Deirdre19

He who?

I hope you are right and his opinion carries enough weight. I think generally the people who can act prefer complex roles instead of the cutesy stuff, but platforms like to focus on romance because it is easy marketing. I’ve seen it happen just recently with Whispers of Fate (a drama without romance) where they still cut certain scenes in the trailers in a way that would create expectations.

This will be exactly the tough choice that the production team has to make.
If they want something that is sure to top the ratings, get a high rating on Douban (provided some of the trolls don’t interfere) and gain a lot of the younger viewership, then there has to be an increased focus on romance, with added “cute scenes” and a happy ending.
If they want to make an authentic drama about the fate of individuals in troubled times and raise some of the philosophical questions from the novel, they will have to be prepared to lose a large part of the audience who just hunger for more sugar water and get bored by too much political intrigue.
Personally, I hope that they will have the courage to go for the latter.

Cheng Lei showed a quick reaction and excellent skills when his horse spooked due to some noise on set
0128花絮｜磊子的马受惊了“马怕这个声音” 🤲🏻 http://xhslink.com/o/3kT2vC7hPvR

Yes, I am sure your submissions were correct and based on the official lineup, but some people like to mess around. This isn’t the first time.

Zheng Yecheng in his guest role as Pang Yu
https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:5259991041376317?from=old_pc_videoshow

Hmh, so much for strictly going by the official announcement. Someone must have thrown your submission into the mixer and new names came up 😉
and they are definitely biased against Jeremy!

New rumours are saying it will be aired mid-February… It’s about time!

Why on earth is Xu Zhengxi listed as a “guest role”?
In the announcement he was listed in the same line as Zhao Zhaoyi, Yin Haoyu, and Cao Jun.
I thought MDL only accept “official” documents as backup documentation, but this is clearly from the land of fantasy.

Oh, I hope not! I hate it when the writers are trying to “lighten the mood” by adding silly characters. It hardly ever works.
At least this isn’t a Xianxia so they can’t add “cute CGI animals”.

Article about the drama on DramaPanda.
https://dramapanda.com/2026/01/dancing-with-tide-tan-jianci-traitor-general-lu-yuxiao.html

This isn’t his official styling for the drama, just a fan impression of what Xiahou Jun could look like.
(The image is actually Pei Yan from Love of Nirvana)

Same here. Wherever possible, I read the novel beforehand. Without that,, how could I rant about the darn scriptwriters killing off any original idea, dumbing down the plot lines and whitewashing all the interesting characters, once the drama airs 😂😂😂
Let’s just hope this time around the scriptwriter has an epiphany 🙏

Ok, I see. That would indeed be more orderly, but of course getting people to stick to such posting categories is an uphill battle.

He refuted this rumour in his livestream today.
There may be another actor, but it isn’t him.

You can probably find a lot of those short in and out of makeup clips on XHS (Rednote). The footage mostly comes from fans on site.

Let’s hope they keep her that way. I have seen too many novels with interesting female characters turned into standard sauce.

Yes, that’s what makes them so interesting (and real).

I don’t understand what you mean about galleries.

Yes, I know what you mean. I alway try to be measured and balanced uploading photos and everything that I uploaded here came from official sources (artist studio), so there was absolutely NO reason to delete them!
They’re just trying to free server space and the artists/dramas that aren’t on their favourites list get the chop.