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No clear timeline. It's reported (cmiiw) that the casts started Jan 2022 and he joined February. The filming lasted until June (cmiiw) but there's no clear reports when he specifically finished filming it because as y'all know even though he is second billing, his screentime was less than those of the other casts.

It's not a matter of who's more powerful anyway lmao. FL might be getting the upper hand in the outside but the ML working his way through all of this is way more interesting to watch.

About your first question, it seems so but pretty sure there's more to that.

Second question, it seems like Shan Bao's deliberate revenge that pertains here is since he have amnesia, she took him home and made him her personal servant since they have grudges in the past but she is not the cause of his unfortunate incident. It's a separate incident.

Yes, he love the character so much. He's a fan of Wang Ye and the source material. He specifically auditioned for the Wang Ye role himself, no wonder his happiness is obvious 😂🥹🫶.

Still no info, usually the list of crew will come out sometime before the official filming. Hesong needs to get to work fr to give him good resources 😑. I read that one too, director Xu Ji Zhou liked his performance as Wang Ye and it played a part on why he casted him as the male lead for 逍遥. It is said that iQIYI wanted their signed artists to be the lead roles but director XJZ refused and he decided the lead roles himself.

For official recognition, we will need to wait for the official announcement in the weibo blog but if it's confirmation in the unofficial way by reliable melon owner then yes, it's them both for male and female lead role. For the director, I read from c-🥝s that YZ said that there will be two directors (one man and one woman), atm the woman (Ms. Zhang Zhi Wei) from Fortune Writer was announced by him.

Give him the male lead treatment that he deserve and we 🥝s will give our full support. Just don't give us the distressing behind the scenes "drama" like his previous dramas.

Welcome 💃.

Indeed 😄.

Yes, it will start filming in early March.

• Synopsis:

After taking office as the magistrate of Chun'an County, the young champion Lu Jiang Lai repeatedly solved strange cases, but he was involved in an old case of murdering his wife, which caused him to fall from a rising star in the officialdom to a desperate situation. When he was on the verge of death, he was fortunately rescued by Rong Shan Bao, the daughter of the tea king. The arrogant Lu Jiang Lai had once fought for power with the powerful Rong family, which led to Shan Bao's deliberate revenge.

Taking advantage of his serious injury and amnesia, and his identity being a mystery, he was taken home and demoted to the lowest groom. In order to avoid being hunted down, Lu Jiang Lai made the best of a mistake and pretended to obey. When the Rong family announced that they would recruit a son-in-law, it triggered a competition among the prominent families in Jiangnan, each with their own ulterior motives. Lu Jiang Lai was accidentally involved in it and, by mistake, became a chess piece in the game between Shan Bao and everyone else.

• Character Setting:

The male protagonist is called Lu Jiang Lai. When he was a child, he worked as a book boy in a wealthy family. He suffered from bullying and passed the imperial examination. After that, everyone who had harmed him either disappeared or was suddenly killed, but it was always a mystery whether he did it or not. He was assassinated because he intervened in an old case and offended the powerful. After losing his memory, he was rescued by Rong Shan Bao, the head of the female family, and became her personal servant. There are too many men who want to marry Rong Shanbao, but he doesn't want to. He has ten thousand ways to make every man who covets Rong Shan Bao come with excitement and return with disappointment. When the truth gradually surfaces, when memories come like a tide, when his life experience gradually becomes clear, does he choose to be a behind-the-scenes man in the female family, or treat everything as a dream and return to the original world? Unprecedented, tea-like male protagonist, gender-reversed version of Wei Ying Luo (The FL of Story of Yanxi Palace), very ambitious, little wolf dog showing fangs from time to time.

• Yu Zheng added another brief summary of Lu Jiang Lai's character:

The vengeful green tea boy, who rose from a book boy to the top of the imperial examination and became an official with his perseverance and indomitable spirit, appears to be smooth and has high emotional intelligence, but is vicious and cruel at heart.

• Green tea means a person pretending to be innocent and kind but is in fact manipulative and calculating.

I copy pasted this from my post before.

I observed the 逍遥 production team don't like that much spoilers flying around before it even aired that's why it's quiet. But I agree that can they give a lil treat because I'm starving for Hong Ye materials atp.

I did not expect that high but I can't believe the quality of the materials released was THAT low.

I hope 逍遥 have a strong plot and script with excellent grasp of direction.

LITC's materials were inferior and cheap looking af. I still feel pissed af every time I'm reminded and it's been days after that farce.

Wdym by this. Do you mean the "unknown-type-of-underrated" or "deserve-more-than-this-type-of-underrated". I will agree if it's the latter. The capitalists behind always use him to promote their artists for their own selfish gains without a care in messing up the storyline of the drama. After FoF aired, his business endorsements kept coming and popularity soared. With Diamond 1 level in supertopic, 9999+loyal fans in every posts etc. He's booked and busy, There are many curious or jealous individuals in douban asking how he gained many active fans etc. etc and what's the secret lmaoooo. His next drama, though the producer is an insufferable piece of prick, he's got a knack in producing.
IMHO, I have more confidence on "逍遥" than LITC considering their parade of crappy materials last 10th. But ofc, I want to be proven wrong that they can do better. Waiting for LITC's redemption arc.

Yes, he said he will consider it 🤣.

37.2k flowers, 4100+ hearts and rank #32 🥺🫶

Yes, Fortune Writer and An Ancient Love Song are one of those dramas that I find on par with long length dramas. It's because they have THE plot that can be taken seriously and was guided by a capable director. And yes, the director of An Ancient Love Song is Zi Zhu and she's also the director for Love in The Clouds.

Thanks for your insights as the watcher who finished watching it. I watched up to ep 10 last year and I was intrigued because for a short drama the quality is indeed good and well made.

What can you say about it

Minghao's next drama "Yu Ming Cha Gu".