LATEST NEWS.
Wallace's next TV series will start filming next month. It is called 来不及说我爱你 (rough translation-not enough time to tell you that I love you). It's set in the 1900's. He will be costarring with Li Xiao Ran. Also in the production are Qi Fang (whom he costarred with in Huo Xian Zhui Zong) and Tan Kai (谭凯). Other actors and actresses are yet to be confirmed. The director is 曾丽珍, who has produced series like 上书房, 凤穿牡丹, 又见一帘幽梦.
I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED.
Why?
Because this TV series is based on an online novel that is by one of my favourite authors (匪我思存), who specializes in writing tragic romances, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book. It's original name (which I like a lot more and find to be much more appropriate) is 碧甃沉 (which is much beyond my ability to translate properly). Wallace plays the leading male character, who is called MuRong Feng (慕容沣) or 慕容沛林, also known as 六少.
Synopsis of the novel:
这是一张年久泛黄的旧日相片,见证那个烽火乱世,枭雄佳人。
为了相救未婚夫许建彰,尹静琬只身前往承州,却意外与裂土封疆的军阀慕容沣互生倾慕之心。在许尹大婚之 日,慕容冒奇险入敌境,只为带尹离去,情之所至令她弃婚出走,心甘情愿地随他奔波辗转于烽火之 间。
然而两情缱绻抵不过万里江山,慕容与程家的政治联姻终迫她离家去国。此去经年,重来相见,戎马半生换得 天下在握,却痛失一生挚爱
A long faded old photo that remains tribute to a story of love in a time of chaos and war.
To save her fiance Xu Jian Bin, Jin Jing Wan left home and travelled solitarily to Cheng Zhou, the capital of the enemy's country. Through a chance encounter, she met Mu Rong Feng, the general governing Cheng Zhou, and they fell in love. However, knowing that they could not be suited, she told him that she did not love him. Yet on the day of the marriage between Jin Jing Wan and Xu Jian Bin, Mu Rong Feng travelled deep into the territory of the enemy, with the sole purpose of hoping to convince Jing Wan to leave with him. Deeply moved by his love, Jing Wan abonded her marriage, her family and country, to be with him. Yet love is not enough to overweigh the appeal of power. In the end, Mu Rong Feng chose a political marriage with the Chen family over Jing Wan. Despairing from the betrayal, and with nowhere to turn to, Jing Wan was forced to leave the country. A love story in a time of chaos, where love does not conquer all, where love is sacrified for power, where in the end, one regrets having not chosen true love and realizing it only once it was too late.
Please excuse my totally crappy translation. It's a BEAUTIFUL TRAGIC story that had me sobbing in tears. I think they'll make a lot of changes in the TV adaptation, but trust, me, this character will be AWESOME.
For anyone who is proficient in Chinese, I'll provide a link where you can read the novel:
http://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=31816
PS. If you notice, my signature quote is from this novel.