So your friends are enjoying it but you don’t trust them , you trust this Douban ( I don t know what it is sorry…
it will work if the proportion of haters is close to the proportion of fans, but if the number of haters overpower the number of fans, you will get a situation like what happened to Fireworks of my Heart. When people want to downrate a drama, they can find a lot of excuses. In FOMH, even the faucet that was turned on while the couple was being sweet became a big issue
I was thinking about checking this out for the cast and because I used to be a business reporter (and my friends…
does anybody know why Ace Troops still has not been rated? I heard a rumor that it's because antis rated it so low. if this is the case, why can't douban check antis in all dramas and also stop the ratings from being published if there are signs of infestation?
man, it just occurred to me, Shu Yi told her boss she does not like Yi Yang coz he is making the interview an excuse to court her. But isn't this what Shi Yan did? Or maybe that was the reason Shi Yan kind of kept his distance from her while they were interviewing, except when she was the one pursuing him, so he wouldn't look like he was using the interview to court her. 'Wonder if this will create any problem between them.
this may have been asked and answered below, but is it the same in the novel? the misunderstanding about the cheater…
as of ep 22, the misunderstanding about the mistress and the uncle has not been sorted out yet. However, I think it's amusing in a topsy-turvy way so I don't mind it. I'm just interested in how it's going to unravel
I was thinking about checking this out for the cast and because I used to be a business reporter (and my friends…
A lot of people have lost trust in Douban saying it has been infiltrated by antis and I didn't believe them at first. I was even defending Douban at one time because the rating it gave LBFAD was just right imo. But when they gave such a low rating for Fireworks of My Heart which is not that bad compared to dramas with higher ratings, I began to believe them. And now this! I now believe Douban is truly infested with antis. Only For Love is much better than many Chinese dramas that have higher Douban ratings.
You know I thought it was a terrible idea having both dramas on at the same time but maybe it's a stroke of iQiyi…
You mean iQiyi and Dylan? Before Love Between Fairy and Devil aired in 2022, iQiyi was struggling with its market share. LBFAD, which stars Dylan, became a smash hit and helped iQiyi become a powerhouse in the streaming business in China. On 3 Nov, Only For Love was released by MangoTV, a competitor of iQiyi, with a market share that is much smaller, around 7x smaller than iQiyi's. When Only For Love aired, it topped rating charts, besting iQiyi-produced drama Fearless. After 3 days of getting beaten in the ratings by the smaller MangoTV, iQiyi released Story of Kunning Palace that stars Bai Lu who also stars in Only For Love with Dylan. This, naturally, divided Bai Lu's fans, who seem to mostly prefer the costume drama that they had waited for for a long time. Although OFL is still doing well, it would have done much better had SOKP not been released.
Dylan worked hard to get ads for OFL. Considering how iQiyi and Dylan worked before, you'd think there'd be some kind of loyalty between them that would make them avoid stepping on each other's shoes. But I guess there's no such thing in China.
It seems Bai Lu's costume dramas are more successful than her modern ones.
Did the mistress really get in/got out shi yan's car? Or did shu yi saw the mistress? I forgot this scene or it…
Shu Yi was shown watching her ex-bf and the mistress being lovey-dovey before the mistress got in Shi Yan's car and Shu Yi has been calling the mistress Shi Yan's niece ever since, so I assume she saw the mistress getting in the car. Note that it was not shown who was in the car when the mistress got in.
You know I thought it was a terrible idea having both dramas on at the same time but maybe it's a stroke of iQiyi…
i'm all for two strong dramas of different genres airing at the same time, like Barbie and Oppenheimer, the competition of which, called Barbenheimer, helped both movies. But what iQiyi did was hit Only For Love below the belt by releasing a drama with the same female lead in a genre that she excels in. It meant to cripple Only For Love. I would have understood it if it starred some other actor, but not Dylan who helped them a lot. I thought loyalty means a lot in China. I guess not. Chinese entertainment is such a dirty business 😡
Shi Yan and Shu Yi were so sweet strolling hand in hand, hugging and bantering in ep 22, it's so heartwarming watching them together, I didn't want the scene to end 😍
You know I thought it was a terrible idea having both dramas on at the same time but maybe it's a stroke of iQiyi…
I think what iQiyi did was extremely sneaky and in poor taste. Good business-wise, but incredibly unfair to Dylan who helped iQiyi become the powerhouse it is now. Before Love Between Fairy and Devil, iQiyi was struggling.
Before the airing of Only for Love on 3 Nov. MangoTV had @4% market share compared to iQiyi with @28% market share. After 3 Nov, MangoTV started ruling the charts. The drama Fearless, an iQiyi production, couldn't compete. I think iQiyi got scared that MangoTV would do what it (iQiyi) did when LBFAD aired. Become a powerhouse. So iQiyi released SOKP, dividing Bai Lu's fans, who prefer her more conventional character in SOKP than her quirky character in Only for Love. In addition, Bai Lu's costume dramas tend to be more popular than her modern dramas.
I don't have anything against SOKP. I just think iQiyi treated Dylan horribly.
Wow! Despite all the critics and complaints! Good for it!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Yup, it has already garnered more than 1 billion views in MangoTV and 3 million views in TrueID. It has topped the Vlinkage TV show chart in China since it aired on 3 Nov. It has consistently rated above 2 in Datawin since 4 Nov. (2 means it's a hit drama). It is also the most popular show in Viki for the week.
Seems like there's a lot of confusion about the relationship between Shu Yi's ex-bf's girlfriend and Shi Yan, so hopefully this will help clarify the situation:
Shu Yi saw her ex-bf's gf get into Shi Yan's car after saying her uncle was waiting for her. And her gold-digging bf is awed at the license plate numbers of his gf's uncle's cars that probably indicate how important they are in his eyes. Shi Yan's rolls royce has a plate number of all 6. Because of these, Shu Yi concluded that Shi Yan is the gf's uncle.
She doesn't know that her intern, Qin Shi Yue, is Shi Yan's niece.
Shu Yi once told Shi Yue about falling for her ex-bf's gf's uncle, since she thought Shi Yan is the gf's uncle. Shi Yue has been calling "the uncle" uncle too, not realizing that "the uncle" is really her uncle.
I'm finding this really funny and a brilliant set-up of a topsy-turvy situation. Am excited to see how the misunderstanding is cleared up.
Only for Love is the first modern drama to reach 110 M in Douyin Drama Ranking. According to Google, Douyin is the second most popular Chinese app (with 746.5 million monthly active users), just behind WeChat (with 1.3 billion users).
Love Between Fairy and Devil is the first drama to break heat index 100M in Douyin Drama Ranking, reaching 110M too.
Before Only For Love, only 4 dramas (all costume drama) have reached 100M.
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Dylan worked hard to get ads for OFL. Considering how iQiyi and Dylan worked before, you'd think there'd be some kind of loyalty between them that would make them avoid stepping on each other's shoes. But I guess there's no such thing in China.
It seems Bai Lu's costume dramas are more successful than her modern ones.
Before the airing of Only for Love on 3 Nov. MangoTV had @4% market share compared to iQiyi with @28% market share. After 3 Nov, MangoTV started ruling the charts. The drama Fearless, an iQiyi production, couldn't compete. I think iQiyi got scared that MangoTV would do what it (iQiyi) did when LBFAD aired. Become a powerhouse. So iQiyi released SOKP, dividing Bai Lu's fans, who prefer her more conventional character in SOKP than her quirky character in Only for Love. In addition, Bai Lu's costume dramas tend to be more popular than her modern dramas.
I don't have anything against SOKP. I just think iQiyi treated Dylan horribly.
Shu Yi saw her ex-bf's gf get into Shi Yan's car after saying her uncle was waiting for her. And her gold-digging bf is awed at the license plate numbers of his gf's uncle's cars that probably indicate how important they are in his eyes. Shi Yan's rolls royce has a plate number of all 6. Because of these, Shu Yi concluded that Shi Yan is the gf's uncle.
She doesn't know that her intern, Qin Shi Yue, is Shi Yan's niece.
Shu Yi once told Shi Yue about falling for her ex-bf's gf's uncle, since she thought Shi Yan is the gf's uncle. Shi Yue has been calling "the uncle" uncle too, not realizing that "the uncle" is really her uncle.
I'm finding this really funny and a brilliant set-up of a topsy-turvy situation. Am excited to see how the misunderstanding is cleared up.
Love Between Fairy and Devil is the first drama to break heat index 100M in Douyin Drama Ranking, reaching 110M too.
Before Only For Love, only 4 dramas (all costume drama) have reached 100M.
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