Promo Round-up: Ever Night 2

Can Wang Hedi and Song Yiren defeat the all-powerful God in the sequel?

Season 2 of Ever Night stars Dylan Wang Hedi, Song Yiren, Yuan Bingyan and Yang Chaoyue. Ever Night 2 airs two episodes every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, with six additional episodes for Tencent VIP members and additional episodes for ordering beginning Feb. 3. Watch it on Youtube with English subs here.

Latest relationship-focused trailer below, more here and here.

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Ever Night 2 releases stills and production BTS

The new season of Ever Night stars Dylan Wang Hedi as Ning Que, Song Yiren as Sangsang and Yuan Bingyan as Mo Shanshan. New leading cast members include Liu Kejun as Ye Hongyu and Yang Chaoyue as Haotian, the all-powerful god and the leads’ archenemy.

Coming from the producers of Season 1, Ever Night 2 is tentatively scheduled to broadcast this month on Tencent.

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Friday Photos

Ju Jingyi in upcoming seriesĀ  The Legend of White Snake

Posters, stills, photoshoots, and random photos that caught my eye this week.

Wang Junkai releases sea turtles back to the sea to raise awareness of plastic waste in the ocean as a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador. Only about one in a thousand will reach adulthood.

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Ever Night stills round-up

I’m slightly obsessed with how intricate that cape collar looks.

This week’s installment of new Ever Night stills. Rumor is that season 2, where the story really goes off the rails (it’s like the The Amber Spyglass vs season 1’s The Golden Compass), might switch out Chen Feiyu. If so I hope they also switch out Song Yiren because her character is supposed to be tall and chubby later on, and I can just not watch it since neither lead is in it.
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Review: Ever Night Episodes 1 – 12

The two leads’ daily interactions are adorable.cr: äøåƒčœXBS

Pros:

  • the leads are super cute together
  • stylized fight scenes
  • original soundtrack by Roc Chen ( A Bite of China)
  • Song Yiren is perfect for the role
  • Chen Feiyu is charming and has some acting potential
  • Tong Yao’s gorgeous
  • the scenery
  • a couple of the supporting cast is great. My favorite isĀ  Yin Taosheng as the head of the outpost at the beginning
  • first female director + scriptwriter for a male-lead Xianxia drama

Despite clear shortcomings, Chen Feiyu has some acting potential.

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Promo Round-up: Ever Night

Upcoming fantasy wuxia dramaĀ Ever Night (Part 1)Ā stars Chen Feiyu, Song Yiren, Yuan Bingyan and Meng Ziyi in the leading roles, and will release 2 episodes every Wed-Fri on Tencent and Youtube beginning tonight. VIP members get a 6 episode head start.

Theme song by Jane Zhang ; Tan Weiwei

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Xianxia epic Ever Night releases new trailer, to stream Oct. 31

Xianxia epic Ever Night: Dawn of the Empire å°†å¤œļ¼šåøå›½ēš„ęø…ę™Ø. released another trailer to announce its streaming on October 31st. The new trailer seems to focus on the male lead, played Chen Feiyu, and his love interests – Song Yiren, Meng Ziyi, Yuan Bingyan, and Tong Yao. We’ve seen a string of xianxia flops, so don’t get your hopes too much despite how pretty it is.

Ever Night: Dawn of the Empire releases trailer, gorgeous stills filmed in Xinjiang

Even though the female lead looks twelve and the male lead looks twenty, he was seventeen and she twenty-two when they filmed this last year.

The biggest xianxia/Ā fantasy wuxia drama starring newcomers,Ā Ever Night将夜, has released a full trailer. Based on the book of the same name by Maoni (Fighter of the Destiny),Ā  the series will be released in three parts, with the first one being Ever Night: Dawn of the EmpireĀ å°†å¤œļ¼šåøå›½ēš„ęø…ę™Ø.Ā Relatively new actors Chen Feiyu, Song Yiren, Sun Zujun, Meng Ziyi,Ā  Yuan Bingyan head the cast of seasoned actors like Hu Jun, Leo Lai, Ni Dahong,Ā Adam Cheng,Ā  Dylan Kuo, and Tong Yao.

Ning Que is a soldier who has came to the capital to clear his family. Yet when he finds out that his servant Sangsang is the embodiment of Ever Night, the foretold forever nighttime of humanity, the two go on the run.

The series was shot on-location in Xinjiang, an increasingly popular filming location where you can get the desert, vast grasslands, forests, and snowy mountains all in the same location around the same time.Ā  If you ignore the whole castle at the beginning, the sets, clothing, and definitely directing/editing appear to beĀ  some of the most promising of recent xianxia dramas . TheĀ on-location scenery shots are beautiful, the cast seems to have great chemistry based on the trailer, and the romantic BGM is gorgeous.

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