DouYin Drama Discussion

[40somethingahjumma]

I just caught this one with Shen Haonan... It's kinda crazy but fun. If you can buy into the face swap, all things are possible. He's quite funny in the first half. The FL is quite good as well.

 

 

20 hours ago, OsmanthusTea said:

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

 

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.

 

On 4/1/2024 at 4:03 PM, NiteWalker said:

at beginning the husband didnt do much distancing however slowly as along the way the husband got more and more mindful of the wife presence he did exactly that......

 

though the mother is an ass if you ask me lols

 

i was holding back a little cause i see the girl in bad role too many times and for her to play a good role take some convincing for me hahaha

 

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.

[OsmanthusTea]

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.

[NiteWalker]

this is the 3rd or 4th times im seeing the two of them together....dont seems too bad....they slept with each other couple of years back....both didnt remember....and reunite in the blind date....

 

i just started so i come back and comment again.

 

男主：黄文博
女主：翟一莹
ML: Huang Wenbo
FL: Zhai Yiying

 

 

[OsmanthusTea]

 

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

[NiteWalker]

15 hours ago, NiteWalker said:

this is the 3rd or 4th times im seeing the two of them together....dont seems too bad....they slept with each other couple of years back....both didnt remember....and reunite in the blind date....

 

i just started so i come back and comment again.

 

男主：黄文博
女主：翟一莹
ML: Huang Wenbo
FL: Zhai Yiying

 

i guess youtube remove it....i managed to finish it though....its isnt bad....just your normal slightly hidden identity and the ML is pique and got interested with the FL from the start without knowing that FL was the one he slept with the night 5 years ago when he was drug

 

honestly why they love to drug ppl and how the hell there so many drugging pill around hahaha

[NiteWalker]

a short one and i believe older DY for SHN, high school story where the FL is seeking the truth for her sister death.

 

 

[NiteWalker]

i like this girl....and the reborn one she done on this isnt bad

 

 

[40somethingahjumma]

@NiteWalker Is this an older one? It features your favourite pairing. I don't remember seeing it before.

 

男主：姚冠宇

女主：王初伊

ML: Yao Guanyu

FL：Wang Chuyi

 

 

It's not bad for a Cinderella story but yeah be prepared for all the birth secrets and hidden identities. I quite liked it.

Edited April 16 by 40somethingahjumma

[OsmanthusTea]

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.....

Edited April 9 by OsmanthusTea

[40somethingahjumma]

Here's a new one, I think, with Wang Nan... He's a 傻子 and there are some interesting twists and turns.

 

If anyone knows where I can find a drama of his as the hot uncle who ends up with his nephew's ex, please link me to the channel. He's got grey sideburns in that one. I've lost a few of Wang Nan's dramas that I "liked" in the past.

 

 

I thought this one was quite lovely too... There's development and the ML is very supportive.

 

 

[NiteWalker]

another body swap story lols this times they had the guy wearing a dress upon waking up hahahahhaa

 

傅汉源 饰演 齐衍之
黄悦然 饰演 张可欣

Fu Hanyuan as Qi Yanzhi
Huang Yueran as Zhang Kexin

 

 

[rocher22]

 

 

I watched this drama because of the actor, the ML,  so handsome....

 

 

 

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Does anyone know what is the title of the drama...Thanks

I went through the thread but I didnt find it.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3h-gciJVjC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

[40somethingahjumma]

12 hours ago, rocher22 said:

 

 

I watched this drama because of the actor, the ML,  so handsome....

 

 

It's Shen Haonan. He's hugely popular. Good-looking and a great actor. Even when he plays scumbag husbands he can pull off the repentant phase. He's also done some mainstream stuff. 

 

12 hours ago, rocher22 said:

Does anyone know what is the title of the drama...Thanks

I went through the thread but I didnt find it.

 

Someone mentioned it in the comment thread...

 

 

[NiteWalker]

this one not bad, this times its the guy who taking revenge against the father who force his parents suicide in front of him

 

 

[NiteWalker]

2nd times i see both CP together.....

 

slight misunderstanding from the beginning however that got resolve quite fast and also not much hidden identity here and ML families dad is the only one who look things down from his high chair....2nd Mother is pretty cool with ML even the half brother is cool.....grandma is cute.....

 

 

[NiteWalker]

Shen Hao Nan with Wang GeGe again...though its for past and present life....however again....they didnt show and ending for both SHN and WGG

 

 

[rocher22]

12 hours ago, 40somethingahjumma said:

 

It's Shen Haonan. He's hugely popular. Good-looking and a great actor. Even when he plays scumbag husbands he can pull off the repentant phase. He's also done some mainstream stuff

 

 

I didnt know he is so popular, it is the first time I have watched him.

 

12 hours ago, 40somethingahjumma said:

 

Someone mentioned it in the comment thread...

 

 

I saw the tittle in the IG comments before I wrote my previous post, and I watched the beginning of the drama on YT but for some reason the actors looked different to me than in this IG clip. So I thought it was a wrong drama. 

 

Edited April 19 by rocher22

[OsmanthusTea]

 

These two amazing people.....

[40somethingahjumma]

Ooooh... I happened upon this really old one with Lu Dandong and @OsmanthusTea's favourite 12-year-old actress. They both really look like teenagers. It's must be an early mute wife one. The first season is an editing nightmare (repeat scenes intersperse with BTS gag moments) but it's very addictive and the chemistry is through the roof. Lu Dandong is pretty darn hot in this.

 

 

 

[OsmanthusTea]

@40somethingahjumma

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

[rocher22]

On 4/19/2024 at 12:22 PM, NiteWalker said:

Shen Hao Nan with Wang GeGe again...though its for past and present life....however again....they didnt show and ending for both SHN and WGG

 

 

that was a nice drama and I love the ML in the gentle role and in the soft pink hoodie.  

 

 

 

the couple from the drama Love Beyond Words have a very attractive chemistry. 

 

[40somethingahjumma]

14 hours ago, OsmanthusTea said:

@40somethingahjumma

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

 

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. 

[40somethingahjumma]

@rocher22

If you like Shen Haonan, there are at least 2 different playlists on YouTube of his stuff.

I like this Beauty and the Beast one but it feels incomplete. I'm not as impressed with the FL but Shen Haonan can generate chemistry with animate and inanimate objects.

 

 

[OsmanthusTea]

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]

On 4/20/2024 at 12:23 AM, OsmanthusTea said:

 

These two amazing people.....

 

I finally caught this one. It's a very good pairing. Visually they're a good fit. The ML can certainly be relied upon to pick a good script. There are a few interesting reveals especially towards the end. 

 

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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.