PeachBlossomGoddess

Ah I see... ok... that is kind of interesting since the eunuchs were in control. I will check out a few when I have time. I am on the fence on this bc I am quite busy at the moment and I really don't like FL at all but I think Cheng Yi is ok even though he is definitely not on my favorite list.

Lol... I didn't think of that... for once thank the censors!!!

Me too - there is a chance they will avoid that and mostly focus on his life before he becomes emperor bc I don't think that part is relevant to the love story?

Yeah I don't like him either he is most well known for butchering Buddhist monks. I really dread them showing that and if I watch this I will have to pretend he is an entirely fictional character.

Every day there is something new and its not rumors Beijing is going nuts and all these companies are getting punished but Tencent is the biggest and most high profile:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1224077.shtml
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tencent-falls-after-china-media-calls-online-gaming-spiritual-opium-2021-08-03/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ywang/2021/07/27/chinas-internet-tycoons-suffer-136-billion-wealth-drop-as-regulatory-crackdown-triggers-market-sell-off/?sh=6ba501d7373c
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/06/media/china-crackdown-fan-culture-kris-wu-intl-hnk/index.html

You only have to google Tencent crackdown and you will see what all kinds of trouble they have gotten into recently. In fact it is easier to list what they NOT (yet) got in trouble over rather than to list all the stuff they got in trouble for.

Indeed... I hope 2nd brother did better in the gene pool lottery...

Brace yourself... there are lots of holes and incredulous logic but I don't mind - don't look too hard at it bc it is supposed to be a light drama.

For sure.

It is about Emperor Wuzong or Li Yan of Tang. You can google his life history. Since they are using his real name, it is highly unlikely that it will stray from history in terms of main events in his life. Do it at your own risk, it will spoil you.

Lol close enough… I am up to 22. This is incredibly like Court Lady… FL fixes everything…

I got it from an industry expert. I cover the space for work - it was published in a research report. I don't take anything I read on Weibo seriously.

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To be fair she is a really good liar... very convincing.

My understanding is Tencent really wants this to be good. So they are going to put Humpty Dumpty back together best they can.
And yes Kris Wu is gonna be very popular in prison too... he is gonna get a taste of his own medicine good and proper there... lol!

Oh man that's just terrible but at least Tencent care enough to re-shoot... imagine if scenes were just cut without proper transition leaving us going... huh... what happened...???

Yes you are right, the main actors are quite low key and non-controversial. I think this one got its license too close to the CCP 100th anniversary so even if Tencent had been allowed to air it they would not have been able to promote it.

Geez I hope not, are you sure they are new?

Yeah I think the KW scandal is a catalyst but its also 100th anniversary of the CCP. So even before that broke they were shutting down LGBT accounts on WeChat and generally cracking down on all kinds of stuff from alcohol to after school tuition and any activities they consider socially undesirable. It has been going on all year, the internet cos have so far lost over 1.2 trillion USD in market value. The reason not to get overly upset is this is very wide hitting, BL is NOT being specifically targeted in fact I think content by certain idol actors with overly aggressive fandoms are in a lot more danger...

That's a real shame about your shows. But it is too big an industry in China for the government to do that. This latest crackdown is most directed at making sure the production companies do proper due diligence on their actors ahead of time and stop promoting the idol culture. Which isn't the worst thing in the world bc the whole Kris Wu thing was such a badly kept secret its kind of shameful. Tencent is a very commercial company, they try to time their show launches for the most profit possible so if advertising budgets are down for example, they won't launch good content. In the case of Golden Hairpin of course it blew up in their face bc they got their license to air in April had they gone with it then they wouldn't have had to flush 300mm yuan down the toilet...

Yeah I hear you but I don't know what to say other than let's just hope for the best. I don't think this genre is being singled out or specifically targeted so maybe they get away with some benign edits...