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I have to disagree with you about BL content being freely produced in mainland China. Winner Is King and Immortality are proof enough. And the most recent example is Pursuit of Jade, where actor He Changxi’s face was replaced with another actor’s face because he had played the lead role in Sammy’s Children’s Day (although, of course, there has been no official confirmation that this was the reason). If BL content were really that unproblematic in China, something like this would hardly have happened.

Yes, in major dramas like Eternal Love and Ashes of Love, which were produced before 2021, there were still hints at this kind of relationship, but there was no openly portrayed BL. Addicted / 上瘾, starring Huang Jingyu and Xu Weizhou, was removed from platforms before it had even finished airing. And after Word of Honor came out, China became even stricter about this kind of content, including bromance. The authorities and state media began criticizing not only the direct portrayal of same-sex relationships, but the entire phenomenon of danmei adaptations, the fan culture surrounding them, CP shipping, the “wrong aesthetics” of male images, and so on. In September 2021, the regulator publicly stated that danmei adaptations needed to be curbed (the statement issued by China’s National Radio and Television Administration, 国家广播电视总局, NRTA, on September 16, 2021). Yes, Chronicles is not a danmei adaptation, but censorship pays very close attention to this kind of content, and I wouldn’t want the actor to have problems from this side as well.

And “scandal” does not necessarily mean that there are actual facts behind it. Especially in China. Just last night on Weibo, people dug up Guo Jingming’s diet again, and the whole thing blew up all over again. Negative buzz is still publicity, but I’d rather there be less of that kind of publicity.

Deng Wei doesn’t film very often, so I don’t want there to be even the slightest possibility that something could go wrong with Chronicles and negatively affect his career. We’ve already had enough with The Days of Seclusion and Love.

I'm such a scaredy-cat. All those scandals surrounding Wei back in the TTEOTM and LYF days, along with Mr. Guo's reputation, make me incredibly nervous on the one hand, but on the other, I'm so happy that my dream of seeing them work together has actually come true. And Yan An will be there too.

Of all people, Weiwei absolutely does not need a scandal involving anything BL-related. We all know how official China views this kind of thing and how actors can get cancelled over it. I just hope Guo Jingming doesn’t cross the line.

It seems that Yan An’s character in *Veil of Shadows* had a similar hairstyle, didn’t he?

Then point them to the official poster. From left to right, the cast is listed as Deng Wei first, followed by Ai Mi. So the producers have clearly established who should be listed first and who should be second.
And they should also check the director’s official account and see whose photos are posted there.

Yeah, I saw that too. And Guo Jingming’s post has already gotten almost 100K likes. 🤪🤪🤪

We had barely finished talking when Mr. Guo heard us and released the first stills of young master Si Kuanglan! This is definitely the arc where Tao Yao enters the Si residence as a maid. And Xiao Wei is playing the qin!

They used a poster where the lead actor’s name is listed first, yet they refuse to change the billing order in their credits. Isn’t that a bit paradoxical?

You’re right. But fewer spoilers also mean less interest in the project. I mean among viewers here — China is a whole different story.

And when I think about the fact that filming won’t wrap until sometime in winter, and then we’ll have to wait for post-production... aaaah, it’s going to take forever! 😭

What bothers me the most is that we’re seeing absolutely nothing from the set. When Guo Jingming was filming VOS, the set was practically an open house — there were tons of photos and videos of the entire cast. But now we get one or two photos, and that’s it. Where are my pretty photos and videos of Xiao Wei and Ai Mi-meme? 😭

Think, they filming this now - An Dao: Those parasitic demon pairs (Miao's first love).

You’re seriously amazing! Please accept my heartfelt thanks! I’m literally bowing to you — no sarcasm whatsoever! 🙇‍♀️

I don’t know. I see this information too, posted by one of the Diamonds, and this person shares updates every day. The only day when there was no filming was when Deng Wei flew to Shanghai for the Dior event.

There have even been updates saying that, for example, yesterday he was supposed to start filming in the morning, but there was a delay, so he arrived on set a little later. The same account that posts these schedules also shows Deng Wei arriving on set and leaving after filming. So, in this respect, I’m inclined to trust this information.

As for the haters, they have always existed and always will. Sometimes it even seems to me that they see much more than we do and know much more than we do. So I don’t think hiding this kind of information would really protect Deng Wei in any meaningful way.
The only people who can truly protect him are the security personnel around him and his own studio, by making sure that nothing similar to what recently happened to Hou Minghao on the plane happens again.

We don’t know. There’s very little romance in the novel, donghua, and manhua. What Mr. Guo will show us is something only he and the screenwriter know. Maybe the actors do too.

Thank You

XiaoʼWei :)

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He was in Season 5. I cried so much over his unhappy love story. And all he had to do was simply tell her how his fillings. Sigh... I think this drama is going to make us cry a lot. But I really love Fangs of Fortune, even though things ended sadly for my favorite character there. I hope Si Kuanglan will move me just as much.
By the way, the pronunciation of 为 is different from his real name: in his stage name it has the second tone, while in his real name it has the third tone. For Chinese speakers, that’s a significant difference. For Europeans (I’m from Europe too), not so much. The theory about the moles is interesting, though.

I don’t remember that arc. Was it in the donghua? Which season? I’ve only just started reading the novel.
Now I understand that 邓为 is his stage name and 邓炜 is his real name. But until yesterday, I had absolutely no idea. Some fan I am. :)

Considering that Guo Jingming’s own company and his partners from VOS are responsible for the production, he pretty much has no choice but to make sure it’s done well.
Mr. Guo seemed to have said that this drama would complete his demon quadrilogy, but then YOUKU announced a second season of VOS. It’s all a bit confusing.