Back to this little gem after the long hiatus since ep 13 :) I started for uncomplicated fluff as dessert to other watching, but I admit I got hooked on the adorable look of the leads and the unlikely story, also wondering how the romance would turn out if they did not find a counter-measure to the Go-slumbering magic touch. lol. We knew Mansu had designs; and now it looks like Uncle-Brother Chen is not as clean as we could have thought... Hmm, ---快把！next episode!
William cannot do his own dubbing as he speaks Mandarin with a thick HK accent. He has to be dubbed by voice actors…
Baidu (linked in DramaWiki) gives the names of the dubbers of William Chan (Sun Ruiyang 孙睿扬 ), Ci Sha (Shi Zekun 史泽鲲 ), Qiu Henan (Yi Fan 弋凡), Mao Xuewen (Lu Xiran 路熙然) Zhang Ruonan is dubbed by herself The others get no dubbing mention, but there is a Dubbing Director (Bei Chen 北辰) in the credits
It’s more the show that is smart- let’s throw in the contract marriage trope to please the audience who likes…
There's that too. It did tickle me. But there was no insistence on "living together" for appearances sake (like in so many "model dramas" of the sort before and since Master Devil Don’t Kiss Me) to spice it up ... Gaaah we were tricked out of that one!
It's not really our business of course, but since celebrities' news have a way of attracting attention.... At 37, he would be an unnatural monk, if he had not already been sowing his wild oats. His rumored exes were well chosen, but well, it must be harder for celebs couples than for ordinary people to hope it could last. I suppose it won't last till he's 60 before he announces settling down with someone. The rumored model or someone else. With everyone's blessing, certainly.
the production of cdramas are usually cheap lets be honest... they dubbed actors voices cuz it's cheaper and easier…
DramaWiki usually mentions the name of dubbers beside the actor credits ; there were none mentioned this time. But it is well known that William Chan is not perfectly comfortable with mandarin; his first languages are Cantonese and English. I think I heard traces of accent several times... so assumed he was using own voice [edit. but I was wrong, see the names of dubbers in my next post]. . As for the story, it is a romcom. So, the tropes (getting drunk on beer and baijiu, bringing drunk sufferer home, piggyback carrying, spoon feeding, etc) go with the territory. After all, the drinking and food allow some usual product placement moments. Did we get to see the brands clearly? I was waiting for the actress getting ready for interview showing some beauty brands, but was disappointed, bah! There are also a few stargazing moments, fireworks and "saved hiding from storm in isolated cabin" ones, on the Meteor Garden model (this one is the ancestor of all the usual tropes). I am just amused and wondering how next, production could find a novel way to spin those tropes! Not really bored despite also having seen many such romcoms. The drama also has a pedagogical goal, to show the use and usefulness of firefighters in small (wasp nests : yes! poultry catching was a new one lol) and big matters (earthquakes can be as close to citizens concerns as road traffic accidents and faulty equipment explosions). I find it interesting to compare the organization of work shown, with other countries' policies : some push responsibility for wasps or hornets nests over to private people or private companies, limiting the scope of firefighters' action, and search and rescue in earthquakes or collapsed buildings is also not their job but that of special squads that can have a para military or military function. Some have primarily volunteer firefighters with only small units of military organized ones. The sweet story is supposedly "from a real life story" ; having known some people with even more extraordinary real life stories, this one feels not unlikely, even that of the young firefighter and the mourning doctor (although that one is definitely a side story that is spinned for fillers, in my opinion). As for the cast, it is OK with me. I am not a fan of William Chan, but satisfied with what I see again here, which does look different from his character in Novoland Pearl Eclipse. I had not watched Zhang Ruonan before : she is well cast in her role, to me. I remembered Ci Sha from his role as the lawyer in Forever and Ever where he first impressed me. Jia Nan had not really impressed me in A Dream of Splendor and her role as scheming antagonist in A Romance of a Twin Flower was more difficult although it did make her remembered ; she has not had many appearances yet in this drama, so I am still expecting from her. The trouble that caused complications with the drama cast also make me look out to try and spot moments when production replaced faces ; one actor (canceled for real prosecutable reasons) got a remarkable look-alike [in Dai Xiangyu playing Qin Ye theTV station news department team leader] as replacement. The other one was more tricky, since Xu Kaicheng's face is well known. [They found Wang Zirui for Fang Huai, the firefighter friend of Jin Shichuan']. It is interesting then in the story of C dramas, to witness how the production was "saved". If not for the other offender who got cancelled, this drama might even have eventually a second, original version to show someday, since the offended gf trouble airing dirty linen in public about XKC (totally private matter that nobody else than the two should have a stake in, from my point of view; netizens reaction as holier-than-thou witch hunters felt hysterical to me) seems to have mostly settled down and "Got A Crush On You" passed review on 9th of May. I will now read these comments from beginning, to perhaps find clues to where the replacements are located : amateur sleuthing, lol ! If you know and can link them, they will even add to my enjoyment of this drama !
Yu Shi Shi should try her chance. The guy might want to use her to make Xu Lai jealous but it is her chance to…
Besides, she does have some investments there, linked to her career, even if the money is not that important. She is level-headed in all her interests. Actually perhaps an ideal wife-to-be for a businessman !
Btw about the name change requested by Toutou, here are my views :Master Ren explained that he could not call…
Actually there are even more implications perhaps in the name change, since 孙 is also the family name of the great Sun Zi / Sun Tzu 孫子 pen name of the famous general and author of The Art Of War!
Thank you for that explanation!I’m not sure if it was already discussed (I’m only on episode 20) but can you…
I don't remember exactly when it was mentioned (I seem to remember it was Peng who was gleeful about finding out her real name, but I forgot what it was, since I was more amused by TT pronouncing her Western name impishly as something like Roub'eka which sounded to me as ròu 肉 bù è 不饿 kā 喀 "(meat) not hungry click" nonsense :)
If you can find the episode and time stamp when the real name occurred, I will try to go back and mull over why she was so set on nobody know her real name?
It is better to find someone who can take time and is skilled in figuring out a euphonic name in Chinese to transliterate a Western name, instead of just putting characters together that sound okay and more or less like original, because there's a possibility that the "Chinese name" thus hastily made up will be sounding ridiculous in some way. It is possible to use a list of common transliterations for ordinary given names, but it can get tricky for a full name, even when just using first syllable of Western family name and borrowing a name with a corresponding sound in the "100 family names" list (there are actually 507 names listed in the 百家姓 list). It is always best to consult a specialist. Even for Chinese people, name giving is a serious thing, calling for specialists and family reunion more often than not. This, even though a Chinese citizen has the option to legally change his/her given name when reaching adulthood. A lot of people used this opportunity after some historic periods when given names were both too ubiquitous and had too politically charged meanings. Rebecca as a Western first name is usually transliterated in Chinese characters as 丽贝卡 Lì bèi kǎ (where the first character standing alone is one name of Korea, but would firstly evoke a part of adjective 美丽 meili which means "beautiful" and is often part of female given names ; the two others are "cowry" which was a shell used as money in the past, and "card" which evokes to me visions of a well funded bank account, not that this is a bad thing: put together, the impression is that of a "rich and pretty girl", quite desirable qualities, aren't they?)
The drama is about redemption, so the Master (and the victim Mr Wu) agreed to let a way out for LiQuan to change.…
LQ agreeing without hesitation to follow Master Ren into the Wuhan inferno and shouldering tasks there with him is action enough. Even if they "did not know what kind of epidemic was at hand", everyone in China remembers the SARS years, so epidemics are not treated lightly. Usually, when it is bird flu, the quarter where it appeared is speedily confined. There, it was clear that it could be worse than bird flu, which is already deadly quite often when it infects humans. Also I am not sure but wasn't it LQ who warned the family that Master Ren was sick, triggering his wife into coming as reinforcement ? As for TT, yes, perhaps LQ should have said something. Perhaps he did and that may be why TT seems so comfortable after the one year elapsed (shown with the Solar Terms succession), that he will not attack her position any longer out of jealousy. Taking a second chance at matrimony with her friend who now believes LQ has shown his reliability, is also a sign that he has chosen the Daoist "path" of the good guy, if still somewhat diffidently searching for his place, henceforth. The blessings and retribution recitation shows the grounding of the TCM sect in the Daoist philosophy and religion. i put some notes about that in the Discussion section which you can look up if you are interested. My feeling :) I don't really have a soft spot for the sly individual, but he looked more honest and useful after the Wuhan ordeal.
people have to pay to get the episodes so capitalism is your answer 🤣
It's over next Wednesday, anyway. I am not in that much of a hurry either, despite I don't dislike Wu Qian who is very beautiful in this drama. Of course, I like Zhang Binbin who is quite the idol now, and I thought it was funny that he made good on his promise to jump into the sea if the drama got "28,000 popularity index" which it did. Enjoying the show sedately, and happy that it was crowned as top one for past week in the Chinese web-drama category by V linkage ranking research company (while GenZ Houlang was crowned for TV series).
So righteous an opinion ! well, that's on you, a bit nearsighted, in my opinion.Master Ren is not an ordinary…
It is a possibility too ; but I think Master Ren was quite observant and would have noticed after TT saving his son's life and staying together in the village...
You meant "my child's mom" ? I know a couple who did that in real life, while the future mom was sick in hospital,…
Don't worry, things happen in the heat of the action, lol It was clear enough that this was what had happened :) You also forgot to erase the mysterious "I missed a to"
He wanted to kill himself by jumping into river. So, master ren gave him second chance by lending him the money…
Mr Ren had gotten a huge (sum undisclosed) grant from the foreign patient, if you remember? No need any longer to worry about how to make ends meet. Plus he had agreed with Mr Wu about finding a way to redress LQ, and Mr Wu was not a pauper. A jail sentence would have made the story drag too long anyway.
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I started for uncomplicated fluff as dessert to other watching, but I admit I got hooked on the adorable look of the leads and the unlikely story, also wondering how the romance would turn out if they did not find a counter-measure to the Go-slumbering magic touch. lol.
We knew Mansu had designs; and now it looks like Uncle-Brother Chen is not as clean as we could have thought... Hmm, ---快把！next episode!
William Chan (Sun Ruiyang 孙睿扬 ),
Ci Sha (Shi Zekun 史泽鲲 ),
Qiu Henan (Yi Fan 弋凡),
Mao Xuewen (Lu Xiran 路熙然)
Zhang Ruonan is dubbed by herself
The others get no dubbing mention, but there is a Dubbing Director (Bei Chen 北辰) in the credits
Gaaah we were tricked out of that one!
I suppose it won't last till he's 60 before he announces settling down with someone. The rumored model or someone else. With everyone's blessing, certainly.
As for the story, it is a romcom. So, the tropes (getting drunk on beer and baijiu, bringing drunk sufferer home, piggyback carrying, spoon feeding, etc) go with the territory. After all, the drinking and food allow some usual product placement moments. Did we get to see the brands clearly? I was waiting for the actress getting ready for interview showing some beauty brands, but was disappointed, bah! There are also a few stargazing moments, fireworks and "saved hiding from storm in isolated cabin" ones, on the Meteor Garden model (this one is the ancestor of all the usual tropes). I am just amused and wondering how next, production could find a novel way to spin those tropes! Not really bored despite also having seen many such romcoms.
The drama also has a pedagogical goal, to show the use and usefulness of firefighters in small (wasp nests : yes! poultry catching was a new one lol) and big matters (earthquakes can be as close to citizens concerns as road traffic accidents and faulty equipment explosions). I find it interesting to compare the organization of work shown, with other countries' policies : some push responsibility for wasps or hornets nests over to private people or private companies, limiting the scope of firefighters' action, and search and rescue in earthquakes or collapsed buildings is also not their job but that of special squads that can have a para military or military function. Some have primarily volunteer firefighters with only small units of military organized ones.
The sweet story is supposedly "from a real life story" ; having known some people with even more extraordinary real life stories, this one feels not unlikely, even that of the young firefighter and the mourning doctor (although that one is definitely a side story that is spinned for fillers, in my opinion).
As for the cast, it is OK with me. I am not a fan of William Chan, but satisfied with what I see again here, which does look different from his character in Novoland Pearl Eclipse. I had not watched Zhang Ruonan before : she is well cast in her role, to me. I remembered Ci Sha from his role as the lawyer in Forever and Ever where he first impressed me. Jia Nan had not really impressed me in A Dream of Splendor and her role as scheming antagonist in A Romance of a Twin Flower was more difficult although it did make her remembered ; she has not had many appearances yet in this drama, so I am still expecting from her.
The trouble that caused complications with the drama cast also make me look out to try and spot moments when production replaced faces ; one actor (canceled for real prosecutable reasons) got a remarkable look-alike [in Dai Xiangyu playing Qin Ye theTV station news department team leader] as replacement. The other one was more tricky, since Xu Kaicheng's face is well known. [They found Wang Zirui for Fang Huai, the firefighter friend of Jin Shichuan'].
It is interesting then in the story of C dramas, to witness how the production was "saved". If not for the other offender who got cancelled, this drama might even have eventually a second, original version to show someday, since the offended gf trouble airing dirty linen in public about XKC (totally private matter that nobody else than the two should have a stake in, from my point of view; netizens reaction as holier-than-thou witch hunters felt hysterical to me) seems to have mostly settled down and "Got A Crush On You" passed review on 9th of May.
I will now read these comments from beginning, to perhaps find clues to where the replacements are located : amateur sleuthing, lol ! If you know and can link them, they will even add to my enjoyment of this drama !
If you can find the episode and time stamp when the real name occurred, I will try to go back and mull over why she was so set on nobody know her real name?
It is better to find someone who can take time and is skilled in figuring out a euphonic name in Chinese to transliterate a Western name, instead of just putting characters together that sound okay and more or less like original, because there's a possibility that the "Chinese name" thus hastily made up will be sounding ridiculous in some way.
It is possible to use a list of common transliterations for ordinary given names, but it can get tricky for a full name, even when just using first syllable of Western family name and borrowing a name with a corresponding sound in the "100 family names" list (there are actually 507 names listed in the 百家姓 list).
It is always best to consult a specialist. Even for Chinese people, name giving is a serious thing, calling for specialists and family reunion more often than not. This, even though a Chinese citizen has the option to legally change his/her given name when reaching adulthood. A lot of people used this opportunity after some historic periods when given names were both too ubiquitous and had too politically charged meanings.
Rebecca as a Western first name is usually transliterated in Chinese characters as 丽贝卡 Lì bèi kǎ (where the first character standing alone is one name of Korea, but would firstly evoke a part of adjective 美丽 meili which means "beautiful" and is often part of female given names ; the two others are "cowry" which was a shell used as money in the past, and "card" which evokes to me visions of a well funded bank account, not that this is a bad thing: put together, the impression is that of a "rich and pretty girl", quite desirable qualities, aren't they?)
Also I am not sure but wasn't it LQ who warned the family that Master Ren was sick, triggering his wife into coming as reinforcement ?
As for TT, yes, perhaps LQ should have said something. Perhaps he did and that may be why TT seems so comfortable after the one year elapsed (shown with the Solar Terms succession), that he will not attack her position any longer out of jealousy. Taking a second chance at matrimony with her friend who now believes LQ has shown his reliability, is also a sign that he has chosen the Daoist "path" of the good guy, if still somewhat diffidently searching for his place, henceforth.
The blessings and retribution recitation shows the grounding of the TCM sect in the Daoist philosophy and religion. i put some notes about that in the Discussion section which you can look up if you are interested.
My feeling :) I don't really have a soft spot for the sly individual, but he looked more honest and useful after the Wuhan ordeal.
Of course, I like Zhang Binbin who is quite the idol now, and I thought it was funny that he made good on his promise to jump into the sea if the drama got "28,000 popularity index" which it did.
Enjoying the show sedately, and happy that it was crowned as top one for past week in the Chinese web-drama category by V linkage ranking research company (while GenZ Houlang was crowned for TV series).
It was clear enough that this was what had happened :)
You also forgot to erase the mysterious "I missed a to"