Category Archives: TW & C dramas

C-actress Song Zu Er Reportedly Gets Offer for New Period C-drama Biao Me Wan Fu on Heels of Successful Return with The Demon Hunter’s Romance and The Prisoner of Beauty

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This period C-drama has been casting around for the past year and earlier this year was nearly ready to start filming with leads in place. Then nothing happened and now is back in the casting news cycle with word that it will star Song Zu Er as her first post-return casting. The drama is titled Biao Mei Wan Fu (表妹万福) … Continue reading →

Wu Jin Yan to Start Filming Period C-drama Yu Ting Yao with Likely Male Lead Chen Zhe Yuan

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So C-actress Wu Jin Yan and her unofficial but widely known maternity leave is coming to an end. She got married last year which she announced but then was visibly pregnant during promos for her drama Kill Me Love Me but never went public with it. But she did deliver her baby earlier this year and has been on hiatus … Continue reading →

Li Hong Yi and Sun Zhenni Find Love in the Spiritual World in Xianxia C-drama Blossom in Darkness

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With all the talk of C-actor Zhang Wan Yi being typecast and looking almost exactly the same visually in costume and hair in his last four period dramas, the same can be said for the ladies side with Sun Zhenni. Her next drama to come is the xianxia romance Blossom in Darkness (Chinese title 十万狂花入梦来 or Hundred Thousand Flowers in … Continue reading →

C-actress Zhao Lu Si Switches to Super Cute and Fresh Short Hair Look at Attending May CF Events

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I’ve decided to post more updates on Zhao Lu Si these days, she’s been doing the rounds of music festival along with CF and brand events in order to continue staying busy with her entertainment career during a period where she’s not actively filming any drama. For the last few years she’s been going from one drama set to the … Continue reading →

Youku Announces Premiere of Period Politics and Revenge C-drama Legend of Zang Hai with Xiao Zhan and Zhang Jing Yi for May 18th

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Well this is going to be a fulsome May of 2025, I’ll remember it well due to the fallow prior months in C-drama land and the potential for not just one hit drama but two. Youku has announced the airing of Legend of Zang Hai with top actor Xiao Zhan and successful drama actress Zhang Jing Yi for May 18th. … Continue reading →

Modern Romance C-drama Dazzling with Male Lead Li Yun Rui Changes Female Lead to Zhang Ruo Nan

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So in drama casting for any star it’s never final until it has started filming, and even then it’s not final what with mid-shoot recastings all the way to post-production AI face swaps. Follow along long enough and I’ve basically seen it all happen lol. The coveted female lead role for the soon to start filming modern C-drama Dazzling with … Continue reading →

Veteran C-actress Liu Xiaoqing Investigated for Tax Evasion After Being Reported by Tipster and Fans Worry for the Remaining Broadcast of C-drama The Prisoner of Beauty

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Et tu, Grandma? It’s like the tax evasion crackdowns in C-ent for the last few years haven’t put the fear of god in every single entertainer and yet here we are, another tax investigation of a star. Veteran C-actress Liu Xiaoqing, a top star in her heyday and still commanding onscreen as evidenced by her small but meaningful role as … Continue reading →

Fox Spirit Matchmaker Chapter 2 Love in Pavilion with Liu Shi Shi and Zhang Yun Long Ends Run with Better Reviews But Lower Viewership and Buzz to Red Moon Pact

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Better quality doesn’t always translate to more viewership but at least the second chapter of the Fox Spirit Matchmaker series has concluded with no major hiccups or as a big flop. Love in Pavilion is more like a shrug of the shoulder type of drama run, with the heat index in iQiyi never breaking 9000 (which the first chapter Red … Continue reading →

The Prisoner of Beauty with Song Zu Er and Liu Yu Ning Breaks 28,000 on Tencent Shortly After Premiere as Drama Tops Search Buzz and Receives Strong Reviews

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IT WAS WORTH THE WAIT! Omg, I cannot believe just released period C-drama The Prisoner of Beauty is even better than I expected and could have hoped for. It changes, swaps around, and condenses the novel substantially but stands on its own so it’s like the novel is amazing and the drama is amazing (so far) but in its own … Continue reading →

Tencent Airdrops The Prisoner of Beauty with Song Zu Er and Liu Yu Ning Today May 13th 2025

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Hot diggity it’s here! I’ve posted over half a dozen posts about rumors that Tencent will airdrop or release The Prisoner of Beauty in the last two years but this one isn’t a rumor – the drama got dropped today May 13th at noon. The soft ban on female lead Song Zu Er lifted two months ago and her other … Continue reading →

Period C-drama Against the Current Starring Tan Song Yun and Liu Xue Yi Releases First Character Stills

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Seeing this first official character still of Tan Song Yun in her just started filming new C-drama gives massive The Sword and the Brocade energy and flashbacks. The drama is titled Against the Current (Chinese title 兰香如故 Lan Xiang Ru Gu which translates as Orchid’s Fragrance Remains) and is a female lead centric drama with Tan Song Yun being paired … Continue reading →

Allen Ren and Peng Xiao Ran Enter a Contract Marriage with Major Stakes in First Preview for Period C-drama Love and Crown

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The first teaser is out for Youku period C-drama Love and Crown, which like its title suggests involves the monarchy and romance in equal measure. Though it looks way more scheming and political than any actual romantic vibes in the preview, with male lead Allen Ren back to being poker faced and Peng Xiao Ran reminding me so much of … Continue reading →

Wang Xing Yue and Xiang Han Zhi Encounter Mayhem and Mystery in iQiyi Period Drama The Wanted Detective

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There is a lot of movement both in airing and on deck dramas, plus shuffling, so it’s not clear when iQiyi will release The Wanted Detective (former title Calming Waves) but it could be a summer 2025 release in the next few months. Starring Wang Xing Yue and Xiang Han Zhi, it’s a mystery, murder, and mayhem investigative drama with … Continue reading →