TW-actress Summer Meng Sticks By Husband Mickey Huang After MeToo Scandal Last Year into This Year’s Child Porn and Additional Sexual Assault Allegations

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You hear about domestic abuse victims that remain with his/her abuser and the usual refrain is deep apology, promise to never do it again, and reminder of the love and commitment made. It’s a vicious cyle and horrifying to watch it play out in TW-ent with actress Summer Meng staying by the side of her entertainer husband Mickey Huang in … Continue reading →

Queen of Tears Episode 12 Surpasses 20% Ratings to Become 2nd Highest tvN Drama of All Time as Plot Continues Tightly Weaves Through Sweet and Sorrow

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Man, I feel like I need to decompress after Queen of Tears is done. It’s so so good that watching it takes so much emotion out of me, in the best way of course. Episode 12 vaulted to 20.732% ratings breaking 20% and also putting it now 2nd highest rated tvN drama of all time just behind Crash Landing on … Continue reading →

Lin Geng Xin Dating Rumors Reemerge After The Legend of Shen Li But Appears Not to Impact the Fans of the Show

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So C-actor Lin Geng Xin‘s love life reputation in C-ent is pretty established, he’s a serial dater but not a cheater, basically a perennial bachelor lady’s man who is always in a relationship but won’t commit long term. I remember some doe-eyed drama watcher asking a big wig C-tabloid whether there was a chance that Zhao Li Ying and Lin … Continue reading →

C-drama A Dream Within a Dream to Start Filming End of April 2024 with Confirmed Leads Liu Yu Ning and Li Yi Tong

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So C-actor Liu Yu Ning is going to go back-to-back what with wrapping The Legend of Jewelry with Zhao Lu Si just this month and now heading into filming for his next C-drama. It’s called A Dream Within a Dream (书卷一梦 Juan Shu Yi Mong) and is adapted from the same name novel. After a few actress names were surfaced … Continue reading →

Yang Zi’s Currently Filming Tang Dynasty Drama Flourished Peony Gets Overseas Distribution at Cannes and Also Pulling Out All Stops on Budget to Highlight the Beauty of Traditional Chinese Culture

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So Yang Zi and Li Xian are hard at work currently filming the Tang dynasty period drama Flourished Peony (国色芳华 or The Legend of Fragrance) and the production is also hard at work. The team reportedly went to Cannes and has secured a French production company for overseas distribution, believing the drama’s top shelf production values and story about the … Continue reading →

Zhao Li Ying Filmed Revenge Thriller C-movie and Reportedly Will Not Do Anymore Idol Dramas After Ending That Phase of Her Career on a Successful High Note with The Legend of Shen Li

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So C-actress Zhao Li Ying filmed xianxia C-drama The Legend of Shen Li nearly two years ago and her decision to take another idol drama has paid off as it’s the biggest hit of 2024 so far, but of course the year is only 1/4 over so plenty more C-dramas are on deck. But for her, this is reportedly the … Continue reading →

March 2024 C-drama Douban Ratings Out with War of Faith Leading the Pack at 7.8 and Dark Horse In Blossom with Surprisingly Low 5.5 Ratings

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The two unexpected surprise C-dramas of March 2024, by which I mean the expectations were low and promos next to none, have come out with diametrically opposite Douban ratings. The spate of March 2024 C-dramas have gotten their opening Douban ratings this week and the highest rated is republic era spy drama War of Faith with Wang Yibo and Li … Continue reading →

TW Public Anger Mounts Over TW Veteran Star Mickey Huang Getting Off with a Slap on the Wrist Despite Purchasing Serious Hardcore Child Porn Even After His MeToo Scandal Last Year

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Holy shit is is way worse and just grossing me out to write up. New details have emerged into further disgraced entertainer Mickey Huang‘s latest legal trouble involving purchasing videos of underaged girls discovered from a police investigation into the VIP level video sale website. Turns out he bought 7 videos over the course of a few years but it’s … Continue reading →

K-singer Park Bo Ram Unexpectedly Passes Away at 30 years Old

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What disheartening news to hit K-ent this week, it’s just so out-of-the-blue as such things can be. K-singer Park Bo Ram is confirmed to have passed away at just 30 years of age. She was reportedly hanging out with friends at an apartment, excused herself to go to the bathroom, and then her friends found her unconscious on the floor … Continue reading →

Netflix Releases First Mysterious Poster and Preview for Game K-drama The 8 Show with Ryu Jun Yeol and Chun Woo Hee

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Streaming giant Netflix has been a roll in 2024 with its own produced K-dramas, much more akin to the success of 2022 than in 2023 when its K-drama were just okay received. There was A Killer Paradox, Chicken Nugget, and most recently Parasyte: The Grey. But it feels like the network is going too fast paced with a new released … Continue reading →

Tian Xi Wei Continues Her Style Transformation From Girl Next Door to Chic Fashionista in Grazia Magazine Spread

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It’s the blunt bangs and stick straight hair, as Anne Hathaway taught us twenty years ago in The Devil Wears Prada. The clothes, yes that’s important, but the hair is transformative in sealing the fashion deal. C-actress Tian Xi Wei has been openly changing her image from her debut of cute girl-next-door looks into the iteration of cool edgy fashionista. … Continue reading →

Period C-drama Qian Xiang Thousand Fragrances with Song Wei Long and Ju Jing Yi Releases First Posters as it Wraps Filming

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So this is the drama that Ju Jing Yi was still filming when In Blossom premiered and guest starring Zheng Hehuizi stole her thunder, and in a stroke of irony the two were filming this drama together where Ju Jing Yi is the female lead and Zheng Hehuizi the supporting female lead. It’s called Qian Xiang (Thousand Fragrances) adapted from … Continue reading →

Period C-drama Follow Your Heart with Luo Yun Xi and Song Yi Release More Stills as it Receives Airing Permit

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I don’t think this drama is air dropping anytime soon but it now has it’s airing permit so it’ll be up to iQiyi when it wants to slot it in. Period C-drama Follow Your Heart with Luo Yun Xi and Song Yi has been on my radar since it filmed last year and I loved the dark, mysterious, and quiet … Continue reading →