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This drama is fun to watch, however the female lead acting distracts me with her bland acting, the way she delivers the character annoys me.

Still overal the drama is great. I especially like the male lead and want to check more of his works. I'd recommend it to everyone if you like mystery and entertaining series!

Excuse my non-professional review, but as a person who randomly picks things on netflix that are suggested I was not only thoroughly entertained by this show, but, I think I like it quite a lot. It has an engaging and intriguing story, it has action adventure, really cool costumes and backgrounds and props, very good cinematography, and some sweet love stories. The only thing I have to say is: How could you do this to us? Leave us hanging like this in episode 24? We need another episode soon!

I grown up in Tientsin but left there from 18 years old until now. In my memory, Tientsin is a mixing of Chinese traditional, Western culture as Concession, humorous citizen, Mysticism, food and the river. All the place in this TV show was so familiar, the river, the bridge, piers, restaurants, black market... Unfortunately, the TV show losts 40% of details from the fiction, and the translation lost 40% more details, but I'm still very happy to watch it from Netflix and see my hometown!

I thoroughly enjoyed this well acted and entertaining story. If you like romance, mysticism, drama and of course zombies, then watch this. Each episode develops the characters well and moves the quirky storyline along at a good pace.

Gosh what a long trek this has been. 24 episodes of some surprising excitement from China. At this writing I have three episodes to go so I can't give out spoilers. I'm not sure what I expected from a mainland China piece; perhaps unfairly I thought it might be a tad amateurish. Far from it, this is a slick, involved and ultimately exciting journey which, judging by promos during end-of-episode credits looks to be full of action in its conclusion. Set in 1930s Tianjin, in Republican China, with all its accompanying fashion, dark brown looks and, er, interesting hair styles, we follow the exploits of Gou De-You (Li Xian) as he investigates the mysterious appearance of hundreds of bodies on his patch. As the "Little River God" it's his job to fish them all out. In tandem with Ding Mao (Ming'en Zhang), head of an influential business group, they dig deeper into a strange and dangerous world to uncover the Ancient Evil Gang, its enigmatic mentor and his successor Lian Hua Qing (Enhe Kang). There is mysticism, fight action and intrigue, even zombies, and all that kept me invested in this right to the end. I have read that series 2 has begun filming though, sadly, without Li Xian. He has great screen presence and an intensity that easily makes him leading man material. In the next series Jin Shijia will be the lead actor. I thoroughly recommend this adventure and look forward to the next series.