The Legend of Xiao Zhuang (2015)

The series starts out OK. You get the vibe of the bad guy and the good guy. You will also begin to love the good guy because of his sense of family, duty and loyalty. However all of that takes a turn for the worse and becomes a pitiful and unpleasant thing to watch

I can understand the rating. Although the show was not awful it was a little bit depressing. I honestly could not power through the entire thing because it was just too much of the underdog staying the underdog. Please be mindful of the spoiler below;

imagine loving someone and that person being taken from your superior and you have no power to do anything about it so you just continue to subject yourself to being obedient to your superior and continuing to love a woman who is honestly given up on you and now loves a superior. It was just too pitiful. No redemption for the good guy just left out there. Can’t recommend this


The sad thing about this is that one of male lead in the series is also very popular in another series for taking someone else’s woman. It seems like those are his roles now, but here it is just not cool at all nor is it entertaining.

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Skip it.

Xiao Zhuang Epic is by far the best one in many ways. This remake just isn't great. The storyline is bad. The acting from the actress could use more improvement. Everyone else is better at acting. There's also no chemistry at all between the leads. Right from the opening scene, they could of tried to add some wrinkles on to her face to show aging.

The new adaption, "The Promise of Chang'an" is better choice to watch. Even though this one is also annoying depressing to watch. Sometimes, I wish there would be fresher ideas. Somehow if the main female would cry less haha. They are so depressing and weak. Can some of them have a fighting spirit?

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