Chinese historical romance drama Pursuit Of Jade has been dominating social media, with constant buzz around the show and its cast.<\/p>\n
The latest talking point? Lead actor Zhang Linghe\u2019s appearance in the show.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old, who plays war general Xie Zheng (also known as the Marquis of Wu\u2019an), has been getting flak for looking a little too polished on screen.<\/p>\n
With his fair, flawless complexion and refined make-up, some viewers have jokingly dubbed him a \u201cfoundation general\u201d, even quipping that he \u201cwakes up at 4am to do makeup before a 6am battle\u201d.<\/p>\n
While the character is described in the original novel as \u201chandsome and refined\u201d with a \u201cface like cold jade\u201d, critics argue that the drama may have leaned too heavily into that aspect.<\/p>\n
Instead of a rugged, battle-hardened general, Zhang’s portrayal comes across as delicate and romantic, with some saying he \u201clooks like he\u2019s good at dating\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese historical romance drama Pursuit Of Jade has been dominating social media, with constant buzz around the show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,921,93,61,60,79179],"class_list":{"0":"post-377917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-television-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}