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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 😭

I’ve lost count of the number of times either of the leads made me cry. I just hope a happy ending is still possible for them!

Maybe it’s too dark for some 🥲

Same, I just want to know the entire story already!

She’s won major awards for her work in Nothing But Thirty and Like A Flowing River - Nothing But Thirty is my personal rec between the two.

I understand the drama maybe wants to show that the perception of NY and ZL based on rumours / based on what you see on the surface is untrue but I feel the scriptwriter failed to take into account that you have to set the characters up properly if you want the audience to sympathize with them … the original writer did a much better job of it from the start.

I think it’s telling that it’s the young girls who came forward to cover her up in the end - they’re young enough not to be infected by the malice the village seems to have built up against her.

To be honest, considering the themes, I was expecting the drama to be chopped to pieces by the censors when I heard this drama was going on CCTV8. But I also I heard that CCTV has a separate review process so dramas that air on it don’t have to have necessarily passed the same hoops that satellite tv dramas have to pass to be broadcast on tv.