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I am not surprised. It's actually mild compared to what is going on in China. It's really getting insane and we don't even have a date 😭

AvenueX hates Xiao Zhan because she feels he is a huge danger to her precious darling. She is well known on Weibo and was an active part of everything that happened way back then.

That's not even remotely true.

Chinese fan circles function a certain way. If you are ignorant of them, that doesn't mean the rest of us are the same. Antis have had several lines of attack on TLP. Some happened right after the first trailer, some in-between. Things always spill over from China onto the international side .

The attack that it is just another JoF happened right after that first trailer and YouTube comments are full of them. That is currently the only thing that is spilling over and it has re-emerged now that the second one is out. It's also easy to see that it is organised because they are always "reminded" only of JoF. Funny how no other of dozen master/apprentice stories comes to mind, some who have more in common with TLP, but it's always JoF. And it is always JoF because it's a coordinated attack.

Nobody is overreacting, some of us just spend way more time on Chinese socials and can easily see spill over patterns. There is no reason not to warn people here about what is happening. And if this show goes well, it will only get worse.

What if I told you that's not the whole thing? It will kill you even more.

I mean if they insist on it, this show has more in common with Journey to the West. Funny how they never compare it to that, or any other master/disciple shows but they all focus on comparing it to just this one. What a coincidence 🙄

All the comparisons to JoF?

One of the main lines of anti attack on YGY. They are trying to use it to say that the drama is not worth watching or in worse cases, that it copied JoF (even though Zhu Yan the book is older but they count on people not knowing).

This swarm of accusations happened when the first trailer aired in both China and outside. You can see it in the YT comments. And look below now. So just same old, same old. People being afraid this show might be a hit and trying to bring it down.

The new trailer really blew up. The reservations for the show went up by half a million, up to 2.59 mil which is incredible . I actually didn't expect it would have such an effect even though I was optimistic. Tbh, nobody expected this. Hopefully this means a summer vacation file for sure which is the best possible for a drama of this type (in essence, by July 5th everyone is on vacation but expect very late July, realistically August because it is yet to be submitted for the final trial).

Of course, antis have gone crazy and have been dancing since yesterday (some of the stuff was really funny). While this is good because it's always an indication of excellence, keep in mind things like this tend to spill from China onto MDL too. So don't be surprised.

Oh yes, absolutely, YBY is the one that springs to mind when thinking of SY.

Well Tencent did swear to have more respect for the IPs that they use for making dramas. It's been a long standing complaint by Chinese, as audiences, and more importantly, by writers themselves that the shows go beyond altering the original to nebulous territories where they almost have nothing in common. So I do think they will keep this because it's vital to SY's character.

We should know soon if all goes well, late July but probably August. I do hope you enjoy the show, actually I hope both of us do 😁😂

Yes and the show is, as far as we know, also a HE.

It's a happy ending but to get there we will need all the paper rolls we hoarded during COVID. It's very, very angsty.

Yes I have but I am trying not to think on it too much considering that everything says it's been altered. Still, what I told you should be it and there is definitely lots more.

We can't know for sure because the novel has been changed but the ML absolutely does have a sense of duty. In fact, the choice is actually country or love and Shi Ying chooses country.

That's actually my favorite part, there is lots more than the trailer, that actually showed little and I hope everything surrounding him has been kept in.

I won't say much but if you are curious read below

No, it's not.
The only thing in common is master and disciple and that exists in many other shows too.

Not true actually. What you saw in the trailer should be more or less the first half. Shi Ying is the prince of Kong Sang and that whole bit should come after. Honestly, this trailer while awesome actually shows very, very little.

They said they made the drama worse than the book and the book is already painful 😭

It's heavily adapted of course so it's hard to answer your question but imo, the trailer actually hid a lot of things, including my personal favorite part of the story so there is a lot to look forward to. It's beyond romance. Plus Shi Ying's character is really complex and frankly, pitiful 😭 Can't wait for this, come on Tencent, we are ready to throw money at you.

I checked over on Chinese side. Not her voice, you are right but they don't know why it's dubbed. Could be COVID related if she couldn't make it. If so, this will stay 😭

I don't know her enough to be able to say but I hope so 🤞🤞

I dislike the babying at the start though I can live with that but at the end? My poor ears 😭

The new trailer looks amazing but.....

Ren Min's voice is a disaster 😭😭😭 Tencent, please dub over that, everything else is so good 😭😭😭

Don't expect a date, that's not how China works but we should get new material. I am crossing my fingers it's a trailer 🤞Tencent is banking big time on this one.