The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Just before I head to bed, I checked the news and TA-DA! First batch of stills for The Legend of Zu is out!! I don’t think I’m in the mood for sleeping anymore. hee!! First mentioned in December of last year (click for more discussion), I have been eying, practically stalking, this production for the past four months just for today! And they didn’t disappoint! If anything, the stills make me all pumped up now! THEY ARE GORGEOUS. ZHAO LI YING LOOKS PERFECT FROM HEAD TO TOE! Thanks stylists!

I apologize beforehand if I sound twelve in this post. I can’t help my fangirling heart. ❤❤❤❤

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Synopsis (for now): Based on the adventurous novels, The Gods and Demons of Zu Mountain, written by Huan Zhu Lou Zhu, The Legend of Zu follows the students of Kunlun Sect from generation to generation as they fight evil (like spirits and demons) and maintain good. The main evil force is popularly known as the Blood Demon and its spirit has the ability to inhabit another body, making him harder to eliminate. I think in this version, the leader of Kunlun sect places the spirit in William’s body so that he can learn to suppress the devil himself while being mentored as a student at the Kunlun mountains.

Ying Ying looks like a goddess. EEEEEEEEE!!! She plays two characters – the good one is the dead fiancée of William Chan. The evil one is Nicky Wu (another big bad)’s daughter…but she falls for William. Awwww BEST LOVE STORY EVER. BAD GIRL – GOOD BOY!! =D

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OTP together. 🙂

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With other people. Li Ying with new actor, Roy Wang.

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Oh….Mister. As Kunlun’s big brother (Gege), are you gonna woo all the girls?!! He is here with Liu Si Tong.

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Unsure who she is.

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Directed by Ricky Wong (The Magic Blade, Incisive Great Teacher, The Bride with White Hair) and co-written by Ma Yan (The Twins’ Code) and Li Jing Liang, The Legend of Zu is slated to be 50 episodes. Nicky Wu and Liu Xiao Feng collaborate as co-producers.

Lol, I’m still nowhere near finish with the TVB adaptations in 1990. I know! I’m the slowest turtle everrrr! 😛

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  1. 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

    Fans are starting to promote these two as a couple. Enjoy a fanmade mv:

    There are many other cast members without official stills yet: Nicky Wu, Janice Man, Louis Fan, Ye Zu Xin, JJ Jia, Li Jing Rong, etc.

  2. 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

    Hopefully some of ZLY’s drama will star airing soon. Love the stills

    • 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

      I hope they don’t air it back to back like what they did with Tang Yan. I’d be exhausted. Give me a few weeks break in between. Lol.

      Love the STILLS TOO. EEEEEEEE!!!

  3. 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

    COUNT ME IN!!! i love them both! sooooo freaking adorable.. love love love.. i dont care about the storyline, gotta check this one out for them! haha

  4. 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

    Awwwwww yeah! This looks sooooo good! :DDDDD OTP plot is totally right up my ally xD

  5. 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

    OMG. I heart skipped a beat when I saw these stills *__* too gorgeous. I want this drama to start airing NOW! ^^ I am slayed

  6. 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

    While ZLY looks gorgeous, I don’t feel William’s hairstyle, with that mop of hair covering his temple. But maybe because I’m never fond of such style (are we supposed to believe in ancient time they already sported layered bangs?). Nevertheless, looks forward to this as well.

    • 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

      I think they could’ve lessen the intense curling of his bangs, but they did such a good job with ZLY, I’m gonna let that fly for now. Lol.

  7. 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

    Totally sold on the bad girl/good boy concept. No more Mary Sues! Hooray!

  8. 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

    It’s next morning and I’m still excited!! Can’t wait to see how they style the various demons in this one. In the old one, they looked hideous, with horns sticking out of their heads (Nicky Wu’s character now). 😀

    Yui, Lol, Yui! Care about the storyline! Care!! Don’t let the pretty blind you. hehe

    V, It is right up my alley too! In the original story, William’s body eventually get taken over by the demon as well. But I’m just glad that they changed up the female lead’s character (in the old versions, she is righteous and good – too good for good tv!)

    Woda168, my heart too! Methinks it stopped beating for a good minute. 😎

    chasingpolaris, right?!! right? Good thing they didn’t follow the old version! Hooray!

  9. 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

    wow, she does look very pretty!! love it! now i want to see her evil character costumes!

    william chan + 10 other girls. lol!

  10. 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

    This is one gem I will be waiting for! I remember waaaay back in 1991 when The Zu Mountain Saga aired, I was so addicted to it that I kept going to the local video store everyday after work to borrow the most updated episodes of the series. Back then, we do not have CDs or DVDs or online streaming or download. It’s all in video tapes. Ekin Cheng made such a dashing Shek San and his pairing with Chan Song Ling was superb. Back them they were known as THE COUPLE. I fell in love with Ekin Cheng through this series and have followed his career ever since. I can’t wait for this remake! Any idea (roundabouts) when they are going to air this, Kap?

    • 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

      There was a time when my brother and I were in charge of picking up video tapes every Thursday. Heck. We even helped make copies of the video tapes once because it looked so cool.

      I’m at Episode 15 of Season 2. Nnadia and Ekin are sooooooooo cute together. Younger Ekin had that innocent, charming quality down so well. I just wish the romance was built up better. Actually, both seasons have the same problem with the romance and build-up. Season 1’s couple didn’t capture my heart like Nnadia and Ekin did though. 🙂

      They are still filming this baby. Earliest we might see it is the end of this year…

  11. 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

    William Chan’s hair looks funny but he’s dashing enough that it doesn’t matter. Besides, those bangs beat having a pouf on your head….lololol….

    • 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

      Lol, yes it does! XD

  12. 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

    Zhao Liying’s styling is awesome here – she looks great and very fitting in a period drama like this! 😀

    But OMG what the hell is that awful fringe doing on William’s head??? He’s a handsome guy so it’s such a shame they cover half his head with that heavy fringe (which looks ridiculous in ancient costume anyway).

    The Zu Mountain story is interesting so I’d really like to see where they take this! The stills are gorgeous but it’s just William’s hair looking off…

    • 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

      Her shady character = The intense make-up. So glad her character is not one-dimensional here, and not all goody two shoes like the past versions!

      • 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

        I love the shadiness of it all – goody two shoes characters are nice and all, but I think, to expand her skills as an actress, it’s more interesting to play different characters, especially here since she’s good in one and intense/shady in another. I’m interested to see how she plays the shady character because I’ve only see her as the innocent/sweet characters so far.

        And yes, the intense makeup looks good on her! 😀

      • 19 thoughts on “The Legend of Zu with Zhao Li Ying and William Chan unveils gorgeous first stills

        LOL these 2 stills of William make him look like he’s trying to cosplay as Baili Tusu (from Ancient Sword) hahaha 😀

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