Noelle

I'm starting to hate what I see on Autumn Ballad's forum. Qiao Xin did a phenomenal job compare to what Zhao Liying did in Minglan, but I wouldn't comment on Minglan's forum and say Qiaoxin is way better.

Some of the recent comments was like this,

"I tried my best to like FL, but nah, I really can't...maybe if she was portrayed by a different actress, I would like her more...I guess this is purely personal, I don't really like the actress...the voice, the acting..."

Is she freagen serious? She said no hate, but rated Minglan 10.0 when Zhao Liying stuttered so much in there, and she said she has problems with Qiao Xin's speech, Hm? Shrug! Then she goes to her Minglan's forum and posted this there,

"I came back here because I miss Ming Lan so badly!
Recently watched a drama with a strong FL, but it totally failed my expectation...I guess, nothing can bet Story of Ming Lan!"

I also noticed AvenueX complained about Qiao Xin's speech, so I went back to see her Minglan reviews, and Fug! She didn't mention any shigs about Zhao Liying random pauses in all her speeches. SHM!
She always make trivial things sound like they're the biggest mistakes ever made.

However when it comes to her fave, she lets her off the hook over very significant shortcomings.

She knows that most C-netz actually have issues with ZLY's unprofessionalism. In the industry for super long, but never want to work on her speech and even forget her scripts. She's only dependent on other stars being nice and helping her out by praising her, but she doesn't do the same back for them.
OFC AvenueX wouldn't share these with intl fans, but she backs up her opinion about Qiao Xin's poor speech by saying C-netz agreed with her it's really bad. AvenueX is a lot more amazing and smarter than ZLY IMO.
To be a successful actress, make sure your fans are better at acting than you because they are the ones that will sail the ship for you.

Unfavored daughter and evil step mother is a recurring theme in every period drama.
I find Ju Jingyi always playing that type of theme but everything she's in are so repetitive and poorly received, so I never see any comparisons with ZLY.
Usually, only if something is receiving too much positive attention, usually with bigger budget, such as The Sword and Brocade, then ZLY fans will always come to do their jobs and destroy other people hard work.

Agree! Hate to see these type of competition internationally.

When you make too many lies you can't remember and track what you said.

Aw! Thanks, I usually like to rate once the show finishes. Yes I agree about the antis, it is very unfair. So Imma just vote now and stand by my 10/10. This is very unfair. This show has no eng sub on YT or anywhere now right? There's already 77 Chinese speakers voting this so low.

WHAT A LOW RATING!

I was never amazed by Dilreba ever before, not even in The Long Ballad.
This is the first show that clicks and I'm finally a fan. I like this pacing very much, I can't stand slow place because that's just pure laziness. I'm so glad to see something finally moving at an appropriate speed like this, only 8 episodes but they made great progress.

Other than Dilireba's character, I love the other ladies characters very much too. Qing Shu is more than just that side character to load time. She is very charismatic in her own way. I didn't know the bird woman is actually the great singer Sa Ding Ding! I love love how she dances and drinks. They have really great casts here.

Qing Shu's romance didn't require that much explanation but I'm sold on her romance, however I felt forced when it comes to Dilireba and Allen's romance. I wouldn't even mind if they don't film those romance scenes, instead they could've focus more on the action parts. It feels like the main villains are kindof doing nothing, I'm not interested in them taking over screentime but it's just that I don't really feel their intensiveness or power, while the subordinates are more intense the way they keep fighting against each other. Still, I don't really care about those flaws. This is pretty good so far, I will still give this 10/10 for the first 8 episodes. It's rare to get something with this type of pacing, and the story is interesting, great acting, great camera angles too. If I can see the hard work and effort, it deserves all the points. The only things I will not tolerate are lazy things. All the actors here have great talents, I'm glad the director here is not wasting their time and talent.

I think lots of the articles ZLY's PR team are writing about many other actresses are too inconsiderate and unexcusable. I hope ZLY will discontinue that type of PR. It does not do her any good but harm. I honestly think C-dramas lack good writing and hardwork since 2010. ZLY unfortunately becomes famous around that time, I commend her for her beauty but I am yet to be amazed by any of the dramas she's in. They are just not comparable with the older stuff I find very professional. There is a very huge overmarketing for The Story of Minglan that I still find incomparible to anything random from 2008 and below. I hope her PR team will not act aggressive and oppressive anymore when they make comparisons of The Story of Minglan with other productions. As a long time drama watcher, The Story of Minglan's extra slow pacing is quite an insult to what a true slice of life should be like. True, slice of life can seem slow, but honestly they are progressing every minute, nothing wasted away. The Story of Minglan is too intentionally slow and there are too many flaws. Such as the moment she grows up into a lady, she reveals her other personality (the bright side) to way too many people around her and that's when the 2nd male lead also found out from the start, but she isn't afraid how he knows her deepest secret, she just take him as a fool. Then it also turns out the ladies she reveals her intelligence to are not even that close to her for her to show them her secret, no one can be that stupid to not notice such a huge change of personality many times. I respect fans opinion, but please don't act oppressive anymore, by all means it is no master piece, just any regular idol drama people like because their idol is in it. There isn't a need to ridicule another drama to make this one sound better. I'm also glad she was chosen to get casted in a Daylight Production. I hope her projects will continue to be better and rely less on marketing.

Other than Palace, Huang Tai Zi Mi Shi made in 2004 was another drama set during Kangxi's ruling. It's also loosely based on the princes fight for the throne. The leads were so boring that only the 4th prince's romance with Zi Ying got subbed, also my favorite couple in the show. Love how fiesty Zi Ying is, the actress is a colleague of Zhang Ziyi and both are great dancers. She did her fighting scenes so graceful. I hope Liu Shi Shi will play a similar role like this in the future, her background and talent is also very similar to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2AC7SnUFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZSIbjtJWFo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSlnNtT-jpA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVJ9TRVv0yo

I was just thinking Zhao Lusi, Esther Yu, and Zhao Zhaoyi need to work together as the fluffy sisters. They are the only actresses from the newer generation that can act fluffy without being annoying. What they have in common is, they are very fluffy in real life, no wonder why they come off so natural. That's alot of big casts together, I wonder if it will be a dream comes true. It's really sad how artists with the same amount of popularity today can no longer work together like the past.

I'm glad to see Xu Jiao again.
If anyone remembers Stephen Chow's CJ7, the little boy in there was actually a girl. That was Xu Jiao. Stephen Chow was one of the harshest directors ever.
She was also in Wudang 2012 with Vincent Zhao, Yang Mi, and Louis Fan.

Actors like Zhang Ruoyun and Allen Ren look awfully young despite their ages. I notice so much complaints about casting Li Gengxi but I am glad they picked her. Zhang Ruoyun is a smaller size man and his face is so tiny. Li Gengxi looks like a perfect match when they stand together. Her role also requires lots of youthful vigar so she is the perfect candidate. I like Zhang Tianai and her role, trust me you don't want to ship her with anyone or else it will turn Mary Su quickly, she will always faint and he needs to save her. The roles like Nangong pushe are those kind you like them because of a respect, not because of wanting to fondle or see them get fondled.

Finally there is something that seems interesting visually. I want them to keep the same video quality from what they been posting but already know that's very low chance.
On the story, it looks like she's picking the suitor with highest rank. 😂 Good choice, I will hope all his other qualities will be the best from the others. He looks awfully young!

OMG SO SAD! It sucks they took the eng sub out of YT. CCTV channel uploaded it but they don't even have eng sub.
I will only recommend this 1994 version!

Bai Fei Fei died but on the tombstone, it wrote "Beloved wife of Shen Lang, Bai Fei Fei" so he gave her a title. He ends up with Zhu Qi Qi at the end, they stroll on a walk together.

Sorry for the late reply, my inbox is really full from the other threads.
There are some clips that got eng sub here, the playlist had some other dramas in it as well. The WLWS clips starts on #16.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uvuYR0eWRQ&list=PLxDr2CsAzHSn4M_sbmsiHQVk8ZHFD_QRg&index=17&ab_channel=HuangHaiBingFan

You can watch it raw by searching for 武林外史

Thank you for this article. Please RIP Uncle Tat and condelescent to his family. Although I only see him on screen, it always felt like he is a real uncle because of how personable he is. He will be greatly missed by all.

Fei Fei dies in his arms, he gives her a tombstone saying "wife of Shen Lang." He ends up with the annoying girl though, not a faithful guy :( Still love him cause he's too hot though I know it's the lamest excuse ever. Even though she is annoying she is supposingly the girl with a heart of gold. But I'm very glad to see Shen Lang and Qi Qi reunites as a couple in Moon Brightens for You though, it is very sweet.

I watched it raw, I think it was on youtube last time but since it's singaporean production they have super strict copyrights I bet it's gone. Try your luck on youku, bilibi, iqiyi.

This move is both a mixture of Aladdin with Alibaba and the 40 Thieves. But out of all the Aladdin related things out there this old movie is still the unbeatable to me. It's rare to see actor Chyi Qin. He's such a great singer.

Sharing some memories, this is the 2 guys people shipped so hard in 94.

Not a BL story, but the guys were so good together they got shipped together.
One guy in red and one in white, some of you can guess it, it's Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGjDlw0yUQ

Cheers! ^_^

OMG What a great reunion!
Huang Haibing as Sect Leader Tang & Zhang Yan Yan as Madame Tang
This is Shen Lang, Zhu Qi Qi together!

Going to watch this for sure.