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Right, 2022 just looks even more like the true BL war... Personally I'm anticipating The Story of the Bat because the director is also SCI Mystery's director, the scriptwriter is the original author and the main cast has acting skills :) also Silent Reading, I believe in Zhang Xincheng!

Hard to say, there have been dramas that literally announced they're airing on the day itself. Though since the broadcasting company is Tencent (aka Untamed's broadcast company), I daresay they would want to promote this one~

Imagine if WoH wins just by being the only work released this year...

Maybe not on the intl side, but Ultimate Note is VERY popular in china because the DMBJ series is pretty big there and UN is considered the most faithful adaptation so far. Though he was wearing sunglasses the whole time, I think he still got quite some fans from it too!

Excellent article! And I personally think his acting career is off to a good start between Hei Yanjing/Hei Xiazi and Hao Du :)

A funny trivia I got from the c-ent side is that between singing for Word of Honor, You Are My Hero and Rattan, Yu Ning is now dubbed the 'Security Guard of Love' (爱情保安) because all these shows have at least one couple you can ship!

Each episode gets more painful to watch but... It hurts so good 😭🤣

Nah, it was because the prequel to ATWIL was a BL, so he got confused.

A Republican-era drama centering around WWII? Ten bucks on there will be blood xD

Sure, here you go: http://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1c5411b7qs?share_medium=android&share_source=copy_link&bbid=XZB5D0BB3CA4DF9B25732945521D6F60D7EB5&ts=1609314121362

Do note that this was a sponsored video so you will see ads in the video!

(Though I have to note that there's a slight inaccuracy when referring to LYX's And the Winner is Love - he said it was adapted from a BL novel but no, the novel was BG.)

Yilong's portrayal of ANY character is charming /andthatishowhemakesyouwatchhisnotsogreatdramas/

This reminds me of a hilarious (unsubbed, unfortunately) video from a drama reviewer who asked his fans for the most tragic characters in their opinion, and realised it could be essentially boiled down to three characters - Hu Ge, Zhu Yilong and Luo Yunxi because their roles tend to be tragic xD

Also, ZYL is known as the 'walking human pulse' in China because of his numerous roles involving blood spitting ahahaha

Wuxia's*** not wuxie

I see moonchild, I see ZYL and I smash that love button. XD great writeup! I honestly wanted to do one but I wasn't as well-versed in his works despite my love for him, ahahaha, so I'm glad you did it!

Some more random extra trivia I remember from cfandom/comments:
- Fu Hong Xue is regarded as one of wuxie's most tragic hero protagonists ;_;
- you watched Dreamlike ahaha lots of people disliked that show (I love him, but I'm not sure I want to subject myself to this)
- it's rumoured that 1921 also has Bai Yu so lots of Guardian fans are excited! (Doesn't necessarily mean they will have scenes together though)
- his songs are nice and I also enjoy his covers! His cover of Mayday's Suddenly Missing You is lovely too. https://youtu.be/E3Mjrb2IaRQ
- lol I'm gonna assume you didn't watch that TwoSetViolin video where they absolutely roasted his violin playing in My True Friend ahahaha

Thanks for the great article, I love it!!

New announcement regarding Silent Reading today, it will be starting filming in February 2021! https://twitter.com/dramapotatoe/status/1335824849034309632?s=19

A SEQUEL???!?!?! Oh god yessss I loved this series so much!

They're long-lost blood brothers in the drama.

No, they aren't brothers in the novel. The brother part is a change the drama adaptation made.

Really blood brothers in the adaptation.

Someone uploaded it on YouTube but no subs unfortunately: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnhYvJ2C4IQAxBaFaSrsYTxVGnYT-OjmQ

Still blows my mind that the actress for his mother Grand Princess Liyang in Nirvana in Fire is actually YOUNGER than him (she's '78)