Xiang Ting Dong, heir to the renowned Tangcheng family, is severely injured in a dispute with his fiancée Cheng Che and falls into a coma. To save the Xiang family, Cheng Che finds Xiang's mysterious younger brother, Ye Ran, and asks him to impersonate Xiang. Together, they uncover and dismantle the drug syndicate in which Xiang Ting Dong was involved. Will they succeed in completing their mission? (Source: WeTV) ~~ Adapted from the web novel "Ta Si Huo" (他似火) by Chen Yan (臣言). Edit Translation
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- Native Title: 他似火
- Also Known As: He Is Like Fire , Ta Si Huo
- Screenwriter: Zhao Lin
- Director: Du Hao
- Genres: Historical, Romance
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Cast & Credits
- Fan Zhi XinYe Ran | Xiang Ting DongMain Role
- Yang Yu XiCheng CheMain Role
- Wang Jun HaoYu Jia HaoSupport Role
- Elaine YiXiang Ruo LanSupport Role
- Guo Jia YuXiao XiaoSupport Role
- Wang Ruo LinShi San Shao [Master of Fengxing Guild Hall]Support Role
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"We are fire"
I don't really write reviews, tho I love reading them (still taking reviews with a grain of salt).But I do love Fan Zhi Xin. I hope he'd get the projects and fame he so deserve!
- His acting is always, always on point and I can't believe he's so young
- Credits to the casting director, because cast delivered great
- I know episodes seemed very slow paced (and I don't really dig it), so I set it to 1.5x speed
- the KISS! some might find it slow burn, but that's what made it exquisite! too bad there's not a lot :(
(edit: there's a lot of weight and meaning when they kissed on Ep25... swoon-worthy! I won't spoil more, but...)
- the theme and it's ending were spot on for me
finally, on FZX: I love how his roles are (almost) always portraying a devoted (if not lovesick) guy with a "I will kill and die for you" vibe. I know it might be a red flag, but he's just fire. He's so sick (literally) on "Dear Liar" but I just couldn't help but see where he's coming from (this is bad, I know... but it's FZX, so I guess it's kind of ok?!?).
As for links and how to watch some of these, I normally google it like "(drama name) eng sub ep(episode number). At times, they may be available in Bilibili, but Dailymotion is a good link, too, if it's not available via Kiss.
I hope this helps: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x96h44o (episode 1)
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Visually beautiful production and charismatic ML but terrible editing, pacing, and sound editing.
This drama is very aesthetically appealing. Settings, lighting, camera direction and acting all came together to create a gorgeousness that feels immersive, dark-sexy and intriguing. The production values are somewhat higher end for a short length. I love this ML, ive seen him in other things and hes great.Romance was more tame than I expected, and it was sort of presented as a side-dish to an overly complicated plot about drugs, power, secrets, and scheming.
The real problem was completely bad editing and pacing. It slows down way too slow, then speeds up way too fast with flashback scenes presented in disjointed ways and lots of skipping around from one thing to another.
The writing and directing werent the best either, there was an awul lot of cringe moments flying around here and there.
The bgm/ost were so "off" to me... nothing struck a note that matched the tone of the scene. It was all this accoustic femmy music with a dynamic range imbalance problem, that just killed any sexy and drove me to hit mute. Very loud in comparison to the drama, and distracting/detracting. Some people really like the songs. I dont.. this is not my kind of music. But aside from that, the music didnt match the tone of the show at all. You have a very dark aesthetic, lots of use of black and dimly lit interiors, and rainy nights, the ML has a very dark, smoldering quality to his looks, hes supposed to be a badass, protecting his ballerina girl from blood, bullets, drugs, and crime bosses. That just doesnt call for sentimental accoustic female ballad songs. It calls for something that sounds dark and smoky. The juxtaposition of music to show was imo jarring and detracted from the overall tone they were trying to create.
Supporting casts acting was neither great nor terrible. But since this romance was very short on actual romance, and my focus was challenged by the drama and not gripped by it, i give it a 6. Imo a wast of time, not totally worth the watch.
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