Medicine for a dead man

Just finished The Long Ballad and was searching for a similar Cdrama dive into. I admit I selected this because it stars both Wang Wang and Zhao Lu Si who are eye candies. This girl (Zhao Lu Si) is really going places! Since first seeing her in The Romance of the Tiger and the Rose, I've seen her back to back in several successful fantasy oriented cdramas as a main cast. While I've generally enjoyed her performances, I am looking forward to seeing both actors try something outside of their familiar genres. Both do not stray far from their classical romance-adventure genre. The premise of the show starts of with several kingdoms receiving a decree to search for an Empyrean totem that would grant them the power to "Rule the World". Oh great, it's one of these fantasy dramas that portrays nothing of thoughtful and sound leadership. With cliche single-minded rulers and mindless soldiers. The swordsman fight scenes are as usual impressive in these sort of chinese dramas. The plot feels lacking and the first episode ends with a skilled lieutenant of a noble family losing their life after the heroine tries to save him - because of a fake token. Is there a logic as to why the heroine cannot carry him off the mountain with her exemplary skills? Or how the lieutenant couldn't just escape the mountain himself since he had enough energy to perform impressive martial art feats? No, no logic at all. Instead, the heroine gets medicine for him and gets poisoned in the aftermath of trying to get him off the mountain.

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