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[sixplusfive]

晓朝夕Jade's Fateful Love (2024) | 1.20 dir. Guo Yao

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CONGRATULATION ON FINISHING THE FINAL CHAPTERS (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

I like how things are wrapped up. It's a little but "huh?" but when I think about it from the begining it makes sense and the final door starts from chapter 1 is actually a cool plot twist. LQS is very chill in comparison to other players. I was afraid Xi Zixu will make him a psychopath or something but it turns out he's the oldest fox =))))) A little iffy when some doors they struggle a lot to make it through so it must be hard on LQS to pass them all alone. I wonder if he has any help.

AND BABE I LOVE YOUR TAKE

"He gazes frankly into the abyss, and the abyss gazed back. The abyss gazed back and fucking fell in love..."

"He wasn’t operating as a door and testing LQS, he was just...being in love."

YES HE'S JUST BEING IN LOVEEEEEE

And the parallel with Bai Ming-Zhang Yiqing too. Fanboy Right!!! The moment Bai Ming is introduced I just man, Zhang Yiqing, you're done. Doneeee. There's no way you can get away from Bai Ming =)))) I actually thought Li Dongyuan will make an extra couple at first but he's straight af and his story with Zhuang Rujiao is so sad. He tried so hard to protect her ༼ つ ಥ_ಥ ༽つ

THANK YOU MY DEAR AAAAHHH you've been a cornerstone of my translation experience ;;; bless you bless your heart honor to your whole family

right! i appreciate a good twist that brings us full-circle, y'know? and it's pretty damn clever to end the novel at the very beginning, and the whole metaphor is a clock. it all makes me kind of wish there was a way for her to make the hallway with the 12 doors a circle, but that would've been too on-the-nose, huh?

LOLOLOL OH GOD, i've only read one other xzx novel but now i'm trying to imagine a plot-twist switcheroo where LQS is the psychopath...that'd be pretty wild. i mean, there was a point where she really got me worrying that LQS did make RNZ up. also, i honestly live for the moment in the hako onna door where LQS was literally that b99 meme of "if anything happens to Zhu Meng I will kill everyone here and then myself." i love how much xzx's characters all have that potential for crossing the line, y'know? and just going completely nuts

YEAH HAHAHAHAHAHA FANBOY RIGHTS!!!!!! yeah i'm honestly so obsessed with the image of entity!RNZ watching LQS on his crappy little TV and just!! simping!!!!! simping so hard he turned the entire world upside down!!!! well no he took the timeline, peeled it open like a tangerine, wedged himself inside, and zipped the skin back up behind him. you gotta love an action-oriented Hi-I'm-Your-Biggest-Fan king.

Bai Ming has had 10 seconds of screen time but i'm already obsessed with him. LI DONGYUAN SHIPS, OHOHOHO. I'M INTRIGUED. it's okay LDY and ZRJ can be bi4bi, 'cause c'mon, ZRJ went full lady vengeance (a wlw move if i've ever seen one) and LDY lied in a coffin and clasped LQS reeeeeaaaal tight...i can't wait to go back and translate the sister drum door 'cause i've never paid attention to his interactions with ZRJ, and ZRJ's storyline goddamn breaks my heart.

okay okay who else is there...the all-stars side cast: Tan Zaozao, Bai Ming, Gu Longming, Li Dongyuan, Sun Yuanzhou, Xiao Mei (QUEEEEEEN JESUS CHRIST), Zhou-jie...and can't forget the ghosts. Who do we stan here? The birthday triplets, the skinned sisters, Satchan, Zhou Hanshan (the absolute disaster king; he should have an acting challenge against RNZ), Hako Onna. I also love the random clump of fucking hair from RNZ's door kdjnfkjs

[rqs902]

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watching xikan on the 娱乐新鲜派,  一起爬墙吧 , and sina 娛情实验室 interviews just made me appreciate him even more. his snarky, playful side contrasts well with his caring, protective side. and i feel like we saw more of the former during ip and we’re seeing more of the latter during snzm. both are nice to see, but i miss his silly fun side and im grateful he still has it in him to act cocky in a non-snobby, but rather joking way but also speak like a true friend about how he feels about his friends who have found success post ip.

aw my child is on the front page :’)

ugh im surprised only xikan was so determined to use this opportunity to save people who need saving.... but i guess that shows how much he really values the opportunity and his friends who are not popular 

aw im glad linjie immediately corrected the interviewer who said that he has 3 geges in CTO to 6.... at first ngl i was wondering if had moved on from being friends with them, but im glad he hasnt forgotten. even zixin was so surprised zlj called him lol

aw i like that the team 7 group is all together still :’) rip enyu and linkai’s popularity tho. enyu always coming through with the realest quotes every ep. yes this is basically a test of how social you’ve been with the popular kids :\

AW WENXUAN PICKING XUE EN was such a good move on his part, i approve. but also i didnt realize they were close? LOL but like considering where they are, who xue en is, and who else in the group already? a good move.

hHAHAHAH I DONT THINK IVE EVER SEEN LIN MO THIS HAPPY awwww so first i didnt realize kou cong was doing so well, #11 good for him!!! but also this makes more sense as to why jin fan is the only tyger who didnt get picked into this group.... lin mo picked akey and kou cong picked zhan yu, which both make sense as individual decisions but then leaves out jin fan, unfortunately. but MAN they have a well-rounded group.... but seeing jin fan as the only tyger in the lower half votes area and also as the only one who didnt get picked to be in this group? a group that has a song style that he should try to pursue rather than being cast as a vocal AGAIN? hurts. the tygers are the ones who are most likely to save him and theyre all in a different group from him? ouch. i hope hes made enough friends so someone else will save him then... 

wow i didnt realize chaowen was close with shiwei, the cto kids are close with all the popular kids LOL but also im heavily surprised chaowen didnt pick ylq?? when i saw cyc and chaowen on one side and ylq on the other, i felt sad but thought theyd pick him for sure, because he needs saving. // oh i guess it makes sense ycw says he doesnt want to pick between ylq and cyc but still... ylq needs your help more, i feel like itd make sense? but its okay im happy he picked shiwei to help demonstrate further how much the cto kids are helping these popular kids!!! 

i appreciate sxl for choosing to save mxy over choosing a song he wanted most. ugh sad it didnt work out. but he couldve tried harder to pick a song mxy wouldve wanted, if he was gonna switch his choice anyway?? hmm i feel like mxy probably shouldve gone with sxl though... at least he could be saved next round and possibly get more screentime by being associated with someone whos more popular

oof ybz being salty about liu cong and relating it to cxh being salty over xzx.... as someone whos been on the other side of that, i think people should be able to have a best friend but still hang out with other people and make other friends? I dont think it should be restricted like that :\ hes so salty omg.... idk i dont think its a good look for him but maybe thats bc i disagree with his viewpoint about friendship. 

LOL THE VOCALIST ROOM OF LI HAO, RENYU, LI CHENXU, JUNRONG, XU ZHAOHAO SINGING TONG HUA HAHAHAHHAHAH

HAHAHAH SU ER IS SO EXTRA like omgomg you picked me you picked me! and oscar’s just like... well.... hHAHAHHhah but id like to think that oscar remembered su er’s tears from ep 1 and kept his sadness to heart. maybe :) 

AYYYY RENYU being the highest ranked vocal in that room of vocalists :’) AHHH AND ENYU IS JOINING THEIR GROUP YESSSSS THIS IS GONNA BE THE BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE EVER 

man its just like what youd expect, the rest of the group choosing gets like fast forwarded to the end lol but yay for cyc and ylq being able to pick the same group tho... even tho it doesnt seem like the type of style theyve done before? i guess that could possibly be a good thing? but man i wish sbh got to do another cool stage :\

OSCAR ATTACKING HONG WEIHAO WITH A BACK HUG I LOVE FRIENDSHIP

wait so the lower rank kids dont get to pick people, its just individual choice at that point? well at least jin fan got to pick a song he wanted :’) at least he’ll get to actually dance this time... (pls let him do some bboying pls let him do some bboying) 

oh rip this mxy hyj group :( feels bad to be the leftover kids.... mxy probably shouldve just gone with sxl....... i saw a post where someone said ofc its a star master trainee keeping this group together and leading their practice - loll..................

lol these closeups at the end are so obviously biased they dont even bother showing the faces of half the group members :( 

AW JIN FAN HOLDING THE TYGER SIGN 

even if jin fan is sad at least he has a good attitude about it ><

im crying they literally only included this group’s intros bc youku enjoys watching hyb get personally attacked LOL not that im complaining AT ALL HAHHAHAHAH i love this group already and i love how all the kids have hopped on the lin mua train :’) im cheng xiao laughing my butt off watching them HAHAH but also im 99% sure jin fan is the one who taught zhan yu to sing that line in cantonese 1) bc its cantonese but 2) bc jin fan ALWAYS sang that song in past interviews when asked to do a personal talent LOL my best brooos

real talk tho when will we ever get a zhan yu and jin fan stage? :( 

well everyones super shook that this was 1.5 hrs of song selection and we didnt get any stages... idk if theyre gonna stuff 8 stages into tomorrow’s ep but if they dont i will be worried about skewed voting yet again so hopefully they figured it out somehow.... 

[sixplusfive]

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晓朝夕Jade's Fateful Love (2024) | 1.09 dir. Guo Yao

[rqs902]

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i think its nice to see how much the kids really respect and admire and ask questions from yixing. its cool to hear that he thinks ycw is dancing well for having just started in feb 2019. 

AH he specifically said jin fan sang well :’) and he said jin fan should be a good older brother!!!! my heart !!!!! ugh and “感覺靳凡還蠻想跳的" he actually like knows jin fan so well !!!

man i also wish jin fan could dance more !!! can we pleeeassee make it happen next stage?? can we also talk about how quiet jin fan is though? i literally feel like everyone is talking around him and about him but he only says like 2 words. :( its sad to me because theyre saying nice things and all, but he doesnt get a say at all, and i know he can be way more lively and outgoing than this but he tends to get all quiet in front of the teachers and the camera :( i feel like this is a common problem for the tygers and it frustrates me bc it feels like theyre too passive and not confident enough, and it hinders people from noticing them and recognizing their skills. 

oof hearing huang enyu’s practice room version of his opening lines just HITS ME IN THE FEELS. his voice is so nice, doesnt need any add-ons, like yixing said

wait im watching the 30 min mv and i didnt think id need to rant about until now, but im halfway through and it was going aightttttt, my main qualm so far has been that the songs they picked dont showcase the vocals well??? like the kids don’t sound very good, which is bugging me bc i know they can sing well.... and like, okay i expected the acting is played by gjm’s favorite kids, okay im not surprised, so im not even that salty that lin mo (DESPITE BEING POPULAR) got ignored for a main role again. im slightly annoyed that xikan (of all people) isnt in a more important role, bc he deserves it and his fans are probably angry af. (at least, they should be) his popularity is a significant contributor to any minor relevance this show manages to have, but it feels like they just tagged his name onto the very end of the trainees who were introduced at the beginning as an afterthought to appease his fans. i was also a little miffed that they pretend like they’re including some of the others by putting he yijun in the background while focusing on zuo ye’s face, or calling out kou cong’s name like theyre pretending to recognize oh yea he’s here and he’s good at dancing, thanks for the reminder. but whatever, im honestly not too mad bc i dont have high expectations for tygers to get big roles, and the acting kids are not that bad and im just glad ive been able to see some closeups of lin mo and zhan yu’s faces already, and im okay with the storylines so far EXCEPT 

once i got to the part where zlj’s mom comes to visit and those random fangirls are calling out / holding signs for yang zixin and tell her that zlj is not popular. THAT triggered me. it’s like an insult to kids like zixin, and all the kids who are even less popular than zixin. zixin literally got 0.5 seconds of screentime during his singing line prior to this, like noticeably less than even the other vocalist kids??? and i guess its nice they’re putting his name in, but honestly it feels like theyre making a mockery of him and the unpopular kids by saying ZLJ OF ALL PEOPLE is not popular. i literally rolled my eyes when i heard that. i cant believe youku. if theyre really trying to make a point about the unfairness of popularity among contestants, why didn’t they actually cast someone who’s not as popular for the role? 

im sad to see the acting kids also dancing during the dancing parts bc im like ??? dont you have enough screen time, shouldnt this go to someone else?? but also like where are all the other kids??? this dance doesnt even look that hard, why is there only so few kids on screen? on the other hand, how did they even pick the kids who are in the vocal part? my first thought was where’s junrong??? how can you do a vocal section without junrong?? but then i realized why arent all the vocals from 後來的我們 here?? where are xu zhaohao and li chenxu? what??? im so confused, they literally are RECOGNIZED as the vocals on this show (even tho there are other good vocals too!! im not even gonna go into that, dont get me started) but at least people KNOW those kids are good singers and yet theyre not here?? 

what is that ridiculous thing hwx is wearing wtf

omg we got 0.2 seconds of xue en screentime and he KILLED IT. 

what is this random period drama fighting scene.

i was about to say the storyline got pretty touching and i was pretty into it but then wtf is this random zuo ye and zlj fight scene. the random dance break (with THE SAME dance crew) is also quite random and im starting to think this dance crew’s scenes are literally in there to appease the fans of popular kids who didnt get big roles (LIKE XIKAN AND LIN MO) and also randomly promote other kids who are liked by youku and gjm

uh also when i heard li hao and huang enyu singing in cantonese UH WHAT EXCUSE ME?! this is just AN INSULT to xu zhaohao YET AGAIN bc come on......... everyone knows that li hao and him are THE cantonese duo on this show. and i love huang enyu and im happy he got to sing but CMON does he even speak cantonese?? (i just looked him up and hes from hangzhou so i dont think so?????? correct me if im wrong) but even if not zhaohao, there are OTHER CANTONESE VOCALS /cough/ jin fan /cough/ but okay..................... 

ugh i love huang enyu but him being magically turned into one of gjm’s favored children overnight just doesnt sit well with me. i dont want him to gain favoritism bc he begged gjm for it and gjm pitied him. i want him to gain attention because he deserves it. bc he’s a talented singer with a beautiful voice and bc hes passionate for the stage. i wish other people saw him for that too. 

wow this “MV” if you can even call it that, just left me with a strong sense of there being tiers to the favoritism. hwx is apparently on top lol but followed by all the kids with acting roles aka zy, zlj, ycw, xzx. then the next tier is the kids who are in the dancing group and then the singing group and then its the kids who got less than a second of screen time (i even saw liu cong in there lol) but then there are the rest of the kids wHO WERENT EVEN THERE. 

smh..................................... and its not even based on popularity so it literally feels so random and im ???????? how did they pick the kids??? 

i knew not to have high expectations, but at least they TRIED to put everyone in the last mv, this time, they literally DIDNT INVITE some of them to be there AT ALL. wtf????? 

ugh i was gonna go watch todays ep after this but i dont know if i can... im just mad.