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I am totally with you on How Dare you? I don't know why but it is funny yet it is not thrilling isn't it? The best of GTG was Yinrui paired with Wan Peng, what a CP. they stole the show in every scene they appeared. I hope they cast them together in the future. YiRan look gorgeous in his ancient costume but he did not have much chance to display his acting skills. I have watched various series of ZLH and I liked them so no more but I am looking forward to two future series Overdo with ChuRan, I saw some clips from the recording and the roles suit them so well. In The still of Road to Glory he looks spellbinding too, but let's see how good it is.

It is their personal choice. An actor in china that has not breakthrough in the early 20s, (meaning is not hiring regularly even as support actor) t is believed won't be offered lead roles. I took this info from a Chinese article.

Deng Kai is a super actor. Hopefully he will be offered better scripts after this. Somebody commented that he was great in the Wanted Detective with the ML of The Double. I tried to watch The Maid but it is the typical short stories. I hate so much the roles of women's there: temptress and victims.

I agree that historical k dramas sacrifice "pretty" to a good portrayal.

TXW new Life begins is my favourite from her. Generation to generation I watched but I wouldn't recommend it. Blossom is great. The best thing with ZLH the role suit him, his CP was beautiful but maybe the storyline is not exciting enough for some people. I am going to check the rest. I am watching How are you? It is good.

As CP? I support that! It would be such cute and hilarious couple! Apart from that I would like to see him in lead roles or second lead on his own. TXW is already a leading actress, she will keep growing.

This has been a rumour for quite a few months. So far the only real evidence happened here in POJ with one of the actors that his face was altered by AI but there is not statement saying it was because he is in a BL. I know those who were hirable are still working in mainstream series. I can say their names. We have to remember some of these actors accepted a BL because they didn't break in the industry.

Looks is up to the director. ZLH look spellbinding here but it was up to the production team and all the filters in post production! Other directors are more realistic e.g the last film of Xiao Zhan about the Japanese invasion during the war they roughed him up to fit the role. The worrying is limiting creative spaces won't enhance the storylines but restrict them even more. In China they are masters of dramas. The proof is when they took the BL genre abroad to avoid censorship they created really good productions.

I'm glad you like the series too! I wrote her role.maybe I have another typo? Do you like any other ZLH series?

It does suffer a slump for sure and it was hard going from ep 30 but this is how it goes with Chinese dramas. So for me was within what I was expecting. still a great series overall. What is true is that the new fans of ZLH and TXW are really irritating and bring here all the drama of social media. Every series of ZLH the critics are the same: too handsome not good actor. He does take it in the chin every time too. I follow the leads career from their first series. In this series they have great roles but TXW is the best comedian and her role in New Life begins was hilarious. So I actually do prefer that role for her.

Exactly like that.

Most people here think is very good and worthy of your time. It is multi-layer and multi-character so probably some parts would appeal more than others.

She will be fine, for the rest very soon.

Thank you for mentioning Meet Yourself, Li Xian is such a great actor, one of my favourite. I need to check that one for sure. Have you watched any of the high rate one in Douban that you can recommend? I am such admirer of Chinese series.

This for me was the worst part 😂I was very glad she is portraying a general and a big hero, I just did not like how they filmed the scenes.

I liked it. 😊I like to watch him in all his series, there is something very soft about him that it is relaxing to watch. I am looking forward to the next one.

In Douban vote Chinese audiences and they have a different taste that international audience. For instance Born to be Alive is 8.5 but here it only reached 7.5. Swords into Plowshares is more coincidental, almost same rating here 8.2 in Douban 8.5, but in all honesty, they both sound boring as it comes.

Some people in this forum thought that when she fought with the big guy was really cartoonist. I agree for me it does not look good, so over the top, almost like a live manga.

How many of these dramas have you watched?

Haters saying that there was not chemistry with Esther Yu. For me was adequate to their roles. The 2CP was made of Cheng Lei and Lu Yu Xiao at that time they were not top leads yet but got really interesting roles, such strong performances. No even one kiss they gave to each other but the longing between them was piercing, so they became the most liked CP. The series was great for lifting the profile of young actors like Tian Jia Rui. There were also problems problems with those that read the original novel and thought it deviated too much from the written storyline.