Chinese Drama 2020

Handsome Siblings (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)

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• Genre: Historical Costume Drama Fiction, Siblings, Wuxia, Romance
• Release Date: 16 January 2020
• Origin: China, Remake
• Cdrama: 44 Episode
• Watch @ Netflix

Cast:

• Hu Yi Tian as Hua Wu Que
• Chen Zhe Yuan as Xiao Yu’er
• Liang Jie as Su Ying
• Vicky Liang as Tie Xin Lan
• Ping Hui Tay as Yan Nan Tian (Uncle)
• Zhou Junchao as Jiang Yulang
• Shao Yun as Mu Rong Jiu
• Wang Zhen as Zhang Jing (Little Fairy)
• Zhou Bin as Gu Renyu
• Gallen Luo as Jiang Biehe
• Nikita Mao Linlin as Yao Yue
• Meng Li as Lian Xing
• Song Wenzuo as Hei Zhizhu

(Characters from Chinesedrama.info)

Rumour has it that this drama is slated for 16 January 2020 showing.

Episode 1

It started with some beautiful panoramic scenes where Jiang Feng (Hu Yi Tian) was driving a carriage with a pregnant woman inside.

Then suddenly there was a cock on top of a tree and then a black pig on the ground.  Jiang Feng had to turn the carriage around because he knew that they were going to be ambushed by the Twelve Zodiac gang.

The gang suddenly appeared.  They looked so naff, it made me think whether I wanted to continue watching.  Really bothered me at first but then I saw Hu Yi Tian with his flowing locks and whiter than white hanfu and then he started flying all over the place with his sword and before I knew it I started really enjoying this first episode.

Jiang Feng was engaged or probably even married to YaoYue of Yihua Palace.

But he fell in love with one of the palace maid, Yuenu, and made her pregnant.

So they were running away and was going to meet his brother Yan Natian, who was looking forward to seeing them as well as becoming an uncle.  Yan Natian was the world’s best divine swordman.

During the fight, one of the zodiac gangs got into the carriage and was about to kill the pregnant Yuenu but she used her out of this world Yihua Jade Swapping Palm move which scared the gang so much they went away.

But the Swapping Palm move sent Yuenu to early contraction and had the baby or rather two babies prematurely.  The babies are both boys and are fraternal twins.  As Jiang Feng puts it, one looks like Yuenu and the other looks like him.

After a while, they continued on with their journey to meet Brother Yan, who at that time met a servant who told him that Jiang Feng had some travel technical difficulties so they should meet at San Sheng Temple instead.

When Brother Yan got there, Jiang Feng wasn’t there so Brother Yan waited.

In the meantime, Jiang Feng and Yuenu were accosted again by the Twelve zodiac gang.

This time they were able to really injure Jiang Feng and Yuenu.

They were about to kill the twins first but a powerful martial artist suddenly descended upon them.  She was Lady Lian Xing of Yihua Palace.  She was able to overpower the gang in no time.

Then she castigated both Jiang Feng and Yuenu for what they had done.

It turned out that because Jiang Feng was uber-gorgeous they all fell in love with him, including Lady Lian Xing.

Lian Xing said that she gave way to her sister Yaoyue because her sister loved Jiang Feng so much more and had done so much for him.

Jiang Feng said he can’t help himself.  Yuenu got into his soul.  She made him realised that there was a difference between love (for Yuenu) and gratitude (for Yaoyue).

At that point, Yao yue herself turned up and said that she heard everything.  She immediately ordered Yuenu to kill herself if she wanted Jiang Feng to be saved from his fatal injuries.

Without complaint, Yuenu stabbed herself to death.

Jiang Feng was so upset he killed himself as well by pressing on his life point.

Now, Lian Xing was gutted.  She said to her sister that it should have not ended hat way.

Yaoyue angrily said that she hated them with a passion, and showed her arm to Lian Xing which was full of pinpricks.  She had been self-harming to control her hatred for the couple.

Lian Xing felt so sorry for her sister.  They concocted a plan to separate the twins as a revenge to the dead Jiang Feng.

Brother Yan met the constabulary who asked him what was he doing at SanSheng Temple?

Brother Yan realised that he was blindsided and went to look for Jiang Feng.

He saw bodies near a lake which included Jiang Feng and Yuenu.  He then heard an infant crying.

Brother Yan found the dog and the monkey of the Twelve zodiac gang.  After some fighting, the monkey told him that they did hurt Jiang Feng but they were ordered to by Jiang Qin.  Jiang Qin was a ward of Jiang Feng.

Jiang Qin is now hiding at Wicked Canyon by Kunlun Mountain.  It was a treacherous trek to the Wicked Canyon as whoever goes there will never return dead or alive.

Brother Yan was determined to avenge his brother.

Episode 2

Brother Yan went to the Wicked Canyon against advice by authorities.  He took with him the baby.

At first, he was welcomed at Wicked Canyon for being Sima Yan.  He was offered a feast.  Fatty, the bandit, tasted the food first to show Brother Yan that it was not poisoned.

Brother Yan thought that it was better that he pretended that he was Sima Yan and not antagonize the people so he could ask and find Jiang Qin.

But when he had finished eating all the food, fatty suddenly told him that it was drugged and any moment he will feel the effect of it.

When he woke up, he was tied up in beef rope and met all sorts of strange villainous characters like the Tomboy, a pretty woman who can talk like a man.  There was also the cannibal,  the ghostly man, and the steel fingered man.  They all wanted to kill Brother Yan because Sima Yan had let it be known that Brother Yan had come to Wicked Canyon to kill every single one of the residents.

Brother Yan was the world’s best swordsman but there were too many of them and he got distracted trying to find the missing baby.

In the end, he got beaten up so badly that he was more or less left in a vegetative state.

The doctor in charge of Wicked Canyon asked the villains to allow him to experiment on Brother Yan.  He had 10,000 herbs to test which someday might even save the villains’ lives.

So Brother Yan was put in a vat of warm water with herb and acupuncture needles all over him.

The villains had decided against killing the baby, instead, they agreed to look after him and turn him to the most dangerous villain of all.

They named him Xiao Yu’er and they put him through the most heinous experiences they could think of.  And he grew up such a prankster who started making their lives so frenzied with dangerous surprises and now they are paying for all the things they did to young Yu’er.

When Xiao Yuer was just a boy, a masked woman ninja had told him that his real father was called Jiang Feng and that he was killed by Yihua palace and he must take revenge on them.

Xiao Yu’er is now a grown-up boy.

Episode 3

I hope this drama will pick up the pace because at the moment it is on the tad boring.

Dr Wan asked Xiao Yu’er if he remembered the person who told him that his father was Jiang Feng and that it was Yihua Palace who instigated the death of his parents.

Xiao Yu’er and Dr Wan were puzzling over who could have been the person who was able to get into the Wicked Canyon without being detected.

There were only three possible candidates with good enough martial arts who could be it.  One is Brother Yan and the other two were from Yihua Palace itself: Lian Xiang and Yaoyue.

Meanwhile, the villainous group had decided that Xiao Yu’er was getting out of control and therefore they had done their job.  The boy is now ready to be released into society to create havoc and mayhem as they had planned all along.

They pack a little something for Xiao Yu’er including a tonne of gold leaves for money.

Xiao Yu’er was only to happy to go.

The Villains actually felt rather sad to see him go.  He was their tortured baby.

This was now 18 years since Jiang Feng and Yuenu were killed.

Brother Yan is still in a semi-comatose state in a warm herbal vat of water.

Aunt Lian Xiang, came to visit the Hua Wu Que in his manor.  He had grown into the spitting image of his father, Jiang Feng.

Aunt Lian Xiang was so overwhelmed with longing for Jiang Feng that she asked Wu Wue to hug her which confused the boy.

Aunt Lian Xiang apologised and said that he reminded her of a good friend.

Aunt Lian Xiang took Wu Que to see Lady Yaoyue, who like Lian Xiang, was taken aback by how Wu Que looked so much like Jiang Feng.

She had not seen the Wu Que for five years so she did not know that he would be a carbon copy of Jiang Feng.

She told Jiang Feng that he was now ready to leave Yihua Palace to look for Jiang Xiaoyu, who killed his father Jiang Feng.

Wu Que got used to obeying everything Yaoyue orders because he had been trained through punishment to obey everything without any question.

When Wu Que had left, Lian Xiang begged her sister to reconsider.  It had been eighteen years.

Yaoyue reminded Lian Xiang what she did for Jiang Feng.  She looked after him for ten years and had healed him from his illness using her power and energy.  She was with him day and night and thought they were happy.  Then one day one of the maids disappeared and Jiang Feng with her.

Lian Xiang does realise why her sister was so vengeful.  The distance between love and hate is nothing at all.

Episode 4

Wu Que was like a fish out of water in the Capital.  He was rather naive and trusted everyone and believed in giving second chances even to those who did him wrong against the better judgment of his two female bodyguards.  He believes that there was something intrinsically good in everyone.

Then he was disabused of this notion when an innkeeper tried to do him harm many times.  He finally accepted that evil lurks in the martial arts world.

Meanwhile, Xiao Yu’er was so happy to be out of the Wicked Canyon, he was free.

He even becomes happier when he met Tao Hiu who was so friendly, she invited him to celebrate the grand bazaar with her family.

Xiao Yu’er even thought of probably marrying her.

With all the golds he was given by the Villains, he was taken advantage of by the vendors.  Tao Hiu told him off for leaving her and not have someone to barter for good for him, ergo, he was taken advantage of.

But not for long because the vendors came to find him with more goods.  This time Yu’er swindled them and when they complained, he beat them up.

He then left but followed by a young man, Tie Xin Lan, (but really a woman) who told him that he is a great martial artist and he wanted Xiao Yu’er to be his disciple.

Xiao Yu’er declined and said that he can be his disciple instead.

They had a bit of a fight that Tie Xin Lan won but Xiao Yu’er learned so much from the Villains that he was able to trick Tie Xin Lan into agreeing to become his disciple instead.

Then Tao Hiu came by to asked Xiao Yu’er to save her family as bandits had arrived to kill everyone unless someone called Tie was produced.

Xiao Yu’er was not interested as it had nothing to do with him.

Tie Xin Lan promised Yu’er that he will return but he had to help Tao Hui first.

Apparently Tie Xin Lan had something that everyone including Zhang Jing, wanted to have.

Episode 5

Tie Xi Lan finally confessed to Xiao Yu’er that the thing that everyone wanted was actually not with her but with her friend.  She just said that she had it so people will come after her rather than her friend.

Xiao Yu’er asked what it was?

Tie Xi Lan said that it was a treasure map.

Yu’er laughed dismissively about a treasure map.  He said he was not interested in any treasure.  it was easy to get if he wanted to but he doesn’t.

Tie Xi Lan drugged him so he doesn’t muck up the job she had to do.

She quickly found out that Yu’er was so wily that she ended up drinking the drugged water herself.

Yu’er was about to frisk Tie Xi Lan when she sleepily said don’t which made him curious and realised that Tie Xi Lan was a girl.

Tie Xi Lan said that she was going to Wicked Canyon to find someone.

Yu’er told her that he knew everyone at the Canyon as he grew there.

Tie Xi Lan was looking for Tie Zhan, One of the Ten Great Villains, Mad Lion.

Yu’er told her not to bother going to the Wicked Canyon because Mad Lion had not been there.  He was probably dead.  It turned out that Mad Lion might be her father.

Hua Wu Que was an expert martial artist but was rather naive, having been brought up in a secluded part of the Yihua Palace.

His mission was to find and kill Jiang Xiao.

On his way to search for his target with his two sidekicks, they met Samwang, who told them that Jiang Xiao was currently in a dilapidated inn just outside the town.

Samwang took them to the inn but when he got there Wu Que noticed immediately that it was an ambush as Samwang’s men turned up to kill him.

Samwang said that it was in revenge of Wu Que’s murdering all innocent people at another inn.

Wu Que said that it was a mistake, someone was using his name.

Samwang was not too happy but he gave Wu Que the benefit of the doubt.

Episode 6

The Little Fairy continued to hunt for Xi Lan and Yu’er because of the treasure map.

Xi Lan said that the Little Fairy can be brutal but not intrinsically a bad girl.  It was just that she adored the owner of the treasure map.

Yu’er almost disinterestedly asked who the owner of the map.

When Xi Lan said it was Yan Nan Tian, the master of the sword, Yu’er suddenly became alert.

Xi Lan continued that the treasures would have included the swordplay manual.

Yu’er said that whoever owns the manual will become the strongest person in the world.

Hu Yi Tian is so gorgeous but I have to say his acting initially is rather wooden.  That perplexed look he had perfected during A Love So Beautiful makes him looked rather vacant in this drama.  Hope he improves during the course of this drama.

Anyway, Wu Que passed the Tianhong Clan territory and was invited to stay.

Master Feng was so chuffed to have such an auspicious guest from Yihua Palace that he said he was going to gift Wu Que the family heirloom.  But when he opened the case it was empty.

Master Feng went ballistic.  The Duyou Sword is gone.

Wu Que heard that the missing item was the Duyou Sword, he then mentioned that he saw it just a few days ago.  He fought with the ‘owner ‘of the sword.

Master Feng asked who it was.

Wu Que said that it was Qin Zi Ling of Quanshan Clan.

Immediately Master Feng and his people went to Quanshan Clan’s manor and had a fight with Qin Zi Ling and his men.

Master Feng was a good fighter and would have probably defeated Qin Zi Ling if young Miss Feng did not intervene.

She was made a hostage which allowed Qin Zi Ling to get away.

But not quite far away because he ran into Wu Que.

They ended up fighting but again Miss Feng was there to intervene.

Apparently Miss Feng and Qin Zi Ling were dating and had been in love for quite a while.  And like Romeo and Juliet, their clans hated each other.

Miss Feng also confided that she gave the Duyou Sword to Qin Zi Ling as a love token.

Anyway, Wu Que asked why they had not eloped?

Miss Feng said they had plans of eloping but they had to fulfill their filial obligations first.  And in three days, she and Qin Zi Ling will get away to travel the world.

Wu Que was an old romantic, so he decided to seek longer hospitality from Master Feng and stay for a few more days to see how the elopement of the young couple would pan out.

Master Feng had ambitions for his daughter. He then asked his daughter to make lotus soup and bring it to Wu Que in the dead of the night.  She was advised to seduce Mr Hua.

Episode 7

OMG!

This episode was straight out of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Anyway, Bai Yu Feng finally eloped with Qi Zilliang.

They agreed to meet at Qi Zilliang’s clan manor at the early hours of the morning.

But when she got there, she was immediately pounced on by the guards and tied to a torture rack.

She was already bloodied by the slashes she was received by the order of Zilliang’s father.

He said that she was an evil woman seducing his son.

Zilliang then appeared, also all bruised and bloodied and it looks like he also received some form of punishment.

Anyway, he begged his father not to Bai Yu anymore and to let her go.

The father said that he will never agree to a marriage between his clan to the clan of the evil woman.

Anyway, it just going around and around in circle, unitl Hua Wu Que appeared.  He said that he should allow the young couple to get married as they love each other.

Still the father would not agree to be affiliated to the barbarian father in law and an evil woman daughter in law.  The father said that their clan was proud for being righteous and it was written on their board hanging by the roof of their manor.  The board had been there and was a pride of generations of righteous heads of Qi Family.

Wu Que reminded the father that he was not being righteous now so he took the board down.

The father was so desperate to get the board back that he agreed to the marriage finally of his son to Bai Yu Feng.

At the wedding venue, Master Feng was as excited as the bride, his daughter.

It was announced by their guard that Zilling had come along to return the Duyou sword.

As Mr Feng promised he insisted that Wu Que accept the gift as a sign of gratitude for all he had done for her daughter and her intended’s family.

Mr Feng asked Wu Que to check the sword.  As he unsheaths the sword a good dusting of poison few into the air affecting everyone nearby.

Wu Que knew immediately that they had been poisoned and ordered that the least they move the poison will not travel to their system quicker.

Zilling’s father finally turned up and was about to kill everyone but by this time Wu Que had freed himself of debilitating poison.

He managed to convince Zilling’s father to make up with the in-laws by giving them the antidote,  but he would not agree to it so Wu Que ordered his assistant to forcibly take the antidote from the father.

Zilling’s father was too much so wu Que said that he might as well kill him and be done with it.

Bai Yu stood in front of the soon to be father-in-law and begged Wu Que to cease and desist with the killing.

Anyway, the father in law seemed impressed with the girl that he allowed himself to be ushed to the wedding room.

But as soon as he saw the Zilling generation board draped in red wedding ribbons, he went mental and destroyed the board.

He then said that even if the Jade king had to appear there and then, he would still refuse to consent to a wedding between his son and the evil woman.  He then pressed his life point by his throat and then keeled over dead.

Poor Zilling blamed himself for his father’s suicide so he cut his throat as well.

Poor Bai Yu started believing that she must be truly an evil woman so she should not remain alive. She picked the same sword Zilling used to kill himself and used it on her throat as well.

The most traumatised with this succession of suicide was Wu Que that he dropped his weapon of mass destruction (his fan)

He could not believe in human behavior.

Episode 8

Yu’er and Xin Lan stopped at a restaurant/inn for lunch.  They met a very accommodating restaurant owner who promised to make them food, though it would be simple it would be filling and tasty.

When they got their food, Xin Lan could not wait to start on the aromatic rice dish.

Yu’er for some reason stopped her from eating and turned her bowl upside down and sure enough, there was a baby snake among the rice grains. He immediately went to the kitchen and found the two cooks dead.

They went chasing for the snake man who was hard to locate as he has the ability to camouflage.   Poor Yu’er got bitten by a dead snake.

Xin Yan immediately hugged him to herself and told him not to die on her, not to leave her.

Snakeman, who was really Lord Bishe finally showed himself when Yu’er said that if he did not appear soon, he would swallow the treasure map.

Snakeman appeared and was threatening him for the map and even pushed Xin Lan rather hard when she went to defend Yu’er.

Yu’er swallowed the map but snake-man said the snake was not his only expertise, he was also good at cutting up people.

But before he could use his sword on Yu’er, Miss Jiu appeared.

Miss Jue is a beautiful girl from the Murong Clan.

She is the youngest of the famous martial artists nine Murong Sisters.

With her at the Murong mansion was Gu Renyu as a prospective suitor.

Miss Jui is so pretty and very accomplished with martial arts, even better according to her than the Little Fairy that she had become rather arrogant and dismissive of others.

And Yu’er was a bit of a trial with her because he was not taking her self-importance seriously.

As Yu’er was still recovering from his snake bite, Miss Jui allowed him and Xin Lan to stay the night.

Yu’er got a bit worried and nervous when Xin Lan was getting ready to go to bed.  He likes her but he was not ready for any commitment yet so he ran away.

He ended up at Miss Jiu’s bedroom where he heard her talking to Renyu to arrange for the Little Fairy to be ready and waiting outside the manor when she throws out Yu’er.

Miss Jiu made Renyu promised that in case Little Fairy failed to kill Yu’er then Renyu had to kill him, otherwise Renyu is not welcome at the Murong Manor anymore.

Yu’er went to look for a place that he could hide, he was sure that there is such a place in Murong as it occupies a large area.

He ended up in a huge room with secret locked doors.  The first room had the secret pills that Mis Jiu had concocted.  She is also well known for her medicinal herbal knowledge.

Yu’er found that the pills tasted so good, he did not stop at one or two or three.  In fact, he ate all the pills that he could find.  After a while, he felt really hot. He found another locked door where cold air seemed to be coming out.  He went into the room immediately and surprised to find Miss Jiu in a very uncomfortable position.  She was upside down doing her training for the Rock Altering cultivation.

Yu’er removed all the posters showing the different positions for the training.  He said that Miss Jiu did not need that crap because she might actually turn into stone.  As it is, she was already very cold and hard-hearted.

Yu’er was really desperate to cool down so he jumped over the fence into the outside forest straight to the waiting Little Fairy.

She was just about to kill him when Miss Jiu stopped her.

Little Fairy asked why she stopped her. And Miss Jiu said that he was still officially her guest.

They started arguing until Little Fairy said you have got a crush on him.

Miss Jiu said that it was Little Fairy who had a crush on Yu’er.

They then noticed that their crush in no longer there.

So cute.

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If you are a fan of Liang Jie, she is finally going to appear in this episode as Su Ying.

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