A First Look at Legend of Fei Starring Zhao Liying and Wang Yibo As Drama Drops Fresh Stills

Initially i had a problem with the age gap but once i saw a few photos stills/bts clips here and there, the age difference is not very obvious but if ZLY's face expression shows whether she's frowning or annoyed (which seemed to alot of that in the novel) then her maturity and age will be too noticeable but with her cuteness sometimes, she can also look younger than her age.
After seeing the teaser, i'm even more anticipating it to show right now but alas, we got over 6 months to wait.

ZLY has that same styling and same expression from Princess Agents. WYB will be the refreshing thing. Liking all the second leads from the stills.

Chen Yuqi and Leo Luo will be more refreshing too, they are doing The Winner is Love, and that storyline sounds really similar to this one.

Uh did you even read the first sentence of that Anon's comment? They said XZ is outstanding while WYB was really good. What bias? What disrespect?? Why must people be so confrontational.

As a passerby who have watched a lot of Chinese drama and does a lot of evaluations. I said both of Wang Yibo and Xiao Zhan’s acting level are the about same. Xiao Zhan is able to draw in the audience more because the role of Wei Wuxian is easier for the audience to connect with and is more likable. Xiao Zhan’s strongest point is his ability to act the emotional scenes. Because the major plotline hangs on his emotional transformation, through these very well acted tragic scenes, you sympathize with the character and acting during these scenes become highlights of the show. These very well done scenes over shadowed some of the bad acting (overacting), especially in the first couple of episodes.

As for Lan Wangji, these types of cold and emotionless characters are one of the hardest to play. If not done well they become cliche. Very well done of these types of character is Ye Hua from Ten Miles of Beach Blossom, played by Mark Chao. These roles usually requires a very good actor to play it well. The reason for it being such a difficult role to play is because it is challenging for a stoic and emotionless character to connect with the audience. If you overdo it by displaying too much emotions, you will be out of character. But if you are too stoic, too cold, you can easily become a backdrop and won’t be able to connect with the audience. So actors playing these types of role have to find the right balance or find creative ways to be able to connect with the audience.

In the early stage, I can see Wang Yibo struggles in trying to figure out how to play the role of Lang Wangji. But he found a way to express this role very effectively by the use of micro expressions, especially towards the latter half of the show. His micro-expressions are very good with just the right balance that is still within range of the character. The unfortunate thing is that the guy who worked the camera is so bad that he cannot position shots correctly nor have good timing, thus some of these very well parts are either cut off too early or not close enough for most people to observe. People with good eyes and acting knowledge will have good evaluation on Wang Yibo’s Lan Wangji because they are able to pick out these little detail of his acting. You may not be aware, but these sort of things is what make people feel like it is not ‘acting’, but the character itself coming to life.

Again because of Wang Yibo’s ability to interpret Lan Wangji at the age of 20, I already have a high evaluation of his acting skill and it is one of the reason why I'm looking forward to his interpretation of Xie Yun.

I can't blame this person, many people don't really understand good acting and are not good at picking out details. Your brain can only process so much at a time. Plus the heavy fan filter will make a lot of people blind.

There is already a very detailed post that explains very well how XZ and WYB role in The Untamed are different and how each of them were able to successfully reach the audience through different means even with some of their drawbacks as new actors.

If you can't reason intelligently, it is going to make you look worst and like a troll.

There are so many dumb fans! Like get over yourself, your idol don't need your dumbass to be their fans. These people are actors some are more experienced than others, some are more popular. Why can't they act together. One can offer experience and some may boost up their popularity. Like some of you just need to settle your ass dowb and stfu!

I think WYB is not attractive finally someone else thinks that way.

Using age as a drag to Xiao Zhan when he looks so much younger than his age.. jokes on you! Ask any passerby, everyone would have guessed Wang Yibo is the older one and Xiao Zhan is the younger one. What's the use of being at young age when your idol look old. That's why people say smile a lot to look younger. Your Wang Yibo has such a monotous face and boring personality, reason why a lot of people, journalists and bloggers are more attracted to Xiao Zhan because he's very nice, sweet, warm, interesting and has colorful personality than Wang Yibo's dull personality. People who like him are so tasteless when Xiao Zhan exist. Raise your damn bar.

"I just don't find him attractive."

Because people are not shallow like you? Because talent is not directly proportional to years of service? Because WYB actually did a good job in Untamed?

Holy cow. You guys shouldn't be so upset and take things so personal. I will retract my comment about him looking like he had PS. It's just an opinion about a celebrity man. I'm not trying to bash or spread hate about the guy. I don't freaking know him so you all should relax. Once again, I do not HATE or want to spread any hate about any celeb. I was just speaking my mind. Sorry if you guys felt offended.

Could have not word it better! Yes, these Untamed fan girls need to chill with their hate among the two lead actor, and stop with the hate and negative comments about the actress they are paired up with!

I'm just going to quickly leave a comment out here to respectfully disagree about Zhao Li Ying's acting skills and fame.

Now I'm seen some people – not just in this comment section – question her acting saying it's bad or at best mediocre, but in that case, I simply don't think that people took the time to actually appreciate it. I've watched pretty much every drama of hers which is available with English subs and from what I observed, she is good.

Maybe it is hard for people to see because after all, many of her roles show similar traits, but you have to understand that acting is not just about the actor's skills or the way they want to portray their character, but also about the script, director and whoever else is involved in the production.

The actor is not at the top of the chain, they have to satisfy the production team, which may require scenes and acting that is just awkward. I noticed that many female characters tend to be portrayed as 'cute', but like in a really childish and cringy way which is often weird in the audience's eyes, after all, the actress is usually already in her mid-twenties or older. But that still seems to be the norm in Chinese dramaland, so I'm still waiting for improvement in that section.

To her fame, Zhao Liying is a veteran in the industry, she has a long list of works in her name. One person here mentioned that she used countless OTP ships to rise up, but I disagree. Those ships arose due to the popularity of the dramas she starred in, making fans and viewers wish for more. Not the other way around. But I'm also sure that the production teams behind the dramas pushed the popularity of those OTPs to bring in more viewers, but this is not just a Zhao Li Ying thing, but something found in general in the industry, so let's not use this against her.

The point about using hype to bring up projects that are bad is ridiculous, because she starred in the drama, she has the responsibility to at least tempt people to give her works a chance, whether they are good or bad. I'm sure it is part of an actor's contract.

Lastly, sadly there aren't enough moments of Zhao Liying that are subbed out there – without it being part of a drama, movie or commercial – so there isn't a lot of information available, but from what I gathered, Zhao Liying is a rather private person, who is also very hardworking. This is pretty much undeniable if you pay attention to the many works she puts out here. Almost every year more than one drama of hers airs and you have to understand, those dramas take several months to film, to give an example: 'The Story of Ming Lan' which took 8 months to complete.

I've noticed that she often films back to back, so she rarely takes a break. Even now, she not to long ago gave birth (I think it was around March) and is now already back to work. Comments saying she doesn't work hard or is idle couldn't be anymore wrong.

For someone who is mentally very tired today, reading all this back and fro is very entertaining.

The Untamed raised the level of awareness for chinese fantasy drama internationally. Credit should go to the 2 directors who were able to make the 2 young male leads XZ n WYB embodied their characters so well! ����

lol much as I have expectations about this show, I don't know how this will turn out because the lead female character is supposed to be 15-16 years old. It's a coming of age story. the actress is 32 years old. so unless she looks 16 years younger than her age it's going to be terribly awkward.

I'm reading the original text in Chinese and tbh the lead girl's a bit of an idiot imho. She first gets into trouble with her parents because she beats up her tutor whom advices her on "how to be a lady". Then she thinks her cousin goaded her parents and exacerbated the situation so right after she's whipped by her mother and lectured by her father for 2 whole chapters – she decides it'll be a BRILLIANT idea to confront her cousin with her sword in hand. Lets keep in mind that it's implied that her mother would kill her a SECOND time if she finds out they're arguing. Her cousin then goads her into going off to no man's land, which is a lake with a guardian whom kills anyone whom goes there. OBVIOUSLY she thinks it's the smartest idea to go there. All these happen in the first 3-4 chapters alone.

Yibo's supposed to save her in the lake apparently. If she requires saving because she doesn't know how to fucking swim, I'm not reading it any further.