My Picks for 2023 Drama Fav. Awards - 2ML
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This one was hard.
Alen Fang Yilun as Zhi Yuan in "The Longest Promise" 🎊
Charismatic, passionate, and heart-breaking, as well as appalling and chilling, A'Yuan had range.
I made a screencaps post about him when I finished the drama: ["This is an A'Yuan Post"]
TBH, his character in "A Journey to Love" could be here, too, but I haven't finished that drama yet. In any case, Alen Fang might be my fave actor I discovered this year, but I didn't write a post for that category.😅
Runner-up:
Riley Wang Yilun as Bai Xiaosheng in "Back from the Brink"
Loved his dedication, loyalty, and humorous expressiveness. Watching him regret his little matchmaking project was funny. XD
Hottest 2ML
Zhao Junkai as Hu Ke in "My Chinese Chic Boutique" 🎉
He served visuals; face and body. Much appreciated.
I didn't take any screencaps of his abs-closeup but, below the cut, you'll find some photoshoot pics from his weibo:
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Be Reborn Whumplist
Be Reborn is a 2022 Chinese thriller, mystery, crime, drama.
(From MDL) "While investigating an ancient painting that has been stolen, Luo Jian who heads the criminal investigation team crosses paths with genius university student Zhuang Wenjie who is from a family of thieves. The unlikely pair work together to crack the case."
This is one of my favorite whumpy shows. It gave me whumperflies. The whumpee gets kidnapped three times in this show. It is very much my type of whump. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.
You can watch it on Youku's YouTube channel.
Spoilers ahead...
Whumpee: Zhuang Wenjei played by Wang Junkai
Episode 1: Manhandled, accused of art theft, discovers someone had broken into his apartment, comes home to people waiting for him
Episode 2: Encounters strangers in his home, scared, loved one threatened, coerced into helping the “bad guys”, set up, followed, (kind of) kidnapped, blindfolded, concern for him
Episode 3: Forced to act as a middleman, blindfolded, pushed against a wall, arm across his chest, knife to his throat, threatened, blindfolded
Episode 4: Blindfolded, concern for him, coerced into helping the “bad guys” again, forced to zipline from one skyscraper to another, gets stuck between the two buildings, struggles to pull himself across
Episode 5: Lightly manhandled, tasered, falls to the ground, unable to move, revenge taken against him for the actions of his (deceased) father, locked in a vault, vault vacuum pump turned on, drags himself across the floor, attempts to stand, struggling to breathe, pushes himself up, falls back down, electrocutes himself, passes out, rescued, on hospital bed, oxygen mask
Episode 6: In the hospital, “bad guy” says he is the only person he will talk to, snaps, manhandled, coughing, breathing heavy, returns to the hospital, holding his head in pain, coerced again, sleeping, cop sent to keep an eye on him
Episode 7: Still in the hospital, sneaks out of the hospital, police suspect him
Episode 8: Still in the hospital, police still suspect him, no actual whump in this episode
Episode 9: Sneaks out of the hospital, gets in a fight, kicked in the stomach, slams into lockers, pushed to the floor, thrown into a pool, racing to make it back to the hospital before the cops
Episode 10: Racing to get back to his hospital room, nurses concerned about his increased blood pressure and heart rate
Episode 11: Chases a culprit, used as a human shield, broken rebar held to his throat, dragged backward, warned against looking for answers, pushed away
Episode 12: (Replay of human shield and broken rebar at his throat), holding onto someone who jumped from a building, hanging over the edge, police holding onto him, pulled to safety, unable to save the person, in shock, put in a police car, questioned by the police
Episode 13 *suicide warning*: Feels guilty, flashback to rebar at his throat and warned about ending up like his father, concerned for a friend, witnesses a friend’s suicide
Episode 14: Caught involving himself in a police case, tries to open up to a police officer he looks up to but is unable to
Episode 15: Yelled at, upset that the police don’t trust him, another police officer is suspicious of him
Episode 16: Knife pointed at his back, tailed by the police, friends are threatened, manhandled, kidnapped, other cop believes he is working with the thieves, forced into a van, a bag placed over his head, bound to a chair with zip ties, a bag placed over his head again, locked in a room, concern for him, knocks the chair he is tied to over, frees his hands
Episode 17: Still kidnapped, escapes, spotted during his escape, chased, a stranger helps him get away, turns himself in to the police, other police officer still distrusts him
Episode 18: Learns about what happened to his father, discovers who was responsible for his mother’s death, upset
Episode 19: Learns that a person helping him sold out his father in the past
Episode 20: Suspected by the police again, upset, chased
Episode 21: Worried
Episode 22: None
Episode 23: People concerned about his safety
Episode 24: Grabbed by the neck, pushed into a post, betrays his cop, police searching for him, betrayed, hit on the back of the head, falls to the floor, disoriented, locked in the trunk of a car, gagged, hands and feet bound with tape, car sent into a river, struggling against his bonds
Episode 25: Still trapped in the trunk of a car, concern for him, trunk filling with water, scared, struggling against his bonds, drowning, pulled from the car, given CPR, wakes up in the hospital, in an interrogation room, handcuffed to the table, questioned by the police, ashamed, breathing heavily, falls over, back in the hospital
Episode 26: None
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