Rampie

Yeah this drama is so interesting. Obviously the ending for these type of drama is predictable (the government will win, leads will choose/prioritize loyalty to the party over everything else like family/friends) but the journey of them cracking down corrupt government officials and the gangster-like boss is always interesting. There's a lot of crime cdramas but this subset of it where they're fighting government corruption is quite rare.

Mainland? I grew up reading western fairy tales, comics, cartoons, watch movies/dramas and the good guys protagonists always win there also, lmao. Why didn't Palpatine, Sauron, or Voldemort win? They all really should've won realistically speaking instead of all the uncool goody two shoes.

I thought he's guaranteed to be the good guy ML but by ep 6 he feels shady too.

Wan Peng's character here is just so cool and her acting is just so good. She should really play in more realistic dramas instead of doing the same "bright FL" role in idol dramas over and over again.

That's because the original story (novel) target demographic is males but drama adaptation needs to cater to females since most drama watchers are females. Well, if there's season 2 he will get the FL eventually but yeah it's maxed to 1 love interest, all the other women will have their story modified even if they still like the ML, the ML would pay them no mind.

Relevant drama being released in the middle of the chip wars in real life...

Look at the tags, there isn't even romance.

There's a lot of those type of main characters in manga/manhua/manhua webtoons and novels but it won't get adapted to TV because most are unsuitable. Selfish/cunning/ruthless/machiavellian/"the end justify the means" characters are not allowed to win since they give bad example so we get all these pathetic goody 2 shoes naive mains that unrealistically win in the end due to plot armor.

Too bad we're like the minority, most people here love all those angst crying misunderstanding drama cheeses full of annoying characters like that garbage till the end of the moon.

People here put way too much importance in casts and cgs and production values, but all of those are just budget difference. What's the point of rating if you're just gonna rate $$$ might as well just look at the project budget amount instead of looking at the ratings. Even the review system on this site is silly, it literally put story same weight as acting/cast, music, rewatch value?? Nevermind the fact that most people won't rewatch most things they watch ever in their life because there is already not enough time to watch new titles.

For me plot/story is 99% weightage of how I rate a drama, everything else is just part of the 1%.

The show kept trying to make the viewers think that King Lingwu and Qin Yuanhong are the villain throughout the show (with all the secretive whispering they're doing to each other that are never revealed), but turns out they aren't and the real traitor is only revealed at the end without him showing signs of being traitor (unless you read the novel and such in which you already know who's the bad guy is).

The donghua for this is too low quality for me to watch, so I just watch this adaptation.

This site's rating is kinda useless. Anyway this has 7.3 on douban which is not low at all, it's higher there than many of the overrated xianxias and cliche romances on this site.

She does look too old though, but this is not something people would review bomb on this site for. In MDL, male actors not being pretty enough is usually what drags rating down, and this doesn't have enough pretty boys.

So what if the acting is better in those other dramas and the CGI is better there IF the story is not better? I watch drama for the story and this has better story. I couldn't care less if the FL can't act, I'm reviewing the drama plot not her acting capability. What you're doing is just mocking a low budget project... it's not the producer's fault if he has no money.

That's just your opinion. No one also cares how you view it.

Lol none of those are better, they just have higher budget. Story wise cannot compare with this good stuff.

Snow Eagle Lord is so bad even some XK fangirls cannot stand it, if a high traffic actor drama drops below 8 rating here you know it's very bad.

Back from the Brink ML is a lovesick puppy who even lost his power and became dependent, just no, this and Destined and other shoujo-type of novels cannot compare to the greatness of this badass OP ML type Qin Chen who can only be found in male-centric novels.

Anyway if you think this is bad just stop watching it and watch those other things that you think are better....

It doesn't really matter, they are part of the same big family, so it could be like cousin, uncle, etc but they are part of the same household. The wiki said he is distant relative, but it also says Zhao Zhen is Zhao Feng's dad but in this drama he is her brother so...

Looking very unlikely to have 2nd season when this barely has enough fund for the project from the looks of it. I'm looking at the douban comments, pretty bad reception with many 1 stars mostly complaining about the crew/casts and poor cg/production value. But I see praises for the plot because the original author is actually the screenwriter and director! I applaud this person for being brave enough to make a live action for this.

This story is better than douluo dalu or fights break sphere. Unfortunately the manhua for this has bad art and the donghua look very low budget compared to those 2, and this live action adaptation is also far lower budget than those. But if we're talking about novel (pure story) only then Martial Master is much better than those imo. The main character is so much more cooler.