Symphony of Fate (Ming Yun Jiao Xiang Qu) Currently Airing

Hello again to all the FengMi fans! I apologize for my lack of updates in recent months, but fortunately, our Mango_cake never fails to give us more FengMi goodies on spcnet.tv forum. I hope you all have been following her posts. If you haven't, no worries! I'll consolidate what she has been writing.

I'm sure those of you following FengMi closely are aware Symphony of Fate (a.k.a. Ming Yun Jiao Xiang Qu) is currently being aired on AnHui and ShenZhen TV stations right now. Ratings are good, but of course, definitely not as high as Gong. At first, I was pretty excited about this drama. After reading many reviews and spoilers, the storyline is really mediocre and the sweet FengMi scenes are what make it interesting for fans like us.


Here's what mango_cake wrote about her experience watching Ming Yun :

Although MingYun is advertised as an idol drama, I actually find that it's kind of a "cross" between a typical idol drama and a more serious Chinese modern-day drama (with the main focus on family and everyday life rather than romance). I find that many older chinese people like watching that kind of series, which I personally find incredibly dull (because it basically just follows people/families living their everyday lives, although meeting with more conflicts than normal people). Not sure it's a good idea to incorporate aspects of both...the younger audience who enjoy idol dramas will tend to get bored of the rest, while I don't know if the super-cute idol romance parts will appeal to the older audience who might enjoy the "family" parts more. (Even I am cringing at some of the super cheesy dialogue, although the intense looks between FengMi make it easy to ignore some of what they're saying, lol... XD)

I find their chemistry even better than in Gong, despite the fact that the relationship between their characters is terribly developed--in fact, while in Gong it took them a good 20+ eps to finally be together, in MingYun there is basically zero buildup/development because they start off the first episode pretty much in love already, LOL. I think if it were played by other actors the relationship wouldn't even be believable since it moves super fast. Actually, a lot of fans point out (and I kinda feel the same) that during the "QiXi" scenes, they feel like they're watching FengMi instead of QiXi! Especially with scenes where Anqi is all adamant about keeping the relationship a secret while Chenxi is all "let's go public!", as well as when Chenxi says they've known each other for 10 years already (something that FSF has actually said in his weibo a few times)...a lot of people comment the lines are being blurred between real-life vs "acting", heh. Although, it's a pity the kiss scene was clearly "jie wei" (i.e. not actual kissing--they just kiss each other's chin/cheek area instead of the lips; it's quite common to do this in Chinese series) so it looked a bit awkward.

Oh well, I'm just watching it to enjoy the FengMi segments which will tide me over till their better projects come out! But I actually do feel quite sympathetic towards Anna though...she does have her jealous moments but it's more due to her impulsive nature--after she calms down a bit she actually did end up putting her sister's best interests first and letting go of her jealousy. (Don't know if my sympathy for her will last once she continues in her downward spiral though...)

Couldn't help share this funny series of screencaps someone made: (The subtitles are the actual real dialogue, except for in the first pic the person put "Shaofeng" instead of "Chenxi"! )

-Translation-

Anqi/YM: "Shaofeng, regarding our relationship, let's not make it public for now, ok?"
Chenxi/FSF: "Why?"
Anqi/YM: "I like this thrilling feeling of being secretive."

-Translation-

Anqi: "You look all quiet and gentlemanly on the outside, but actually you have quite a wicked streak don't you!"...Anyone else reminded of FSF seeming all super nice and innocent, but sometimes being quite sneaky (on weibo etc) and always trying to convince YM to add kiss scenes in their series?? Heheh...

Just two of the many "parallels" causing FengMi fans to repeatedly be thrown out of the drama into reality...or as some put it, they never even "entered" the drama in the first place, since we never really got to know the characters before they started dating.

I have a feeling both MingYun as well as Gong 2 basically exist just to satisfy all the FengMi fans' fantasies of YM/FSF in real life, lmao...

I just keep laughing while watching MingYun because of the real-life FengMi parallels (wondering how much of the dialogue was spontaneously added by FengMi--there was one scene in particular where I'm almost positive FSF added a line, because it's a phrase that he said YM always says during their Chaoji interview, and I swear FSF was slightly smirking mischievously at YM in that scene when he said it! ) Not to mention all the people who seemed to be FengMi shippers while wishing FSF happy bday; and now that Hong Men Yan is about to be released, FSF's producer of that movie is starting to look like almost as big a FengMi shipper as YM's DMGD producer, bwahahah! He actually replied to/reposted one of YM's newest weibos, which was all lovey-dovey but didn't reference anyone in particular, encouraging her/giving her advice on how to act towards "that person"...then someone asked him, "are you referring to your HMY actor (i.e. FSF) in your post?" The producer replied "I can't say!" Haha. Then someone else asked him if he was planning on inviting YM to one of the HMY promos or something (just like FSF surprised YM at her DMGD one) and he replied "Yes!" Not getting my hopes up that it will go through but it's cute that the producer seems all gung-ho about it. Btw, I believe this is the same guy that FSF recommended/praised YM to, and (semi-jokingly) asked him if he could make a FengMi collab possible in his next movie, LOL. I'm still suspicious about the guy doing this all for HMY promo's sake...but I felt the same way about the DMGD producer and he's still going strong even months after the movie box office run finished so who knows!

YM posted the photo above on her weibo and wrote "Aiya, this behind-the-scenes filming pic of Uncle Feng I've kept hidden for such a long time, finally I can share it with everyone! " That is just adorable. I remember watching a leaked video of them filming this scene (that's how the news of FSF's character dying in the series got prematurely leaked all over the internet). It was hilarious...at first YM is all devastated and crying hysterically while holding FSF's dead body in her lap, and you get all into her emotions...then the director yells "Cut!" and YM goes, "Omg how come you have this much blood?!" (Ok, maybe the way I described it is not that funny, but I started laughing at the way she said it. So cute.)

Then FSF responded with this...

 -Translation-

YM: Aiya, this behind-the-scenes filming pic of Uncle Feng I've kept hidden for such a long time, finally I can share it with everyone!
FSF: Girl, you posted up such a great picture of me. T_T "Uncle" misses you, look out for your health while filming out there! Take care of yourself!

I think I nearly died. Way to be obvious FSF. (Need I remind you guys that it was only a week ago that these two just spent a full day or two together filming Gong 2? ) I think he might be more obvious than usual in here for 2 reasons: as a prelude to reassure the FengMi fans/Yang Mi prior to the onslaught of FSF/FBB pics/posts that came after this one (the two were promoting their new movie together in a press conference); and also maybe as a subtle sign of support/reassurance for YM after the bad news about her upcoming movie role that fell through. Either way, so cute.

FSF's weibo chat: 

FSF just did a weibo chat (along with a few other MingYun cast members). Hilariously, one person asked him what kind of feelings Chenxi has toward Anna in the series...FSF's reply? "His feelings towards Anqi are completely whole-hearted, a very pure love, just like the first love that everyone's experienced."

LOL. Dude, can he make his thoughts any more obvious...he's asked about Anna (Guo Zhenni's character) but apparently his brain just misread that as Anqi (YM's character) and pounced on an opportunity to gush on about their relationship in the series.

Another person asked him if he were Chenxi, would he really like a girl like Anqi? He answered that yes he would, he likes a kind and brave girl like Anqi! Heh, reminds me back when Gong was airing he kept saying he likes a girl like Qingchuan...