#yong ye xing he

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This BTS pic 🥰

[disconnected-from-reality]

Ding Yuxi and his micro expressions

Lately, Ding Yuxi has trended in weibo for his phenomenal acting in Love Game in Eastern Fantasy and people have started calling it "jinjiang style acting" for being able to portray the fancy and wordy description or narration jinjiang (JJWXC) novel authors use. For context, jjwxc is a chinese website for publishing novels.

Someone in weibo has created a compilation of his micro expressions and let me tell you, if you appreciate good acting, watch this.

Link to the original post here.

NOTE: All subtitles were MTL'd! I only added subtitles so that when I rewatch it I don't have to rely on my notes for the translations. It's all really for ease of watching. I apologize if there are mistranslations within the video.

FUN FACT: xiaoding's expression in yyxh was used as a lecture material in a film school in China! This also got trending in weibo.

[mostlyfate]

Ding Yu Xi as Mu Sheng Love Game in Eastern Fantasy 永夜星河 · 2024

[da-man-si]

This head tilt is the most adorable thing ever

[ginpotts]

LOVE GAME IN EASTERN FANTASY 永夜星河 ✧ 2024 ✧ Episode 24

sleepy!miao miao with her mu yao jie

[sunloops]

Mu Sheng being "forced" to stay with Miao Miao

Sorry, buddy. You're not fooling anyone.

[mrinafria]

Love Game is Eastern Fantasy works so well (for me at least) is because while there are several other cdrama fantasies addressing similar themes with transmigration tropes, the writing here is actually pretty solid. Like, there is proper logical progression of things, and I can tell they put some thought behind the plot and didn't just fill pages, solely relying on the leads' acting and their chemistry to carry subpar writing/execution *cough* ofl *cough*

Things such as Miaomiao's backstory with her dad, foreshadowing scenes that don't feel casually slapped together, absence of irrelevant romantic scenes just to fill screentime (which is why I really appreciate whatever scenes we get of Miaomiao and Ziqi), giving each main character a proper arc instead of having them behave like NPCs, being consistent with the rules of the gaming world we're introduced to, not lingering on silly misunderstandings, actually resolving smaller issues and conflicts before moving on to bigger ones, not forgetting about an open plot point after a while, effectively keeping up the suspense and compelling the audience to second-guess and theorize what's to happen (very tricky to pull off imo when you're airing episodes daily), showing gradual development of romance between the two couples, utilizing talented actors who seem to have a solid understanding of the motivations, nuances and overall pulse of the characters they play. There are many other things too, like the incredible acting skills Ding Yuxi and Yu Shuxin bring along with the natural chemistry they have off-screen that translates so well on screen, as well as the fact that they make Ziqi and Miaomiao uniquely theirs, making it a much more enjoyable ride. I learned recently that there were several scriptwriters for this, with the main scriptwriter being the same person who wrote for LBFAD (correct me if I'm wrong though)--that might explain why I like this writing so much, even though it deviates from the og web novel.

Even the final episodes (where most cdrama fantasies often mess up, especially with isekai/transmigration tropes) go above and beyond tying up ALL the loose ends and connecting every clue every foreshadowing every disjointed bits of information that we see throughout the show, ultimately creating this beautiful beautiful piece of art that is LGIEF.

And that final statement from Fu Zhou? Ugh I love how they conveyed that idea.

Hands down my favorite cdrama after LBFAD.

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: Love Game in Eastern Fantasy (2024)

#LovegameinEasternFantasy #ดารารักนิรันดร์ #dingyuxi #estheryu

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DDonDoA6GGI

[justplaggin]

Moonlight (2021) || Love Game in Eastern Fantasy (2024)

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I realized I never posted these chibi commissions outside of my LGIEF/IY rec post. You can find Sparky, the artist's, twt account here.

The first set of chibis is Inuyasha and Kagome dressed as Ling Miaomiao and Mu Ziqi from the Chinese Drama Love Game in Eastern Fantasy. The second set is Ling Miaomiao and Mu Ziqi dressed as Inuyasha and Kagome. ♥

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CHEN DULING (陈都灵) as Mirror Demon

Love Game in Eastern Fantasy 永夜星河 (2024)

[mostlyfate]

Love Game in Eastern Fantasy 永夜星河 · 2024 22 | You freaked me out. Where else could I be? Can we snuggle like this all day? Why can't we?

[rapha-reads]

Mu Sheng: *is a half demon with grey hair*

Ling Miaomiao: *is definitely not afraid of him, quite the contrary*

Me:

Seated, invested, into it, hell yeah.

Between Fangs of Fortune and now Love Game in Eastern Fantasy, coming right after The Double, I am being fed so well.

[ginpotts]

LOVE GAME IN EASTERN FANTASY 永夜星河 ✧ 2024 ✧ Episode 32

[sunloops]

Episode 15

"Do you like Miao Miao?"

"Wha -- What are you talking about?"

"I knew it. You're just like my grandfather. It's been 900 years, but whenever we bring up that girl, he'll drop what's in his hand and stutter."

"Who- Who's stutt--?"

And yet, in the very next scene this is the way he looks at her:

My reaction:

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: Love Game in Eastern Fantasy (2024)

It's a game and the genre is romance! #LoveGameInEasternFantasy #EstherYu #DingYuxi #虞书欣 #永夜星河

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vW_MVAPF3Bw