This will be one of the big C-dramas of 2025, a top billed male lead wuxia swashbuckler titled Fu Shan Hai (Go to the Mountains and Seas). The drama stars Cheng Yi and Gulinazha adapted from a popular novel and seems to be the wuxia version of xianxia story Guide to Capturing a Black Lotus in the protagonist goes into the novel/game concept. The drama wrapped filming recently and iQiyi released an official filming teaser showing costumes, scenes being filmed with wires, and glimpses of the whole cast but most of the attention is on male lead Cheng Yi. I’m still unable to get excited to watch anything he’s in but he is quite popular and his dramas have consistently done well.
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