geechoo

the director posted that the first edit is done. based on the chat log from his wife (she posted on XHS lol) they've been editing from May to September.. that is a long time! I'm glad the director was involved the whole time. Sometimes cdramas have directors that don't participate in the post production because they're already filming their next project (Zhu Ruibin is a good example..). Love that this director is involved.

feel like we'll hear news about getting broadcasting licensing soon.

edit. I've blocked that tom person lol why does he keep replying with nonsense..

snow, blue lighting during the night time, warm lighting during daytime, slow motion etc lol those are his signature

fans following the filming basically knows what scenes they shot. I think from eps 19 ~ 25, the leads are separated. They separate in the novel too.

Zhu Yu was always rumored for 2025 Q4 or 2026 Q1. The earliest it can air is December. I don't think it'll air earlier than that. IQIYI & Tencent's schedule is pretty packed the upcoming months.

tbh the script is almost completely different from the novel. they've basically only used the same names.

I hope there are a lot more happy moments we haven't seen (filmed indoors maybe) because you can't have a love/hate relationship with few happy scenes lol audience won't even understand why they feel so strongly lol this was a problem with linghe's last drama (our generation). the writer failed to establish why FL was so obsessed with ML because they didn't show enough back story. hope this isn't the same case here.

yeah I feel like the drama cut a lot of main CP scenes and added a lot of side character scenes (esp 4th ML & 3rd FL CP). there is around ~6 episodes in the middle where ML & FL are completely apart. the director really needs to establish their relationship well in the beginning otherwise their separation won't feel as strong.

it has a lot of snow scenes so it will air before spring imo so either December or early 2026.

IQIYI is releasing Fated Hearts (li Qin & Chen Zheyuan) on October 5. It's 38 episodes so even if it follows the typical 2 eps per day schedule, it will only finish airing late October.

CY's drama took up the slot for September. It's airing simultaneously on tencent & iqiyi.

it's because CY's drama is simultaneously airing on tencent and iqiyi (the two biggest streaming platforms). Youku has a drama airing right now but its audience isn't the typical idol drama watching crowd.

cdramas are longer in episodes but each episode is much shorter than kdramas. kdrama episodes are 1+ hr long while cdrama episodes are around 30~40 min long

he looks like wulei + wang hedi combined lol

those who've read the script said his drama version is a lot tamer and less of an asshole.

I don't think there's a time slot for it. IQIYI is currently airing CY's drama (it's an S+ budget drama so it's highly important) and it's pretty much the focus for the entire month.

so reliable melons have said this is airing Oct 8th. It will be competing directly with Fated Hearts (IQIYI) and Yummy x 3 (Tencent). things will start getting interesting :)

tbh Jiang Qiaoxi Linghe is so underrated amongst fans lol I know the drama was a disappointment but I just did a rewatch of his scenes last night and imo this is his best acted drama so far. I also really really like how this drama used no filters. I like TBT but sometimes the overuse of blurring filters affects the cinematography. I really hope he has more opportunities to work with directors like this in the future.

booting is not being held. this is all but confirmed.

tbh I looked at his filmography and imo it's because he didn't film much historical dramas when he was younger. the fast way to become a traffic star in China is through acting in historical dramas.

I thought this was going to air in September but there's been zero updates from youku..