#Feng ge!!!

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Nicholas Tse Ting Fung 謝霆鋒

Harper's Bazaar China - December 2022 (1/2)

[vimai]

Xianle 3🌸🏹⚔️

[csilla-nocturne]

I just have this image in my head of Feng Xin accidentally calling Hua Cheng 'didi' at some point. Like most the time he thinks of him as 'that little shit' but over time he also sometimes thinks of him as 'didi' and one day it just slips out before Feng Xin has a chance to think about it.

Now this wouldn't be so bad if it was just him and Hua Cheng at the time. After getting over the shock they would just pretend it never happened, but Xie Lian, and even worse Mu Qing were there to hear it.

[feng-huli]

The Grand Eunuch’s first appearance

[finalfantasyx]

Thoughts on Dashing Youth - Blood of Youth

I HAVE THOUGHTS AFTER FINISHING BOTH DRAMAS. Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen them.

First things first: I heard of The Blood of Youth when it first came out and have had it on my backburner to-watch list for a long time, but I never got around to it. H O W E V E R, I didn't hear peep about Dashing Youth until it was airing and youtube threw it into my face. Dashing Youth automatically got bumped to the top of my watchlist because I will die before I miss a period/xianxia/wuxia drama starring Neo Hou, just saying.

Ergo, I watched Dashing Youth before I watched The Blood of Youth while thinking, "huh why does every drama have [Shao Nian] in its name nowadays?" only to find out later when I was watching the first few episodes that it was the PREQUEL to The Blood of Youth when my mom walked past and casually asked what this was because the names that were mentioned were in The Blood of Youth (she watched it a while back and recommended it; she's been right on the money so far with good recs--Mysterious Lotus Casebook was also hers and both of these dramas ended up on my top 3 favorite dramas list). A quick google search later told us as much.

That meant I had no context to the world we would be in for the next 80 episodes prior to watching Dashing Youth, and I had no idea who these people were and what would happen to them in The Blood of Youth (which, thank goodness. I would have been in tears the entire time if I watched it the other way around).

To begin--Dashing Youth sucked.

I said what I said; Neo Hou couldn't save this one. The story was bad, the CGI was...not great, and the pacing was THE WORSTTTTTTTTTTTTTT. The *only* thing the producers got right were the characters, because those were A+ spot on. Neo Hou and Xia Zhi Guang and He Yu were SO GREAT in this, and Zhang Chen Xiao was a welcome familiar face after Cang Lan Jue.

Side plug, did y'all know there was a scrapped romance subplot between Dongfang Xunfeng and Dan Yin in Cang Lan Jue??? I am so angry; we could have had all the good things, but no, we're not allowed.

I also absolutely adored the other disciples of Jixia Academy, Baili Dongjun's shixiongs. Lei Mengsha, oh my GOD he was so funny and I laughed every. single. time. he did his gremlin laugh on screen. The others also really grew on me, like...hold on, let me check my notes.../looks at scribbles on hand

The da shixiong who showed up for one arc and like two episodes, after which he was dropped like a sack of potatoes and never seen agani, third shixiong--the sword one with the badass wedding arc in the beginning who we don't care about, the fourth shixiong--Liu Yue, the pretty one, the fifth shixiong--the "ugly" (??? he wasn't???) one who I'm not convinced isn't in some sort of relationship with Liu Yue, the sixth shixiong--the music one whom we know nothing about--OOOH OOOH OOH I KNOW THIS ONE, the seventh shixiong--Prince Langya, Xiao Ruofeng!

Yikes. I wish the show would do these characters more justice, because the actors did GREAT in bringing them to life only to have them nuked because of screentime restrictions and lack of dialogue if they weren't Lei Mengsha, Liu Yue, or Xiao Ruofeng. I literally have the most barebone ideas of who they are. And even Liu Yue got nuked later on. Ugh.

Speaking of characters, I really loved Yue Yao and her drive to do what was right as the story progressed. She was so interesting when she decided to take charge of things instead of letting them happen to her, and then LOOK WHAT THE PRODUCERS DID WITH HER. Sidelined her and made her arm candy to Baili Dongjun when they could have been a badass fighting couple. A N D based on the timeline we got in the drama, they were together for like seven years and you're telling me they didn't get married until post-drama??? I don't believe you~

I literally powered through this drama, though credit must be given for the soundtrack, which I thought was overall better than The Blood of Youth's (save for a few songs, but I would sooner listen to the full OST for Dashing Youth without skipping songs than The Blood of Youth).

There was a lot of story and a lot of characters to cram into this drama so that it would set up for The Blood of Youth properly, which was by then a very established drama. Retconning is a nightmare, but the producers and screenwriters somehow MADE A PREQUEL WORSE because there were a lot of details and characters that dragged on for too long, took up too much screentime for NO purpose whatsoever (like Baili Dongjun learning the sword and dao technique that he maybe used like once?), and then caused the rest of the actually important details that need to set up The Blood of Youth to be SUPER rushed.

The pacing. Dear GOD, the pacing. If your drama requires multiple voice-over timeskip cuts, you're doing it WRONG (see: shoving in the Four Guardians of Tianqi without actually letting us see this badass team interact even once...nuking the seven disciples of Jixia Academy while then bringing back Liu Yue and Mo Xiao Hei at the end to fight Nanjue with Lei Mengsha ALSO without actually letting us see them together and then saying that they went back to jianghu after the battle without mentioning how Lei Mengsha died while fighting Nanjue in The Blood of Youth...how on earth Li Hanyi became the second City Master when Sikong Changfeng was explicitly namedropped by Luo Shui, the previous City Master of Xueyue...I could keep going).

This is bad writing at its finest and I am angry that the drama turned out this way when source material was actually so good.

--Then, The Blood of Youth.

This drama was everything Dashing Youth wanted and tried to be, but even with a template in front of them, they still managed to get it wrong. The audacity and freedom and shackles of youth, the adventure and the beginnings of romance, the court politics and the complexity of jianghu--The Blood of Youth did it RIGHT, and with excellent pacing and development.

[ladynamie]

Feng Yin, Yuan Qi, Ao Ge, and San Sheng Shi The Last Immortal - EP. 30

[minsarasarahair]

Shao Nian series protagonists (Donghua version)

Baili Dongjun (The Young Brewmaster's Adventure) > Prequel. Naive carefree young master who will become jaded after losing important people of his life.

Su Muyu (Tales of Dark River) > This spinoff happened in the middle of two series. After the prequel and before the main story. Morally gray assassin mc who already dirtied his hands but still has hope to change Dark River.

Xiao Se (Great Journey of Teenagers) > Main story about jaded early 20s youth who will finally live his youth after experiencing hardships.

[krystaljungs]

BACK FROM THE BRINK 护心 (2023) episode 25, dir. Sam Ho and Zeng Xiao Yu.

[palehorsemen]

Cdrama posters Part 1

The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty

The Blood of Youth

Ever Night

Miss the Dragon

Legend of Yunxi

Dance of the Phoenix

[nickie78]

"My little raccon"

Just a little post to appreciate Ning Yi calling Feng Zhiwei "little raccon".It's so cool and cute.I always found it comedic,especially in the earlier episode when someone overheard Ning Yi worrying for his lost little raccon and the "raccon" in question was no other than her.

Meanwhile all of the other people are imagining some feral animal,running around Ning Yi's residence.I cannot take it seriously 😆

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: Butterflied Lover (2023)

Gifs of Intro & Ending of cdrama "Butterflied Lover"

MultiSub 《#风月变》 Butterflied Lover EP01 🦋 吸血蝶变小娘子失忆被腹黑大将军捡回家 💘 跨种族养成系双世情缘 💓 谁知爱上他后迎來了三世命劫 💥 #chinesedrama#赵弈钦

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJTaXsqmwCE

[bunni-bun]

andrew_qio: 期待大家一起簽名！ #傅孟柏 #姜典 #項婕如 #黃禮豐#宋偉恩#葛盈瑄#姜予#夏浦洋

(05.06.2021 - official promo poster for The Love's Outlet! via director Andrew Chien & also via LINE TV)

[vimai]

Important missions should be handled together! 🐈

[danmeiljie]

Episodes 20-22 (finale): Binary Love

[feng-huli]

Facing off against the City Lords 🗡️

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Liú Chàng 劉暢

ChàngChàng just finished filming for the role of Xiè Xuan 謝宣 (the younger version of Yu Bo's character in 少年歌行) in the upcoming Blood of Youth prequel 少年白馬醉春風!!!