Miniseries · Hong Guo Short Drama
Sword and Fairy
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Sword and Fairy actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Sword and Fairy reads strongest on Character Depth, Serialized and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Zixuan, a descendant of the goddess Nüwa, falls in love with Lu Linfeng, who dies saving her. After waiting a hundred years, she meets his reincarnations—first as the Taoist Lin Yeping, then as the immortal Xu Changqing—and together they fulfill their destiny to save the world.
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