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Tasnima_329

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The Wolf chinese drama review
Completed
The Wolf
1 people found this review helpful
by Tasnima_329
Apr 29, 2021
49 of 49 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 5.0

An inevitable tragedy

OST:
I LOVED the OST of this drama so much. One of the few dramas with an OST that makes me feel like crying. The music always came up at the perfect time and you know exactly what kind of scene will be coming just by the music. All the characters had their own distinct music. The theme song was the OST for Wolfie and Xing'er. Ji Chong had his own one that came up whenever he was his 'bad boy' self.

Acting:
Darren Wang:
Darren did a truly amazing job portraying Lord Bo and Wolfie. They both had very distinct characteristics and you could actually see when one becomes the other through Darren's expressions alone. He has this adorable smile and puppy dog eyes when he's Wolfie, and a cruel smirk with a cold expression when he's Lord Bo. I loved Wolfie and grew to dislike Lord Bo. They were both one in the same as Wolfie was always in the heart of Lord Bo, but towards the end, he finally became his true self as Wolfie again.
Li Xing:
Li Xing also did a really good job portraying her character, especially in emotional scenes. When her charecter finds out the truth of all the deception she lived in, she expressed her heartbreak so well.
Sean Xiao:
He did a really good job portraying his character who started off as a vagabond bounty hunter and ended up being a Prince. I was really surprised by the turn of his character.

All the actors had amazing chemistry with each other. Whether it be the main leads with each other or the second leads with the main leads. You can see the love between the main characters as well as the love the second leads had for the main characters.
Everyone did such an amazing job portraying their characters.

Princess Ma/ Xing'er:
Ma Zhai Xing lived in the past for half this drama. She loved Wolfie and was full of guilt for his "death", though I don't think she believed he was dead. She fell in love with Lord Bo because she saw the Wolfie in him and would have done anything for him, she both bet her life in him and risked her life to save him. I can't dislike her for growing to hate him because he was the one who forced her to hate him. But when she loved him, she gave him her all and you really see that at the end.

Lord Bo/ Wolfie:
Lord Bo didn't put Princesses Ma first, even if he did love her. He was always willing to betray her for the King and his dead brother. It was only after he found out the truth of his brothers death that he truly put Princess Ma first and at this point it was too late. It was so painful watching him hurt her to save and protect her, but at the end it was his fault that they were both in pain. He could have done everything in a different way that was beneficial to both him and Princess Ma. He was always sacrificing himself for those he loved, even if it did annoy me how he went about it, he out of all the characters deserved a happy ending.

Ji Chong/ Prince of Jin:
Ji Chong was one of my favourite characters from beginning to end. He truly loved Princess Ma and had a great bond with Lord Bo. I also loved his relationship with his father.
I LOVED the friendship between Princess Ma and Ji Chong and they seemed like they'd make a good romantic pair. But, Princess Ma really annoyed me when it came to Ji Chong's feeling for her. For a persons who experienced an epic love (even if she grew to hate their ex lover), how could she downplay Ji Chong's genuine love for her. I wanted her to at least try considering that they were really good friends and he was clearly dear to her considering the fact that she took an arrow for him. Their relationship went downhill when it was suppose to get romantic.

Yao Ji:
She is the villain everyone loves. She was never actually a bad person and at the end she became one of my favourites. You don't really know where she stands throughout this drama until the end. But she always stood by Lord Bo and really loved him the way Ji Chong loved Princess Ma. She just wanted the best for Lord Bo and for Lord Bo to live, she didn't care what he thought of her, or that he saw her as an enemy at first, similar to how Lord Bo loved Princess Ma. Her unrequited and silent love for him was so sweet and genuine. I also loved her hillarious assistant who was always there for her as well as he very late friendship with Princess Ma.

Bao Na:
At first I didn't like her. Thought she'd be a spoilt, bratty princess that had to get her way, which she was at first. But then I immediately fell in love with her. The more I saw her character, the more I loved her. She really did a 180 where Lord Bo and Primcess Ma was concerned.

Pacing of the drama:
I really loved the pace of this drama and how all the characters were introduced. I love how Ji Chong came in after 11 episodes and how Yao Ji cam in after 20. The turning point developed around halfway through the drama and by episode 30 all the characters completely changed.
Towards the end after around 40 episodes the drama got a bit annoying and boring and I had to skim through the episodes but I cried through episode 49 and watched the entire episode.
After watching this drama, I have no desire to watch a drama over 40 episodes for a while.

The Ending:
I cried throughout the last episode. I had a box of tissues and ugly cried especially in the last few scenes. This drama was a tragedy worse then Romeo and Juliet, so much heartbreak and pain. The only time Wolfie and Xing'er were able to be together peacefully and be truly happy together with no other thoughts, was in the past on Wolf Mountain. It's so sad that neither character found any true happiness after Wolf Mountain. The tragedy started when Xing'er took Wolfie down the mountain to make him human only for all the monsters to be the humans below the mountain.
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