#i'm like that weird person who actually tends to AVOID xianxia

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some upcoming cdramas on my radar

*With a legitimate trailer release? With actual hope for release? Maybe? This summer?

The Advisors’ Alliance (coming 06/22) -- Led by actors that I’m familiar with (Wu Xiubo, Liu Tao, Janine Chang, Tina Tang, Li Chen), awesome ladies, Three Kingdoms period ABOUT Sima Yi and actually not Zhuge Liang (*gasps*). GIMME. 

LE.T.'s Shake It! (June 30?? this summer?) -- Hua Qian Gu’s children lead this fun idol show about an alien who accidentally falls down to the earth and possesses the body of this woman during the Tang Dynasty, enters a romance with a human scholar? It looks super cute! ALSO ONLY 24 EPISODES I CANNOT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEpl4-1enpA&t=13s

Lost Love In Times (July) -- Finally, an LSS drama since forever! Shi Shi portrays Feng Qincheng, a sorceress of a secret organization who practices dark magic and is involved in this forbidden love with to-be-emperor Prince Yuan Ling (I’m too lazy to check lol) (William Chan). Also hi Xu Hai Qiao, Han Dong (BBJX’s 9th), Liu Yu Jin (NiF’s Xie Yu), Tang Jingmei (Glory’s Cui Caiping), etc.

Legend of Dugu (”Summer 2017″) -- So there are actually two upcoming dramas revolving around Empress Dugu and her emperor husband, whom she convinced to not commit polygamy and etc. during the Sui Dynasty, this one and the one with Joe Chen and Chen Xiao. Initially I figured I would only watch that one because Joe Chen and Chen Xiao, but judging from the stills and promos so far, I’m actually more inclined towards this one now. Famous love story aside, this one also focuses on the three Dugu sisters, two of whom marry into the royal family and etc., there’s also this whole “prophecy for the throne” and political aspect not all that unlike NiF or Glory. I’ve seen Hu Bingqing in Whirlwind Girl with Yang Yang and she was . . . fine . . . and for me the most familiar person in this production is Ady An. More info here. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWm_bKjd1SI&t=123s

Peace in Palace, Peace in Chang’an (tbh probs not this summer/maybe even next year) -- I’m actually not quite sure on this one. Initially I was interested because I thought it would star Qin Jun Jie AND Shu Chang as like the OTP and all (lmao I just wanted it for catharsis after Li Tan and Lin Zhi shred my heart into a billion pieces), but the trailer is all POLITICS POLITICS WAR THRONE COURT MINISTERS MEN and while I consider Qin Jun Jie a good actor, I found him a bit awkward/out of place as Li Shimin? Like I legit swooned over Han Dong’s character a bit, even though he’s on the opposing faction? Should I watch for people opposing Taizong? Also I counted a total of three women in the trailer, and Shu Chang’s char, who is like the main female lead, was there for like a total of maybe 3 seconds. SMH. With the actors and production team involved I guess I can sort of see this as a prequel to Glory of Tang -- this is how the Tang Dynasty actually attained “glory”, while Glory is about almost losing said glory, ha! But more info here. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWq46qSctt8

Fight Breaks Sphere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovH7yPA4Pts

Tribes and Empires: Storm of Prophecy

The Fated General

Oh My General -- Even though I’ve technically only seen Peter Sheng in Go Princess Go, I’m rather close to shunning his dramas. But we’ll see how this one goes. 

A Step Into The Past (most recent remake) -- Because Chen Xiang is pretty? But also I’ve skipped out on a lot his shows, and the shows I’ve seen him in weren’t . . . that . . . great . . . though I think he’s a pretty solid actor. The trailer is meh lol.