I never realized that Li Zifeng kind of looks like Vic Chou until now
In upcoming drama Stealth Walker 玫瑰行者, Lin Peng plays an undercover cop who must recover an inside man (Zheng Yecheng?) inside a narcotics gang after his contact goes into a coma. Li Zifeng joins the cast as a follow cop. The drama has already finished filming.
Given Zheng Yecheng can fight and Lin Peng can fight, and their characters will likely be involved in fighting, fingers crossed this drama is going to have good fighting. All I want is Zheng Yecheng in a drama with a good action director.
Featuring two female leads with character flaws and character growth, The Legends has one of the best written female friendships of late.
The Legends招摇 might be the best wuxia-ish drama with a female lead out yet (I know, low bar), and the three leads might have my favorite drama lead dynamic since The Disguiser. The currently-airing drama is still a funny, cute rom-com at heart, but it’s one of the few wuxia that treats its female leads’ ambitions no different than a male lead. It reminds me of Wicked the musical with its polar-opposite female leads who share a room and who change each other for good. One of them is pushed into wickedness after being called so by the leader of the land, but the other believes in her even after the world has deemed her wicked. The romance plot reminds me of The Disguiser, with the male lead being in love with not just the female lead but her visions for the world.
update: You should stop watching the moment Zhaoyao explodes because that is when the series also explodes as they go into original content. Everyone becomes out of character and the plot is a mix of cringe+boring+??? after that.
Zhaoyao (Bai Lu) starts off as a young girl fed naive visions of helping her people “become good” by her mentor and first crush. Yet when he condemns to death an innocent youth prophecied for evil, she is horrified and rebels against him. Her mentor ends up killing her grandfather while she saves the youth. After being told repeatedly she’s wicked by everyone, Zhaoyao chooses to become wicked. She sets out to build a ruthless empire, killing both her mentor and her old dreams along the way.
Five years later, the “righteous” sects gang up on her and she is killed. The youth she saved, Li Chenlan (Xu Kai), takes over her sect and rebuilds it in her original vision. When she magically returns from death, she finds that her acres of traps and torture equipment have all been converted to pastures and tools for the villagers. Enraged by this sign of betrayal, she goes back to her sect undercover and spends every day trying to seduce and/or kill Li Chenlan. All this happens in the first five episodes!
Zhaoyao: Who would be so shameless as to want to care for the most wicked person alive? Zhiyan: I’m that shameless.
Puffy flowers on dress : fairy-like or five-year-old’s holiday dress?
Based on the erotic novel of the same name, Bloody Romance 媚者无疆 focuses on a group of courtesans who uses their job to double as assassins. I imagine they would have to change it significantly to get it approved for general viewership since China has no ratings system, but the trailer seems to be pretty blunt on what it’ll be about it without any graphics.
The series stars Li Yitong, Puff Kuo, and Liu Mengmeng as the courtesan-assassins and Wang Duo, Qu Chuxiao, and Li Zifeng as male leads. Teaser below.
More stills from Demon Capturing Record of Zhong Kui 钟馗捉妖记 today. Starring Yang Rong, Yang Xuwen, Madina Memet, Li Zifeng, Allen Ting, Cheng Zizhu, Chen Hao, and Ge Tian, a production to keep track of for those interested in Chinese mythology-themed dramas.
Demon Capturing Record of Zhong Kui 钟馗捉妖记 has released a trailer. Starring Yang Rong, Yang Xuwen, Madina Memet, Li Zifeng, Allen Ting, Cheng Zizhu, Chen Hao, and Ge Tian, a drama for those interested in mythology and folktales.
I feel like there’s more variety in the female costumes here than the male ones…
Tribes and Empires: Storm of Prophecy 九州·海上牧云记 has released character posters for the female cast. StarringShawn Dou, Huang Xuan, Zhou Yiwei, Janice Man, Wan Qian, Xu Lu, Zhang Jianing, Jiang Qinqin, and Wang Qianyuan, at least these costumes seem to show more color than the male ones…
They released a video to celebrate the finishing of filming
Tribes and Empires: Storm of Prophecy 九州·海上牧云记 has released stills with more color and a video to celebrate finishing filming. StarringHuang Xuan, Shawn Dou, Zhou Yiwei, Wan Qian, Xu Lu, Zhang Xiaochen, Li Zifeng, Kan Qingzi, Sun JIan, Jiang Qinqin, and Wang Qianyuan, the different backdrops are nice since sometimes, you get tired of seeing the same ones over and over again in different dramas…
Male period costuming… getting just as possibly ridiculous if not more so than the female counterpart…
Tribes and Empires: Storm of Prophecy 九州·海上牧云记 has released character posters for the male cast. Starring Shawn Dou, Huang Xuan, Zhou Yiwei,, and Wang Qianyuan, I have to say I am not exactly impressed nor am I exactly disappointed either…
Guess which three of these seven people fight over a “kiss” in the trailer? (hint: Chen Qiao’en is not one of the three)
Tonghua seems to have hit the sweet spot for goofy and fun romances once more with Destined to Love You 偏偏喜欢你, this time starring Chen Qiao’en she tries to put order into the unruly military class of Jia Nailiang, Bosco Wong, Li Zifeng, Zhang Yunlong, Gao Weiguang, Zheng Shuang, etc.
I feel weird about making romantic comedies about the Republican era, but it does look right up my alley.
Can you tell who is the owner of the original body for the six identically-bodied men?
Shen Tai may be ready to defeat the Huns, but Chen Qiao’en will make men out of the of currently-filming Republican series Destined to Love You. Character posters were released on Friday featuring Chen Qiao’en, Jia Nailiang, Bosco Wong, Zhang Yunlong and Gao Weiguang from Ancient Sword/Yang Mi Workshop, newbies Li Zifeng and Zheng Long, and guest star Zheng Shuang.
