Not sure when we will get the special ep. Even today, there was nothing posted about L&P even though it was the…
L&P special could be delayed ? Jiang Zemin, of course ... Deng's successor. I was in a "time well", just emerging to briefly attend Earthly matters. Although JZM left his mark in History the mourning cannot last for too long. There's an important event scheduled soon when XJP will be in Riyad. Real life dramas ahead.
Watch RESET if you have not already. Only 15 episodes, but.......
NO : that would be too spoilerish. Besides : telling might have you thinking you could easily "categorize" it, and get prejudiced. Even reading the short synopsis on imdb or Rakuten viki might make you think "OK I know enough" when it is not really so. Read opinions after you have started watching or have arrived to end, is my best recommendation there. If you are curious, and have completed L&P, why not give it a try? You might end up glued to screen, happily awaiting next episode too.
I will reveal that it is set in an unspecified city with a large bridge connecting a suburb with poor tenements, a park, and a college, to an urban center, via a bus line. And that I was fascinated by the episodes set in the cosplaying community (which reminded me in its building and street layout of a neighborhood I once lived close to in China) and the game players hotel. Both offered an interesting peek at some lesser known sociology, almost slice-of-life realist style. I admired the inspector. There is a mystery and it is solved in the end. Meanwhile, some of that drama has dream or nightmare quality atmosphere. Although there is a couple (FL first, played by Zhao Jinmai ; ML later, played by Bai Jingting) that warms up from strangers to close friends, nicely played, the gist is not romance. But the drama is full of emotions and there is no drag.
I was looking for the "Ren Di" songs : 'Who controls the marionettes ?" (sung by Pang Chuyue, titled "Between") which comes up impressively in episodes 8 and 30 (if I remember right) and "Light Red" (Chen Xueran or Cao Yang versions) I found them on this comprehensive playlist, which features translation into English and handy timestamps 😁 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61U2jsPrGcQ The background music is also on this recording.
I am ok with the last 2 you mention, but NLB lost me a while ago. Despite my coming for the savory food and Bai Jingting (who was so good in Reset in the beginning of 2022) and a possibly nice costume drama fantasy in the "connected states". The endless sanctimonious attitudes from the bevy of ladies and the verbose rants from prince Song and emperor + Song & Zheng ended up boring me stiff. I felt as though BJT had been trapped into playing in that morass. But perhaps I shall revise my opinion later when it is over ---- if I go back there, now L&P is not monopolizing my attention any longer.
I have now post-drama depression (last time I had this after LBFAD), so... Do you know any similar to this and…
Funny as I just breezed through enjoyable LBFAD as a cure for LLTG (when I'm supposed to be more of an addict of xuanhuan, xianxia and fantasy) whereas it was LLTG ("Love Like the Galaxy") that got me raving this August and be loath to leave re-watch there. Yes.... post-drama depression is a sure sign that the drama was good. This L&P will surely have such effect for me too,. That's also why, despite growing addiction, I tried to wait a little before getting to #36. While going back to other, past, items in the Chen Feiyu filmography. I also liked Zhang Jingyi in "Fall In Love" republican era drama last year, btw. It was not a masterpiece but quite enjoyable. I would not mind L&P to be longer.: 36 episodes felt short!! There's a 40 eps drama that by comparison, has me struggling to keep watching, despite it apparently garnering lots of praise : NLB. Maybe that one was "not for me", despite my enthusiasm about Reset back in Jan-Feb and my very much liking Bai Jingting, including his singing elsewhere. I probably will try to overcome L&P nostalgy by continuing to watch SAHPH ("She and Her Perfect Husband") which also has, imho, a rather well woven modern plot, and characters who are not the standard ones that some reduce them to. L&P is on another (higher) level, though. At the moment, I can't think of a plot and acting as compelling as that of L&P except "RESET" (15 episodes) or LLTG (but that one is a historical costume drama, so another category altogether, different from modern day workplace dramas or romances).
Well there's Fei'er and Lin Zong, too, with the kid in tow (cute one).plus He Xiaoran's dad and mom couple (very…
But it does: relationship was only apparent.Not genuine.
Episode 2 when the misunderstanding about the confession video and his abrupt departure is still not cleared up, Xiao Shangqi (who was wondering why she had cut communication with him) admitted that he only thought about He Xiaoran when he was abroad and that he regretted that he could not explain about the emergency that had led to his sudden departure and not fulfilling his promise to He Xiaoran.
The three were childhood friends and inseparable for most of the time and he had acted protective to both, to Xiaoran first, next to Fei'er who played the "weak" damsel card to both, to escape her horrible family.
There was no real couple relationship, Fei'er only used rumor to get the powerful males she noticed and as soon as she understood that Mingxuan had a more powerful position than Shangqi who was looked down upon in his family because of his brother's accident, she did not hesitate to discard Shangqi who was not heartbroken, since he'd only helped her out of real friendship.
Maybe you did not watch the same way as I did. The so-called "ex" story was a weapon that Fei'er used to keep Mingxuan interested in her when she sensed that he believed he could hurt Shangqi through her.
Shangqi had already long immersed himself in work, disappointed that his childhood friends had proved so fickle, convinced that Xiaoran must also not really be interested in him, but regretting her enough to keep her small fish shaped radio gift and wanting to have it repaired because he vividly remembered her and her parents kindness back when.
So no, to me, Fei'er never was anything else than ex FRIEND of Shangqi. But she was playing it so that others believed it was more.
True, he should have stepped in to combat those rumors, that are same kind as crazy fans trying to convince others that a drama CP are "together in real life". Why he didn't and let the ambiguity go on, I am not sure about. Perhaps he could not think anyone could genuinely love him, since he'd lost his mother and been rejected by his dad, looked down upon and left to stay in loner's hell for so many years. He had found two friends, one of which needed protection so he gave it, the other who was strong enough to fend for herself and who had already given more to him than the other ever had, in sincerity. But he still put up his hands in shelter to protect her from the"failing tree" and made a promise to her to be there for her final test in college.
One thing I'm sure about is he didn't love Fei'er. Never had. In fact, without yet admitting it to himself, he always loved Xiaoran. Otherwise, he would not have rushed to save her in the bridge incident (ep2) and proposed to take her back to Hupu if she resigned from the radio station in Wusu (Suzhou in reality: the Gate to the East arched building from 2013, become a landmark of that Jiangnan city, features prominently in the drama, to point to real name of the setting).
There's no real indication that Shangqi and Fei'er "dated" in college: Fei'er was starting her act there, stirring Xiaoran's jealousy by forcing herself on Shangqi and letting appearances and rumor do the job, but they were still in an "unbreakable triangle" then, all the way to burying their time capsules together. In Shanqi's there was no mention of his wishing to be with Fei'er.
And Xiaoran was the first to plan to confess her feelings at school graduation : would she have done so, if she really believed her best friends were together ? She always was a proud person. I don't think she would have if she was not aware that there was no real dating going on between her friends. She was certainly troubled that Shangqi did appear to accept Fei'er's extreme insecurity, but she also knew that no love feelings were involved.
Only when the two disappeared without an explanation (because Fei'er had been injured and Shangqi rushed her to get best cosmetic surgery treatment abroad) did Xiaoran finally blow it out in her mind to believe the rumor of their dating and perhaps eloping. Out of pride, and not seeking an explanation, just cutting them off. Mingxuan also viciously harped on the imaginary ex relationship, to damage Shangqi's reputation and have him cast as an apparently "dumped" ex boyfriend. But he was using Fei'er as much as she used him.
Don't let yourself be taken in by the drama presentation that "instead of ending up with him, [Xiaoran] had to watch on helplessly as he pursued his dreams of love with another woman – their mutual friend Chen Fei Er. She was forced to endure the heartbreak of watching the man she loved begin a relationship with her close friend" . This was what was superficially rumored, but not the reality for the three.
To me, the point in this story was the emotional insecurity and inability to communicate: low EQ.
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If you like to try your voice at singing, Peachey Blossom has a collection of MVs with Hanyu, Pinyin, and English translations for individual OST songs; and you can sing some Pu Shu songs too with other lyrics videos.
Here below, some samples :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YzMObMj9O8 (国王与骑士) King and Knight , Chen Xueran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebH6ssdDuMA (焰火) Firework Zhou Shen singer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoMeA-peQh0 (之间) Between ; Peng ChuYue [one of the songs of "Ren Di's Light Red band "in L&P]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnarKjKC4T0 (少年录音棚版) Forever Young, Pu Shu (朴树)
But my favorite Pu Shu song is not in the OST ; I add it as bonus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbxCYdyRuro
Here performed together with an Escape Plan song, by the gifted young Karry Wang, Nicholas Tse and Jam Hsiao : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSGYFBPuu0 ( 平凡之路) The Ordinary Road
Jiang Zemin, of course ... Deng's successor. I was in a "time well", just emerging to briefly attend Earthly matters. Although JZM left his mark in History the mourning cannot last for too long. There's an important event scheduled soon when XJP will be in Riyad.
Real life dramas ahead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61U2jsPrGcQ
sad 😣
If you are curious, and have completed L&P, why not give it a try?
You might end up glued to screen, happily awaiting next episode too.
I will reveal that it is set in an unspecified city with a large bridge connecting a suburb with poor tenements, a park, and a college, to an urban center, via a bus line. And that I was fascinated by the episodes set in the cosplaying community (which reminded me in its building and street layout of a neighborhood I once lived close to in China) and the game players hotel. Both offered an interesting peek at some lesser known sociology, almost slice-of-life realist style.
I admired the inspector.
There is a mystery and it is solved in the end.
Meanwhile, some of that drama has dream or nightmare quality atmosphere.
Although there is a couple (FL first, played by Zhao Jinmai ; ML later, played by Bai Jingting) that warms up from strangers to close friends, nicely played, the gist is not romance. But the drama is full of emotions and there is no drag.
I found them on this comprehensive playlist, which features translation into English and handy timestamps 😁 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61U2jsPrGcQ
The background music is also on this recording.
Despite my coming for the savory food and Bai Jingting (who was so good in Reset in the beginning of 2022) and a possibly nice costume drama fantasy in the "connected states".
The endless sanctimonious attitudes from the bevy of ladies and the verbose rants from prince Song and emperor + Song & Zheng ended up boring me stiff. I felt as though BJT had been trapped into playing in that morass.
But perhaps I shall revise my opinion later when it is over ---- if I go back there, now L&P is not monopolizing my attention any longer.
Me, I put in a 10.
Yes.... post-drama depression is a sure sign that the drama was good. This L&P will surely have such effect for me too,. That's also why, despite growing addiction, I tried to wait a little before getting to #36.
While going back to other, past, items in the Chen Feiyu filmography. I also liked Zhang Jingyi in "Fall In Love" republican era drama last year, btw. It was not a masterpiece but quite enjoyable.
I would not mind L&P to be longer.: 36 episodes felt short!! There's a 40 eps drama that by comparison, has me struggling to keep watching, despite it apparently garnering lots of praise : NLB. Maybe that one was "not for me", despite my enthusiasm about Reset back in Jan-Feb and my very much liking Bai Jingting, including his singing elsewhere.
I probably will try to overcome L&P nostalgy by continuing to watch SAHPH ("She and Her Perfect Husband") which also has, imho, a rather well woven modern plot, and characters who are not the standard ones that some reduce them to.
L&P is on another (higher) level, though.
At the moment, I can't think of a plot and acting as compelling as that of L&P except "RESET" (15 episodes) or LLTG (but that one is a historical costume drama, so another category altogether, different from modern day workplace dramas or romances).
Episode 2 when the misunderstanding about the confession video and his abrupt departure is still not cleared up, Xiao Shangqi (who was wondering why she had cut communication with him) admitted that he only thought about He Xiaoran when he was abroad and that he regretted that he could not explain about the emergency that had led to his sudden departure and not fulfilling his promise to He Xiaoran.
The three were childhood friends and inseparable for most of the time and he had acted protective to both, to Xiaoran first, next to Fei'er who played the "weak" damsel card to both, to escape her horrible family.
There was no real couple relationship, Fei'er only used rumor to get the powerful males she noticed and as soon as she understood that Mingxuan had a more powerful position than Shangqi who was looked down upon in his family because of his brother's accident, she did not hesitate to discard Shangqi who was not heartbroken, since he'd only helped her out of real friendship.
Maybe you did not watch the same way as I did. The so-called "ex" story was a weapon that Fei'er used to keep Mingxuan interested in her when she sensed that he believed he could hurt Shangqi through her.
Shangqi had already long immersed himself in work, disappointed that his childhood friends had proved so fickle, convinced that Xiaoran must also not really be interested in him, but regretting her enough to keep her small fish shaped radio gift and wanting to have it repaired because he vividly remembered her and her parents kindness back when.
So no, to me, Fei'er never was anything else than ex FRIEND of Shangqi. But she was playing it so that others believed it was more.
True, he should have stepped in to combat those rumors, that are same kind as crazy fans trying to convince others that a drama CP are "together in real life". Why he didn't and let the ambiguity go on, I am not sure about. Perhaps he could not think anyone could genuinely love him, since he'd lost his mother and been rejected by his dad, looked down upon and left to stay in loner's hell for so many years. He had found two friends, one of which needed protection so he gave it, the other who was strong enough to fend for herself and who had already given more to him than the other ever had, in sincerity. But he still put up his hands in shelter to protect her from the"failing tree" and made a promise to her to be there for her final test in college.
One thing I'm sure about is he didn't love Fei'er. Never had.
In fact, without yet admitting it to himself, he always loved Xiaoran.
Otherwise, he would not have rushed to save her in the bridge incident (ep2) and proposed to take her back to Hupu if she resigned from the radio station in Wusu (Suzhou in reality: the Gate to the East arched building from 2013, become a landmark of that Jiangnan city, features prominently in the drama, to point to real name of the setting).
There's no real indication that Shangqi and Fei'er "dated" in college: Fei'er was starting her act there, stirring Xiaoran's jealousy by forcing herself on Shangqi and letting appearances and rumor do the job, but they were still in an "unbreakable triangle" then, all the way to burying their time capsules together. In Shanqi's there was no mention of his wishing to be with Fei'er.
And Xiaoran was the first to plan to confess her feelings at school graduation : would she have done so, if she really believed her best friends were together ? She always was a proud person. I don't think she would have if she was not aware that there was no real dating going on between her friends. She was certainly troubled that Shangqi did appear to accept Fei'er's extreme insecurity, but she also knew that no love feelings were involved.
Only when the two disappeared without an explanation (because Fei'er had been injured and Shangqi rushed her to get best cosmetic surgery treatment abroad) did Xiaoran finally blow it out in her mind to believe the rumor of their dating and perhaps eloping. Out of pride, and not seeking an explanation, just cutting them off. Mingxuan also viciously harped on the imaginary ex relationship, to damage Shangqi's reputation and have him cast as an apparently "dumped" ex boyfriend. But he was using Fei'er as much as she used him.
Don't let yourself be taken in by the drama presentation that "instead of ending up with him, [Xiaoran] had to watch on helplessly as he pursued his dreams of love with another woman – their mutual friend Chen Fei Er. She was forced to endure the heartbreak of watching the man she loved begin a relationship with her close friend" . This was what was superficially rumored, but not the reality for the three.
To me, the point in this story was the emotional insecurity and inability to communicate: low EQ.
Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW-G11BV_OE