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Yeah I was starting to wonder if they axed the character from the drama version. I hope they will announce more of the supporting cast at the boot.

Seems the rumour mill is saying Li Huan will play He Jianxi: https://kisskh.at/people/30983-li-huan. I’ve never come across this actor before but it seems he worked with the TSB director and DYX earlier this year. Wonder if Li and Liu Lingzi will be announced at the official boot ceremony next week!

Yeps seems cdramas do this more and more these days. Anyway, I just hope they don’t shortchange Haiyan and we get to see lots of ZXC in the drama regardless. There is more than one recent project of his where he was listed as the lead but his parts were less then expected 😔.

I am loving all the official materials that finally dropped - the costumes for the Zhang trio definitely look much better in the official pics vs reuters. And Haiyan’s boss energy and smirk in the teasers gosh!! I only wish they used a little less makeup on the guys but maybe it’s just for the photoshoot.

Ahhh, wait, are you talking about Haiyan and Haixia? They are not a couple in the book, they’re foster brothers who are close 😅 seems a lot of people are confusing this for a BL but it’s really not.

Yeah if they stick to the book, Haiyan is definitely the protagonist since the story mainly follows him and Haixia is only around for parts of it. But a lot of cdramas don’t stick close to the source materials they are adapted from so I guess people are hoping otherwise + maybe to see a happier fate for Haixia’. Hopefully we will know more tomorrow 🙌.

Ahhh it seems like the official wb will finally drop some materials today. I am really curious about the rest of the cast like Liu Lingzi / Fu Dalong. Also, we still haven’t seen any info about He Jianxi (who seems to travel with Haiyan in the book) yet so I am wondering if He will make an appearance in the drama at all.

No, Haiyan is the protagonist of the book. But they said the writer Xu Lei is famous for changing his own novels when he adapts them for screen so who knows what the drama script will be like.

Yeps but I’ve seen MDL pages for rumours vs this drama where they have actually started filming. Anyway, it seems someone has updated the cast list now.

Ahhh is there a reason why the cast list has not been updated. I tried editing it but maybe they don’t accept douban as a credible source? Zhang Xincheng, Ding Yuxi and Jiang Peiyao have definitely started filming for this today though.

Ahhh the styling seems pretty close to the comic adaptation! But I wanted to see ZXC with glasses, hope we get that later on.

Ahh based on the itinerary released by his studio, he's mainly busy with filming for variety and other adhoc activities in May. I hope the rumours about him being in Judge's Honor are true though - it seems to have a solid production team behind it and we've not seen him play a judge or lawyer yet.

I agree, I loved the original ending in the book so much - it’s very open but still somehow more romantic than how both the Youku or CCTV versions of the drama ended.

Yeah, I wish they had kept that for the YK version- the CCTV version is more open imo but it’s overall a more hopeful and less harsh ending.

The finale is tomorrow for international/ tv viewers.

Yes, I am wondering, where are their lawyers, especially NY’s. Is CN system really so different from the common law system …

I consider the novel to be kind of a happy ending since they reunited so I would be happy with that 🥺

I’ve been seeing echoes of a Shakespearean tragedy in this drama and in his latest interview to promote the drama, it seems ZXC drew some parallels to Romeo and Juliet … I really hope there’s a happy ending at the end of this for NY and ZL 🥺.

Hahah I had a moment where I went, what if?? But Wan Wan doesn't really seem hostile towards Xu Yi and she's so so tiny and smol, I don't think it's possible even as an accident. It's more likely that ZL tried to cover up for NY or that NY tried to manipulate things and make it seem to ZL that it was self defense.

That would be such a romeo and juliet ending with them tragically misunderstanding each other … I hope that’s not the case 😭