Wei Zhuang

Wei Zhuang is one of the main antagonists in The Legend of Qin franchise, in both novels and the animated series. He is also one of the main protagonists in Song of the Nine Heavens prequel, the leader of Quicksand and a long-time archenemy of Ge Nie.

Being the leader of the Quicksand organization, Wei Zhuang was a lost noble of Han Kingdom and an escort to the King Ying Zheng of Qin when Jing Ke carried on a failed assassination plan. After Jing Ke's death, Wei Zhuang became a Political Strategist that served Guigu Zi as one of his pupils alongside Ge Nie, whom Wei Zhuang had developed a feud and rivalry with.

Later, after the Qin Kingdom unified China and became the Qin Empire, Wei Zhuang was invited by Li Si to be an assassin working for Emperor Qin Shihuang in order to hunt down Ge Nie, who had betrayed the Emperor by escorting Jing Ke's long lost son, Jing Tianming.

He is the main antagonist of the first half of the original novel series. In the animated series adaptation, Wei Zhuang is the main antagonist of the first two seasons, a major antagonist in Season 3, and a supporting character from Season 4 onwards. He is also the one of the main antagonists in live-action TV series adaptation (alongside Emperor Qin Shihuang and Zhao Gao).

He is primarily voiced by Wu Lei in the animated series. In the live-action TV series, he was portrayed by Sun Yizhou with his voice dubbed by Zhang Jie.

Trivia

 * Wei Zhuang won the second place in the animated series' character popularity poll with 4,445,167 votes, only having fewer votes to Zhang Liang, who won the first place with 6,851,204 votes.
 * Since Zhang Liang is a supporting hero in the animated series, this makes Wei Zhuang the most popular villain in Legend of Qin animated series.
 * The live-action series version of Wei Zhuang has more resemblence to the animated series version instead of the original novel version, according to the official files that busted a rumor that the live-action series had more resemblence to the original novels.