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Happy birthday to our dear Reba! 🎂 🎉 🥳 May this year bring you good health, abundant happiness and acclaimed drama success! Keep on striving and thriving! 😀✌️

This was a subdued look on her. She looked very pretty but a bit too librarianish for me. I prefer her first look but with that face and figure, she can make anything look good. 😊

Gorgeous! This look is so hard to pull off but Reba did it so effortlessly. I especially love the crystals on her head and the makeup was perfecto!

A good start! I hope the drama can keep this momentum throughout its airing schedule! Go Prosecution Elite team! 😊

From reading all these comments, I have a hard time understanding this constant debate about CCP propaganda and why the drama should be viewed negatively because of it. So what if this drama paints a favorable light to Chinese government? Many countries, including my own, produce propaganda dramas/movies! Would international fans here change their views and opinions of China and its policies after watching this production? I know I won’t! I watch Chinese dramas for the entertainment value they provide and nothing more. I do not care if this drama is CCP propaganda because I, and I’m sure many here, can separate that political aspect of it and just enjoy a drama for what it is, for its plot and acting performances.

Those who are offended this CCP propaganda drama can simply not watch. The premise of Prosecution Elite is very clear cut and even before watching, the viewer should not be surprised by its content (pro-CCP). Viewers should try to judge the drama for the plot execution, script, direction and acting and not let their own bias against CCP downgrade the quality of this drama. I don’t think it’s fair to the Prosecution Elite team and those who put so much effort into it.

Thanks! I was wondering where I can catch this drama!😁

I’m not familiar with any of the Chinese dramas you listed – shows you how out of the loop I am with C-dramas. I am currently watching an old American drama, “The Wire”. It’s fascinating, so gritty and all the characters are interesting and memorable. It just goes to show that a good drama does not necessary need romance as long as the plot and characters are well developed. I have the same hope for both (including the rumored one) Reba upcoming dramas. I agree with you in that Reba’s earlier works were riddled with poor plot and could have been so much more dynamic. Prior to TLB, other than a couple of dramas, I feel most of her dramas were forgettable. Now, I am glad she is looking out for herself and choosing projects that interest her. It’s very exciting for me to follow her acting career and like you, I hope she releases more projects (this Reba drought is pretty rough) but at the same time, I believe she has put in the hard work and can be afford to be choosy on what her next drama will be.

Dong Hua syndrome! LOL, that is the first I’ve heard it phrased that way! Believe me, I know that feeling. I love their collaboration in Eternal Love and it took me a very long time to move on from this celestial pairing. Then TLB came along; not long after YAMG aired, then followed by The Blue Whisper. Soon (hopefully) we get another visually amazing pair in Reba and Gong Jung. It seems like Reba is fortunate to cast opposite of good (and good-looking) actors.
I have not been fortunate to watch her earliest dramas. I’m dying to watch “Diamond Lover” (just for Reba because I heard the rest of the plot stinks) because I love Reba’s exaggerated (yet cute) behavior as the second female lead based on the clips I’ve seen. Too bad, this drama is not subtitled. ☹️

I enjoyed reading your comments, thank you for sharing! No doubt, this drama was filled with angst and the tragic fates of the main couple would make it a memorable one for fans of the drama. I love reading your perspective and had to laugh at your comment! Reba fans are blessed that she paired up with many wonderful and handsome costars that we can’t help but root for these actors too. She is a chemistry magnet in that she is rumored with almost all the male leads in her dramas but Reba handles her personal (love) life with tact and is pretty much scandal-free. I love that she doesn’t need to pimp her pairing for her drama to be successful! Such queen behavior!

I wish this video has subtitles so I can understand! Is it an interview of Reba’s first drama (there were clips of her in “Anarhan”)? There were some powerful scenes from the drama and she looked so sweet and comfortable fielding questions in the interview. I couldn’t believe she was only 18 at the time! Love seeing younger images of her (with her cute baby fat and all).

It seems like this repeated melon will manifest. Let’s pray Reba will join the production team sooner rather than later!

Yeah, it’s too depressing to think there will be no Reba dramas in 2024! 😭 Let’s hope she joins a production team soon so that we might be able to see one drama of hers the latter part of next year! 🤞

Our girl has been on fire with magazine spreads! Just love it! Can’t wait to see her interpretation of the theme! ❤️

Yes, for sure! HK dramas were great in the 80s and the early 90s! My favorites were the Condor Heroes triology, many Jin Yong adapted dramas, Looking Back in Anger (my absolute favorite modern drama) and so much more! The quality of the actors was great too and they were all very good looking/beautiful (natural and each actor’s appearance was distinctive). Now, other than Reba, I feel many C-artists look the same, still attractive but not distinctive enough. I couldn’t help but think it’s the result of plastic surgery for the current crop of actors (just my speculation).

I am familiar with HK dramas due to my grandparents’ influence! The ones from the 80s were great, especially the costume dramas. The caliber of actors was much better during this period. The 90s HK dramas were okay – I thought they really excelled in modern dramas. I don’t really watch HK movies but am familiar with the two you noted, “The Blind Detective” (I really do like the collaboration between Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng as they starred in several HK movies together) and “The Eye”. “The Eye” was deliciously creepy and gripping, so much better than the American counterpart.

Haha, I think Gizzy is one of the best Reba fans out there. 😊 She is very respectful to all Alices and helpful with questions from other MDL posters on her dramas. As for me, I don’t watch a lot of Chinese dramas to be honest; I typically watch more American shows/dramas because my live-in boyfriend prefers Western shows; of all C-dramas, he only finished “Princess Wei Young” and “Nirvana in Fire”. I primarily watch Reba dramas (for obvious reasons) but he recognizes her face when I happen to have either TLB or YAMG on (of course, Reba is so noticeable). While I like other Chinese actors, I really just follow Reba and her news. Of course, you and other Alices provide so many updates in this page that I am all caught up on Reba’s recent happenings. 😊

Yes, I agree. Waiting for Reba drama release is testing my patience (and I’m no Job). It’s been a year since “The Blue Whisper” aired and the wait since has been unbearable. I continue to hear that one of her dramas will be released soon but they both kept being delayed. Super frustrating. 😠

Yes, it would be great if the drama is based on a novel because I would also read it. I always enjoy seeing how a drama interprets the written work and I enjoy knowing the mindset of the characters when watching them come alive on screen. But I believe both dramas, “Prosecution Elite” and “Sword Rose” are original scripts, I think? Are you fans of crime and legal dramas? I enjoy them if they are well written. Some dramas try to be “different” that the plot became too convoluted so I pray that scripts for both dramas are well written and the cases are interesting. I am curious how Reba interprets her roles and how she performs in this type of genre (a new one for her!)

Thanks for sharing! I did forget her baby’s daddy (he was that forgettable and their pairing was lackluster). What made ZBB’s character so despicable was that he knew she was already in love with another man, yet he forced her to be with him. It was irrelevant what he did afterwards to “win” her over. There was no doubt that he loved her but his needs and wants were more important. So not surprisingly, IMO the drama was doomed from the start because it was impossible for this character to be redeemed. It is frustrating to me in that ZBB and Reba starred in four dramas together (Eternal Love, Pretty Li Hui Zhen, Flame’s Daughter and The King’s Woman) and not once were they able to get a “happy ever after”. As a fan of this pairing, it’s very vexing!

I’m in the same boat as you, saving my attention span for Reba’s upcoming dramas. Since “The Blue Whisper” I only watched one Chinese drama and that was “She and Her Perfect Husband” and it was okay (I was interested in the pairing of Yang Mi and Xu Kai). After that, I have not watched any other C-dramas, not that I’m an avid C-drama viewer to start. For me, C-dramas are not the same if they don’t star Reba. Now as we wait for confirmation of her new drama, I need to start my “research” again in getting to know her potential ML. I have this habit of researching Reba dramas or her costars when she is about to commit to one or confirmed to join a production. That happened since TLB days. With YAMG, I reread the novel to familiarize myself with the plot points. With “The Blue Whisper”, I read the novel (what a gem!) and watched Allen Ren’s “Under the Power” to get acquainted with the male lead. For “Legend of Anle”, I watched “Word of Honor” (wonderful drama) to know more about Gong Jun. It sounds a bit obsessive as I am typing up my comments but I love the anticipation of her new drama and her costars so I want to have a better understanding of these actors’ background.

Too funny! My American boyfriend is 6’6” and I’m 5’3” so I can relate to the height disparity. 😊 Someone posted a synopsis in Sword Rose MDL page under the comment section. It’s apparently about human trafficking and Reba should be cast as the female detective. It’s unclear what the role of the ML but it sounds interesting enough. I hope the writing is strong. I watched a lot of American shows that are crime/legal centric (so much Law and Order) and honestly if the cases are interesting and well thought out, the lack of romance really doesn’t affect my viewing experience. I’m surprised to read that there are quite of number of HK veteran actors joining this production. I grew up watching HK dramas (grandparents were big fans) so it’ll be great if I recognized some old faces since I have not watched HK dramas in ages (HK production quality has deteriorated substantially in recent years).