Actually thinking of giving this a watch for Ren Min. She’s a promising young actress with distinct features. Her Huirou was very good in looks and acting. As for this show, I haven’t watch it yet but judging from comments, if someone doesn’t look good in a drama, the fault should lay with the stylist; they’re the ones who get paid to ensure a star looks good and a good one considers the features of the star when styling to maximise their advantages and minimise their disadvantages.
Finally!! Excited to see her in a new project. Hope they won't keep it a secret like The Legend. 😍 lol
Haha, well I can’t be upset even if it is The Legend. The training they put her on has done wonders for her temperament and body posture. I swear her fans jumped from 6.09 yesterday to 6.5 today.
Congrats to Xiao Ran for joining the group again!!! Really want to know what training sis has done because her temperament is really exploding lately😩 Links to her July itinerary below: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4918390814154766
I keep getting recommendations to watch this, and I can only watch the clips from the episodes, Totally agree…
I agree it’s a tragedy. I actually think it shouldn’t be sold as a romance at all. I feel like if it had been sold as a tragedy, people wouldn’t try to whitewash the male lead or the toxic relationship so much. And the show itself would also have a stronger basis as plot wise, it really doesn’t show how Xiaofeng fell and stayed in love well.
Omg, she has so many project and many dramas that not yet release damn why not let her drama air?
I really wish they would clean up this list😫Most of these are rumored projects. A lot of her shows aired in the last year. She only has two dramas (My Talented Neighbour and Thrush) and one movie (The Legend) left. Hopefully, she will shoot another show soon because it will be heartbreaking if she runs out of stock again.
The webcast really doesn’t do this drama justice at all. The micro expressions are so good, natural, and delicate on TV. JiMan was so furious in Episode 11😂
Yooooooo,The TV version really does hit differently. I think they changed the filter or something for the TV edit.…
She does look better. I almost forgave Chen Minzheng for like 2 seconds. I feel like it must have something to do with how TVs display color. It’s always had a license to be a TV show so I suspect they shot with those intentions and decided to ride out the negative comments. It’s kinda amazing though because it’s like watching a completely different show sometimes. I heard ann Korean TV station is airing it on July 4th and even the Douban score is rising bit by bit.
I keep getting recommendations to watch this, and I can only watch the clips from the episodes, Totally agree…
The clips won’t give you enough context. The female lead is only 18 when the story end and in the drama, she is basically groomed by her teacher at 15/16 for the male lead so they could infiltrate the Danchi Camp. By the time she runs away, she’s suffered at least a years’ worth of domestic abuse at the hands of the male lead, the murder of some of her closest people, on top of feeling isolated and homesick since she got to the Central Plains. A lot of people blame her for the latter events of the story but LCY was going to kill GJ anyway regardless of if he was GXW because he didn’t listen to LCY’s orders. Also, she attempts to kill him on at least two occasions but she’s not the personality type to do it-the core of her personality is kindness. That’s also why she kills herself, because it’s the only way to stop the war brewing between her home country and Central Plains (possibly exacerbated by her actions). It’s clear she doesn’t want to die but that there’s no other way. This story isn’t a “ love filled with hate -toxic- narcissism-helplessness which makes girls fall in love with a domineering rich powerful cold-hearted gaslighting abusive man ” (LCY isn’t even that type of character and he’s definitely not that type of character when he first seduces Xiao Feng) but a story that shows the terrible realities of grooming and of ancient women and girls in Xiao Feng’s situation. Most of the women in this show are quite miserable tbh. They really don’t have many options. Part of the problem with the narrative is that this show is based off a novel written from the heroine’s perspective, in which the male lead is the antagonist. The show tried to turn that antagonist male lead into the hero but it really doesn’t work if trying to sell the show as romantic.
Censorship and theme though I don’t think they’re dead fish kisses. They also cut some kisses (The kiss under the tree was actually two successive kisses but cut into one) but even what is left is a gift. Some shows get all their kisses cut.
Very good actress, shame though that some of the pieces she is in are downright badly written. 😔
Looking at her resource levels, her character choices aren’t bad though. They’re all independent heroines, even Xiao Feng. Most of the problems she has are with (post) production. SJFY got edited to death so it’s a different storyline than what was originally written. GBMP and ToDoI are perfectly fine script wise. ToDoI even earned her a nomination. RoaTF as a script is fine too tbh with the exception of one or two scenes but it’s not to everyone’s tastes. The lowest level would be Jun Jiu Ling but it also has a solid storyline and I suspect they changed the script from the one she was originally given.
Yooooooo,The TV version really does hit differently. I think they changed the filter or something for the TV edit.…
It really is different. You can see more expressions is the big one and Xiao Ran looks less plain. Because the show came out with a TV license, I wondered if that is what is shot for and so it doesn’t look the same on other devices. I noticed my iPad was different from my phone. I’m not sure a link will work but I typed in the TV channels name in Chinese and chose the link that ended in live. You have to watch it in real-time though which is 730 Beijing Time.
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The sweet episodes are way sweeter on TV because you can see the micro expressions so much better. It’s a sugar paradise 🥹🥹
Her Huirou was very good in looks and acting. As for this show, I haven’t watch it yet but judging from comments, if someone doesn’t look good in a drama, the fault should lay with the stylist; they’re the ones who get paid to ensure a star looks good and a good one considers the features of the star when styling to maximise their advantages and minimise their disadvantages.
Links to her July itinerary below:
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4918390814154766
Also, she attempts to kill him on at least two occasions but she’s not the personality type to do it-the core of her personality is kindness. That’s also why she kills herself, because it’s the only way to stop the war brewing between her home country and Central Plains (possibly exacerbated by her actions). It’s clear she doesn’t want to die but that there’s no other way.
This story isn’t a “ love filled with hate -toxic- narcissism-helplessness which makes girls fall in love with a domineering rich powerful cold-hearted gaslighting abusive man ” (LCY isn’t even that type of character and he’s definitely not that type of character when he first seduces Xiao Feng) but a story that shows the terrible realities of grooming and of ancient women and girls in Xiao Feng’s situation. Most of the women in this show are quite miserable tbh. They really don’t have many options.
Part of the problem with the narrative is that this show is based off a novel written from the heroine’s perspective, in which the male lead is the antagonist. The show tried to turn that antagonist male lead into the hero but it really doesn’t work if trying to sell the show as romantic.
The underdog energy of this show!! To hit the Top 10 in TV show ratings on its 2nd run 🤯
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4915439215840279
Let’s celebrate with pictures of a gorgeous woman!
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4915434576941181
I typed in the TV channels name in Chinese and chose the link that ended in live. You have to watch it in real-time though which is 730 Beijing Time.