QAS

The alternate drama title was A Dull Day in the Life of Gao Qi Qiang. A suspense drama that should have been thirty episodes maximum. Protagonist An was overshadowed by Antagonist Gao for most of the plot.

The only things that Gao Qi Qiang had going for himself were smart hairstyles and an impeccable wardrobe. He was the successful businessman with the pretty wife. Gao Qi Qiang was the epitome of the perfect Godfather; ruthless and beneficent.

An Xin was an iffy character. He looked like a thin reed that will bend in the wind. His righteous/good Samaritan cop act got boring. An Xin was the country bumpkin. His mannerisms around Men Yu were immature and annoying. He seemed to have a Jekyll and Hyde personality. Even as a cop, he wavered and waffled. He was dominated by the neighborhood bully Gao Qi Qiang. When An Xin had his bravado moments, you asked yourself, "Where was he, all this time? Has he been lying in stealth for twenty years?"

Zhang Song Wen (...Gao Qi Qiang) should have received Top Billing, because he drove the plot. This was my third drama with Zhang Yi (... An Xin), and he played a cop in all three dramas. His police characters seemed like clones. Zhang Yi needs to step away from the police genre, and play another career professional. If he lived in ancient times, he would be the peasant soldier in the first row during the siege, and he would take the first strike.