Text: Joanna Goh
Photos: Joanna Goh & Lim Wen Ying
Video: Fiona Lin and Tay Yi Xuan

With Xiao Man and co. set to return for more action next year, it’s no wonder various fanclubs on Twitter have been buzzing with excitement; even creating a hashtag (#Unriddle) for the programme prior to its production and airing.

Apart from retaining its original cast which features Rui En, Chen Li Ping and Tay Ping Hui, TV viewers can expect new additions and characters from faces like Elvin Ng, Romeo Tan, Julie Tan, Sora Ma, Yuan Shuai and more.

At the drama’s imaging session last week, xinmsn caught up Elvin, who just returned from a four-month long shoot for Code of Honour in Malaysia. Taking on the role of an astute cop called Lang Feng, Elvin will be veering away from his clean-shaven boy-next-door image forUnriddle 2.

Sporting a hint of manly-ruggedness thanks to his newly-grown stubble and brown tan, Elvin chuckled abashedly when he recalled how the fans from Elvinology protested at his newly-cultivated image.

“While I think my new image is refreshing, people around me especially my fans from Elvinology have told me that it looks ‘ugly’ and have asked me to shave it off (laughs). Some have told me it looks different and that they like it.”

Playing Xiao Man’s arch-nemesis in the show, the majority of Elvin’s scenes will be filmed with Rui En. On their back-to-back collaboration after Code of Honour, the 31-year-old gave a hearty guffaw and jested in reply, “She might be sick [of me]!” when we quizzed him on it.

Elvin Ng and Rui En in Unriddle 2

Seeing how the pair won the i-Weekly best onscreen couple award at the 2010 Star Awards for their collaboration in The Dream Catchers, Elvin put our unfounded worries to rest and added, “The both of us have onscreen chemistry and share a good rapport when it comes to work.”

He reassured us that their characters will be “different” from their previous drama and will present an entirely “different feel”.

Elvin Ng plays Lang Feng, Xiao Man’s (Rui En) arch-nemesis in Unriddle 2.

Since her return to Singapore in end-September after filming Code of Honour in Malaysia for four months, Rui En shares that she’s been regularly hitting the gym to tone up her muscles for Unriddle 2.

You can expect Xiao Man in more kickass fighting scenes as the actress told xinmsn that she spoke with the producer and suggested for them to add ore action scenes in the sequel of Unriddle.

After spending four months exacting kung fu kicks and punches, Rui En says that the shoot in Malaysia was akin to a training session which helped to better prepare her for Unriddle 2.

Rebecca Lim plays a psychiatrist and Rui En’s university junior in Unriddle 2.

Adam Chen will play Wu Zhi Yun, a member of the investigative team who belongs in Xiao Man’s batch in the Police Academy.

Unriddle 2 最火搭档 II debuts 5 March 2012 9pm on Channel 8.

Source: Xinmsn

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