HeatherOfEden

Read my comment well too. I said I was looking for a drama to watch and just happened to see this. I like ZLH's looks and was hoping he'd be a passable actor at least. But I can't stand men, reel or real, who wear their hearts on their sleeves. Don't worry I just dropped the drama.

It is much more manipulatable than scoring systems that are open only to a select few like Rotten Tomatoes. Why are the businesses of online blackmailers and water armies thriving? It's because they work and one proof is the effect on online drama scores like Douban. Yup, 6.5 is mediocre, but compare it to higher-quality dramas with lower scores like Fireworks of My Heart, The Princess Wei Young, Princess Agents, The Sword and the Brocade and Till The End of the Moon, and it's obvious, Douban scores are unreliable.

I said he got real awards, not only popularity awards, meaning he had both, but the important point is that he did not only get popularity awards but real acting awards too.

Some data are objective and factual. Public online drama scores are mostly subjective and easily manipulated. The only drama scores I find somewhat reliable are Rotten Tomatoes since they are given by Tomatometer-approved critics and publications. All other scores I ignore, that is, I don't rely on them to determine which dramas to watch.

I wasn't aware fans can't watch other actors' dramas. Since you like juvenile "teary-eyed" acting, it makes sense you'd find Xu Kai's restrained acting wooden. I prefer actors who don't show all emotions on their faces, just as in real life, I admire people who have enough self-control and wisdom not to wear their hearts on their sleeves. Xu Kai has garnered real acting awards, not just popularity awards. Check this out: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10057575/awards/?ref_=nm_awd

We have different taste in acting then. I can't stand "teary-eyed" and puppy-dog performances. I find them sleazy and cheesy. Is there a rule that only fans of actors can watch their dramas? I was on the look-out for another drama to watch and happened to see this so I bit.

I guess we have different taste in acting. I actually feel Xu Kai's acting more. Have you watched The Legends, Story of Yanxi Palace, Arsenal Military Academy and other Xu Kai dramas? He has been winning real acting awards, not just popularity awards. Check this out: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10057575/awards/?ref_=nm_awd

I noticed you've been trolling ZLH and my curiosity got the better of me. I also noticed we stan the same artist, based on your drama list. But unlike you, I don't feel ZLH is a threat to XK. ZLH is very handsome and is a threat to XZ, WYB and WL in that regard. He also towers over LYX, so I can understand if LYX fans would feel threatened by him. But XK is very handsome, tall and a good actor. As far as good looks and height are concerned, they're the same. XK is superior in terms of acting. He has depth of character. ZLH makes me cringe with his juvenile, teary-eyed acting. He has a long way to go to prove he is more than a pretty face. And to stay long in C-ent, one needs to be more than a pretty face. So, no need to feel threatened.

Douban is as unreliable as any online drama scores like MDL, where scores may be manipulated by either the fans or antifans of the dramas and actors. In China, online blackmailers and water armies may be hired to sway voters' opinions, so only the gullible ones who think everyone who scores dramas is unbiased believe in Douban. In fact, it has been said that high Douban scores are for sale. Studios that want their dramas to have high scores pay blackmailers not to blacken their dramas and actors.

I'm confused. According to this, it's 600 million views:
https://x.com/PhamaiPiks/status/1825192903393861948

Reality in my case. After seeing how much handsomer and more masculine cdrama actors are, it was bye-bye kdramas for me. I watch dramas for entertainment, not to be a member of an acting awards committee. As long as an actor portrays a role reasonably well, I'm happy as long as he/she is easy on the eyes. I sometimes get distracted while watching kdramas when actors start looking less masculine. Seems like kdrama actors have redder lipstick then females. And cdramas have more variety when it comes to story lines. I also love how imaginative cdramas are.

Fans downrating other dramas showing at the same time as their favorites is not unusual. This drama is threatening to overpower other dramas airing simultaneously. It placed #2 in Maoyan chart on its 1st day.

So delusional. Don't even care to understand what I'm saying. You need to take your own advice.

It seems you did not understand what I just said. It's not body shaming when the body in question is unhealthy and the intention is to point that out so the body becomes healthy. This concern has been voiced by westerners before LYX came around, that time, in concern of skeletal models on fashion runways. Those fans who delude themselves into thinking it's okay for artists to be skeletal as long as they are entertained are selfish, same as those fans who forbid their idols from marrying. It's all about what the fans want. Artists are seen as slaves and puppets.

if only people made as much noise when Karen Carpenter became skeletal, she probably would have made more beautiful music past the age of 32 when she succumbed to complications of anorexia

When has MDL become a fascist site? I'm not lying, so there's no reason I can't say my piece. Body shaming is uncalled for when a healthy person is made to feel bad about having a healthy physique causing him/her to become unhealthy. When you call out something bad, like looking skeletal, so the person can get back to being healthy, that's called concern and what every caring fan should do for their faves. Otherwise, they're being COMPLICIT.

I'm also rethinking kdramas after seeing the FL in Marry My Husband who used to be so pretty but got stick thin in MMH. I had to drop that drama actually. That's why I'm back with western shows. They're showing normal-looking performers now. Models are also not stick thin anymore.

As far as I know, genetically thin people still maintain normal weights, just on the thin side of the spectrum. I am one. But coupled with the thin genes, I also used to have a really good metabolism so I was underweight for a while. But I never looked skeletal, which is what is alarming about LYX. If he is really trying to gain weight due to netizens' noise, then it served him well.

Are you even reading my comments? For the nth time, see if there is "fake diagnosis" here in this statement: "... If he is not gaining weight no matter what he does, then he needs medical attention. Diabetes perhaps? Cancer? Or perhaps he needs a long rest?..."

Note the "If" in that comment. If you don't understand that comment, let me make it clear that all those conditions were cited as examples of other reasons somebody could be underweight. It was to illustrate that there are other reasons than not eating that could make somebody look that emaciated, that's why his being excessively skinny should not be taken lightly.

That url you gave me just said "gains weight". Based on what? You said yourself unless he was weighed personally, it's a "stupid claim". Well, merely saying he has "gained weight" is a million times more stupid (your word) than actually having the same weight figure in several sites, including iQiyi itself. Who started bringing in BMI in the discussion in the first place? But once BMI got used to prove my point, you want to drop it. Sigh! In any case, those who are not deluded are still seeing him looking emaciated, so the weight/BMI figures are irrelevant.

Below is an explanation I wrote earlier about my point, with some additional comments:
My concern is how the Chinese Entertainment industry is putting unrealistic demands on artists, encouraging them to be stick thin and dictating their love lives, even forcing them to remain unmarried. The worst cases of stick thin figures I've seen so far are Zheng Shuang (of Love O2O) and LYX , but most of the artists I like look worse than when they used to look healthy. As proven by the bmi calculation for LYX, he IS underweight. But the more disturbing fact is that he looks like a skeleton, to those of us who are not deluded.

If you can continue to support an industry that treats its artists like puppets and slaves, it's your prerogative. But I have already started withdrawing my support for it. For now, I'm refusing to watch dramas/movies of artists that show visible proof of C-Ent's stranglehold. I have also already started going back to western shows.

My concern is how the Chinese Entertainment industry is putting unrealistic demands on artists, encouraging them to be stick thin and dictating their love lives, even forcing them to remain unmarried. The worst cases of stick thin figures I've seen so far are Zheng Shuang (of Love O2O) and LYX , but most of the artists I like look worse than when they used to look healthy. As proven by the bmi calculation for LYX, he IS underweight. But the more disturbing fact is that he looks like a skeleton, to those of us who are not deluded.

If you can continue to support an industry that treats its artists like puppets and slaves, it's your prerogative. But I have already started withdrawing my support for it. For now, I'm refusing to watch dramas/movies of artists that show visible proof of C-Ent's stranglehold. I have also already started going back to western shows.

I'm not claiming to be a doctor so I don't need to prove my doctoral knowledge. And I wasn't the one who could not understand a simple comment, claiming fake diagnosis where there was none. Anyway, you still haven't given me the url that has LYX's new weight. The page I got when researching "Janestars follow your heart" does not have the new weight.