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Have you watched the ones she appeared in already ? Which one is your favorite ?
If you did not finish TPATW try to find a moment : it was a nice, comedic one !
But time is so short : I plead guilty to have been sidetracked by other business, including a Chinese cinema festival, so highly praised Love in Pavilion remains on my TBW list. Shortly, as I am also watching a couple of other, different dramas...

I liked the version posted in first link by Jwells down in comments. A very nice non toxic watch (the toxic parents of Cinderella only make a very short appearance towards the end, only to be swept away as dust by a broom!) with a beautiful pair of actors ; Yu Long is with another FL than MieMie but they also have excellent chemistry, and Yu Cong is both very pretty and talented! Happy end of course for the modern fairy tale.
Some music is recycled from the "Hidden Love" drama, such as "Just Want to Secretly Hide You (sung by Zhao Lusi and Silence Wang/Wang Sulong (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqSHszMy-dQ)

The summary seems to have been erased, pending someone adds one?
Here is my suggestion: "Jiang Xianyu (nicknamed "Little Fish"/Xiao Yu) went to find employment as a caretaker to escape from the greedy claws of her family and of her former employer. She went to work, bringing luck and fish to an old couple. They recommended her to replace the skilled old woman who had been in charge of their son's house but had goner on leave for family reasons. CEO Su (called Xiaoyuan by his parents) quickly fell for the beautiful, independent but humble nanny! "

Also titled "Chasing Fish by the Deep" (wondering why MDL ignored this information already requested by someone else).

The show was picked to be honored with an award in 2025, so it's not just a few who liked it, but let's hope more people will enjoy it ! :)

哈哈哈 !!! Thanks for correction. I let the Nasty Internet bug swallow a character, perhaps thinking it was a fun twist to play on me and readers (oops, sorry!!!) while tiredly copy-pasting from my Companion piece, as a "summary and afterthought" of what I had written there, already thinking about another drama I was busy watching! So, now, I'll be quickly going back to edit the longer sentence part in which the dismembered name appeared in the review, inserting the missing character ;D

I do know what 市 shì means... But yes, all readers may not know. [Just nitpicking: a sentence usually has a verb, so 哈岚市 is not a sentence, but just the name Ha lan city, as seen on a sign board in a train station, or a direction shown on other signs.]
Sometimes I fail at being as meticulous as I ought to be. I am mostly "lazy and whimsical", viewing reviews as a chore , and I don't spend too much time on drafting such, besides which I dislike doing the necessary proofreading of those drafts carelessly posted. Sentences may come out weird then, in addition to mistypes marring text: even partly carbon based deep space aliens like me, toying with languages I used for a long while in my various incarnations, may dysfunction in some details, 23333 嘿嘿.... )

I am glad and honored that the longer sometimes rambling Companion piece helped you, for your translating the show into Russian! Do you do that in a team for Viki or another platform?

thank you, catching up ;)

Add this one : Paper Person from A Dream Within A Dream : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km5sQRd6_a8

The movie is not awful; Guan Xiaotong and Xia Yu are really cute, colors are nice, there are lots of fun moments, but the story was flimsy and nonsense, just pastime, despite the interesting idea of portraying a daydreamer, and despite director is a minor celeb from the "5th-6th generation" : Ning Ying, who studied with Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, went to Italy film academy and worked wit Bertolucci on his 1987 The Last Emperor, reaping an award at the time. 6.5/10 from me.
Watched on YouTube where some music, sadly, was cut away for the dance of the stewardesses.

Oh, and you can update the Ballad of the Long Wind song from A Dream Within A Dream with this link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa6ToyXbjsQ from Peachey Blossom's translated MVs.

Thank you Cho Na. So LYN's up to 128 OST songs released now, aside from his other songs and covers... This man never sleeps! He lives for sharing music and acts, I'm diving into A Dream With A Dream that's a sort of anthology of winks to favorite tragic or epic dramas (One and Only, LLTG...) reenacted within the story.
Thanks for keeping track of the songs on our behalf in this list here, and to those who send latest news and lists. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

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The movie is on YouTube but without subtitles : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj8Q174Meto&t=459s&pp=ygUJ5peg56m35Yqo

This is a movie directed by another lady (there were several) in the class of '82, "fifth generation" of Chinese directors, Ning Ying 宁瀛, a classmate of Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.

Just came across the news of the Nashi (Na Er Na Xi) scandal; anyway I had not paid that much attention to her role as Deng Chanyu the female general, in that part of the projected movie series. But it is sad to think that perhaps her behavior (stupidly bragging about having cut corners with the Chinese education system) may affect the movie and its sequels. This is more or less breaking news : we shall see how it evolves in the summer.

Wow, I had not paid much attention to her Deng Chanyu female general character when I watched Creation of The Gods I - she is supposed to be more important in CoTG II. But now, I wonder if I will be able to see the complete series of movies.
Na Er Na Xi is crashing down with a huge scandal apparently, involving cutting corners with the education system and particularly being so stupid she bragged about how she cheated the system! Enough to have a full investigation launched into her background, privileges, and misuse of those. And enough to perhaps be canceled and cause all the projects she had a finger in, to be canceled too!

She isn't even young enough for the matter to be seen as a peccadillo such as borrowing a mom's earrings to flaunt impossibly expensive jewelry to brag about status (that other young actress is still reeling from backlash that dragged her whole family into unfavorable limelight). Whatever talent they have, when such lack of discretion and poise happens, the celebs get awfully burned, get a lot of haters who linger and boycott, gun down everything they touched in China. Sometimes, movies and dramas now have to be reshot or face swapped by AI and anyway, the stain stays, touching not only culprit but whoever was unfortunate enough to work with them.

If there is even a shred of truth, that will mean CoTGII and more dramas and movies will be swiftly made unavailable, and many people will scold her badly, as they already have started to do at promo events... This is worrying, although of course less than the the world miseries out there, from which dramas and movies help lessen the weight on minds.

Let's hope the rumors are over inflated or better, untrue in all allegations, and that she can sue to be vindicated, and save the work of others together with hers.

probably better : https://kisskh.do/Drama/Catman/Episode-1?id=3632&ep=80275&page=0&pageSize=100

Not all old movies are archived there, but some still are... Anyway, can't see them all, can I. Just putting the link here to remind myself it can be watched, after I'm through with the latest drama from SWL. (Ill omen!)

Thanks for the tip. I was wondering about the BGM if any. Will check this out ;)

I had fun watching that one. Discovering Li Zijie and Jade Jia.

Screened at the 16th Chinese movie festival in Paris in June 2025 (with French subtitles).
I totally agree with Penel's assessment below.

A very old classic movie of 1927, silent and in black and white, showing its age at times, watched in movie concert at the 16th Chinese movie festival in Paris in June 2025. One side note : the play this movie is based upon is the "forbidden" love story book that Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu are reading together in A Dream of the Red Chamber in the classic Chinese novel.