Upcoming CDramas
I’ve recently tumbled down the bilibili hole of cdrama edits and some of them do an amazing job hyping up upcoming dramas! So here are a few I’m personally super excited for.
Till The End of the Moon (长月烬明)
Cast:
Luo Yunxi (罗云熙) as Tantai Jin (澹台烬)/Cang Jiumin (沧九旻)/Ming Ye (冥夜) - The demon god who has never cried since he was born. Even if his eyes were gouged out and his tendons were torn off, no one saw his fragile state.
Bai Lu (白鹿) as Li Susu (黎苏苏)/Ye Xiwu (叶夕雾)/Sang Jiu (桑酒) - The adopted daughter of the head of the Immortal Sect. She possesses the blood of the most sacred phoenix in the world, and is the perfect adaptor of the ancient ruthless Tao. She lives in an era when demons are in power, monks and mortals are humble - the initiator of all this is being a cold-blooded and ruthless demon king.
Chen Duling (陈都灵) as Ye Bingchang (叶冰裳)/Mei Nü (妹女)/Tian Huan (天欢) - She originally appears as a weak and kind girl, but is secretly cruel. She eventually becomes fully evil.
Plot: In an era when the demons are in power, they are the masters of the despicable cultivators and mortals. The cultivator elders deem it necessary to send someone back in time, to determine the origin of the demon lord and to prevent his awakening. Li Su Su accepts the mission, becoming the mortal Ye Xi Wu, General Ye’s third daughter who is married to Tantai Jin, the hostage prince and future demon lord. She is determined to destroy Tantai Jin, who in the future will massacre many. But as a witness to Tantai Jin’s past life and rise to power, an unexpected tale emerges, one complicating her quest. (Source: RedLotusPavilion at MyDramaList)
Behind the Scenes of the Photoshoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FPR_BGI1fg
Finished Filming Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX_u4sBItjA
Immortal Samsara (沉香如屑)
Cast:
Yang Zi (杨紫) as Yan Dan (颜淡) - Yan Dan was originally a relic of the ancients, the four-leaf hanli. Since ancient times, her whole body has been a treasure of medicine. She and her twin sister Zhixi were transformed into human beings at a feast a hundred years earlier.
Cheng Yi (成毅) as Tang Zhou (唐州)/Ying Yuan (应渊) - The seventh human reincarnation of the heavenly emperor is a heavenly teacher. He fell in love at first sight after meeting Yan Dan.
Plot: Yan Dan is the sole descendant of the ancient tribe the Four-Leaved Scorpion. Yan Dan’s entire being is a treasure trove of medicines. She and twin sister Zhi Xi transformed into human form a century before while attending the Queen Mother’s Feast, but Yan Dan faced the greatest trial of her life - the love trial. Falling in love with Lord Ying Yuan resulted in her wasting the following 800 years forgetting him. Such a high price to pay! Now the supportive Yu Mo enters her life, encouraging her daily to perform good deeds. While punishing evil, they encounter Lord Ying Yuan’s current reincarnation, Tang Zhou, the demon hunter. They assist Tang Zhou in his quest to locate the four ancient artifacts, uncovering an even more mysterious secret. Can the trio find the evidence they need despite the dangers? (Source: DramaWiki, edited by Lee C at MyDramaList)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToryhgoYo8A
Behind the Scenes of Photoshoots + Finished Filming Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RB1l4rxt4
OST + Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu-gxJk1cNE
Love You Seven Times (七时吉祥)
Cast:
Yang Chaoyue (杨超越) as Xiang Yun (祥云) - She was originally a cloud, but was later turned into a fairy by Yue Lao. She works in Yue Lao Pavilion and develops a seven-life love with Chu Kong because of a misunderstanding.
Ding Yuxi (丁禹兮) as Chu Kong (初空) - He is a disciple of the King of the Stars of the Sun. When he accidentally enters the Yuelao Pavilion he is seen as a villain. Chu Kong accidentally broke Xiang Yun’s fan, causing the two to quarrel and accidentally mess up the red rope, causing chaos in the marriage of the Three Realms. The Jade Emperor learns of this, and punished the two of them to go through seven worlds of love calamities before they could return to the heaven, and the story began from there.
Fun Fact: the writer of the novel this drama is based on also wrote The Legends (招摇) and The Blue Whisper (与君初相识). The original novel has a 7.5 rating on douban.
Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAWZNn0l61k
Trailer 2 (Romance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qkXd0vxzhY
Finished Filming Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeIMiJhysm8
Fanmade edit: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1oZ4y1h7eE?share_source=copy_web
Love Between Fairy and Devil (苍兰诀)
Cast:
Yu Shuxin (虞书欣) as Xiaolanhua (小兰花) - The pure and kind-hearted low-level fairy in the heavens, Xiao Lanhua, was the goddess of the Po Xin clan in her previous life. A series of ironic stories happened after the encounter with Mozun by accident, and she fell in love with Mozun.
Wang Hedi (王鹤棣) as Dongfang Qingcang (东方青苍) - In ancient times, the Demon Venerable who covered the sky with one hand was injured after a battle with the Chidi woman, and was later executed by the gods. After being rescued by the Prime Minister of the Demon World, he still obsessed with resurrecting the Chidi woman and defeating her, and then met Xiao Lanhua and started a life of tragic love.
Plot: An immortal girl from the Po Xin tribe had her tribe vanquished by the Demon Lord, Dong Fang Qing Cang. She was reborn ten thousand years later as a lowly immortal of the Heavenly Tribe, Xiao Lan Hua (Little Orchid). Lan Hua unknowingly revived Dong Fang Qing Cang, her mortal enemy, who was trapped in the Hao Tian Tower. In order to regain his freedom, Dong Fang Qing Cang wants to sacrifice Xiao Lan Hua’s immortal soul to unleash the curse placed on his body. In the process, the heartless demon falls for the gentle and adorable young fairy… (Source: DramaWiki)
Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvinyenMSPQ
Trailer 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=553H1TyHwhM
Love Never Fails (落花时节又逢君)
Cast:
Yuan Bingyan (袁冰妍) as Hong Ning (红凝) - She was originally a little camellia demon on Baizhou Mountain. She was cute and straightforward, and she didn’t understand anything, but accidentally strayed into fairyland and experienced several lifetimes of love and reincarnation. She used a demon hunter with swords, and a witch who slaughtered gods in an uprising. She dared to love and hate. Love and equality break all bonds.
Liu Xueyi (刘学义) as Jin Xia (锦绣) - The god of the sky, the leader of the flower world, the highest boss of Hong Ning. He was trained as a successor to the heavenly realm since he was a child. He is a responsible and mission-driven veteran cadre who is extremely disciplined. Cold and arrogant on the outside, sullen on the inside, straight in the mouth, always fragrant, often provoked by Hong Ning and shy, it will turn back to the prototype of golden peony. Forbidden and affectionate, for the sake of Hong Ning, he was willing to bear the punishment of all kinds of heaven and earth, and set up a beautiful and tragic person. In the end, he painfully found that his life experience was the biggest joke, and the justice he insisted on was a big lie.
Plot: Jin Xiu, the King of the Central Heavens, intended to help a little camellia demon become immortal but he became mortal for her in the end. At the Flower Festival held once every 100 years in the heavenly realm, camellia demon Hong Ning boldly confessed to Jin Xiu her intention to become his queen. When she is told that demon and god can never be, she takes his advice to heart to cultivate and achieve immortality. Upon her ascension, Hong Ning learns that Jin Xiu is marrying someone else. She resolutely abandons an immortal life to enter the cycle of reincarnation, simply to forget him. Jin Xiu defies fate itself in order for Hong Ning to be reborn. He hopes to repay his debts and protect her for a lifetime. A misunderstanding that cannot be avoided, an identity for which there is no escape; when spring ends, the two meet again. Hong Ning is destined to become Jin Xiu’s trial in love. (Source: ChineseDrama.info)
Trailer: https://movie.douban.com/trailer/289541/#content
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The Eternal Love III (( after rant ))
Finally had some time to sit down and finish the last few episodes of season 3. Some questions were answered, some questions were not, but I still enjoyed the drama. Honestly if you just love the Xing Zhao Lin + Liang Jie CP, this show will definitely stuff you full of sugar. Not sure how I would feel about there being a season 4 tbh, but if it is actually in their plans, I would probably still watch it.
Some spoilers ahead as I want to talk about some major plot points!
I was happy that there was finally some connection to Season 1 and some of the stories regarding the Spiritual Land. Seeing Qu Xiang Tan reappear was pretty interesting and I was very interested in seeing the conflicts and tensions unfold with her. The show doesn't really do much to explain how she appeared in this iteration of Dong Yue from the Spiritual Land and there are still a few loopholes here and there regarding her ancestry and Xiao Tan's. Honestly, they could have done without Season 2 and made this Season 2 instead. Most of S2 was quite repetitive of S1 and I did get tired of watching halfway through. Still low key missing Wang Ruichang as Mo Yi Huai though T.T
The whole thing with the rebellion of the Mo family etc. was rather underwhelming to be honest. I think I just really expected more plot-wise. It was an okay plot, but some of the character responses were pretty weird and felt a bit forced. Eg. Elder bro suddenly deciding to kill the queen (who he thinks is still the Qu Tan'er of his memories) was weird and a bit random? Since he is supposedly still so deeply in love with her. Then when he finally gets to kill her, Qu Xiang Tan just acts like Qu Tan'er and all of a sudden he's like "Is it really you!!!!" and straight up hugs her. Like..? What.
As usual, the ending of S3 raised a LOT more questions than answers which really bothered me. But there was an interesting set up at the end which suggests that our main couple's kid might be the next owner of the pearl. Setting up for S4 perhaps? If they do plan to do so, I really hope that the story would finally finally go back to the Spiritual Land so that we get more action between the conflict of the clans and the Demon King. The Demon King has been the big bad since S1 but has yet to truly make his reappearance and there was nearly no mention of him at all in S3.
I think most viewers are getting tired of this story though, so I wonder if there will actually be a S4 announced.
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