Fate Leads To Happiness (缘来幸福) or Yuan Lai Xing Fu tells the story of two stepbrothers with different approaches to career and love, and playing the said good-looking brothers are William Chan and Ma Tian Yu, making the choice of rooting for one bro that much harder. It will start airing through VIP channel on Tencent (QQ) today. Extended trailer below the cut!
Extended Trailer:
- Male lead, Ma Tian Yu. He plays younger brother, He Mu. Born with a silver spoon, he’s a free-spirit and runs away from his family to avoid being tied down by an arranged marriage. Highly adaptable, he works his way up at a different company and meets a hard-working girl in the process.
- Second male lead, William Chan. He plays older brother He Han. He’s a perfectionist and is always praised upon by the whole family. But beneath that perfect suit, something dangerous lurks.
- Female lead, Deng Jia Jia. A girl who hates the idea of marriage due to a past failed relationship. Lu Jia Rong is our second female lead.
- Directed by Lin He Long (Cruel Romance) and written by him and Xu Tao, Yuan Lai Xing Fu has 40 episodes and is still looking for a chance to see daylight. Filming wrapped in 2014. [Previous Posts.]
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Is that Amber Kuo in short hair? William Chan’s character reminds me of that evil guy from My Love From The Star. Honestly, most C-modern dramas aren’t that great compared to Wuxia although not all Wuxia are perfect. Most of the time, they are just long and draggy. As much as I love Hu Ge, Go Goal Fighting is kinda boring to me. There isn’t any substance at all.
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oh no no, shes Lu Jia Rong, second girl. amber looks younger and more edgy. lol.
modern dramas are hard to like in cdramaland. XD
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I really like Go Goal Fighting. Hu Ge’s character is hilarious and I’m constantly bursting out in laughter. The high school kids are fun to watch as well, except for the guy and his sister (they are boring). I do feel the female lead was a miscast as she doesn’t look the part of a university student doing her internship/job placement at the school. And I actually think Hu Ge should be paired with the principal instead.
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Omg I want to see this! And Lu Jia Rong too, I love her.
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I find it very odd that Taiwan modern dramas are very popular but their ancient isn’t. While China is opposite. Even Korean modern dramas are more popular internationally then their ancient.
What is it about modern china that people don’t like?
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I didn’t think Taiwan had ancient dramas? Because they are really expensive to produce with costuming? Even Korea doesn’t have that many since I don’t think the budget for their dramas are that high (DOTS benefited from being broadcasted simultaneously in China)
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What was their most recent ancient costume series? I watched Princess Huaiyu and The Switch which were both released more than a decade ago so I don’t know much about their recent ones.
I feel like aside from it being expensive to film, they don’t have that many resources like Chinese production companies. Plus, it seems like many of the previously top actors and actresses in Taiwan migrated to China for work, so they’re not really left with much to work with.
Personally, Chinese modern dramas are not that bad. But a majority of them are Cinderella-type stories that Korean and Japanese dramas do better with, aesthetically speaking.
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There are good Mainland contemporary drama. But Mainland also produces a lot of non-idol series and those have few international fans. Spy series, family drama, village drama, semi-historical drama, drama based on historical figures like Su Dongpo, etc. Some of these have decent directors and actors. But it may be more common to run into annoying female characters. Bickering middle-aged ladies, sometimes greedy, scheming, shrew-like, or naggy mothers and mother in laws. Frequent complaints around “You have no idea how hard it has been for me to raise you”, etc.. Lectures on family duties like filial piety. Some show people’s difficulties in coping with restrictive traditions and customs, or living near poverty while young. Some actors do not have “idol visage”. This includes series like Tuan Yuan Fan (Reunion) with Ma Su, Li Guang Jie. Ni Shi Wo Xiong Di (You are my brothers) with Deng Chao, Dong Jie, Good Wife 101 with Luo Jin, etc. Not bad series, but the story lines are not about beautiful people living glamorous lives.
K-drama have a lot of series with love theme. Attractive people living in beautiful flats, wearing fancy, trendy clothes. Those seem well-loved by enough international viewers. C-drama of the last 3 years where the main leads are 20-40 year olds do focus a lot more on idol themes now, plus some high school drama. It’s easier to get viewers if you create dramas around attractive young females having sweet dates with perfect idol boyfriends, encounter problems that can be solved in 15-20 episodes.
For TW ancient drama, I hear Nie Xiaoqian (the Liaozhai story that started the movie version of Chinese Ghost Story with Leslie Cheung and Joey Wang) started broadcast earlier in 2016.
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When will the drama be available to non-VIP members?
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I haven’t read anything yet. But looks like illegal streaming is available on youtube this morning before I went to work. Not sure if they are still there.
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Managed to find the first 2 epis subbed in Viet, but videos are being taken down so quickly.
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At first I couldn’t stand either Ma Tianyu’s or Deng Jiajia’s character here. She’s so gullible, he…I was left speechless. Fortunately, by episode 4 their characters have become much more likeable (he’s still a bit off the wall) and that scene in episode 4 where it looked like the two would develop romantic feelings was wonderful. Course now, William and Jiajia’s characters meet.
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I can’t believe they released all the episodes at once (nothing new, but still!) William looks so dashing in his suits. X) Have fun watching!
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Hope I get home in time before the epis get taken off YouTube. All epis were available on Tencent to VIP members. The wait for the Vietsubbed version was killing me.