It took me a while to finish Zhao Yao and I'm so glad that I'm finally done watching this drama. My opinion is quite unpopular I suppose, but as you can guess by my overall rating, I didn't enjoy it as much as the other people did.

The drama had a promising start. And by ''a promising start'' I don't mean the first two or three episodes, but the first 10-15. I did enjoy watching them quite a lot. The story was confusing, but with the time I got used to it so I had no problem understanding what's going on. Overall, the first half was very good and I wholeheartedly enojyed most of it. However, I can't say the same thing about the second (episode 30ish - 56). They focused on so many things and so many characters and I honestly couldn't care less about most of them. The drama became very skipworthy and I kinda felt bad because of the fact how much I liked it at the beginning. 56 episodes are way too much, sorry. (And I think I watched the cut version?)

The romance was nice and the main couple definitely had chemistry. However, as much as I love my baby Mo Qing, I can't hide the fact that I strongly preferred Jiang Wu. Wu was definitely the more interesting character and I loved his charisma. He became my favourite character when I first saw him and continued being till the end. Maybe the best thing about the second half was that he had more scenes. Lu Zhao Yao was a good female lead but I couldn't get into her character completely.

The acting was actually very good. Of course Dai Xu who played my Jiang Wu has the most outstanding performance. I also loved Xu Kai as Mo Qing a lot! The CGI and the dubbing was kinda bad overall. The cinematography though was very beautiful. And the music was also very nice.

Overall, I feel bad for giving Zhao Yao an average rating but it was very average in my opinion. I can understand the hype though because it definitely has an interesting story so it's normal for people to like it. However, there were too many unnecessary things which disappointed me.