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I hope so too but we won’t really know until it’s released.
Maybe if they drop a trailer around the wrap-up, we’ll get a better sense of how the drama will turn out.
For now, I’m keeping my expectations low 😅

You’re so spot on!!! LOL, now I feel so bad for Grandpa Xu 😭 He just wants a little respect 😭

I don’t know why but I could never bring myself to hate him from the start. He’s more like a grumpy, old-fashioned grandpa who complains about everything 😂
At least he doesn’t seem to have any hidden villain agenda.

The guard let her in by not being there 🤪

I understand what you mean, and yes, CZY still has room to improve as an actor. However, this character is supposed to behave this way.

He possesses sharp judgment and decisiveness, handling both state affairs and personal matters with calculated precision. Although he can be strategically patient in court, he is also stubborn, passionate, and known for his fierce temper. He is not someone who remains calm all the time, his emotions, especially his anger, are often clearly visible.

I think CZY is trying to portray the emperor’s emotions in a way that is similar to how they are described in the novel. However, whether the performance feels convincing ultimately depends on how well the actor expresses those emotions.

And he does show other expressions too, especially in the later episodes, once he becomes more familiar and comfortable with the FL.

It’s probably better not to get too involved in the mess of C-ent.
Just stay low-key and like our CZY🙂

How about WCR and CZY going on vacation together just to annoy those WCR fans who are desperate to ship her with DK? 🤣🤣

I honestly thought it would turn out much worse than this, lol.

WCR is so overworked. I’ve even seen her looking unwell in some filming Reuters.
While shooting the drama, she also has to attend brand promotions, promote her drama, record variety shows, and then rush back to continue filming again! 😨

I don’t know whether her agency is pushing her too hard but this beautiful girl seriously needs some proper rest too.

Yeah, I honestly have no idea whether these numbers are considered good or just average there. So let’s keep our expectations low and simply say they’re average for now 🙃

Now it has already reached 760 million views on Mango TV but even if it surpasses one billion, no one will care anyway. So what? 🤣

Yes, exactly! On top of that, it takes highly skilled professional editors and visual-effects artists to make green-screen scenes look realistic and convincing.
That level of work usually requires a top-tier production team or even movie-level production quality.

This production company is still quite new to drama production, so the editing can feel a little choppy at times, although the drama is still watchable.
All the desert scenery was also created using green screens rather than filmed on location because they apparently couldn’t afford to shoot there even though China has so many beautiful desert landscapes.

So honestly, the overall quality is about what you would expect from a production team with such limited budget and experience.

You’re not wrong, Weibo and Douyin aren’t charity platforms and those marketing accounts need to get paid to make a living too 😂
That’s why I’ve learned to treat all of this as a joke.

The drama barely gets any attention on social media, so its chart performance is based almost entirely on the drama itself rather than online hype.

It’s still just a rumor but this time it actually came from CZY himself although he might have been joking. When fans asked him on Weibo whether he could choose a modern idol drama for his next role, he replied, “Does a modern non-idol drama count?” LOL.

I honestly can’t tell whether he was just trolling his fans or if he’s genuinely considering one 😅

iQIYI and Tencent don’t disclose their actual view counts. Instead, they use these so-called “heat indexes,” and who even knows exactly how those numbers are calculated?

All platforms should use the same transparent measurement criteria if they want the competition to be fair, similar to how Netflix reports its viewing data.

However, even view counts can be artificially inflated through multiple devices or paid boosting. We all know how common fake data and manipulated statistics can be in China.

In this AI era, platforms should use AI-based detection systems to identify and remove suspicious or fraudulent viewing activity if they genuinely want their numbers to reflect real audiences.

He’ll rest first and honestly, just let him rest.
His schedule has been packed every single day and the poor guy needs time to recover and survive too.

That’s why I’m wondering why some WCR fans want the same thing to happen again, messing up the script just for the sake of the CP ??

But trust me, no one cares. They only care about heat indexes, popularity rankings, and all that nonsense. Then they’ll call the drama a flop simply because the production team didn’t pay hundreds of marketing accounts to hype it up on Weibo and other Chinese social media platforms.

I’m already used to this whenever it comes to CZY’s dramas.
Fated Hearts was the most-viewed historical drama on the iQiyi International app last year and it even remained in the platform’s (Inter) top five during the first half of this year. Yet hardly anyone talks about that achievement because there weren’t 800+ marketing accounts got paid to hyping it up.

Now the same thing is happening again. This drama can reach nearly 700 million views with only 13 episodes on the Mango TV app and achieve around a 0.5% rating on satellite TV, yet barely any marketing accounts promote those results because they weren’t paid to do so.

If this were another actor’s drama, they would be announcing and celebrating these numbers for two days and two nights 🤣