PeachBlossomGoddess

Have a long weekend so was looking for something else to watch. Tried both The Lead and The Heir and didn't make it past Ep 1 for both. Loved Winter Begonia and I can tell The Lead is going to be another award winning Chinese opera drama but not in the mood for it right now - maybe later. And The Heir was frankly off-putting - I like YZ a lot but she really didn't need to do another one of these.

Then I found this new Di Renjie drama The Tang Mist starring Feng Shaofeng. I just watched ep 1 - its really good, esp if you loved slightly spooky mysteries ala Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty. This is set during Wu Tzetian's reign. Short episodes, fast paced.
https://kisskh.at/790618-da-tang-mi-wu

Yang Yang is very good as well but he is playing a restrained fighter so he doesn’t have the 杀气 /killing intent in his movements, whereas BYT does. I believe this is done intentionally but also as a dancer Yang Yang’s muscle memory tends to bias his movements towards grace over power. And I am sad to admit that ZRN is neither - she is just not trained well enough to pull off these moves convincingly. My niece has been competing in wushu since she was a little girl. Her movements are very strong ,fast and grounded whereas ZRN flops around like tofu when it’s not a body double. It’s quite painful to watch.

I read the classic novel as a teenager and watched the parts of the endless Justice Bao series only sporadically whenever my parents had it on. They were episodic kind of like the American crime series so you don’t have to watch the whole thing you can skip around the cases. Kenny Ho was always Zhan Zhao in all of them but he wasn’t really the main feature of each case. The classic novel is more about him and his relationships but the Justice Bao series were case driven. I didn’t use to like Mandarin series and only watched now and then when my dad bought the Cantonese version VCDs. I was much more into HK TVB dramas at the time. Justice Bao was ok but more my parent’s thing.

They are excellent. A lot more powerful than Yang Yang's.

Is the most despicable, way worse than Fourth Aunt. She not only covered up the murder of her best friend, she was witness to a wrongly accused man, helping indict him. She deserves to be executed.

Ep 23/24: Mrs Jiao

Don't worry, the Douban rating is very likely to be high.

The last time ZZ saw her, she was still a kid.

Glad you are enjoying this. I also prefer wuxia to xianxia. The stakes are higher when you can actually die and have to fight your way without magic artifacts.

Could be. We have to see what is revealed.

I don't think so. I have an impression that BYT, his older bro and Jin Zhenping all belong to the same generation bc his bro and Zhenping were both competing in the Suwen Assembly 15 years ago. I also vaguely recall BYT saying his father and Zhenping's father were brothers. The Patriarch is 5th uncle - I assume 4th Aunty is same generation as the Patriarch is and therefor one generation above Zhenping and BYT.

MDL has a very romance and idol drama biased audience, mostly not Chinese literate. Douban viciously panned both POJ and A Splendid Match. Quite sure they will rate this quite well.

We are in a new arc - give it time to play out. After He Bo there are the 3 remaining Divine Lords - Si Ming, Dong Jun and Shan Gui. And the actor Yin Zhusheng playing the mastermind Xiangyang wang is one of the best veteran villain actors in c-drama.

Yes he was probably experimenting with ancient chemical weapons. But it is hinted that 4th Aunty was probably behind the discovery of the cure. Her nephew stole credit for it and helped Tang clan weaponize it secretly.

Tyvm 😍🌸

To each their own. To me this is miles better than POJ.

Hopefully not my dear! Sweet dreams.😘

Not necessarily. China was a huge country and travel took ages -lots of corruption and abuse of power happened at the local levels unchecked for decades. Justice Bao and Judge Di both were famous real life figures that did what they could to wipe out this kind of endemic corruption that still exists till this day.

I added in "even though 7.5 is probably more fair" bc I agree with you.
I dread to think of what new tortured twists the dude has in for us in Hidden Shadows.

Lol - I did rate the story a 7.5.😅 I just think its kind of on par with POJ in terms of nonsense plot mess and I also gave that an 8.0.