The Heroine of the Yangs (1998)

The Yang's Legend & Tian mian Formation

To me this is the best adaptation of the making about the Yang heros & heroines. I've watched this drama more than 10 times over the course of 25 years and my favourite character in this drama is Ye Leut Hou Nam - the creator of Tian Mian Formation.

The centre of the drama revolves around Muk Gui Ying (FL). It talks about her love with the ML protagonist Yang Zhong Bao in the Yang family and her life as a widow in S2 however for many fans, the ML is YLHN who is the antagonist in S1 as the drama pretty much detailed his journey of love & redemption from being the badass guy in S1 to the most loving guy in S2.

In S1, YLHN helped the Liu's to invade the Song's but he only did it because he was the Prince of the Northern Han and want regain his family's lost territory from the Song's. This makes him the bad guy since he has to fight the Yang family, who are the general of the Song. Both MGY and YLHN studied from the same master so they are very skillful in kung fu and feng shui, MGY was also destined to be YLHN's wife so she married him he could have easily gain back his territory however MGY falls in love with YZB, who is a Yang and changed their fate and this makes them enemies.

Why do I and almost all fans love YLHN so much even though he's the bad guy?  Well he is just a 'perfect package'. He's not only smart, talented, artistic, rich, strong, decisive, arrogant, but with Gilbert Lam's performance, he is also very beautiful and elegant. I don't think any actor could have portray YLHN as perfect as Gilbert. His character was so well written we cannot hate him, even if he kills anyone in his way :). And the fact that beneath that vicious act and cruelty lies a lonely soul full of burden and torture that only Yang Bai Feng, the maid of the Yang family can truely sees and makes her falls in love with him. They deeply love each other but also understand their responsibilities and opposing nature, YLHN cannot forget his duties and promises to his father to regain their territory from the Song and YBF cannot betray the Yang family to follow YLHN side.

All the casts performed their roles very well even for minor characters. Amy Chan was my favourite MGY till date and she was already famous before this drama, so there is no complaint in her performance. While there is a huge age difference between Gilbert Lam and Annie Man in real life & in the drama, they look so cute together in their roles as YLHN and YBF. I love Vincent Chiao as an actor but I must admit that Gilbert's performance, character and story in this drama outshine Vincent's by a mile, making him more of a ML than 2ML. To us the leads of S1 were MGY and YLHN who just have their own love line and ending. The intro song sung by Amy Chan herself is a masterpiece even if it was composed over 25 years ago, you would want to keep listening to it over and over again. Oh and I forgot to mention the amount of clothes YLHN wears in S1.... he has so many in his wardrobe & they all look beautifully on him whether he wears the Liu's or the Song's style.

S1 ends with YLHN's defeat and disappearance from his own Tian mian formation, a formation which he created himself with the aim to trap the Yangs inside & kill them. The formation was deemed to be unbeatable until MYG gave birth to her son naturally broke the formation and severely injured YLHN. So the Song's remained in ruling and the Liu's lost the war. While MGY and YZB lived happily with each other with their son, viewers are eager to know the fate of the second couple YLHN & YBF after his sudden disappearance from the battle.

(See S2 for comments on ending!!!)

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