#Chen Yan

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Cdrama: Special Lady (2023-2024)

"Let's play a game!" "Is that so?" #SpecialLady #陌上人如玉 #Shane #ZhaiZilu #iQIYIMalaysia #shorts

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M8FaH9xU7ZM

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Chen Yan is a female impersonator of China's late Chairman Mao Photographs: Reinhard Krause/Reuters

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A Group of big-time Business Persons from the Province of Zhejiang in China visited the Province of Cagayan recently to explore possible Business Investment Opportunities there, particularly the proposed International Sea and Air Ports in Aparri and Piat.

The Group was led by Ms. Vivian Zhang who is the President of a Business Group in China with over 100,000 Members, and Mr. Chen Yan at his Wife Mrs. Xhen ZhenCui who owns a Business Chain of Cake and Coffee Shops with over 200 Branches in China.

The Local Government Officials of Cagayan also unveiled to the Group Governor Manuel Mamba's Vision of not only establishing an International Seaport in Aparri and International Airport in Piat, but also a Smart City in Tuao and a Heavy Industrial Park.

Well here’s hoping that these Plans by Cagayan will indeed push thru with China, and that the United States (US) and their Filipino Doggies will not SABOTAGE these Plans again like they did with China’s funding of the Sangley Point International Airport (SPIA) and Fuga Island. Photos are by the Cagayan Provincial Information Office

SOURCES:

Cagayan Provincial Information Office Facebook Page Post, 12/18/23 – 2103H {Archived Link}

Cagayan Provincial Information Office Facebook Page Post, 12/19/23 – 2052H {Archived Link}

[xiaolanhua]

Fangs of Fortune 大梦归离 – First trailer Dir. Edward Guo, Luo Luo, Wei Nan

[zhouyes]

wasn't the dream beautiful? the nightmare is when you think it's over, it's just the beginning. the grand dream will end, only the feelings will be remembered forever.

fangs of fortune, 大梦归离. [ TRAILER ]

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STILL NOT OVER THIS DRAMA

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[heymeowmao]

大梦归离 | Fangs of Fortune E34 ° Dead demons will turn into stars in the sky. And what about you?

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Fangs of Fortune (Bai Ze Ling): perfect on pure aesthetics alone, but also it will tear your heart out while being very gay.

I was lured in to this show by Tumblr gifsets and friends on Bluesky talking about how queer and poly this show is. I'm old and I've been in fandom more than half my life. I know how to read queer subtext. I'm also pretty well versed in cdramas, so again, I know how to read subtext. So I went into this ready to, well, read the subtext.

But no this show is just puts the queer it right there in the text. The vague information we have about Chinese censorship repeatedly left me asking, 'wait how are they getting away with this?' Like some of these jokes and implications are just so blatant it seems incredible this show ever made it to being broadcast. It just feels very much like queer media made for queer people even if t's more subtle than something western like Queer as Folk.

Even without the heavy coloring of gay this show is incredible and so much more than I expected from the title and the promo. The premise is essentially the death of the goddess, who governed relations between humans and demons, leads to an influx of demons in the human world. This brings together the goddess's disciple, Wen Xiao--seeking to restore the goddess's power. WX's childhood sweetheart, Zhuo Yichen--seeking to restore the demon-hunting bureau after the powerful demon Zhu Yan killed his father and brother. It opens on Zhu Yan, in human disguise as as Zhao Yuanzhou, volunteering to help the imperial court restore the demon-hunting bureau to quell the chaos. They are joined by Pei Sijing, a retired female general from the rival demon hunting sect, and a very young doctor (and comic relief) named Bai Jiu. It starts off as a sort of monster-of-the-week with a grim Scooby gang doing detective work and fighting monsters. Each major demon has a mini arc that relates to the larger case (restoring the power of the goddess to balance the realms), and they are repeatedly blocked by either the demons or the rival demon hunting sect. Each mini arc also acts as a mirror or parallel story to slowly revealed backstory of all the main characters as well. In true cdrama fashion it's a mix of adventure, intense emotional drama, romance, and comedy. And queer and poly jokes and romance. It also has a kind of manga vibe in the way the comedy is woven into the more serious story, and in the fantastical depiction of the characters and how the story unfolds.

It is also just insanely beautiful. Every single shot is lovely. The costumes, make up, and hair are incredible. The casting director made all the major demons inhumanly beautiful. The sets are spectacular. The effects are nicely done. Every bit of has the vague surreality of a fairytale. The perfection of each shot ads to the manga vibe, as if we're seeing each critical storytelling panel come alive. There's recurring water-based special effects that are just gorgeous. Based on aesthetics alone this show would be worth watching to me. That it is combined with a complex, very emotional story is a spectacular gift to the watcher. A lot of the negative reviews of this complain about the staginess or that it's overly contrived in how each scene is shot. But I think it's gorgeous, works perfectly with the storytelling, and if we criticize art on whether it achieves the goal it intended then this show is doing exactly and perfectly what it means to do and doing it beautifully.

Additionally the acting is also very good, but Neo Hou is the stand out for sure. I enjoyed him in Back from the Brink, especially the later part of the story, but in Fangs of Fortune he's transformed, utterly embodying the role, the way Dylan Wang is Dongfang Qingcang in Love Between Fairy and Devil. Neo Hou has the right look, a slightly uncanny beauty perfect for a gorgeous immortal not of this world. The show does incredible things with his styling between the various looks and personas the role requires. But in acting he somehow manages to utterly transform his face and demeanor to manifest each aspect of the character as story demands changes from him.

There is a lot of crying in this drama. Like early on I joked that there was going to be a character crying a single perfect tear in every ep. Lol nope. Multiple single perfect tears per ep and many outright full on sobbing scenes. This show is just waiting to rip your heart out and you see it right from the beginning. But it was such sweet pain all the way through. Just a truly engaging and utterly wrenching set of intertwined stories.

My only criticism is that the pacing falls apart in the last 3 episodes. But overall the story is solid through the end, though like so many cdramas, it's saved by the epilogue.

You should absolutely watch it if you want the chaotic bi polycule (it's her, her girlfriend, her boyfriend, her boyfriend's boyfriend who is also her boyfriend, their two idiot sons, and her boyfriend's ex-who is also eventually sort of his boyfriend again), or if you want your heart torn out and stomped on. Or even if you just like really gorgeous cinematic things. Also if you watch, please don't skip the ending credits, as they change as the arcs change, and the radiant joy Tian Jiarui has as he dances is an excellent antidote to the emotions of each episode.

[harocat]

Hou Minghao, Chen Duling, Tian Jiarui, Cheng Xiao, Lin Ziye, Xu Zhenxuan, Yan An & Lai Weiming for iQIYI’s Fangs of Fortune (formerly The Story of Mystics).

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大梦归离 fangs of fortune (2024)

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: Special Lady (2023-2024)

Love grows crazily as time goes by #SpecialLady #陌上人如玉 #Shane #ZhaiZilu #iQIYIMalaysia #shorts

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-LzFg4myKiI

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Can we just talk a little about this unholy unity of Li Lun and Zhuo Yichen? Just look at him :D Why does he look so hot)) And those bare arms, in a show where everyone is so deliberately clothed in multi-layers (apart from demons who are veeeery bad, hence, they can show their sexiness as much as they want).

Anyway, that's it, that's all I have to say XD

And while we're on this bad-demons-look-so-good topic, let's throw in a few of them sizzling hot baddies to the mix. Because no one pulls the bad demon look quite like Zhao Yuanzhou's Inner Demon :3

And I enjoyed the whole dark!Wen Xiao sequence a little too much :D

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[ENG SUB] Clip from the press con by the "Fangs of Fortune" cast, 6 Nov 2024

Interesting choice to use the term "青梅竹马" which to be fair can be innocent childhood playmates even though the romantic aspect is implied. But it actually means between a boy and girl (青梅 green plum flower = girl, 竹马 hobby horse = boy).

[duduling1018]

Fangs of Fortune 大梦归离 (2024) | EP. 19

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first look at the main cast (+ yanan) and costumes for veil of shadows (月鳞绮纪)

[movielosophy]

Kill me Love Me 's night view