I realized that the story and the series will be quite different, since the original story only features Wei Rao, while the series features Wei Rao/Jun Dai/A Chou, who are visually identical. Therefore, it's not worth reading the original story, as it won't be the same as the series, right?
I just finished reading the story and it's amazing! I hope they release the drama soon, and if they're faithful to the story, it will be incredible from beginning to end. I'm just worried because the story is quite long and it seems like we'll only have 24 episodes? Even if they were hour-long episodes (which they aren't), it still wouldn't be even half the story; they probably cut a lot out.
But it should still be worth watching, I'll see what it's like.