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You could say the same thing about all those 6'2" actors being casted as male leads alongside 5'3" actresses as female leads but no one seems to mind that or says the men "aren't typical Asian" 🤷‍♀️

The height differences between those pairings often look a bit odd and I've seen producers having to correct the height difference with camera tricks and putting the short actresses on platforms. It's a nice change, for once, to have a taller woman act alongside a tall man.

The costumes look absolutely gorgeous and so beautifully detailed. Even some of the hairstyles are creative and different from what I've seen before. They obviously put a lot of effort into the aesthetics of this drama and I hope the script will be just as good!

I clicked for the badass poster and now I'm intrigued. Might have to start watching the prequel some time soon 👀

Even on Viki, I've seen a few wrong translations. But only with C-dramas so far. Not sure about K-dramas.

He's attractive to me but to each their own. Which actors do you find good-looking?

Thanks for correcting me! If that's true, there's a possibility the kiss scenes can be added back into the web version 👀 Or, at least, I hope someone recorded the cut scenes and will upload them online for us to watch.

Wow, even a kiss on the cheek is too scandalous for TV now? 🙄 It really makes me wonder what the old men at the censorship office are thinking when they cut harmless scenes like these.

The personality of the 2nd shard is hilarious 🤣

It's a thing called hate-watching. Some people watch TV shows with the sole purpose to make fun of the plot, characters etc. and criticize everything about it. Only thing you can do is block them. That will automatically hide all their comments but it also hides the threads they post to which means you might miss out on other people's comments.

Dare I ask what makes it the worst wuxia you've seen? I was thinking of watching this adaptation over the others.

If they can't release it now, can they at least give us another trailer or teaser picture, please? 🥺

The baby-faced actresses you're talking about are often paired up with actors who also have baby faces or look like pretty guys instead of masculine men, for example, Xu Kai, Ding Yuxi, Ren Jialun, Bai Jingting etc.

It seems to be a trend in romcoms to cast especially cute and youthful actors and actresses. Maybe because many romcom stories are aimed at a younger audience and they find baby faces more relatable. My personal preference are masculine actors and that eliminates a lot of C-dramas from my to-watch list 😅

Fun fact: The voice actor they would have chosen to dub the male lead actually has a pretty deep voice too! It's not high-pitched and sounds pretty close to the actor's voice.

I found out one of the trailers for this drama has two versions: One with his real voice and one with a dubbed voice. After watching both, I still prefer the actor's real voice 🥰 It just has way more charm to me.

Same. And even a few international viewers on this website think his voice sounds weird. They're so used to the dubbing culture of Chinese dramas that they expect to hear certain voices and think it sounds "wrong" when an actor uses his real voice for once.

Even some international viewers are pointing out his voice for sounding strange 😔 I hope the criticism doesn't prevent him from using his voice to dub his own characters in the future. I'm one of those people who definitely prefer hearing an actor's real voice over a dubbed one, especially if they're playing lead roles.

Thanks for sharing!

The fan is at fault for taking photos and blackmailing but her husband is the one who decided to sell them for money and the journalists actually published them. Maybe the fan knew about it and supported her husband, maybe she didn't know. At any rate, the husband and paparazzi also deserve being judged by the public as much as the fan.

That's just how the writer decided to introduce the two side characters and their relationship to the female lead that's off to a rocky start.

Many xianxia female protagonists start out as outspoken, immature teenage girls at first and it will take half of the show for them to mature. It's just something that comes with this genre. If you can't tolerate her now, I don't think you will for at least the next 20 episodes 😅

The short episode format is pretty popular nowadays and aimed at a certain audience. Some of these dramas are actually pretty good and manage to tell a whole story in a short time while some others are so low-quality, they aren't worth the time. They are here to stay so all you can do is avoid them.

I think it's because some dramas don't get enough budget to spend it on filming realistic water scenes.