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#ChenZheyuan ranks Top1 with SENKA brand 👑

https://x.com/czy1029scorpio/status/2089272168974872740?s=12

I bought a SENKA product because of him too!! 😁 The good thing about him endorsing an international brand is that we can actually find and buy the products easily. And Japanese brands usually have really good quality too, so it’s a win-win for both his fans and the brand! 😆

SENKA is actually owned by Shiseido, one of Japan’s long-established and well-known beauty companies. They definitely have a good eye for choosing their brand ambassadors! 👍

That’s exactly the kind of drama I want for his next project!
I’m seriously so done with all the crazy CP wars in romance dramas and the endless “chemistry” discourse....chemistry my a$$ 😭 They’re annoying me to the max! 😂

The characters are completely different, so I don’t really see the point in comparing them. I feel like haters on both sides are trying way too hard to stir things up and make CZY and ZLH fandoms fight which would be really unfortunate if fans actually fell for it.

ZLH gets along well with CZY and even calls him “Ge” (big brother) 😂 It’s funny how the actors themselves can be perfectly friendly with each other while C-ent fandom culture keeps trying to create unnecessary drama between them.

The melon comes and goes...lol..

It’s a mystery, my friend 😂 No one actually knows exactly how they measure it. Just treat it as something fun to look at and don’t take these charts too seriously 😉

CZY is so cute today! He looked so confused but you could tell he was secretly smiling under his mask the whole time when the senior actors came over to act as his agent for him lol.

It would probably be difficult to add a rule that prevents the script from being changed after an actor signs on, and with CZY’s agency being so weak, I honestly don’t trust them to negotiate strongly enough to protect his role either.

I’m actually okay if his screen time isn’t that huge. I don’t need the ML to dominate the whole drama. But at least, please make proper use of him as the male lead and give him a role with a complete, valid storyline. I’m fine with a female-centric drama or whatever direction they want to take, as long as the male lead is still written properly and actually has a meaningful place in the story. Otherwise, like you said, why even cast him as the ML in the first place?

That’s also why I’m worried the same thing might happen again with Fusheng.
This is exactly what I mean when I say I’m getting close to hating C-ent at this point, the way they treat actors who worked so hard on their roles, only to cut their parts or push them aside later just to favor someone else. It feels so disrespectful to the effort the actors put into their characters.

Because CZY’s agency is relatively weak, I feel like he often ends up being cast in projects that other actors may not be particularly eager to take on, or projects that already come with obvious risks.
For example, SAF4 had a weak and underfunded production team and was based on an outdated IP, TWOT came from a completely new production team that had never produced a drama before and tried to push a BL storyline into the adaptation and SB was basically a “three-no” production, with a new director, an inexperienced production team that didn’t seem capable of delivering a strong drama and one agency aggressively pushing its own artist for more screen time.
Meanwhile, the more decent projects that cast him properly, gave him a solid role, and had a more competent production team generally turned out better. That’s why I keep saying his agency’s weakness really matters. He works hard, but if the agency can’t secure better projects or negotiate properly for him, he keeps getting thrown into risky productions where he has to carry far more of the burden than he should.

This is too funny 😂 This drama doesn’t even rank that high on the popularity chart, yet it ranks No. 1 in Effective Playback, even on the same MaoYan platform.
So I guess a high popularity ranking doesn’t necessarily mean more people are actually watching the drama compared with a show that has lower popularity?
Then what exactly is the popularity chart measuring? Is it mostly about people, fans, and marketing accounts talking about the drama on social media, even if the actual viewership isn’t that high?
And if a drama is supposedly very “popular” but its actual view count isn’t that impressive, then what is the real value of the popularity chart? 🤔

My point is that using a popularity ranking to drag another drama is unreasonable, especially when that drama may actually have a higher view count.
Popularity and actual viewership are not necessarily the same thing. A show can generate more buzz, social media discussion, fan activity, or marketing exposure without necessarily having more people watching it. So using a popularity chart alone to judge whether a drama performed well or poorly doesn’t really make sense. Just saying.

How come Royal Betrothal, the drama that has bad execution, no chemistry between the leads, a terrible ending, isn’t popular, blah blah blah, yet it’s still ranked No. 1 on MaoYan’s Daily Effective Playback Ranking??!! 😭😭😭
WHY??? Is MaoYan a fraud ??? 😂 yeah it must be a fraud I supposed! 🤪

[MaoYan] Daily Effective Playback Ranking (All Dramas)

🥇 #RoyalBetrothal
✨ #ChenZheyuan × #WuJinyan

https://x.com/cdramacharts/status/2089128969396277405?s=12

I would name them PendPeng, KaiKai and YuanYuan aka PengKaiYuan 🤣

Peng Peng, Xu Kai and CZY seriously need to do a drama together, something like the K-drama Welcome to Waikiki.
It would be absolutely hilarious 😂 I really love that kind of chaotic friendship comedy. But in what light year are we ever going to get something like that? Especially when Xu Kai is still under that witch’s agency... 😶

And honestly, K-dramas also save me whenever I’m in a drama slump because they offer so many different genres to enjoy. Who said C-dramas were about to overtake K-dramas again??? LOL, not in this light year!! 😂

It’s an open ending because both the ML and FL have responsibilities to rule their respective kingdoms. They clearly love each other, but the drama doesn’t explicitly show whether they will eventually live together, it feels more like a matter of time, maybe once their responsibilities allow it.

While many dramas end by showing the leads living happily together and having children, I actually think this ending is more realistic. Their responsibilities are too heavy for them to simply put love above everything else.

So honestly, the ending isn’t that bad. It’s not like one of those endings where either the ML or FL dies 😅 I think audiences have just been spoiled by very definite happy endings, where the leads reunite, get married, have kids, and live happily ever after. Apparently, having both leads put their responsibilities first, despite still loving each other, isn’t satisfying enough for some viewers 🙃

And he’s going to play the villain again in Chasing Dreams.
He’s actually a versatile actor and the industry should make better use of that instead of constantly typecasting him as the villain.
At this point, whenever he shows up in a drama, everyone automatically assumes, “Yep, he’s the bad guy.”

How about giving him a completely different kind of character for once? He’s good at comedy too.

Okay, I have to say this because I also watched Overdo. ZLH and WCR both did a good job with their characters, but the script completely ruined them!!! WCR’s character ended up becoming an FL that many viewers disliked because of the way she treated ZLH’s character to the point that a lot of viewers were actually fine with them not ending up together because of how badly the FL behaved.

Look!!! And now are they seriously about to do the same thing to WCR’s character here again??? Please! And the funny part is, some of her own fans actually seem to want that to happen. Like... do they really want another situation where the audience ends up disliking FL character because of the writing? Amen.

It’s such a waste when a drama doesn’t make proper use of CZY’s chemistry with the FL. Just look at HL, for example, the director really knew how to bring out the charm of both the ML and FL together.
Their chemistry felt natural and it left such a strong impression on the audience that people still remember and rewatch them years later.

Exactly!! Not to mention that this drama already has so many supporting characters, so the screntimes between ML and FL will be even less with just only 30 eps. And if the drama doesn’t turn out well, people aren’t going to blame only the ML, they’ll blame the FL, the director, and probably the whole production team too.

And isn’t this the second time WCR has worked with this director??? If this project doesn’t do well, do they really think that would be good for WCR either? She’ll get dragged into the criticism too, whether it’s fair or not. She’s literally just doing her job and working like crazy with such a packed schedule. Poor pretty girl.

As for the director... if this one also turns out badly, he might be done for good, if you know what I mean 😅

I’m mainly looking forward to CD and Light the Dark at this point. I honestly don’t know what to expect from Fusheng anymore. Some FL fandoms constantly trying to push the ML away, combined with the production team possibly giving too much screen time to the SML again, is already getting annoying like another RB2.0. So I’d rather keep my expectations low.
At this rate, we may not get much out of Fusheng anyway.

I’d really love to see CZY work with Bai Lu and Xu Kai someday, although I’m not sure whether that will ever happen. Bai Lu and CZY have a very good relationship, and Xu Kai and CZY are hilarious together in VS like brothers 🤣 If the three of them or even just Xu Kai and CZY could do a comedy or friendship-focused drama like the kind we sometimes get in K-dramas, that would be so much fun.

But with the fandom culture in C-ent, where everyone seems to view everyone else in the industry as a rival, getting that kind of project feels almost impossible. It’s such an unhealthy culture for the entertainment industry because actors and actresses should be able to work together freely without every collaboration turning into a fandom war 🙁

And some production teams somehow make it even worse by adding fuel to the fire. Like... WTF are they even doing? Sometimes it’s beyond me whether they actually want to produce a good drama or just create more unnecessary drama outside the show and end up ruining their own project.

At this point, if it weren’t for CZY, I’d probably be close to giving up on C-ent altogether 😭 Because somehow, getting a drama with the right cast, a solid script, and genuinely good production quality feels like waiting for all the planets to align.

Because CZY’s fans and CZY himself, don’t really market or hype CPs,
I guess some people think the drama needs a strong CP for publicity in order to survive. And to be fair, DK did a very good job in POJ. He had a lot of sex appeal there and some viewers even preferred his CP over the main couple because his character was written as that kind of dangerous, sexy man that people naturally find attractive LOL. The good or green flag ML is too boring already? They want the FL to end up with the sexy bad-guy villain instead? Then maybe they should just watch a short drama 😅

Let them do what they want. I’ll mostly focus on Ao Chi’s character anyway. Maybe they don’t realize that when the relationship between the ML and FL isn’t written or developed well, the majority of the audience usually won’t connect with the romance. And pushing the SML or another CP doesn’t automatically save the drama either.

We’ve already seen this kind of thing before, with some FL fandoms and the production team trying so hard to push the ML away .. and what was the result? Nothing good LOL. see some drama recently??? 😂😂 If they really want their idol’s drama to go through that kind of mess too, then go ahead 🥱

But damn, my CZY has to deal with this situation again. Is there any FL fandom that can just be normal and cooperate with the ML’s fandom for the sake of the drama instead of constantly trying to push the male lead away? Can’t everyone just work together and let the drama succeed? 😩

Talking about the editing quality, you see!!! how good the stills from the drama look compared with the actual scenes? He looks so majestic in the stills, but the editing and camera work in the drama somehow fail to capture that same presence. Such a waste 😭

I don’t know when we’ll get to see him play an emperor again but if he ever does, please let it be with a strong script and a high-quality production team that actually knows how to capture his presence properly 😭

😕😕😕

Even after three years, Duan Jiaxu played by Chen Zheyuan is still capturing the hearts of Korean audiences. He has really become such an iconic character in modern Chinese romance dramas. The story itself is quite simple but the way CZY portrayed Duan Jiaxu felt so natural and captivating that the character still leaves a strong impression even years later!!!

https://x.com/bxxkoflove/status/2088662959681900929?s=12