Chinese Drama 2024
Five Kings of Thieves (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)
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- Genre: Republican Drama, Action, Romance
- Release Date: 23 March 2024
- Origin: China; Adapted from a novel, Five Thief Lords
- Cdrama: 12 Episodes
- Network: Youku
Cast
- Darren Wang Talu as Huo Xiaoxie
- Ren Min as Shui Yaoer
- Zhao Huawei as Zheng Zedao
- Wang Xiuzhu as Hei Sanbian
- Tan Xiaofan as Lin Wan
- Wang Ruolin as Yan Jingtian
- Hei Zi as Zhang Siye
- Xing Mao Ju as Qian Zhanggui
- Bao Xiao as Pan Zi
- Xing Minshan as Zhou Xiansheng
- Zhao Liang as San Zhiliu
- Huang Haibing as Shui Wang (Water King)
- Zhang Shuangli as Mu Wang
- Wang Shuo as Huo Wang
Episode 1
It looks interesting from the word go.
Anyway, the blurb said that that there is a Holy Couldron of Five Elements that was handed down from the First Emperor.
This couldron is very mystical. It apparently has a very mysterios power that was sealed within. This holy couldron is very reminiscent of the Ark of the Covenant.🤗
Five families had been tasked to guard it but because of the chaotic time during the Qing Dynasty, many wanted to grab the couldron and most of the elite soldiers of the Five Family perished from the many skirmishes. But the holy couldron seemed to have just vanished.
Whoever finds the holy couldron will become the leader of the martial art world.
Fast forward to the early Republican era, Huo Xiaoxie is a street boy. He is very smart and good at fighting. He was recruited by a very patriotic police officer Zheng Ze Dao who wanted him to infiltrate Zhang Si mansion to take the Goddess Jade which is a national treasure and should be kept in China. Zhang Si was about to sell it to the Japanese.
Episode 2
Many patriots tried to prevent the transfer of national treasures to the Japanese. Shui Wang was one of these patriots and had told men that the the vanished Five Elements which is now called the Goddess Jade which is the key to the Three Firegate Tasks is at the Treasure Tower at Fengtian.
The Zhang Residence is like a fortress not easy to penetrate but Xiaoxie must as his master has been taken by Hei San Bian for ransom. She said that she will release the master as long as Xiaoxie steal the golden Buddha that is inside the Zhang Residence.
There was an auction at the Zhang Residence when Xiaoxie got in. He immediately run into Shui YaoEr. He was annoyed at first to see her again but he changed his mind when she proved to be useful as she knows the many traps and arrays inside the Zhang Mansion.
YaoEr led him to the basement where the treasures were hidden. She wanted the Linlong fan as it used to be her mother’s. Meanwhile, someone got to the Goddess Jade first, but zhang Si managed to track him and took the Goddess Jade back.
He then auction the Jade Pearl which he extracted from the tummy of the Goddess Jade. It then turn into a mayhem after a Japanese head of chamber of commerce won the Jade Pearl. The patriots suddenly showed themselves and there was a ramble. In the chaos, Xiaoxie managed to steal the Jade pearl.
Episode 3
Poor Xiaoxie watched his friends suffer. Two were abducted and tortured while Guon was killed. His master ordered Xiaoxie to keep it together.
Xiaoxie did not know who to trust as everyone wanted the Jade pearl so to keep it safe, he swallowed it.
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