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The age thing is not bad in this.

I have a friend in rl who married her brother’s best friend. But in her case, he’s 10 years older and has known her since she was 5. He asked to kiss her when she was 13 and waited until her 18th birthday to take her on a date and ask her out. Now - that is creepy.

This is not. DJX meets SZ at 14, he’s 19 (in the book he’s 21). But we all had crushes on older guys back then, it’s normal. And they don’t notice us, that’s normal too. He doesn’t see her in that way at all in the beginning, she’s just an amusing kid to him. This is important, he doesn’t have any romantic feelings for her when she’s young - as opposed to *see above real life story*.

After she’s 16 they have no contact in 2 years. This is essentially the time she’s becoming a young woman - so he is getting to know her again now, but properly as an equal and a friend - and only at this point does he become attracted to her.

Barely any time with our couple in today’s episode!! 😩

Exactly! Unless it’s a less common word, then you keep typing 😊

Looking at the BTS and seeing hair clips in CZY’s hair in between shots. The attention to detail! I’d like to thank this hair wizard, because his hair is magic.

A Chinese keyboard would be too complex, too many strokes. So we use the English keyboard, write the words out phonetically and the most common characters appear (like predictive text in English).

You know what I love about Lusi, she acts like she’s physically attracted to her ML and wants to be physical with them. There’s something that is just so rubbish about a FL who is terrified by physical contact or is always rejecting the ML - and there are a lot of them.

There’s meant to be really strong physical attraction when you fall in love! I know a lot of them are trying to convey nervousness or ‘innocence’, but many overact it and they end up looking like they really don’t want to do it and it’s a chore.

It’s on the youku app as the princess and the werewolf. But I swear when I watched it yesterday it was called Go Princess Go 2.

Although, I just saw the trailer for CZY’s other show Go Princess Go 2 and I’m like 🤣🤣🤣 Hopefully he’s a good comedic actor too. He looks like the type who doesn’t take himself too seriously.

I dislike when people dismiss romance as a light genre. I watch a lot of romance, and while it’s true that you can just have a tropey drama with good-looking actors (and I love those too, haha!) But to really get you rewatching and feeling all the feelings, a great actor can really elevate it.

Lusi has a proven track record, but CZY is new to me. The ML in romance always always has trauma but all the expressions of CZY - smiling while being on the verge of tears, putting on a fake smile, having to humble himself to others, and looking so vulnerable in front of SZ makes him one of the best actors I’ve seen in a romance drama. He shows DJX as playful and approachable, while being responsible and sad. It’s not easy to display that complexity. Often you get the one dimensional stony faced tsundere, or the top school student who is too intelligent he hasn’t noticed he’s falling in love (not that I have a problem with those characters, I will happily watch) For me, this puts him in the class of actors like Allen Ren or Zhang Xing Cheng who are really appealing to watch, not just because of looks.

Just looking at the pictures from the press conference and apart from the mother I don’t recognise any other actors 😅 The main leads interactions take up 100% of my attention.

Try Love is Sweet? The leads are older but it’s first love.

Should I watch Mr Bad? I haven’t watched it because I have gone off Shen Yue.

He was really good in the first Go Go Squid, as a sort of annoying younger brother. That is my favourite series with him in it. Where he is a minor character, haha. He just doesn’t look fun.

They’re both such talented and natural actors. It helps that they look like they’re playing characters close to themselves. He’s playful but not overconfident. (No more 25 year old CEOs please! Or ‘cool’ guys. Nobody actually likes boys who can’t make jokes!) She’s cute but not stupid.

Their micro-expressions are spot on. And there is so much emphasis on their small interactions, so we get all the cuteness and nervousness almost like in real time.

She’s making some really good choices lately. Her characters are not silly - SZ is young but she is not petulant and stupid and her male leads are good actors (Leo wu and CZY are excellent. I’m comparing to the actor in Mr Ling…). I’m beginning to feel like if it’s a ZLS movie it will be of a certain standard now.

I hope they keep it like the novel. DJX fight with her brother and her parents disapproval , these are only small obstacles - at the end of the day they respect her choices. I’ll be upset if they don’t make it overly dramatic,

Urgh! That happened in The Legend of White Snake too.

It’s where a character who is a second lead in the book gets changed into the male lead in the tv drama.

Same here. I thought it was unnecessary to have this sort of romance even though I love love romance. What was wrong with just having the tension between her and DY? They looked good together, serious, sombre, restrained. I also think his age gave him gravitas.

I like Liang Jie for this reason too. She seems normal and doesn’t look like she’s trying to be cutesy or delicate. TDBY is amazing, so funny.