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Sighh I just hope that the peace can be protected here. On Weibo's side, I know it's gonna be crazy. Hopefully over here, people are more respectful 🥺

So happy! 😍🥳

Yayyy ><

Is 25th really confirmed? I don't dare to go weibo because of the crazy 营销号 accounts. I'm so happyyy :> but also worried. I just wanna watch this drama happily in peace 🥺 Just nice it's on the weekends 🥳

Cheng Yi fans are eating so well this year! (Not related to this drama but Vendetta of An is rumoured to come out end of year too omg!!)

I have not watched all of the donghua but my understanding is that all of the endings are gonna be sad. Because the donghua has a modern era element, like the characters die in the past (historical setting) and they reincarnate in modern world. Clearly the drama doesn't have a modern era element...

I could be wrong tho!

Err others have said that all three Foxspirit Matchmaker series are standalones, but personally, I would say watch Love in Pavilion before Sword and Beloved! You'll know more of the world building and stuff if you watch Love in Pavilion first. I'm not sure how reliable the drama is when it comes to explaining stuff since it's an adaptation, so better to watch Love in Pavilion at least?

Love in Pavilion takes place 1 generation before Red Moon Pact and Sword and Beloved.

Wangquan Fugui (Sword and Beloved) is the son of the ML and FL from Love in Pavilion. The ML from Red Moon Pact is Fugui's cousin.

Errr I'm not sure about Quan Wu Mu being his cousin in the drama, but in the donghua, Wangquan Wumu (the character that Quan Wumu is probably based off) is Wangquan Fugui's ancestor from decades ago. This character is extremely popular in the donghua and should not appear in Wangquan Fugui's timeline. If Wumu appears in the same generation as Fugui, a lot of things are going to be different...But so far Love in Pavilion's adaptation was pretty good imo, hopefully Sword and Beloved can be even better!

All I know about this drama was that it's a revenge driven one. But now after reading the synopsis, it sounds so interesting!! So many veteran actors and the trailer looks so good too. Am actually quite excited for this one. Chinese fans say that we might be getting this on new years, not sure how true is that hmmm

I have rewatched this drama like literally 7-8 times? I actually first watched it during one of my lowest times, struggling with mental health problems. This drama is so meaningful and actually taught me so muchhh about life and letting go. It's not your typical Wuxia drama, would 100000% recommend it to anyone who haven't watch it yet! Li Lianhua and Fang Duobing are my comfort characters <3

Yes, he is! There's no official announcement by CY or the drama's production team yet, so maybe that's why it's not listed on MDL.

Thank you! Sometimes, I really do feel alone too when I feel see all those hate for CY, but thanks to everybody else who supports CY over here, I feel a little better🥺. Yes, I saw some posts on Weibo discussing about Huanrui deleting posts and dissolving CY's fan groups (?). This does seem to indicate that CY is leaving the company, but I also heard some rumours that he may be joining a company that is related to Huanrui (I hope not!!!). I feel like because CY is literally their only "cash cow" left, they'll make it very very hard for him to successfully leave in one piece, so I'm kind of scared. I really hope he can establish his own studio/company just like Yang Zi (another artist that left Huanrui). Right now, I just pray that he can be happy and healthy filming his new drama and that he'll be able to leave that company and have the freedom to choose more good scripts! Let's all support CY together ❤️❤️

Ahh I see, good to know! I think he is a promising actor.

Why isn't Han Weiping, the secretary (?) of the ML not listed in the cast? Or did I miss it? I thought he was familiar looking, I think he is Hei Ze but I'm not sure...

Omg I loveeee Xu Yan, she may be poor but she's not to be messed with or controlled by your dumb ass Hao Ming. You can only "control" her because she genuinely loves you. Now that Xu Yan knows the truth, bye byeeee.

15 Days is not a HR production, it's iQiyi's and some other investors, so HR has no rights to decide stuff for that drama.

One of my most favourite court/legal dramas! I've watched it a total of three times, and one of those times, I even watched it with my parents. This drama is not focused on Criminal Law, but more of Civil Law (?) so it's quite unique from other legal dramas that I've watched. Some of the cases are based on actual real-life cases in China, really interesting to watch!

I really wish the best for Cheng Yi. I hope that he won't renew his contract with Huanrui and that he can establish his own company/studio. I hope he can have a legal team to sue all those crazy, malicious haters. I'm actually genuinely afraid for him. I've been on Weibo almost everyday ever since FSH aired and the stuff I see that makes me wonder how can people do something so malicious to a person that they have never met before? There's a very very large group of haters who are actively trying to sabotage him and defame him. They even want to ruin all of his upcoming dramas and make him leave the industry. It is so insane. I'm hoping so hard that they'll just let CY off but I highly doubt so 🥹. I'm so afraid that I kind of not want Sword and Beloved to air so soon even though I've been waiting for it for so long.

CY is filming 两京十五日 now, but there has been no official announcement yet. There probably is nothing wrong, but I feel so anxious. These days, ever since CY has started fliming that drama, there has been more and more hate rumours about this drama, trying to create fights between CY's fans and the other male lead's fans. I really love the other male lead too, but I'm not gonna mention his name because there is no confirmation yet. I really want them to work together, but no official announcement yet is making me anxious.

I know it's dumb to feel anxious over this, but after digging up so much stuff about CY (after becoming his fan), I've found out that he's such an honest, down-to-earth, genuine, and veryyyy kind person. I just want him to be able to act the dramas that he wants to act, to be able to have his dramas watched by actual audiences (and not malicious haters), to be able to basically do what he loves and wants to do.

I'm writing this to sort of let out my feelings after reading some negative stuff on Weibo 🥺. How can people's hearts be so evil? Those people will definitely have their retributions one day. Praying that CY can safely and smoothly finish filming his latest drama and that he'll be surrounded with people who care for and support him ❤️🥺.

This is crazy. Cheng Yi's current company, Huanrui (欢瑞) is not doing well in terms of retaining artists. This company can be considered a big company with stars like Yang Zi, Zhang Yuxi, Ren Jialun, Liu Xueyi, and Cheng Yi. But I just recently found out that besides Cheng Yi, all the other actors/actresses have not renewed their contracts and left Huanrui. This company is so shitty. They have been known for treating their artists, especially Cheng Yi terribly.

Back then in 2021/2022, Cheng Yi was approached by a director to act in Draw the Line, a legal drama. Huanrui did NOT want that. They wanted Cheng Yi to act more "idol romance" drama after the success of Love and Redemption. Cheng Yi insisted on taking up Draw the Line, and as a result, Huanrui stopped giving promotions to Cheng Yi and totally did not promote Draw the Line at all.

Now that Cheng Yi is their only cash cow left and he too, wants to leave the company, Huanrui is not happy. Cheng Yi's contract with Huanrui is ending early next year. Huanrui wants to screw him over since he is leaving the company. One of Journey of Legend's (Fu Shan Hai) main investors is Huanrui. Huanrui have the authority to control what happens to the drama (add scenes for certain charas, remove scenes etc.). Isn't it weird that Fu Shan Hai received a crazy amount of hate without anybody from CY's company or the drama's production team standing up for him or sueing those people causing defamation to CY? Isn't it weird that a number of important scenes of CY's characters, Li Chenzhou and Xiao Qiushui got removed, affecting the plot and causing confusion to the audience? Also if you realised, Fu Shan Hai is full of rookie actors and actresses that are from Huanrui or their subcompanies. The actress playing Tang Qing is their most recent artist. Fu Shan Hai is her FIRST role, and yet, she is on Hello Saturday promoting the show alongside with Cheng Yi and Julian Cheung. Liu Mengrui, the actress playing Song Mingzhu, is also part of Huanrui. She has acted a total of five dramas, with three of them being Cheng Yi's dramas. She also attend Hello Saturday alongside Cheng Yi, when promoting Mysterious Lotus Casebook. There are apparently other actors/actresses from Huanrui and their subsidiaries in Fu Shan Hai and other Cheng Yi dramas according to Cnetz. However, I'm not going to say who because I have not confirmed those. NOTHING against those actors/actresses, I personally think Liu Mengrui can act decently. However, Huanrui has a history of promoting their newbies by using Cheng Yi. That is fine, but the problem is, Huanrui is doing that WHILE trying to ruin Cheng Yi. They are using him to promote rookies, removing his scenes (in FSH) just to add additional scenes for certain actor/actress, and purposely generating negative trending topics (the script incident, there's like 3 times too many for it to be a genuine mistake/coincidence). From Cnetz, I also heard that the Vendetta of An also included some of those actors/actresses, but CY refused. Vendetta of An actually announced CY long before CY himself agreed to it. I remember the platforms OFFICIALLY announced CY as the main lead while he was still filming FSH. Isn't that pressurising CY to accept the drama by announcing him when he hasn't even agreed to it? I remember it took months after that announcement that CY himself announced it.

It's NOT the first time a popular actor/actress got sabotaged by their own company. Zhao Lusi is one of them. Song Zu Er is another, she was accused of tax evasion, a very serious crime in China, just because she ended her contract with her company. It took 2 years of investigations when she was finally proven innocent. Just because an actor or actress is more popular with notable works doesn't mean that they are protected from mistreatment in the entertainment industry. I feel so bad for these celebrities.

Cheng Yi is honestly so strong for constantly going against Huanrui. No wonder his dramas mostly don't get promotions. Mysterious Lotus Casebook also suddenly broadcasted with little to no promotions and during its broadcasting period, there were hardly any promotions. It's through word of mouth that the drama became popular months to a year later. No wonder Huanrui did not ever defend him from haters, they want to control him. No wonder when he gets injured while filming dramas, he doesn't even get to take leave.

Right now, I just hope that more international fans can know about the circumstances of Cheng Yi and support him. The mistreatment is too much. I really hope that Cheng Yi can leave that shitty company and not be forced to stay there (because he literally is the only popular artist left there).

My spoiler comment is for fans of Cheng Yi who want to understand what is up with Fu Shan Hai. Why are there so many problems with FSH (important scenes deletion, company not defending CY etc.). All these information is what I've got from discussions on Weibo. These are NOT official sources so you can choose to not believe them fully, but I just want to let genuine fans of CY know.

I would say continue to watch it for yourself, and drop it when you really start not liking/enjoying it anymore! Because personally for me, I loved the drama up till ep 36-38. There are many frustrating scenes but they are also many good scenes that I will rewatch. Qiushui's character was not butchered though, his cries have reasons for that if you put yourself in his shoes and empathise with him, especially in the situation that he's in. But I do understand that some people may find crying and being emotional = being weak and pathetic, though, personally, I do understand his character and don't find him weak at all. You can judge it for yourself to see what you personally feel about it!

For the last two episodes, quite a number of important scenes were removed, which confused the audiences regarding the plot. Chinese fans of this drama are currently demanding for an explanation from the platforms.

This drama is definitely not perfect or could be considered a masterpiece, but it's still really interesting. It's not like every aspect of this drama is bad. The fighting scenes and the characters and the acting are all pretty good!