Disclosed are a wireless communication method, a terminal device, and transmitting and receiving nodes. The method comprises: a terminal device receiving, in a first time domain scheduling unit, first downlink control information; and the terminal device acquiring, according to the first downlink control information, information about second downlink control information to be detected in the first time domain scheduling unit. The method, the terminal device and the transmitting and receiving nodes in the embodiments of the present application are beneficial to reduce the complexity of PDCCH detection by the terminal device.