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Basically what Crlene said! I'll just add a little more detail:

Yuwen Yue is part of the Yuwen family, which is a powerful family that's connected to the Wei Kingdom spy agency. His address is "gongzi/公子" which means the son of a noble family. It should probably translate to "(young) master." He's known as Yue gongzi.

Yan Xun is the son of the Duke (侯爷) of Yanbei, and a hostage in the capital of Wei to keep Yanbei from rebelling. His address is "shizi/世子" which means "first son/heir of a noble house." People refer to him as "Yanbei shizi" which basically means Crown Prince/Heir of Yanbei.

Yuan Song is the 13th Prince of Wei and the son of Consort Wei. His address is "dianxia/殿下" which is "Your Highness" for princes and princesses. So he's known as Yuwang dianxia as Yuwang is his princely name.

I hope this comes out quickly, this is already one of my most anticipated!

First trailer is out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbVw6JUZt9Y

Just watched the first ep, and it seems a little... weird. Maybe I'll wait until more eps are out, then skim watch a bit more.

There's two versions, the uncut version (未刪減版) and the TV/advanced version (先行版). The subs are on the uncut version. The TV versions always progress faster because scenes get cut out (because of censorship, timing/number of eps for TV, etc.), but they can't make the episode length shorter, so they add more scenes onto the end to make up for the time that they cut earlier.

Playlist for TV version: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLRYHxCh-wkrxGRfnTIxvnzlM0xxylfwi

Playlist for uncut/sub version: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLRYHxCh-wkqb8PYzl2R1AjXJROtTHAV1

The English name "Rush to the Dead Summer" makes the drama sound like it's about zombies

The 13th Prince Yuan Song is so cute!

It's called 心之焰 (xin zhi yan) by G.E.M. It roughly translates to "Flame of the Heart."

"Fantasy" as in xianxia and well, fantasy, not time travel or rebirth lol. They're all different genres/subgenres. Time travel has been gone for years, so it's not like the government can go harder on them when they don't exist anymore.

China is very strict on distorting history in general, especially with fantasy elements. For example, the names of the people in the upcoming A Lifetime Love have been changed because the love interest is a real war god in China, and the love interest in Sound of the Desert was a real general in history. I think fantasy dramas will be fine, as long as they don't have characters who are based on real historical figures.

I find LGX's acting stiff, but other than him, it seems to be good enough to watch without cringing. But then again, other than Mark Chao, I didn't find the acting in Eternal Love to be that exceptional either.

Here's a playlist of some of the songs I found https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVeQJcfD5lq5X49Y7ZFW51e30M7ecdWGw

And here's the full list on Baidu http://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%AC%A2%E4%B9%90%E9%A2%822#5

You can copy/paste the song titles into Youtube to find them.

Omg noooo, but he seems so nice. That happened in Glory of Tang Dynasty and General & I, but I was always on the right ship then because the second leads seemed so fake-creepy-nice there.

Watched the first two episodes, and so far so good I guess. I feel like I'm in grave danger of developing second male lead syndrome though T_T

Jin Dong goes like... pretty heavy with those one-sided love undertones imo.

Tbh, I don't find Jin Dong conventionally handsome, but he's so charismatic I'm just like *heart-eyes* every time. I've been considering reading the book, but I don't know if I can accept this new image of Tan Zongming.

" in the books, Tan Zongming is not some handsome dude, he's like a fat, kinda old(?), typical business man"

Omg you just shattered my entire world, because I ship Andi with him more than anyone else in the drama.

I prefer Meteor Garden overall as well, although HYD comes a close second. I thought that the although BoF was the most polished because of the high budget and how it's more recent, the characters, messages and plot really lacked the spirit of the original.

Aaaaah I can't wait for this ;-;

Sounds like you're a huge fan of the original, but this is a Chinese reboot not a Taiwanese one. Also, Taiwanese dramas are usually around the same length as a Korean drama. Many only have 12-16 episodes, rarely go over 25.

Remakes are very normal. Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese and Korean dramas are stylistically very different. It makes sense to remake a popular drama/plot for a local audience, and in the end, everyone makes money. Korea's remade Scarlet Heart, In Time With You, and were among the last to remake Hana Kimi and Hana Yori Dango.

Ended up skim watching all of it, and well, while it was entertaining, I found it hard to take anything seriously. Out of all the men, I ended up liking Mo Yuan the best for some reason. 6/10