Lady Musashi

Who ever did that ad for Cadillac really made a fix-it fic. :D

Let's talk about more pleasant things. There are other actors in WOH. Did everyone see the new Cadillac ad with Zhou Ye and Ma Wenyuan? They literally got their reincarnation AU. :)

That's literally the picture from the post about his movie (remember I mention the coffee cup?) And that person is tweeting about ZZH exclusively since August 12 non-stop and the things they (she?) posted about him are making it difficult to see their side. Like, I've read almost all of their tweets (luckily not all at once) and they are literally presenting him as a cackling B movie villain.

I have seen it, so I know it's possible, for even the Mainland Chinese for whom this issue is the most serious to show at least SOME nuance about this situation. Don't mistake me, he effed up big time, people are rightfully pissed. But when I see a pile on by people like this linlin , topped with lies and 'lets kick him while his down' mentality, I can't help feel that something is seriously wrong with this situation.

Like his professional life in entertainment is most likely over. All the dramas, movies, companies etc. all dropped him in 24 hrs. I mean, what else can they take from him? And yet, the saga continues...

I managed to find the original tweet and thread: https://twitter.com/Lykelee171/status/1426202475430879238

He's been unimaginable stupid or simply callously careless. No one with the functioning brain is going to deny that. People are going to be (rightfully) pissed.

But, a lot of lies have also told about him. Like the Nazi pose. See these pictures, it's clearly that 'Nazi pose' was copied from this post about his film 'Brother' (a very touching film) and used (and is still being used online) to additionally smear him. https://twitter.com/softsiv/status/1426588547755171843 Like that's the same photograph people compared to Hitler online (you can even see a cup of coffee in his hand). As the person said, people should criticize him for the right (stupid, callous) things. So, maybe some kind of campaign against him isn't as impossible to imagine. The things I've read about him in the last two days are bordering on ridiculous. Just imagine an awful thing and he has supposedly done it.

The thing is, both of these things can be true at the same time. He did something terrible AND there is a campaign against him.

Netflix should be safe, I think. They sold foreign rights, they cannot take it down unless Netflix itself does it.

That will never happen. No one came out to defend Xiao Zhan and he actually didn't do anything at all. No one will defend him publicly unless they want to be erased as well. Privately maybe, publicly not in a million years. The media continue to blacken him, and there is an army of people on Twitter doing the continuous smear campaign in the last 48hrs. I've seen claims that he is actually Japanese, that he is sexual offender, fascist, you name it. I expect to see that he is devil himself soon. So, no chance.

You are truly wonderful! Thank you, thank you!

And movie is wonderful too. It made me cry.

Re: WOH accounts, no wonder it's crazy out there, I completely understand them. :(

I understand why his fans in China are laying low, they don't want to be washed away in the avalanche. But, we shouldn't censor ourselves to placate someone. Our boy effed up (he really, really did), but he still doesn't deserve the public treatment that is worse than Kris Wu's (before the arrest). Why shouldn't we say that? We are responsible only for our actions, we cannot be responsible for anyone else's.

If you haven't yet, download WOH episodes because apparently Youku will take them down soon as well as other ZZH works.

You are a star! Too bad I can't see it, since its limited and I don't have twitter account. Still, much appreciated. :)

They ALL dropped him, I don't think there is a single hold out, so most likely - yes. No one can support him either if they want to remain unscathed.

That's the official link without the subtitles, but thank you for the effort. I believe it was link on twitter, but am not able to find it.

This might be the wrong place to ask, but I swear I saw it in the comments before. I am trying to find Zhang Zhehan's short film Brother (Ge) with English subtitle. Maybe someone can help. Thanks.

We'll see if he survives this. The way I see it, what started as targeted attack by antis is now being used to make example of him. So, we will not see anything from him for at least year or two, I've been told.

From the first episode, I was hooked. Zhou Zishu's costume, the lanterns, the entire esthetic, the fight on the roof, I was done for, lol. The seven nails and the meeting between our core characters just confirmed what I already knew, I was going to love the drama.

So, I had a pretty similar experience to yours.

Thank you! It does sound interesting and I am a sucker for found families trope.

Officially, it's bromance (because => censorship). But, there is pure romance on the screen. TU is far more discrete and subtle, to quote AvenueX: 'you have to hunt for sugar'. There is no need for sugar hunting in WOH, it's all on screen.

Mind you, don't expect anything more than hand holding and hugs that can me explained differently to censors. Like, they aren't hugging because they care/love each other but because one is consoling the other etc....

I apologize for misinformation, I should have checked the article better. However, new rules WERE established in the first quarter of this year. Maybe you should explore AvenueX YouTube, she explained in one of her videos why WOH got lucky =>they got broadcast license before the new rules were adopted.

Also, about Immortality, because people speculate about it in connection with WOH, the drama hasn't been released because VFX aren't done yet, as far as I know they got the license.

As far as I know the censorship got stricter in March for everything, including and particularly affecting LGBTQ+ dramas. This didn't affect WOH, they only had to submit the script to the censors. After the new rules were adopted, the dramas have to submit filmed material as well. New restrictions were apparently being added recently as well: https://variety.com/2020/tv/asia/china-tv-regulators-story-supervision-censorship-1234704571/

The rules from March: https://qz.com/630159/chinas-new-television-rules-ban-homosexuality-drinking-and-vengeance/

Wen Kexing alone defies half of these rules, but Zhou Zishu is not far behind when you analyze everything.