So I really loved My Journey to You especially Yu Shu Xin completely changing her onscreen image, acting, voice, and performance from her cute image. I know she can do it so it was a bit frustrating to see her take on the C-drama adaptation of the novel The Guide to Capturing a Black Lotus. The drama is titled Love Game in Eastern Fantasy and the new previews are actually…….entertaining and charming. She’s playing a modern woman sucked into a fantasy role player game as the villainous second female lead and needs to survive by aligning herself and leveling up by slaying monsters. It’s basically a xianxia twist on Extraordinary You. I kinda wish the male lead was not Ding Yu Xi and an actor I liked more but he’s serviceable here as the stoic and capable warrior playing the straight man to Yu Shu Xin as the comedic foil.
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