Chinese Drama 2021
No Boundary (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)
Aka Yu Zhao Ling (Storm of the World)
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Yu Zhao Ling poster
Genre: Romance, Immortal/Mortal Love Story, Historical Costume Drama Fiction, Fantasy
- Release Date: 30 March 2021
- Origin: China
- Cdrama: 40 Episodes
Cast:
- Darren Chen as Zhan Hong
- Zhang Yi Shang as Duan Mu Cui
- Wang Rui Zi as Cui Yu (Cortesan)/Chi Yao
- Han Dong as Yang Jian
- Wang Yifei as Hong Luan
- Cao Xiu Ye as Meng Die
- Gu Zi Cheng as Wen Gu Wei Yu
- Yang Ze as Shang Guan Ce
- Ao Zi Yi as Jiang Mo
- Calvin Zheng as Father Shang
- Feng Bo as Mother Shang
- Yang Kun as Granny Liu
- Zhang Yan Yan as Mother Zhan
- Wang Yi Nuo as Zhang Long
- Liu Prince as Liu Biao
- Wang Hao Zhen as Tai Zi Wei Long
- Hong Jun Jia as Gong Wen
- Patrick Quan as Zhang Sheng
- Dong Li You Wu as Gong Wen (young)
- Ai Mi as Mu Wen
- Chen Xun as Gu Lu
Quick Precis:
A female immortal came down from heaven above and falls in love with a handsome mortal.
Apparently the director worked in the fabulously popular The Untamed.
Episode 1
It started well, it was like a fairy tale, very ethereal.
The curfew man was banging his drum or cymbal warning everyone to turn in for the night. During his round, he stopped for a while to give in to his fetish of smelling a lock of hair he had with him.
Before he could really satiate himself, a woman in a long lacey burgundy gown glided through the town. She killed everyone she passed by including the curfew man.
The only witness to this was a fat black cat.
The owner of a well-stocked study found out that it had been turned upside down. He called the prefects, police, which were led by a stunning-looking Zhan Hong.
Zhang Hong saw the study with scrolls, books and paintings turned upside down to the floor. He picked a red flower on the floor and immediately said that the culprit was not human. In fact it was a cat, a black cat. He said to the owner that he had left his study window ajar which let in the cat.
Zhang Hong spied the cat on the roof and followed it. The cat is the most agile feline in history. He can jump fearlessly from one roof to another, no matter how high. He would not need a fireman to rescue him.
The cat led him to a hanging bridge across a pond where a punch of burgundy pansies grew on the mouth of the bridge.
Looking at the petal of the pansies, Zhang Hong reckoned that the owner of the cat was Xihualiu.
Lord Jiang had previously instructed the prefects to leave Xihualiu alone. This only made Zhang Hong curious.
Before he could investigate the cat, a female prefect had told Zhang Hong that murder and kidnapping most mayhem had happened in the next village.
The common denominator to the murders was a courtesan called Cui Yu.
I like this drama already because there is no beating around the bush, Cui Yu was revealed to the viewers already as the burgundy girl with red talons specter.
And the sect leader Duanmu was annoyed with her.
Cui Yu turned out to be a mountain demon who had been devouring spirit soul from human to make her lover immortal.
But when Cui Yu found out that her lover was just using her, she killed him in front of Duan Mu and Zhang Hong.
Despite Cui Yu confessing, Zhang Hong still would not release Duan Mu and took her to prefecture where she had an audience with Jiang Wen Qing which she though looked rather familiar.
When Duan Mu wanted to leave, she was prevented by Zhang Hong and Duan Mu got annoyed.
Duan Mu believed in eye for an eye justice while Zhang Hong things that she should answer to the law, rule and justice promulgated in the land.
Meanwhile in the heavenly realm, her brother, the god of Justice started worrying about her and came to human realm to find out how his innocent and shy sister was.