Man, talk about shooting your self in your own foot intentionally. News broke this week that Liu Yu Ning was in talks to be the male lead in Pearl Curtain and Jade Curtain, which for the last 6 months had signed on Zhao Lu Si as the female lead but had a modeling runway of potential male leads pass through. … Continue reading →
This is either the hardest C-drama to cast or just made for generating casting buzz. In a full six months since Zhao Lu Si has been cast as the female lead of Tang Dynasty period drama Pearl Curtain Jade Curtain basically 2/3rds of the C-ent drama actor have been rumored as the male lead. So far not a single dude … Continue reading →
Hooboy, I am now more excited and also more nervous for upcoming xianxia C-drama The Last Immortal. I’m more excited because I quite liked the first teaser just released, not love yet but it doesn’t have too much of the annoying xianxia tropes. I’m nervous because of Zhao Lu Si‘s dialogue reading, OMG she is going to be raked through … Continue reading →
Today on August 22nd is also lunar date July 7th which means Chinese Valentine’s Day, which remains a celebrated date but so does Western Valentine’s Day on February 14th so it’s like getting two V-days heh. Many of the upcoming C-dramas released cute couple featured dramas or BTS pics to promote their drama on this day and most are just … Continue reading →
So there have been nonstop male lead casting rumors for Pearl Curtain Jade Curtain that the C-drama may break record for the sheet number of actors potentially cast as the male lead. It’s a hot project with female lead Zhao Lu Si signed on after she has three popular idol dramas in a row with Who Rules the World, Love … Continue reading →
C-drama Hidden Love kicked off the summer C-drama season and just wrapped it’s 25-episode run this week on Youku. Aside from early controversy around the female lead being too young for the male lead when she was played by a child actress developing the crush, the drama starring Zhao Lu Si and Chen Zhe Yuan got going when the two … Continue reading →
Well a new day and a new spate and this one is from C-ent and revolved around just premiered modern school age romance Hidden Love. The drama stars Chen Zhe Yuan and Zhao Lu Si adapted from a web novel about a teenage girl that crushes on her older brother’s college age best friend and after she grows up gets … Continue reading →
It’s going to be a busy summer 2023 for C-ent as dramas and movies are released to capitalize on the break and also in terms of CF and brand events. C-actress Zhao Lu Si is a Bulgari spokesmodel and attend a brand event in China last week that captures the great synergy between the two. She donned an off the … Continue reading →
Thank you Youku for being decisive and scheduling the right drama for the right time. Modern school-age romance C-drama Hidden Love with Chen Zhe Yuan and Zhao Lu Si is coming out next Tuesday June 20th and with it a bunch of new pretty drama posters and an adorable preview has been released. It’s a very very simple story – … Continue reading →
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 →
