ShortCircuit

The magistrate should meet a untimely and undignified death soonest. He's scum.

Also WOW Lil'Bro, he goes from "let's pretend we're a lecher" right to "wow, claiming her for myself!!" to "halp lemme go I'll be a good kitten - haha- PSYCH!!! NOT!!!" to "Bye~ my love, we'll meet again". Why so serious, lil'kitten? :D She should give him some sweets and find him the right way of life. With head hits hahaha~.

So now the (real) cat's out of the bag. Going from the preview pics, she won't take it nicely. I almost don't want to go watch that ep.

And HEY!!!! NEW BATTLE MUSIC!!! Good!!! It sounded like The Hu and it can't be The Hu, right? 'cause no Mongols in the story so far. If ever.

PS Newest spicy kitten isn't dead, obviously. Even if physics doesn't work for him, he's falling and the arrow is chasing, even if it hits it'll just give him a bit more of a momentum and not penetrate too much. And Yan Zheng fell from a similar height and didn't die either. In dramaland this means he survived. Let's see if reality works for him as in time to heal or not.

After 16th, listen up drama, new rule: if extremely handsome, cannot be villain.

Because dayum. I thought they got Dylan Wang for the role LOL. Who's the actor? I can't find Sui the younger in the cast.

Also LOL he's the only one so far that eludes physics - gravitynotfound.exe is in play. It turned right back for Yan Zheng though. I guess he's a more down-to-earth character LOL (yeah I'm the heart of every party hahaha~)

They released it?? Dammit, it's 3AM here, I have to get up at 7 LOL. Tomorrow evening then :D

So, after 32nd... she DID promise him right? Haven't watched any trailers for the next eps, I hope she doesn't do a 180. Go get her! :D

They do the express tomorrow right?

Nirvana in Fire and The Untamed used to sit at 9.4 or thereabouts. About three years back people started fiddling with the rating system so that no other Chinese drama ever got over 9 (not commenting on biases, I don't care, I like what I like and TBH ratings don't hamper me except when it's something terribly obvious...). We'll have to wait and see how Zhu Yu does in the long term.

My only peeve with this bit of news is - how do you get to say "upcoming blockbuster" so easily?! I mean, let's hope it does well and becomes a blockbuster BUT when did the meaning of the word shift from "record audiences, phenomenal box office" to "big budget, very hyped"?! It's like freaking putting a curse on it.

Get a life, darling.

She's the best wingwoman :D I knew she'd read the novel and was delighted to get to play YanLi, and she did it perfectly.

As for XZ... hahaha, he's too cute and easily flustered :D There are some cast interviews I can't dig up right now, where they were teasing each other and WYB was his impish self, LOL, XZ was also giving it right back for once and it was FIRE! I wish I had thought to save them all at the time :D

If they could have left all the danmei parts in the drama, that would have brought upon the apocalypse by drama-binging LOL

Every domestic scene is in earthly tones, every battle scene is in gray-light blue-black and white.

Yeah it's obviously a well considered choice and it works wonders.

Just look at the girls, they're so gleeful, and none of the boys know what's it truly about LOL (the TL is a bit wonky) ETA I just realised there's a man's voice joining in the giggles LOL, they had a fudanshi there too heheh

https://youtu.be/ozecnMrUlT4?t=361

And in the same video, before that, XZ as WWX is asking for WYB as LWJ to take off his pants LOL

https://youtu.be/ozecnMrUlT4?t=133

The girl-talk between the two of the girls was sooooo cute. And then ChangYu selling him for 30 taels. And him going so mad over the price.

...Only for later him making his hand sore just so she earns some goodwill from the neighbours with the spring couplets... Ha, they're so cute together :D

Soooo. Our mystery madman is some forgotten prince of some burnt-down palace who tried to drive a wedge between uncle and nephew (and very probably managed it). I love-love-loved the way the adjutant or whatever he is was trying to weasel himself into Yan Zheng's grace while YZ was putting everything in order in his mind, while at the same time slowly oh so slowly he was putting those nail files in that workbag, emanating such an overbearing aura. Such a nice scene.

But the girls!!!! The girls in ep12 still have me in stitches - Yan Zheng has groupies and they include men :D Somebody was drinking vinegar by the bottle in those scenes hahaha~

According to drama rules, now the little Bao'er and little ChangNing are bound to grow up to have a fated love story. Hey, I don't make the rules.

And oh!! Princess Royal was Xie Zheng's intended?! OOOOOH snap. Anyway, Gongsun, work your magic and marry her before Xie Zheng has to return, there's a good boy.

PS I just CAN'T wait to see the moment each and every person who hasn't recognised Xie Zheng but has interracted with him in any manner comes to find out who he is LOL. PARTICULARLY ChangYu for making him worship at his own altar for the dead hahaha~

So did you guys realise it went EXACTLY the way Gongsun Yin imagined it would go with them?! Like, he's racking in the silver next to her in doing business. GSY only missed how the little wife would look like, the rest is spot on, LOL.

I couldn't imagine I'd love the giggly and then romantic eps more than the amazing snow fight scenes but here I am. Each and every episode somehow manages to surpass the previous one. LOVING IT.

DON'T TELL ME SHE WANTS TO BORROW YAN ZHENG

hahaha that's so crazy it might just work LOL

This must be the FUNNIEST ep in the drama yet :D

After 12th cause I'm bursting with it OMG LOL

OMG I CANNOT

I'm in the middle of 12th, and all the girls have discovered Yan Zheng and then the men discovered YanZheng's calligraphy. HER FACE WHEN SHE REALISED WHY, I'm howling in this room by myself LOL OMG that was BRILLIANT

back to it hahaha~

There's this BTS of the script-reading that they do on all dramas for promo (and exercise) and LOL they brought about the drinking scenes.

ALL THE FEMALES in the team - there were only the male actors IIRC - were giggling like crazy because the guys hadn't read the novel (or didn't seem to have read it) and there was a scene (that got cut :((((() of the drunk bath LWJ. You KNOW which one *wink* And XZ was reading the part with "don't bite on my fingers, be a good boy" while I too was going ballistic LOL, all the girls were on fire and the guys were SO confused about what the fuss was about hahaha~

But the director said immediately that they'd cut that scene - I don't know if they ended up filming it anyway, I kind of doubt it - but imagine IF!! What if they did film all the actual danmei parts and saved them and sometime in the future someone dares re-release the unedited TU! :D

LOL, you made me remember the BTS of them comparing their speaking parts - XZ had this long-ass whole highlighted script (all the pages were highlighted with his part) and WYB was smirking there he got off easy (all he had to say was "hmm" or not even that.) That was one of the best BTS LOL. Their real personalities were exactly the opposite to their characters - XZ the quiet and serious one and WYB being an imp at all times hahaha~

You should see ME trying to get out of that loop. Yeah, we're going on a gazillion rounds LOL

...But the power of Chinese novel adaptations to drama could not be undone... LOL