Meng Zi Yi and He Yu Confirmed as Leads for Period C-drama Dong Feng Xin Starting Filming Next Month in March
There was a lot of male lead in discussion changes last month for this drama but now it’s set and about to kick off filming. Period C-drama Dong Feng Xin 东风信, adapted from the web novel Wo Hua Kai Hou Bai Hua Sha 我花开后百花杀, will star Meng Zi Yi and He Yu, the latter is going from the filming of modern drama Speed and Love (Double Track) to this set. The first male lead in talks for this drama was Ding Yu Xi, and then it became Chen Fei Yu, and when that happened netizens got unhappy with the proposed pairing of him with Meng Zi Yi. Now things have settled down with He Yu taking the male lead role and this will be a big drama for Meng Zi Yi as the top billed and a big budget project going to her after her hit with the drama Blossom.
This is the best ML choice for me out of the three mentioned! Hoping for the script to be good.
He Yu not a shabby choice at all. Have not read the novel so not quite sure of the storyline.
I’ve read the novel and it has more than 800 chapters. It’ll be interesting to adapt the novel into a drama. Because both characters are villainous sometimes.
Currently reading Qi Xing Cai, and rumor said that Ju Jingyi will be the FL. But i wish it’s Meng Ziyi or Wang Churan instead.
I’m at chapter 400 and they aren’t “villainous sometimes”. Both of them are the darkest shade of grey (until now, the FL had 1 person while the ML had 2 people eaten alive by wild beasts as punishment) throughout the first half of the novel and they would be the ultimate villain couple if the story was from the perspective of their opponents. This type of anti-heros don’t pass the censors, so they’ll either water down the story and lose its charm or put out an almost completely new story that share little more than character names with the source material.
ML seems promising but not keen on Meng Zi Yi at all. If it was any other actress except all the typical idols and those under YuZheng, might be keen to give it a shot. Random but where is Ni Ni these days, she barely does any dramas.
For a C costume drama, cast don’t matter that much to me. Script and directing matter more instead.
BTW, per the blogs and comments on this site, I got the impression that Cdrama fans seem to be very critical of CFY. But I think he’s a decent actor per Ever Night and Lighter & Princess. What has he done to offend so many fans? LOL.
I also think Chen Feyu is very charismatic on screen but he gets flack for being a nepo baby. Ever night was a big production and he was a rookie when he got cast, these type of prod don’t cast people like that, they normally get a traffic star to generate buzz, and he wasnt at that time. Comparing with Dylan in S2, he was miles ahead with his own voice. He is one of the better nepo babies in my opinion. GXT and FCC are kinda boring on camera.
defintiely preferred him as Ning Que in Ever Night over Dylan. he had more gravitas while still maintaining Ning Que’s playful attitude compared to Dylan. he does have charisma but personally think he’s only good in certain roles (arrogant characters like Ning Que and Li Xun). don’t mind his casting. the only time I didn’t quite like it is the one with reba, since their visuals dont vibe in my opinion.