Guardian: Zhen Hun
镇魂 (Zhen Hun)
priest; art: Marmaladica, Ying
Zhao Yunlan runs a secret unit handling cases between the living and the dead, and a reserved professor keeps turning up in them.
- Format
- novel
- Status
- completed
- Volumes
- Novel · 3 vols
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Track record The 2018 live-action series passed 1.8 billion views on Youku by August 2018 and was later named Most Popular Web Series at the Golden Bud Network Film and Television Festival. Source: Wikipedia
Our take
Urban fantasy from priest about a chain-smoking special investigator and a mild professor with a very old secret. If you liked the 2018 drama, this is the full story it had to leave out.
Synopsis
Zhao Yunlan leads a hidden police unit that takes the strange cases sitting on the line between the mortal world and the Netherworld. A grisly campus death puts him face to face with Shen Wei, a quiet, guarded professor. Zhao is drawn to him at once, and odd events keep throwing them together. Shen Wei is clearly hiding something, and Zhao wants to know what.
Good to know before you buy
- The story is complete in 3 volumes, so there is no waiting for the ending.
- Also adapted: live-action drama Guardian (2018, Youku; on Viki).
- 6 more titles from priest on the shelf, listed below.
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English publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment.
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Is Guardian: Zhen Hun completed?
Yes. The English edition is completed.
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