There are weird casting choices and this one is weird from both the leads itself and within the context of this being a sequel to a first season. Tencent is releasing xianxia C-drama The Land of Warriors with Zhou Yi Ran and Zhang Yu Xi on November 25th taking over for Love Game in Eastern Fantasy. Land of Warriors is the sequel to the C-drama Duoluo Continent starring Xiao Zhan and Wu Xuan Yi and the story continues from where that ended. So Zhou Yi Ran and Zhang Yu Xi are playing the same roles as Xiao Zhan and Yu Xuan Yi and I’m like wut? He’s aged down and she’s aged up from the first season and neither have anything resembling the vibes of the original leads. I wished they made this a different story in which case not to mention Zhou Yi Ran is a super young and Zhang Yu Xi is nearly ten years older and also she just gives off mature woman vibes to begin with. Weird all around.
I mean wouldn’t it be annoying if they made it a whole other series. The last series left it at such a cliff hanger I’m sure most would want to know what happens next. It suck the other characters are too busy and too important to continue a sequel but you gotta do what you gotta do. Though the main actress is a hit and miss and the main actor as well. She always seems to look the same to me though and I don’t notice the age difference by these stills. They both look fairly young to me and she has always been a mature beauty in my eyes because it has been her image since day 1.
This pairing is not visually bad as in comparison to the LJJ and LJY. I’m not a fan of both leads nor will I tune in for this drama, but I wouldn’t have noticed the age gap if you had not mention it.
Zhang Yu Xi looks young but because she always play sensible and serious roles so she may carry a mature vibe.
Between Zhang Yu Xi and Wu Jin Yan, Zhang is definitely more youthful looking.
And in The Double, WJY (34) is 12 years older than Wang Xing Yue (22) and she definitely looks older than her age on screen. I had a hard time accepting WJY in the Double, as a young unmarried woman like 16 years old. I think in the novel Wu Jin Yan’s character is supposed to be 14 years old.
To be frank, since WJY looks older and haggard, so it’s best they find more compatible actors.
In the case of Zhang Yu Xi in Duoluo, I prefer her playing a more sensible than cutesy role as what Wu Xuan Yi did. Anyway it’s a Xianxia so age doesn’t matter.