After narrowly escaping death a few months earlier, seasoned criminal investigator Qin Chi (Zhang Yi) returns to work with almost no memory of a furious gun battle that saw his colleagues and members of a gang perish senselessly. A cloud of suspicion hangs over his part in this incident with no case file logged and stray bullets that don’t make sense to the show’s equivalent of internal affairs head investigator. As the sole survivor, a mixture of overwhelming guilt and uncertainty haunts Qin Chi as he struggles with injuries to the brain and leg. In effect, our protagonist is a broken man in search of the truth. Looking on from the sidelines is ex-wife Feng Xiao (also in internal affairs) who is torn between wanting to believe in his innocence and living with lingering doubts about his personality issues that brought their marriage to ruination. Assisting him is garrulous sidekick, Lu Mingjia (Zhang Haowei) the son of one of the police’s brass. Xiao Lu as he’s often called, is eager to please and is a decent detective in his own right but feels the weight of special treatment being his father’s son. He wants to be taken seriously for his own abilities but feels that his colleagues upstairs and downstairs walk on eggshells around him because of his heritage. The dynamic between Qin Chi and Xiao Lu as mentor and apprentice is one of the highlights of the drama. They are veritable opposites. But there’s little doubt that Qin Chi’s relationship with the three most important women in the show is what gives depth to an otherwise taciturn loner who doesn’t know what to believe about himself and his part in the death of his colleagues. Aside from the ex, there is Qin Chi’s therapist, Xia Yutong and the 18-year-old vengeful Chen Rui, the waifish sister of a deceased gangster, who is out for blood.
Reborn (2020) A Review
Reborn (2020) A Review
Reborn (2020) A Review
After narrowly escaping death a few months earlier, seasoned criminal investigator Qin Chi (Zhang Yi) returns to work with almost no memory of a furious gun battle that saw his colleagues and members of a gang perish senselessly. A cloud of suspicion hangs over his part in this incident with no case file logged and stray bullets that don’t make sense to the show’s equivalent of internal affairs head investigator. As the sole survivor, a mixture of overwhelming guilt and uncertainty haunts Qin Chi as he struggles with injuries to the brain and leg. In effect, our protagonist is a broken man in search of the truth. Looking on from the sidelines is ex-wife Feng Xiao (also in internal affairs) who is torn between wanting to believe in his innocence and living with lingering doubts about his personality issues that brought their marriage to ruination. Assisting him is garrulous sidekick, Lu Mingjia (Zhang Haowei) the son of one of the police’s brass. Xiao Lu as he’s often called, is eager to please and is a decent detective in his own right but feels the weight of special treatment being his father’s son. He wants to be taken seriously for his own abilities but feels that his colleagues upstairs and downstairs walk on eggshells around him because of his heritage. The dynamic between Qin Chi and Xiao Lu as mentor and apprentice is one of the highlights of the drama. They are veritable opposites. But there’s little doubt that Qin Chi’s relationship with the three most important women in the show is what gives depth to an otherwise taciturn loner who doesn’t know what to believe about himself and his part in the death of his colleagues. Aside from the ex, there is Qin Chi’s therapist, Xia Yutong and the 18-year-old vengeful Chen Rui, the waifish sister of a deceased gangster, who is out for blood.