I dropped this (milder spoilers ahead)
Few days ago I asked chatgpt to suggest me some ancient dramas where there's brave, heroic, smart and cunning or in one word a strong female character as the main character. And it recommended me Legend of Fuyao with few other great historical dramas like the long balad or the rise of phoenixes which I loved and unfortunately already watched. So I thought of giving Legend of Fuyao a try and here we go.The first few episodes were good. Even if our main character needed some savings time to time at first(which was understandable cuz she wasn't too good at martial arts at that time and didn't had much knowledge about a lot of things) when she kicked her senior brother's arse in that fight it felt very satisfying and I thought this one is worth watching and anticipated a great character growth from her where she can stand equally with her male counterparts. But no. Everything started to turn upside down after that. That great character(fuyao) I had so much hope of suddenly started to turn into a typical damsel in distress who needed constant saving. I was very disappointed and dropped this drama few times but started to watch again and again because I thought that this will change and fuyao will be strong enough to at least to save her own arse one day. But no it didn't change and it got worse. I can't even count how many times she got knocked out ( martial artists tend to have heightened awareness and reflexes compared to an average person) or how many times she needed saving from the male lead and others or how many times author dragged her into random unwanted romantic entanglements. And I think romance weakened her too like many other female characters in cdrama and kdrama. And the male lead is not even worth mentioning. This drama started with a good potential but it got worse and worse later on so I dropped this around ep 25.
This is only just my personal opinion and looking at the other reviews I saw that a lot of people enjoyed this (good for them). After all not everyone think alike and everyone has their own opinions. For me it's not my type of drama.
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