Filming Wrapped: Bai Yu and Zhou Yu Tong’s Swords into Plowshares, Ren Jia Lun and Wang He Run’s The Perfect Match

Hope everyone had a peaceful Lunar New Year! I was busy taking a recovering-from-multiple-viruses toddler to visit the relatives. You really don’t know how life will change with kids until it hits you in the face point-blank. Haven’t had time to browse the web much! Both dramas finished filming this past week and I’m intrigued seeing Bai Yu in historical costumes! I have a soft spot for this man. <3

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Family drama Reopen My Journals led by Ni Hong Jie, Li Yun Rui, and Huang Yang Tian Tian

Per Tencent: Reopen My Journals (致1999年的自己) follows 15-year-old “model student” Qian Jiayue who gets into a prestigious high school but faces various academic challenges. Her plan to confess to her neighbor and top student, Xiao Han, fails. Meanwhile, her clever but mischievous younger “sworn brother,” Mao Tou, often stirs up trouble. Jiayue befriends the spirited Chen Mo, and the girls grow together through their friendship. Amid these changes, their parents face family crises and transformations. After returning to the city as a former educated youth, Chen Xiu’e struggles with the emotional distance from her daughter, Jiayue. The generational tensions among the three women are resolved during the passing of Chen Lao Tai. Self-proclaimed elite Chen Pengyu realizes every generation has its “mission” after clashing with his rebellious daughter, Chen Mo. Guan Aiping, a resilient woman laid off from work, raises Xiao Han alone, while “small business owner” Zhang Qiming learns to bond with his mischievous son, Mao Tou. After many ups and downs, he forms a new family with Guan Aiping.

Though times change, the warmth of family and the neighborly spirit of mutual care remain constant.

Airing 1/24~ On the heels of Blossom‘s success, Li Yun Rui dons a tracksuit to win over your 1999 hearts ya’ll!

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New Jin Yong’s Condor adaptation, The Legend of Heroes, confirms airing date in June

Yay for Wuxia fans! The Legend of Heroes (金庸武侠世界) is a 5-part drama series focusing on the Five Greats (my assumption) of the Condor trilogy from Jin Yong’s novels with a total of 60 episodes and directed by 5 directors.

Airing 6/17~

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Zhao Lu Si and Yang Yang caught in the chaos of jianghu and politics in Who Rules The World

Adapted from the novel written by Qing Ling Yue. For the extensive spoilers of novel, please head over to one of our prior posts written by Iridescent here. Are you excited? Cause I am! I know Lu Si is the quite adorable in romcom and she has done many projects with bubbly female characters so it’s nice to see her in a serious role! Love the hairstyles they gave her in here. *pleasebegoodpleasebegood*

Tencent describes the drama briefly: A legendary wuxia romance that focuses on the decade-long romance between Hei Feng Xi and Bai Feng Xi, and the adventures they embark on together.

Airing 4/18!

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Zhang Yu Xi and Tong Meng Shi confirmed as leads for Qian Qiu Ling

Qian Qiu Ling (千秋令) continues the never-ending battle between good and evil. After thousands of years of fighting, the next generation of the two worlds happen to become friends. But during an incident, our hero pushes our heroine off of a cliff to save his Righteous Master, giving the Demon Cult a chance to save and cultivate our heroine to become the next Leader of the Demon cult. 10 years later, they meet again. She uses his past guilt to stay beside him, while trying to kill him secretly. However, his warmth and kindness move her and she slowly falls for him. When she decides to give up the plan for revenge, another hand plants many misunderstandings between the two and forces them to fight. After going through many rounds of hardships and fighting, the two recognize their true hearts and that no matter where their stance was/is, certain things do not change: justice and the love in your heart.

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Maiden Holmes with Chen Yao and Zhang Ling He confirms broadcast in August

Are we leaving some dramas for September? Lol.

Upcoming ancient detective drama Maiden Holmes (少女大人) stars Chen Yao and Zhang Ling He. Our hero is Prince of Qi who was ambushed during a crucial battle and lost all his men. Held accountable for the loss, he was later discharged from his title and travels under a different name with the aim to find out what happened. He stays at a small town and forms a detective squad with our female lead (a rising constable on a mission to overturn a case for her family) and two others, solving crimes and eventually getting involved with the royal schemes.

Chen Yao has two dramas out at the same time where she’s cross-dressing in both; one modern, one ancient!

Airing 8/27!

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Weddings Galore: Peter Ho and Peggy Lin, Ken Chu and Vivien Han Wen Wen

Yes! More weddings! It’s not labor day weekend anymore but weddings weekend. Lol. Are you seeing a trend too? Most of the beloved Taiwanese stars that we grew up watching are getting hitched one by one! 2016 is a good year for all the lovebirds out there. Is anyone in our readers walking down the aisle too? All I have to say is… Keep Loving you people. Keep them coming. ;D

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