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I have that one on my list, too ! I love the main leads, especially the main male lead.

Wasn't there supernatural chicken in "Parallel world", too? And aren't "Parallel World" and "7 relics" written by the same author?

Maybe there is a link between those two dramas. Or it's just the author liking the idea of supernatural chicken and using them in his novels.

True, she was amazing in that drama. The trauma the FL was going through, the mystery, the pain and she was crushing it with the crying scenes in "Derailment". And it's the same here with 7 relics.

She does so very well in those kind of genres. It's too bad that romance is not her forte. I get the no kissing, but if she could sell the romance, the longing one feels for a loved one, through body language, I would gladly watch romance dramas with her. But even there, I felt she was lacking in her last romance drama with.

It's strange as she can be one of the best actresses in serious dramas, sci-fi dramas, pain dramas, but be blah in romance dramas. It's a mystery to me.

Maybe it's because english is not my first language but my god, can you at least make an effort to write in a comprehensible english, please?

Plus, I already said I don't care about the no kisses if the couple has chemistry and can convey love and passion and longing through body language.

She can't.

She is fantastic in other areas, mostly serious, dramatic dramas. She has an amazing talent for crying. But the love language is foreign to her.

Her contract isn't for life. When it's time to renew it, she should add that "no romance close" if she can't deliver even by simple body language communication.

Second, it's not the first time that this issue arises and it looks like this time, it's getting more traction. She could go back to acting school to learn technics about intimacy, body language and generally romance in acting.

Or she could just admit that she isn't confortable with romance, she knows it, her agency knows it, now fans and the medias know it so if she is hired for romance dramas in the future, yes, the blame will be on the director and casting people's heads. And the fans will know it beforehand and choose whether to watch her romance dramas or not.

I will watch her next drama with Song Wei Long. It'ts adventure/sci-fi and the romance should be minimum, maybe even absent. But from now on, I will no longer watch romance dramas if she is the main lead.

PS: please don't tell me what to do, think or say, or to shut up. This is a forum discussion, we can tell it like it is.

In that case, she should add to her contract : "no romance drama".

Honestly, I just saw a clip of the two leads running towards each other and jumping into each other's arms. The actress is LITTERALLY holding back, her head and shoulders moving away from the actor.

I expected AT LEAST in this kind of scene for the actress to snuggle into the actor's shoulder/neck, to simulate intimacy and joy of being back together. And not shrinking away in just a simple romantic scene like this one with no kissing.

I had loved her in "Derailment". I had heard about the no kissing scene but I didn't mind, if the rom-com captures the mood, the feeling of being in love and missing your loved one through body language.

But even there, she fails specularly.

She really should, from now on, stay away from romantic roles and focus on dramatic ones.

I really wanted to love that drama. But... I'm not feeling the romance and it has nothing to do with no kissing.

The chemistry is okay, could be better but it's all right, thanks, mainly, to Wang An Yu who could have chemistry with a piece of furniture.

The scenery is very nice so it's a cool drama to look at.

I love the FL's relationship with her dad. Or the complicated relationship the ML has with his family, I want to know more about it.

But it's lacking in the romance department. And here, IMO, the fault lies with Liu Hao Cun. She is an amazing actress in other genres. I have seen her in "Derailment", where the romance wasn't the main theme of the drama. I recommand you watching this drama just for her. I have seen Wang An Yu in another romance drama, " Forever love", I believe and he was just perfect in that role, a youth drama too.
I really wanted to love that drama. But... I'm not feeling the romance and it has nothing to do with no kissing.



Usually, I turn towards the second couple but here, they are not a couple (maybe that will change?) and they are more interested in talking about the MLs than doing their things or being in a relationship so it's a bit annoying that there's no real couple to get invested in, in this drama.

I truly believe that Liu Hao Cun is just not confortable with playing the FL in a romantic drama. At least for now, it could change in the future with personal and professional experience but apparently, she doesn't want to gain that professional experience. I heard about the no kissing, but actors and actresses are supposed to be able to play every kind of roles. If she is not okay with kissing or rom-coms, then maybe she shouldn’t act in those kinds of dramas. And I truly believe that she is NOT confortable in the rom-com genre, and not just the kissing. The entire romance genre.

I feel like she is trying to move away from rom-com/idol dramas and be in more serious dramas, even if it means being SFL.

On the Youtube Channel "Marcus here", he said that she had been cleared of the accusations because there was proof that the recording had been manufactured, with words chosen here and there to make it look like she was insulting the chinese people. It was her ex-assistant who did this, because of personal and professional issues between them. A vengeance.

Apparently, she is back to shoot her drama and be part of the promotional posters, and stuff like that.

Marcus is rather down to earth and sticks to facts, numbers so I think it's true.

Still, if I were the channel which had the rights to this drama, I would air dropped it out of the blue, just in case.

No, that's not it. I must mix it with another drama. I think it aired around the same time as "Always have, always will", and the actress for the drama I mentioned was also small and young, so I thought it was Chen Fang Tong.

But it's not this drama. I really can't remember the name or the actor. Just that it aired either in 2020 or 2021.

Yep, we can say good-bye to this drama. Sigh another one.

Is there an early drama missing in her bio? Didn't she play in a youth drama where she was the daughter of a martial art man, was going to school where her idol drama also went to? And she had a crush on him and started protecting him from other people, fans and so on?

I remember that the youth actor had health issues, had a passion for science and space and was living alone but under the tight control of his mother?

Unless I'm making a mistake and it was another actress who looks like her?

For "A beautiful lie"? it's not a drama which is currently airing, it's from last year. Anybody could read the reviews here on MDL.

Or you mean my previous comment?

Yeah, I think "A beautiful lie" had a happy ending but the drama? WORST ENDING EVER for a modern rom-com. It didn't follow the novel. So now when I read "yes, the novel has a happy ending", it doesn't mean that the drama will have one, too.

I'm starting to think that there won't be a happy ending. Or if there is, it will be rushed.

So far, the ML is slowly dying of poison. He either isn't looking for an antidote, or he knows there isn't one (the FL's mother was poisoned first and there was an antidote since the monster she had married was proposing her one as long as she stayed with him, but he could have used another poison for the ML).

The FL is going as far as threatening to stab a consort in her own palace. I'm fearing she is going to slowly lose her mind. Unless she leaves the capital in the end to live a more simple life in a less dangerous, corrupted environment, even after getting her revenge on her father, she will make new enemies, like Duke Qi. More and more enemies, that's how she is, by trying to help whoever she meets.

One day, she might meet her end from one of those enemies. Or she will loses it completly to defend herself.

Apart from that, the sister is going to meet her fate, too. Duke Qi will either kill her, or she will kill herself. She took the drastic decision to free her beloved horse, burn all her belongings, she feels responsible for her brother's death..., yeah, I think her fate is sealed and she knows it. She freed her horse for that reason. She didn't want to bring him to Duke Qi's house, knowing that he could kill her horse in a fit or rage.

I considered that since the ML had been adopted. Since it was mentioned more than once, plus the Pei Dafu's adopted son is ALWAYS mentioned, I wondered at one point if the son was right under our noses.

Because of who the target is: and the targets are chinese women and what they want. They want rom-com, or even serious romantic drama but with fairytale men.

As another poster said, it's p*** for women. In p*** for men, women are completly unrealistic, and it's the same here with p*** for women.

Same here. So when I post, I usually use FL (Female lead), ML (Male lead), SML (Second male lead), SFL, First couple, second couple, FL's father, ML's mother and so on.

They are both clever and both are scheming people. But the difference is in the FL being more of a show off and arrogant (in episode 14, her "don't go against me" with that smirk, yeah, that's annoying) while the ML is more subtle and therefore, it's less irritating.

It's not a question of male vs female. A male can be just as annoying when arrogant, here, it's the female, as simple as that.

And I'm not talking about "gentle". She is as ruthless as a man, because she needed to be. I get that. I'm talking about how she appears, that's all. Arrogant. Being too trusting her her own abilities could lead to her downfall.

I think what the poster you replied to means, is that both characters are clever and grey. I love this drama. But the FL acts as someone who knows she is intelligent and as if everyone else is below her in terms of intelligence. She knows everything and is acting very arrogantly.

I don't blame the actress. She is following the script and the director's orders. But yeah, I too find her irritating in her lack of modesty where her brain is concerned. I think that's why she is always so agressive towards the ML. She knows he is just as clever, if not more clever than her in some cases, and it gets on her nerves because of that arrogance.

Nobody likes a show off. The ML is just as clever but not annoyingly so. He is more subtle.