again time travel?! Why this years so many time travels? Love game in eastern fantasy, a dream within a dream,…
The ones you quoted are fantasy, not really time travel. >Falling into game, >Falling into film or drama script, >Falling into dream fantasy. These were all good sure, although for some reason (perhaps ROTAR memory, perhaps I still haven't warmed up enough to Esther Yu), I did not really enjoy LGIEF, contrary to the other two Then you got science fiction inspired alternate universes dramas, sometimes "switching between these", like "Mobius"... or "time loops" to escape from, like "Reset". Time travel dramas are more in mini dramas these past few years, and mostly in the form of >individuals reliving their life from a certain point to change it after having been killed. Except "Joy of Life" and its season 2 which are set in "far future with Chinese ancient history trappings" and has quite magical elements blended with technology. I think the ban on dramas featuring time travel to ancient China (like in 2011 "Scarlet Heart" or 2001 "A Step Into The Past") is still on in China because of the risk to misrepresent the past or some other concerns. See below in comments : Enigma05 explanation about "transmigration" vs "time travel" and replies to that post.
I watched for Chen Zheyuan but immediately liked Li Qin and wondered why I have not watched her before. Then realised…
I don't remember when I stumbled onto a drama featuring her, but all those I saw, she was shining in -- she is indeed special! Yes, Lin Wan'er in and 2024 JoL alongside ; Shen Jinzhen in 2024 War of Faith; Tong Xiaomei in 2023 The Youth Memories; funny and brazen Yu DengDeng in 2022 Thousand Years For You ; airy Xia Chu in 2021 My Dear Guardian ; Ma Zhaixing in 2020 The Wolf ; the princess of Wei in 2018 Princess Agents ; ... and Xue Baochai in 2010 The Dream of Red Mansions (which featured a slew of now established stars, Yang Yang, Yang Mi, Zhao Liying, etc) -- I didn't watch the latter at the time (busy with work not watching dramas although I was a movie fiend then) but later, online, and it is still one of if not the best adaptation of the classic novel. I haven't graduated to "full fan" of Sweet Li /QinQin, haven't watched everything in her filmography, only a few interviews and BTS for a couple of dramas, curious about her having played Yang KaiHui, the red heroine, several times but haven't found my way to find them yet, and I still have to explore her Qin Ying fandom, but I admit her name alongside that of Chen Zheyuan made me look especially forward to Fated Hearts!
the opening OST is it Sa Dingding, sounds like her
It is; look below for my other comment on that : π€ "The opening theme song "Laughing with the song" or "A laughter follows the song" (direct translation of drama Chinese title) has lyrics and co-composition by Zhang Xiaokui working with co-composer Sa Dingging, Inner Mongolian singer-composer who indeed had some songs in the dramas you remember : If You Come Back (ε¦θ₯ε½ζ₯) - The Long Ballad (2021); Flowers Fall Without Trace (θ±θ½ζ η) - Moonlight Mystique (2025) but also worked on several other dramas.
I remember best her haunting Upwards to the Moon (ε·¦ζζζ) - Ashes of Love (2018) although she also sang a version of Unsullied/Bu Ran for that drama. Here is my favorite video of her performing Upwards to The Moon for Midautumn festival 2020 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1KwPqbPP5o together with Zhou Shen for the occasion.
It is appropriate to remember that song and event since on the 6th this month it will again be mooncakes and moongazing festival (Zhongqiujie) in the tail end of this year's Golden Week in China which started on National day yesterday and ends on Wednesday 8 next."
Yes --- I am also watching ongoing Love's Ambition, featuring CZY's well known partner in Hidden Love π Costume and modern on my plate, also some more, but a little less continuously because some trouble home (poor younger son had an accident yesterday and broke ... one arm and the other one's thumb !!) So am on alert mostly for him
I think itβs the same woman who did the long ballad and moonlight mystique OST
The opening theme song "Laughing with the song" or "A laughter follows the song" (direct translation of drama Chinese title) has lyrics and co-composition by Zhang Xiaokui working with co-composer Sa Dingging, Inner Mongolian singer-composer who indeed had some songs in the dramas you remember : If You Come Back (ε¦θ₯ε½ζ₯) - The Long Ballad (2021); Flowers Fall Without Trace (θ±θ½ζ η) - Moonlight Mystique (2025) but also worked on several other dramas.
I remember best her haunting Upwards to the Moon (ε·¦ζζζ) - Ashes of Love (2018) although she also sang a version of Unsullied/Bu Ran for that drama. Here is my favorite video of her performing Upwards to The Moon for Midautumn festival 2020 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1KwPqbPP5o together with Zhou Shen for the occasion.
It is appropriate to remember that song and event since on the 6th this month it will again be mooncakes and moongazing festival (Zhongqiujie) in the tail end of this year's Golden Week in China which started on National day yesterday and ends on Wednesday 8 next.
The OST in the opening is so beautiful, and of course itβs the only thing I get to see for now π€£π
Yes, it is a nice one to be saved -- but the drama started already, so why can't you see it? Do you wait for "alternate platform" instead of watching iQIYI original?
Story of Kunming Palace with Bai Lu, Zhang Linghe and Wang Xingyue? neither Chen Zheyuan nor Li Qin were in that SOKP cast. So who do you mean to see again here ?
The rumors are weird no one is saying how did he fall like was the windows broken ? How does one fall off a window
Easy peasy. Open it, lean out, slide out or fall from a dizzy spell, with or without a mosquito net. Especially if you are standing on a high windowsill like the ones often found in Beijing high end apartments when they are often used to lie on and read or even rest.
It also happens to window cleaners btw, if they have not secured themselves with relevant equipment.
The twin of a former classmate of mine fell to her death that way, from inebriation, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, while drinking herself stupid with other party goers. She opened a window, stood on a chair to do so, because it was not easy to open, and fell out, after probably believing she could fly. Police ruled it as an accident with no foul play, no-one pushing her out, either, no clear suicidal intent. The friends who saw her fall suffered nightmares for long, her twin and parents were heartbroken and had to deal with repatriating her remains to their home country.
There are dozens of tales about mothers losing a small child who leans out of a window in tall buildings. Similar reason: kids and inebriated adults don't evaluate danger as sober adults do.
Someone asked why poor Alan Yu's passing was not even mentioned originally. Only to then post this attention grabbing…
Agree with you generally although I don't believe MDL consciously " try and generate hate and whip up conflict in an already sad death." The police report was not put out in translation as suspicious, it is the commentators who are going overboard with imagination, perhaps they watched too many revenge or vertical dramas and think this is reality ?
I wholeheartedly agree with the authorities and security. People are foul and there was speculation the day after…
I totally agree with you about the speed of reaction especially with videos and fantastical allegations such as "he carried a friend's Rolex in his pocket" (wtf?!) and totally unbelievable "he swallowed a USB probably/surely loaded with incriminating information" and was "swiftly cremated before autopsy" All that immediately made me highly suspicious of the rumors.
C-netizens and worse, foreign media are fond of scandals, and it is a fact that foreign agencies use every possible means to agitate and perpetuate the Uyghur torture and concentration camp charade, and accuse "powerful people" leading up to "evil CCP" (the proper abbreviation is CPC btw, so when you spot that, you may think of Taiwanese hackers and operatives paid by a certain foreign agency... They don't stoop to foment and applaud violence on the streets and spread toxic innuendos)
So, no, I have no doubt about police reports and believe they are accurate. No hidden link to "evil Xi Jinping" who probably never heard about the actor before.
Yu Menglong was not a known dissenter to be silenced. He was a pretty face, sure, but throwing about suspicion that he was sexually tempting to other men is both a stretch and an insult to his memory and family. I am sorry for his mother who is subjected to other rumors now, and for his colleagues who were drawn into the witch hunt.
There are also links in this case to foreign influence and Taiwan agitators who have an agenda to use any story to paint China black, even if it may cause distrust of Chinese people and even ABCs abroad, or wider Asian hate, such as the Thai doctor who was mauled during covid because he "looked Chinese". Such incidents are dismissed as collateral damage by the agitators who masquerade as going to seek "Justice" and war against all who go against their rants.
Now we have an Avaaz petition getting traction : Avaaz is not in China and it's been a while since it got under the thumb of a certain agency to foment trouble in various countries while playing saintly whistle-blower about say, Indian girls burned or raped and other atrocities which I am sure do happen. In some cases, the campaigns on the other hand, are simply arising from rumors and biases and propaganda, lies and brainwashing to a political end : in this instance, fighting China influence and reputation, dismissing the evils done in the past against the country, painting all Chinese as liars to break trust in business deals, or as copycat patent thieves (despite the humongous number of patents China has registered and the myriad of homegrown innovations the country has brought to the world over millennia) so some campaigns are highly suspicious, like in this case.
are you only aware about it now ? But no wonder : even Marcus was taken by surprise so he did not announce it before yesterday's report... Only the keen eyed or lucky strike explorers of WeTV noticed from start, since this drama was one which got announced same day as it aired with no further warning! Or those who read commentators mentions on Marcus' Thursday report and paid attention to those of some sharp observers there, like "Peggy Tanaka" and such who are happy to provide the latest fact or melon about impending airing dramas. Or... those who read this MDL comments column on Thursday.
Unseen Siter eng sub: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9aoj9a
It has been deleted under that link, but you can still find it there under another link if you enter the name of the movie in DM search engine ; it's another take on the story that also was adapted as drama starring Zhao Lusi and William Chan, airdropped on WeTV yesterday Sept.26, 2025
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>Falling into game, >Falling into film or drama script, >Falling into dream fantasy.
These were all good sure, although for some reason (perhaps ROTAR memory, perhaps I still haven't warmed up enough to Esther Yu), I did not really enjoy LGIEF, contrary to the other two
Then you got science fiction inspired alternate universes dramas, sometimes "switching between these", like "Mobius"... or "time loops" to escape from, like "Reset".
Time travel dramas are more in mini dramas these past few years, and mostly in the form of >individuals reliving their life from a certain point to change it after having been killed.
Except "Joy of Life" and its season 2 which are set in "far future with Chinese ancient history trappings" and has quite magical elements blended with technology.
I think the ban on dramas featuring time travel to ancient China (like in 2011 "Scarlet Heart" or 2001 "A Step Into The Past") is still on in China because of the risk to misrepresent the past or some other concerns. See below in comments : Enigma05 explanation about "transmigration" vs "time travel" and replies to that post.
Yes, Lin Wan'er in and 2024 JoL alongside ;
Shen Jinzhen in 2024 War of Faith;
Tong Xiaomei in 2023 The Youth Memories;
funny and brazen Yu DengDeng in 2022 Thousand Years For You ;
airy Xia Chu in 2021 My Dear Guardian ;
Ma Zhaixing in 2020 The Wolf ;
the princess of Wei in 2018 Princess Agents ;
... and Xue Baochai in 2010 The Dream of Red Mansions (which featured a slew of now established stars, Yang Yang, Yang Mi, Zhao Liying, etc) -- I didn't watch the latter at the time (busy with work not watching dramas although I was a movie fiend then) but later, online, and it is still one of if not the best adaptation of the classic novel.
I haven't graduated to "full fan" of Sweet Li /QinQin, haven't watched everything in her filmography, only a few interviews and BTS for a couple of dramas, curious about her having played Yang KaiHui, the red heroine, several times but haven't found my way to find them yet, and I still have to explore her Qin Ying fandom, but I admit her name alongside that of Chen Zheyuan made me look especially forward to Fated Hearts!
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"The opening theme song "Laughing with the song" or "A laughter follows the song" (direct translation of drama Chinese title) has lyrics and co-composition by Zhang Xiaokui working with co-composer Sa Dingging, Inner Mongolian singer-composer who indeed had some songs in the dramas you remember : If You Come Back (ε¦θ₯ε½ζ₯) - The Long Ballad (2021); Flowers Fall Without Trace (θ±θ½ζ η) - Moonlight Mystique (2025) but also worked on several other dramas.
I remember best her haunting Upwards to the Moon (ε·¦ζζζ) - Ashes of Love (2018) although she also sang a version of Unsullied/Bu Ran for that drama. Here is my favorite video of her performing Upwards to The Moon for Midautumn festival 2020 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1KwPqbPP5o together with Zhou Shen for the occasion.
It is appropriate to remember that song and event since on the 6th this month it will again be mooncakes and moongazing festival (Zhongqiujie) in the tail end of this year's Golden Week in China which started on National day yesterday and ends on Wednesday 8 next."
Meanwhile, enjoy the song by Sa Dingding ! and the other ones, to rhythm your busy real life schedule !
I remember best her haunting Upwards to the Moon (ε·¦ζζζ) - Ashes of Love (2018) although she also sang a version of Unsullied/Bu Ran for that drama. Here is my favorite video of her performing Upwards to The Moon for Midautumn festival 2020 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1KwPqbPP5o together with Zhou Shen for the occasion.
It is appropriate to remember that song and event since on the 6th this month it will again be mooncakes and moongazing festival (Zhongqiujie) in the tail end of this year's Golden Week in China which started on National day yesterday and ends on Wednesday 8 next.
neither Chen Zheyuan nor Li Qin were in that SOKP cast. So who do you mean to see again here ?
I added the section about this drama from my ongoing actor Profile, with relevant links, in the always interesting Discussions section above, direct link below:
https://mydramalist.com/discussions/768987-wan-xin-ji/145518-fated-hearts-excerpt-from-the-chen-zheyuan-ongoing-profile
It also happens to window cleaners btw, if they have not secured themselves with relevant equipment.
The twin of a former classmate of mine fell to her death that way, from inebriation, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, while drinking herself stupid with other party goers. She opened a window, stood on a chair to do so, because it was not easy to open, and fell out, after probably believing she could fly. Police ruled it as an accident with no foul play, no-one pushing her out, either, no clear suicidal intent. The friends who saw her fall suffered nightmares for long, her twin and parents were heartbroken and had to deal with repatriating her remains to their home country.
There are dozens of tales about mothers losing a small child who leans out of a window in tall buildings. Similar reason: kids and inebriated adults don't evaluate danger as sober adults do.
C-netizens and worse, foreign media are fond of scandals, and it is a fact that foreign agencies use every possible means to agitate and perpetuate the Uyghur torture and concentration camp charade, and accuse "powerful people" leading up to "evil CCP" (the proper abbreviation is CPC btw, so when you spot that, you may think of Taiwanese hackers and operatives paid by a certain foreign agency... They don't stoop to foment and applaud violence on the streets and spread toxic innuendos)
So, no, I have no doubt about police reports and believe they are accurate. No hidden link to "evil Xi Jinping" who probably never heard about the actor before.
Yu Menglong was not a known dissenter to be silenced. He was a pretty face, sure, but throwing about suspicion that he was sexually tempting to other men is both a stretch and an insult to his memory and family. I am sorry for his mother who is subjected to other rumors now, and for his colleagues who were drawn into the witch hunt.
There are also links in this case to foreign influence and Taiwan agitators who have an agenda to use any story to paint China black, even if it may cause distrust of Chinese people and even ABCs abroad, or wider Asian hate, such as the Thai doctor who was mauled during covid because he "looked Chinese". Such incidents are dismissed as collateral damage by the agitators who masquerade as going to seek "Justice" and war against all who go against their rants.
Now we have an Avaaz petition getting traction : Avaaz is not in China and it's been a while since it got under the thumb of a certain agency to foment trouble in various countries while playing saintly whistle-blower about say, Indian girls burned or raped and other atrocities which I am sure do happen. In some cases, the campaigns on the other hand, are simply arising from rumors and biases and propaganda, lies and brainwashing to a political end : in this instance, fighting China influence and reputation, dismissing the evils done in the past against the country, painting all Chinese as liars to break trust in business deals, or as copycat patent thieves (despite the humongous number of patents China has registered and the myriad of homegrown innovations the country has brought to the world over millennia) so some campaigns are highly suspicious, like in this case.
But no wonder : even Marcus was taken by surprise so he did not announce it before yesterday's report... Only the keen eyed or lucky strike explorers of WeTV noticed from start, since this drama was one which got announced same day as it aired with no further warning! Or those who read commentators mentions on Marcus' Thursday report and paid attention to those of some sharp observers there, like "Peggy Tanaka" and such who are happy to provide the latest fact or melon about impending airing dramas.
Or... those who read this MDL comments column on Thursday.