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Best drama I've ever watched, definately worth your time!!
This drama has literally been my top 1 cdrama ever since I started watching it for so many reasons, I love how both main leads are actually powerful and independent characters rather than one of them (mostly the fl) being a weak frail character that relies on the other person. This cdrama has got me in tears in so many scenes, both good and bad ones (especially when Mofang died and Feng Lai sacrificed himself). Honestly this is my first time watching Zhao Liying's drama and second time watching Lin Gengxin's drama but I was very still surprised and impressed at how good the visuals and acting skills are with both main leads. I know that they have collaborated before in Princess Agents (which I haven't watched yet) but honestly I'm still hoping that they can get more dramas together cause this pairing is just so perfect! Also another reason on why this drama is my top 1 is also because of the ending to it, in most Xianxia dramas there would be either a sad ending, open ending or a slightly happy ending but in The Legend of Shen Li it is just a perfect happy ending, they reunite together again and have about an episode and a half together, and the fact that Xing Zhi asked Shen Li to marry him was super cute!! But the cutest scene for me was when Shen Li revealed that she was pregnant right afterwards, Xing Zhi's expression was absolutely priceless.Honestly, I do wish that we got to see their wedding and their child but that was okay for me as this was the best ending that I've ever scene in a cdrama so I was still happy with it.
And now with the drama ending I feel like there's a empty hole in my heart cause of how good this drama was and also because of how quickly it's ended already. Goodbye δΈι£θ‘ and we hope to see this cute pair collaborate in another drama soon!
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Great start, slacked off towards the end though...
Icl, this show had a extremely good start and everything, however in the last few episodes it's gone downhill and a bit sloppy...Cons:
- In the novel, Lord Changxin was killed by both the fl and the ml, however in the drama she killed him by herself which was a bit unrealistic considering the fact that Changyu hasn't actually had a lot of experience on the battlefield compared to quite a few characters, especially Lord Changxin himself, cuz how are you going to tell us all that someone who has had decades of experience on the battlefield is able to be easily defeated by someone with little experience? This also links to the fact that it was quite strange how Changyu was able to kill General Shi Hu just by herself, once again, with the minimum experience she has π
- I felt like it was quite selfish for Changyu to knock both Xie Zheng and Li HuaiAn out to go to battle for them even if it was to protect them, I understand the one with Xie Zheng because she didn't know his real identity and was just trying to protect him, however it is quite literally his duty to fight on the battlefield! But Xie Zheng definately should've told Changyu about his real identity so I don't blame her for this. However it's different with Li HuaiAn, I get that she tried to protect him because he was injured, however she completely went against his wishes and it was extremely weird how it was Li HuaiAn who went to apologise to Changyu rather than the other way round, cuz like why is he even apologising for? he had every reason to be upset/annoyed at her so I don't understand why it was him who had to kneel for forgiveness or whatever!
- I also feel quite bad for the current emperor, I know he is extremely unfit for being emperor but he is literally a puppet emperor put there by Wei Yan! Also, to me it wasn't right at all for Xie Zheng to literally threaten him about dethroning him as if the current emperor actually wants to be the emperor (he's literally just a kid that no one actually takes seriously π). I understand his frustration because the emperor want Xie Zheng to marry the Princess Royal, but the threatening was definately not needed!
- we see the FL being a strong fighter more than the ML?? what's going on? π I thought we would be seeing them both fighting and both as strong or at least Xie Zheng being somewhat stronger considering he is literally Wu'An MARQUIS (I'm only on ep 33 so feel free to correct me on this point if they actually do fight in the later eps)
- When Yuanqing killed Mandi, Changyu shouted that she was going to kill him - it felt like she was going to do it immediately, from anger and frustration- but she ran to Mandi first, letting Yuanqing sort of get away, I get that she's extremely upset but I felt like she should've went after Yuanqing first
Pros: amazing acting from literally every single character (yes even the side characters), filming of the drama was done very well too, the quality is extremely good, liked the couples stories too.
These opinions may be controversial but I just wanted to share my thoughts anyways :)
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