All Feng Shao Feng, all the time. Well, sort of.

[dangermousie]

1. Have some angsty Playboy from Four Women Conflict.



I have a thing for tear wiping:



Playboy declaring he killed Lanyan's husband.




In jail, telling her he won't live without her.






Pretty pretty pretty:




OTP!




He's been made to believe she died (she needs to pretend to be dead to catch whoever is trying to kill her - i.e. puppy killer). Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh.



He sort of is going photogenically insane and telling her he will marry her even though she's a corpse and that he's now just a body without a soul etc. These pics seem very relevant to the "crying men - hot, wussy, or lickable" poll question. Your verdict?





At her tomb. Puppy Killer is all "but whyyyyy don't you love me? She's dead." Seriously, someone buy this lady a clue.






2. ockoala just informed me that FSF and Yang Mi are going to play the OTP of contemporary cdrama Destiny's Concerto. Normally, modern-day cdramas are rarely my thing but I am going to give it a try just for them. Together with JPLH, its movie sequel and Legend of Tiger Amulet, that's four times they have been paired in one year (!!!!). I've seen some griping on spcnet about it (why?) but I am doing an ecstatic jig because they sort of my became my favorite drama pairing and I am so very happy to see them together again.

3. I wasn't particularly interested in Schemes of Beauty before but it's made by the same guy who made FWC and JPLH, it has FSF and Yang Mi (not as an OTP, but that is even more fun. Yang Mi's OTP in this is Four, a.k.a. Mikey He, and FSF's otp is Myolie Wu). Must check this out now - I believe viki has it. Have these two MVs for the two OTPs

Yang Mi/Mikey (thanks for finding it, hanjae:

FSF/Myolie:

4. And speaking of Yang Mi/Mikey He - I am on ep 16 of JPLH and I do believe Four might be developing feelings for our intrepid heroine. How do I know? Well, he hesitates to slit her throat while she's lying there unconscious after having taken a sword stab to save his life. He decides not to kill her (on the off chance she's somehow implicated in something against him - hello, paranoia!) despite being really tempted.





Now we know that with Four this is as good as shouting from the rooftops that it's LOVE!

5. Thanks for the heads-up, hanjae. Trailer for FSF/Yang Mi Warring States awesomesauce collab Legend of Tiger Amulet is out:

I want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comments

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am too wuss for Liao Zhai (isn't it horror) but do mean to check out both Yi Zhi Mei (once subs are out) and the Weavers one.

Not very flattering in figure or even in looks, but that becomes negligible for me as his acting and screen presence dominates.

My problem with Nicky is that I agree with the former part of your sentence but not the latter (at least in trailers, he may be different in the drama). I don't need an actor to be young and/or handsome to love him in the role - my favorite, by far, character in 3 Kingdoms 2010 is Cao Cao and the actor playing him is neither - but I don't see Nicky have that kind of on-screen charisma and chops. But maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

And the novel ending really really bugs me, the same way the ending of de Stael's Corinne bugs me. I loathed that type of ending since then. Repeat after me, gals "he's not worth it!".

[(Anonymous)]

what kind of ending are you referring to? (I haven't read anything by de Stael's Corinne) I don't think her (spoiler!) death was a sacrifice in any means for Four if that's what you're referring to.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I used Corinne because it was probably the earliest novel example of this (it was written in 18th century).

Madame de Stael's novel is about an Italian woman, Corinne, who has an affair with an English aristocrat, who eventually marries someone else as more suitable. Eventually, Corinne sort of wastes and dies because she was miserable she couldn't have him. It was viewed as very romantic.

That sort of set-up drives me nuts and it seems BBJX has it.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that's the plot line of BBJX precisely. Of course, you can interpret it a lot of ways. I think the main character passed away due to a combination of years of hard labor, physical deterioration (she had to kneel in the hard rain for like 2-3 days straight), and a broken heart (not just over Four). The way the novel portrayed it was that she tried to disassociate herself from history throughout the novel, but only discovered at the end that she was an integral part of it, even as the catalyst for many of the tragic events that followed. She was heart broken over her own role in the downfall of her loved ones (that includes Four, Eight, Thirteen, and Fourteen). There was no way that the main characters could be together (Four and main girl) even if she didn't marry Fourteen. It's just the way history played out, and too many rifts were created between them without the complication of marriage (he sorted of ordered the cruel death of her sworn sister, who's also a [spoiler!] spy). The marriage was a sort of excuse for her to leave the palace (a place of heartbreaks and sorrow) and to save Four from the unfilial act of forbidding the marriage (it was decreed by his father, the late Emperor KangXi).

I hope that clears it up a bit. ^_^

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the explanation. I don't know, it's not that I find it unrealistic (I don't) but I find it not appealing to me.

I am pretty shallow so if, perhaps, they cast someone I find more appealing as Four, I would have still checked it out and been more excited for it despite my story misgiving but as it is, it's not a draw so...

Who knows, I may love it anyway.

Do they ever explain how she time-traveled? Because it seems odd if not - i.e. what happened to the person in the past she displaced? I can't help but think she hallucinated the whole thing in a coma or something.

[(Anonymous)]

There are two versions of the novel. The first, she fell down the ladder while changing light bulbs, and the second, she was hit by a car. In both cases, it's only her spirit that traveled through time. The author made no indications on the whereabouts of the original owner of her body. Maybe she died. Maybe she exchanged bodies with the main character (now that would be a fun fanfic story to read), time-traveling to the present.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

But yes, I don't really like the plot setup that you're referring to either. I feel like it existed in Wuthering Heights, where I couldn't stand Catherine. Ruo Xi in BBJX in much more different. She's a bit indecisive about her love interests at the beginning, but once she makes a decision, she sticks to it until the end. She's also much more strong-willed and intelligent.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Well, I never did get the WH is romantic thing people have going. Good novel yes. But full of nasty people who are better off dead.