The Great Ruler (2020)

An Average Wuxia Fantasy Drama

I have mixed feelings for this wuxia fantasy drama! The young actors felt like kids, and the story kept me interested, but I have to admit, towards the last few episodes, I had to skip a lot.

In between, the storylines changed rapidly, and I got a bit bored, honestly. What I appreciated the most was the ending. A lot of Chinese dramas either rush things, leave loose ends, or don’t bother with an ending at all, but this one had an ending. They wrapped everything up in a way that felt a bit unsatisfying and fakely complete. Lol.

If you’re into wuxia, you can watch it. It’s not great compared to others, but it’s average.

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Very dissapointing (the spoiler is not really specific so just read on i guess?)

I read the novel so that's where I'm coming from.
The story is just completely different from the novel, in fact its very laughable.. I don't even know where to start.

Anyway I'll start with the lead Mu Chen, I feel like the character portrayed in the drama is 180 of the novel one which bugs me the most! The very reason I liked the novel was the lead being cold hearted and ruthless, whilst in the drama... he's downright childish there are scenes he could just downright kill the enemy but he just ran.. its ridiculous!! especially in xianxia world setting, where killings is everywhere!

Luo li character is okay even though it feels like its a tad bit too "warm". Afaik she's supposed to be like yandere type but yea whatever then mr producer. Secondly, the appearance is disappointing, I mean she's supposed to be silver haired, black dressed and stuff but here black hair (how hard is it to dye the hair?!) and the flowery white blue dresses...
I dropped the series in the middle of 26th, I'm amazed I could actually get myself to watch that many.
I must've been so bored

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First of all let me start by saying if you have read the novel version...this would look like pure trash..If you have not read the novel version u can give it a try if you have too much time on your hands. There are many issues with this drama like acting of leads is too bland , story shuffles between scenes many times , power scaling is just a joke. How hard is it to order the scenes properly and the main lead just gets beaten up by random side characters and suddenly becomes all powerful..As I had read novel I did expect the story to be different ...but it was just downright bad...

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Refreshing Young Leads

I don’t usually write a review, so I will keep this short.

Others may find the story slow, but for me it’s fine because there’s time for the ML to develop his character.
I didn’t find this series boring at all, the magic is interesting. The actors are refreshing because they’re all young and I have not seen in other series.
Though they’re young and new, they’re actings are better than other senior actors.
I like the actors friendship as well.
I didn’t notice that I’m already at episode 12, what I really like is that, unlike the other series where I can guess what will happen, in this series I don’t knw what will happen next.
I guessed that Mu chen has hidden power.
I guessed that MU Chen’s father will die on the first war, I actually guessed several times that he will die. 😂
I also guess that Mubai will be Mu Chen’s enemy since Mubai’s father tried to invade Mu’s territory, I also guessed that he will get angry when his father died 😂
So many guesses, so far only 1 came true.
So I came here to check if there are some spoiler that will tell my guesses are correct hahaha

I will just watch and wait haha

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