#19层

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19th Floor (2024) ♠ Episode 1

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Sun Qian as Chun Yu 19th Floor 19层 · 2024, dir. Cai Cong

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19th Floor | S01E04

Chinese Drama - 2024, 30 episodes Links:  GAGA | Viki | YouTube | iQIYI | WeTV | Youku | Tencent

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19th Floor 19层 (2024) dir. Cai Cong | 1.27

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《19层》 19th Floor (2024)

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19th Floor is a drama that – if I had a functioning internet connection right now – I would have binged in 3 days, it's just so good!

It's about a group of people, most of them college students, who get drawn every night into a deadly VR game called 19th Floor and have to overcome its various challenges to pass each level, with serious real life consequences for those who die in the game.

This drama has a good pacing and is almost evenly split between the VR world and the real world.I like the characters so far, especially the two main leads. This is the first drama in which I actually really enjoy Miles Wei's acting, though he gets a bit overshadowed by the amazing performance of his female co-star, Sun Qian. I've never seen the actress before in anything, but my God, she's incredible. The subtle romance of their characters is everything to me. ❤

I also like the character development in this drama. Some characters are downright unlikable and/or annoying in the beginning (Bai Shu's character being an example for that 😂), but they grow as people and as friends and, in time, learn to work together and trust each other.

I'm only halfway through the drama, but I'm really curious to see where all this is going and how it's going to end. But so far I love it and can only recommend it!

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CHUNYU AND QINGYOU ARE GIRLFRIENDS I SAID WHAT I SAID

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19th Floor trailer

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Drama Gossip: 19th Floor (19层)

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Unconscious after a car accident, university student Chun Yu and her best friend Qing You mysteriously find themselves inside the dangerous world of a VR game. Several other people have also unwittingly ended up here, and they soon discover they were all involved in the accident - except for substitute teacher Gao Xuan, who claims to have simply fallen asleep. Seeing no other option than to play the game, they eventually beat the level and wake up … only to immediately return the next night.

Faced with deadly monsters, puzzles, and mind games, the players have to learn to cooperate despite being unsure if they can trust each other. The pressure increases when it turns out that people who die in the game fall into a coma in real life. And then several more students are dragged into the game! The group spends their nights trying to survive the next level and their days investigating who is doing this to them and why. As they grow closer, friendships and budding romances are repeatedly put to the test by the stress of the situation and the evil machinations of the people behind the game…

Source: MyDramaList (2024)

Actually Interesting

This drama was all over my Douyin FYP when it was showing. Imagine seeing people in modern-day clothes, in a slightly olden-day setting running from what seemed like zombies. Tell me that wouldn't pique your interest. Okay, maybe it wouldn't but it piqued mine. However, apart from that snippet, I went into this drama not knowing anything. Hell, I didn't even know who were the actors.

Anyhow. The premise of 19th Floor is not a new concept. It's the classic 'real life people entering a game with high stakes' plot. What was new was that them entering the game was not obvious initially. The how they entered was a mystery until quite a few episodes in too. Additionally, the games were different. Each time they entered it, the game, the rules and even the stakes were different.

Initially, this was an extremely fascinating drama. I was hooked and went through episodes like I had no other responsibilities. However, as the cast went on and began discovering the secrets and motives, the drama honestly, got predictable. In my opinion, 19th Floor could have had a darker tone to it. Keep the storyline but make things darker, bring in the 'unreliable narrator' trope, make the high stakes actually high stakes as in, more deaths or consequences that cannot be undone. You see, the beginning of this drama was action-filled but the end, not so much.

Don't get me wrong, 19th Floor is still interesting but it could have been way more interesting, considering the actual story from where this drama was adapted from? Yeah, 19th Floor could have done more.

Rating: ★★★☆☆

More productions from China here: The Romance of Tiger and Rose (传闻中的陈芊芊) | Under the Skin (猎罪图鉴)

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19th Floor (2024) E2 ♠ The power of darkness is too strong, and we are too weak.

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Sun Qian as Chun Yu 19th Floor 19层 · 2024, dir. Cai Cong

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20 fun Chinese figurative language expressions

A collection of fun figurative expressions I've learned/come across.

【1】 劈腿 pǐtuǐ Literal: to do the splits Figurative: two-timing (in romantic relationships)

【2】 穿小鞋 chuānxiǎoxié Literal: wear tight shoes Figurative: to make life difficult for sbdy

【3】 鸡肋（雞肋）jīlèi Literal: chicken ribs Figurative: smth of little value that one is reluctant to give up

【4】 ��脚石（絆腳石）bànjiǎoshí Literal: stone that trips one's foot Figurative: stumbling block / obstacle / smth that gets in your way

【5】 摸鱼（摸魚）mōyú Literal: to catch fish Figurative: to loaf on the job / slack off

【6】 踢皮球 tīpíqiú Literal: to kick a ball around Figurative: to mutually shirk responsibility / to pass the buck

【7】 乌鸦嘴（烏鴉嘴）wūyāzuǐ Literal: crow's beak Figurative: person who makes an inauspicious remark (jinxes it)

【8】 露馅（露餡）lòuxiàn Literal: spill filling Figurative: to expose (a secret) / to spill the beans / to let the cat out of the bag

【9】 缩头乌龟（縮頭烏龜）suōtóuwūguī Literal: a turtle that pulls its head in Figurative: coward

【10】 掉链子（掉鏈子）diàoliànzi Literal: to have one's bicycle chain come off Figurative: to let sb down; to drop the ball; to screw up

【11】 放鸽子（放鴿子）fànggēzi Literal: release doves Figurative: to stand sb up / to bail on sb

【12】 唱反调（唱反調）chàngfǎndiào Literal: sing in the opposite key Figurative: to express a different view / to take a different position

【13】 尘埃落定（塵埃落定）chén'āiluòdìng Literal: the dust has settled Figurative: to get sorted out / to be finalized

【14】 抱大腿 bàodàtuǐ Literal: hug the thigh Figurative: to cling to sb influential or famous

【15】 出轨（出軌）chūguǐ Literal: to be derailed; to go off the rails Figurative: to overstep the bounds / to have an extramarital affair

【16】 塌房 tāfáng Literal: house collapse Figurative: to have one's reputation tank due to a scandal

【17】 同温层（同溫層）tóngwēncéng Literal: stratosphere Figurative: echo chamber, bubble

【18】 敲门砖（敲門磚）qiāoménzhuān Literal: a brick picked up to knock on the door and then discarded Figurative: stepping-stone to success

【19】 眼中钉（眼中釘）yǎnzhōngdīng Literal: a nail in one's eye Figurative: smth or sbdy you detest / a thorn in one's side

【20】 小辫子（小辮子）xiǎobiànzi Literal: pigtail Figurative: a shortcoming or wrongdoing that can be seized upon by others

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19th Floor | S01E01

Chinese Drama - 2024, 30 episodes

~~ Adapted from the novel "The Nineteenth Floor of Hell" (地狱的第十九层) by Cai Jun (蔡骏).

Native Title: #19层

Genres: #Mystery

Tags:  #Student Female Lead |  #Adapted from a Novel |  #Virtual World | #Death Game

Cast:   #Miles Wei |  #Bai Shu | #Xiao Kai Zhong

Links: GAGA | Viki | YouTube | iQIYI | WeTV | Youku | Tencent

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19th Floor 19层 (2024) dir. Cai Cong • 1.09