Somebody please suggest me some good dual male lead investigation, mystery, psychological, thrillers there's a drought and I'm suffering from it. I don't care what language it is in as long as it is good.
Love a strong, beautiful and skilled female ml who can look after herself and outshines other male ml's. Her story is so well portrayed that you cant help but fall in love with her.
Okay I just have thoughts. I don’t know what these thoughts are, but they’re there.
Zhang Linghe as Gong Ziyu, especially in the beginning, was everything I’ve never seen him as — soft, almost delicate. How he was shot and framed in those early episodes still makes me feral (tbh everything about this show makes me feral and that’s the cinematography whore in me)
And then even after he starts maturing and levelling up! There’s still this sense of gentleness in the way he is visualised and portrayed. Guh. Love it.
But then contrast him as Qi Xiao Xuan
He’s dressed is lighter colours as compared to Gong Ziyu and he’s definitely more “in the light” but how he is shot and framed is much more masculine? In the essence that he feels more “aggressive”? If that makes any sense.
I’m still in the earlier episodes of Tiger and Crane but I’m having a bit of whiplash with how he is on this show as compared to MJTY. It’s fascinating.
(obligatory if evil why hot HNGGH)
I’ve been keeping an eye on him since his debut on Maiden Holmes (and wow has it just been three years since he debut? Bruh is doing good!) and to see him get more roles and gain more prominence makes me very happy. I don’t know, just feel like it would be nice to see him in more roles that see him in a softer way? I think it’d also be great to see him team up with Jin Jing again? But I think that’s just me haha
They had a more dramatic breakup than an actual couple. 🤭
Stupid Xiaoxuan threw away Huzi's token of love friendship.
The way Huzi looks at his heart the charm on the ground. 😭😭😭 You just know Xiaoxuan picked that back up after. How could he bear to really part with it?
Xiaoxuan doing the noble boyfriend thing by pushing Huzi away to protect him.
Xiaoxuan immediately regrets hurting his boyfriend Huzi. He even drops his sword in angst.
Is that the face of someone who fell out with their bestie or someone who got dumped by their bf? And of course it's raining. It always has to be raining.
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Edit: I hadn’t realised that Monarch Industry and Rebel Princess were the same show! Hu Yao is therefore in here twice; sorry! And thank you @thegreymoon for flagging it!