#guo ding

[tofufei]

郭顶 《凄美地》 — The Fog Space by Guo Ding

凄美地: lit. desolate, beautiful land

不知疲倦的人啊，去到那个一切未知的目的地。 Thou who art untiring, go forth, towards that unknown destination.

translation under the cut

曾经我是不安河水 穿过森林误入你心 没计划扎营搁下了是非 一去不回 I used to be a turbulent stream. Meandering through the forest, I entered your heart by mistake. I had no intention to linger, yet discarding right and wrong, I stayed and didn't return.

如今我是造梦的人呐 怅然若失流连忘返啊 等潮汐来临 我就能记起 你的样子 Now, I am the creator of dreams. I couldn't tear myself away but the nagging feeling of loss can no longer be drowned out. Once the tide rises, I’ll be able to remember your shape.

我没看过平坦山丘 怎么触摸开花沼泽 I have never seen flat hills, How can I reach the blooming marsh beyond?

嘿等我找到你试探你眼睛 心无旁骛地相拥 那是我仅有的温柔也是我爱你的原因 在这凄美地 Once I find you and see myself in your eyes, The only thing that will matter is our embrace. This is the only non-violent part of me and the reason I love you, Here in this beautiful, wretched place.

曾经这里是无人之地 为何没留下有效地址 肆意的消息迷失在十月 没有音讯 This land used to be uninhabited. Why didn't you leave me an address I could reach? Shameless messages that got lost in October received no reply.

如今这里是风和日丽 等你再回来雨过迁徙 看夜幕将近 我又能记起 你的样子 Now, this is a place of sunshine and gentle breezes. If you'd return, it would be to a time when rain no longer falls. As night falls, I can finally remember your shape again.

我还记得平坦山丘 如今身在开花沼泽 I still remember the flat hills. Now, I’m drowning in the sea of marsh-flowers.

嘿 等我找到你试探你眼睛 心无旁骛地相拥 那是我仅有的温柔也是我爱你的原因 在这凄美地 Once I find you and see myself in your eyes, The only thing that will matter is our embrace. This is the only non-violent part of me and the reason I love you, Here in this beautiful, wretched place.

在这之前别说再见 我已再经不起离别 在这之前别说再见 我已经开始了想念 在这之前别说再见 请帮我停住这时间 就这样 别安慰 Please don't say goodbye before this, Another farewell is impossible for me to bear. Please don't say goodbye before this, I have already started to miss you. Please don't say goodbye before this, Will you help me stop time? Let us remain like this, don't comfort me.

嘿等我找到你望住你眼睛 心无旁骛地相拥 那是我仅有的温柔也是我爱你的原因 如此不可及 如此不思议 让我坠落在这凄美地 Once I find you and lock you inside my gaze, The only thing that will matter is our embrace. This is the only non-violent part of me and the reason I love you. Such is the height of folly, Impossible and indescribable. Just let me fall in this beautiful, wretched place.

[divineandmajesticinone]

Painted Skin: The Guo Jingming Edition 画皮 (2020) Ding Chengxin as Xiao Wei, the fox demon

[movielosophy]

The First Shot | The squad.

[saelterlude]

Happy first anniversary to the Link Click Musical!! To celebrate, here is a list of all the specials official recordings that they have given us!

Kay so starting with

Chinese Musical Promo Special Livestream: (I forgot the name of the event hehe)

Faith of Friendship by Wang Minhui and Cai Qi

Words Can't Convey My Love by Shu Rongbo and Wu Yihan (they play these two songs straight, but no worries its not the case for the other proper specials held by encore musical)

100th Performances Countdown Specials: (Yes, this week was a blessing)

Words Cant Convey My Love with LG-CXS swap (roles not character if that makes sense) by WMH, Bai Zhuoming and Wu Hanglu (dont you love seeing wmh cocky confidence slowly and surely crumbles lol, bzm got the rights to get mad at him in the end)

Words Cant Convey My Love with LG->CXS->the girl and QL-> LG by Du Guangyi, Wang Yifei, and Qian Anqi (lets be real wyf took us all by surprise with that entrance and the oh~. its also the source of shy lg in cxs jacket. dont forget the failed streamer disaster lmao)

Faith of Friendship with a push up bet for every ball missed by Teng Chunpeng and DGY (aksnsjks the stupid star formation is great, and the multiple failed shots plss. i love their goofy asses so much)

Forget About It with LG->CXS->QL->LG by WYH, Ding Xingchen and Deng Xialin (i love dxc's twin sister, shes pretty shes great. wyh being a hyper orange cat on stage is also great, dont forget the meme that came from it)

Forget About It with various dialects by Guo Hongxu, Ji Xiaokun and Cai Lu (its the closest thing we've got to how the actual performance goes! special mention go cl needing to read the lyrics off her phone)

As The Saying Goes with CXS as Chen Xiao and everyone else as CX's mom by CQ WMH, DXL, Zhang Jiahao and Zhu Jiayan (chickenchickenchicken, peak comedy, i love wmh going all asian mom lmaooo, yess scold cq into a chokehold!)

Valentine Special:

Words Cant Convey My Love with LG->the girl QL->LG and CXS as CX by DGY, TCP and WHL (dgy wjth the high pitched voice, the almost kiss, the fckin succulent, the fake retching, its perfect)

200th Performances Special:

Words Cant Convey My Love with CXS->Liu Meng, LG taking the confessing role and QL->LG by WMH, GHX and DXL (i love how cheeky ghx looks, and how everyone burst out laughing when he enters. ghx is just terrorizing wmh this whole performance)

300th Performances Special:

Trump Card with CXS and LG hanging by TCP, DGY, WHL, ZJY and Zhou Bo (dgy core strength took me by surprise, its a mess)

1 Year Anniversary Special:

This 15 minutes video contains: (watch me struggle to describe this loveable mess here)

Words Can't Convey My Love by ZJH, Guo Zheyan, and DXL with mahjong cameos (shiguang is in the walls. i promise, it makes sense, its chaos, i love it) by GHX, BZM, ZHB, YHL

Faith of Friendship (doubled! theres too many of them!! and zhb is so tiny wtf. none of them can shoot, wheres basketball god when you need him) by GHX, BZM, ZHB, YHL

Back to The Past by CQ and WMH with WMH belting it whilst a group of raincoat wearing menaces (GHX, ZHB, YHL, CQ) does some cult ritual nonsense. (i am not joking, wmh is singing this angsty song on the verge of tears and getting bullied)

Also, Dive Back in Time with everyone!! (its very cramped lmao)

Bonus! If you prefer it to Weibo, here is a YouTube playlist for the specials posted by niebo! Happy 1st anniversary Link Click Musical! I know I haven't keep up with the clip list but damn I gotta do something.

[sgdlr-asdfghjkl]

Link Click Musical visuals update ✨

In LC Musical Update 171 I mentioned that Encore Musicals is going to update cast's makeup visuals to celebrate incoming 200th performance. Here they are 🥳 Photoshoot video in replies 🌟

Links to all actors' socials are in the Masterlist 🌟you can also compare these with the old promo photos in my post here ^^

Lu Guangs (aka the Lu Gang)

1) Du Guangyi, 2) Guo Hongxu, 3) Wang Minhui, 4) Wu Yihan, 5) Yang Haoran, 6) Yin Haolun, 7) Zhu Hanbin

Cheng Xiaoshis

1) Bai Zhuoming, 2) Cai Qi, 3) Cao Muzhi, 4) Ding Xingchen, 5) Guo Hongxu, 6) Ji Xiaokun, 7) Jing Yanqiao, 8) Shu Rongbo, 9) Teng Chunpeng, 10) Wang Yifei

Qiao Lings

1) Cai Lu, 2) Deng Xianling, 3) Feng Xinyao, 4) Qian Anqi, 5) Qiang Dongyue, 6) Wu Hanglu, 7) Yan Lehuang, 8) Zuo Yiping

Continuation with side characters in reblog (srry it's bc of pics limit)

[tokumusume]

if i had a nickel for every time a twink got tattooed with a mysterious text passed down for generations in a guo jingming drama i would have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[easewhisperer]

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

[Extract: morality is in the eye of the beholder]

Cao Cao sits in prison and considers his options...

This was the first time he had been able to sit down and think. How long had he been on the run? Eight days? Ten? Time had blurred together during his mad flight and he had only been concerned with his own safety. Now his thoughts turned to his family, back at his hometown of Chenliu. Things should be relatively stable at the moment,  Pei County was fairly remote and the people had no loyalty for Dong Zhuo. His wife and children would be protected by his cousins, but for how long? Dong Zhuo was no doubt preparing to launch an retaliatory attack on his clan, it was not a matter of if but when. Their only choice would be to meet him in the open field. His Lady Wife could hold the fort for now, rallying his cousins and loyalists, but she was just a woman and they would never follow her into battle. His eldest son was still a boy. His cousin, Cao Ren, was reliable but lacked foresight. His Lord Father had plenty of gold but no backbone. If Cao Cao perished, everything would fall apart. His family would be slaughtered and his entire clan exterminated. 

For the first time since his mad dash from Luoyang, Cao Cao began to fully comprehend the avalanche he had set in motion. There would be war. Not isolated rebellions and skirmishes. Open war. State against state. Brother against brother. Fields would burn, cities would crumble, after nearly four hundred years of peace, the face of the Han Empire was about to change forever. It wasn’t just his own life on the line, it was his clan, the family name, everything his forefathers had worked for. 

The weight of such responsibility might have crushed lesser men, but it lit a fire inside him. If his mind had been a dark forest before, now he saw a clear, blazing trail. Every doubt and petty fear melted away into mist in the brilliance of that single, beautiful, unwavering line. Cao Cao felt calm. The obliterating, all-consuming nothingness you feel when you leap off a cliff towards a narrow ledge. You either made it or you didn’t. You either died or you didn’t. Once you were in mid-air, with nothing but heaven above and rocks below, there was no room for anything else. Cao Mengde would not fail because he could not afford to fail. He was going to get back home. He was going to drag his body to his doorstep, bleeding and broken, if it was the last thing he did. 

notes under the cut:

Wife < Guy: I wanted explore the attitude men (especially warlords) had for their families. This weird mixture of self-absorbed patriarchal values + a general confucian belief that he has a strong duty to protect his dependants. His main priority is for the primary wife and male heirs, (concubines and daughters are basically accessories.) His affection for them is strongly rooted in their usefulness in relation to him. It's might be love, but I didn't want to go too far and make it y'know, sentimental, but he is a human being and he is not as callous as he pretends to be.

Wife Guy: This was semi-inspired by historical events. Lady Bian (a 25 ish yr old concubine at the time) managed to rally his supporters and keep them together when Cao Cao was on the run from Dong Zhuo and presumed dead. Cao Cao was so impressed by her conduct he made her the main wife after Lady Ding divorced him (for getting her son killed). Han Women were allowed to own property and advise their husbands in politics/strategy albeit in limited ways. Lady Ding was very respected by Cao Cao and she even allegedly convinced him to vegan at some point.

[asiandramabuzz]

Painted Skin: The Guo Jingming Edition (画皮)

Starring He Changxi as Wang Sheng and Ding Chengxin as Xiao Wei

Country: China

Release Year: 2020

[tofufei]

郭顶 《保留》 — Deleting by Guo Ding

保留: lit. to keep, to retain; 被保留: lit. to remain, be left (over)

离开的第143天， 透过身体，整理囤积的数据，是遗产？是垃圾？ 这些曾经在这里的，该保留还是舍弃？ 我的身体，别人的灵魂，未完成的梦...。 143 days since departure. With my body, I sort through the data that’s accumulated: a dead person's legacy or trash? The things that used to be here, should they be preserved or discarded? My body, someone else’s soul, a forever unfinished dream…

translation under the cut

看见你在我眼前 不去猜想我们隔多远 当我夜幕中准备 只想让沉默的能开解 Seeing you right in front of me, I don't want to ponder the distance separating us. As I get ready in the darkness of the night, I only wish that the unsaid can give solace. 在不同的遭遇里我发现你的瞬间 有种不可言说的温柔直觉 在有限的深夜消失之前触摸你的脸 我情愿这是幻觉 也不愿是种告别 The moments I found you in our myriads of encounters, Were filled with tenderness beyond words. Right before the ephemeral night dissipates, I reach out to touch your face. I'd rather this be an illusion than a farewell. 已经忘了 你的名字 就在这座 寂静星石 怎么还有 你的样子 被保留 I've already forgotten your name. On this lonely and quiet planet, How come traces of you remain? 给我 一整个拥抱 好让我不至于 太潦倒 时间 过一分一秒 还是觉得相遇 太美好 Give me a wholehearted embrace, so that I have the courage to go on. Second by second, time marches on. I still think that our meeting was too beautiful to be true. 在不同的遭遇里我发现你的瞬间 有种不可言说的温柔直觉 当不远的蓝色渐渐显现这无边境界 我始终等待再见 只不愿再也不见 In our myriad of encounters across time, It was a tender intuition beyond words that let me find you. The blue approaches gradually and reveals the boundlessness of this space. I’ve always been waiting to meet again, that's the one thing I can’t compromise on. 已经忘了 你的名字 就在这座 寂静星石 怎么还有 你的样子 想形容你的句子 关于你所有心事 一眼能及的钻石 哪一个是你地址 I've already forgotten your name. On this lonely and quiet planet, How are there are still traces of you? Sentences try to describe you, thoughts revolve around you. Of those sparkling gems caught in my view, which one is your home address? 忘了 你的名字 就在这座 寂静星石 怎么还有 你的样子 我始终等待再见 只不愿再也不见 I've forgotten your name. On this lonely and quiet planet, How are there are still traces of you? I’ll wait forever to meet again, that’s the one thing I can’t compromise on. 真的忘了 你的名字 是在哪座 寂静星石 一直还有 你的样子 被保留 But I've truly forgotten your name. On that lonely and quiet planet Your shape has been preserved, Until now and forevermore.

[sarah-yyy]

姐姐你好！I was trying to find a new c-drama to start and your blog was the first place I looked at for inspiration! Are you watching any new dramas jie jie? Do you have any recommendations?

i've got like 4 cdramas open in tabs 😂

are you the one (amnesiac heroine + fake marriage + enemies to lovers) - i started this before all these new shows dropped and am enjoying it for now! i've only just reached the part where she regains her memory so am not sure how the plot is going to hold up, BUT the bits before were cute. nice easy watch, maybe a 7/10 for now.

dawn amidst hidden clouds (childhood sweethearts + amnesiac-ish heroine (do y'all see a pattern) + 杀父之仇不共戴天-related misunderstanding + jianghu physician/dali-si chief crime solving combo) - i decided i wasn't getting enough chang huasen content in are you the one so i went and fixed that by starting this short drama. plot-wise probably nothing new, but i found these two to be super cute together! also a nice, light watch. chang huasen is very pretty in this. 8/10.

fangs of fortune (big bad demon redemption arc + super cute group of demon hunters + found family vibes) - most of my mutuals are !!! over this but it's a bit darker than all the other shows i'm watching so i think it's taking me a bit longer to get into it?? it's a guo jingming drama and the AESTHETICS are mmmm good. cgi is good. costume department went All Out for this. chen duling is very pretty in this. hou minghao is good in this. soft 7/10 (remember i'm only like 4 eps into this!!!!).

love game in eastern fantasy (transmigration + demon hunting + enemies to friends to lovers) - this is perhaps my favourite out of everything i'm watching!! also a v pretty drama, but it's a different aesthetic to fangs of fortune. this is the kind of drama that's so fun to watch? yu shuxin and ding yuxi's chemistry is *chef's kiss* in this. (side bar: i haven't actually liked anything dyx has been in since tiger and rose, but this is good!) yu shuxin is super pretty in this. cgi also good. 9/10 so far.

all of these are still airing btw!!

(i also do want to start the story of pearl girl because ahhhhh that liu yuning/zhao lusi combo is making my hao du/le yan feels come back, but i just don't have the time sldkjfdkgfd will probably do this once i've knocked 2 of the above dramas out)

[shiguangbrainrot]

masterpost

hello~ due to me losing ability to care about anything else ive decided to pour time and energy into collecting and documenting stuff about link click musical

here are tags for chinese sites mainly for my own ease of search, but you can use them as well

main tag for general content related to musical

offical musical profile they post special content

musical bilibili profile not sure how different it is their weibo profile

actors but only lg and cxs bcs i dont care about others,

Lu Guang: Wang Minhui, Wu Yihan, Guo Hongxu(he plays both), Du Guangyi, Zhu Hanbin, Yang Haoran, Yin Haolun

Cheng Xiaoshi: Cai Qi , Shu Rongbo, Teng Chupeng, Wang Yifei, Ji Xiaokun, Cao Muzhi, Bai Zhouming, Ding Xingchen, Jing Yangqiao

and you can just copypaste this 时光代理人音乐剧 into bilibili to look for videos there.

im not sure how long this obsession will last but i hope this blog helps someone in future, at least its helping me organise.

also, i might do photodumps of actors or post about them unrelated to link click. or go the other way and post about link click stuff unrelated to musical.

also also, bcs im lazy to type i will be refering to actors and character by acronyms.

plan is to make "daily" posts of performances as they come out, and update them for few days as we get more angles and stuff. well im already 4 days late and they were all multiday performances too. lol

i also want to go over old ones so those will appear randomly, ill put dates on top of the post for clarity. and i wanna make some specifc moment posts, like a hug masterpost or something, and maybe collection posts for specific duos

and some more weibo tags

shiguang guangshi and general fandom tag

[movielosophy]

The First Shot | Working family

[saelterlude]

lc musical clip list pt.4! i'm calling this one, the birthday special!!

(pt.1, pt.2, pt.3, pt.5, pt.6, pt.7 here)

Why is this the birthday special, well because of this:

51. 28/02/2024, Happy BDay Guo Hongxu! I don't usually upload promovid but uhh he's so cool in this one so, here. Sidenote, Shu Rongbo is very hyper and cute this performance. And Qian Anqi's cute english plss i love her.

52. 03/03/2024 night, Happy BDay Zuo Yiping! Watch also, Cao Muzhi penguin walk across the table, Wu Yihan please watch your steps and don't poke other people's cake!!

(funny coincidence, I happen to watch a Santa Lucia/Mio Fratello clip of Cao Muzhi-Wu Yihan just a couple days before this)

53. 10/03/2024 night, Happy Bday Shu Rongbo and Wu Yihan!! Hehe the way Qian Anqi knocks their heads together and insisted to sing them happy birthday is so cute. Wu Yihan said 'Happy Birthday' before their customary Guiding Light hug. And pls someone translate (or at least transcribed) the closing speech for me, there's a lot of laughing involved, I'm curious. Also, have this bonus stage door clip.

Some funfacts. Since last year they play in the same 4 musicals including Link Click and out of those 4 plays they shared 2 roles. Shu Rongbo played a total of 9 roles while Wu Yihan played 7. (Yes, I am at that level of hyperfixation)

54. 11/03/2024, HBD Teng Chunpeng! LMAO It's you, so of course your promo video would be great! His face during the sofa choreo though. And why are both him and Du Guangyi stomping and jumping on the table so hard. You menaces, please you're gonna break it. The couch trio is also looking cute behind them.

Moving on from the birthdays starting with this special one,

55. 11/03/2024 Valentine's day special, <- Official ver. Forgive my language TENG CHUNPENG DU GUANGYI YOU FCKING TEASE! YOU GEM OF A HUMAN BEING! Have this fancam with the superior angle.

(This makes Du Guangyi the first and only actor who have played all 3 roles in that scene. Congrats!)

56. Special Encore rehearsals/BTS! Special mentions to Teng Chunpeng's fashion sense, Wu Yihan's cute act, Ding Xingchen's falling wig, Zhang Jiahao's IDGAF mood, and Wang Minhui's violent tendencies.

57. 26/02/2024, when I say Cai Qi and Wang Minhui have the best dynamic, this is what I meant.

58. 29/02/2024, watch Ji Xiaokun and Guo Hongxu's "Oi!" "Oi."

59. 01/03/2024, Look at them stumbling through singing "Guiding Light" and it's a Wu Yihan-Shu Rongbo duo which means hug! Also Wu Yihan, why are you a menace at holding hands, this time with Zou Ziyue.

60. 03/03/2024 day, why is there a piglet??? Why are you seasoning the piglet??? Why are you stepping on the piglet?? Why is the piglet bowing?? piglet??

61. 04/03/2024, Bai Zhuoming being extra sassy and playful on the couch makes me so happy. Of course Cai Lu also becomes playful in response. Typical Guiding Light mistake also causes Wang Minhui to crack.

62. 07/03/2024, Guo Hongxu putting up the wrong foot and stumbling on the sofa choreo.

63. 07/03/2024, same performance as above, Ji Xiaokun being annoying <3. When other pairs hug, they wrestle.

64. 10/03/2024 day, Mooom! Cai Qi and Wang Minhui are fighting instead of doing rock-paper-scissors again.

65. 09/03/2024 day, uuuhh Wu Yihan sitting on the counter like that with those lights and shadows during Guiding Light is creepy.

66. 09/03/20204 night, love me some Du Guangyi shenanigans, the way he just gives up on the handshake and walk off the table plss and him teasing Deng Xianling during the closing speech. Speaking of, she brings out the bat and forces their arms to form the heart. Then there's Bai Zhuoming being cute and the little shimmy dance he does.

67. 09/03/2024 night, bonus to the one above. Du Guangyi last minute adlib was unexpected but very enjoyable. Also, I love the contrast between his and Bai Zhuoming's tutting.

That's all for now!

Bonus clip with Bai Zhuoming! The song "Number 7" from "Fan Letter" musical is really good, I'm obssesed. But special performance where they're joined by their alternate cast? And his alternate cast is, Shu Rongbo? Even better!! They're kinda in their own world too. Here's a close up. Their voices go so well together!

(I swear they're playing something on that paper, and that makes it 3 musicals I know where they share the same role. Is it time I made a venn diagram?)

so at which point do i admit this brainrot is slowly but surely turning from linkclick focused to actor focused?

[sgdlr-asdfghjkl]

Link Click Musical update 145

(a random bunch from recent performances, part 1)

⬆ Pictures from this time span, no particular info to add ^^'

March 15th: Guo Hongxu, Ji Xiaokun

OH RIGHT I didn't show it here, not LC related, but look at this gorgeous Ji Xiaokun from around 2021:

yeah okay, moving on

March 16th: Guo Hongxu, Shu Rongbo, Wu Hanglu:

⬆ Theatre was doing an event for Qiao Ling's birthday. That's why they're looking around the audience.

March 17th, noon: Ding Xingchen, Wu Yihan

I shit you not, there were zero pictures (only clips) from their LC performance, that day, only stage door ones 😔 So have Ding Xingchen in cat ears ✨one is from March 17th the other is quite old, I think the prop was brought by the same fan :>

see ya in next part~