Killer and Healer

Good show, amazing characters and chemistry between them, unexpected turn of events

I came for the bromance, and I was not disappointed. Not only do the main leads have amazing chemistry (there loving stares and touches) but the story is also really good!! It had a lot of turns that were unexpected. The supporting roles were also played really well. They all had interesting relations to each other, and had a dynamic growth.



Mayor spoilers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: Halfway it starts to get a bit heart-breaking, because they start killing of characters. They were not afraid to do so! Only one of the main leads and one of the supporting characters remain at the end. The last episode is brutal.

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The casting of the various characters in the drama was perfect. The casting director/team has done a commendable job.

The drama was really good and did well until episode 24.In this episode Jiang Yue Lou learns about Chen Yu Zhi's death after being shot by him.He apparently is feeling guilty and is appearing to be sad while drinking .In the resulting scenes talking aloud by himself he says that he wouldn't let Yu Zhi die in vain and that after everything was over he would go find him to 'apologize'. Is he serious. This is actually quite selfish and inhuman of him. So he will make undercover plans with his superior and use an innocent civilian to prove himself for it and when the person dies he thinks he can get away with it by just an apology. That was blatant misuse of his position.So if Yu Zhi had really died Jiang planned to just say a sorry at his grave and carry on normally with his life and his promoted position in his job happily ? He would have enjoyed a marriage with Chu Ran and lived like an innocent and upright officer. What a selfish and conceited person .He should have thought to turn himself in after the completion of the mission and to accept legal punishment by law. He was shown as a righteous cop until then.But this ruined everything. Did he really think that he should have gotten away with what he had done.
At the end actually it was he who deserved to die and not Chen Yu Zhi. But alas the good ones die early and wicked and evil people like Jiang Yue Lou outlive everyone.

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The best series (at least for me)

I would really recommend this one. I feel in love with it and it totally changed something in me. I even like it more than Word of honor, Untamed, and so on..
❤️Dont forget to read the novel too, but unfortunately, the translation is not completed. Only to chapter 27.

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Acting is on point, in the series its really beautifully done. Even tho, they didint touched each other much (only in cut scenes) you can still feel the love between charcters.
Also to not forget to mention, in the novel you will get more hugs and even a kiss (but not really a full legit kiss).
The scenes and angles of the cameras are shot beautifully. Everything is very sophisticated. It can be seen that the staff probably had a good budget.
Also.. The music, which was sang by the main actor. (the main theme song) I listen to it, even to this day. It is still in my playlist.

Go and watch it!!

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Underated gem!

*Slams hand against table* Now that's the good stuff!

As much as I liked "Word of Honor", I feel like this show didn't get the attention it deserves. The two shows can't be compared as the two are very different, the only thing in common is the bromance that is based on a BL novel. However, WoH overshadowed "Killer and Healer" in viewing charts, though both shows had great chemistry between the main leads. Dr Chen and Jiang Yuelou had one of the best chemistry on screen, they are my no. 1 CP on 2021. I think among all the danmei I wantched, they were the main lead couple that I loved (yeah, not a wangxian shipper, they suck, wenzhou are good, I like them but not as much as... JiangChen? what is the ship's name? asking for a fanfi-I meant friend). The way their relationship was developed was written so well, something that 90% of c-dramas fail to do.

I loved almost all characters. I think Chu Ran is the only one I had problems with regarding the acting- it feels like she saved the acting ability to the scenes in the last episodes. She was too robotic, but somehow it didn't pull me off from the plot. I do think the guy who plays Zhan Junbai looks a bit too soft for his role, but not something that bothered me. Also, I recognize the actor of Boss Yu from the romance of tiger and rose, he fits the role of a gentleman. I love the man. Jin Dacheng was a character whom I didn't think much at first, but he was so awesome (and may I say even good-looking) in the last episode. I don't like comissionr Bai and his attitude towards his wife, but the actors were great.

The music was great, it was beautiful.

The story is good. I think it's better than WoH cuz in this series I didn't skip much (there was one or two scenes that I skipped). There were times the story was a bit weak, but overall I was drawn to the show. I think there were episodes I didn't feel the time was passing by, I was that engaged.

I think the show is worth of your time

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The best bromance drama

This is my favorite bromance drama. I rewatch it many time. The actors are also excellent. I didn't know these drama. I knew this drama one year after release. I like the storyline but i am not confortable with ending but overall is very very very good. I want to see the main cast in another drama. I love main casts so much especially Mao Zijun. His acting are incredibl also Yipo Chen and other cast too. Their friendship is very strong they trust each other i want a friend like them. if you are bl fan or detective fan or bromance fan this is for you I highly recommend this drama.

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Can’t believe I’m now writing a review of my favourite Chinese drama of all time

Killer and Healer is an excellent, complex story about revolutionary queers in time of great social, military and political upheaval. It is made in the same highly exalted creative and literary tradition as Nirvana in Fire (2015), and the more recent War of Faith of (2024) of which there are all too few in this category of dramatic artistry.

Chief Jiang YueLou and Dr. Chen Yuzhi are two good men who have a highly developed interest in the well-being of their fellow citizens, but they have diametrically opposed philosophies on how to go about it, and diametrically opposed personal characters which stem from their radically different personal histories, which is the basis of their ideological clash.

Zhan Jun Bai and Boss Yu, share a passion for Chinese opera over which they bond and become instantly attracted to each other, but they are opposed in every other way. I won’t say more for fear of giving away an important part of the plot, but their agonised relationship makes total sense, and even with whats not made explicit, we understood their constant references back to contesting their relationship in the context of Emperor Ai, the originator of the “Cut Sleeve” legend and his tragic love affair with Dong Xian. By the end, and especially the ending, it is made clear how they could not live together, but also particularly in the case of Zhan JunBai, they COULD NOT LIVE WITHOUT THE OTHER. I think that’s a pretty powerful love story arc and something you see only rarely in heterosexual love stories, and never ever see in more explicit BL such as from Thailand or South Korea.

In case some are not familiar with the history, the time period is a very tumultuous time of internecine wars and conflict as the new Socialist Republic wrestled with the remnants of the corrupt, capitalist Kuomintang, and building a country in which the masses of the people could survive and thrive after colonisation, which the Chinese called 100 years of Humiliation . It opens with some time spent in Hong Kong which was still under the most ruthless imperial domination, which made life hell for the people of that Chinese region, who only got their liberation from the British when the 99 year lease, one of a number of exploitative land-theft imperialist arrangements secured Unprovoked at gunpoint, expired as recent as 1997. So yes, lots of Chinese people lost their lives during these extended periods of violent colonial occupation and the destructive overhang of the Opium Wars meant to destroy the Chinese people, a phenomenon sadly outside of historical record prioritised in western dominated media.

In the late 1940s following the wars of liberation, China had to face the worst drug addiction problem in the world with 1 in 5 people of its population addicted to opiates. The Opium Trade had been forced on China, against the laws of China because Britain and its western capitalist allies thought this reflected free trade, modernity and liberal values (sound familiar?). Trade in opium was highly destructive to Chinese society and the damage went far beyond the millions killed and enslaved during these western wars of economic and cultural imposition. Cleaning up the criminal vestiges of this western onslaught is the job that Jang YueLou confronts in Killer and Healer. Within three years the Communist Party of China was able to overcome that problem with the help of dedicated men like Chief Jiang YueLou and Dr Chen YuZhi.

All the actors, even seemingly minor ones are perfectly cast and excelled in their roles. Mao ZiJun and Yi BoChen not only mastered their characters emotions but seem to have been born for these roles, making their characterisations and even their sizzling relationship dynamic between them from the first encounter, simply impossible to replicate.

Killer and Healer is a magnificent, meaningful drama that gets better on every rewatch and I look forward to the next BL from this Director, Sam Ho, which is a little Danmei adaptation called Immortality.

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First drama in modern version that caught my heart after untamed

I still remember—this was the first modern drama that truly captured my heart after The Untamed.

I really love the entire OST—yes, not just one, but all of the songs!
The chemistry between the police officer and the doctor was really good. Both of them acted so well, especially their facial expressions.

But... about the ending. Hmm. Maybe stop watching before the last 1 or 2 episodes (I can’t remember exactly).
Sorry, I love spoilers—and I’m going to spoil you all!

Why should you stop before the final episodes? Because the second male lead dies.
Many viewers were unhappy with the ending. Even though the producer released a special episode with a happy ending later, it still didn’t fully ease the disappointment.

So, in conclusion—this drama actually has two endings: a sad one and a happy one.
Of course, I choose the happy ending—because I believe every good story deserves a satisfying finish.

Highly recommended, especially if you love strong emotions, great chemistry, and unforgettable music.

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First and foremost I'm not picky when it comes to binge watching action dramas or any other types of dramas.

I've been watching Korean dramas for close to a year and I guess trying to watch a different type of drama have me hitting my head against the wall.

Every episode that I stomached in this series was the same except it involved different suspects. The main male lead had a hangup about illegal opium smuggling and he was trying to track down who was behind the smuggling in every episode. Each time he found a mole they die and the episode gets recycled and then there's another mole who gets caught and die and then that gets recycled to another episode where there's another mole who gets caught and then they....yeah, you get the picture.

The first episode was all over the place for me. Besides the fact that I can't speak a lick of Chinese, the subtitles was so off it made the plot hard to follow. Plus there were times when the text appeared too fast and would jump to the next line of dialogue. I had to pause A LOT just to see what was said and by most of the translations being off I tried to translate myself what the correct English sentence should sound like.

I was also disturbed by the relationship the two main males had. In my opinion it wasn't a 'bromance'. It looked like they were falling in love with each other which is something that I'm truly not interested in seeing. Them touching each others hands and smiling at each other...yeah, that's not bromance.

The cinematography was amazing but the audio was truly weird. It sounded like it was dubbed over in a studio and they just attached the track to the actual episode. You could hear the movement of clothes, breathing-things that would get scrubbed out in audio editing.

I tried to sit through episode ten but as I mentioned earlier about moles getting caught, this was like the other 9 so I just went to find something else.

I think this was the second Chinese drama that I dropped. I have yet to find one that piques my interest. Sadly this one did not.

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Another BL series turned into China Bromance fanservice

The story is set in an interessting timeline and that´s it! The Cop and Doctor concept could had been interessting, and they even tried to make it an enemy to lovers trope, but they failed misserably. The acting is also realy bad. Had not been so disappointed since a while back. I thought china could make the next step. Many series today contain good, realistic acting and not like oldschool overdramatic theatrelike. But not this one. Since it´s so not fitting for a cop-story it gets minuspoints!
I can not say anything about the music, because I could only watch this drama on youtube. The music was cut out.

Honestly I can not understand the many positive reviews on this drama. This must be because of the fanservice! Young blindsided fans of the BL contend need to wake up. This is no good series!

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Note to Self

I've tried watching this twice. Despite reviewers having listed The Untamed, Guardian, and Winter Begonias as recommendations (all three that were enjoyable), this series really doesn't have the same feel at all to any of them. But I should have known to not trust recommendations when it comes to BL-related series.

There's nothing outrageously terrible about this series. Dropping it for the same reasons why I've dropped many other well-known and relatively highly reviewed ones. The dialogue and interactions between all of the characters are just unnatural and cringe. It's not necessarily an actor or plot issue, but perhaps it's just how some Chinese series are directed or maybe partially due to the dubbing. Similar to the flow of older American soap operas- it's just not believable. And while Guardian also had tinges of this flaw, the two MLs had much more chemistry and the plot moved along more smoothly.

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