Final review - The Winner is Love (2020)

Final review/ rating: And the Winner is Love (2020) - Aesthetically beautiful but too much talk and not enough action

This is 6.5/10 stars ✮✮✮✮✮✮ from Pandafan🐼

Overall rating:         6.5 Stars Plot:                       4 Stars Acting/cast:            7 Stars Couple chemistry:   7 stars Music:                    7 Stars Re-watch value:      3 Stars Enjoyment factor:   5 Stars

Smiling Leo! Bring it on! 💓

Full disclosure: I came for Luo Yun Xi and stayed for Luo Yun Xi... 

I was so excited when And the Winner is Love (2020) was in the works - finally, a historical wuxia drama in which Luo Yun Xi is the main male lead?  No more going through the tortures of the damned as Luo Yun Xi suffers endlessly in heartbreaking scene after heartbreaking scene as the second male lead? (Don't get me wrong, Luo Yun Xi does heartbreak and tragedy gut wrenchingly well.  It's just that I want to see a drama where he gets to smile, and flirt, and get the girl for a change).  And the Winner is Love ticks all those boxes, so that's a win, but... 

SPOILERS AHEAD

  

And the Winner is Love (2020) - Synopsis

 

Drama info:

Title:  And the Winner is Love 

Chinese title: 月上重火 (Translation: "Moon above the Fire")

Episodes:  48

Genre: Historical, Wuxia, Romance 

Original network: iQiyi 

Release date:      28 May 2020 

Airing schedule:  28 May 2020 - 5 July 2020 

Synopsis:

Chong Xue Zhi, the beautiful young leader of the Hall of Flames, ventures into wulin 武林 (the martial arts world) for the first time.  Her legacy is her father's invention of a martial arts named the Lotus God Nine Stance technique (莲神九式), which makes men mad if practiced incorrectly, but is coveted by the so called righteous sects and evil sects of wulin alike.

When Chong Xue Zhi is ambushed, she is rescued by Shangguan Tou, the intriguing young master of Moon Valley.  The two join hands to investigate the theft of the Lotus God Nine Stance technique manuals and fall in love.  At the same time, a mysterious villain begins to kill prominent members of wulin with the distinctive Lotus God Nine Stance technique...