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Aw that's so sad, I mean I didn't ship them but I really miss seeing the old cast together.

sure. sure. sure. so why does her Weibo have 10 million followers if everyone hates her so much? Why do Chinese netizens constantly praise her for good acting? Why do other actors and actresses even agree to work with her if they hate her? Come on. Just because you don't like her doesn't mean you can try to undermine someone's reputation.

very unpopular opinion indeed. Did you watch the scenes in Bloody Romance where she was being beaten by guards, or when she saw Chang An again but couldn't speak? Those scenes by themselves can already prove she is a very emotional actress, and add in scenes of her being happy with Chang An and you can see that she is a very talented one as well. Compare her characters in all her dramas and how she portrayed them and you will be able to see that her expressions do differ greatly in the dramas she's been in. For example, Wan Mei in Bloody Romance and Huang Rong in LOCH. One is dark but hopeful and the other is charismatic and cute, and with the way Li Yitong portrayed them both, you can easily see the difference. She is an excellent actress with great acting abilities, and that is a fact.

the chemistry is great in my opinion!

I mean his acting in The Love Lasts Two Minds was... very bad, but I feel like his acting previous works (Go Princess Go and Eternal Love) wasn't actually bad at all.

I don't think you've actually seen dramas with bad acting. Yukee's acting is fine, it's not amazing yet, but it doesn't make people want to cringe or shut off the screen in annoyance. And about her success, first of all she's really pretty and can do the whole tomboy-ish lead trope very well, but also she can do the whole super elegant and beautiful princess thing, second of all she's really charismatic, especially with her eyes and facial expressions. I don't want to drag other actors and actresses here, but I can assure you there is WAY worse acting in the drama industry, and Yukee is doing great.

Serenade of Peaceful Joy
(idk if this is what you mean but Im pretty sure this drama had a rape scene)

I think she totally has lead potential, but so far (besides Leo in this drama) her ML has always received huge backlash and so the entire show fell apart. Like in Heavenly Sword and Dragon Saber, people complimented Yukee for her looks and acting, but criticized the fight scenes and Zeng Shunxi, while in The Love Lasts Two Minds, people complimented (again) Yukee for her looks and acting, but criticized Alan Yu's stone faced acting technique.

Apparently Chong Xue Zhi had two dads in the original novel, but you can guess how that changed in the drama.

Agh please please please don't make the next few episodes super melodramatic and sad!! (I watched the teasers for eps 16-22 and I don't even know what to feel anymore)

Honestly I was really intrigued to see Yukee actually riding a horse instead of just bad CGI (as we see in too many dramas nowadays)

I had been expecting just a really cute romantic comedy like Oh My Emperor! but instead I got a cute romantic comedy, good acting, three dimensional characters and an interesting plot!

Lmao it is so hurtful seeing The Wolf on the first page of the "Upcoming" list and knowing internally that it probably won't air on that date.

The OST was released today!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPagJYelFJ0

Yukee and Leo's fight scenes in Ashes of Love were pretty good (nothing great, but better than average). I just hope they don't overuse slow motion.

I just started watching this but honestly I really want to see Zhao Lusi in a modern drama now! I feel like she's only done guzhuang since her big debut and she definitely has the looks, acting ability, and natural comedy to make a great modern day drama.

Um I've only watched one of Zhang Zhehan's dramas (Legend of Yunxi) but I do not think that he is a boring character... since he's an actor. Anyways, the only reason he doesn't smile is because is doing something called acting, and his character is cold and probably doesn't smile. How weird would it be if someone who is supposed to be cold and stone faced was acted with all smiles and cheery laughs? I watched him on the reality TV show called Actors Take Your Place or something and I was really impressed. I mean I have a bad feeling about this drama too because of Yu Zheng and the fact that it literally finished filming in 2016 and 4 years later still crickets, but I am looking forward to seeing Zhang Zhehan.

Because the second leads were from the production company I think they cut some of Zheng yecheng's scenes to give them more screen time. On Mango TV they have this option where you can just watch one actor or actresses scenes and I remember there were like five episodes where Zheng Yecheng had five-ten minutes of screen time in a 45 minute episode.

technically his birth mother is a maid but his adoptive mother is the main character - Zhen Huan.

I agree this ought to be at least a 9.0, but Nirvana in Fire... poorly written? I have to say that one is probably one of the best written historical dramas ever.