No as this is the prequel to TBOY. However, I suggest watching TBOY after this as everything and all the relationships/connections will make sense (especially since we've been introduced to so many characters with each new episode).
Having watched TBOY, it makes it easy to recognize who is who and remember the faces. I mean the number of people with white hair here....plus the upcoming appearance of Nangong Chun Shui will up that number.
I didn't catch Sha Xuan's name on the cast list earlier in the sea of the male idols. When she appeared onscreen in episode 11 as A' Xuan, I thought she looked familiar - Ji Xue (Guardian White Tiger) but without the grey hair.
I'm assuming A'Xuan is Ji Xue's mother and/or (future) wife of Ji Ruofeng?
Also a young Luo Qing Ya before he was OP (overpowered) and looks to already gaze longingly at his shimei, Yi WenJun. Poor WenJun - even as a young lady, she felt caged and trapped.
The first episode can be found on Youtube, but I couldn't sit through the first episode - which was less than 14 minutes long. I didn't know they had short form dramas filmed in 2014...
It's rare for me to watch Bai Lu in modern dramas - I had to drop the last one with her and Didi, it was one of those dramas that read well in the novel but not so much on the screen.
The 2000 era was a special one to me, in the cusp of becoming a young adult - hopefully we'll see many elements of this era stay true and that the story is a good one.
This damn show is going to have me go rewatch blood of youth for the zillionth time lol. As one of its OST‘s…
I was just about to comment on this! When the TBOY OST came on at the beginning of episode 9, I immediately thought of the scene where Wu Xin was teaching Xiao Se and Lei WuJie the heart demon-reading and fist martial arts respectively.
We meet Xiao Se's master in episode 8, Ji Ruofeng - the Polymath of Jianghu - in the mask and the staff and also a very bright and still young prodigy Zhao Yu Zhen. Already, he loves peaches in his youth - makes sense why he loves Li Han Yi's peach blossoms sword technique.
He was the one who fought Tang Liang, right?I also wondered that as well. I just figured he became jaded after…
Oh him! That's right, he was the one whose goal was to bring them out of the darkness and into the light and that's why he aligned the Dark River with Xiao Yu / Prince Chi....but along the way lost his goal and started harming their own people by turning them into puppets.
Need a spoiler from anyone who have read the novel. How did Su Chang He turned out like that in Blood Of Youth?
He was the one who fought Tang Liang, right?
I also wondered that as well. I just figured he became jaded after so many years as an assassin. He was so funny and humane here but quite hateful in TBOY.
He's also promoting his Go East drama in Changsha, I wonder if this helped aligned his schedule filming for Hello,…
They have both been busy filming dramas back to back. For Didi, 'Light to the Night' just wrapped up filming last month. Before that, he was filming Guardians of the Dafeng which wrapped up last December, plus his variety shows (Wonderland and Hello Saturday). He also participated in the NBA All-Star in the US earlier this February as well as appearing as a guest on variety shows (Keep Running).
大哥 finished filming 'Filter' four months ago and then he started filming 'Under the Skin Season 2' immediately after.
Also promoting Lost You Forever 2 and now the upcoming Go East.
Didi and 大哥 were both very busy last year, too hence why they were gone for bouts of period with some more of the frequent guests aka extended Hi6 family (Wu Yi, Fan Shi Qi, Wei Da Xun, Meng Zi Yi, Zhang Yan Qi, Su Xing, and Zhang Yuan) making more regular appearances.
This is Qian Shan Cha Ke's most popular book in this genre and in the shared novel universe.
'The Double' exceeded everyone's expectations, and I hope that 'The Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage' drama adaptation will do the book justice. Hopefully, we'll have a great production team and director and a befitting cast and plot.
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Having watched TBOY, it makes it easy to recognize who is who and remember the faces. I mean the number of people with white hair here....plus the upcoming appearance of Nangong Chun Shui will up that number.
I'm assuming A'Xuan is Ji Xue's mother and/or (future) wife of Ji Ruofeng?
Also a young Luo Qing Ya before he was OP (overpowered) and looks to already gaze longingly at his shimei, Yi WenJun. Poor WenJun - even as a young lady, she felt caged and trapped.
The 2000 era was a special one to me, in the cusp of becoming a young adult - hopefully we'll see many elements of this era stay true and that the story is a good one.
I also wondered that as well. I just figured he became jaded after so many years as an assassin. He was so funny and humane here but quite hateful in TBOY.
大哥 finished filming 'Filter' four months ago and then he started filming 'Under the Skin Season 2' immediately after.
Also promoting Lost You Forever 2 and now the upcoming Go East.
Didi and 大哥 were both very busy last year, too hence why they were gone for bouts of period with some more of the frequent guests aka extended Hi6 family (Wu Yi, Fan Shi Qi, Wei Da Xun, Meng Zi Yi, Zhang Yan Qi, Su Xing, and Zhang Yuan) making more regular appearances.
'The Double' exceeded everyone's expectations, and I hope that 'The Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage' drama adaptation will do the book justice. Hopefully, we'll have a great production team and director and a befitting cast and plot.