The Legend of Grave Keepers (2021)

If you are hesistant in watching this due to the negative comments & criticisms, like I was in the beginning, but still want to watch it for Ian Yi & Yu Cheng (cough cough, he was my favorite character in this XD), then maybe this review can help or enlighten you if this show is right for you or not!! Keep in mind I have not watched the donghua of this, so this is purely from a drama watcher’s standpoint.

This is your typical average show, the storyline itself is pretty straight forward, nothing extravagant. The premise of this drama follows as; In order to keep the balance and peace in the country, the tomb sect was divided into two. One comprising of the Tomb Guarding; which just like its name, its duty was to protect and guard the treasures in the tombs while Tomb Raiding; raids but distinctively states that they never rob or steal from the tombs. However, their harmony with one another soon gets threatened when a rumor goes around insinuating that the leader of the Tomb Guarding Sect had robbed the very tomb they were suppose to be protecting. As tension and friction starts rising between the two sects, thus the journey and battle between the sects begin.

Bromance? Yes it does have bromance, but its not the main focus. The two leads each have their own respective lover so its mostly focused on the couples than on the bromance. DISCLAIMER: if you hate annoying, whiney, high pitched females than be weary of Shui Yao’s character. She is not only one of the most useless characters in this show in my personal opinion, but her personality had left much to be desired. She’s always throwing tantrums and acting childish majority of her screen time; honestly I dont even know how i sat through 32 episodes of it. I truly believe even if they completely took her character out of this, the story would primarily still be the same because her contributions overall to the show was so minuscule. She was basically there so the main male lead had romance. But on a positive note the other females were cool headed, intelligent and strong!

Fighting scenes were pretty good! Those were probably the most fun parts to watch, however I will say that I felt like the main characters won too easily and too often half the time…considering they were going up against some tough veteran fighters…but I digress. The one thing I really enjoyed about this story is that there were a lot of gray characters. There wasn’t a fine line of black and white, good and evil. Even if some were portrayed as evil, when you see their point of view or hear their story, you begin to understand them, their actions as well as their motives where you really start questioning about morals. In an effort to benefit the nation; they all chose different routes which they each believed was the only morally right way. It was super interesting to see how each side executed their plan. The rush against time to see who can outsmart the other and be cunning. The irony of it all was that their goal was all the same; to help the country; unfortunately due to the difference in motives had them be on opposing sides ; some leading to more devious schemes.

As for the ending, I truly believe this one is really up to the viewer themselves to decide if its a good ending or not. To me, it was an unsatisfying ending, but maybe to others its a decent or good enough ending. All in all, go in with low expectations and you might actually be surprised! If you don’t have much to watch and just need a drama to pass the time that doesn’t require much thinking, then give this a shot =)

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MU WANG ZHI WANG (Guardians of Tomb)

Although there are no English Subtitles I already watched it because I could understand mandarin I know everyone is waiting for the ENGLISH SUB. This Drama is really good also although it is not BL it is just a friendship between two male leads, both of them has their own lover. Feng Shao( Evan Ma) will end up with Lin Shui Yao (Wang Yue Ting)
Luo Shao ( Ian Yi) will end up with Han Qian Luo( Sun Lulu). Princess Ying Xue ( Eunice Han) her lover is Mu Rong Ye ( Chen Mu Cheng). This drama has many plot twist also. This Drama is based on animation.

Episode 1
Legend has it that Luo Wuzi helped Qin Shihuang build the Mausoleum of the first emperor, and built nine wonderful tombs to store the world’s rare treasures. He was named the tomb king by Qin Shihuang and established the tomb school to be responsible for the construction and protection of the royal tombs, in order to prevent future generations from guarding and stealing the tombs. , Luo Wuzi divided the tomb faction into the Luo family's tomb attacking the faction and the Murong family's tomb guarding the faction to check and balance each other. For thousands of years, the offensive and defensive factions have maintained a balance, and the Murong family has abided by their duties, followed the rules, and inherited the tomb king for more than ten generations. However, history has entered the turbulent five dynasties and ten kingdoms. Murong Xian, the guardian of the tomb, succeeded to the throne. Rumors about his guarding and stealing have spread like wildfire. This has caused the undercurrent of the martial arts of the tomb faction to surge, and the balance between the offensive and defensive factions has become increasingly fragile. Luo Shiqiu took the map and climbed on the cliffs to find the Flower Devouring Soul Breaking Sword. Finally, he exhausted all his power to take the Flower Devouring Soul Breaking Sword off and was stared at by the monster in the water. A woman who transformed water came to the shore to help Luo Shiqiu fight off the monsters and pulled Luo Shiqiu to run away from the danger zone. Luo Shiqiu thanked the woman for her rescue and asked who the woman was. The woman only said that she was a chivalrous woman walking across the rivers and lakes. Seeing the sword in Luo Shiqiu's hand was extraordinary. After asking about it, I realized that it was the Flower Devouring Soul Breaking Sword, the third in the world's weapon spectrum, and the unparalleled dagger in the world. At the same time, on the other side of the tomb training and selection, groups of teenagers broke into the tomb, and the bows and arrows that suddenly flew in the first level caused a lot of damage to them. After the woman deceived the flower-devouring soul-breaking sword, she was unwilling to return it to Luo Shiqiu, so Luo Shiqiu had to grab it. Luo Shiqiu scolded the woman as a female thief, and the woman told Luo Shiqiu not to talk nonsense. She was Lin Shuiyao, the eldest lady of the Mo Gong sect. Although the Flower Devouring Soul Sword came from the Luo family, it belonged to the Mo family early in the morning. Lin Shuiyao insisted not to return the Flower Devouring Soul Breaking Sword to Luo Shiqiu. Luo Shiqiu used his skills to grab it. Later, he not only grabbed the Flower Devouring Soul Breaking Sword but also a hero to save the beauty. A small servant on horseback saw Luo Shiqiu's figure, and immediately dismounted, and let Luo Shiqiu return to the ancestral hall quickly. Luo Shiqiu saw that the Flower Devouring Soul Breaking Sword was robbed by Lin Shuiyao again, and he was upset. Xiao Si Fei took Luo Shiqiu to participate in the selection of tomb practice. Luo Shiqiu was not interested in the selection. Xiao Si said that the person who won first place will get the cold blood ancient sword. When Luo Shiqiu heard the ancient sword of cold blood, he hurried back on horseback to participate in the selection. Luo Shiqiu entered the tomb, easily cracked the organs in the tomb, got the ancient sword of cold blood, and came to the crowd unharmed. In front of everyone, the head announced that Luo Shiqiu had become the tomb attacker, and immediately went to Guzi Tomb to attack the tomb to prevent Murongxian, who was guarding himself against stealing. According to the ancestral system, if the ancestral tomb attacker had captured the Guzi tomb of the defender and obtained the tomb-breaking order, he could be on the throne of the tomb king, which was the only way to stop the tomb defender.After paying homage to the ancestors, the head gave Luo Shiqiu an ancient sword of cold blood, allowing Luo Shiqiu to stop Murongxian's evil deeds as a tomb attacker. Murong Ye received the flying pigeon letter from the Luo family and showed it to his father, Murong Xian. He said that the Luo family seemed to be prepared for a long time. Murong Xian asked Murong Ye to notify him and prepare to guard the tomb. He gave it to him. The four major families and the tomb-shou-chuk made Chu Yunxi an order and ordered her to prepare for battle immediately. Murong Ye applied to his father to lead troops to the Guzi Tomb. Murongxian listened to Murong Ye's plan and decided to leave the matter of Guzi Tomb to be handled by him.

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