OsmanthusTea

2 hours ago, abs-oluteM said:

The 3 men including your ( or was it @OsmanthusTea's ) old flame Wallace Hou are the 3 different men that will come into her life. This show piqued my interest since I am watching Liu YiFei now in Meet Yourself, and more importantly I just realised that LGX will be here . 

Both  @SilverMoonTea and my old flame.....

16 hours ago, 40somethingahjumma said:

Yes, I really like the dialogue and how Shen Haonan's characters is written. He is quite the schemer. It is overall well-acted.

IMO, HaoNan is at his best as an infatuated man.... He had another drama with WGG where WGG left her crush of 10 years and flashed marriage HaoNan, that's also great.

@40somethingahjumma

There are Mute Wife and Mute GF Both are the prime example of toxic masculinity at it's best.... So we can't root for the MLs. But I think the one with Shu Tong and Chai2 is the only one with good ML.

6 hours ago, rocher22 said:

 

Surprisingly, there is a calm Douyin drama, I liked the cast, the plot and the ML looked kind of innocent.

The sensual car scene was so natural.

There are plenty of calm and mellow DY dramas..... Also some real steamy ones since DY dramas aren't censored....

A good script with good casts....

HaoNan and Ma JieLi.....

Meng Na and Ma Xiao Yu, Meng Na can totally wore heels.....

Liu Qing is one of the rare gem who manage to looks spicy with a man bun and a long robe.....

1 hour ago, 40somethingahjumma said:

This is another mute wife story... For some reason two of this ML's dramas showed up on my feed this weekend. Tuned out better than expected. I can understand his early defensiveness and hostility.  It says end of S1 so it's not complete? Sounds like ML might not be the biological son?

The one with Bai Fang Wen as an ML stated that he is not the madam bio son but her husband's mistress' son. Did you watch?

IMO, this version of Mute Wife is the best.

Their second collab...Not bad with a smart CEO who simply doesn't believe "the truth" but can investigate thoroughly and connect the dots.

4 hours ago, 40somethingahjumma said:

I like this actor a lot. Used to do bad guy roles and now doing more lead roles. This is a familiar story similar to the one with Wang Hanyang -- a rebirth story featuring jealous possessive husband learning to trust his wife who is doing reckless things. Lots of bedroom action so I'm surprised that there's no pregnancy at the end.

He is Li Bo Yang, I used to mixed him up with Wang Han Yang. He is a good actor. He does comedy really well too.

1 hour ago, 40somethingahjumma said:

 

I wondered about that. I did wonder if they were married to each other because some of the stuff they got to in S2 was eye-popping for two people so young. Apparently he's only 26. 

It felt a bit like a Romeo and Juliet story. At least in essence it did. I just saw Lu Dandong do one where he was some kind of Lord of Hades who has been looking for his wife for 500 years. The ending was terrible although the concept was interesting.

 

I think most of the popular douyin actors do their best work as scumbag husbands who turn penitent. I suspect it goes some way in explaining their popularity with audiences and actors ie. why they keep doing these sorts of storylines despite complaints about the abuse and the torture porn. Although the versatile ones can pull off comedy pretty well. I admit to liking a bit angst but the torture porn gets a bit ridiculous. 

I think they got married very young. The girl Yang something is under 25 at the moment.

The first batch of Douyin dramas were like Mexican telenovela mixed with American 80s soap sprinkle with Chinese very own spices... Majority were adapted from the online novel by unknown authors with no copyright that catered to people with certain guilty pleasure.... Those authors were inspired by Chung Yao the fame Taiwanese novelist specialist in angsty romance story. CY has a penchant of writing a romance story with a righteous justified xiao san.. Heard that it was from her personal experience who was a xiao san during her younger days (not sure if it's a true account).

Douyin dramas are uncensored. They used to have more liberty in the past but I noticed that since those dramas become extremely popular both inside and outside Mainland even some big production houses starting investing in them, the amount of questionable scenes have been reduced significantly. Older one were very steamy, violent even featured  bi MLs with male xiao san...

@rocher22 @40somethingahjumma

Shen Hao Nan is a very versatile actor. His chemistry with every single one of his CPs is flawless. He is the best in romance, he can looks totally in love with anything in skirt even in pants.....

@40somethingahjumma

They got married after this drama 😎😎 LDD has a such sensual cum sadistic face 😎😎 He is super convincing as abusive husband 😖😖

These two amazing people.....

@abs-oluteM

LGX is famously bad in kissing scenes despite being in the industry for sooooo long....

I'm watching a mini drama Part For Ever by Youku. Cute CP, good acting with love and hate relationship with lots of extra baggage that was doomed from the beginning. ML got that boyish charms but at the same time he can turns on his murderous aura when necessary. FL is super cute with adorable height difference that can cause waist pains for the ML.... Never seen any of the casts before. The styling is simple but elegant, none of those flashy simmering dangling hair pieces. Fight choreography is good maybe because ML is an idol.

https://mydramalist.com/754309-wan-wan-ru-meng-xiao

Two of my fav MLs got new dramas.....

I finished all eps...  I have to say that this drama is what we Cdrama fans have been pleading for. It got great casts (great chemistry and great acting), great pacing (bit slow sometime, slow burn I would say but not draggy), great styling (simple but beautiful, clean lines and unostentatious), no unnecessary misunderstanding or noble idiocy tropes, great characterisation and development, especially great story with all loose ends tied beautifully with pretty bows. The best part is the ending where we are given ample time to see how happy ever after they become, unlike some where the happy end were only 5 seconds at the end or worse, open ending..). The thing that I really really appreciate from this drama is in how the writers respect us as viewers but never insult our intelligence....

Heavenly Grandchildren Sibs are the best character aside from the CP. Furong is naughty but he have never been a black-hearted character. He is vain and spoiled but all stemmed from his sheltered upbringing as a noble. The moment he was face with a dire situation he has always make great decision. His sis has similar character. They are delightful to watch. I was ROFLMAO when You Lan tried to activated the beam to bring them up to Extranatural Heaven and when she knocked her bro off just to open his head up to binges on his memory....

XZ is what a god should be, I have to say one of the smartest god I have seen in my history of XianXia watching. He has never does something without a meaningful purpose. When he imprisoned SL, many thought he is simply infatuated with her but actually he wanted her to sees her history so when it time comes she knows what to do willingly and prepared. He is powerful but never unreasonably overbearing, once again everything has it's purpose.

SL is young (well, compare to the Lolo/YeYe/Kakek/Grandpa XZ ) but she has never blinded by her love for XZ. She has strong sense of responsibility, great self control and ready to sacrifices herself for her people. She never wavers in her quest. The most pitiful character is SL's dad... He was created for the sole purpose of being a sacrificial lamb...

I love Miss Snake "Jin" Demon too. She is very likeable and loving. Her boytoy is cute and I think I saw him in Kunning Palace snippets. The scenes where ZX and SL swapping body is delightful to watch.

2 hours ago, abs-oluteM said:

MF's body is missing and I can already forsee that they will use it to cultivate these creatures, and use him against her (or something along those lines). By the way, the folks in the Divine Realm are far from divine ! So many annoying & hateful beings. Such a waste of a pretty place - the peace and abundance they have enjoyed has made them complacent and self-centered. They should all be sent to the mortal realm to suffer! 

 I'm on the 28th and I finally realised why XY showed such hostility toward MF, his hostility didn't sprang from a merely jealousy but more I believe.

I appreciated the writer where they don't let us hang high and dry over a measly misunderstanding or stupid miss encountered. Especially during the scene where XY found SL by the seaside. Most dramas will drag it and let XY overlooked her body several times.....

I have reach eps 14 and I love how the drama doesn't insult our intelligence so far. SL remains a smart and strong general who despite XY's attempts to denied their past she can totally see through him and even give him a dressing down.... He thinks too highly of himself when it comes to her but SL plainly said, sorry XY is XY and you is you, 2 of you are different people in my eyes so stop your shenanigans.... You go, Girl!!

Btw, I always LOL so hard every time XY showed how ancient is he, how wide the gap between him and other young ones....

This time the husband is the faked fool....

48 minutes ago, 40somethingahjumma said:

Unfortunately I didn't like this one. FF through a lot of it. It's a repackaging of a few different storylines. I barely made it to the end and was annoyed with that ending. He's the nicest of all the 傻瓜 husbands which made the ending even worse.

Totally agree with you. Especially the ending, it's absurd and stupid. I FF thru it for the sake of WCP and very cute kids.

50 minutes ago, 40somethingahjumma said:

If you remember close to the start when they were having breakfast, he grabbed the kid and went to the dinner table to where the wife was. There's no doubt that he struggled and wavered along the way -- he didn't take her to Spain after promising her he would -- but I think he always liked her. 

 

It's interesting to me that at the end he criticized his parents' marriage in a backhanded way. He asked his mother, "Are you happy?" Even though theirs was a marriage made between people of equal status, it wasn't exactly a love match. His dad was unfaithful to his mum and had a son with his first love. It's not as if things were working that well for them. So in the end she realised that she should mind her own business and let him make his own mistakes. There's no guarantee that a marriage between people of the same class would be a happy one.

 

The thing I appreciated most is that it didn't just rehash other mute wife stories. It took an entirely different approach with the discrimination of people with disability in elite social circles. Of course it can be confronting and most likely that's the point. I also like the fact that she never got back her ability to speak like in other stories but was able to use augmented technology.

Recently Shu Tong and ChaiChai (the mute girl) have been pairing in quite number of great drama.

Wang Cheng Peng's....Different take of "marrying s xiao xa gua". I like this FL, saw her in few dramas but don't know her name

7 hours ago, 40somethingahjumma said:

This one might be my favourite even though the pairing is new to me. The chemistry is good and the leads are very attractive. I particularly like the ML, the actor and the character arc. Even though it uses many of the tropes, it is done in a fairly original way. Contract marriage, birth secrets, family power struggles, mute wife, mother's untimely death etc etc.

 

ML: Li Pei'en FL: Zheng Nanxi

This is originally iQiyi drama, I watched this last year in iQiyi. The ML has few mainstream dramas under his belt, one of it was Till The End of The Moon.

7 hours ago, 40somethingahjumma said:

This one has a gangster vibe.

The ML is smoking! Their chemistry is sizzling! He has a retro drama if I'm not mistaken. His bad boy vibes is solid.

2 hours ago, NiteWalker said:

is it the one where SHN was in love with WGG since high school? ehhehe damn that was nice...and i love it when the 2nd ML went crazy cause WGG decided to give up on him....

Yes, that one. That was a really great drama. The SML is a good actor, he is WGG's abusive husband in the drama with SHN-WGG-ZJJ tandem.

The kids are superb both visually and talent.... They upstaged the main characters....

On 3/22/2024 at 7:21 PM, 40somethingahjumma said:

 

For me she was pretty much wasting her time with the ex. This kind of one-sided crush hoping that things will change is just a lost cause. If a man doesn't want to marry you after so many years of dating and he's so reluctant why bother? There's no trust either... what's the point? She also dodged a bullet as well because not only did he believe the Green Tea but he was also trying to have a bet each way. Not only does he have poor judgment but he wasn't that ethical. The show demonstrates really well why a man or a woman who has a foot in each boat should never be trusted with anything. It speaks to character. He can't say nobody didn't warn him. 

 

The message is clear: Don't waste your time on a man who is just stringing you along particularly if his thoughts are elsewhere. 

 

 

It's not bad. Liu Qing is always good value. I liked the twist at the end but I was pretty much on the right track regarding the family secret because it reminded me of a certain Christopher Nolan movie. It was interesting, something a bit different. Yes, it did remind me of All of Her also but it was better than All of Her because more thought was put into it. That was brainless stuff riding on the coattails of the leads' chemistry. This one had a half decent script. The ending was quite abrupt and it's bound to cause confusion. 

 

I didn't like the FL in Liu Qing's last one -- the action espionage one. 

On 3/22/2024 at 8:34 AM, NiteWalker said:

this is a nice one.....slow and steady not stabbing or accident and no hospital visit hahaha....

 

a caring ML who had always been in love the FL since high school....FL gave up on the guy she intended to marry just for marrying sakes, she wasnt fully inlove with him either....just out of gratitude as the guy mother was her passed away mom's best friends....and it was her mother wish....

 

she woke up on the day they were suppose to register for marriage where the guy went on a vacation with his lover instead.....

 

only thing we need to face is some verbal abuse from the scumbag at the very beginning however once the FL gave up....she gave up for good n got back a little backbone to stood up against the scumbag......

 

ML is very supportive of her through out and get along with her at her pace too.....

 

Just finished this, great drama. I think WGG and SHN got something similar with a tweak here and there. Love how ruthless the ML is and how decisive the FL is after enough is enough. I hate it when either FL or ML insisted on an unrequited love, pluuueaseee!! people!! have some self respect and self love.

Btw, the ML 王嘉懋（Wang JiaMao）can passes as a bio sibs with this ML 王坤翰 (Wang KunHan). I kept double takes while watching.

Cute drama with popular DY stars. First time collab as fas as I know.