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The 1995 version of Wu Zetian starring Liu Xiaoqing and Chen Baoguo is basically the first type of story. It was so good and very well acted. Unfortunately, China hasn't produced this type of drama featuring such ruthless and powerful FL for a long time (In later versions of Wu Zetian, she was portrayed as a love brain lol).

Both of them acted so well in this scene.

There turns out to be two versions and this is the one recorded from Li Landi's camara. Cheng Xingxu was so inclined towards Li Landi's side that I thought they used one camara xD

You meant the audition of My Huckleberry Friends.

Chen Xingxu & Li Landi on today's livestream

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1u24y147Vg/?p=2&vd_source=821311eab6b13f4b719456c00e0195b7
Minute 27: 09

LLD: Tomorrow is Tree Planting Day.
CXX: Shouldn't we plant you? Oh, that's the meaning! This year this day we plant Ye Tan and next year we'll have so many Ye Tans.
LLD: So the same plot happens on you.
CXX: Exactly! Ye Tan No1, Ye Tan No2, Ye Tan No3...

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In today's livestream with Landi, Xingxu imagined that multiple Ye Tan would be born and then SDQY would try to make each one of them fall in love with him instead 🤣🤣🤣

The C-fandom aesthetics is extremely narrow. Their beauty standard basically narrows to three things: pale, skinny, young (more like neotenic). Apart from bashing them for being "fat", some take CXX's more mature and manly looks as "looking too old" and some think he should not build muscles (Per C-fandom beauty standard, being muscular is a big no and a man's ideal figure should be like a manga character figure, described as "paper man” lol).

However, although the Chinese do have a preference for being pale, skinny and young, it's not that extreme. These "netizens" are either followers of idols/traffic stars of the fandom or YXH, not any normal netizens. They're most active on Douban and Weibo because these two sites nowadays are mostly star-chasing/ entertainment apps with few other functions so most of their users are fandom persons. They spend a lot of their time on fanwars and bashing on actors who are not their idols but seen as competitors.

She's not. And "liu liang" (traffic) nowadays is mostly a derogatory term anyway, referring to idol actors who sell only his/her persona/young faces instead of being proper actors. They may enjoy a lot of fandom popularity but that's it. Quality actors wouldn't like to be one and being a quality movie actor (like Ni Ni) is larger than that.

This is more of a 6-hour-long indie film than drama. It's slow pacing but feels so realistic. The cinemagraphy is beautiful but it's not your typical crime drama.

Some very affectionate and cute scenes between FL and ML got deleted for unknown reason 😭 and they say they'll release them as a "special" when the drama ends. I'm still mad about that.

https://imgur.com/a/3IGX0OJ
These posters published by Chen Xingxu studio are so beautiful. They make me imagine what a visual feast this drama would be if the director had better artistic taste and lightening (He has done a good job in some other departaments, unfortunately cinematography is definitely not his strong point).

Also kudos to Chen Xingxu studio for releasing posters that involve fellew actress. I haven't seen any other C-ent actors' studio done that before. He's an independent artist so he has a say in everything I guess xD.

A xianxia that's not that tropy is Love and Destiny and it cast good non-traffic actors in Ni Ni and Chang Chen (They too have been bashed by fandom of "not fit for xianxia" like our two leads in TSL before the airing of the drama).

Somehow, he reminds me of both Chen Zheyuan and Tan Jianci.

I wish the Qing Qiu background story were written in more details and the Qing Qiu plotline were foreshadowed more in the earlier episodes of the drama. Instead of revealing the two sisters' identity right at the beginning and never saying a word again until very late part of the drama, it would be better that they hide this info at the start and reveal it little by little in the early-mid part of the drama. In that way, there would add some tension and suspense to the early-mid part of the drama. Hu Sui's motivation and Ye Tan's power would be more convincing that way as well.

She's misled by a lot of the C-ent fandom bullshit. Constantly looking at the "data", but a lot of data that the fandom look at is very one dimmensional, not to mention there's a lot of fake data involved in C-ent, especially data that has to do with liuliang stars. Since fandom is mainly formed by liuliang/idol star fans, these ideas have become popular but they do not represent all the ideas from people of the industry.

People of the industry know much better if a drama has earned them money than fandom. Besides, different genres have different audiences. It's unfair to compare viewship of a drama that's of a more niche genre to a drama that has broader audiences. Twilight certainly has much greater viewship than a Cannes award-winning film. So what? Not to mention that the reputation of a drama and an actor matter as much if not more than the viewship counts (Exactly Daylight's fame is built on good reputation first. Battle of Changsha, one of Daylight's classic, is a typical drama of high reputation with low TV rating). Well there are just too many loopholes in these C-ent fandom beliefs that liuliang-star fans like to spread.

But you only need to see this: if Zhang Xincheng's previous dramas didn't do well, he wouldn't be able to keep getting good resources (better than their fave liuliang stars, lol). I know they'll tell me that Zhang Xincheng is a 资源咖 (that's the way liuliang-star fans use to explain why some "unpopular" actors have better resources than their popular idols). Instead of realizing that acting ability actually matters a lot more for an actor than they think, they use some conspiracy to explain it, lol.

Also for the record, most Daylight TV dramas have low TV ratings, including Nirvana in Fire when it first aired (and the reason has nothing to do with using liuliang or not. The main reason is that the style of the majority of their dramas is not angsty and dramatic enough and dramas that have a lot of dramas, conflicts and angyst tend to do better in viewship counts) . Enough to show that TV rating is not necessarily an indicator of how well a drama does nor it has nothing to do with its reputation.

Daylight used Lay Zhang for Challenges at Midlife and it did terribly both at viewship and reputation. This is no idol drama. Viewers of this type of drama are very different from viewers who watch idol dramas and there's no need to attract viewers who like idol dramas to watch this at the cost of ruining the reputation of the drama (A liuliang who can't act compared to the rest of the good actors is a downer for people who watch realistic dramas). What audiences who like this genre want is a good story and good acting. They don't want to see liuliang in this. The Bright Future actually did very well in TV rating.

NIF3 is in the preparation phrase. I've heard that it's about the friendship between a young general and a counseller. CXX, IMO, fits the role of a young general. Besides, the producer Daylight Ent really like using young actors from The Central Academy of Drama as their leads (Liu Haoran in NIF2, Bai Yu in The Bond, Zhao Jinmai in Reset, Zhang Xincheng in Jian Nan De Zhi Zao). There's a possibility.

The drama for the most part is a comedy. Acting wise, Li Landi is top of her age group. The acting style she chose for this drama suits the style of it (Besides, she shows that she can express subtile emotions and feelings very well in later part of the drama when more depth is required as well). I think it's the type of humour that you can't get so you think her acting is exagerating (which for people who can get this type of comedy, is very funny). Well, I suppose comedy is very subjective and this type of humour is just not for you.

For real in China's history, men had their hair tied up (like more serious historical drama such as Nirvana in Fire). Having the hair down is actually a modern invention of those "xianxia" dramas.

New rumor says that there's a possibility that Legend of An Le will be aired instead of Back From the Brink.