WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: A live action TV series set in Tang Dynasty China, Chu Chu travels to the capital to pass the coroner exam and become an official coroner like the rest of her family.
Prince Xiao Jinyu, head of the Three Judiciaries, finds out that she is a talented and brilliant coroner and likely to be an asset in solving cases... and also she has a pendant that his missing father had. Which raises questions about how she got it. Questions he would like answers to.
The show is both a mystery and a romance. The central mystery takes a little while to build up, and for the audience to have enough of the pieces to see the full size of it, but it is very fun, and is full of all sorts of smaller mysteries feeding into, which keeps the pace up. The romantic chemistry between the two leads is also very sweet and I love it.
As well as our two main leads, we have our secondary leads: Jing Yi, who is fun loving but also way smarter than he looks and frighteningly good at reading people, and Leng Yue, who has had to stop wandering the jianghu to focus on getting married... which is a bit of a problem, because most people want to marry her to get favour with her grandfather who she hates. The romance between Jing Yi and Leng Yue is not given as much screen time as the romance between the main leads, but it is still very fun and quite enjoyable. The friendship dynamics between all four of the main cast are also really fun (and let's be real: quite shippable.)
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The Imperial Coroner
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: A live action TV series set in Tang Dynasty China, Chu Chu travels to the capital to pass the coroner exam and become an official coroner like the rest of her family.
Prince Xiao Jinyu, head of the Three Judiciaries, finds out that she is a talented and brilliant coroner and likely to be an asset in solving cases... and also she has a pendant that his missing father had. Which raises questions about how she got it. Questions he would like answers to.
The show is both a mystery and a romance. The central mystery takes a little while to build up, and for the audience to have enough of the pieces to see the full size of it, but it is very fun, and is full of all sorts of smaller mysteries feeding into, which keeps the pace up. The romantic chemistry between the two leads is also very sweet and I love it.
As well as our two main leads, we have our secondary leads: Jing Yi, who is fun loving but also way smarter than he looks and frighteningly good at reading people, and Leng Yue, who has had to stop wandering the jianghu to focus on getting married... which is a bit of a problem, because most people want to marry her to get favour with her grandfather who she hates. The romance between Jing Yi and Leng Yue is not given as much screen time as the romance between the main leads, but it is still very fun and quite enjoyable. The friendship dynamics between all four of the main cast are also really fun (and let's be real: quite shippable.)
WHERE CAN I FIND IT (optional): It is available for free-with-ads on Rakuten Viki