After viewing The Legend of Hei II (罗小黑战记2) on home video, a few more watches and catching the web series to spot the shift in narrative direction feels like a must. The bonus material helps fill in a few gaps, but that wasn’t enough. The chronological order is easy enough to figure out, but making sense of everything requires paying close attention to every detail and reveal. What’s presented could easily have stretched into a new web series, or even a regular television show, and for Xiaohei (Shan Xin) to stretch his legs and explore the world makes sense.
His shifu, Wuxian (Liu Mingyue), is under house arrest after being framed for an attack at a hall where several humans possessing supernatural abilities are assassinated. Someone claims to have seen him there, and although he has no alibi to truly exonerate him, he’s willing to be placed under watch.
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