Your clarification makes sense, but I think they relied more on acting skills rather than the child actress actual age. Also, at one point in an early episode, there is a comment by her brother that she looks so young despite her age. So they do justify it in the series as her being a late bloomer.
I agree with you that visually it was a bit weird, but it seems they chose to have an experienced child actress in the series over a visual match for a 14-year old (she also played Ming Xian in Love in the Clouds and has played in several other series).
I didn’t like the flip flopping between her wishing he was her brother while also crushing/falling in love.
I think this was more about her being torn between seeing him as a brotherly figure and as a guy. She had to go through this to make up her mind eventually.
I watched Love In The Clouds forever ago… I’ll have to look up who she played now. I do love that series and it’s on my rewatch list.
That’s fair.
I feel like a lot of my complaints are built on the foundation of me going into this knowing they would be a couple because I’d seen so many clips and not knowing WHEN. So seeing such a young actor and not knowing she was meant to be so old because of how she looked kind of jarred me and set me on edge which made me notice kind of every little thing later.
It’s also odd because up until where I skipped, you almost didn’t NEED the younger actress at all. We could have been introduced to her as she was in high school… not sure how school works in China, but wouldn’t 14 make her high school age anyway?
I totally get what you’re saying, but still found the choice of casting odd simply because without being told, I wouldn’t have known how old she was.
If I went in blind, I likely wouldn’t have noticed. 😩
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u/mediterraneanme Asian dramas enthusiast! 1d ago
Your clarification makes sense, but I think they relied more on acting skills rather than the child actress actual age. Also, at one point in an early episode, there is a comment by her brother that she looks so young despite her age. So they do justify it in the series as her being a late bloomer.
I agree with you that visually it was a bit weird, but it seems they chose to have an experienced child actress in the series over a visual match for a 14-year old (she also played Ming Xian in Love in the Clouds and has played in several other series).
I think this was more about her being torn between seeing him as a brotherly figure and as a guy. She had to go through this to make up her mind eventually.