Watching the first two episodes... it is dramatic... beautiful... get to the points ... yet confusing. They are rushing things without giving us proper explanation.
Too many coincidences making it lack believability. The world seems so small and the fl is too strong. And I keep asking why, why, and why.
people who loved this drama, do you guys recommend Ever Night(2018)?? i heard that's another good wuxia drama,…
Maybe you won't like it. EN wuxia style is magical and the overall story is a fantasy. There are scenes that show real fights, but they are not as impressive as ZZA.
Does this series include romance and what happened? Did it end with happy ending?
It has romance. Han Li and Mo Caihuan. It is pretty one-sided, but Han Li does have some feelings. They just cannot unite, because mortal and immortal beings are like sky and earth. Han Li said goodbye to her. And she accepted her fate. It is a bittersweet ending for them.
Not always the same thing. Because you fast-forwarded it, you didn't get the details.
I can help you to be more systematic in understanding the cases.
The structure of the cases is like an octopus (not thematic/ episodic like in other investigative dramas). The main case is only Prince Xiangyang's Rebellion. He has four tentacles: Si Ming, He Bo, Dong Jun, and his son. And each tentacle has its own branches of evil.
Si Ming, a mere clerk, works for him by identifying flaws in the justice system so they can use some cases to control corrupt government officials, and to tackle good officials before they reach the main head.
He Bo works in Jianghu, using poison to control many martial artists across the country. As a reward, he is free to open a brothel and engage in kidnapping and human trafficking for his own ambition.
Dong Jun works as the head of a county. He works by manipulating and controlling society to support the gold mine and collect wealth illegally. In doing so, they enslave young men and kill people. This wealth will be used by Prince Xiangyang to "buy" military from another country to topple the reigning monarch.
Meanwhile, his son, Shou Jizu, works as a military commander. He provides military force for his father's rebellion and directly prevents the righteous party from advancing. These four tentacles work coherently. They help one another, especially Shou Jizu, whose power and reach are much greater.
The pattern is, for several episodes, they cover one big case controlled by one tentacle, which consists of several smaller cases. At first, these smaller cases seem unrelated to each other, but eventually they point in the same direction. So, the pattern is in the structure, not in the content. Each story is different and pretty rich, combining cases that happened in jianghu, at the law and magistrate's office, in the market, and in common people's neighborhoods, as well as cases from the past.
The challenge is that this style of storytelling is a bit hard to follow because several small cases can run together to build one greater case, taking a longer time to resolve. And, we must watch carefully to find the dots and actively make connections. Sometimes the connection is not direct but appears later.
If you fast-forwarded, you definitely missed a lot. Not only the details, but also the connections. And this drama doesn't use flashbacks and expositions much to (re-)explain things that seem obvious. They just show the events, decisions, and impacts.
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Too many coincidences making it lack believability. The world seems so small and the fl is too strong. And I keep asking why, why, and why.
The structure of the cases is like an octopus (not thematic/ episodic like in other investigative dramas). The main case is only Prince Xiangyang's Rebellion. He has four tentacles: Si Ming, He Bo, Dong Jun, and his son. And each tentacle has its own branches of evil.
Si Ming, a mere clerk, works for him by identifying flaws in the justice system so they can use some cases to control corrupt government officials, and to tackle good officials before they reach the main head.
He Bo works in Jianghu, using poison to control many martial artists across the country. As a reward, he is free to open a brothel and engage in kidnapping and human trafficking for his own ambition.
Dong Jun works as the head of a county. He works by manipulating and controlling society to support the gold mine and collect wealth illegally. In doing so, they enslave young men and kill people. This wealth will be used by Prince Xiangyang to "buy" military from another country to topple the reigning monarch.
Meanwhile, his son, Shou Jizu, works as a military commander. He provides military force for his father's rebellion and directly prevents the righteous party from advancing. These four tentacles work coherently. They help one another, especially Shou Jizu, whose power and reach are much greater.
The pattern is, for several episodes, they cover one big case controlled by one tentacle, which consists of several smaller cases. At first, these smaller cases seem unrelated to each other, but eventually they point in the same direction. So, the pattern is in the structure, not in the content. Each story is different and pretty rich, combining cases that happened in jianghu, at the law and magistrate's office, in the market, and in common people's neighborhoods, as well as cases from the past.
The challenge is that this style of storytelling is a bit hard to follow because several small cases can run together to build one greater case, taking a longer time to resolve. And, we must watch carefully to find the dots and actively make connections. Sometimes the connection is not direct but appears later.
If you fast-forwarded, you definitely missed a lot. Not only the details, but also the connections. And this drama doesn't use flashbacks and expositions much to (re-)explain things that seem obvious. They just show the events, decisions, and impacts.