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I like her in both XD
She look so beautiful and graceful in these costumes and styling ^_^
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Ed4y1M7sB/

She just has supporting role in those dramas though.
I hope after this she will play as main female lead in a costume drama with a good script and talented actor as her main male lead (ノ^о^)ノ

I read in an article before that at first "white lotus" doesn't has bad meaning actually.

That just means to refer to a kind, innocent, lovable, good type of people but now it become mockery since before this many main female lead is describe as that kind of character in older Chinese novel/literature.

It's like a Mary Sue type of character LOL
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong ^_^

Ok, thank you.
I wonder what make a mere consort to dispute with a queen?
Maybe because about the successor to the throne if she also has a son just like the queen.

Oh, you also know actor Zheng Ye Cheng XD
I feel like not many international audiences that watch Chinese dramas know about him because many his dramas where he is the main lead didn't had quite good scripts (T_T)

In my opinion, both Dai Gao Zheng & Zheng Ye Cheng kind give of masculine aura.

Zheng Ye Cheng spent his childhood in training martial arts and he is a major in Chinese Opera from the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts.
I like to watch the video clip of him spinning his body and things like sword, fan using his hand.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1At4y1s7UV/
He is one of actor that can carry/lift the actresses in his romance dramas stylishly XD
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ju411k7xn/
He also has quite good acting skill
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1E34y1Y7d9/

There are many scenes of main male leads carrying their main female leads in Chinese dramas especially in romance genre because apparently that is one of requirement if he is main male lead nowadays LOL
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1uu411Q7tt/

Among Chinese historical short drama that I watch this year, both main couples in Maid's Revenge and A Familiar Stranger have good chemistry together.

In term of plot and ending, A Familiar Stranger is much better than Maid's Revenge.
But main couples chemistry in both short dramas are sizzling (♡o♡)

This short bts clip is cute haha
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1AW4y1v7Na/

Main couple live video (no subtitle)
Part 1: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ze4y1B7Kg/
Part 2: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV16G411J7qB/

Since there is no subtitle, I'm just watching them without understand anything LOL (T_T)

I agree the plot quite lame. But the female lead acting is bad?

I like their kiss scene but that not the only reason I'm quite fond of this drama. I treat this drama for something like short shoujo manga I read sometimes, fun to read to fill up time.

This drama wouldn't be quite fun to watch to fill up time if main female lead doesn't has chemistry with main male lead and her acting is wooden/stiff.

Actress Chen Fang Tong has good chemistry with main male lead and her acting is fine too. There is room for improvement but she's not bad.

But I guess this is personal preference that's why her acting look bad to you.

No, you misunderstood. Based on the info that I read, Luo Yun Xi doesn't involved with this issue at all.

Yu Zheng (Bai Lu's boss) is trending on Weibo for debunking this melon that he contributed Huanyu's award-winning art department in order to secure the FL role for BL. It's all getting a bit ugly, with him sharing screencaps of work conversations and arguing that Tata "begged" him for the art department.

Then there are some Luo Yun Xi 's fans and also some Bai Lu's fans fighting with each other about their favorite actor and actress. So, the peoples involved in this mess are Yu Zheng (Bai Lu's boss) and some childish Luo Yun Xi's fans and also some childish Bai Lu's fans.

Their behaviors are so immature and I don't know how they think that all these will benefit to their actor/actress?

I hope this drama will get unaffected and get to air smoothly (T_T)

The production company of this drama is Stellar Media that also produced Love Between Fairy and Devil.

Another xianxia drama that produced by them and also has beautiful styling:

Drama: Love You Seven Times:
Main actor: Ding Yu Xi, Main actress: Yang Chao Yue
https://kisskh.at/68185-the-seventh-generation
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1sY411c7R7/
Trailer with English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6RtF3IOTOA

I see styling of some their modern dramas are also quite good.

Drama: Rising With the Wind
Actor Gong Jun is also the main actor of this drama with actress Elaine Zhong as his main female lead:
https://kisskh.at/photos/QDkEv_4
https://kisskh.at/63985-i-want-to-go-against-the-wind

Drama: The Brightest Of Us
Main actor: Peter Sheng, Main actress: Zhang Tian Ai
https://kisskh.at/photos/Q77kv
https://kisskh.at/48839-if-i-can-never-love-you

You can check some dramas produced by Stellar Media in here:
https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Category:Stellar_Media

Since you mentioned about deviating from the typical plain looks, this xianxia drama also has very beautiful costumes:

Drama: Till The End Of The Moon
Main actor, Luo Yun Xi, Main actress: Bai Lu
https://kisskh.at/693513-hei-yue-guang-wen-na-be-ju-ben
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1mh411t7VT/

The costume designer of drama Till The End Of The Moon is Huang Wei and this drama is one of Youku xianxia drama with high budget.

I also had watch some of Chinese dramas where she is their costumes designer and I like the stylings in those dramas before I get to know she is their costumes designer.
The Legend of Xiao Chuo (historical romance fiction)
One And Only (historical romance fiction)
Forever And Ever (modern romance)
Love In Flames Of War (Republican Era romance fiction)
A Dream of Splendor (historical romance fiction)

You can check in here if you want to know more Chinese dramas with Huang Wei as their costume designer:
https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Huang_Wei_(2)

Sorry if this is long, I just want to share with you haha
I also hope many other Chinese dramas production will producing many xianxia dramas with more colorful costumes after this ^_^

There is an upcoming Korean historical drama with main female lead who is a queen and she also kind has some similar sassy character like main female lead in Mr Queen titled The Queen's Umbrella:
https://kisskh.at/705857-umbrella

The main female lead is played by actress Kim Hye Soo and based on the trailer, it seem she has a prince with the king and the way she deal with her life as a queen in the palace is quite funny ^_^

You can check the trailers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTnHg94swwc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXDNvEvCtWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA2dbqDW3ZA

There is also a trailer that kind of show some sad part in the drama, I guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdHZZlzxwB8

Yes, there are some kissing scene between main couple since romance and comedy are main genre of this drama.

If you not a fan of kissing scenes, I think you should avoid Korean romance dramas whether they are set in historical or modern time and watch Korean dramas with thriller or other as their main genre instead ^_^

ok thank you ^_^

Who is LIS and what is cp mkt mean?

Why some of Bai Lu & Luo Yun Xi fans are fighting? I don't understand.
They should be happy that Bai Lu & Luo Yun Xi are working with each other in a good production. Who cares who date who, that their personal life.

How tired it is to be a actor & actress in China!
Paparazzis are snooping on your ordinary life, your fans are fighting with the fans of your co-worker aish =_=

Can't wait to watch Luo Yun Xi in costume drama again!
He is so graceful in costume drama even with all the long sleeves
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1y34y117zp/

Since he get to pair with my favorite actress Bai Lu in here, I'm confident that main casts performances gonna be top notch!
My new favorite actress Chen Du Ling will be in here too but she will be evil second female lead XD

Why "concubine female lead" is one of the tag?
I thought the main female lead in this drama is a queen played by actress Kim Hye Soo?

I actually like that comedy is the main genre of this drama.
After I get dehydrated by another Korean historical drama in Joseon era, The Red Sleeve currently, let me laugh for a while.
Maybe there will be little mysterious or bit sad plot as a surprise in here though.

I hope this drama will be successful like one of my favorite drama, Mr Queen.

Usually the main couple in Chinese Republican Era romance drama will has sad ending because of two reason:
-the main male lead is a military officer/soldier.
-it was adapted from novel that originally has that kind of ending.

Since drama Love In Flames Of War was adapted from melodrama romance novel that was published in year 2010, the final chapter of this drama quite similar with the novel:

Main female lead, Hang Jing crying after she read the news about main male lead, Bei Chen on the newspaper that brought by Shen Yan Qing, the man with glasses that help her before by pretending to be her husband after she return to Bei Xin city with new identity, Shen Hang Jun.

Unlike in the drama, Yan Qing is still alive until the end of the novel and all four, Yan Qing, Yan Ke who is Yan Qing's son, Hang Jing and Nan Gui, her son with Bei Chen, stay together in the San Francisco, US.

Yan Qing mentioned he get the newspaper from his friend in China and then he comforted her because in the novel, the news on the newspaper mentioned about the unknown condition of Bei Chen, commander of Bei Xin city after his fight with Japanese army. He said the news mentioned unknown so maybe Bei Chen is still alive.

Nan Gui playing with Shen Ke and he realized his mother is crying. He look at the newspaper and asked her about the man on the newspaper. She hugged Nan Gui and told him that is his dad. He then comforted her by telling her, "don't cry mom, I promise my father will definitely come back".

Hang Jing agreed and she said, "we'll just wait here, waiting for dad to come back, okay?"

So the novel ending is an open ending.
The drama ending changed a little bit with picture of Bei Chen being alive, standing beside other peoples in the photo on the newspaper that Hang Jing read. Then Hang Jing and their son board a ship to China to find him.

There is no any English translation but if you want to read using English translator, here is the link:
https://www.kanunu8.com/book/3439/index.html

If we get to know about some info during Republic Of China (1912 - 1949) then we will know why their dramas/novels usually has sad ending:

Republic of China (1912 - 1949):
*The history of the Republic of China begins after the fallen of the Qing dynasty, around 1912, when the Xinhai Revolution and the formation of the Republic of China put an end to 2,000 years of imperial rule.

The Republic experienced many trials and tribulations after its founding which included being dominated by elements as disparate as warlord generals and foreign powers.

On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

In short, Republic Of China was one of most turbulent era in China's history because:
=fights between warlords since the last imperial of China, Qing Dynasty had already fallen
=civil wars (Nationalist Party or Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China, (KMT) vs forces of the Chinese Communist Party, (CCP))
=Sino-Japanese War 2 (Republic of China vs Empire of Japan)

When I’m watching romance dramas or reading romance novels that are set in Republic Of China, I always remember one of their famous saying:
< Love in Republic Of China, nine out of ten are sorrow >
so I won’t feel too disappointed with the ending (T_T)

Actually this expression of his in the Maid's Revenge trailer is one of main reason I'm interested to watch this short drama even before Maid's Revenge on air LOL
He still manage to look cute even with that expression XD
https://twitter.com/bbykyuju/status/1573340387468804096

He look hot in modern clothes but I hope he will play in Chinese Republican Era drama again because he looks hotter and stylish in Republic of China outfits (ノ^о^)ノ
https://twitter.com/bbykyuju/status/1574311573530808320

Hahaha they want to look edgy when they up to no good I guess XD