Bloody Pearl

Cast:
-Yue Ling
-Tian Xin
-Tuo Zong Hua
-Qiu Xin Zhi

The series opens with a story set in the Ching dynasty.

The emperor of Korea sent a gift of fourteen precious glowing pearls to the Ching emperor. On the way to Peking, a group of assassins stole the pearls and killed the Korean magistrate.

A tailor passed by the battle, and in a moment of greed, he grabbed two large glowing pearls misplaced during the battle. The tailor went home and made a spectacular wedding dress embedded with the glowing pearls for his daughter, Chan, who was getting married into the Lee family. While Chan dazzled everyone at the wedding, her father burned down his house and himself for he knew stealing the royal's gift was punishable by death.

A year later, a group of people in black clothes and masks chased and executed the entire Lee family. In panic, Chan took the pearls, hung each on the necks of her twin daughters, and fled. In the woods, she fell and dropped one of the girls over the hillside. Knowing she couldn't escape, Chan hid the other child in a bunch of leaves and led the killers to a different place before she jumped into the river.

Twenty years passed. One of Chan's daughters, De Y was brought up by a country medicine man, and spent her entire life in the woods. When the medicine man left the mountain with a young prince to treat his mother's illness, De Y went looking for her adopted father and embarked on the adventure of her life.

Through a series of chance encounters, De Y befriended Wu Hung, a mysterious sword man who saved her life and Ming Chu, a young girl who used her martial art skills to earn the money to feed her family of an old mother and young children and finally Su San, the young prince who could never earn the love of his cruel parents since he was too kind, so unlike his father.

Which direction will the story go? Who was Ming Chu? She wore a large pearl on her neck. Could she be De Y's twin sister? However, it didn't glow like the other missing pearl. She fell in love at first sight with the kind prince Su San, but if she were De Y's sister, what would she do when she realize his father was the leader who killed the whole Lee's family? There would be many more questions as the series progresses. To state all these questions would be cheating the people who hadn't the chance to see the series.

The strength of this series lied in its incredible ensemble cast and the engaging plot. The cast allows us to experience each character's point of view, and in turn, we came to care about not only the heroes but also the villains. Everything happened for a reason, and this series didn't let any leaves remain unturned. At first I had a wary feeling this is a Princess Pearl copycat but as the series progress, it is nothing like the Princess Pearl. This is the type of series that the further you watch it the better it gets, till the very end. And the ending was as fulfilling as the series itself.

This is a very enjoyable series, a definite MUST SEE. The costumes are beautiful, the actresses are gorgeous, the actors are cute and EXTREMELY talented. I recommend watching the character Su San, the young prince. His ability to change facial expressions to convey different emotions in a split second is surpassed by no one.

Screenshots: (Images from CTS)