It’s official. Just as everyone expected, Yang Mi and Simon Gong Jun have just been announced as the stars of the drama version of Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Yue Hong 狐妖小红娘月红篇. With all the confusion surrounding the fate of its rumoured second lead Crystal Yuan Bingyan and the speculation that Bambi Zhu Xudan will be her replacement, today’s announcement from the production at least confirms the most important bits.
Much like her role as Bai Qian in Eternal Love, Yang Mi plays the fox tribe’s Tu Shan Hong Hong opposite Simon Gong Jun’s very human Dongfang Yuechu. In the manhua, Tu Shan Hong Hong and Dongfang Yuechu are lovers. Owing to an accident when she was a child, it became Tu Shan Hong Hong’s most cherished dream to see the peaceful coexistence between humans and demons.
The different instalments of the Fox Spirit Matchmaker serial each feature different stories of love between humans and demons. Whilst demons live on for thousands of years, humans with their limited lifespans die and are reborn. In their new incarnations, humans do not retain memories of their past lovers. This can be remedied by engaging the services of a fox spirit matchmaker thus ensuring their reincarnated lovers recall memories of their past life and their past love.
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Lisa
Yang Mi looks great in these pictures! I feel like she generally picks decent scripts, so I will have to check this one out!
Anon
Gorgeous styling!
Too bad YBY cannot join this show.
I wonder if DL didn’t run into tax scandal as well, would he be working with YM on this show too.
TC
I really like their styling in these pics, especially Yang Mi’s. It reminds me of a game or animation.
HL- Hoh Liu
I am looking forward to this but I am not a fan of Zhu Xudan but I just have to watch and see..
Ana
She is okay with supporting roles, but she doesn’t have the stage present of lead actress. So bland!
Shouldbecougarhunter
So she like thems young in dramas & real life … wonder if there’s a casting coach?
Ash
I don’t think she has much choice of a choice. She is always acting in the same type of roles, whereas many of her similar age male co-stars have progressed to more serious and diverse roles, and have left such roles to younger upcoming male actors.
Anon
Actors her age don’t have the popularity needed for this genre that’s why everyone is pairing with younger actors
GTFOOH
Oh look it’s that Trashunter again! Go hunt for trashes, that’s where your master lives, in the trashcan.
Casting coach is brought up on YM when her artists are not RUDE as*h*les that also CANNOT ACT and have NO TALENT. All of YM’s artists are very talented, even ones that are new and not as talented yet are at least very polite and have good attitudes. That made them more well deserving to become stars than the trashy copycat that hates YM and used rich men to entitle her an A-lister. That trashy copycat is most likely your master hiring you to spread hate on YM bc YM is such a good leader. Someone is jealous they can’t lead like YM cause they too evil all they do is blame the younger ladies of being more youthful and talented.
YM’s artists are also getting lots of attention, obviously someone is too jealous she will soon be forgotten and trying to bring down the whole Jaywalk studio.
YM not only helped the young actors, she also helped OLDER actors like Vengo Gao. And not just men, but lots of young ladies! I guess YM is even a lesbian that her female artists must have slept with her to get leading roles too huh? If there is casting couch, at least YM is pretty and damn PROTECTIVE, she doesn’t throw her anyone under the bus to save her own skin.
WhereshouldIgo?
Yang Mi? Damn gurl didn’t know your English was this good.
Hdydusnan
You are a joke! At least he is taking on different roles, if he has No Talent why dose a certain someone desperately wants to work with him? Pleassssse B, stop barking! If you are suggesting the conflict between Simon and ZzH do better research. Hahahaha You want to call Vengo Gao a good actor? The guy is old and needs to improve. No one even care to watch him as a lead actor! Obviously she has to protect her artist, it’s her cash cow, that crow ain’t to cast herself in XianXia dramas forever.
Go back to your trashcan
Why are ZLY fans acting like B****es here? Obviously ZLY has Zhang Huiwen under her studio but after being jealous of ZHW’s beauty and talent in dance, she accused ZHW of sleeping with FSF. What a H**. Her fans act like her. ZLY was so afraid of losing hot searches after her come back, she purposedly work with Wang Yibo. She learned that WYB has a necklace special to him and he took it to every concert. She tailored one to look exactly like his, wore it publicly, and released thousands of news that they were dating. To make herself look innocent, she hired women to photoshop fake text messages of them cheating with FSF so he gets called a cheater and she’s all clean. During FSF’s scandal, she purposedly changed her Minglan profile pic to Nezha while FSF still has his profile pic as Gu Tingye. The purpose was to make people believe FSF cheated. Acting like the B**** hiring you here doesn’t act with YOUNG MEN? LMAO!
YM acts with young men, but be jealous, she doesn’t throw them under the bus like your trashy boss. After your trashy boss made that hamburger post her fans didn’t bother to rate the show high, and they blame WYB being a horrible actor and caused the low rating.
Oh, so Vengo cannot act huh? Now that YM helps both old and young men, the attack goes to Vengo as well.
I remember when your trashy boss has Jin Han who is super ugly under her wings, she trashed on him LMAO. At least YM doesn’t trash on Vengo, he was wary of his age and low in confidence but she gave him encouragements as well as supports instead of acting like a VIP B****. After your trashy boss did french kisses with ugly Jin Han she blamed him for the show’s bad rating cause she was so lazy she disappeared halfway in the show to vacay with FSF, leaving the second FL to take over. After being done with FSF her own husband she also media attacks him and his whole family. Be jealous of YM! She’s nothing like your trashy master.
Aren’t you living in my trash can? It’s coolio we can share
Oh someone’s off their meds, tell the voices in your head to all quiet down. None of them are making any sense.
carrotbabie
may i know who the copycat is? initials would be ok as well
Anon
I agree! I wish Simon was paired with a younger actress! This one looks like his aunt! Oh well I guess this drama will make him even more popular. He look so pretty here!
wee
Getting paired with an older actor should be the least of his concerns. He should prioritize sharpening his acting skills first.
Joni
Agreed. Simon should really take the opportunity to level up his acting skills and get into more serious roles. He won’t be looking pretty forever.
Oh, I like him a lot. But I’m also realistic. Haha.
But as with all YM dramas, I don’t think I would be able to finish this one either. My track record for staying on YM’s dramas was 10 episodes. She is such a pain to watch. I’m not sure Simon can make me stay longer either.
She looks so old
@joni I agree, her voice is also annoying and her face so old! Aunty!
Joni
Yes. That’s the other thing. Her nasally monotonous voice. She is one actor whom I wish is overdubbed by a professional voice actor.
I’m not concerned whether they look old or young or beautiful or plain. What is most important is they must fit the character role and be able to act well and give life to their characters. I have seen many wonderful and moving performances from “old” or “plain” actors and actresses.
LMAO
He just started in the industry. His acting is better each time, at least he tries out new roles, not the same thing like this old lady!
Reality
He can keep trying out new roles but if he’s not improving, what is the point? Have you seen him get praised for his amazing acting skills in CN? No, because he’s bad. Gong Jun should take more acting lessons. Looking at him, he isn’t young anymore. He should study up. He can’t rely on his looks forever unless he wants to shift into modelling permanently. There are now male leads younger than him who are also better at acting than him.
Melissa
If being 35 makes you freaking old, how will these pathetic haters treat their parents?
CalmDown
Y’all are being quite harsh. Yang Mi looks nowhere close to being his aunt. She’s only 6 years older than him. It’s not that big of a gap. Every time there’s an article about female actresses, this website always devolves into a lot of nastiness. How come I don’t see any of y’all commenting on male artists that work with females significantly younger than them? These celebrities are real people too. Is it necessary to be so mean to strangers you don’t even know?
Uh huh
Really she looks over 40! She looks older Tha. Zhang ziyi and ruby lin!
landystravels
Seriously, some of these comments are disgusting.
Kira
It is the same person with different user names.
Kira
Chen Kun for example. He usually works with actresses younger than him, but no one dehumanizes him for that. When it comes to women, people bring out the worst in themselves. It’s casual misogyny.
Anon
She did paired up with William Chan and Bai Yu, both around her age. Sadly I couldn’t finish the Pearl Eclipse’s. Yang Mi pouting and acting like a teenager was not for me, plus William Chan’S acting, hair and character was bloody awful! Don’t think I will watch the Doctor one since I am not a fan of a medical drama. I do hope she acts acts more with men her age.
LMAO
Ewww don’t even suggest Simon would touch that!
Kira
You are not a fan of Gong Jun. You are pretending to be one to prevent your favorite (Zhao Li Ying) from receiving the hatred you give.
Melissa
Shouldbecougarhunter, you all are always ready to criticize women with your casual misogyny. Chen Kun also usually acts with actresses younger than him but never gets comments like yours.
LMAO
Wtf is that person barking about? All Jaywalk dramas sucks, except for a few Dilraba dramas. Without mentioning Dilraba, name one good solid Jaywalk production drama? What outstanding roles are her artist famous for? The only dramas her artist are good in are playing supporting roles in other productions. Her artist are good to use as her supporting roles. She is the Boss so she gets to play the young teenager even if she looks like their aunt! Bring in the young boys, they bring in the traffic for her dramas! Simon Gong after releaseling his FSMM got over 1mil likes less than an hour. See why she needs the young hot men? No old men’s allow! AGREE no more repeat of William Chan please! Vengo probably asked not to be cast in these type of roles! Good for him! Stop being delusional!
Laugh back at the trash
Another dog coming out of the trash can. Name a production without any flops. Most productions now suck just as much. When people have a fave they always know how to say, the drama sucks but my idol performed well. Same thing, the Jaywalk artists are very good, sometimes the dramas are just not as good. But no matter how bad Jaywalk dramas are, they don’t hire over 2 hundred billion water armies to say their boring stuff are not boring and even “master pieces” LMAO!!!!!!!! As far as I know they haven’t produced a single shit WITHOUT A STORYLINE and plus WITHOUT AN ENDING and dare to promote that piece of shit a hit of the year. Only shameless trashes do that. Besides YM doesn’t shit on her artists like some Trashes shitting on younger artists from her own studio.
LMAO
If you think Yang Mi’s drama are good and have a a good story line you are so delusional! WORD OF honor is a better drama then all her dramas combined! You think pearl Eclipse’s had a better ending than Word of honor? Obviously your taste in dramas garbage! Talking about shameless with no ending. JOY Of life and Sword Snow Strides both surpassed any of your Laofox drama! Better acting, writing, story! It’s time to leave the idol world and leave these roles to the younger ones.
Kira
You are not a fan of Gong Jun. You are pretending to be one to prevent your favorite (Zhao Li Ying) from receiving the hatred you give.
LMAO
FEMALE DOG you so wacky? Aren’t we taking about Gong Jun and Yang Mi? The f is Zly? You are talking in circles? Are you stupid? Ain’t no one want to read your long essay! Get a life!
Why are bi*ches so disgusting?
Looks like a B**** doesn’t recognize her trashcan master because she did plastic surgery to look YM. You must’ve mistook YM as your master and keep barking at YM, but YM doesn’t understand your dog language and didn’t recognize you as a pet so that got you angered.
LMAO
Lol Simon looks better dress as a woman than YangMi. That old fox had so much plastic surgery its catching up on her. Since you are such a big fan of this old Fox didn’t you see the edit snaps of these posters? Pathetic, so delusional. You want to talk about trash, the person who has the most plastic surgery is this old fox! Lol and her breast implants, cougar…. No she is a panther! Look at how pretty Simon’s face is!
¡Ja, ja!
You’ve made it clear that your life is miserable, and that the only ray of hope you have is to devote yourself to hating celebrities. I worry about the lives of your loved ones with you around.
Kira
You are not a fan of Gong Jun. You are pretending to be one to prevent your favorite (Zhao Li Ying) from receiving the hatred you give.
H
Yang mi is too old for such roles she need to develop her carrier as actress ,serious role ,,not like 15 6ears old or in her twenties ,i think she is bad actress
Anony
It’s obvious last time ZLY’s story of xingfu on this website got damn so hard dramapanda turns off the comments, now they’re revenging on YM and reusing all these same usernames from the attackers last time. ZLY did so many dirty stuff they wasn’t able to back up any proof she was clean in that discussion. Now they can only attack YM about the likes of looking old and ugly, but they can’t find any dirt on her having nasty attitude like ZLY. Very entertaining, get the popcorn.
Kira
Agree.
Lololol
LMAO ofc all ym dramas are bad cuz she didn’t hire 200 billion people on the internet to say her stuff are the best things ever. Chinese population is only 1.4 billion, human population is 7 billion. It’s very embarrassing that Trashta has such low iq when people laugh at her stupidity overbuying fans she thinks people are laughing cause they happy for the accomplishment. She even put 200 billion fans on her resume, claiming to be best actress with no flopping dramas but none of her stuff even have conclusions on every last episodes. Only her fans have foul mouths like her speaking uncivilized language.
Applefish
😒 seriously YM does not look like she’s 40yo+. Anyone who says that, go have your eyes checked 🤦♀️ in term of acting, while not out of this world, not that terrible as you trolls make it out to be. I don’t follow much of her dramas but I’ve seen a few to know she’s decent.
LMAO
Seriously where are you going off the train track again? Your IQ must not exist? I take you are talking about something else? What the F? I feel like you are barking at the air! You can’t admit the fact that your idol can’t steer away from fantasy drama? Middle age fox to old fox now! Her drama sucks because there is nothing new for her to offer! Don’t be blaming others, no one force her to pick the same kind of roles, no one forced her to invest it he crappy script. Besides ten miles of peach blossom, you can’t name one good drama she stares in after that?
We're dogs cause ur COPYCATS
@LMAO I cannot think of a second idiot who always disrespect GENRES and categorize some “non-serious” and some “serious.” Everyone knows ONLY ZLY does that, only the water armies she hires talk like her. ZLY is bragging hard about being serious in TSOM, had the actress been someone else (who can act better) it will definitely be a flop like Wang Kai in Serenade Peace of Joy (same production) because others don’t buy water armies like ZLY. Boring is boring, there is nothing enjoyable about boring. Read the dictionary, opposite of enjoyable is boring. That’s why Serenade Peace of Joy is flopping without water armies helping them while TSOM has two-hundred billions workers behind them, their results are so different. Then now she’s braggin in Story of Xingfu when all it is doing is making fun of c-gov being corropted, and rural people look so dirty and unfashionable, they are all coward and don’t know how the law works to report anything. I’m sure the c-gov is very proud of that “seriousness.” She is also crawling back to xian xia now. After disrespecting some genres calling them non-serious but always crawl back, there is only her.
YM is respectful of all genres and all actors/actresses, she even respect their branding whether they have a good or bad one. She never takes the advantage to foul mouth anyone bc they have bad branding. When YM stars in any genre and others want to take her down by messing with her branding and calling her non-serious, she doesn’t even revenge back on them. She lives a upright life, respectful of others and being herself. Unlike some people pretending to be who they aren’t, always being such a COPYCAT, jealous of everyone and always looking for any opportunity to bring anyone down.
LMAO
I see we are not talking about the samething… I’ll let you go off on whatever you are blabbing about too long too read and don’t need to understand.
Melissa
Samething? You can’t even write. It’s to be expected when your brain doesn’t work.
Lucy
Even if you wanted to understand, you couldn’t because your brain is empty and wallowing in hay. That’s why the only ray of hope in your miserable life is to leave multiple negative comments about Yang Mi under different usernames to pretend you have power, when all you have is a strong sense of self humiliation.
Lololol
Don’t go denying not being Trashta’s fans or pretend to make new usernames asking why Trashta is getting all the blame again.
Cause up there I set a trap for you, I only talked about ZLY having low IQ, and you got offended. You gave yourself away telling everyone you’re the copycats’s fans, you’re from her trashcan. GARBAGE!
On the toilet reading this drama! Lol
One sad dog getting mad and angry because someone called her idol old! Lol. Obviously dogs are barking and are too stupid to understand each other lol. One keeps attack another old b over another OLD b. And one is idolinzing her thinks Simon is her. Dumb dumb dumb, i get a headache reading this one the toilet! Lol,
You got fired
Eh don’t pretend to be another person, the only person using such fowl language is only you. You’re just giving up cause the more you speak fowl language here the more your trash’s dirt will get exposed, looks like you just got fired for being a dumb water army.
Hah hah
You stupid! Ask the admin of the site! I’m sure they can see who is who, maybe you the one with the same post using different names over and over…. Or are you the same person arguing with yourself?
Melissa
You bait dozens of comments to pretend you have power. Don’t you get tired of being an idiot every day? Take a break.
LMAO
No one is even reading your long ass garbage! Maybe that person reading your crap while taking a crap. Because that is what you are a big turd! Keep barking!
Melissa
Don’t pretend you don’t read anything, when you do. If you didn’t care, you wouldn’t be here humiliating yourself.
Lú
Bark? Like you did or louder? You could teach them the right way to bark, you are an expert at it after all.
Pamela
If it were a barking contest, you’d be the winner.
Lon
On the toilet? The excrement is in your brain, how is it possible for you to expel it through the rectum?
Anonymous
Really? Seems like two idiots arguing back and forth!
Violette
Insane comment section again when it’s about actresses — it’s obvious. Anyways, YM looks beautiful and the styling is very fantasy RPG game inspired. I am looking forward to how she makes this fox goddess different than BQ in TMOPB. I recently watch NPearl Eclipse and it was fine. I have never seen GJ before but I will give him a chance first before judging. Like how everyone wrote off Mark as YH but in the end, he was THE best actor in TMOPB.
Lisa
Violette, you’re so right. Mark Chao’s acting was amazing. Most other male leads playing more reserved cold male leads just keep a boring stoic face, but Mark emoted so well with his microexpressions. I felt every second of his heartache. I’ve only seen Gong Jun in Word of Honor, which I thought he played the role just fine. I seriously don’t understand why the comment section always goes off the walls here with accusations and rumors. I just want to come here to discuss dramas, not read wild conspiracy theories.
Ash
Hahaha. I have noticed that only 4 names triggered this sort of emotional and irrational keyboard diarrhea. Zhou Li Ying, Yang Mi, Yang Zi and Diliraba. Any mention of any of these names, no matter how irrelevant to the subject matter at hand will trigger a mud slinging party.
In short, ignore them. It’s the same mud regurgitated over and over again.
CT
To this day, Mark Chao’s acting in TMOPB still gives me the chills. He was that amazing, and I had never even heard of him prior to the drama.
I’ve never seen any of Gong Jun’s works, so I really have no expectations of this new drama other than it’s probably going to be pretty based off of the promo pics. I’ll give it a chance if the trailers look good, but I’ve never been interested in any of the other dramas Yang Mi starred in, not because I don’t like her, but because I just don’t like the plots.
I’ve been on dramapanda for many years now, and I miss the good old days when people would just discuss the dramas and not fight and call each other names all the time. I cringe sometimes before clicking on some of the posts if I see a lot of comments because I know what’s it’s going to be like. I don’t even read them and just look for the “normal” comments.
Violette
Yes, finally a decent discuss thread – I agree with everyone; it’s a shame re all the toxic comments and gone are the fun discussions and appreciation. YM is hit and miss for me too. I loved her in TMOPB but since, I think I only truly enjoyed Fuyao but it still very much flawed (I just like her chemistry with Ethan) – all the other ones were OK. Watchable but nothing as good as TMOPB. I always hope that Mark will do another historical Cdrama but I’ve been watching his film work instead.
Lú
It’s the casual misogyny they use when it comes to denigrating celebrities they don’t like.
Anon
Yang Mi has played a fox twice before. Her Nie Xiaoqian was very different from bai Qian, I’m excited to see what’s next
Blossomss_88
It could be the roles he was assigned. He was awkward in unique lady and begin again.
Ash
An actor worth his salt can turn in a good performance for any role, no matter how small or unlikeable. That’s the whole essence of acting. It is up to every actor to improve himself or herself, no matter where they started from, as is the same for any job.
LMAO!!!
It’s really funny reading ZLY’s water army pretending to be Simon Gong’s fangirls hating YM cause they want Simon to themselves. But people already know ZLY’s army often disguise as others to bring them down. Every Simon this Simon routes back to ZLY, making the army retreat disappointed as they cannot convinced anyone they are Simon’s fans.
Pamela
Bingo. The horrible comments towards Yang Mi were made by the same person pretending to be a fan of Gong Jun, but in reality they worship Zhao Li Ying.
JC
What going on, drama still filming? So no more Bing yan, I understand why Boss Yang Mi do it. The one plays Ya YA she is good, seen with the new drama with DD. She play the sexy role, this one YaYa looks cute. I don’t know the story. Boss Yang Mi has an eye injury, she wears one patch on her eye, do you think they will let her play with one patch in drama? Like pretend the Yue Hong gets the injury?
Anon
As for that Gong Jun fan trolling this page and calling YM old and ugly, aren’t you ashamed 😆 YM is 35 and Gong Jun is 30, when YM was his age she was already a first line actress enjoying the popularity of yet another hit drama (ten miles of peach blossoms). Her box office value and tv ratings record currently ranks the highest among the actresses in her age group and even ranks higher than Zhou Dong Yu. Lmao YM has been on more male magazine covers than he has. Can you explain why at the age of 30 GJ can only boast of WoH which he carried equally with ZZH, I guess it’s bcoz he’s been taking care of his face all this time. Is that why you guys have been trashing YM on Weibo bcoz yang mi started acting before GJ was born?
Anon
As for the others saying Yang Mi plays only one type of role, get your facts straight, Yang Mi has done a lot of diversifying but Costume dramas are generally more talked about than any other genre. She currently has She and her perfect husband with Xu Kai and Thank you doctor with Bai Yu, none of them are jaywalk produced. You see YM doesn’t have a big backer like ZLY does to get a role with Zheng Xiaolong even without acting skills. Yang Mi has played a fox twice before but those two roles were played differently bcoz YM can at least do that much unlike some people who play different roles exactly the same way, with their big eyes open and every other facial muscle frozen.