” If I am a Weapon, only you can be my Swordsman. “ This is a review of Sword and Fairy (2024) Chinese Drama in its entirety.
Synopsis-
Yue Jin Zhao ( Xu Kai ) and Yue Qi ( Yu Shu Xin – Esther Yu ) lived together in Wuyan Village for three years. With an amazing “resonant” relationship, they knew nothing about each other’s origins. They worked together to venture outside, wishing to get the old memories back. They were involved in mysterious events such as the rebellion of the Qihun Holy Sect and the Blood Sacrifice of Luojiabao, and in the process of fighting against the Holy Sect, Yue Qi suddenly regained her sealed memories and emotions…
Later on, they met Luo Mai Ming and Luo Zhao Yan of Luojiabao, the millennial wolf demon Xian Qing, Gu Han Jiang, Ming Xiu, Ju Shi Fang and many others, and gradually found their own identities. Among the major forces, including Zhengwu Alliance, Qihun Holy Sect, Heng-Tao Sect and Yu Demon Clan, which one is the real mastermind? Plots after plots, they were even willing to sacrifice themselves and change their destinies to reunite. Adapted from a Chinese RPG game of the same name.
(Source: WETV)
Sword and Fairy (2024) – Chinese Drama Review
‘Sword and Fairy’ as a drama, delivers deeper thoughts than it appears on the surface. The characters are deep and complex with an integration of different backgrounds, thoughts and emotions. No matter how different their paths maybe, even if the ending is controlled by fate, they are still willing to overcome the obstacles together, because, there are greater goals to live and die for.
Unlike other wuxias, the drama doesn’t really start with a backstory, so viewers may find it confusing. But I won’t label it as confusing because the story actually follows the journey of exploring the backstory, the reasons of where they are today.The first half of the drama brews the beautiful relation, friendship, romance, and memories to ensure worser heartbreaks, y’all heartbreaks in latter half of the drama. So prepare your tissues.
Once again, the start of the drama may not be everyone’s cup of tea as I mentioned before, afterall we are so used to knowing the background story in the very first episode before the main story starts, especially in wuxias.
But this drama is instead about unraveling the background, the back story, cause we have two amnesic youth who have no idea about their history. Since the journey follows them finding clues to their identity, we know the story only when these two characters unravel them. So this has good amount of mystery too.
Xu Kai and Yu Shu Xin–Esther Yu did a great job portraying the non-blood-related siblings Yue Jin Zhao and Yue Qi. From the bonding of siblings, because they found themselves without family members or background memories to remember their families, to the intimacy of lovers, the actor and the actress exude an overflowing chemistry. This is commendable, considering that they have never collaborated before.
I personally found the plot quite engaging. Especially, since we had little bit introduction of every character posted by other fellow viewers. So it made my understanding of every characters’ emotions very clear. The past titbits of memories, the timing of unraveling a particular mystery were well timely inserted. The pacing of story was quite good. The cgi wasn’t the best, considering the fact that it’s a tencent drama, but it has done a way better job than some of its last dramas.
Overall, I will rate it as 8/10 because Xu Kai did a great job portraying both Jinzhao and Luohan who have opposite characters. Esther is always adorable. Great second leads too! Xu Kai and Esther Yu has great chemistry. I wish I can see them again both in different drama
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