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Are you really asking if the main character dies or not? Because that's how I read your question and I'm uncomfortable and sad about it. Am I now supposed to wait for YGY having somewhere in my subconscious the question if he dies at the end of the series?
Heck, everyone dies at some point, and Mirror is set some 20 years after YGY, so if you're asking if SY's grave appeared there, you're implying that he didn't live happily ever after and really spoiling people's fun. Thank you.
And anyway, you should probably ask this question in the Mirror topic, don't you think?

You ruined my day :(
Maybe for the future a little warning of what your "spoiler" is about. An uninformed person wants to help and comes across a mine like this.

You're welcome. It just worked out that way :)

New info - the hero from Mirror is the adopted son of Zhu Yen, the heroine of YGY. A prince who is a relative of Shi Ying also appears in Mirror. I've heard that his younger brother, but I can't verify that. The dramas tend to avoid combining the storylines and probably treat the two dramas separately. This makes sense considering that they definitely changed YGY's script quite significantly from the book. Mirror was already shot when they started shooting YGY.

Depends on who. :)
AT I watched with pleasure - there was a lot going on and no idiotic romance catapulting everyone with its melodrama. A matter of taste and interests :) Some prefer manly action, others prefer sighing under a tree.
Just because a drama features my favorite actor doesn't mean I have to accept the entire drama uncritically. If fans are uncritical because of an actor, it won't motivate the creators to produce better quality dramas because anything with that actor will sell. If someone is more of an aesthete, they will pay more attention to the costumes, CGI sets. People with more musical sensitivity will be more sensitive to the OST. People who have psychological interests will pay more attention to the performance and character development, etc. What won't bother one person at all, for another will be a reason to quit the drama.
Now I'm not talking about you, we didn't have clashes, I'm talking in general. There are always people in life and on every forum who don't tolerate if someone shows even a minimum of criticism. All that matters is their opinion, their admiration. My dream, which will never be realized, is that before they write something and start to abuse someone who has a different opinion than theirs, they should think whether they accidentally hurt this person. Maybe one day in schools teachers will start teaching what a civilized expression of an opinion is, that everyone has the right to their own opinion and what the difference is between a criticism of a work and a personal attack.
The only one disappointed is the one who had expectations. If someone was disappointed by the YGY trailer, it was because they expected to see something beautiful and got what they got.
I currently only have one expectation from this drama - good acting from Xiao Zhan and Ren Mi. I expect a lot from them. I don't know the rest of the actors so I hope to be positively surprised.

You have absolutely nothing to worry about. It looks like you have succumbed to some panic when prompted and are seeing what you expect to see. If you start looking at the people around you and the artists, you will see that sometimes they have one eyelid "heavier". This looks like the result of temporary fatigue. Xiao Zhan's eyes are still wonderfully beautiful. Xiao Zhan is nearsighted and wears contact lenses to work, so his conjunctivae occasionally get tired. He only had conjunctivitis while working on the set of The Wolf, so if you see Ji Chong, he actually has red eyes. The rest of the time it's just temporary fatigue, like when we read too long or a cold wind irritates our eyes. Nothing more.

I think the information you want to verify is a mistranslated hot topic from Weibo. There is a scene in AT (spoiler alert!) where GYY fights with another character and gets injured, including in his left eye. Fans were full of praise for Xiao Zhan's acting for a few days, that he played his injury so well that when GYY smiled, he squinted that eye first. I think someone misunderstood and started spreading a ridiculous rumor about the actor being injured.
I, for one, see Xiao Zhan every day, haven't lost any new material, and haven't noticed that he has one eye smaller.
In my opinion, the rumor you wanted to verify is just someone's stupidity and overinterpretation. There are many overzealous fans who will hear one thing and interpret something as something completely different.

For me this woman on A has lost any authority in 2020. If someone provokes by herself, then pretends to be a victim, accuses others of something she does herself and on top of that pretends to know everything best, although she hasn't worked in China for a good 20 years, what kind of authority is she? In addition, she is strongly biased and this came out in several of her statements. And I really hate the fact that she ridicules others while she has nothing to show for herself except for her fanfics.

I completely understand your concerns. When I saw the trailer I found that this drama was simply impossible to watch. When I expressed my disappointment, I was attacked on MDL as if I had killed someone's mother. Hm. I alienated myself from this drama for a long time, especially since S+ Tencent productions are really nightmarishly weak when it comes to CGI. BUT, I saw the official BTS clip from YGY and I have to say that while I don't expect a good script, I don't expect a good production, I certainly expect Xiao Zhan to make an electrifying impression on me. He's acting so emotionally that I'll put up with cheesy CGI for him. Only if the production doesn't give the voices of the original actors, I won't forgive them. Fans love Xiao Zhan's voice and no one can convey emotion with their voice like he does.

To tell you the truth, I'll be hesitant but I don't think I'll decide to watch it without subtitles. For me, in dramas with comedic elements, dialogues are important. I remember watching the live music show Our Song and only after a few months with subtitles. I laughed without subtitles, I understood more or less what was going on, but it was only with subtitles that I really understood the subtlety of the interactions between the show's participants. I remember I even had some wrong and wrong-headed assumptions. I'm hoping for subtitles to appear. I may wait a few more months, but I don't want to misunderstand the interactions between the characters.
In any case, thanks for the link. Maybe I'll change my mind and try it without subtitles. :)

I don't. I have a tough exam in a tough subject the day after and I have to study :(
The only exam in my session and on that very day!
Out of politeness I don't use words that come to my tongue.

If Xiao Zhan stars here, I'll definitely watch, even though it's not my pair of shoes. But actually XZ doesn't act in dramas at all that interest me and by some magical coincidence I watch all of them (almost). And I thought I was too old to watch anything for an actor.
But it's not just about the actor, because so far he's managed to pick scripts that aren't quite so banal.

The Animal World I've seen. I don't remember that movie, so I guess it didn't impress me. I've been hunting for Fearless Whispers, but it was nowhere to be found with subtitles :( I tried watching without subtitles and the first episode interested me (Li YiFeng is uniquely suited to republican dramas) but with my poor knowledge of Chinese I only got frustrated. I'll look for it, maybe I can find it with subtitles already. Thanks for the reminder.

Thanks

Good drama, but too depressing for me. Or maybe it's just me having a phase where I need laughter and something more upbeat? Or maybe I'm just not into the S&M rhythm of love (at least not at this point in my life)? In any case, too heavy for me. That's why despite Ji Sung's phenomenal performance only 7.

I like Li Yifeng, but I wonder if he can even act? Don't get me wrong, I really like Sparrow, I've watched all his old dramas and had a great time, but I can't shake the feeling that all his characters are identical. He's cool in a certain set of characterizations, but he can't go beyond that. Sparrow was probably the exception. The acting in this drama really disappointed me. But should I blame it on the actors or the directors who said it was ok instead of demanding more? I was really hoping to see Li YiFeng in a cool new role, but I guess I have to wait until the next one (sigh).

Listen, I have a huge request. Do you remember The Wolf? There was a book based on the series and I think someone translated it into English. Do you have a link to that book somewhere? Maybe you know someone who has read it? My little heart really needs to read this story.

I just watched it again and again I feel like this drama had the potential to be a masterpiece if it wasn't ruined by censorship. I just saw in my imagination all those scenes where Bo Wang's eyes change and he really turns into a beast. This drama would have had a stronger, more tragic expression then. And I really miss all those scenes that were cut out.
No less I can't blame the drama for the fact that the rules changed during its production and poor The Wolf had to change almost the whole concept. Hm, I wonder if anyone has translated the book into English?

I just pictured his character going to a disco in this new series....
But I think they were playing slightly different music in Beijing at the time, something like the one from Gu Yiye's wedding in Ace Troops. It's a shame, because such a scene would go down in cinema history more than John Travolta and Saturday Night Fever.

Right, this award from Weibo has no value but after last year's scandal it's rather quiet. I haven't heard anyone urging people not to vote this year, anyway the voting is already closed and now there are more stages without fans.
But there's no fooling yourself. With such an advantage XZ not only in the voting but in general in popularity no one will dare not give him the title of Weibo King. If XZ did not get this title, Weibo would be compromised.