So happy Li Qin gets on this project. I like her a lot as well. Thanks for the link(s) ; I was away for a while, and also wrapped up in other dramas + adding a new profile and companion piece to that other one, unrelated to Chen Zheyuan... so "missed the early bus" but vow I will catch up before booting and update the Chen Zheyuan profile accordingly 😁
The Profile is "housed" in Tale of Rose Discussion part of MDL for convenience sake since it was started as an Annex to the Companion piece I compiled and wrote for the drama.
The Profile is "housed" in Discussion part of MDLof Tale of Rose drama for convenience sake since it was started as an Annex to the Companion piece I compiled and wrote for that drama.
If you feel something should be added, or corrected, don't hesitate to add a comment. Wishing you a nice weekend !
@keke_xin: why not? She's young and cute...LGX is getting old...he looked bad in his 520 ad.
Agree that ad was a little ... pale. He's had much better appearances since then, although some people, after scolding him for looking fat in Shen Li, now comment that he looks too thin !! He's quite fit, and his ad for Estee Lauder in June was good. Also, he is again in Madame Figaro Men photo section, for the July issue. And well, he is only a few months older than Luo Yunxi - not really old. He's still got time before he'll have to play dads or granddads to the young'uns. 🤣 If he thinks he can date one of those off screen, it's his own business anyway. I have even bigger age gap matches in my family, and they turned out very happy and longest enduring (till death parted them) so I don't see reason to frown about it. Good luck to him and her, together or not.
I think its the story of rose.. He plays one of the male leads. He marries the character I think he plays a successful…
Not "some" episodes ; he had the most screen time apart from "brother" of the titular Rose. I counted 18+ episodes in which he was in for various length, out of the 38. -- If you watched it, hope you liked it. It was not an easy role : he was portraying a man between 24 and 40+ with big changes in psychology along that "marriage" and "divorce" line. In the end, the two characters are still acquainted, in a much less tight, but friendly way. He did not have many kiss scenes with Liu Yifei, in fact.
And yes, impressive acting in The Tale of Rose. Not an easy role. He's once again earned respect from his peers.…
I don't know. From the recent news, it looks like he's had to deal with anti-fans who went targeting him in the wake of his "scumbag" portrayal of Fang Xiewen. Some can't make the difference between real and act, and his rumors with his many female friends have also added fuel to fire, especially since he's been photographed accompanying a much younger actress a few times since October 2023 or so. Living the life of a celeb is not that easy, although he doesn't care much and still goes freely doing what he wants such as running, when he was pictured stopping kindly to grant an autograph to an admirer who had spotted him in his sweat drenched T shirt, in Hong Kong, end of last month lol
Impressive performance in the tale of rose. I read that you go to college for Phd, hope u have a good time studying…
Sorry, I remembered wrong from the Marcus Here snippet of news of June 14. It's Shanghai Theatre Academy. I wanted to check back and had some trouble finding the video, so I looked up directly on Chinese news. And found that he still has 4 years studies to do before getting the title officially. He is now "doctoral student", admitted on June 12 with next to top score, still enough to have it mentioned and be congratulated by Tong Dawei during their Tale of Rose live stream talk 👏👏
Was anyone rooting for Zhou Shi Hui😂 he was so funny😂😂😂 and he was right not to marry his GF, everyone…
Yes but he came out a bit too lecherous, and unpleasant with his newly acquired mania of informing her brother with snapshots taken on the sly. Good thing his fiancée dumped him and found a better husband. She looked prosperous when seen again: well over the ... 7 years (!!!) she'd wasted on that Zhou.
Meigui had much more trouble getting over her obsession with Zhuang Guodong who kept popping up physically or in imagination (see the hallucination at the art exhibition) at worst timing to rip up her mental scars. Her reaction to He Xi's departure was an indication that she still was not totally healed despite all the sheltering, soft cotton like and hard walls later, that Fang had put around her. That was also why Fang hated Zhuang and all returnees so much : he had witnessed his goddess despondent and crying, and throwing up as if poisoned, after the restaurant incident. And next, her implied admission that she was not really over Zhuang even when she married him made Fang lose the goddess image, the gentleness and admiration he had for her. Susu was right when she said Meigui had committed an irreparable mistake in transferring her burden to Fang, although Zhenhua and his dumb meddling was at fault, too. That was the root of Fang morphing into T rex during their married stint (he mellowed some, in stages, after the divorce, and was probably supporting her on the sly, through self determined alimony, since they had done it consensual, he even got her the doctor for her next man!). Zhuang had also polluted her relationship with Jiaming by popping up when the gallery was under construction. There was a parallel between Jiaming's death and Zhuang's expatriation, and she reacted to both with a painful dance, also a moment of similar anxiety and hallucinations when He Xi left.
Alright, I am through analyzing this complicated and entangled group of characters who played so well. I put some chosen gif for that in the Symbols section of my companion piece.
I will now leave the illustrated companion piece which I added in Discussions section ; you might find interesting tidbits there, on many things related to the drama. I ended it with a Mini-Profile of Lin Gengxin (which might be added to, if some anecdotes can be found to spice it up some more. There are also links to the music the he likes, pictures of him with his friends, possible lovers, and idol, and of course a catalogue of his most memorable movies and dramas, with the name of the character he played there.... The mini profile is linked to the Table of contents, which allows easier navigation between the sections through cross links. You can have a look starting at the mini profile (or going to Table of Contents first, as you please) :
Yes Liu Yifei's dad An Shaokang was a scholar who translated Notre Dame de Paris, taught French and served as…
I'm not reading nor really want to read the original novel the drama is adapted from. Have you ? From those who have, it seems that the scriptwriter adapted a lot, and the He Xi character is a new addition. So it is quite possible that the script introduced elements that LYF could relate to since the drama is partly a new creation. I was wondering what happened to the cat in the drama. It disappeared after the birth of Taichu, if I'm not mistaken.
With whom do you wish to see Lusi acting with next in a drama?My top picks are:Wang Xing YueZhang Ling HeZhang…
If it's a business drama with a tough story, I would not mind seeing what she could do with Lin Gengxin - if the melon about Perfect Lobbyist is half ripe. He has been playing with older actresses of good fame (Liu Yifei, Zhao Liying), but we know Rosy can do wonders even with older actors, so if she finds the script interesting, it could be an interesting change and challenge !
Already before, a site reported that : "29 April 2024: Deng Ke apparently followed Lusi in Weibo. It is hotting. 29 April 2024: :Lusi announced during her YoyiC fan meeting in Chengdu that she was imminently to film a drama."
Basically you say you knew it all without watching it. That's an astounding admission of bias. And you say you…
Bless you. Hope you will find something to grab your soul despite the tsunami of dramas hailing down on potential audiences. I do hope we all have a life nonetheless.
Me, I liked this drama a lot, for its acting, actors/actresses, colors, design, arresting and sometimes deep dialogues, small moments to be unsettled by fleeting details to dig into. 😁
Happy The Tale of Rose is holding up as #1 TV drama watched in China last week for 3rd week running, and that Douban rating is rising (from 7.1 opening while the drama had just started to 7.3 now. Not stellar but very decent, considering Douban seldom goes to 9 (btw, it did rise briefly over 9 this year for the short series To The Wonder, which was exactly wonderful, but very different from usual entertainment).
I didn't know Fang rosie 2nd boyfriend was half Korea and ChineseFound out in Ep20
Some say that's why he's got that rigid, thrifty, money conscious, paternalistic, controlling attitude, in his marriage, and why he called his mom in to keep help within the family instead of hiring a maid to help Meigui, when he became too busy to do all the chores and the cooking for her himself. They termed that "Korean country rustic".
I don't know if the writer had a bias against Koreans, she did depict the mom as a sort of she-devil and Fang Xiewen as a sort of half educated pauper from the cold north, who needed rising in his job to alleviate his inferiority feelings, who clung to Meigui as if she was Gollum's Precious Ring that he needed to keep away literally from the eyes of and all the dangers of the world, becoming an autocrat to do so !
He did not ask her to cover her head and hide in burqa, nor remove her nail polish and burn her skirts, he had admired her in the yellow gown (not knowing it was the one in which she first seduced Zhuang) and did not pressure her or elaborate why he hoped he could invite her to eat noodles that evening. He never forced her physically or beat her, but he did not want other men, and Zhuang in particular, to get too close and lay claim over her, and Fang forgot his vow to not deceive her again after she found out about his sacrifices and schemes to seduce her. In fact I never felt Fang was a real boyfriend. He was always planning to marry his first love, as soon as he could, and become the pater familias not sparing a glance for other women who came pursuing him (the girl at university, the employee in the end episodes..), expecting Meigui to be as faithful as he was, even after their divorce.
As Lin Gengxin assessed the character, Fang was difficult, but not a scumbag.
Contrary to Zhuang he did understand why they were unsuited for each other, why she divorced, and he went on supporting her through self determined alimony so she never went without money : he had a good pretext with his daughter's needs over the next 10-12 years. He did hope they could make up in the future, but did not show up to tear at her wounds same way as Zhuang did. He could even joke with her in the end, and leave her decision to go free unchallenged. He was the only one among her males who grew, in my opinion.
Yes Liu Yifei's dad An Shaokang was a scholar who translated Notre Dame de Paris, taught French and served as diplomat in France from 2008 until joining the Confucius Institute department of the Paris 8 university. He is still listed as director there, on Baidu and FB, but I suppose he has retired and gone home to Wuhan now, unless he has chosen to expatriate for good and retire in France. His wife who was a ballet dancer, divorced from him and took her daughter to the US, where they got citizenship and lived in New York. Liu Yifei decided to change her birth name to keep the family name of her mother.
I'm a little confused about the ending with the young guy, what was the first airport scene where he ignores/didnt…
Your question was very interesting to me, as I had a vague unease about the disjointed pilot sightings but had not stopped to really think about it, my attention going to the, familiar to me, terminal 2, and wondering what year was that.
If you watch the first pilots sequence very attentively, you will notice the difference in height of the three pilots, when they have passed her on their way on to whatever duty they are off to. On the flip side, when they were still approaching her, one of them looked like He Xi, tall and unconcerned as if she did not exist ; when they had their backs to her, walking away, you could see they were shorter, especially the tall one was not among the three. In fact, that tied back to Meigui's hallucinations of Zhuang in Shanghai at the entry of the art exhibition where she went with Fang, when they did not know each other well, and she was in the throes of dark depression over her break-up. She had experienced a shock that left scars in her mind, causing her to hallucinate ZGD everywhere, at the entrance to art galleries : not with pleasure but with pain. Fang never caused her waking nightmares before or after they parted, but Jiaming's death had been a renewed shock, when she had consciously or not danced the grief away. Only when she took up flying did she feel joy again. But now, He Xi was going to leave for one year. One year or forever, and her mind played a trick on her that he already was leaving, abandoning and ignoring her.
She was at the old terminal 2 of "Beijing International Capital airport" 30 some km northeast of Beijing that now serves only some destinations since the bigger "Olympic" terminal 3 (operational since March 2008), a little further away north east, that looks like a turtle and a Y, took over many long distance connection. Today, historic terminal 1 serves mostly for freight. Terminal 2 serves certain lines, including Air Koryo (DPRK/Pyongyang in North Korea) and some members of Skyteam (notice the counter with that name that the three pilots are walking by) which is one of the three major airline alliances that includes KLM, Air France, Alitalia , Aeroflot ... The others are served from huger Terminal 3 "Olympics" one. T2 and T3 are interconnected through a highway and rapid transit rail to the Beijing metro in Chaoyang District which the airport is an extension of. Today, a new, even bigger airport 46 km south of Beijing capital : "Daxing" handles most of the important lines. It looks like a six pointed starfish or a "phoenix in flight". The airport was planned to be able to handle "120 to 200 million passengers a year, which, if capacity were fully used, would make it the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic", Many airlines alliances have relocated there, and the new airport serves both Beijing, 46 km away, Tianjin, and Lanfang in Hebei province through rapid underground transit rail, buses, highways.
Meigui may have been going for a short business overnighter for the gallery. Or it was a nightmare, akin to her fever dream of dancing with faceless men and ZGD when she trashed his apartment. The three pilots were the embodiment of her anxiety flaring up again, despite all her appearing brave and composed. Anyway, she had arranged to meet, in that airport, He Xi who this time was really going away for his studies as pilot. That's when he gave her the painted "iron rose"he had crafted for her.
I will try to put some pix and a short description of the commercial Capital T2/T3 and Daxing airports, in addition to the flying school in Badaling already covered, in my Companion piece, housed in Discussions.
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https://kisskh.at/discussions/the-story-of-rose/127405-profile-of-lin-gengxin
The Profile is "housed" in Tale of Rose Discussion part of MDL for convenience sake since it was started as an Annex to the Companion piece I compiled and wrote for the drama.
Wishing you a nice weekend !
https://kisskh.at/discussions/the-story-of-rose/127405-profile-of-lin-gengxin
The Profile is "housed" in Discussion part of MDLof Tale of Rose drama for convenience sake since it was started as an Annex to the Companion piece I compiled and wrote for that drama.
If you feel something should be added, or corrected, don't hesitate to add a comment.
Wishing you a nice weekend !
And well, he is only a few months older than Luo Yunxi - not really old. He's still got time before he'll have to play dads or granddads to the young'uns. 🤣
If he thinks he can date one of those off screen, it's his own business anyway. I have even bigger age gap matches in my family, and they turned out very happy and longest enduring (till death parted them) so I don't see reason to frown about it. Good luck to him and her, together or not.
He did not have many kiss scenes with Liu Yifei, in fact.
Living the life of a celeb is not that easy, although he doesn't care much and still goes freely doing what he wants such as running, when he was pictured stopping kindly to grant an autograph to an admirer who had spotted him in his sweat drenched T shirt, in Hong Kong, end of last month lol
It's Shanghai Theatre Academy. I wanted to check back and had some trouble finding the video, so I looked up directly on Chinese news. And found that he still has 4 years studies to do before getting the title officially. He is now "doctoral student", admitted on June 12 with next to top score, still enough to have it mentioned and be congratulated by Tong Dawei during their Tale of Rose live stream talk 👏👏
Meigui had much more trouble getting over her obsession with Zhuang Guodong who kept popping up physically or in imagination (see the hallucination at the art exhibition) at worst timing to rip up her mental scars. Her reaction to He Xi's departure was an indication that she still was not totally healed despite all the sheltering, soft cotton like and hard walls later, that Fang had put around her. That was also why Fang hated Zhuang and all returnees so much : he had witnessed his goddess despondent and crying, and throwing up as if poisoned, after the restaurant incident. And next, her implied admission that she was not really over Zhuang even when she married him made Fang lose the goddess image, the gentleness and admiration he had for her. Susu was right when she said Meigui had committed an irreparable mistake in transferring her burden to Fang, although Zhenhua and his dumb meddling was at fault, too. That was the root of Fang morphing into T rex during their married stint (he mellowed some, in stages, after the divorce, and was probably supporting her on the sly, through self determined alimony, since they had done it consensual, he even got her the doctor for her next man!). Zhuang had also polluted her relationship with Jiaming by popping up when the gallery was under construction. There was a parallel between Jiaming's death and Zhuang's expatriation, and she reacted to both with a painful dance, also a moment of similar anxiety and hallucinations when He Xi left.
Alright, I am through analyzing this complicated and entangled group of characters who played so well. I put some chosen gif for that in the Symbols section of my companion piece.
I will now leave the illustrated companion piece which I added in Discussions section ; you might find interesting tidbits there, on many things related to the drama. I ended it with a Mini-Profile of Lin Gengxin (which might be added to, if some anecdotes can be found to spice it up some more. There are also links to the music the he likes, pictures of him with his friends, possible lovers, and idol, and of course a catalogue of his most memorable movies and dramas, with the name of the character he played there.... The mini profile is linked to the Table of contents, which allows easier navigation between the sections through cross links. You can have a look starting at the mini profile (or going to Table of Contents first, as you please) :
https://kisskh.at/discussions/the-story-of-rose/126207-the-story-of-the-rose-miscellaneous-details?pid=3081829&page=2#p3081829
I was wondering what happened to the cat in the drama. It disappeared after the birth of Taichu, if I'm not mistaken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grd9PW-xhPI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grd9PW-xhPI)
Repeated here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6tOhuqf9VA (Zhao Lusi and Lin Gengxin's Exciting Pairings 'The Lobbyist' Drama Revealed!" )
and before : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvUHXvLIg-M (Lin Gengxin and Zhao Lusi could pair up in a new movie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCzVUkoE3_s (Zhao Lusi & Lin Gengxin will collaborate after Director Deng Ke followed Lusi on Weibo last night)
Already before, a site reported that : "29 April 2024: Deng Ke apparently followed Lusi in Weibo. It is hotting. 29 April 2024: :Lusi announced during her YoyiC fan meeting in Chengdu that she was imminently to film a drama."
Me, I liked this drama a lot, for its acting, actors/actresses, colors, design, arresting and sometimes deep dialogues, small moments to be unsettled by fleeting details to dig into. 😁
Happy The Tale of Rose is holding up as #1 TV drama watched in China last week for 3rd week running, and that Douban rating is rising (from 7.1 opening while the drama had just started to 7.3 now. Not stellar but very decent, considering Douban seldom goes to 9 (btw, it did rise briefly over 9 this year for the short series To The Wonder, which was exactly wonderful, but very different from usual entertainment).
I don't know if the writer had a bias against Koreans, she did depict the mom as a sort of she-devil and Fang Xiewen as a sort of half educated pauper from the cold north, who needed rising in his job to alleviate his inferiority feelings, who clung to Meigui as if she was Gollum's Precious Ring that he needed to keep away literally from the eyes of and all the dangers of the world, becoming an autocrat to do so !
He did not ask her to cover her head and hide in burqa, nor remove her nail polish and burn her skirts, he had admired her in the yellow gown (not knowing it was the one in which she first seduced Zhuang) and did not pressure her or elaborate why he hoped he could invite her to eat noodles that evening. He never forced her physically or beat her, but he did not want other men, and Zhuang in particular, to get too close and lay claim over her, and Fang forgot his vow to not deceive her again after she found out about his sacrifices and schemes to seduce her. In fact I never felt Fang was a real boyfriend. He was always planning to marry his first love, as soon as he could, and become the pater familias not sparing a glance for other women who came pursuing him (the girl at university, the employee in the end episodes..), expecting Meigui to be as faithful as he was, even after their divorce.
As Lin Gengxin assessed the character, Fang was difficult, but not a scumbag.
Contrary to Zhuang he did understand why they were unsuited for each other, why she divorced, and he went on supporting her through self determined alimony so she never went without money : he had a good pretext with his daughter's needs over the next 10-12 years. He did hope they could make up in the future, but did not show up to tear at her wounds same way as Zhuang did. He could even joke with her in the end, and leave her decision to go free unchallenged. He was the only one among her males who grew, in my opinion.
If you watch the first pilots sequence very attentively, you will notice the difference in height of the three pilots, when they have passed her on their way on to whatever duty they are off to. On the flip side, when they were still approaching her, one of them looked like He Xi, tall and unconcerned as if she did not exist ; when they had their backs to her, walking away, you could see they were shorter, especially the tall one was not among the three. In fact, that tied back to Meigui's hallucinations of Zhuang in Shanghai at the entry of the art exhibition where she went with Fang, when they did not know each other well, and she was in the throes of dark depression over her break-up. She had experienced a shock that left scars in her mind, causing her to hallucinate ZGD everywhere, at the entrance to art galleries : not with pleasure but with pain. Fang never caused her waking nightmares before or after they parted, but Jiaming's death had been a renewed shock, when she had consciously or not danced the grief away. Only when she took up flying did she feel joy again. But now, He Xi was going to leave for one year. One year or forever, and her mind played a trick on her that he already was leaving, abandoning and ignoring her.
She was at the old terminal 2 of "Beijing International Capital airport" 30 some km northeast of Beijing that now serves only some destinations since the bigger "Olympic" terminal 3 (operational since March 2008), a little further away north east, that looks like a turtle and a Y, took over many long distance connection.
Today, historic terminal 1 serves mostly for freight. Terminal 2 serves certain lines, including Air Koryo (DPRK/Pyongyang in North Korea) and some members of Skyteam (notice the counter with that name that the three pilots are walking by) which is one of the three major airline alliances that includes KLM, Air France, Alitalia , Aeroflot ... The others are served from huger Terminal 3 "Olympics" one. T2 and T3 are interconnected through a highway and rapid transit rail to the Beijing metro in Chaoyang District which the airport is an extension of.
Today, a new, even bigger airport 46 km south of Beijing capital : "Daxing" handles most of the important lines. It looks like a six pointed starfish or a "phoenix in flight". The airport was planned to be able to handle "120 to 200 million passengers a year, which, if capacity were fully used, would make it the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic", Many airlines alliances have relocated there, and the new airport serves both Beijing, 46 km away, Tianjin, and Lanfang in Hebei province through rapid underground transit rail, buses, highways.
Meigui may have been going for a short business overnighter for the gallery. Or it was a nightmare, akin to her fever dream of dancing with faceless men and ZGD when she trashed his apartment. The three pilots were the embodiment of her anxiety flaring up again, despite all her appearing brave and composed. Anyway, she had arranged to meet, in that airport, He Xi who this time was really going away for his studies as pilot. That's when he gave her the painted "iron rose"he had crafted for her.
I will try to put some pix and a short description of the commercial Capital T2/T3 and Daxing airports, in addition to the flying school in Badaling already covered, in my Companion piece, housed in Discussions.