FWIW Liu Yuning is an 87er (iirc there are school documents verifying his real age) and he's been divorced before…
She has a babyface (TPOB's makeup is meant to make her look older) and is aware that she needs to look older; she has played moms in 2 dramas (The Bond and Created in China) in order to shed that image unlike most actresses her age or older e.g. Yang Mi, Cecilia Liu, Yang Zi, Dilreba, Zhao Liying, Esther Yu, Lusi, Wang Churan who are careful to avoid playing moms in order to preserve a young image and not be typecast into older women roles. LOL this isn't a concern for Zuer https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4678204566014818 https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4677084532706438
Unpopular opinion: I find the female lead mismatched for Yu Ning. Her acting is good, but her character has been…
FWIW Liu Yuning is an 87er (iirc there are school documents verifying his real age) and he's been divorced before so yeah, SZE is 11 years younger and it may seem mismatched esp because she looks younger than her age being a former child actor.
is this the drama what ZLS fans talking on X???? they called it copycat?
Please don't start drama here. Both dramas are set in the same era (Three Kingdoms, Eastern Han dynasty) so the clothes look similar but materials and styling are different because SZE is portraying a more mature wife role almost immediately and not a teenager https://www.douban.com/group/topic/325896099/?_spm_id=Mjc2NTE0MDk5 the plot is different involving a marriage alliance to a hostile neighbour.
This is a horror collection with different segments with different leads for each part, for instance newcomer He Shiyu (she has no MDL profile? https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%90%88%E8%AF%97%E9%9B%A8/63899180 ) from the award winning She and Her Girls is playing Nie Xiaoqian, the ghost who seduces scholar Ning Caichen aka the most famous story of the Liao Zhai anthology.
SZE & her studio's Weibo IP updated to Zhejiang which means she's probably near Hengdian. There's speculation she's guest-starring in Liao Zhai https://kisskh.at/778880-liao-zhai it's by the director of To Fly With You so she may be doing a favor. Liao Zhai is one of my favourite ancient horror anthologies, I hope it's scary and she gets a good role.
The Weibo livestream was so cosy and they seemed comfortable/familiar with each other irl so the vibe was very relaxed and friendly, I think they said they'll do more lives together?
- Zuer said the cast regularly meets for meals (quite touching considering SZE has been in a quandry for the past 2 years) and that they all memorised a particular LYN song during filming, so when they meet they will sing that song together... If LYN is too busy to meet they'll send him vids of them singing his song. -They also said something about Zhang Bichen being their CP fan? - They watched Zootopia together while getting their makeup done during filming (no wonder LYN gave out Nick toys during the Weibo event, and gave Zuer a Judy rabbit hoodie during 5he filming) - They greeted the foreign/English commenters with "Hello, how are you" 😂 - The comments kept asking 'When are you going to consummate the marriage' and they read it out but didn't answer 🤣 - LYN called their CP a wolf-dog relationship (implying he's the dog lol) but Zuer retorted that it's a wolf-fox relationship, not dog 🤣 - They said they'll try to get a variety for the cast but no guarantees, and shilled The Truth S1. Zuer sweetly plugged the new season and said BaiYu looks more mature in S3 but LYN said he's as childish as ever 😂 - LYN made a joke saying those who made TPOB fanart can contact Zuer's Weibo studio account and redeem free soybean oil(apparently this is a running gag on LYN's livestream?), Zuer retorted "You can also claim free eggs from LYN's Weibo account" and said she has heard of that gag before because she watches LYN's lives e.g. if he says "My neighbours are quarrelling, I'm going to take a look" = bathroom break. LYN then clarified that they're not actually giving out free soybean oil and eggs 😂 - LYN kept eating fruit, bread and drinking wine or coffee during the live, apparently it was coffee in his wine glass? Lol - When LYN suddenly lapsed into a Dandong accent, he apologized but Zuer said it's fine, they can be Dandong Wei Shao & Tianjin Xiao Qiao i.e. that's their hometowns 🥰
They should just date lol they seem really chill together to the point they don't really need to put up a front, I like that Zuer looked very au naturale with frizzy hair and glasses.
They're sooo comfortable with each other, it's insanely cute.
They were already familiar because they did a variety called The Truth before TPOB! iirc the director casted LYN as ML after seeing their chemistry and the fact there already were SongNing shippers (the original CP name is 宋宁一只鹅 now it's 蛮蛮一邵 ManManYiShao or a play on the words "One Spoonful"). IMO they already had good feelings for each other on the variety because you can tell they looked at each other a little more than the rest, plus SZE kept giving LYN her rice and bought food for him when his mealcard had no cash lol. There's also instances from LYN's live broadcasts where he says TPOB was the happiest drama he filmed and i forgot who revealed it but Zuer (plus the other TPOB cast like Li Xueqin) has visited Yuning's Hengdian apartment where he films his lives so they are pretty chummy irl.
In the 1st gif LYN says "Others told me to take FP100c photos (the latest trend in China and all young celebs are doing it) and I didn't want to but after seeing you (Zuer) take it, I want to take them too" hahaha
Sweetest video of SongNing IRL http://xhslink.com/a/MhlJGdtaBogdb taking FP-100c polaroids with a faulty camera and just spending tons of time hugging 😂🥰 please share it on Twitter, Youtube, Tiktok!
notice LYN is nice enough to get up so Zuer can sit down for a bit, and SZE wore his coat and looked like a penguin haha
Her previous assistant is helping her right now but a friend is also with her. Even tho she's not in the best…
Doubt she will sign with a new agency because she's famous enough to set up her own studio (a lot of former child stars do this) and can lower her acting fees to be competitive if she doesn't have an agency that takes a cut.
Even prior to this she wasn't signed with anyone in 2023, only partly affliated to Easy Entertainment (this was a good arrangement), because her previous agency 喜天 was known to be messy e.g. banned actors like Wu Xiubo & Qu Chuxiao were from that agency too, 喜天 caused her tax problems https://b23.tv/pg7mHto due to not paying tax on her behalf and the failure to inform her that she needed to pay tax directly, but at least China's tax authorities understood and let her make amends. Before she left 喜天 in late 2022 Cnetizens were saying the agency would punish Song Zuer for not renewing and she'd "lose a layer of skin" e.g. 脱一层皮, frankly I thought they'd just release some gossip about her but it turned out that a former employee reported her and she lost 2 years and almost her career. It's very hard for actors who are established to leave an agency amicably even if their contract is over, e.g. Yangzi filmed Immortal Samsara as a farewell gift to H&R, Dilreba is apparently leaving Jaywalk, a lot of them are pressured to renew so they continue making money for agency CEOs instead of setting up their own studio. Hence I doubt SZE will sign with any agency given the difficulty she had leaving 喜天.
IMO she's better off having her own studio (the caveat is that she needs to hire reliable staff and currently her "staff" are getting scolded for not protecting her at the airport, using the wrong foundation color lol), focusing on acting mainly not varieties and building good connections with Tencent, Daylight, IQiyi, Yaoke, Linmon, Youku, Yuzheng for gigs etc directly the way Angel Zhao, Leo Wu or Oliver Chen do it. It's not easy, ex child star Zhang Xueying recently signed with Easy Entertainment after years of not having an agency and getting no good roles. But Zuer is more recognised than Zhang Xueying for her visuals and acting, so who knows.
Frankly I hope she gets capable, trustworthy people on her team (she does seem scatterbrained lol) so she can focus on vying for better scripts and roles because actresses her age are getting more competitive roles via agency connections even before this. She's probably better off focusing on serious dramas over idol romance dramas too.
I can't believe Weishao scooped up all the wishes from the river and read them one by one.... What a loser lol it won't come true now because I heard a spoiler about someone dying from her family.
🎉It's Song Zuer's birthday today🎉 here's a video https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4890744853364833 of SZE in the Lotus Lantern Prelude (2009) as Nezha acting alongside WeiShao's grandma Liu Xiaoqing who plays the Heavenly Empress 😂🥰 see if you can recognise them!
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4678204566014818
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4677084532706438
the plot is different involving a marriage alliance to a hostile neighbour.
https://www.douban.com/group/topic/326633331/?_spm_id=MjU0OTkzMDMz
Nanjun = My Lord (Nan = male, Jun = lord)
Fujun = Husband (they translate it as darling for some reason)
She was also spotted at Shanghai's Le Cordon Bleu a few times https://www.douban.com/group/topic/326868267/?_spm_id=MTg1NzgyOTc0 she signed up for a course during her time out using her real name.
- Zuer said the cast regularly meets for meals (quite touching considering SZE has been in a quandry for the past 2 years) and that they all memorised a particular LYN song during filming, so when they meet they will sing that song together... If LYN is too busy to meet they'll send him vids of them singing his song.
-They also said something about Zhang Bichen being their CP fan?
- They watched Zootopia together while getting their makeup done during filming (no wonder LYN gave out Nick toys during the Weibo event, and gave Zuer a Judy rabbit hoodie during 5he filming)
- They greeted the foreign/English commenters with "Hello, how are you" 😂
- The comments kept asking 'When are you going to consummate the marriage' and they read it out but didn't answer 🤣
- LYN called their CP a wolf-dog relationship (implying he's the dog lol) but Zuer retorted that it's a wolf-fox relationship, not dog 🤣
- They said they'll try to get a variety for the cast but no guarantees, and shilled The Truth S1. Zuer sweetly plugged the new season and said BaiYu looks more mature in S3 but LYN said he's as childish as ever 😂
- LYN made a joke saying those who made TPOB fanart can contact Zuer's Weibo studio account and redeem free soybean oil(apparently this is a running gag on LYN's livestream?), Zuer retorted "You can also claim free eggs from LYN's Weibo account" and said she has heard of that gag before because she watches LYN's lives e.g. if he says "My neighbours are quarrelling, I'm going to take a look" = bathroom break. LYN then clarified that they're not actually giving out free soybean oil and eggs 😂
- LYN kept eating fruit, bread and drinking wine or coffee during the live, apparently it was coffee in his wine glass? Lol
- When LYN suddenly lapsed into a Dandong accent, he apologized but Zuer said it's fine, they can be Dandong Wei Shao & Tianjin Xiao Qiao i.e. that's their hometowns 🥰
They should just date lol they seem really chill together to the point they don't really need to put up a front, I like that Zuer looked very au naturale with frizzy hair and glasses.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12d4y1K73R/ note LYN only takes photos of..... 🤔
https://m.bilibili.com/video/BV19t4y1h758 they are always next to each other
https://m.bilibili.com/video/BV1WP4y1f7Xc
https://m.bilibili.com/video/BV1tv4y1M7ye Zuer giving her rice to penniless LYN lol
https://m.bilibili.com/video/BV1Mt4y157Zx
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5166900564725593
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1qB4y147kj/
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Rz4y1u7yF/
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4878597741090195 （they held hands because LYN is scared of the dark irl)
LYN's TPOB vlog where he meets the cast with SZE https://m.bilibili.com/video/BV1Ba4y1g7ZK
In the 1st gif LYN says "Others told me to take FP100c photos (the latest trend in China and all young celebs are doing it) and I didn't want to but after seeing you (Zuer) take it, I want to take them too" hahaha
notice LYN is nice enough to get up so Zuer can sit down for a bit, and SZE wore his coat and looked like a penguin haha
Even prior to this she wasn't signed with anyone in 2023, only partly affliated to Easy Entertainment (this was a good arrangement), because her previous agency 喜天 was known to be messy e.g. banned actors like Wu Xiubo & Qu Chuxiao were from that agency too, 喜天 caused her tax problems https://b23.tv/pg7mHto due to not paying tax on her behalf and the failure to inform her that she needed to pay tax directly, but at least China's tax authorities understood and let her make amends. Before she left 喜天 in late 2022 Cnetizens were saying the agency would punish Song Zuer for not renewing and she'd "lose a layer of skin" e.g. 脱一层皮, frankly I thought they'd just release some gossip about her but it turned out that a former employee reported her and she lost 2 years and almost her career. It's very hard for actors who are established to leave an agency amicably even if their contract is over, e.g. Yangzi filmed Immortal Samsara as a farewell gift to H&R, Dilreba is apparently leaving Jaywalk, a lot of them are pressured to renew so they continue making money for agency CEOs instead of setting up their own studio. Hence I doubt SZE will sign with any agency given the difficulty she had leaving 喜天.
IMO she's better off having her own studio (the caveat is that she needs to hire reliable staff and currently her "staff" are getting scolded for not protecting her at the airport, using the wrong foundation color lol), focusing on acting mainly not varieties and building good connections with Tencent, Daylight, IQiyi, Yaoke, Linmon, Youku, Yuzheng for gigs etc directly the way Angel Zhao, Leo Wu or Oliver Chen do it. It's not easy, ex child star Zhang Xueying recently signed with Easy Entertainment after years of not having an agency and getting no good roles. But Zuer is more recognised than Zhang Xueying for her visuals and acting, so who knows.
Frankly I hope she gets capable, trustworthy people on her team (she does seem scatterbrained lol) so she can focus on vying for better scripts and roles because actresses her age are getting more competitive roles via agency connections even before this. She's probably better off focusing on serious dramas over idol romance dramas too.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1gA411e7Fy/
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV19oEizRE6G
Some clips from one of her most popular roles as Nezha, let's hope she stays in acting for a very long time!
https://youtu.be/gC2BqA1xb94
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1mzPTePEtt/
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5165833837087562
https://youtu.be/63-5QBPS9Bc