#Ryan Ding

[disconnected-from-reality]

Ding Yuxi and his micro expressions

Lately, Ding Yuxi has trended in weibo for his phenomenal acting in Love Game in Eastern Fantasy and people have started calling it "jinjiang style acting" for being able to portray the fancy and wordy description or narration jinjiang (JJWXC) novel authors use. For context, jjwxc is a chinese website for publishing novels.

Someone in weibo has created a compilation of his micro expressions and let me tell you, if you appreciate good acting, watch this.

Link to the original post here.

NOTE: All subtitles were MTL'd! I only added subtitles so that when I rewatch it I don't have to rely on my notes for the translations. It's all really for ease of watching. I apologize if there are mistranslations within the video.

FUN FACT: xiaoding's expression in yyxh was used as a lecture material in a film school in China! This also got trending in weibo.

[aceinthetrap]

@侖侖RR

[catronac7]

[mrinafria]

Love Game is Eastern Fantasy works so well (for me at least) is because while there are several other cdrama fantasies addressing similar themes with transmigration tropes, the writing here is actually pretty solid. Like, there is proper logical progression of things, and I can tell they put some thought behind the plot and didn't just fill pages, solely relying on the leads' acting and their chemistry to carry subpar writing/execution *cough* ofl *cough*

Things such as Miaomiao's backstory with her dad, foreshadowing scenes that don't feel casually slapped together, absence of irrelevant romantic scenes just to fill screentime (which is why I really appreciate whatever scenes we get of Miaomiao and Ziqi), giving each main character a proper arc instead of having them behave like NPCs, being consistent with the rules of the gaming world we're introduced to, not lingering on silly misunderstandings, actually resolving smaller issues and conflicts before moving on to bigger ones, not forgetting about an open plot point after a while, effectively keeping up the suspense and compelling the audience to second-guess and theorize what's to happen (very tricky to pull off imo when you're airing episodes daily), showing gradual development of romance between the two couples, utilizing talented actors who seem to have a solid understanding of the motivations, nuances and overall pulse of the characters they play. There are many other things too, like the incredible acting skills Ding Yuxi and Yu Shuxin bring along with the natural chemistry they have off-screen that translates so well on screen, as well as the fact that they make Ziqi and Miaomiao uniquely theirs, making it a much more enjoyable ride. I learned recently that there were several scriptwriters for this, with the main scriptwriter being the same person who wrote for LBFAD (correct me if I'm wrong though)--that might explain why I like this writing so much, even though it deviates from the og web novel.

Even the final episodes (where most cdrama fantasies often mess up, especially with isekai/transmigration tropes) go above and beyond tying up ALL the loose ends and connecting every clue every foreshadowing every disjointed bits of information that we see throughout the show, ultimately creating this beautiful beautiful piece of art that is LGIEF.

And that final statement from Fu Zhou? Ugh I love how they conveyed that idea.

Hands down my favorite cdrama after LBFAD.

[madamadragon]

Me as a trasmigrator in a cdrama:

[harocat]

Esther Yu and Ding Yuxi for Love Game in Eastern Fantasy Promo

[redvelvetpanda]

One of the best scenes in the show. I love how vulnerable Ziqi was and how careful Miaomaio was with him. <3 I am selling this as a sticker on my etsy store https://www.etsy.com/listing/1831168533/miaomiao-helps-ziqi-tie-his-hairband

[wangxianswuji]

Ding yuxi and hou minghao.

Please let them play twinbrothers.

The chaos would be perfect.

[pitterpatterpursuit]

Love Game in Eastern Fantasy ep. 22 [2024]

[da-man-si]

This is how I behave while imagining random scenarios of my favourite fictional couples before sleeping at night

[serendeepeatea]

the reason miaomiao and ziqi didn't have real kiss and bed scene because chuli and zhou chuan took them all lmao

[leom-leoyx]

Yes Ok on South Bureau

Not ZXC Teasing DYX During Filming 😂😂😂

[aceinthetrap]

Ding Yuxi: 挥火刃，燃 #永夜星河 《Swing the fire blade, ignite the eternal night of star river》

[catronac7]

[thedreamerstoryteller]

Him:

Me:

Also me:

[madamadragon]

Love in Pavilion cast is so cute!