First Official Poster of Xiao Zhan in Period C-drama Zang Hai Zhuan

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• This is the real transition from boyband member to legit actor.

  Wang Yi Bo could never lol

  • Oh look, a new name here mentioning WYB on XZ's articles just after I mentioned previously that only WYB fans keep mentioning XZ in WYB's articles so far. Man, looks like C-ent fans/company workers are starting to spread C-ent fandom tactics to this blog.

  • Stop trying to incite a fan war TROLL

    • This is how we all should reply to these people trying to start a fanwar from now on. Don't bash any actor or actress in order to retaliate, just call out these people's troll behavior and tell them that we see through their attempt to start a fanwar lol

    • Well said! Let's call a spade a spade.

• Oh, let's hope we will not have to wait forever! Very, very exciting!

• Finally, a Xiao Zhan drama that I can look forward to. Please be good.

  • I was concerned he'd get stuck in a rut doing bland teacher love idol dramas until he was too old and then be forgotten.

    • Ace Troop, The Youth Memories, and Sunshine By My Side aren’t bland teacher love idol dramas - those fall under military, period and urban genres. The Youth Memories which is on its 31st re-run on tv is back again on CCTV-1. Please check your ignorance before stepping on him. Just because you only watch idol dramas doesn’t mean he doesn't have other works outside of the idol genre. Also, he has wuxia Legend of Condor Heroes movie with Tsui Hark coming out this summer.

    • How though?

      He has done and is doing non-idol projects for a while now. Started with Ace Troops and then Sunshine by my Side, Youth Memories, Legend of the Condor Heroes then this.

      They are all different genres and none of them have anything to do with love idol dramas. His next movie is a war drama. What a strange statement.

    • Ace Troops, Where Dreams Begin, Sunshine By My Side are not idol dramas. I think you have him confused with your idols. Stop being jealous and bitter. lol

    • Too "concerned" no?

      Also, ageist. Tch. XZ only started acting in 2016, so that's not even 10 years in the acting business but see, his acting portfolio (web, tv, theatre, film) is nothing to scoff at, considering his educational background is not in the performance arts. He's not a nepo kid either so the climb is slow and steady. I watched most of his works and I see great improvements. I really look forward to his new works.

      He is *the* top traffic superstar right now, and his face is plastered across billboards (digital, printed even hand-painted) far beyond China. Who could forget? :)

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      I have been reading the comments section here for the past few years but was not motivated to sign up and leave words until today (18.5.2024). Let us see if I will regret this flight of fancy on a lazy Saturday afternoon LOL.

• I was hoping for a short trailer, but guess it's still too early for it?

  • 🤣 I was scrolling down looking for link too...

    • Hopefully we can get one on the day they finished filming.

• I really like Zhang Jing Yi. She reminds of old school HK actresses - a soulful and understated beauty.

  • I agree. That’s a good description of her.

  • I like her too cos her drama, Lighter & Princess, was one of very rare C dramas I got to finish without skipping one scene. I was relieved when they officially announced her casting as the FL. LOL. XZ had bad luck with most of his FLs.

• Woah....I like this. I hope XZ goes on to do more edgier roles. Somehow exquisite delicate faces can be even more powerful than manlier masculine faces because it’s so unexpected.

  • Not sure where you're seeing exquisite delicate face here?

    Xiao Zhan is classically handsome and those faces will always be more powerful.

• One of the best solo posters I’ve seen in a whileeee. It’s the type I’d order and stick on a wall if I were still at the age of doing so. I’m a relatively new Xiao Zhan fan and still catching up with his older stuff. The dark intensity here looks better than everything I have seen from his past filmography.

  On the other hand I don’t know anything at all about Zhang Jing Yi. I hope to see her soon ideally with a nice poster too. But more I want the trailer.

• This poster went viral, it was absolutely insane on the day of the conference. Not to mention it's just a poster, not even a trailer and it exploded.

  He looks fantastic here not because he is hot, though he is, but because the poster and the look in his eyes convey exactly what they should. Mastermind, coldness, determination. So good. I am desperately hoping for a trailer at the end of the month once they finish filming. This drama took five months to film and with Zheng Xiaolong helming it, I am so excited. Youku seems very invested too.

• There are no "both leads" in this drama.

  There is only one lead and you can see him in this poster. Everyone else is a supporting character and has minor roles. This is not a romance drama, it's a side thing while a much bigger thing is happening. I am so tired of this drama being reduced to romance that is a small side plot.

• THIS, is the ONLY one C drama I'm looking forward to. I kept checking new C dramas this year but kept being disappointed again and over again. The most recent one was Will Love in Spring that all started feeling fresh in the plot but I eventually dropped it cos the drama painted funeral makeup professional too rosy to be realistic, which was one of the major weakness in modern C dramas, beautifying everything.

  XZ is so versatile that he has been taking different roles across different genres. He is talented. What he needs is good directors with good scripts and he has no problem to nail any roles. ZHZ is the only one since The Untamed that I feel very positive with no qualms about the whole production package to present an excellent product. The Youth Memories was also surprisingly good but unfortunately and unavoidably the post-Republican drama had state propaganda elements in the storylines. I hope there aren't many parts in ZHZ to be cut off because of censorship.

  Director Zheng Xiaolong is genuinely a critically acclaimed film maker. His numerous works including Empresses in the Palace and Red Sorghum were highly praised with high ratings. To be able to work with such a renowned director in the filming industry, XZ is once again recognized for his acting caliber. ZXL isn't someone to pick any random idol liuliangs to work with. LOL.