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I have updated the Chen Zheyuan Profile with latest info about upcoming dramas, picture of vacation in Thailand, brand ambassadorship for Age20 and... Papa John's pizza + Shenzhen tourism board. All with Gif and pics linking to original sources. And a song, that I think ought to be known in connection with TWOT, despite it is not on the OST. Oh yes, also the cast of TWOT, as known by now but not yet published on Baidu.
I have also tweaked the layout with colors, and cross links to "chapters" to ease perusing.

https://kisskh.at/discussions/an-ye-yu-li-ming/119875-profile-of-chen-zhe-yuan
(At the moment, this latest version of the Profile is parked in DNAD Discussion pages, just for convenience sakes ; if this Actor profile page had a similar pinned Discussions page, I would have parked it here from beginning).

totally with you on this 🥳 😍

I'm in with the bunch 🤣

+1 🤣

😂🤣

Li Zan : hero of The White Olive Tree
Ah or A is the endearing form for a familiar way of using first name

Now it is on YouTube too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuOiE-uCw9E
From description - Follow an ordinary path and become an extraordinary story. Take the olive tree as the belief and do the right thing in the right direction.
Thanks to the hard work of the whole team and the full support of the audience, to every kind ordinary person in the world.
#白色橄榄树杀青特辑##白色橄榄树#
Starring: @陈哲远 [Chen Zheyuan] -@梁洁Little [Liang Jie]
Starring: @不停锻炼的王天辰@古子成_@郑英辰C@刘泳希@汪卓成@丁映智
Directed by Haitao @海涛的眼前花Wang Junxi @王小熙的微博
Co-director: Huang Chun @凶猛的纯哥Zhou Wei @周伟导演
Product: @爱奇艺E di Shen a (Xiamen) movie and television culture co., ltd.
Iqiyi Appointment http://t.cn/A6YfUYTg
Weibo Reservation http://t.cn/A6WByy9jhttp://t.cn/A6YN1JVQ

It's a secret well kept....

There was talk about a Nirvana In Fire Season 3 that "could air this year or next". But the cast "are not confirmed. It was a one time melon last year and that was that." One MDL member wrote a long while ago that "It might be 2026 before we see NIF3. I am guessing that Leo Wu will reprise his role of Fei Liu, who didn't talk in NIF1.".

The nearest upcoming item mentioned on MDL is the movie Decent Things that wrapped shooting 3 months ago. How long it will take for it to get clearance to be shown is anyone's guess. Wu Lei has no beef with real controversy, so it should not be too long, but my guess (guess only, using unreliable melon like crystal ball hahaha) is : not before the autumn, but maybe in 2024.

Next item, another movie, Dwelling By The West Lake (aka Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains 2: Qiantang River) was supposed to have been shown for a worldwide premiere at Tokyo International Film Festival and will enter on the Competition., back in October 2023, but was apparently overlooked. The synopsis looks complicated and not very clear, the festival short presentation says it's about "a son who saves his mother from modern monsters" (gangs?) in the tea growing region. There has been nothing more reported on MDL about this movie since October 2023. Still, some believe it could also air in 2024.

Another (flimsy) movie project The Legend of Nezha, seems to have foundered because of financial and other problems, according to rumors ; the joke was that it would "air in 2030".

This is totally in line with how the leads themselves and Zhao Jingmai specifically, viewed and played the character : "I also felt the hard core beneath her seemingly soft appearance" as expressed in her farewell message, which I included in the section about "Wu Lei's work to become Lin Yiyang" in the "Billiards universe" companion piece up in Discussions.

I agree with your assessment about Zhao Jinmai's play. She is certainly one young actress to like and follow on her rise. I remember her from Reset, which her presence made into a success : it was not that easy, given the lesser loved "time loop" subject matter.

To me, in Reset, she outshone Bai Jingting ; in AASOL she stood her ground to the charisma of Wu Lei. The BTS when they played snippets of the "dodging kisses" game, and some other ones like those of the bath scene, made me laugh together with the pair. They clearly were not stuck up, in rehearsals as well as in final takes!

I have added in the section of Billiards Universe companion piece discussion, about Wu Lei's work to become Lin Yiyang : the illustrated farewell messages to their characters, by Wu Lei and Zhao Jinmai (with link to their Weibo accounts) and the text + a Gif from the reporting by Marcus about the trending topic "38 tries"
https://kisskh.at/discussions/during-the-snowstorm/123315-snooker-nine-ball-and-the-billiards-universe?pid=2966943&page=1#p2966943 (scroll down the page)
enjoy!

Find it here titled simply "Yang Guifei" with English subtitles : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQIewYmBucc
It is beautifully made and Fan Bingbing is of course stunning.
Just re-watched - I saw it when it aired, but that was 17 years ago...
The movie starts with Byzantine envoys to Tang empire arriving to witness the emperor paying homage to soldiers fallen in the war on both sides. The foreign envoys are played by English actors who serve as observers along the story, commenting in English, so the movie was clearly destined for international audience.

Thanks! Done :D
GIF of 30s added to illustrate that section of the Billiards Discussion ;D
mydramalist.com/discussions/during-the-snowstorm/123315-snooker-nine-ball-and-the-billiards-universe?pid=2966943&page=1#p2966943

Nice: thanks for sharing! I've added a gif from that in the "Snooker, Nine Ball and the billiards universe" companion piece about the game, in pinned Discussion section. Under "Nine-Ball courtship" heading (linking to source material as all illustrations do there), so that it can be found easily, even if the avalanche of running comments washes this one away.

For non player people who'd like to know more about the game, I've added this Discussion :
https://kisskh.at/discussions/during-the-snowstorm/123315-snooker-nine-ball-and-the-billiards-universe

I will perhaps add some more in the coming week, but am somewhat busy, so I'm slow about it.

AASOL has got its opening Douban rating (6.9 from 43,700 ratings).

It should have been #1 this week but was shifted by V-Linkage monitoring company from webdrama to tv drama category, so did not score in either because there were not enough days recorded in either category. As Marcus Sim said on his Youtube channel, it should have been #1 with 588 pts if it had stayed as webdrama.

I've added the data and a comparison with four (edit: seven) other popular romances scores in the Heat Index Discussion : mydramalist.com/discussions/during-the-snowstorm/122961-amidst-a-snowstorm-of-love-heat-tencent-heat-index?page=last&p=2969277#p2969277

I haven't watched the first one, so perhaps I will ;)
Me, it's rather One & Only, LLTG, AJTL which left strong impressions (I know, all costume and tragic), but also The Forbidden Flower, Lighter and Princess, and Hidden Love, in the modern romance category. Not really binge watching, since I hooked on as they aired, but those are the ones I binge re-watched !!
Then there's xianxia too, and my all time favorite remains Ashes of Love (I think I ended up knowing the dialogues by heart in some iconic episodes, like the arrival from the River of forgetfulness to Demon market where Jinmi realized Runyu/Little Fish Immortal 小鱼神官 was Xufeng's brother. So funny. I missed all that comedic take in other xianxia.)

Peachey Blossom who has a channel on YouTube too, has finally got around to put it on her translated OST list too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puENPRhRNnY
It was 我要赢 (I Want To Win) - sung by 王赫野 (Wang Heye) of "Windy" 大风吹 fame.
I shall add it into my companion piece Discussion about Snooker, Nine Ball and the Billiards universe, so it can be looked up there too. Yesterday, when I checked, Peachey Had still not posted the links to the complete OST, but it must be in the appropriate OST Discussion too, now !

thank you! it was the last one still missing from the OST, which you now have covered completely for the joy of the songs &music lovers.

Ah, you were the one who wrote there is no blood on US network tv (I don't know if that's a specific channel; when I googled it, I found quite a number). The shows listed surely have some blood and intimate moments. But probably not my cup of tea anymore, so I am not looking them up.
HBO .... actually despite I used to get it for "free" in the package that came with my home rental, and it's home for GOT + I know I should be interested bc of House of the Dragon, already aired, and the upcoming spinoffs, in waiting for GRMM ever finishing The Winds of Winter. And bc it's Dragon year.
But I am slowly moving on to other things, other climes, so much of all that will soon be way in the past.
btw cool off, genius : have a pleasant time with the winding down of the AASOL series.
I am a bit surprised that you comment (and expect reactions to yr comments) but don't use MDL to log what you watch and how you like it. Anyway you are perfectly free to be only a tourist who haunts MDL and keep your privacy intact. It's annoying enough to have gender revealed in those profiles here, when perhaps, like me who am genderfluid (but neither merry or gay, that's something else), this should preferably be left blank too. I'd rather prefer they'd adopt Peterson's four grammatical genders: lunar, solar, aquatic, and terrestrial (of High Valyrian) ! As 海浪 too, I'd probably identify with "aquatic" :D
Good luck in your watching, in this Dragon year. Preparing the lanterns on my end for next Saturday.

The best, from my pov. I raved about it for months. But then I also liked the time loop and the life threatening explosive mystery. ZJM carried her role perfectly.