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Scarlet Heart is way more superior to Palace and a classic that still makes me cry, I can't believe Palace won Asian TV awards. That said Yanxi Palace was unfortunately much better than Ruyi because Yuzheng's version told the story from the POV of the lowly underdog palace maid who became an empress, that was bound to be better than Ruyi's POV.

He's unfortunately very influential as a production firm and talent agency CEO with actors like Xu Kai, Bai Lu, Song Weilong, Yang Rong under his guidance (he's famous for talent spotting Zhao Liying, Yang Mi, Chen Xiao, Wu Jinyan) and does write/produce classic dramas e.g. Yanxi Palace, unfortunately he loves to plagiarise 20% or worse mimic the entire concept of famous novels that are getting a screen adaptation e.g. Scarlet Heart. Bet he was super pissed that Kunning Palace didn't get to air before Lost You Forever due to Jacky Zhou's controversy.

Long story: The juiciest and funniest LYF news is Yuzheng repeatedly making jabs at Dengwei (long ago DW refused to audition for a Yuzheng drama incurring his ire, so Yuzheng posted and deleted a bitchy essay when LYF released to good ratings, and now he's making jabs at Dengwei again in the comments even though cnetizens tell him to leave DW alone) and how Xiaoyao's assassin MuFei is played by ShenTai, the actor who famously slapped Yuzheng eons ago over a personal dispute (an actor from Yuzheng's agency slept with ShenTai's gf and got found out by ShenTai, and Yuzheng decided to rescind his previous casting offer to ShenTai to side with his protégé) which Chinese netizens still find extremely funny because Yuzheng was too guilty/embarassed to press charges and ShenTai openly posted on Weibo "I am the one who slapped Yuzheng. Everybody has a bottom line. I can just say that knowing such a person can only be described as disgusting. If he does stupid things again I will slap him just the same." 😆🤣 His career wasn't even affected by this at all because everyone in C-ent lowkey hates Yuzheng for being a bitchy plagiariser bully. FYI Yuzheng famously tried to release his version of Scarlet Heart aka Palace starring YangMi in 2011 before Tong Hua's Scarlet Heart got adapted, and Scarlet Heart/Lost You Forever's writer Tong Hua dislikes him immensely. Yuzheng has also been posting negatively about LYF and Dengwei because he's insecure about TongHua, LYF, & DengWei's success since his protégé Bai Lu has her own reverse harem drama Kunning Palace coming out godknowswhen.
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4933527835771254
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4933663047035422 yesterday ShenTai did a Weibo Live to talk about the scene where he kills Xiaoyao in LYF and praised Dengwei for being very humble and professional for asking the director for feedback constantly in an obvious effort to counter Yuzheng's bullying. The comments zone was full of Cnetizens asking ShenTai to "slap Yuzheng again like he promised" LOL it even trended as a hashtag because everyone can tell that Yuzheng is bullying a new actor and that he hates Tong Hua's LYF being successful. This Yuzheng drama is more hilarious than any sitcom plot and what Yuzheng is doing only serves to increase Dengwei's popularity and public sympathy because nobody likes Yuzheng 🙄

Dengwei may be partially(?) but his name is Han, he has said everyone he meets asks him if he lives like a stereotypical Mongol https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4930419734087510 so he jokes that he rides horses to school and lives in a tent with 3 taps for water, milk, yogurt. His new sponsorship is also for Mengniu, a Mongolian dairy giant based in his hometown Hohhot
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4932595642795710 Dengwei also sponsored a full cinema viewing of Creation of the Gods Part 1 last week to support the director Wuershan & cast Yushi, Naran who are ethnic Mongolians, so he definitely feels close to Inner Mongolia.

Because he is a higher level fox immortal. At the start Ye Shiqi was tortured for years and should have died but Old Mu could tell he was a powerful immortal and warned Xiaoliu not to save him and let him die because only someone very influential could torture a powerful immortal like that, and the Rejuvenation Hall could not afford to offend powerful people by saving Ye Shiqi.

They just want to weaken the loveline, even the words Xiangliu said to comatos3 Xiaoyao were more brotherly than lover-like "Is this all it takes for you to give up, don't make me look down on you...."

Well him biting her neck passed censorship so why not a kiss? They already kissed underwater. Or all they had to do was show him biting his tongue and using magic to send that to her mouth or something.

The screenwriter Tong Hua's original reverse harem hit, Scarlet Heart aka Startling with Every Step. Also Imperial Doctress, Princess Agents, LLTG

The show didn't really change Jing's story but Dengwei does a great job as the nice, needy and lowkey sly fox spirit? His visuals and build help a lot, he has that cleancut boring good guy face but what helps Dengwei stand out a lot as an actor despite being just 183cm is his very broad shoulders, narrow V waist, short torso, and super long legs, his legs are so long that he looks shorter than Yangzi when seated (!) so they gave him a cushion to prop him up in some scenes lol https://youtube.com/shorts/ozLm0Samy_E he looks very imposing in costume dramas because he has a very nice body line (he knows it, see his predebut shots) versus other actors of the same height. As for the plot:

- there is a part removed where Jing uses the puppet dolls to create a fake YaoJing pair to trick Xuan when YaoJing are escaping from Qingshui Town
- the show did make Jing more heroic by saving Xiaoyao from drowning
- they weakened Xiangliu's loveline 😭😭😭 he is supposed to feed her blood from his tongue 🤬 also because his blood is poisonous due to all her lovely concoctions in the book he sucked all the poison out whenever he fed her blood (that part can be cut lol it's unnecessarily troublesome). He also hugs her to sleep every night for 37 years to keep her warm and talks to her, and Xiaoyao can hear him because she's awake but unconcious. She hears all his stories for 37 years i hope they don't cut that 🙏🙏

Someone went "Shoot it on my face" 💀💀💀🔞🔞 his fans be crayyy

Well it's all conjecture and most celebs will do whatever it takes to get a top role. Thing is Tushan Jing/Ye Shiqi is only a side character and is less popular than Cangxuan and Xiangliu in the book because he is seen as weak and unable to protect Xiaoyao all yhe time so it's almost impossible to cast anyone popular as Tushan Jing when most 2nd tier liuliangs will either wanna play Xiangliu or Cangxuan if they wanna be in a reverse harem led by Yangzi at all (top liuliangs won't, they prefer 1v1 romances or male-centric dramas). But Dengwei's portrayal is definitely reversing the low popularity of Tushan Jing in the book because his CP with Xiaoyao ranks 1st! He has done a superb job especially acting as the fox spirit male waifu Ye Shiqi, because the book's Ye Shiqi was not so charming and just seemed pitiable.

YZ is perfect for the role and has headlined previous hit dramas like Battle of Changsha, Home with Kids, Ashes of Love, Gogo Squid. Investors were willing to put money into LYF because Yangzi was leading the project. I don't think anyone else would be as convincing and lovable as Xiaoliu. The fact that Yangzi always helps boost her MLs fame is also proven too.

Those claming Xiaozhan or Gongjun can play 2nd ML Jing must realize the 1st ML in the book and novel is Cangxuan and this show is centred on the FL/ML cousins' story. Xiaozhan won't do 2nd ML roles (he rejected doing Joy of Life S2) or be part of a 1FLv4ML reverse harem drama, he is too popular and his fans won't accept it.

When LYF first aired Chinese fans were saying it's great they didn't cast a famous liuliang because they wouldn't agreed to get super dirty as beggar Ye Shiqi because it ruins their image so it's good a less known actor like Dengwei took the role. FYI in the book his role is less popular among the 3 MLs so it was hard to find someone willing and suitable to play Jing but Dengwei is gaining so many new fans and proving that he was the perfect choice. Xiaoyao, Cangxuan, and Xiangliu were also perfectly cast 👏👏👏

Before that Zhang Wanyi was already known to mainstream audiences due to his role as Chen Yannian in Age of Awakening about the early founders of the CCP🧐🤔🙄, he acted so well that Chen Yannian got a new statue because people got inspired by his story. That role shot Zhang Wanyi to fame and got him 1st ML roles like in LYF, if not for Age of Awakening he would still be a nobody in C-ent but now Wanyi is a young actor favoured for non-idol CCTV1/8 dramas like Pla Air Force about commie china military or its history because he has that everyman honest face.

What's interesting is that he started in serious historical dramas and realistic dramas (he has A Long Way Home on CCTV1) but he's now venturing into idol dramas.... 🤷‍♀️

She always knew or suspected it to be the truth, that's why she didn't go back to Haoling and wandered around for 600 years

Yes but he loves Xiaoyao and her mother a lot anyway

https://m.bilibili.com/video/BV1UP411y7jF how is it that he looks like a cultured gentleman once he wears traditional Chinese clothes and long hair? Everyone in China needs to try on hanfu once, you may turn out to be the next Dengwei 😃

His mum had a low status in the Fangfeng family, usually the 1st wive's children are treated well but if he's the son of a maid who got knocked up then he would be treated poorly. That is why FFB left home very young to work and why Xiangliu went back to care for FFB's mom, because she had nobody else in the Fangfeng household.

He isn't. He gave his essential life blood for 37 years. And 37 years in Xianxia is like 1 day because there are 1000 year old immortals that are deemed young lol

Oh i definitely don't mean you! But this page is getting very rowdy with shipping quarrels and people criticising the plot or Xiangliu's tragic end recently, because his bloodsucking scenes went viral on Tiktok, Youtube, Douyin and got people into the show. I love Xiangliu and Tan Jianci but these new drama fans are only in it for his sexy vampire schtick so they are posting toxic comments against the Dengwei and Wanyi's characters, or even criticising Tonghua herself for giving him a bad ending. I'm not sure why they would pick up a show where the vampire is the 3rd ML and rant that he isn't the main character but here we are.