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you're almost there. he finds out

The monthly list of TV traffic figures has actually much better results for OFL than I anticpated considering OFL was showing off-prime on HunanTV. Again and again, Dylan keeps pulling these remarkable achievements. Seems to be a recurring theme. Amidst challenging circumstances, he shines. His low-budget Unchained Love surpassed big-budget productions. His off-prime Only For Love surpassed primetime shows 🥰

The yearly data made me realize how successful Unchained Love was. In a sea of big-budget dramas, this low-budget gem was able to make it to #20! I take back what I said about Dylan's Scream Night award being iQiyi's apology for playing dirty against OFL with SOKP. Dylan performed another miracle with Unchained Love 🥰 Scream god indeed! 🥰

I love this drama. It has multi-dimensional characters, especially the female lead played by Bai Lu. After Miss The Dragon, Dylan has improved a lot. He portrays the role of CEO in this drama very well.

I've often wondered what the differences are between the ranking systems (Aiman, Datawin, Dengta, Douyin, KyLive, Maoyan, VLinkage, V-pulse, Weibo and Yunhe) coz they show different numbers. For example, for KyLive, what do their numbers represent? Are they just domestic views? Perhaps the 2 billion reported by Maoyan includes global markets where OFL is #1? I just saw some rankings of views on Douyin where FOMH is #4, OFL is #6 and SOKP is #9. Do other ranking sites use this information too?

Yeah, it's all rumors. 'Wonder if Chinese paparazzi are regulated to be not too nosy. There's almost no news about the love lives of these celebrities, though Bai Lu seemed to have gotten caught leaving ZLH residence, probably before they broke up... hang on, ZLH going thru a bad time sounds interesting...

i actually thought Shu Yi was realistic. Who among us is perfect? Do people really think that all intelligent people cannot do anything wrong? In fact, many intelligent people are bad at relationships, especially workaholics like Shu Yi.

Exactly the reason why drama scores are unreliable. Nobody can force fans to rate their idols reasonably. They will most likely give their idols' dramas the highest scores possible. In the same way, you can't tell haters not to unjustly give low marks to their targets. They will give the lowest scores they can. Note that some of these haters have been paid to defame dramas so the lower they can drive the scores to be, the more vile pleasure they'd feel.

Had the story been as trashy as haters allege, no star power would have saved it. Those who criticized it without watching it or those who dropped it without making an effort to understand it or those who got swayed by black propaganda and skipped scenes would not have been able to make it a hit. Those who understood the story and characters and liked them and watched the whole drama and even re-watched it made it a hit.

With haters giving dramas lower-than-deserving scores and zealous fans giving dramas higher-than-deserving scores, drama scoring sites cannot be relied on. Saying these two factions balance each other out is neither realistic nor scientific. Middle-of-the-road passersby viewers cannot be relied on either coz they could have gotten swayed by black propaganda. After all, that is what black propaganda aims for

been wonderin if dylan is indeed dating esther and bai lu is dating zhang linghe. these four are all friends, so dylan and bailu are probably making sure they don't go beyond the friend zone

please see discussion topic https://kisskh.at/discussions/cuo-liao/121285-who-still-believes-in-douban for an explanation of why douban and other scoring sites cannot have reliable drama scores anymore

The script is no worse than many cdramas I've watched. It just got overcriticized by people with agenda, by those who got swayed by negative comments or by those who did not bother to understand it. The role of Shu Yi is challenging. The character is flawed so not portraying her right would make her unlikeable. I liked Shu Yi, so Bai Lu did well. Too bad some viewers did not bother to try to understand her first before judging her.

I noticed that those who complained about this drama obviously did not understand it perhaps because they did not watch it and are just repeating some criticsms they heard or because they skipped a lot of scenes. Also, a drama should be felt, not just watched, to be appreciated. Skipping would make it hard, if not impossible, for somebody to get drawn to the drama to feel it.

ML found out that one of the reasons FL approached him was to get back at her ex-bf because she thought her ex-bf's new gf was Shi Yan's niece. Becaue FL was too cowardly to tell him herself, he got the erroneous second-hand information that FL was not serious about him (the uncle). He concluded that it wasn't him the FL was after, that the FL was still in love with the ex-bf. That was what hurt him. That the FL used him to get back at her ex-bf because she still loves the ex-bf. (This is not true, just what Shi Yan thought). Thus, he kept his distance from the FL probably for two reasons. One, to give her space to think things through. But he would welcome her with open arms once she decides it's him she wants. Two, he was hurt that she seemed not to care about his feelings, prioritizing work over their relationship.

You'll be missing a lot of interesting interactions between them though, if you skip.

Dylan Wang is #1 Maoyan Most Popular Drama Character in November 2023

The Top 10:

🥇 Dylan Wang
🥈 Bai Lu (SOKP)
🥉 Zhang Linghe
4️⃣ Xu Kai
5️⃣ LuoYunxi
6️⃣ Gong Jun
7️⃣ Jing Tian
8️⃣ Bai Lu (OFL)
9️⃣ Wang Xingyue
🔟 Xu Weizhou

https://twitter.com/Cpop_Melon/status/1730790472145334753

that is a big problem in Chinese web sites, and it has overflown to the rest of the world. The Chinese government has been trying to control it but seems unable to. The discussion topic "Who still believes in Douban and other drama scoring sites" talks about this in more detail.

As with OFL, FOMH was also produced by MangoTV/HunanTV that does not give in to blackmail from yxh (netizens that are paid to blacken celebrities/dramas). That is the reason both dramas got much lower than deserved douban scores.

Despite being bashed to pieces, they triumphed 🥰

a lot of people love this drama. It got attacked by Chinese netizens paid to defame celebrities/dramas as well as netizens with other agenda, e.g. antis of Bai Lu, Dylan and their pairing. The attackers' comments were propagated throughout the internet, people got swayed by the comments but thankfully, there are still viewers who think independently and appreciated this drama