lilswtangel

I just watched the first episode and had to have my blanket up to my face. Good start for a short form drama - no annoying FL (so far) and it doesn't have the look and feel of a low budget drama.

Also, wow the cleavage shown here has been the most skin I've seen in a cdrama since 'The Empress of China' before they started censoring cuts. Even more revealing than Tang Jing Mei's hanfu worn in the currently airing 'Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty S2'.

Is this possible only because this is a short form drama?

For a douban rating, that's really high! Really happy to hear this as it's a shame this series isn't more popular with the international audience who prefer the idol led dramas.

I enjoyed how the production team has managed to link the first three cases to previous arcs from season 1 (the third case by mentioning the creepy triplet case due to the similarities of staying at a remote inn - Liu Shi Qi / Liu Shi Ba / Liu Shi Jiu)

Did he lose a lot of his muscles? I didn't recognize him in 'A Tale of Rose', his acting and body really stood out for me in 'Ancient Detective' - the brawn to Jian Bu Zhi's brains

Directors need to cast this man more leading roles instead of giving them to male idols who can barely act! Why aren't we seeing him onscreen more often and why are his roles so limited?

I'm on my third rewatch of Ancient Detective and I get amazed by his acting each time.

Yay, this is great news!!!!

I didn't manage to guess the true murderer (the treasure hunter father), but I did guess correctly that the landlady of the inn was still alive and that Jiang Wei was the sheriff of the town/county when the imposter sheriff mentioned that the 'Sheriff of Shen county was quite clean' and he stepped forward to ask whether not have any illicit gains means an official is uncorrupt.

Give it another episode or two.

He's actually not as stubborn or pompous as we see after the first case, there's definitely been growth (both mental and emotional development) on his end since season 1. Without needing an explanation from Su Wu Ming, it shows how much Lu Ling Feng trusts SWM despite what many (including himself initially) may have deemed as an act of betrayal.

We see that SWM has had a lot of influence on LLF over the time they've been solving cases together, whether it's critical thinking, analysis, or strategizing - he's not as quick to jump to conclusions anymore and can catches on things that seems out of place pretty quickly.

Maybe before his cheating scandal....admittedly he is a very attractive man in appearance, but has an ugly interior.

His cheating scandal - he had a 3-year affair with his 'Asako I & II' co-star Karata Erika starting in 2017 when his wife (Anne Watanabe, daughter of Ken Watanabe) was pregnant with their third child. At the time, Erika was only 19 years old.

He's since been dropped by his agency and now lives in the mountain as a hunter with three younger females who were (still are?) actresses.

Oooh, a four hundred year old female ghost master - yay for something out of the normal plot. Dilraba's dramas are a hit and miss for me (50:50), but I did enjoy the two dramas I've watched of Chen Fei Yu (Ever Night S1, Lighter & Princess). Visually, they make a stunning pair, but so did Dilraba x Wu Lei, Dilraba x Yang Yang, Dilraba x Zhang Bin Bin and Chen Fei Yu x Zhang Jingyi - so my fingers are crossed that the storyline and acting will be able to keep us captivated.

I really enjoyed his scenes in Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty S2!

So had many suitors but always seem to be imprisoned behind a wall. The good news is that there were BTS of BDJ carrying a young Ye Anshi (Wu Xin), so at least we'll get some happy moments. :)

I agree, with luck he'll reunite with BDJ fully recovered and soon at that.

No as this is the prequel to TBOY. However, I suggest watching TBOY after this as everything and all the relationships/connections will make sense (especially since we've been introduced to so many characters with each new episode).

Having watched TBOY, it makes it easy to recognize who is who and remember the faces. I mean the number of people with white hair here....plus the upcoming appearance of Nangong Chun Shui will up that number.

He's the other identity of the Head of the Academy, Li Chang Sheng - aka BDJ and the eight gentlemen's master

Four, if we count Lei Mengsha; we will get to meet his wife Li Xin Yue and a young Li Han Yi

We did~ :) Hopefully, the show will cover how the guardians were chosen and how they end up being so loyal to #9.

I didn't catch Sha Xuan's name on the cast list earlier in the sea of the male idols. When she appeared onscreen in episode 11 as A' Xuan, I thought she looked familiar - Ji Xue (Guardian White Tiger) but without the grey hair.

I'm assuming A'Xuan is Ji Xue's mother and/or (future) wife of Ji Ruofeng?

Also a young Luo Qing Ya before he was OP (overpowered) and looks to already gaze longingly at his shimei, Yi WenJun. Poor WenJun - even as a young lady, she felt caged and trapped.

The first episode can be found on Youtube, but I couldn't sit through the first episode - which was less than 14 minutes long. I didn't know they had short form dramas filmed in 2014...