RedHairedNerd
This review might be me fangirling to Liu Xueyi a little too much
I'm late with a review but what's new lol
This drama has Liu Xueyi as a illegitimate son of an influential family, despised by his father, wanting to marry his love of his life and in order to do that, he has to jump quite many hurdles and solve various crime cases as the magistrate of a county. Absolutely LOVE, I love Liu Xueyi so much, I think he's a great actor, he looks amazing even without hair (Blood of Youth anyone?) and he's even more dashing as the young lord. Did I mention that he is so so so very handsome and I love him? And the character Pan Yue in this drama, the hero when you need a hero.
Then we have Ju Jingyi as the FL. Personally, I don't particularly like her as an actress. Probably because the dramas I watched with her had her casted in a tomboyish oblivious to her admirers, strongminded female lead (Legend of Yunxi, Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion) and I don't really like characters like that. But, here she is at first as a bad B I T C H who wants to marry Pan Yue at all costs and I think that type of character suits her so much. She slayed in this role. Then her character switches bodies with Pan Yue's childhood love, who is a gentle, humble, smart coroner and undertaker and the mystery begins.
We have a love triangle here as well and as much as I dislike love triangles, it doesn't bother me too much here because the crime cases and the mysteries are prevalent in this drama.
I'd say that the plot is a basic "we have to solve many mysteries which seemingly don't have anything in common with the main mystery, but they slowly add up and lead us to the main mystery" with a romance on top. I like such story line a lot and this drama has is very well balanced and written. The episodes keep you hung onto the story.
What I'm missing so far is, that we had some witch healer in the first episodes and this aspect of the drama was pretty much nowhere to be seen (aside from the bug summoning character in ep 20). I still have some episodes to go, so maybe this will be resolved.
Other than that, I think this drama is really good, Pan Yue is gorgeous, Zhuo Lanjiang is as gorgeous and if you like this genre, you should watch.
Edit to add after finishing the title: endings are endings, I was quite satisfied but I could do without the very last scene. I missed only one thing and that was Yang Caiwei should have said something to Shangguan Lan at the end, because the silence was deafening lol. Someone like Caiwei would definitely tell him to come visit if he ever misses his sister and also because he and Pan Yue are friends.
This drama has Liu Xueyi as a illegitimate son of an influential family, despised by his father, wanting to marry his love of his life and in order to do that, he has to jump quite many hurdles and solve various crime cases as the magistrate of a county. Absolutely LOVE, I love Liu Xueyi so much, I think he's a great actor, he looks amazing even without hair (Blood of Youth anyone?) and he's even more dashing as the young lord. Did I mention that he is so so so very handsome and I love him? And the character Pan Yue in this drama, the hero when you need a hero.
Then we have Ju Jingyi as the FL. Personally, I don't particularly like her as an actress. Probably because the dramas I watched with her had her casted in a tomboyish oblivious to her admirers, strongminded female lead (Legend of Yunxi, Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion) and I don't really like characters like that. But, here she is at first as a bad B I T C H who wants to marry Pan Yue at all costs and I think that type of character suits her so much. She slayed in this role. Then her character switches bodies with Pan Yue's childhood love, who is a gentle, humble, smart coroner and undertaker and the mystery begins.
We have a love triangle here as well and as much as I dislike love triangles, it doesn't bother me too much here because the crime cases and the mysteries are prevalent in this drama.
I'd say that the plot is a basic "we have to solve many mysteries which seemingly don't have anything in common with the main mystery, but they slowly add up and lead us to the main mystery" with a romance on top. I like such story line a lot and this drama has is very well balanced and written. The episodes keep you hung onto the story.
What I'm missing so far is, that we had some witch healer in the first episodes and this aspect of the drama was pretty much nowhere to be seen (aside from the bug summoning character in ep 20). I still have some episodes to go, so maybe this will be resolved.
Other than that, I think this drama is really good, Pan Yue is gorgeous, Zhuo Lanjiang is as gorgeous and if you like this genre, you should watch.
Edit to add after finishing the title: endings are endings, I was quite satisfied but I could do without the very last scene. I missed only one thing and that was Yang Caiwei should have said something to Shangguan Lan at the end, because the silence was deafening lol. Someone like Caiwei would definitely tell him to come visit if he ever misses his sister and also because he and Pan Yue are friends.
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