favorite FMCs of all time.

Princess Yang Ying's character development was on par; she went from someone who cries whenever something goes wrong to someone who is levelheaded and assertive. Props to the screenwriter for that!

The OSTs were everything. I loved every single track. I frequently use the BGM OSTs as background music for when I study; they're so motivating.

The thing I disliked most about this cdrama was the ending. It was just death after death—the heroes, along with Ruyi, end up dying. It was overall a very unfulfilling ending in my opinion. The ending closes with Chu Yue and Ning Shisan (apparently the son of Ren Ruyi and Ning Yuanzhou), and I agree with everyone out there who says it should've closed with Yang Ying instead of Chu Yue. Chu Yue wasn't even part of the delegation, and her character only becomes more prominent near the end, so it didn't really make sense for the story to close with her. I also think that some characters who died should not have died (e.g., Wu Di, so many sacrifices had been made to save him only for him to die?).

There were so many missed opportunities for Li Tongguan's redemption. It kept getting dragged out! (He did get there eventually, though.) He's like a kid throwing a tantrum, and his character is inconsistent and unpredictable—there are times when he's levelheaded and other times, not so much, because of his jealousy towards Ning Yuanzhou.

Despite the unfulfilling ending and a few minor flaws, I did enjoy this drama!

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Long time watched a good drama except ending.

Li Tong Guang character is the one worst character, his world shrunk into romance for the Ren Ruyi. His obsessions are irritating, he can't see meaning of master and disciple, he romanticize and some times tooke advantage, a weird kind of obsession in other meaning a stalker like individual. One of the worst character. Ren Ruyi always stayed her boundaries and but he always crossed the boudriries .

Ren Ruyi character action scenes always emphasized by writer. Ning Yuan Zhou character action scenes under utilised. Writer gives better and same improtance for ML it's give better impact.

Overall, visuals and story is good each and every scenes captivating. Except the ending of the drama everything is good. Writer can write superficial action scenes but didn't give the better and happy ending for main leads. Even, Li Tong Guang character and same as support roles got good ending but main leads got sad ending.

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one word that best describes this show: EPIC

I just want to start off by saying Legend of Fuyao has been my number one show of all time until I finished Journey to Love. I recently finished story of pearl girl where I fell in love with Liu Yuning and found this drama after looking up all his dramas. It took me at least 10 episodes to finally really get into the show but once I was in, I couldn’t stop. Everyone was saying they hated the ending and I saw spoilers that it was a sad ending. However, I felt the ending was very fitting to the story. I actually felt it was a happy ending since everyone got the same ending? But I also hated how they threw in that last 5 min scene that kind of threw everything off and didn’t really make sense.

sound track was amazing. I started rewatching it again immediately after finishing but I think I stopped because I needed to detox my obsession over this show.

oh and I am a sucker for morally gray main leads but Liu Yunings character was straight up green flag but I wasn’t mad about it one bit. It was refreshing watching a nontoxic power couple.

Lasty, the chemistry of the whole cast was what really sold it for me. Alen Feng’s character was a standout. I loved his duality of providing comedic moments throughout the show and finishing off with more mature serious moments. Oh and I forgot about the princess, I was amazed with her character growth.

I could go on and on but I highly recommend this to everyone.

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very entertaining...but was that ending really necessary?

This is a sad ending drama but I would say it shouldn't be a reason for you to not watch the show. The screentime given to the leads is alot so you will feel satisfied while watching. They have many funny and cute moments together. Their fighting scenes are really good since both of them are experts so when they fight together they have amazing chemistry.

I feel like the director choreographed and filmed the martial arts scene well with some really fancy movements. The politics in this drama I would say is not so important. The entire drama is about a journey and how they get through state by state solving political issues along the way.

This is now my third Liu Yuning drama and I am really enjoying his acting. I feel its very well paced and not over the top! First time seeing Liu Shishi but she was really good in this as well as a cold and level headed assassin. I loved their squad, cause they were his wingmen and they were so funny trying to push the leads together.

The war in the last few episodes felt very out of place honestly. Although the acting was amazing for each member but I feel like even if that war portion did not exist the drama could have ended peacefully...

Overall still a very good watch. I will rewatch their cute and funny moments often~

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