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I read actors tend to stay away from CEO roles including William Chan in Love and Ambition. He spoke about it that CEO roles tend to come across “greasy” meaning it’s a risk to take on. I think Xu Kai creative genius he saw beyond that in BCE and ABAY. His characters feels like a real person. There’s more to HT and YZM than the business aspects and romance. He saw the richness of the role.

You make it sound like he’s a has been. Why is China’s economy linked to Xu Kai in particular? There is so much manufactured hype but not with Xu Kai. That’s why he is so underrated and his dramas always do well but never grossly exaggerated and eventually viewers find them which I think explains why he remains popular without hype. He doesn’t play to popularity.

Part of aging. He’s going on 37.

My view of Xu Kai. Xu Kai may be marketed as idol/traffic, but his origin, choices, and interpretation style reveal someone trying to carve out a more grounded acting identity. In his interviews, he's spoken about trying to understand and embody his characters, always showing an interest in craft since the beginning of his career. It is to me why he exploded in Yanxi and subsequent roles. It had always been his natural inclination or giftedness to own the characters. He doesn't rely on idol-style fan service or constant traffic-chasing behavior. Xu Kai did not come from a singing/dancing idol background nor chase it later. These labels don't fit the reality of Xu Kai's imo. Because the Chinese entertainment is saturated with idol dramas, Xu Kai has had to participate in them, that's where the opportunities and visibility are. But he still was able to be successfully carving out each role despite idol dramas. He has always quietly focused on the craft not idol. He’s popular with over 20M Weibo following so he gets casted as traffic but he did not do anything to generate traffic, other than his dramas. At the core is his acting skills that make fans stay with him, all those amazing characters.

I know where you’re coming from but I can watch anything with Xu Kai he’s got too many amazing expressions

Not his best because he played an ice cube

ALP ❤️ ♾️

Look at his gaze in the picture above. Xu Kai has the most expressive face.

The rating for the completed is below 6.2. That means the real score is below that. Normally it’s 0.1 to 0.3 below depending on MDL bias, so the standardized is 5,9. It’s falling everyday. It seems likely to go below 5,9. This drama I don’t think deserves below 5.9 but it does reveal MDL bias where if it’s an actor they don’t like, this drama would have been probably 5.4 during its airing instead of 7.8.

Sad endings are the most memorable

Actually I thought Chinese dramas are standard crazy tragic like this which is why I stopped watching long ago all they do is cry over all tragedies in their lives until I discovered what they call “idol dramas “ with its light hearted and comedy elements mixed in and romances. I do prefer to serious tragedies.

I noticed his face was slimmer. . Losing weight will make your face more sunken. The face is the first thing noticeable when you lose weight. Usually actors faces become less plump after bodybuilding and then after 30 that youthful fat disappears. I like fat on face. Looks healthy.

“Intense?” There are no intense love scenes in CDrama.

The MDL poster of the leads doesn’t look like a happy couple. What would a body language expert say about them?

It’s not “nonsense” to those affected by war history. The suffering was inhuman and unimaginable. In the West a certain small nation had unimaginable suffering too on a much smaller scale yet they won’t let the world stop ever knowing about it and you can’t say anything bad about it yet no one ever speaks of crimes against Chinese people in history because they don’t talk about it. Of course it’s not fair to this actor whatever really did happen in thiscase.

There is enthusiasm for this drama. So much amazing sharing. It’s great to see both Xu Kai fans and Miles Wei fans sharing. I enjoy clips of both. I m looking forward to both of them. The characters seem so lively. The clips of both give me a sense of how the chemistry may play out. Hoping this drama will be a success. Now that I know Miles from FP he’s a really good actor. I think they will make good chemistry. Both of them have worked with Yang Zi they have that in common.

Can u post more weibo passport? I see a lot of good clips. I can’t translate it but I can watch clips. Thanks for sharing. MDL is great until they come.

I’ve not watched any investigative Chinese dramas. How is this one similar or different than other Tang dynasty cases? Ever since I heard of the super popular Strange Cases of Tang Dynasty drama S2, I started noticing other similar titles. Is it due to popularity of that drama that producers started making more of this genre?

Never heard of him but apparently he had a guest role in Moonlit Reunion ep 33

He does use his own voice. He’s got a good voice for historical s and excellent Mandarin. You have to look at it in context of persons background to say it’s rare.” I don’t think it’s “rare”for him but definitely has the talent for it. It’s like a kid wins national math contest and never practiced for it then that would be rare. What I noticed about acting is that even if you are a famous child actor you still have to wait until a certain age usually by 21 to 23 to breakthrough.