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Are you going to donate to him a shirt at his size to rip off? lol Because it was his shirt the one that he ripped off at this drama. ha ha haha
Anyway... the concept is to watch him ripping his shirts. I don't particularly care what is the role that he will play when he does so. I just want him to do it! lol

It seems that you are more interested to discuss about Logic than discuss about why some actors and actresses are celebrities only in their native countries.
I bothered with such kind of philosophical discussions when I was in high school, but now I'm not interested at all.
If you can't see what is more than obvious I have neither the intention nor the inclination to persuade you. When and if you see him cast at any international production notify me to watch it!

What more concrete evidence there is other than he has never been cast to an international production? He is known to those that are following Chinese drama and film productions but not anywhere else.
He is Big in China. ( like Big in Japan). It is not a coincidence that there is this "saying". That there are people that are super famous only in their countries but nowhere else.

Which bring us to the point of this discussion which is that those who don't seem to interact in another language other than their own are not cast either in international productions even if they are very good actors.
And you might tell me that this is unfair but... that's the way it is. It wasn't me that I chose the language but it is a requirement if you want to communicate with other people outside your own country. I'm not a native English speaker but I write in English here because if I didn't do so you wouldn't be able to understand a thing.
So the discussion is not if he can speak English. Even if he doesn't he can learn them at any given time ( and not only Zhou Yi Wei but also all other Asian actors) . The heart of the matter is that those who are already successful in their countries don't usually bother to master another language, get out of their comfort zone and run after international productions.
This requires another plus lever of ambition that some people simply don't have it.
Which is not something that we can blame them for of course, but on the other hand some people as just very talented for not trying for something more.
A very characteristic example of what a second language can do to the career of actors is Zhang Zi Yi who has been cast in more international productions than Chinese ones.

Because there is not a single clip showing him speaking a single English word. Not even when he represents international brands, on magazines, commercials etc.

You will not see this happen if he doesn't learn English and move from the local TV productions to something more challenging. Some very successful on TV actors don't even bother after all to do so and I think that this applies to Zhou Yi Wei because this requires from them to get out of their "comfort zone".
They are not all like Takuya Kimura who is trying to learn English and expand his career outside of Japan or Gong Li to mention another Chinese actress that made a international career.
My point is that it is not that they are not cast because the producers don't want them but because they don't have not even the minimum requirement of a second language in their bio.

I've recently found my self dropping more dramas and films that those that I end up watching. Most of them have problematic plots or sluggish pace which make them unwatchable.
I don't know why the producers of these films and dramas can't understand that we have limited time to watch something to entertain ourselves and we are not in the mood to try to unlock the "secrets" or whatever the writer of the plot has in his or her mind.
I'm not saying that a plot has to be shallow in order to retain the interest of the viewers. But it doesn't have to be sluggish or boring or incomprehensible either.

Have you noticed that they always accuse them for tax evasion whenever they want to get rid of them or seize their businesses? The did the same to the guy that created Ali Baba and Ali Express that were the equivalent of Amazon in China. Actually this guy just disappeared and they nationalized his company. Something that everywhere else would be considered as illegal as he didn't made this company with state funds.
But even if Deng Lun cheated, what does this particular drama has to do with his dealings with the state. His company is private and in such cases it is used to fine the cheater and demand from him to pay the taxes that he owes. Not close his company in order to never pay the taxes back. This defeats the purpose you know!
That is the reason why I believe that they just didn't want him to be around. If that wasn't the case, they wouldn't cancel him this way.

I feel for the cult leader actor who had to endure loads of hair bleach in his head in order to get these blond hair! lol

It seems that Deng Lun became very influential way too fast and way to young. Something that the Chinese regime doesn't like at all because it considers as a threat the very talented and capable people.
Anyway... I'm removing this drama from my PTW list along with any other Chinese dramas.

Interesting story plot but sluggish.

I keep watching the first episode and I can't stop laughing. Did he go to bed with his cat or something? I'm talking about the scratches in his back. WTF she didn't even have such long or pointy nails to scratch him that bad. ( and why scratch him after all. The guy is perfectly fuckable ha ha ha) Now I know why this drama was rated that high.

I can't find also the stats for this drama. The button with the little lines that is usually next to the title. I'm asking because I want to check where this rating comes from. Neither the best of the reviews have such a high rating, nor the comments look so positive.

Edit to add: Ok I found them are up on the menu now! lol

I totally agree with you. The ML seems to be completely dumb. Not to mention that I found the way that she found her body very funny. I LMAO... ha ha haaaaaaa
He wakes up in the sofa, he goes upstairs, he is speaking while he is getting dressed in the bedroom without noticing the splatter at all. Not to mention that he should have been still high as kite after a couple of hours with all that shit that he took at once. But ok.. let's assume that he is still very young and his liver is strong enough and works overtime... ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaa

It would be better to mark your comment as spoiler as some people might want to watch this drama after all.

I had not noticed it either. I found it at an irrelevant streaming channel ( not the known ones).

Ha ha ha ha... the way that he finds her dead body is very funny.

I have the notion that you've missed the point of this drama. It is not that much about the characters but about the attitudes and the behaviors of the characters. Samantha and Sato and everyone else there, are examples of the types of people that live and operate in this underworld and their names or individual stories are irrelevant,
The Samanthas and the Polinas in this world are women that are exploited. The Satos ( or whatever other name those gang members have) are not bad or cruel but they end up being bad and cruel in order to fit and survive in this world because they have no other options ( Sato says that at some point).
The policemen end up with the one or another way being corrupted either because they are ambitious, or because they are afraid for their lives and those of their families.
But their names don't really matter and their characters even less, because there are countless people of these types that they consist this world but they wouldn't exist and behave this way outside of this world.

I don't get what Go Jae Young said to Ji Hyung Joo in the interrogation room on episode 15. He told him that there is no prosecution if the victim can't press charges. These are BS. Some crimes are prosecuted ex officio. There is no need for the victim to press charges; it can be done by the prosecutor cause he has the authority to do so.

It is impressive that Lee Shin manage to bully them so much for so long without triggering their survival instinct.

The actress btw that plays this role has destroyed her face with all these fillers and botox. Nothing moves in her face and that makes her look older than she actually is. Don't they have mirrors in their homes to see how awful all these plastic procedures make them look like? Her face looks like it is made of wax.

I would prefer to discuss that in private if you don't mind. I'll pm you.