OMG this is like a bad joke taken too long. Liu Shi Shi got a big career reassurance thanks to her last drama A Journey to Love being a hit and her performance also getting praise. That drama helped other cast members too, with Liu Yu Ning going on to top bill his next dramas and supporting leads from Alan Feng and He Lan Dou all gaining popularity and limelight of their own. A relative unknown young actor Chang Hua Sen got a big boost playing the lovelorn obsessed student to Liu Shi Shi’s assassin character. I can see why viewers like him, he’s young, good looking, has good onscreen chemistry, but there was suddenly this overly big push to make him happen that really rubbed me the wrong way. Fan shippers were shipping his character with Liu Shi Shi (ewwwww) and also giving him unduly high praise. He was just good but the groundswell of pretty ridiculous praise made him seem like the second coming of the next It Actor. Which he is not. His character and the subsequent buzz made him both the Gretchen Weiner of AJTL and also trying to Make Fetch Happen. It’s not going to happen but unfortunately he’s going to be in Shi Shi’s next drama Kill My Sins as a major male supporting actor like he was in AJTY and worst yet his character will have a lot of screen time opposite Shi Shi again. *headdesk*
I don’t understand why Koala would think this is a bad thing.
His fans were going overboard -fine, many fans do – but he has taken another support role to slowly build his career and gain experience. Whether this puts him opposite Liu Shi Shi or another actress makes very little difference. As long as the actors remain professional,, crazed out fans will not change anything.
Exactly, people need to get over it. He’s not the lead and he’s just slowly building his career up like all other young actors. He’s kinda similar to Zhang Linghe in that he’s a STEM graduate who decided to debut in entertainment but is very awkward (i think he tried to display his math skills by teaching his fans how to solve equations on Douyin lol) and not as good looking as ZLH so he isn’t getting leading roles from the getgo.
People need to remember that Cecilia Liu herself started like this 20 years ago, IIRC she did a support role in Young Warriors with Eddie Peng, Hu Ge, Peter Ho. Then she kept starring with Hu Ge in other shows. It doesn’t really mean much, they are coactors who get along enough to cooperate again. That’s all.
Yeah, he is being pushed big time by capital but this is how Chinese entertainment works.
They pick the next big IT actor. They push him like crazy, his fans are directed to make a lot of noise. Bought hot searches, linking etc.
They never become the next big IT actor and usually mess up a lot of dramas on the way out. Sorry Koala but it doesn’t look like this mess will change any time soon.
China has basically forgotten what organic popularity means and are hell bent on creating stars (even though it never works).
I don’t find him handsome and just got tired of him in AJTL, plain and simple. And people really ship that? Now this is leaving a bad taste in my mouth for this drama.
I hope he’s given a super likeable 2ML role otherwise it looks like they are just bringing the delulu to this drama too.
Like enough is enough. 😵💫
He is good looking? They really like baby face actors…
Of the billions in the country, they choose half-starved scrawny adult men with pubescent faces to be “stars”.
I thought the country wanted to eliminate boy-love genre cause they wanted to encourage masculinity in their men… would help to cast some who actually looks like they won’t be blown away by a gentle breeze and are sturdy enough to protect the female lead.
“Fetch” needs to die.
I wonder too🤔. Instead of keeping fit and healthy…the newbies are losing weight, going for facial treatment, learning to put on makeup. anyway, it is just all too much for me.
@Sylvia Contrary to what some people think, C-ent isn’t controlled singularly by the Chinese government. It’s a complicated mess of multiple parties/factions with their own agendas. They have various “circles” such as HK, Taiwan, Shanghai, Beijing etc and some even receive funding from overseas investors. Look at how platforms are “accidentally” releasing some BL dramas and then taking them down shortly, they’ll always try to find loopholes. Besides, the Chinese government is only against actors looking feminine, they aren’t against looking like young boys.
Aw here we go the most avid and obnoxious CCP mouthpiece again! LOL. Commie coup must give this Lilith lackey a grant award for defending the evil regime constantly. Who would believe the Chinese govt isn’t controlling everything in China, specifically when huge profits are involved? Lilith lapdog of CCP is desperately spreading lies again to whitewash the dictatorship. LOL. Look at Alibaba, Tencent, and many other top corps in China that CCP all have heavy hands on their upper management and board of directors now! C-ent surely is not exempt from CCP’s party control. Where is Jack Ma and what is he doing now? LMAO. Only simpletons would be so gullible to take Lilith’s fallacy seriously. LOL.
Lilith! You have to give up heavy propaganda here on an English ent forum. Or just take some pills to get a grip yourself. You’re so desperate to advertise image for your master CCP. It used to work to just brainwash the rest of the world that way, but not anymore. You only make yourself a laughing stock by actively lobbying for the Chinese government outside China. Things have changed against the favor of CCP after Wuhan virus were leaked from the Wuhan P3 lab and spread on purpose to the rest of the world.
@Lilith the ccp may not be the only power at play in the c-ent? Understatement much? They determine who gets cancelled, limit length of shows, and even restrict content of the work. The whole industry prances to the beat of their drum. So… yeah… they alone have the biggest control. To say otherwise is a total lie.
@Sylvia That’s literally what I said? Biggest control, but not all of it (controlled singularly). If the whole industry really follows their words to the T, how did The Spirealm get “accidentally” released?
@Sylvia You said it, biggest control, but not all of it. If the whole industry really follows their words to the T, how did The Spirealm get “accidentally” released?
@Lilith, I’ve heard about these factions. I’ll have to say though, to act the way they act, they must also have connections to powerful figures in the government. While it may not be the public government associations call all the shots in c-ent, at the end of the day I do think ultimately what happens is controlled by the government/people in the the government based on what faction they are supporting.
@Jia I agree with you. But this goes to show that the Chinese government isn’t as uniform as what people think. The brain wants to ban this thing, but the arms and legs have other thoughts of their own.
No hate on the actor, but I think he was overhyped in AJTL just to challenge Liu Yuning. He played one of the worst written, more annoying characters ever in an overall good drama, but still, people were shipping him with Ren Ruyi just out of spite for LYN.
Totally this! I had hope for him at the beginning in AJTL but toward the end, he was no longer likeable to me. Not even a little bit.
I do hope his character will be much better in this drama.🤞
I don’t disagree with your last sentence. Nonetheless, I did find LYN’s love lines with LSS overkill and got extremely boring by the end. LYN’s acting was discounted bcos of that. He appeared as smarmy as he could. CHS’ stories and crazy obsession, on the other hand, just gave a stark contrast and a fresh break from LYN’s overly caregiver love. LOL.
I agree with you. His wild child intensity made LYN seem bland and passionless. I quite liked his devotion to his teacher. His childhood with her very touching. But like with all wild childs one gets exhausted and begins to appreciate a normal even person tho
I prefer LYN being intense like in TLB.
What is TLB then? Aw you speak totally like a normal fan with a rational mind when you’re not ass kissing Russia and China. Why can’t you be like this all the time? LOL
Hmm, I think the contrast was between a relationship between responsible adults and a delusional love-obsessed child that should have given up ages ago for everyone’s sake. Anyway, the problem with that show was that the probably had to adjust to the new 40 eps max rule so the last ten episodes or so where condensing 20 more. The result was bumpy and uneven, of course. But the main couple did give me vibes of people who would be together irl because they were so well matched even if the tension that many viewers look for had settled early on. I like tension myself, but Li Tongguang was not adding tension, he just played with my nerves!!
…and people said the Liu Yuning was a screen time stealer with big capital behind him. Whether that’s true or not, it’s obvious that he wasn’t the only one LOL.
I personally loved Ning Yuan Zhou because Ren Ruyi, having lived the life she did, deserved to be with someone who was caring, supportive, and an equal in skills and intelligence. For the life of me, I can’t understand why they made LTG so chaotic, even having some sort of loveline with nearly all of the main female characters. Oh wait, big capital.
Good thing LSS’s career is at a stage where she’s above the fray. And this new CHS character makes more sense.
I hope his fans don’t come at me. I watched him in Youth With You 3 as a contestant. My first impression was this kid is tall and good looking, but he really grated my nerves near the end. He got an unreasonable amount of screen time for someone who couldn’t sing, rap, or dance. All he ever did was cry, try to show off his intelligence (scores/major) and the production tried so hard to make his CP with another popular contestant. I felt like there were more talented trainee(s) from his agency, but his agency put a lot of resources on him instead. This industry is insanely unfair, and nothing is going to change about it any time soon.
He looks too young for her as her ML. And he is not good looking at all. Can they just stop casting young actors looking like they haven’t weaned off nursing with mature actresses please. I don’t mind if the young actor look mature and fit visually with the mature actress. But he really looks like a kid. 🙄🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
The ML is Shawn Dou, his is just a support role.
He’s not a bad actor and is definitely growing, but his character in AJTL was overhyped and became useless and annoying when he met Ruyi again. Damn, is he really confirmed for this? I hope he doesn’t take a lot of screen time or get an overhyped character again because we already got 2nd ML Zheng Yecheng, we don’t need another 2ML 1+1 especially if the drama is only 24-30 eps.
I was indifferent to CHS’ character in AJtL at first. I found his storylines a fresh deviation from the excessive but pretty dull storylines between LYN and LSS, nonetheless. LYN was getting smarmy and how he romanced the heroine became more and more like caregiver love. LOL. I had a very positive review of the very first few eps but the love lines of the OTP became a mehhhh and a big turn off by the end. I actually skipped all those corny scenes between LYN and LSS for the 2nd half of the drama. Not because I approve of those shippers of CHS with LSS, but CHS’ green/fresh acting at least gave me some fresh air and break from LYN’s oily yet banal love scenes with LSS. LOL
I’m still indifferent to CHS’ acting career though. Not his fan yet.
Lmao true. His character provided a much needed break from LYN for me; his scenes were getting so boring and dull toward the second half I’d literally watch anyone with LSS (doesn’t have to be CHS). If anything, I think Koala dislikes CHS cos she’s a fan of LYN.
Also, this rumor is unfounded. Kill My Sins announced the cast yesterday and ChS is not part of it. Zheng Yecheng is the 2nd male lead. The drama is also a Youku production while Chang Huasen is a so-called “iQiyi Prince”. Unless he springs us a surprise appearance I don’t think he’s part of the cast.
Is she a fan of LYN? Then why did she post out of nowhere an unfounded poll showing LYN is the least likeable actor that actresses fandoms want their faves to costar with? LOL.
It’s a pity people refuse to research and find the truth.
People are so full of hate towards somebody only based on rumors and assumptions made out of thin air.
Shawn Dou is going to be 1st male lead. Zheng Yecheng is going to be the 2nd male lead. CHS is going to be the 3rd male lead.
He’s cute, but he should definitely stay paired with leading ladies in his age bracket (or those who look like it) because in AJTL, I liked his synergy with the younger ladies instead of his pairing with Liu Shi Shi (crazed, desperate pining aside). Too bad he’ll be a “second” male lead again, probably with a some sort of love line too, NOOOO.
I think a supporting role is suitable for an actor of his calibre. I think taking supporting roles in quality dramas will be better for developing skills compared to lead roles in lower budget dramas. I think he has good screen presence and portrayed his tantrum-y manchild character pretty well in AJTL. I feel he is in a similar position as Sun Zhenni after TTEOTM as in people see potential but they haven’t really proven themselves yet.