Adapted from author Junzi Yize’s martial arts novel of the same name, the drama And The Winner is Love 月上重火 brings us back to the pugilist universe, where one man’s endless ambition to master the “nine styles of the lotus god” surprisingly brings together two people out to stop him from further wreaking havoc in the pugilist world.
Zhong Xue Zhi, daughter of Chonghuo Palace’s master, makes the acquaintance of Yue Shang Valley’s young master, Shangguan Tou while attending a pugilist gathering. When Chonghuo Palace’s treasured “nine styles of the lotus god” goes missing, Zhong Xue Zhi is blamed for the loss and expelled. Fleeing from several attempts to assassinate her, she fortunately bumps into Shangguan Tou and a mutual friendship springs between the two. The pair overcome multiple hardships along the way and eventually marry. However, with the theft of Chonghuo Palace’s treasure still unresolved, will the husband and wife team unmask the real culprits and keep them from unleashing further havoc with the new martial arts technique they stole?
Leo Luo Yunxi stars in this wuxia as Shangguan Tou opposite actress Yukee Chen’s Zhong Xue Zhi. IMHO he’s definitely made for this genre and even manages come out of those fight scenes unscathed, with nary a hair out of place and just that fan for a weapon *squeee*. I mean, he still looks great in his modern drama Love is Sweet with actress Bai Lu but the man totally OWNS the white robed long haired ancient drama look. In fact you know what, I think he’s rocking a similar look yet again in his much awaited drama Immortality with Legend of Awakening actor Arthur Chen so it is indeed fast becoming his trademark look.
Not to mention his fans are surely in for a treat with the giant helping they’ll be getting since this romantic drama is 52 episodes long. Speaking of the cast, Zou Tingwei completes the mini Ashesof Love reunion as the baddie in the show, leading Luo Yunxi to finally stop third-wheeling and get the girl! Tian Yitong, Zhao Wenhao, Quan Shilun, Bao Tianqi, Li Zonghan and Zhang Junjie round up the rest of the cast.
PS. The production just managed to pop out a trailer right before we hit publish to this article so have a look! Couldn’t help but get excited for this!
Release Date: May 28, 2020 iQIYI, Tencent Youku
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joyce chan
this poster color is simliar to the one that dilereba was in? lol how come they like the female in red clothing?
Anonymous
Nice try? It's not similar. Females wear red many times but not all the time, but guys ALWAYS wear white so this gotta be similar to everything else out there.
Anonymous
Leo and Yukee^^!!!! Sure will watch this one.
hohliu
I think this will be great to watch….But Leo seem to have loss weight in every new dramas….
Anonymous
Es el traje de novia.
Anonymous
applause
Anonymous
he's always been really skinny but it seems so.
Anonymous
I watched the trailer and Yukee's acting is still not good.
Anonymous
No, Yukee improved by leaps and bounds! A way better than in Princess Weiyan for sure!
Anonymous
Another hater trying to downplay new actresses with good potentials. Yukee is one of the top most talented actress of her age now. The roles she play recently are very repetitive but her acting is great.
I feel that her height and weight could potentially limit to other roles, she is tiny and almost childish looking. She will not fit in the category of a great ancient beauty. She is beautiful, just not something like the Four Great Beauties who can make the country fall because she's the adorable type but not seductive.
Anonymous
Love Leo and Yukee!!! looking forward to this dramas
Anonymous
Yukee and Leo are great together. They need another drama together, because they are so natural. Leo is a little too skinny this time.
Anonymous
Maybe the pressure of being a male lead is getting to him. Hopefully, he does not feel more stress having to carry Arthur Chen in Immortality.
Anonymous
Up to Ep10 now. Both are great leads – Leo & Yukee, but story pacing not fast enough. Maybe that 's how they want to drag to 50 episodes. Right up to now it is not disclosed why Leo keep protecting Yukee's character as every episode you can see various faction/parties want to kill Yukee's character because her father killed many people randomly 5 years ago after he gone mad over practised qigong.
Actually Yukee and Zhou Tingwei are also great on screen together like in Ashes of Love but here they are at most childhood friends or brother and sister relationship in Chonghuo palace or Rushing Fire Clan.
Anonymous
I agree that Leo need to put on weight. I love his acting though. Was so disappointed that his voice was dubbed over by another voice actor especially he is the lead actor in this drama. But read it somewhere that it was due to COVID 19 lockdown that prevented him from doing so. I enjoy the drama very much but I wish the lead actress would be someone like Peng Xiao Ran in my own personal opinion (I love Peng Xiao Ran in Goodbye My Princess and she acted so well in that drama)
Anonymous
This is falling flat for me too, which is a shame because I like Yukee and Leo both and had high hopes for this series.
I don't even know if I'd say the pacing is /slow/ or just plain /weird/. In the first episode we don't even know Shangguang Tuo's background yet and why he saved Xuezhi, and he's already touching the face of a blindfolded girl who's never met or even seen him before. That's just weird. We're not given any reason to ship the couple together except that Leo is cool and Yukee is cute. To rely on that is terrible storytelling. In fact, none of the relationships are motivated or developed. They're just shoved in our faces to accept.
And that's aside from the often intrusive and grating background music, the gratuitous flash-to-negatives, and the two-dimensional supporting characters…
I'll see this thing through in case it improves, and have no doubt that Yukee and Leo will act out the trials of their relationship with great poignancy, but 16 episodes in, the story/scripting/directing is crippling the acting.