So take this with the usual C-drama scheduling grain of salt but there are legit rumors that Hidden Love with premiere next week on June 20th. Based on the same name C-novel and starring Zhao Lu Si and Chen Zhe Yuan in what feels like a perfect character casting, the drama is a slim 25-episodes and doesn’t appear to have … Continue reading →
In two months it will be the one year anniversary of period C-drama Love Like the Galaxy and it feels like a full rewatch is coming! I had been sporadically returning to C-dramas before LLTG arrived by fast-forward curiosity watching Who Rules the World and The Blue Whisper but it was LLTG that fully got me back on the C-drama … Continue reading →
I’m glad to see these two together but goodness it brings back memories of the turd-iest turd movie ever the 2019 Chinese film version of Autumn in My Heart. It”s indescribable levels of bad but since it was years before leads Zhao Lu Si and Xu Kai got to their current levels of popularity I’ll chalk it up to dues … Continue reading →
Well this is one huge melon if I ever saw one, but in C-rumor land nothing is ever 100% untrue until the official announcement otherwise. C-ent this week has a rumor that Jackson Yee (Yi Yang Qian Xi) and Zhao Lu Si will be pairing up for a big budget C-drama League of Legends directed by award winning director Zhang … Continue reading →
Okay, the ladies of upcoming xianxia C-drama The Last Immortal (Hidden God) absolutely look like birds of paradise come to life in outfit form lol. The almost completed filming C-drama stars Zhao Lu Si, Wang An Yu, and Li Run Yui in the sequel story to Ancient Love Poetry with a new generation of gods and goddesses taking love to … Continue reading →
There is a spate of period dramas filmed and waiting to air but modern romance C-drama Hidden Love feels like a refreshing outlier in its own school yard romance genre. It’s at least college era so both leads Chen Zhe Yuan and Zhao Lu Si are going back a few years in ago but believably. This week the drama hit … Continue reading →
It’s actually normal for buzzy C-stars to be signed up to new dramas while filming current ones and maybe even more than one lined up. Strike while the iron is hot is super important and last year in 2022 was a MAJOR leveling up for C-actress Zhao Lu Si with back-to-back hit dramas Who Rules the World with Yang Yang … Continue reading →
In the world of C-drama casting carousel this one was bound to happen and hopefully it does come to fruition since it’s as hot buzz as it can get. C-ent rumor mill says Dylan Wang and Zhao Lu Si will be pairing up for a xianxia romance C-drama titled Offering Salted Fish to Master (向師祖獻上鹹魚). It’s a sweet pupil romance … Continue reading →
I have no idea what dang video I may have paused over a second too long on FB because the last few weeks I’ve been getting recommended videos for the xianxia drama Ancient Love Poetry. Still have no desire to watch it lol but it is interesting to see snippets and still think “yeah, Xu Kai and Zhou Dong Yu … Continue reading →
This is certainly not the kind of real life interaction viewers and fans of Love Like the Galaxy want to see whether during airing or now months later. It’s not egregious but just a tad disappointing to actual watch the video. This week a BTS video of the horseback riding scene filming in LLTG had Zhao Lu Si crying and … Continue reading →
So the fans of Love Like the Galaxy that have taken to shipping leads Wu Lei and Zhao Lu Si in real life (calling the couple Nowhere to Run or Wu Lu Ke Tao based on their names) were in for a roller coaster the last few days. Over the weekend there was a hot gossip that a top ’95 … Continue reading →
The Valentine’s Day drop of romantic OTP posters for upcoming C-dramas has released two for the xianxia drama The Last Immortal (Hidden God). Starring Zhao Lu Si and Wang An Yu, I like the color and posing for both posters and am really really glad the leads ended up being these two because they look really visually compatible.
Continue reading →This is like getting called out by the school principal, embarrassing as heck but whether there are broader implications it’s not clear yet. This past weekend the Chinese Central Television official website published an article by a news reporter discussing the scourge of young actors who are “The Hopeless Illiterate” after that term started trending. The trend started due to … Continue reading →
