Ever want to see a 1980s romance novel as a drama?

[dangermousie]

Well, I believe the upcoming cdrama Sealed with a Kiss just may be your chance. The plot involves a rich and ruthless businessman who is seeking to avenge his father's death by blackmailing the daughter of the man who caused the death. Basically he tells her that her uncle is going to jail due to embezzlement unless she becomes his mistress. And then he treats her like dirt. Yup, hero of this blackmails his OTP into sex and 'relationship' (I fail to see how this is revenge but I am not sure I want to enter into his headspace).

Ummmm. WHUT.

Since this is pretty much a 1980s romance in disguise, of course he falls in love with her and angst ensues. Did I mention he is married?

What a Prince Charming!

Personally, after reading the synopsis/watching the trailer, I hope most of the cast kills each other and mistress gets together with her first love. I mean, I love Hawick Lau (who doesn't?) but there are limits.

Trailer:

I am so there - trainwreck!!!!

Also, in happy news, according to my cdrama guru mookiehyun, Peter Ho got cast in 楚汉传奇 (haven't seen it romanized anywhere) as Xiang Yu. alexandral, come squee with me! Chen Dao Ming is Liu Bang. Did they cast the ladies yet? I think I have my most anticipated drama! It probably won't air until 2013 or something, but I don't care! EEEEE!

This is from presscon, I think:



I wonder if the lady on the right is in the cast. Hmmm. I am especially dying to see who will be Lu Zhi.

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[lady-wu.livejournal.com]

Tangent: Not sure if you heard, but Three Kingdoms won the Grand Prize at the Seoul International Drama Awards. Linky: http://www.korea.net/news.do?mode=detail&guid=57783 . Chen Jianbin won Best Actor. I think I'm going to dig up all those Cao Cao episodes again while waiting for the other thing to download.

I guess Gao Xixi is going to do nothing but giant epics from now on. Like I think the per-episode budget for this one exceeds even that of TK.

Was reading an article that quoted GXX saying that they'll try to rehabilitate Liu Bang, and make him less of a scheming bastard and more of an emperor of humble origins. Seeing how good a job he did with remaking Cao Cao (who in popular consciousness was an evil bastard traitor), I can't wait to see what he and Chen Daoming do with Liu Bang.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I am glad for 3K and CJB.

The approach to Liu Bang sounds interesting and certainly unusual. I don't think it's controversial that he was an effective ruler but I have yet to come across anything that portrays him as a decent person. So it will be an interesting change.