sweetdreams

it's only on the china version of the youku app i think, but the drama and actors weibo accounts will occasionally post to celebrate when they hit certain milestones

after most of the platforms stopped providing view numbers (cause of the view count inflation by fans) a few years back most of the platforms now have their own 'heat index' to indicate the popularity of a drama (calculated using some combination of comments, views, shares etc), you can basically see the ranking of all the dramas airing on each platform using this index

6pm china time, which should be 11am uk time

Yes she did!

how is this a female lead play? have you ever watched a female lead play? if you're going to be nitpicky about it its more of a team play - they literally dedicated essentially 2 whole episodes to ma hong jun's backstory ?