Heart of Loyalty stars Zhang Huiwen as a rookie detective who travels to the capital to save her brother who has been made a scapegoat by corrupt imperial officials. Wu Xize costars as her superior and love interest Zhan Zhao.
Heart of Loyalty 一片冰心在玉壶 stars Zhang Huiwen (Love A Lifetime) as a thief who aspires to become Robin Hood.
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Schoolyard romance The Chang’an Youth stars Wang Yuwen as an ordinary cook who cross-dresses as a man and enters the Shangyi Academy. Wu Xize, Liu Yichang, Qi Peixin and Xie Binbin costar. [Extended Synopsis]
The 24 episode drama releases 2 eps every Mon-Tues on Tencent/Mango TV.
Deng Enxi plays Fern, a skater who thwarts the suicide attempt by a fellow student.
Tackling difficult issues like depression and autism, youth sports drama Project S is an attempt to reinvent itself as a contender for quality youth drama by Wajijiwa, the Tencent subsidiary that manages Rocket Girls and R1SE. While their previous couple of dramas have lacked any logic and was carried solely by idol power, this one is rooted in a much more realistic story. The remake of the three-part Thai series is currently filming its last third and will be a Tencent exclusive.
Wajijiwa is ran by Long Danni, who produced Super Girls, My Hero, Meteor Garden, and Produce 101, so it’ll be interesting where she’s headed with this drama.
Skate Our Souls 极限17 滑魂 – Guo Zifan, Deng Enxi, and Caesar Chen Zexi of X-Fire
Boo, a student whose grades aren’t promising, comes from a strict family. However, he has a hidden problem. Boo has been suffering from depression for a long time, which resulted in self-harm. Moreover, he doesn’t eat or sleeps well. One day, he decides to commit suicide, but his plan was thwarted by a group of skaters, led by Simon and Fern, who influenced him to join their group of friends. Can Boo overcome depression and all his fears?
Chen Feiyu, He Landou poster for My Best Summer (film version of The Best of Us)
Posters, stills, photoshoots, and random photos that caught my eye this week. This week is mostly June schedules of celebrities.
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How believable is Wang Yuwen’s crossdressing?
Wang Yuwen, Wu Xize, Xie Bingbing, Liu Yichang, and Qi Peixin become students at a Tang Dynasty academy in currently filming series The Chang’an Youth 长安少年行. Here’s the first set of character posters featuring their various outfits. The series is produced by Tencent Entertainment and directed by Chow Ka-Man (The Wife’s Lie).
Talented chef Shen Yiyi (Wang Yuwen) accidentally becomes a student at the Shangyi Academy in Chang’an. There, she befriends Yang Zi’an (Wu Xize), who is there undercover for the Emperor, sword master Dugu Muxue, youth Tang Jiuqi, , and Prince Li Xinyuan. The five all have their own secrets in this seemingly normal school. How will they reveal their true selves and feelings to each other?
Fun fact: Wishing upon a shooting star is bad luck in Chinese.
The latest rendition of Meteor Garden begins streaming today for two episodes every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. It airs one day before that. I haven’t seen it around on Youtube/Viki but I presume it’ll get picked up eventually. It will start streaming on Netflix with English subtitles here beginning July 13th.
The series stars Shen Yue as the spunky female lead Shan Yue and newcomers Wang Hedi, Guan Hong, Liang Jingkang, and Wu Xize as the bully quartet F4. Dee Hsu, the younger sister of the original Shancai, will be playing the older sister of Daoming Si.
Theme by F4 below; trailer 1 ; trailer 2 ; promo photoshoot 1 ; promo photoshoot 2; Theme by Penny Dai ; MV set to the theme of the original by Harlem Yu; Cast on Day Day Up ; Cast on Happy Camp
Why can’t they dress like this in the trailer.
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The latest rendition of Meteor Garden has released a finally trailer. It’s set to air on July 9th on Hunan TV. The series stars Shen Yue as the female lead and newcomers Wang Hedi, Guan Hong, Liang Jingkang, and Wu Xize as the bully quartet F4. Dee Hsu, the younger sister of the original Shancai, will be playing the older sister of Daoming Si.
It looks like this channel on YouTube have Netflix has brought the foreign streaming rights.
Why do these guys all dress so much better in photoshoots than in the show.
The New Meteor Garden series has released a trailer. How does it compare the previous gazillion versions?
The new F4 already going for a Japanese boyband aesthetic. Bets on if they’ll become a boyband?
The cast of New Meteor Garden may still be unknowns, but they’re already doing more photoshoots than most actors. They sure seem uniformly cute already. The drama is set for a summer Hunan TV release.
