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C-actress Ren Min’s Team Reportedly Will No Longer Accept Period Roles After She’s Criticized Yet Again for Her Visuals in Recently Airing Period Drama White Cat Legend

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So I think the whole fallout with C-actress Ren Min and her period visuals (or lack thereof) with last year’s xianxia C-drama The Longest Promise was after she had filmed additional period dramas. Since then I don’t believe she’s accepted another period role and looks like it’s intentionally not going to happen anymore. She’s currently in the period drama White … Continue reading →

Park Hyung Sik in Talks for Thriller K-drama Treasure Island About an Amnesic Thief

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I like Park Hyung Sik but he has so many mid K-dramas and only the occasional hit that I’m left wondering if it’s his inability to pick scripts or its himself. I totally dropped his last drama Dr. Slump with Park Shin Hye even though I liked it well enough at the beginning it just didn’t hook me and that … Continue reading →

C-actress Ju Jing Yi Has Officially Become the Next Angelababy for C-netizens in Terms of Trying Too Hard to Look Pretty Coupled with Bad Acting

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So the brief downfall of Angelababy after her Crazy Horse show attendance last year did leave a spot for aspiring C-actresses to try and land roles and CFs and brad invites. But unfortunately for C-actress Ju Jing Yi there was also the spot for worst C-actress ever and now she’s been slotted in as the next Angelababy. I have to … Continue reading →

Modern Family and Romance C-drama Best Choice Ever with Yang Zi and Xu Kai Readies for Major April 2024 Release and Promotion

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So word on the street is that modern C-drama Best Choice Ever (Cheng Huan Ji) is scheduled for broadcast next month in April 2024. It will air on Tencent and the platform is already expecting a hit, due to the buzz already generated. Leads Yang Zi and Xu Kai are well liked and the cast consists of many veterans and … Continue reading →

First Posters for Modern Romance C-drama The First Frost with Bai Jing Ting and Zhang Ruo Nan Based on the Brother’s Story From Hidden Love

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The fandom fights are breaking out and could be way more interesting that then actual drama lol. The C-drama The First Frost started filming recently and this week released the first posters along with the confirmed casting of leads Bai Jing Ting and Zhang Ruo Nan. This drama is more buzzed about than usual because the story is from the … Continue reading →

Zhao Lu Si Gets Netizen Mockery for Her Whole Look Attending Brand Event in Macau

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So it wasn’t the best weekend for C-actress Zhao Lu Si but at least se wasn’t trying to play it safe. Zhao Lu Si was in Macau attending a brand CF event and ended up getting dragged through the C-netizen snarky critique circuit for her entire look. From the long messy hair to the unattractive makeup job to the awkward … Continue reading →

Top Actress Dilraba Dilmurat Personally Resolved the Chen Zhe Yuan Billing Brouhaha in Love on the Turquoise Land By Changing Out Male Lead to Chen Xing Xu

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So this whole situation makes me appreciate how professional and positive Dilraba Dilmurat is, I don’t find her a really good actress but she’s got a reputation for being a beloved star in C-ent for a reason. Her currently filming C-drama Love on the Turquoise Land was supposed to star Chen Zhe Yuan and it was a done deal. Then … Continue reading →

Queen of Tears Passes 14% Ratings in Episode 6 as the OTP Action Takes a Return Trip to Germany with More Reveals

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So the trajectory of tvN drama Queen of Tears remains on pace to join the network’s pantheon of top 10 K-dramas of all time, and maybe even higher on the list than that. It helps that the two leads excellent acting and chemistry is coupled with a broader storyline about her health and also the quartet of sneaky villains that … Continue reading →

Success of The Legend of Shen Li Heightens Casting Excitement of Male Lead for Zhao Li Ying’s Next S-level C-drama Tearless Snow

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So this C-drama with Zhao Li Ying was supposed to have been cast already but pre-production and budgeting is taking longer so it’s now really locking down the male lead role but with the added success of her currently airing xianxia drama The Legend of Shen Li. Zhao Li Ying signed on for the female lead centric S-level budgeted C-drama … Continue reading →

K-actor Lee Bum Soo’s Wife Publicly Pleads with Actor to Sign Their Divorce Papers and Reveals Mistreatment During Marriage

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This is just a disheartening story to see happening in K-ent, with another top actor now getting his dirty laundry aired. K-actor Lee Bum Soo and his interpreter wife Lee Yoon Jin are in the middle of a divorce after 14 years of marriage. She went public this weekend with a statement pleading with him to sign their divorce papers … Continue reading →

Kim Soo Hyun’s Agency Issues Swift Denial of Any Relationship with Kim Sae Ron Who Remains Mum About Posting of Picture

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So this was a weird weekend detour on the K-ent news circuit but looks like there won’t be anything further on this. Kim Sae Ron posted a picture of her and Kim Soo Hyun looking close and probably drunk buzzed on her Instagram story at 1 am before deleting it 23 seconds later. But it was screenshotted and the expected … Continue reading →

Ju Jing Yi’s Team Furious Over Zheng Hehuizi’s Character Stealing Buzz in C-drama In Blossom, Requests Production Cut Her Scenes in Next Drama Qian Xian Yin

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Okay gurl, just chill your horses and preserve the goodwill. C-actress Ju Jing Yi was seen as the victim in the billing fight in her last drama Sword and Fairy 4 with Chen Zhe Yuan and that was an invaluable impressions helping to defray the complaints about her same flat acting in every drama. Her currently airing drama In Blossom … Continue reading →

Zhou Yi Ran and Bao Shang En Cast in Wuxia Period C-drama From the Same Novel Author as Love Like the Galaxy

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A very promising new C-drama is being prepped and I’m loving the director and story and intrigued by the younger fresher face casting. The drama is adapted from the wuxia and romance novel titled Ten Years Lantern On A Rainy Night in the Martial Arts World (江湖夜雨十年灯) by the same novel writer Guan Xin Zhe Luan of Love Like the Galaxy … Continue reading →