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Zhao Bin and Xia Ming Hao (actors of Feng Pingcheng, Susha's emperor, and Ling Feng, the medical guy) can get it. They're both in their forties in real life, but I think they're supposed to look older than that in the drama... but no amount of gray hair wigs and fake facial hair can make them look anything other than handsome - sorry not sorry lollll

I think he suits the drama well too!!! I'm on ep29 and it's hard to stop myself from watching haha, I'm trying to pace myself

Is it safe to say Xia Jingyan is a masochist? 😅😅

I don't know where the phrase came from, but some often say that "there's a thin line between love and hate." Maybe it's because both are passionate emotions—both are major drivers of human behaviour. Both make you feel an extremely strong emotion towards a certain person. Perhaps that's why Xiyang went from loving Xia Jingshi to hating him so quickly. Betrayal, neglect, indifference—none of these hurt so much as when they're inflicted by someone you love!

This drama is doing such a good job balancing scenes. It's like they always know when to cut to Susha vs. Jinxia, when to cut to our MLs vs our villains, to keep the plot moving and highly interesting. I need to learn from these scriptwriters because this is masterful

They made Jingyan unnecessarily handsome haha even thought he's a little crazy and woman-obsessed I can't stop looking at him

25 episodes in and the pace hasn't slowed once!! I can't stop watching. I'm actually extremely impressed, usually these dramas slow by episode 16-18 ish

I know he's 🚩🚩🚩 all but every time I see him I'm like DANG that face card never declines haha

I'm on episode 24 right now and I'm amazed that the pace hasn't slowed yet, each episode is riveting and makes me want to watch further! So far, there have been no major misunderstandings between the main leads too, just one or two small ones that got resolved in the very same episode. I think the dialogue is really good, the villains have developed backstories that make sense (and also don't make you hate them completely), and the plot is very logical! Plus I love a good enemies to lovers trope ;)

Ep 22 was SO good. I love how all the villains here are really fleshed out—they all have their reasons, their past pain that made them into who they are today. They don't just hate the main characters for no reason. I mean, obviously a lot of their hatred is unjustified and misguided, i.e. blaming Feng Suige for stuff he had no control over or involvement in, but I still get that they need to direct their pain somewhere.

I wasn't able to finish PoB tbh. I stopped on episode 17/18 and couldn't bring myself to finish. But I'm watching Fated Hearts right now and they really develop the side characters, they're not just a passing thought. Loving that aspect

I was also suspicious of Murong Yao mainly because whenever a male character pretends to be a useless guy whose "only interest is women" and not politics, I'm like- RED FLAG!!! Usually it's just that he wants people to THINK his only interest is women, to THINK that he's a no-good, useless guy who would never wanna get involved in court politics, but the truth is that he's scheming behind the scenes. I just finished the episode where his identity as the masked man was revealed, and there was one scene early on in it that showed a bit of the masked man's ear & I was like THAT'S MURONG YAO 😂 so basically, the ear confirmed it for me before Yixiao found it out

I swear, the Chinese titles of dramas are so clever. This one is called Yixiao Suige, which is the names of the main characters, but when you actually translate the meaning of each character 一(one/a) 笑(smile) 随 (follow) 歌 (song) the drama title is more like "A Smile Follows the Song" or "A Smile That Follows the Song" and I think that's so poetic

I don't know why but I couldn't finish Prisoner of Beauty! I got to episode 17/18 and then it felt like I just kept forcing myself to watch. Is Immortal Ascension good? I never heard of it

I looked for Chinese articles of the drama online and the first one describes is as a "古装武侠剧" or a "Costume Wuxia Drama" (Costume Martial Arts Drama). So I would say yes, you could consider it a wuxia!

I'm on ep 15 trying to focus on the plot and instead I'm screenshotting left and right because the characters are just so gorgeous LOL

(ep 14) The drama has been really good so far, consistent pacing & not too much time spent on villains for me to hate them with a passion. Sometimes when dramas make villains so extremely evil with zero redeemable qualities, making them betray and harm and backstab the main characters over and over and over and OVER again, I just start losing interest in the drama.

OOOOOO I'm excited!!! I'm on ep 14 so I haven't seen too much of him yet. I remember the actor from his character in "The Starry Love," where although his character was a bit silly and stubborn, he had a lot of heart and loyalty.

No haha but the last drama I finished fully was "Blossom," and in that one the male lead stuck out as quite a bit more handsome than everyone else! (There also just weren't that many younger male support characters who had huge roles). Here, my eyes like what they see in many other scenes too!😂

Why are all the men in this drama eye candy? Like not just Feng Suige but Murong Yao, Xia Jingshi, Xia Jingyan, Yun Fang, Xiao Weiran...

I'm trying to figure out who's good & who's bad (ep 11) and I'm getting distracted by their good looks LOL