So it was not bad... but it wasn’t really good either. It seems like the producers tried to reproduce success series like Detective L (and by the way, incorporated the good old cliche 4-flower-boys)... but everything is wrongly exploited. The various investigations are pretty uninteresting and we quickly lose interest. Moreover, they last more episodes than they should and they are pretty cliche and predictable. The main actors lack charisma and expression (except for Yu Yi Jie). However, most of their scenes do not require much emotion so this may be due to the fact that their characters are pretty weak in substance. For example, I feel like Zhai Xing’s character could have been awesome but they practically only give him one line in one episode (hard to show your acting skill that way) and we don’t get to see new aspects of his character. Tong Qiu Bai’s past and investigation about his dad is extremely cliche and it feels like we’ve seen that a million times. The actor only shows a poker-face all the time, whether he’s supposed to be happy, angry, thinking or hurt. His character and his romance are all pretty boring. His love interest, Qingmu, is no better : they try to give her personality by making her an expert in forensic but again, this was already used in the past and is nothing original. She’s basically only here to be the hero’s love interest and has no real personality whatsoever.
I was only interested in Nangong Shuo (Yu Yi Jie) and Song Miao Miao (Zheng Cheng Cheng) whose personalities, characters, acting and charismas are the only interesting thing in the drama. I look forward to see more of them in the future. I kept going the drama because I’m always interested in new faces like these two : however, this is not enough to save the drama