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Lately, Ding Yuxi has trended in weibo for his phenomenal acting in Love Game in Eastern Fantasy and people have started calling it "jinjiang style acting" for being able to portray the fancy and wordy description or narration jinjiang (JJWXC) novel authors use. For context, jjwxc is a chinese website for publishing novels.

Someone in weibo has created a compilation of his micro expressions and let me tell you, if you appreciate good acting, watch this.

Link to the original post here.

NOTE: All subtitles were MTL'd! I only added subtitles so that when I rewatch it I don't have to rely on my notes for the translations. It's all really for ease of watching. I apologize if there are mistranslations within the video.

FUN FACT: xiaoding's expression in yyxh was used as a lecture material in a film school in China! This also got trending in weibo.

when, in reality, every piece of infrastructure, every object you buy, every resource you access - has anywhere from hundreds to thousands to hundreds-of-thousands people, behind the scenes, doing everything from budget sheets to shipping logistics to truck loading to shelf stocking, all working at a pace designed to keep all these different cogs turning without skipping a beat - and people at the top with the knowledge and experience to be able to plan it all.

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Ominis' spell practice session gets interrupted. Haha, I can hear the 'tsk, really Sebastian..." in his voice. I feel like Sebastian would be someone who just barges into a room with something he wants.

Going to be a bit of a long post because some of these frames I really liked and have commentary, haha.

Look at Sebastian pulling off a kabedon, lol he would. I also like the single frame of Ominis practicing, a very soft candid moment of him.

These next two frames I feel describe Ominis' attitude towards Sebastian's lack of decorum haha, and Seb looks so dejected XD.

And a good necktie grab and welcoming tongue, lol there's something so demanding in it. I can almost hear Sebastian giggle to himself.

And of course both of them get what they want haha.

These last frames weren't in the original segment, but decided to include them! They're not as refined, but I think they close out the moment ^^

I love shiggy bc he’s a compelling villain w/ a tragic backstory and complex relationship w/ his family and his memories of them