Archives: The Nanyang Mystery Whump List
(Southern Anecdote) I tried to add times, they’re probably not accurate 😅 but the emotional damage of this show kept distracting me lol
Whumpees: Zhang Hai Xia played by Ding Yuxi, Zhang Hai Lou played by Zhang Xin Cheng
Genre: historical, republican era, action, bromance
Synopsis: In the early years of the Republic of China era, a bizarre murder case known as "Water Ghost Longing for Home" occurs at sea in Nanyang. Zhang Haiyan and Zhang Haixia, two staff members from the Southern Archives dispatched by the Zhang family to investigate the mysterious events, are drawn into a deadly trap used to hunt down members of the Zhang family overseas. Hai Xia offers his life in a scheme to break the deadlock, sending Hai Yan aboard the giant ship, the Nan'an, back to Xiamen, in hopes of giving him a chance to survive. However, this turbulent voyage seems to have only just begun. A powerful warlord with something called “Dusk Grass”, a naive and persistent young accountant, and a dearest friend he has not seen for ten years. Hai Yan faces a series of unexpected events alone, and the moment he sets foot in Xiamen, the true destiny of the two young men begin to unfold.
Ep1- toxic water splashed on his hand, takes detoxifying pill ; tough fight ; fight with enemy, wounds on his face ; flashback stressed finding out ZHA is going to Balai
Ep3- enters toxic cave ; (08:00) shot at, hiding behind rock, explosives thrown at them, “i have nothing left to hold me there, you go back in my place” shields ZHL from explosion, emotional ; (10:00) washed up on rocks, unconscious, large burn on his back and legs, unconscious on raft, raft falls apart and falls into water, rescued ; 3 year time skip ; (24:00) in wheelchair, legs treated by ZHL, emotional moment, holding back tears ; emotional telling ZHL to leave without him ; tense confrontation, scar on back revealed, fight, shoulders squeezed, dislocated, grunting in pain, threatened to break his spine, back squeezed
Ep4- (05:15) back squeezed, wincing in pain, shoulders relocated, taken as hostage ; (30:50) attacked by enemies, knife thrown into his shoulder, surrounded, fighting multiple enemies, kicked in the shoulder, knocked off bridge, lands on boat, wincing, escapes, wincing in pain from shoulder, collapses
Ep6- (9:35) wakes up in bed, shoulder wound bleeding through clothes, grunting in pain, dizzy spells ; (22:00) shoulder bleeding, in pain, dizzy spell, checking his own pulse, tests wound, poisoned, takes medicine, heart racing, lured into trap, dizzy, in hallucination, unable to move, stressed, seeing ZHL unconscious, wakes up on the floor, emotional being able to feel his legs again, standing with difficulty, carrying ZHL out, crying, wakes up from hallucination, voices telling him to die, holds knife to his own throat, falls out of wheelchair, unconscious on the ground, wound on his throat
Ep7- (4:00) hiding from enemy, wound on his neck, coughing, weak, quick fight, flashback struggling through hallucination, about to kill himself, collapses, weak, angry, dizzy
Ep8- (27:30) hiding from enemies, dizzy, poison still affecting him ; (30:50) wincing, trying to wheel through crowd, wincing when he’s bumped, stabbed in the stomach and side, fighting, holding stomach, dizzy, dragging himself along shelf, found by enemies, sitting against bed, covered in wounds, very weak, speaking weakly, barely conscious
Ep9- (1:00) cont. from prev ep, sitting on the floor, barely conscious ; (39:40) found dead in crate
Ep10- (00:22) repeat of last scene, dead on the floor ; (9:30) dead on the floor next to XHL, mentor emotional seeing him, body carried away ; (25:30) flashback, fighting ; (34:30) in coffin, face cradled by mentor, being mourned, carried off ship by ZHL
Ep11- repeat last scene, carried off ship ; body in wheelchair, wounds on face and neck
Ep12- (01:30) taken by mentor to be buried ; (18:00) revealed he faked his death, has possibility of surviving ; (23:20) flashback, dying on the ship, covered in blood, takes toxin to fake his death, confronting enemies, stabs himself in the chest
Ep13- (34:15) flashback, chained up with ZHL for training, arm yanked when ZHL moved, wincing (comedic)
Ep15- (29:44) in bed unconscious, wounds on face and neck ; (34:40) awake in wheelchair
Ep16- (00:30) repeat of last scene, emotional ; (3:55) mentions of still being paralyzed, has incomplete spinal fracture, still has some neural function, seems depressed ; (17:00) emotional moment, helped to stand (20:05) legs massaged, doing rehab, in pain, struggling, emotional ; (24:45) spacing out ; (23;55) hearing voice telling him he’s a burden, violent thoughts, revealed that medicine he was taking can cause madness : (25:20) laying in bed, getting acupuncture, in pain, emotional, burn scars on leg, crying ; (29:15) violent actions/thoughts, in shock, stressed, nose bleeding ; (31:27) doing rehab, struggling to walk, almost falls, out of breath, sweating
Ep17- (00:20) drunk, emotional moment ; (02:00) angry confrontation with thugs, personality switch, attacks them, using broken shard, hand bleeding, sweating, out of it ; (07:00) blood on wheelchair from hand injury, falls out of wheelchair trying to get to bed, emotional, crying, passes out ; asleep in bed being tended to, wakes up, flinches when he sees servant, hand bandaged, kills servant, wakes up on the floor, (it was a dream) sweating, out of it, hand bandaged ; (22:00) kid yelling at him, rock thrown at his chest, nose bleeding, changes when he see’s his blood, breathing heavy, emotional confrontation with XHL (29:30) trying to open complicated trap, sweating, finger cut ; (34:18) getting acupuncture on leg, emotional moment with mentor, reveals the drug and antidote to fake his death are actually a poison, doesn’t save him, only delays his death and cause madness, asks how he will die
Ep18- cont. from last ep, emotional, says he will kill himself, comforted, crying ; (28:15) using crutch to walk, rubbing his arm, hiding it from ZHL, wound shown on arm
Ep19- (walks with crutch whole ep) (00:20) quick fight, in explosion (no injuries) ; (6:55) confrontation with ZHL, holding wound on arm ; (17:45) at gunpoint ; (25:30) spacing out, stressed ; (37:36) reveals wounds on arm, self inflicted, going on dangerous mission
Ep20- (31:30) emotional finding child killed by twilight grass
Ep22- (1:40) crying, emotional moment ; (6:00) emotional
Ep24- white streaks in his hair (3:30) antagonized by enemies, very angry ; (24:50) in shock seeing ZHL and mentor, emotional confrontation, shaky breathing, helping them escape
Ep25- (33:00) tense confrontation with MY
Ep28- (3:18) has a moment of clarity, emotional
Ep29- (12:00) joins fight (14:30) shielded from explosion, knocked to the ground, emotional moment (21:00) struggling against big snake, knocked through pillar onto the ground, arm bitten, holding arm in pain, knocked back by explosion ; (24:00) small wounds on his face, tense confrontation with ZHL, emotional, cool fight with ZHL (32:20) flashback emotional finding mentor dying, asks her to kill him, falls to his knees, “you should have killed me then. At least I could’ve died at home”, given medicine ingredients that can save him, destroys the medicine
Ep30- (00:30) fighting ZHL, “come back with me” “we cant go back”, emotional, kicked to the ground, coughing blood, realizes toxic flowers were released ; (34:45) emotional confrontation with ZHL
Ep31- (10:00) confronting mentor, emotional moment
Ep32- (08:30) confronting spector of his true self, sudden pain, dizzy, confrontation with ZHL, sword to his throat, cool fight ; (30:30) stabs ZHL, lucid moment, emotional ; (35:50) revealed theres 2 people controlling him ; (35:30) flashback revealed he was working undercover, about to kill himself, stopped by evil personality, emotional confronting evil side
Ep33- (10:55) in vision, emotional moment when ZHL find out truth, (15:00) crying, struggling against possession, emotional at mentors death ; (22:15) cuts his hand to open sealed cage, confrontation wirh ZHL, cool fight, shot in the hand, shot in the shoulder, in pain, fighting ZHL, stabbed in the chest, lucid, blood from his mouth, collapses to his knees, speaking weakly, emotional flashbacks, gasping, “Im a little tired” collapses in ZHL arms, passes out (dies? Theres a moment at the end that maybe not? Idk)
Ep1- takes detoxifying pill ; tough fight ; fighting enemy, wounds on his face
Ep2- knocked out by mentor (comedic) ; tied up in the ocean as punishment, shivering when he finally gets out ; taking detox pill
Ep3- enters toxic cave ; shot at, hiding behind rock, explosives thrown at them, shielded by ZHX ; washed up on shore, wound on his arms, worred for ZHX, rigged raft to carry ZHX, having flashbacks of ZHX saving him, raft falls apart and falls into water, struggling to fet ZHX back on driftwood, exhausted, passing out, has dream, sinking, wakes back up, half collapsed on drifteood, rescued ; 3 year timeskip ; emotional moment with ZHX ; (35:40) tense confrontation with ZR, worried for ZHX, at gunpoint
Ep4- (1545) worried for ZHX
Ep6- in ZHX hallucination, carried unconscious into room, wounds on his back, speaking weakly struggling to move, had ZHX wounds on his legs and scar on his back, carried by ZHX, “let me die”
Ep7- (21:00) shot at, jumps off ship, swims away : (37;30) cool fight, blood on his mouth
Ep8- (12:00) locked in room with toxin, dizzy, escapes, coughing, cool fight, holding chest in pain, coughing, staggering, hoarse voice ; (35:30) chasing after assassin, stabbed in the stomach and back, in a fight, dizzy, wounds poisoned, holding head in pain, wincing, slashed across the back, fighting
Ep9-(3:00) staggering, coughing, holding wounds in pain, struggling to speak, running away ; (5:20) hiding, wincing in pain, wounds being treated, stitching wound, in pain, sweating ; (14:30) disguised, fight with mentor, kicked to the ground, grunting in pain, escapes, hiding ; (23:30) saves friend, wincing in pain, holding wound, weak ; (28:00) at gunpoint, shot next to his ear, ear ringing, crawling across pipes, struggling, sweating, funny fight, being choked, escapes, hiding, half collapsed against crates, coughing, weak, gasping, wound bleeding, fighting, hand cut, (39:40) sees ZHX dead, in shock
Ep10- (00:22) repeat of last scene, emotional, hitting head, crying, collapses to his knees, stabbed in the back, gasping, stabbed multiple times, grabs blade with bare hand, fighting, slashed across the back, tough fight, kicked to the ground, spits blood, gasping, struggling to get up, ears ringing, barrel smashed against his back, spits blood, falls, to hands and knees, stabbed in the back again, gasping, staggering, collapses, spits blood, grunting in pain, passes out ; (9:30) unconscious on the floor, saved by mentor ; (12:30) in bed, spacing out, depressed, sitting on the floor, mourning ZHX, refusing to eat, having flashbacks, comforted ; (20:30) angry, confronting enemies ; (27:30) comes back to the room covered in blood, friend concerned for him, emotional, telling him about ZHX, crying, comforted ; (34:00) finds ZHX coffin, emotional, carrying ZHX off ship
Ep11- repeat of last acene, carrying ZHX on his back, emotional ; (11:45) carrying ZHX through hometown, emotional moment ; (18:30) stressed finding out archives are gone, emotional, depressed while investigating ; (22:00) wheeling ZHX through streets, emotional ; (25:00) emotional confrontation with mentor (28:00) realizing he caused the disaster with the archives, emotional
Ep12- (01:00) emotional confrontation, crying ; (3:30) depressed, out of it ; (11:00) emotional taking off ZHX bracelet, about to kill himself, hit, onfronted by mentor, telling her to kill him, realizes ZHX was protecting him all along, crying, told ZHX faked his death
Ep13- going through difficult traps finding the archives
Ep14- (11:00) small wounds from earlier traps reopened, blood floating out from wounds, jumps up to check mechanism, staggers back, weakening from blood loss, wincing, falls to the ground, passes out ; (14:20) flashback shot at, rescues ZHX, knocked back by explosion ; (17:50) wakes back up, staggering finding exit, speaking weakly ; (28:50) stabbed in the back, gasping, collapses ; (31:50) faking it, fights enemy ; (37:00) struggling with enemy
Ep15- (7:20) dives into toxic water, coughing blood, gasping, dizzy, struggling, coughing, LOTS of blood, barely conscious ; (15:30) burns his hand on steam vent, passes out, saved by mentor, leaning against wall, wincing in pain, wakes up, gasping, weak, wounds bandaged, struggling to stand, limping ; (25:00) dizzy from hot springs, wincing, passes out, unconscious floating in pool, wakes up with tattoo/special power, scars on body revealed, dives back into water, gasping and weak after getting item, struggling to speak, collapses, coughing ; (30:40) in bed, wounds bandaged, burns on hand, wakes up, wincing in pain ; (34:30) emotional seeing ZHX
Ep16- (00:30) emotional, wound bleeding through shirt ; (3:00) wound tended, wincing, emotional, slapping himself
Ep17- (00:20) drunk, emotional moment : (18:30) worried for ZHX ; (28:30) emotional thinking about ZHX faked death
Ep18- (11:00) worried about ZHX ; (24:30) at gunpoint, running away, shot at, rescued
Ep19- (00:10) fighting, in explosion (no injuries) ; (12:40) in a fight, thrown against wall, falls to the ground, wincing
Ep20- (15:15) worried for ZHX
Ep22- (10:50) worried for ZHX ; (12:00) worried about mentor ; (16:00) emotional moment, crying
Ep23- (22:00) drugged, passed out, wakes up, paralyzed, fighting drug. Dizzy (semi comedic)
Ep24- (21:30) emotional seeing dead friend (24:45) shocked seeing ZHX kill friends, emotional confrontation
Ep25- (20:00) hallucination, choking, food poisoned, staggering, falls to his knees, worried for mentor and ZQJ, gasping, collapses ; wakes up in real town (32:00) quick fight, knocked out by mentor
Ep26- (3:20) tied up on water wheel (comedic) ;
(19:10) fingers bleeding from bow string ; (24:30) emotional seeing what ZHQ did
Ep27- (01:30) emotional confrontation with mentor, crying ; (26:25) bitten on the shoulder
Ep29- (06:30) cool fight, (10:40) finger cut by bow string, emotional when ZHX joins fight, (14:30) shields ZHX in explosion, knocked to the ground, coughing (2035) bitten on side by snake, venom spit into his eye, losing vision, knocked through hole into cave, bitten by multiple snakes, worried for ZHX ; (24:00) ZHX treating eyes, emotional confrontation, (29:00) in shock seeing what ZHX did, cool fight with ZHX
Ep30- fighting ZHX, kicked to the ground, coughing blood, realizes the toxic flowers were released, emotional, crying when he sees everyone dying ; (29:15) confronting enemy base, bad ass fight, cut across back, tattoo showing, (34:45) emotional confrontation with ZHX, crying, fighting many enemies, at gunpoint
Ep31- (01:30) saved by ZHX ; (12:20) finds mentor, emotional, crying ; (16:00) mourning, small wound on arm treated ; (36;00) in room with low oxygen, dizzy, staggering, breathing air from jar with toxic smoke, grimacing, saving ZQJ, eye bleeding, hallucinating, about to kill himself
Ep32- (00:30) cont. from last scene, jar smashed against his back to wake him up, (11:00) confronting ZHX, shot in the shoulder, cool fight ; (27:00) attacked by creepy spider things, in explosion, knocked out, wakes up on the ground, coughing, staggering, stabbed in the heart by ZHL, gasping, staggers back, knife pusbed deeper, collapses, struggling to breathe, passes out, found by ZQJ (34:20) friends trying to save him, knife pulled out, snake medicine applied to wound, speaking weakly, reveals his heart is on the right, emotional realizing ZHX is being controlled, very weak, bitten by snake that can show memories, in pain, gasping, eyes rolling back, seeing memories of ZHX
Ep33- wakes up from vision, emotional, grimacing in pain, helped to sit, speaking weakly, crying, bitten again to find into, grunting in pain, passes out ; (17:00) emotional, wakes up helped to stand, grunts in pain ; (22:00) cool fight with ZHX (27:00) stabs ZHX in the chest, emotional, crying
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