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It may have a ways to go until its premiere, but Legend of Fei 有翡 is surely a hot potato right now after a post from actress Zanilia Zhao Liying who many think was throwing shade at the show.
During the wee hours of the night, Zhao Liying updated her social media with a photo of two burgers. The one akin to a scrumptious McDonald’s Quarter pounder she labels ‘Novel’ while the other uglier burger she labels ‘Adaptation’. I cannot agree more since I’ve had my fair share of novel-turned-dramas or even movies end in utter disappointments.
Though she did not say anything else, netizens were quick to assume hat the actress was referring to Legend of Fei, which she is filming at the moment. Many fear what the comparison means for the adaptation – that fillers are being added to the show to make it longer than necessary – which is an unfortunate practice that is nothing new to C-ent. Ugh! I don’t know why they can’t refrain from making draggy dramas.
Rumors say that second lead Zhang Huiwen is getting extra scenes as well as third lead Zhou Jieqiong who is speculated to be getting a romantic angle with Wang Yibo’s character on top of if. Again, it’s an all too common problem for production to focus too much on supporting roles’ that the main leads end up having less screen time. Zhou Jieqiong is getting hated on as a result. Still, I’d wait for updates before springing theories from left to right.
With all that’s happening, I can imagine why Zhao Liying’s fans are feeling concerned for the actress. This will be her comeback drama after giving birth so it’s natural for them to get riled up and hope for its success. Although, some expressed their worries that she might get screwed over once again like what happened to her in Princess Agents especially after seeing how her plain styling appears to be worse than her supporting characters.
Rumors say that Zhao Liying is no longer participating in the drama although her camp already denied that claim. Nonetheless, it seems that something has definitely bothered her enough to turn to social media.
Update: On the same day, Zhao Liying studio issues a statement: Zhao Liying joined Legend of Fei to portray the character ‘Zhou Fei’. The actress and her team highly value and love the project. During filming, she is earnest, professional and works hard towards a common goal with the rest of the Legend of Fei cast and crew. Sincerely hope to deliver a good project so as not tet down everyone’s efforts and expectations.
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Anonymous
Isn't the novel supposed to be a female-centric story? Zhao Liying sounds mad with the way she took it to weibo. She has had enough with the messy Princess Agents, now this? She's a big name actress, why is she still treated unfairly?
Did production team not learn from the backlashes Ashes of Loves was getting when a lot of filler scenes were added and more screen time were given to secondary leads, Leo Yunxi and Chen Yuqi.. tsk
Anonymous
YIKES! As predicted already, ZLY dramas are always heavily water injected by the support roles as always. I was preparing for the worse. Whoever plays support roles will always get hate because they always steal the scenes (do they always? Or, ZLY is not working?). Isn't she a powerful actress how on earth do all these "nobodies" always get to "steal" scenes from her each and every single time? And why would they? Unless they're hoping to get themselves killed cuz they know what happened to those actresses already that were from In Our Glamourous Times, Princess Agents, Zhu Xian, etc. None of them survived did they?
I hope Zhang Huiwen won't get so much hate, she is already famous on her own before this stupid drama and will have better dramas to do after… which is why Zhou Jieqiong is getting the hate only bc she's only a nobody. Also getting flirty scenes with WYB (Yeah it's WYB LOL) and he's also the main guy too, yep, no escape route for her she's offending ZLY at the same time too as well for a nobody. Sorry but ZLY should've never taken this project, first she already said she was tricked to filmed Princess Agents and decided to get tricked the second time. She must have offended the producer that they made her wear ugly clothes esp that ugly pink (a guy wears pink??? ok, fine, he can wear pink but not that shade of pink! and she's cross dressing at the same time). And then came those photos saying she looks ugly and too old for 16, those photos can only be taken from insiders. I don't think the production team really like her, they just need her popularity to traffic in high ratings.
Anonymous
To Anonymous 2.a: I personally disagree with you. I think Zhao Liying is perfect for this role! While, yes, she IS 31 years old, a lot older than the actual character, she's literally the youngest actress I've ever seen – she's so cute! She's one of those actresses that are not extremely beautiful like Yang Mi, but cute-pretty. So she can portray teenagers just fine.
Theingi Myint
I recommend you.
Anonymous
If filming is still on-going, the crew might be mad at her. They're wrong in the first place, unless…they needed 60 episodes and she isn't filming more than half of it then we can understand why.
Does anyone know if Chen Yuqi's agency hired her a writer to add her more scripts in Ashes of Love? All I know is it's only a rumor. I don't think it's true because her storyline was soooooooooooo dumb, doesn't look like they even hired anybody but the director wanted 60 episodes so he created something on the spot where he repeat things over and over. And she isn't desperate for scenes because she has good projects before and after Ashes of Love. I felt that Chen Yuqi gets framed for the deed she is likely haven't done. People sees her that way but I don't think we know the truth.
Anonymous
Zhou Jieqiong has been getting quite a lot of hate since last year due to some of her questionable behaviour and how she always trend out of nowhere… and the random dating rumor with chinese tycoon wang sicong. If she really robbed scenes and loveline from Zhao Liying, she will not be able to escape the netizens' wrath unscathed. Her company, broker or wang sicong must have tricks up their sleeves to make her more popular in china.
Nadine
I'm a really big fan of Zhao Li Ying, so I was hoping for her comeback drama to at the very least be decent. But if fillers are being added resulting in the drama turning into a big fat disappointment, I don't know whether I will be able to watch it, at most I may go around skipping half the drama or maybe give up halfway through like with 'Our Glamorous Time' – this one was just trash tbh.
And this whole adding a new romance line, the only way this could be saved is if the characters know how to deal with it in a mature way. Not endless wailing, denial, pettiness or whatever else is typical and annoying of those tropes.
I hope that at least her other upcoming drama (or movie?) will prove to be a worthy piece of art. Her best drama to date is in my opinion 'The Story of Ming Lan', really a very good drama that took its time in portraying the characters' growth while staying reasonable.
But I do wonder, does Zhao Li Ying not have enough power to interfere with those changes? Is her contract that restricted? Or are the investors really that annoying – I could to totally imagine that, her dramas tend to be a hit, so their primary objective will be to get the most out of it (money-wise), which is understandable, but sadly often results in a trash like drama.
Wasn't there not too long ago a new law to have an upper limit for the payment of actors in hopes of improving the quality of dramas? I sort of highly doubt that they focused on the correct point. To improve the quality of many scripts and productions in general out there, they will probably have to limit the influence of investors and the likes on the production once it starts. Else we will keep on seeing shit like this happening.
Anyways, this is just one piece of work, if it turns out to be a disappointment, I can always wait for the next.
PS: I'm mentioning this just to be sure because while reading a text the reader can't know with which mindset the writer wrote it, but I wrote this comment while thinking it through and took my time, so if anyone wants to reply, do me the favor and try to give a response that's calm and reasonable. Thank you.
Anonymous
Deja Vu! Reminded me of what happened to CQL (aka The Untamed) during filming last year. Hopefully things get turn around and we get another result similar to CQL.
Anonymous
It must be so bad for her to take it to weibo. After she was super disappointed with Princess Agent script, I can see her being like no again.
It is very easy for scripts to be made into trash. Investors ask writers to change script and add scenes for certain actors. Actors or actresses with backing or who put some money behind the scenes to get more scenes. This happens a lot to ZLY dramas bc lets be real actors that work witu her get a lot of buzz and it helps their career by a lot. But by doing this it ruins the story. Honestly she should have known better than to do another project with PA director. And this type of genre tends to have way more fillers than other stories. She should work with serious production companies like Daylight. What usually happens is that she reads a book and likes it a lot and gets all excited about being part of the adaptation.
Anonymous
I LOVE Princess Agent so much Zhao Liying did a great job on PA. She is an amazing actress,and very talented, an actress who work so hard. I hope her coming back drama will be successful.
Anonymous
@7.a: It's your opinion whether her dramas are bad or not. I'm 14 years old and watched Princess Agents a few years ago; loved it. I watched Story of Minglan a year ago with my mom; loved it. I also disagree with the fact that fans are "blindly" praising every single drama she stars in. Yes, they might like it more because, well, she's THEIR idol. Like me! Yang Mi is my idol and I like dramas with her, but l'm honest about what's good and what's not. Like Negotiator, for instance. I didn't really like that one.
Anonymous
Chinese adaptations r really ridiculous, they r making up stories for these SUPPORTING actors on top of an already written story just for more money?, they just ruined everything for everyone (lead actors and viewers) which really mattered to their productions.
Anonymous
Princess Agent drama…Despite its success and initial positive reviews, the series was later criticized for various issues in regards to its production quality – such as its inappropriate use of photoshop/green screen, excessively bright palette and the inconsistent dubbing of actors.[60] The writing was lambasted for several reasons – such as making the female character another "mary-sue" underneath a strong and independent facade; and including unnecessary story-lines and screen-time for unimportant supporting characters; which makes the plot inconsistent and draggy.[61] Additionally, there was controversy about the extortionate amount of focus on the second male lead's story line, with some viewers sarcastically calling the drama "Yan Xun's revenge story". The drama was also criticized for ending in a cliffhanger.
This is other people views. But You can't Please everyone no matter how good the drama is there are still people who like to criticize. No matter how hard you try you can't pleas everyone but for me ZL did a great job and you are an amazing actress and I'm proud of you Zhao Liying.
Anonymous
This is a huge problem in pretty much all chinese productions. I remember towards the end of Princess Agent, this super small character got like a 3 episode arc with over 15 min of screen time and the actress kept trending top 5 on weibo right after the drama and everyone was like obviously she is buying the trends. It came out later that production had pushed for more screen time for some actors. And writers had to make complete new storylines just to give them more screen time.
Stuff like this even happens to big shows like Game of Thrones, I remember the writer saying during an interview that a character that had no importance in his books had gotten tons of screen time and scene sentric moments just because important people wanted that character to be more prominent.
I saw that the writer of the book that this drama is based on put out a statement that they would sue the company if they make drastic changes to the story. Everyone is supporting ZLY since they know this is a very common issue in c-ent.
hohliu
If there is truth in this. All fans will boycott the drama. I will not bother to watch as it will be like Princess Agent. Very disappointing. I will be so upset for her to be tricked again. In future her contracts need to state more specifics….
I am really upset!
hohliu
Wang Sicong has made the list of China's debtors now. Government is demanding millions from him and he cannot travel nor show luxury spending anymore till debts are paid. This rich kid is now a Poor kid targeted by his own Government.
hohliu
"I saw that the writer of the book that this drama is based on put out a statement that they would sue the company if they make drastic changes to the story. "
Is that true? I sincerely hope so!!!
Those greedy investors can just eat their own hats.
Anonymous
Props for the author and publisher for putting out a statement to support the original storyline and plot. This is a serious problems for a lot of novel to live adaptions. I sometimes wonder why Chinese production companies kept doing bad adaptation one after the other by veering off the original material? Come on! The original material is good, why do you want to mess with it?!
Anonymous
but realistically what will happen if they sue? they re going against industry norm and big shot production companies with power and money to shoot them down in courts, easer said than be done. i love to see it cause respecting the works is the most basic thing but nowadays the most important thing is profit, ethics are respect are out the door
Bobatea
they mentioned above the longer the works, the more ads and the more money which is ridiculous but ofc they love profits, even when it means ruining the works. it's also ridiculour cause they hire big stars as main leads yet dont give them screen time like Ashes of love?? lol
Anonymous
PA director what mean? I think cql had some changed scenes as well. But people generally didn't mind it. Do you it will go like this with this drama? (though ZLY is so upset)
Anonymous
If only fans know how to do that from the beginning she wouldn't be used as the bait to draw in viewers for so many years.
Anonymous
The director for this drama is the same as PA(Princess Agents).
I feel for her signing on to a production, only for it to be completely changed mid way.
Anonymous
You will enjoy the Legend of Fei now that it's completely becoming another Princess Agents entirely.
Even Hu Ge and many stars stepped up and say they don't want fake help from fans. They want their work to speak for themselves.
If ZLY is still playing the old game people will only frown on her. It's time to step up already.
PA sold really well despite that ZLY cried 3 days 3 nights. It's not she knew PA can be better, the drama was barely ok at a minimum. It was horrendous because there was no plot at all. A terrible drama but still gets dubbed as "the best drama", people with senses will not respect her. Especially judges and directors, they know even more about what is a good and bad drama. Dramas with no plots and no endings like "Noble Aspirations" and "PA", but still had the ability of being called good, how can directors find her serious? Do you think directors would want to wreck their brain writing something cool when fans won't care? PA isn't cool it sold and fans all say it's good. So when Legend of Fei is not going to be cool, it's going to sell, and fans will definitely say "IT'S GOOD!" Trust me, when this comes out regardless of how much fillers, the rating will topped everything else, and reviews will be the very best. English subs will be the fastest too. That is guaranteed.
It doesn't matter which director she moved to they all looked down on her. Ming Lan was injected with 7 wasteful episodes before the main characters finally showed up, those long episodes could have been told in 15 minutes. The last episodes were all nothing but flashbacks. Instead of being honest fans say the most ridiculous things, "we love boring fillers." The production team didn't even do their research but just rushed to complete everything so it can sell asap. You can tell by how the clothes are not even accurately Chinese clothes, they used modern fabrics. And they even randomly picked the wrong dynasty to portray the story. Fans call it some master piece, really? If that is a master piece then everything produced 10 years ago up to now are all Super Super Super Duper master pieces? Fans need to know how to help ZLY correctly man, don't just say whatever she does is good because critique is not a bad thing it's used for improving. She's not getting any younger and the projects she gets are always mistakes one after another mistakes.
hohliu
@11.a, Some people love to troll for the sake of it….. Creating trouble on site for their amusement. Time wasters
Anon
Trolls are really repetitive. For example
2016 Lucky Tianbao: "Tricked again! In future her contracts need to state more specifics….I am really upset!"
2016 Legend of Chusen: "Tricked again! In future her contracts need to state more specifics….I am really upset!"
2017 Princess Agents: "Tricked again! In future her contracts need to state more specifics….I am really upset!"
2018 OGT: "Tricked again! In future her contracts need to state more specifics….I am really upset!"
2019 Legend of fei: "Tricked again! In future her contracts need to state more specifics….I am really upset!"
Is somebody always tricked? or maybe she is playing the trick of being tricked?
Anonymous
I'm so happy she and the author of the novel said something early on. Not that it will for sure change anything but if the fans are mad enough about it, it could possibly make the production shift gears (I've seen it happen with other projects).
It will really piss me off if they give interactions that were supposed to be between the leads to him and another character just to boost that person's career. It will ruin the author's original work and distort the story and relationships she was trying to portray.
You would think that with ZLY's fame she wouldn't have to put up with this at this point in her career. But fuck man, look at Yang Mi and Yang Zi, they are used to boost the supporting casts' popularity all of the time in all of their dramas despite their mega popularity as well. It's super shitty considering all of the hard work they've all put in throughout the years.
Anonymous
@11c
You got your information wrong. The only time she or her fans have mentioned tricked was with PA. It was from an interview she gave when the drama came out.
Tianbao was filmed when she wasnt popular so she plays a supporting role. She became huge years later and the production company made it seem like she was the lead in promos, etc to promote it.
Anon
11.d This is why directors are treating her non-seriously, fans like you are not helping by twisting info. You are helping her be their bait (like every year).
She was famous from Cuo Dian Yang Yang and Legend Luzhen since 2012. She was already famous when filming Lucky Tianbao and was USED as the second lead so the main girl in there can get recognized. In Legend Chusen, she was kind of doing what the 3rd supporting girl in Legend of Fei is doing right now, ZLY was only a second lead to Yang Zi's first lead but ZLY ruined the drama because she was supposed to die within the first 5 episodes. But after 10 still livng, after 20 still lving, after 30 still living, after 40 still living, after 50 still living, ok, died at the very last part. Second season needed. Because the real story have never begun. Fans were satisfied because she was famous and was the ONLY person bringing in viewers so she did deserved all her scenes even though the drama had no storyline to it.
How is PA the only tricked drama? PA was another Legend of Chusen. After PA she was used in OGT too. And this year (same director), tricked again. Every year, it's tricked.
Anonymous
Some facts to correct anon 11.e because he/she seem to have something against Zhao Liying. Must be the resident hater on this website.
Chusen was meant to have three parts. Bi Yao is the first female lead for the first part. So no, ZLY did not ruin the drama because Bi Yao is going to be the female lead no matter what. The actress cast for Bi Yao was originally Angelababy, but she quit the drama. So the director and producer who worked with her in Lu Zhen asked her to help.
Yang Zi has even lesser screentime compared to ZLY because Hunan TV cut her scenes because she wasn't the main lead.
And no she wasn't tricked for OGT. She filmed the drama as a repayment for her manager Huang Bin, her ex-manager who was also the manager for Jin Han.
So yes PA is the only drama she is tricked because she didn't expect the drama to only film half of the novel. "
Stop trying to mislead everyone with your retard statements.
Anonymous
Also, Legend of Lu Zhen aired on May 8, 2013. Lucky Tianbao started filming on May 17, 2013. So even if she got famous throughout the airing of Lu Zhen, the role she signed up for is still the second female lead. So no she is not famous since 2012. And no one claimed she was "used" there other than you.
Anonymous
Well because they consistently work hard throughout the year, you can tell they don't have special sponsors which help them land lead roles. But nowadays there are many new stars who have sponsors or big companies backing them. These stars are often put in dramas starring famous actors like ZLY and YM, and given injected screentime so they can get recognition.
This is something that cannot be prevented. Because these powerful contacts are the ones funding the drama and/or production company.
Anonymous
Chen Yuqi is under Tang Yan, who often has her screentime "stolen" by supporting leads so I doubt she has the influence. Its most likely her additional storyline is used to increase the number of episodes for the drama.
Anonymous
Honestly ZLY does not fit the role. Zhou Fei is supposed to be a teenage girl but they got ZLY because she is one of the actresses who can bring in ratings. Fans tried protesting against her decision to take the role, but she ignored them. So yeah its her own problem this time. Still, its not right for the production company to do this. ZLY is no match for those powerful brokers and investors who fund this drama.
Zhang Huiwen won't get hate because she's under the same company as Zhao Liying. Zhou Jieqiong will most likely get the brunt of the hate because of her rumor with Wang Sicong.
Anonymous
I think she did this drama to secure her old fanbase because she is known for her historicals. Afterall she is coming back after a hiatus.
She's supposedly doing a serious drama next with Zheng Xiaolong.
Anonymous
Your long essay mean nothing. Are you suggesting that ZLY's fans should boycott her dramas? LOL.
Anonymous
At anon 7, no one said about her acting here. I think everyone loves and praises her acting but the scripts and the plagiarism controversy made the story become a whole mess. Zhao Liying can't control the scripts but she must be tired it same thing happen again. She doesn't deserve this sh*t
Anonymous
Anon 7.a you're not being reasonable. Most of her fans actually acknowledge PA has interesting theme but turned out mess in the later half and Noble Aspirations is decent, not great but not THAT bad either. But different people have different taste. If some enjoyed it despite it being mess, let them enjoy whatever they like. As long as people acknowledge it has fflaws. while TSOM is a good drama and well-deserved the good rating and acclaim. If you can't appreciate it, no problem but don't go around saying zhao liying fans blindly praised everything she does. Because a lot of critics actually compliment the drama for being a good family drama. Plus, a lot of netizen also recognise ZLY as one of the better actresses of her age. If you look at Yang Mi, Yang Zi,Tang Yan they also have fair share of bad projects or "mistakes" too. Heck no actors out there can have a continuous string of good projects. Actors can't controls the outcome. If scripts are bad, it's not their fault. She spoke up for Youfei hoping the team will do something and make changes. Because when the finished product released, she won't have control anymore.
Anonymous
Nah, he will never be poor. He has his billionaire dad that can do everything with his money. They're the one who often give money to governments and have control in a lot of stuff. Just like any other top 1% rich people in most countries.
Anonymous
So agree with you!
Anonymous
This one anon sure have things against ZLY. She must be fan of another actress. Not surprised because there are a lot ZLY haters on this blog.
Anonymous
@2.a What has age got to do with this? How many chinese adaptations have u seen that actually got an actress played the right 'age' role? As a matter of fact, if u had read the novel, they started out as teenagers and then skipped time to a few yrs later..twice. Even with PA, aren't they all supposed to be teenagers too but after it's been aired and done with, no one noticed or even mentioned anything about 'ages'. ZLY may not be young anymore but she still looks just as young as any actresses in their twenties.
hohliu
Dont waste time and energy on trolls and time and space wasters. Just feeds into their hater's starvation.
They live on bitching and putting down online.
Unknown
Is the PD team using ZLYs name to bring in ratings?
As for Princess Agents, did not finish it… The story concentrated so much on Shawn Dou's character vengeful character instead of ZLY..
Anonymous
Someone is angry because they didn't get all the screen time…. Being selfish is big draw… What will she do if she joined some of these drama with many leads?no wonder she does do multiple leads type of drama… She is angry, but to say the truth many people watch the drama for side character more than the main lead like in the legend of fuyao… Yang mi is much kind & mature if you know what mean in legend of fuyao & it was her production to add to all
Anonymous
Who even watches dramas for side characters? Stop speaking for everyone else. You sound dumb and its so obvious you are trying to hate lmao.
Anonymous
Yes anon 15 is a dumbass! If you sign a contract thinking it was one thing and later on you find out its something else, you would say something too. Besides 10 miles of peach blossom, Yang Mi's drama are nothing to be desired. She is just picking projects just to keep busy. Which is fine, you have to keep relevant. No body wants to watch the side characters story for 10 plus eps.
Booo
Lol, as a zly fan I’m sure you must be brainwashed of the real standing of your idol, so let me inform you. YM doesn’t need to keep starring in fewer low quality projects to keep relevant, it’s the other way around she’s already at her peak so it’s okay to let these “supporting characters” to rub off from her starpower, it’s how she promotes the upcoming stars of her studio. Meanwhile she’s taking her time to broaden her horizon in the movie industry where the real buck and recognition’s at. She’s got tons of endorsements and people love her on variety shows, she’s extremely relevant, her success and popularity did not start with ten miles of peach blossoms, she’s been in the industry since she was a kid and was popular even before zly “lost baby fat”lol and became pretty. The real truth is that compared to YM’s relevance and starpower, zly is a fly. She’s boring on variety shows, doesn’t have the aura or a mature audience for endorsements and doesn’t have a great personality to keep meaningful relationships or connections in the industry, so of course all she can do is to fight over screentime and attention with her juniors on PG 5 dramas that arrogant brainless fans like yourself can rate a 100% and over hype just like this one that was the biggest flop of the year. So pls don’t drag royalty in when you discuss mediocrity.
Anonymous
I'm curious why even as a top actress she gets shit like this all the time. Look at Our Glamorous Times, the story went haywire in the second half with lots of screentime going to the supporting characters. Does her company have no influence at all?
Anonymous
Dang, the drama isn't out yet and there's already drama going on behind the scene. This is karma for those arrogant Wang Yibo Chinese fans who always bash Xiao Zhan.
A win for Xiao Zhan and The Oath of Love team!
Xiao Zhan : Wang Yibo
1: 0
Buku harianQ
are you really his fans? xiao zhan fans? are you not his antis instead? if you are his fans, why you smear his name with your distastefull behaviour?
Unknown
I think this person hate ZLY because she likes Yang Mi. That's why he's biases..
kiwilove
Are u like 10? Such a childish comment!
ms wasabi
nah, I'm watching it either away because of ZhaoLiying and Wang YIbo they are both great actor. I don't think all negativity will stop me from watching my bias.
Unknown
I think this person hate ZLY because she likes Yang Mi. That's why he's biased..Thinking they know more and dragging ZLY while praising their idol. Stay in Yang Mi page and not on Liying..
Yang mi
J’aime
Anonymous
This production is a big mess. Imagine how bad it must be behind the scenes for ZLY, who has been in this industry for almost 15 years to say something.
Zhao Liying needs to pick her projects better, I could tell when the rooster came out that this drama is just trying to get new actors popular. I bet no thought is being put into the actual storytelling. Will wait until her modern drama, which seems to be with a more professional production team.
Anonymous
LMAO. Once again the crazy XZ fan makes a comment on something that has absolutely nothing to do with him. Just to bash WYB even though he's not even the main point of this article. Seriously, crazy XZ fan(s), you're just making XZ look bad.
Anonymous
Another speculation is: maybe it's not a problem about the thrid actress but the ridiculous amount of stunts. The stunts might do very easy stuff she could do by herself such as speaking. Standing. Sleeping and Kneeling. Basically doing anything from far away the camera people can't really tell.
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Anonymous
Still brought up Ashes of Love with the 'supposedly' added scenes for Leo Yunxi? Please. The cnetz have counted their screentime.. Yanxi's over 1000+ min, Denglun's 600+ min and Leo Yunxi was 300+ min. As a second male lead, his screentime was completely normal. Or do you want the whole drama just about the main leads? Then no need to have other story and second leads. Just watch full 60 eps of the main couple lovey dovey :). Don't spread your baseless talk with unfounded rumors. What happened to Leo Yunxi last year was pure cyber violence that should not be proud of. Don't you k know that till now those attackers are trying to washed their hands of their dirty deeds? Shame on them and you who brought it up 🙂
Sunny
I also wonder the same. She is one of the biggest actresses but nearly all of her dramas go wrong. Is she just bad at picking scripts or what?
Anonymous
Shame on 1.c for not even reading at all. The info you provided must be wrong bc you never read anything correctly.
We were talking about Chen Yuqi (demon princess) who is a second or third leading lady and she had this one lame arc. She has amnesia and then suddenly remembers her long time old boyfriend, so not surprising at all. He faints, she saves him, he faints, she saves him, he faints, she saves him, etc.
I love second leads, sometimes they are the apple of the show. They are not supposed to be time killer and time wasters. Their stories should be good too, as much as the leads. Chen Yuqi's arc was not only boring but stupid and lazy as hell. That's why I was arguing she didn't hire her own writer bc if she had a writer, her arc shouldn't be this stupid.
Anonymous
Sunny you are wrong there, according to her fans, they say she is "always" best at picking very good projects. They can't see anything wrong with all her dramas.
About Glamourous Times though, she probably angered the producer by cutting her hair. She wore an ugly wig that was so obvious. Could be why they took away her scenes. I have a feeling the producer for LOF is also mad because after PA aired she swore she won't work with them again because of them tricking her, now she sort of crawl back after having said those things.
Anonymous
Shame on whoever wrote the comments on 1d. Didn't you read the original comment that mentioned Leo Yunxi's name. Perhaps you go back to reread your own comment (if you were the one who made it)? Why you brought his name up if your concern was only on Chen Yuqi? He was cyber bullied last year for Ashes due to the crazy shippers and was throwing under the bus due to him has no good resources (he is well known to have lack of resources even till now). And when provided with the evidence of the main leads vs his screentime then those people have nothing to say anymore.
For just the info..didn't you know that these people even went to harrassed the Story of Minglan's (the last drama of ZLY) author for her praise on Luo Yunxi's performance till the author was forced to deleted her post? This is the extend of their craziness.
Anonymous
Some people get heated up… I guess her crazy fans making it even more hard for people to like her… Your crazy obsession is dragging her down instead of criticism that may make her improve… I really don't hate her i watch her in the story of minglan & she was o. K
&for you info many people watch drama for side story… You can see it in the comments all the times.. Specially that many leads drama… Chill & accept the diffrent opinions it is the free drama land
Anonymous
Then don't like her since there are many people who likes her and non-fans watch her drama as well. Nobody said you can't criticism her acting but you are taking it personal and criticizing her work ethic and shading her for it. Chill and go harass celebrities you like instead.
Anonymous
16b again with the anon hate. According to her haters, her fans are powerful enough to control everything. Why don't you dare reply to my questions above and continue to spread false info? Or are you guilty after being called out?
About Glamorous Times, she cut her hair after she had shot her scenes. But the second female lead, Cao Xiwen kicked the second male lead out and brought in a new actor, causing her
Nah the producer for LOF could be mad but if he don't wanna anger watchers before airing, he has to crawl back and apologize and change things.
Just like you, crawling back in sprouting more nonsense 😀 I wonder what your parents teach you at home to raise such a liar like you.
Anonymous
16.c your info up there were all wrong and bias. If Noble Aspirations was serious, they would not have 50/60 episodes for first season and 20 episodes for a second season. A non main girl getting all the episodes to herself is only the same like Legend of Fei where ZLY not getting all her scenes. The book fans argued about this when the drama aired, nobody cared ZLY was more famous but they want to stick to the story. If anybody is lying, that is actually you trying to cover obvious things to make your idol look good. I see your attempt but what you said are not truthful.
In OGT she was obviously used for bringing up Jin Han supposingly she is kind of like her mentor. She disappeared half way in the drama and her excuse was that she got tricked and she didn't know they would do that to her and she had no power and whatsoever to avoid the second lead taking over. If you want to clear the truth that she willingly sign up to do that drama half way only, that does makes her sound so much better (sarcasm), got half way and lazy then ran away but also yelled at Jin Han when she failed him. Yang Mi does her best to help her newbies and when they fail her or themselves she don't even speak ill of them like ZLY. You are not only delusional but really into lying, go get your brain check up.
Anonymous
Wrong or bias? These are all facts which haters like you love to deny in every post about ZLY.
Why are you arguing about Noble Aspirations being "serious" or not? Its just like an idol drama like anything else. ZLY is the main girl in that drama, so quit bringing the book. If you want to see LXQ being the main girl, wait for part three. Legend of Fei has only one part and the only main girl is ZLY, so is there any basis of comparison here? Also, you mentioned about ZLY being more popular thus getting the main role. Using your reasoning, is the second lead in Legend of Fei more popular?
At least I have evidence backing up my claims, instead of you typing long paragraphs on what you think. If anybody is lying, its you not answering to questions and diverting topics.
Oh, and please provide evidence on ZLY saying she was tricked in OGT. Or are you feeling bad for her and thinking she had was tricked? If you want to clear the truth then bring hard facts instead of assumptions. Screaming at Jin Han? Are you Jin Han yourself or did you imagine that? You are not only delusional but dumb, retarded and a waste of space.
Anonymous
I can't believe I am saying this when I'm probably the youngest of you all: I'm 14 YEARS OLD and I find this ridiculous. Why such a big fuss just because of what an article said? You can all say what you want but don't go stabbing at one another. I wrote two comments myself (2.c and 7.e) that takes a side without actually disrespecting people.
Please control yourselves.
Buku harianQ
There is so many male actor in LoF, why would they push it all to male lead that should only be with female lead?
Elisa La Bruna
This is NOT a catfight or a PR stunt. It’s about profit before talent. Zhao Liying is talented and versatile VETERAN actress in a country where the Studios make you sign a contract for life with 20 hours work a day. Have you ever counted how many dramas and movies they produced this year ? Thank yez I can fast forward and still get the story, but honestly the ones that I watched entirely with excitement till the end, were few. I was frustrated about this trend, imagine a workaholic like her ! I totally emphasize. I love my job and I want it done well, it’s a sense of empowerment. . It’s her face on the screen, not the producers.
Maria
And here I am re-reading this article again,
In terms of acting skills as well as Yibo and the rest of the supporting casts are all mediocre + chemistry and action scenes are all ok with me
The sad thing is — the team managed to combine all these star-studded casts yet they fall into a bad production team! I feel all of their efforts has been used (for money purposes) and wasted,
I just hope Zhao Liying and Wang Yibo will meet a great production team in the future!!!
Legend of fei flopped
Lol, the summary of all Zhao liying article’s comment sections are just the ramblings of psychopathic, biased fans who are ready to diss other people’s hardwork to lift their idols, but alas when you are mediocre no amount of cheating or crazy fanbases can cover your flaws, legend of fei was such an epic flop that even though a lot of fans tried to rate it high it’s still a 6/10 which is in truth a 0.5/10.
Anon
Seeing these comments now I feel so embarassed for ZLY fans covering her up. Got no acting skills but over hired fans to support. LOF is a mess because of her inability to stand up, the wind can simply blew her away. Acting? Don’t even mention, just standing up is already too hard.
Yang mi
J’aime