Zhang Xincheng, The Actor You Are
I gave this drama 9.5/10 to appreciate Zhang Xincheng's acting skills and visuals.Zhang Xincheng prepared martial arts for 6 months for the role of Haiyan. Haiyan is a character who can split razor blades from his mouth and Xincheng used real razor blades, flips and splits it from his own mouth. Tho it's already dulled, I don't think it's easy to flip and split it as it's so thin shaped.
He also learned how to do acupuncture and used real needles for the voice changing scenes and paralysis scenes (too bad that scene got deleted). I saw even people commented that the paralysis acting he did is quite accurate.
Another thing Zhang Xincheng did was diving, under the water without much protection. He has dry eyes syndrome but it didn't prevent him to do underwater scenes, and filmed it 7-8 days for this dramas.
He missed offline events to promote his own movie Detective China Town 1900 so he wouldn't delay the filming schedules. His costars could even went home for holidays but he spent Chinese public holidays on set.
He gave his best for this drama tho the writer himself Xu Lei, cut a lot of the scenes of him and trying to make Haiyan not lovable enough for the audience. But from what I see, a lot of Chinese audiences, not even his own fans, defending him from malicious comments another fandom did to him. They said they love Haiyan because Zhang Xincheng made the character alive. They love his acting and even his visuals.
If you watch this dramas properly. You can know and understand what's real acting skills look like just by looking at Zhang Xincheng's scenes. You know, even his costar, HJX actor said that the funny scenes of Haiyan is ZXC's own improvisation.
I appreciate all of the hardworks his costars also did to make this drama. So i don't get the hate Zhang Xincheng got from his costar's fandom. I feel like if being fans make you a bad person, then you should turn off your internet and start reflect on what you did.
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Well made time travel drama
I really enjoyed the storyline. It’s painfully beautiful. At first, I thought that it’s just an ordinary romance drama, but I wrong. I love how the writer wrote the time travel thing so neat like this. The plot isn’t too slow, isn’t too fast neither. The three main leads did a good job in portraying the characters here especially the girl. I love how she portrayed the different character of CRY and HYX. The chemistry was so good too. You can feel the sweetness of love and friendship here.Was this review helpful to you?
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I give 10 for the acting part because of Zhang Xincheng. He’s seriously amazing in portraying Cheng Yizhi. The time span, when CYZ was a teen till his 40s, Steven could deliver it really well. We can see how different CYZ when he grew up. The chemistry between the main leads was so good eventho I found the female lead’s acting was a bit lacking in some scenes especially in emotional scenes. The story is actually pretty good, even it’s a bit heavy but it’s enjoyable. The plot development is pretty fast. But, the regrettable thing is, I know that it was supposed to be a longer episode drama but the tv station did injustice for this drama, they cut it badly so some of the important parts were missing. I still have the question in my head until now, what’s the relationship of CYZ and HRH? Was this review helpful to you?
