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I'm not that far ahead so don't know what happens later, but yes, so far, the family is pretty toxic...

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I will not read your review or anything for now! So far, it's not disappointed. I had this drama on watch the minute I read the synopsis and saw Cheng Lei listed. I'm glad to see it out and enjoying it.

I liked the second arc more but each are so different, which is a good thing because they are of three couples with very different personalities/background at different time points, but they're in a way all on paper, should not be compatible, but somehow they ended up together. That's what I'm taking from it so far.

I'm behind so I will stay away after this to watch it and see. I love how both Jiu Ling & Xi Ning interact. They are both like old fish wives. It's looking like a good ending, hoping...

That's what I heard from someone but later I looked into it more and it seemed that he was chosen to be the lead playing Gong Jun's part, but then the backers of that drama went bust and they put the project on hold for another 6 months. By the time it was put together again, he had already moved on to another project, but ended up taking a smaller role in WOH as it did not clash with his other jobs at the time. Who knows...Either way, the rest is history.

Thanks for a response. I really don't understand what is motivating haters. I really can't see how this drama is really impacting them. Unless I missed something. I know the director is quite known within the idol drama circles, but lead actors here have a good reputation and do not pose threats to anyone. Not if I base the projected release date with other so-called idol dramas that are clearly having their little tussle a few weeks before.

If it is an attack, then it's pretty sad for fandoms. They are making fandoms look very unhealthy. They really need to stop projecting their insecurities on others and causing their artists to look foolish. A bit ironic really.

Mother Chen has me in stitches. I get the feeling she enjoyed playing her role a bit too much. She's the ultimate nightmare mother-in-law.

Oh interesting, I missed that. I must go and watch again. I can't bring myself to re-watch certain parts. It's one of those dramas so hard to re-watch.

By all means, I have not said you can't. We all have differences in opinions.

I did say those were my views. Just as you aired yours 😎.

Interesting comment about evenly match. I most definitely don't choose base on that but I guess we're all different.

In the current crop that fall into attainable but not outwardly classed as beautiful (in my view so don't attack me since you asked for it) would be actresses like Tan Songyun, Sun Qian, Zhuang Da Fei, Zhao Lu Si, Deng EnXi, Esther Yu, Julia Xiang...

Not sure where we are going here. I got it, you did not rate PXR's acting in that drama, and I did.

What do you mean? This drama is clearly just another part of that universe, so how can another actor from Blood of Youth want to be in this drama? Unless I misunderstood your post, are you saying some fandom want one of their actors to play in this drama? Even if that is true, surely they can't rally to get the trailer taken off. Doesn't Youtube check things first before taking off videos?

I don't understand. Are you saying looks needs to be evenly matched? I don't view dramas like that. Personally, I don't regard Liu Xueyi as bad looking at all. In fact, he has had a surge in popularity in recent years and have a line up of dramas coming out. He just doesn't suit playing innocent boyish charm as in Unshakable Faith.

PXR is a classic beauty. She is in an unfortunate situation of being so outwardly beautiful, in the current style of mainstream dramas, they find it hard to place someone like her. She almost belongs to a decade earlier. Today's market tends to favour more girl-next-door or ex girl band members with an already fanbase. Fans want slightly attainable figures and being more relatable. Basically, fandoms buy outside personalities more than the drama performance.

I hope so too. She's still so young with plenty of opportunities to grow and expand her range. I feel she should hone her natural aura of being a bit klutzy, idealistic and innocent. The youthful innocence transcends well in historic or fantasy dramas. If they push too hard on the angry or overly evil angle, I think it doesn't work right now.

She has such an angelic face. The only grey character style is how Guo Jing Ming styled her as cool, calm and still in 'A Journey to you'. Playing cutesy or being sulky/spoilt also doesn't suit her calm and soothing face. These are my views of course...

She was in Unshakable Faith. I unfortunately dropped that, but not because of her but the drama's main ML was so unconvincing in his role. It put me off. But PXR was bossing it in that role. I immediately thought, this actress would make a great police detective like Detective L. In fact, I thought of her playing Bai Yu's character, she would be totally convincing.

I heard from someone, he was the person that was supposed to play Gong Jun's role originally. He apparently turned it down because he saw the long lines and chickened out. I wonder if anyone has heard about this.

I think she is better playing submissive, quiet even dainty vulnerable roles. Her being dominant is not in her range at the moment. Her voice is light and fluffy and she doesn't have that commanding strong voice or demeanor yet.

She did not stand out in Parallel world. Admit she was sharing it with very strong characters, but she just faded and was quite forgettable. She also had a similar situation in Romance in the Alley where she had a bit more lines, but even there, she only needed to play a meek and seemingly scheming person but she did not convey that in a convincing way.

Love in the Clouds will hopefully show whether she has range. Her visuals with lead actor is good, they match each other well. Which is why so many eyes will be on the drama. If directors don't pay attention, they may expose her to crying badly like seen in her first lead role. She doesn't seem to cry convincingly.

Her stand out role is playing a stunted and nervous character in Blossom in Adversity. That's because that is her comfort type of role which is weak, nervous, and speaking very little. a bit like her break out role with A Journey to you. Doors have opened for her, and I hope she picks her roles carefully for now as I don't think she's a natural yet.

Yes, I agree on that. It does seem like they have sort of left that on viewers to work out. I hope she remained very close with her sister-in-law. I felt she had a tremendous role of dealing with the loss of her brother and also wanting her sister-in-law to live a happy life after that.

OK, yes I thought the same. Maybe they didn't want to expand on his life as there had been many like him that did get away with their jobsworth attitude that may even contribute to some people's demise/deaths in the past.

I guess it's quite easy to make his character more comical and short-sighted and then try to paint over people like that in the past as harmless when in actual fact, some of these groups made other people's lives unbearable at the time. Maybe that may be the reason to not dwell on too much with his life after that.

Yes, it's all a bit confusing. It's like some scenes had been cut or over-edited. A bit weird that scene when Yun Qing turned up at his place. I took that as ending their relationship and he had been forced to be off work. But surely we should at least know what happened to both of them, even if they split.

Then it just jumps to 40 years later. That's a massive gap. The change was so sudden it felt like a completely different drama.

Unless I missed something. What happened with Yang Xue An & Yun Qing. I hope they expand on them. The third arc just slipped in abruptly.