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 "markdown": "# The Great Adventurer Wesley (冒险王卫斯理)\n\n**The Great Adventurer Wesley** (冒险王卫斯理) is a 2018 Chinese-language science fiction adventure web series produced by the streaming platform iQiyi, adapted from the *Wesley Series* (卫斯理系列) novels of Hong Kong writer [Ni Kuang](https://www.edgepedia.org/ni-kuang) (倪匡). It was executive produced by Wong Jing (王晶), directed by Zhong Shaoxiong (钟少雄) and Huo Yaoliang (霍耀良), and stars Shawn Yue (余文乐) as the adventurer Wesley, Hu Ran (胡然) as Bai Su, Simon Yam (任达华) as Boss Bai, and Gordon Lam (林家栋) as Deng Shi.<sup>[1](https://city.cri.cn/chinanews/20180410/1dea78d8-3eda-5e30-4a72-bf1e33a059ef.html)</sup> The series ran as three consecutive 12-episode seasons on iQiyi from April 9 to May 15, 2018.<sup>[2](https://jephmann.com/movies/tv.php?id=78756)</sup>\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original title | 冒險王衛斯理 (simplified 冒险王卫斯理)<sup>[2](https://jephmann.com/movies/tv.php?id=78756)</sup> |\n| Source material | Ni Kuang's *Wesley Series* novels<sup>[1](https://city.cri.cn/chinanews/20180410/1dea78d8-3eda-5e30-4a72-bf1e33a059ef.html)</sup> |\n| Structure | Three seasons of 12 episodes each, 36 total: *Fragment Man* (支离人), *Bleeding Blue* (蓝血人), *Mind Port* (无名发)<sup>[3](https://www.hxnews.com/news/yl/ylxw/201803/19/1478146.shtml)</sup> |\n| Run | Premiered April 9, 2018 on iQiyi; season 3 finale May 15, 2018<sup>[2](https://jephmann.com/movies/tv.php?id=78756)</sup> |\n| Production | iQiyi Motion Pictures with TVB; executive producer Wong Jing; directors Zhong Shaoxiong and Huo Yaoliang<sup>[1](https://city.cri.cn/chinanews/20180410/1dea78d8-3eda-5e30-4a72-bf1e33a059ef.html)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://jephmann.com/movies/tv.php?id=78756)</sup> |\n| Filming locations | Egypt, Cambodia, and Kyoto, Japan<sup>[4](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E5%86%92%E9%99%A9%E7%8E%8B%E5%8D%AB%E6%96%AF%E7%90%86/22429412?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup> |\n| Lead cast | Shawn Yue (Wesley), Hu Ran (Bai Su), Simon Yam (Boss Bai), Gordon Lam (Deng Shi)<sup>[5](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Adventure_King_Wesley%27s_Departure)</sup> |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise and structure\n\nThe series is set in a present in which alien civilizations have secretly infiltrated Earth for years. Wesley, a special adviser to Interpol with a taste for adventure, uses high-tech weapons to capture alien creatures and maintain order. In the first season, a severed hand that moves on its own appears at the home of the senior Interpol official Boss Bai. Wesley and Boss Bai's daughter Bai Su, herself an Interpol agent, investigate and discover Deng Shi, a man who can freely decompose and reassemble his body. A Pharaoh's mummy assembled from dismembered parts, found in Egypt, leads the group to a mysterious tomb that hides both the secret of the Fragment Man and an alien energy source coveted by many.<sup>[6](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_19rrgzigst.html)</sup> As the season progresses, Boss Bai is revealed as the schemer behind the conspiracy, and the final episodes take the characters into the tomb, which turns out to be the landing capsule of a twelve-foot-tall bull-headed alien.<sup>[6](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_19rrgzigst.html)</sup>\n\nThe three seasons were planned and shot to film-production standards, with principal exterior locations in Egypt and Japan.<sup>[3](https://www.hxnews.com/news/yl/ylxw/201803/19/1478146.shtml)</sup> The third season, *无名发* (released in English listings as *Mind Port*), moves the story to Japan: while vacationing there, Wesley and his friend Luo Yuehan ([Philip Ng](https://www.edgepedia.org/philip-ng)) encounter Bai Su, who is helping Japanese police investigate a series of murders connected to a mysterious woman called Wu Ming (Yang Rong), whose living hair is a weapon and who seeks the alien \"Blue Blood Codex.\"<sup>[7](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_19rrgxa9wt.html)</sup>\n\n## Production and cast\n\niQiyi announced the series as a flagship science-fiction adventure project and released it exclusively on its platform, with two free episodes each on Monday and Tuesday at 20:00 and full early access for VIP members.<sup>[1](https://city.cri.cn/chinanews/20180410/1dea78d8-3eda-5e30-4a72-bf1e33a059ef.html)</sup> The production was a mainland China and Hong Kong co-production involving iQiyi Motion Pictures and TVB.<sup>[2](https://jephmann.com/movies/tv.php?id=78756)</sup> The cast drew heavily on Hong Kong film stars: Shawn Yue, Simon Yam, and Gordon Lam were described by the industry commentary site Sohu as well-known Hong Kong film actors, giving the series a cast whose name recognition exceeded that of typical television productions.<sup>[8](https://www.sohu.com/a/228247110_638727)</sup> Supporting and season-specific cast members included Janice Man as Fang Tianya, Yang Rong as Shu Song / Wu Ming, Philip Ng as Luo Yuehan, Dominic Ho as Bai Qiwei, Yasuaki Kurata as Fujiwara Ryota, and Sammi Cheung as Cai Hong.<sup>[2](https://jephmann.com/movies/tv.php?id=78756)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[5](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Adventure_King_Wesley%27s_Departure)</sup>\n\n## Broadcast\n\nAfter its iQiyi premiere, the series was broadcast on Hong Kong free television. On TVB Jade, *Fragment Man* aired Sundays from April 29 to June 3, 2018, *Bleeding Blue* from June 10 to July 8, 2018, and *无名发* on weekday evenings from July 30 to August 3, 2018; the three seasons were rerun on TVB channels in 2019 and 2020.<sup>[9](https://tvinfo.fandom.com/zh/wiki/%E5%86%92%E9%9A%AA%E7%8E%8B%E8%A1%9B%E6%96%AF%E7%90%86?variant=zh-sg)</sup> Malaysian channels 8TV and ntv7 also scheduled the three seasons in 2018 and again in 2020.<sup>[9](https://tvinfo.fandom.com/zh/wiki/%E5%86%92%E9%9A%AA%E7%8E%8B%E8%A1%9B%E6%96%AF%E7%90%86?variant=zh-sg)</sup>\n\n## Reception\n\n**Audience response was negative from the start.** According to EntGroup data cited in a Sohu industry analysis, the series accumulated 9.93 hundred million views in its first four days, ranking seventh among web series and well behind the contemporaneous Hong Kong co-production *Flying Tiger*, and its Douban score stood at 4.4 out of 10 as of April 13, 2018.<sup>[8](https://www.sohu.com/a/228247110_638727)</sup> The same analysis attributed the shortfall to problems with the script, special effects, supporting performances, and camerawork, noting that the plot had been changed substantially from Ni Kuang's novels and that the monster designs and effects fell short of the standard the genre demands.<sup>[8](https://www.sohu.com/a/228247110_638727)</sup> A Hong Kong report on the premiere likewise recorded mainland viewers objecting that, apart from the protagonist's name, the content had little connection to the novels.<sup>[10](https://www.hk01.com/%E5%8D%B3%E6%99%82%E5%A8%9B%E6%A8%82/177139/%E5%86%92%E9%9A%AA%E7%8E%8B%E8%A1%9B%E6%96%AF%E7%90%86-%E4%BD%99%E6%96%87%E6%A8%82%E6%BC%94%E8%A1%9B%E6%96%AF%E7%90%86%E8%A7%80%E7%9C%BE%E5%94%94%E5%8F%97-%E7%B6%B2%E5%8F%8B-%E9%80%99%E4%B9%9F%E5%A4%AA%E9%9B%A3%E7%9C%8B%E4%BA%86)</sup> The iQiyi pages for the individual seasons later listed scores of 6.6 for *Fragment Man* and 6.7 for *无名发*.<sup>[6](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_19rrgzigst.html)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[7](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_19rrgxa9wt.html)</sup>\n\n## The Wesley IP and other adaptations\n\nThe *Wesley Series* is a long-running Hong Kong science fiction sequence by Ni Kuang: a fan-built concordance counts 145 books written between 1963 and 2004, mixing adventure, espionage, and speculative fiction about aliens, the underworld, and the nature of time and space.<sup>[11](https://www.pswai.com/essays/wesley-adventure)</sup> The character had been adapted for film and television many times before 2018, including the films *The Wesley's Mysterious File* lineage noted in Chinese press coverage and the 2003 TVB series *The 'W' Files* starring Gallen Lo.<sup>[8](https://www.sohu.com/a/228247110_638727)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[12](https://www.hk01.com/%E5%8D%B3%E6%99%82%E5%A8%9B%E6%A8%82/183405/%E5%86%92%E9%9A%AA%E7%8E%8B%E8%A1%9B%E6%96%AF%E7%90%86-%E6%9C%80%E5%BC%B7%E8%A1%9B%E6%96%AF%E7%90%86%E4%B8%80%E5%AE%9A%E4%BF%82%E8%A8%B1%E5%86%A0%E5%82%91-%E6%9C%80%E5%A5%BD%E8%89%B7%E7%A6%8F%E7%AB%9F%E7%84%B6%E4%BF%82%E6%9D%8E%E5%AD%90%E9%9B%84)</sup>\n\nThe title itself has a history of reuse. The 2003 mainland fantasy series *少年王* (*Wesley the Young Adventurer*), starring [Nicky Wu](https://www.edgepedia.org/nicky-wu) (吴奇隆), a 40-episode prequel-style story about the young Wesley in early Republican-era China, carries 冒险王卫斯理 among its alternate titles, so the name 冒险王卫斯理 can refer to either production depending on context.<sup>[13](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E5%B0%91%E5%B9%B4%E7%8E%8B/17152)</sup> Commentators on the franchise have noted that television adaptations, including *少年王* and the 2018 series, depart so far from the novels that they are better treated as derivatives than as faithful adaptations.<sup>[14](https://post.smzdm.com/p/a95gd0d0/)</sup>\n\n## References\n\n1. [爱奇艺打造科幻冒险网剧《冒险王卫斯理》4月9日独家上线, 大河网 via CRI (2018)](https://city.cri.cn/chinanews/20180410/1dea78d8-3eda-5e30-4a72-bf1e33a059ef.html)\n2. [The Great Adventurer Wesley (2018), Jeffrey Hartmann movie database (TMDB data)](https://jephmann.com/movies/tv.php?id=78756)\n3. [冒险王卫斯理电视剧一共有多少集？余文乐吴奇隆谁是你心中的卫斯理, 海峡网 (2018)](https://www.hxnews.com/news/yl/ylxw/201803/19/1478146.shtml)\n4. [冒险王卫斯理（2018年余文乐、胡然主演电视剧）, 百度百科](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E5%86%92%E9%99%A9%E7%8E%8B%E5%8D%AB%E6%96%AF%E7%90%86/22429412?fromModule=lemma_inlink)\n5. [Adventure King Wesley's Departure, DramaWiki](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Adventure_King_Wesley%27s_Departure)\n6. [冒险王卫斯理之支离人, 爱奇艺](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_19rrgzigst.html)\n7. [冒险王卫斯理之无名发, 爱奇艺](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_19rrgxa9wt.html)\n8. [从《飞虎之潜行极战》《冒险王卫斯理》看港剧模式\"双刃剑\", 搜狐/深壹 (2018)](https://www.sohu.com/a/228247110_638727)\n9. [冒险王卫斯理, Tvinfo Wiki (Fandom)](https://tvinfo.fandom.com/zh/wiki/%E5%86%92%E9%9A%AA%E7%8E%8B%E8%A1%9B%E6%96%AF%E7%90%86?variant=zh-sg)\n10. [〖冒險王衛斯理〗余文樂演衛斯理觀眾唔受, HK01 (2018)](https://www.hk01.com/%E5%8D%B3%E6%99%82%E5%A8%9B%E6%A8%82/177139/%E5%86%92%E9%9A%AA%E7%8E%8B%E8%A1%9B%E6%96%AF%E7%90%86-%E4%BD%99%E6%96%87%E6%A8%82%E6%BC%94%E8%A1%9B%E6%96%AF%E7%90%86%E8%A7%80%E7%9C%BE%E5%94%94%E5%8F%97-%E7%B6%B2%E5%8F%8B-%E9%80%99%E4%B9%9F%E5%A4%AA%E9%9B%A3%E7%9C%8B%E4%BA%86)\n11. [Wesley's Adventures: a visual companion to Ni Kuang's 卫斯理系列, PSWai](https://www.pswai.com/essays/wesley-adventure)\n12. [〖冒險王衛斯理〗最強衛斯理一定係許冠傑, HK01 (2018)](https://www.hk01.com/%E5%8D%B3%E6%99%82%E5%A8%9B%E6%A8%82/183405/%E5%86%92%E9%9A%AA%E7%8E%8B%E8%A1%9B%E6%96%AF%E7%90%86-%E6%9C%80%E5%BC%B7%E8%A1%9B%E6%96%AF%E7%90%86%E4%B8%80%E5%AE%9A%E4%BF%82%E8%A8%B1%E5%86%A0%E5%82%91-%E6%9C%80%E5%A5%BD%E8%89%B7%E7%A6%8F%E7%AB%9F%E7%84%B6%E4%BF%82%E6%9D%8E%E5%AD%90%E9%9B%84)\n13. [少年王（2003年黎文彦执导的奇幻电视剧）, 百度百科](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E5%B0%91%E5%B9%B4%E7%8E%8B/17152)\n14. [145部《卫斯理》从哪本读起？, 什么值得买 (2025)](https://post.smzdm.com/p/a95gd0d0/)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › East Asian drama series › East Asian web and streaming serials › Titles Cr to In*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n",
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