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I saw it on twitter a couple of days ago.

We are going to get the first official CP poster/image tomorrow, if I'm not wrong, on the occasion of 520.

I watched this FL in Ten Years Late -- didn't find her acting bad.. at least I had no complaints. All I remember about her was that she's damn beautiful.

But, as I said previously, I'm not concerned about her acting (especially with this drama, where an actor's ability is not at all tested), rather concerned about her track record. None of her dramas in MDL have rating higher than 7.8.

I just hope she breaks her curse this time around.

Yeah, I agree. Even if this was a cliche CEO story, I would still watch it too, for XK and TSY.
If the drama sticks to the original characterization of Han Ting and Ji Xing from the novel, then you don't have to worry about this story turning into a cliche CEO story.
In fact, this novel had little to none cliches
So no enemies turned lovers.. or cold CEOs turned loverboys.

I don't understand Chinese actors and actresses who are already as thin as they could be and still be obsessed with losing weight.

I think they could look a lot better if they weren't so thin, just my feeling.

Lol, yeah. I was thinking the same.

Waiting For You In A City also touches real life issues. As Beautiful As Beijing does touch upon a few, but not too deep.

Waiting For You In A City touches upon Class difference -- Abuse of power -- Mental health issues.

As Beautiful As Beijing touches upon Workforce injustice (superior stopping her promotion), Workforce harassment, Cruelty of Business world.

But, again, the main point is: If they are adapted well.

He's been posting ab pics a lot these days.
That new pic you posted is cool, btw.

I'm not worried about her acting skills, rather her track record. None of her dramas did well. At least on here at MDL. No drama in 8.0 or above.

Yes, it is happy ending. And you can trust this author to write a very good story.
--And if her stories are adapted well, you already saw the result of Better Days.

Xu Kai is 28, close to 30 himself. He has experience in playing the "cold, domineering" characters like Bai Jue (ALP) and Li Shen Shen (The Legends). He even played an Emperor (Royal Feast), and a General (Court Lady).
He has two new dramas coming soon -- in one of them, he is a General/Prince (Wonderland of Love); in the other, he is playing the infamous Dong Bo Xue Ying (Snow Eagle Lord).

I think the aura he carried while playing these characters is enough for him to play a CEO. He may have the so-called "baby face", but what really matters is the aura of a cold, domineering personality, which Xu Kai most definitely has.
We have seen many "mature face" actors play CEOs, but they have the weakest of auras.
So let's not jump to conclusions.

I am also a fan of Yang Yang, so I am looking forward to Waiting For You In A City drama adaptation.
If they swapped Yang Yang and Xu Kai roles, it would be even perfect fit, if you ask me. Yang Yang as Han Ting, Xu Kai as Song Yan.
Xu Kai's age matches with Song Yan, ML of Waiting For You In A City. Both around 28 years old.

Ah, that's good to hear!

Just beware, this author/screenwriter is known to write tragedies, ex: [Goodbye, My Princess] [Siege in Fog].
I'm still very excited though, hoping that this is not a tragedy.

I think the novel will be published once the drama starts to air, probably like they did with Court Lady -- Drama episodes and Novel chapters were released together -- even the English translation was officially licensed.
Court Lady screenwriter, like Wonderland of Love screenwriter, was an author who wrote novels.

Here it is, completely translated -- I have translated it myself:
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/716772/as-beautiful-as-beijing/

Adding to my reply, if I were given power to choose Xu Kai to play ML of either As Beautiful As Beijing or Waiting For You In A City, I would most definitely choose Waiting For You In A City.
1. We can see Xu Kai as a highschooler, although for a short time.
2. While I believe Xu Kai can pull off a CEO character (thanks to his portrayal of Bai Jue in Ancient Love Poetry), I still feel he suits playing the Waiting For You In A City's ML.

Waiting For You In A City is more like Seven Tan's drama, Road Home. ML is also a lot like ML of Road Home.

This author writes the best MLs out there. There's another novel by the same author- The Youthful You Who Was So Beautiful - It was adapted into a movie called Better Days, with Zhou Dongyu (If I'm not wrong, Zhou Dongyu got so much recognition because of this movie). I haven't read this novel yet, and I hesitate to read it (Not happy ending, from what I hear). But the reviews of this novel also suggest that the ML is best ML ever.
Same goes to ML of Waiting For You In A City -- it's the FL of this novel you might dislike in the beginning, but later you will come to like her.

It happened many times before (even with Xu Kai. Falling Into Your Smile and Ancient Love Poetry were on air together). But in those cases, the two dramas that aired around same time belonged to different networks. . So, yeah, I also think it's probably not possible to air together. Maybe one after the other? Like they did with Jeremy Tsui's dramas - Chong Zi and Royal Rumors.

Cool! thank you for sharing.
But if they were already releasing it in two parts, why was there need to shorten Part 2 from 28 to 24 episodes?