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It is way easier to pass 10k heat index on youku tbh. Not that hard as compare to other platforms. TFF reached the milestone with only 30 million views that day so i think this might have a chance.

I am not sure. Like i heard transmigration stories & time traveling plot is also banned. The only way a drama can pass censorship is if they show character entering the game (like in dafeng) or character seeing a dream (LGIEF). This is because there was a case where two people unlive themselves & reason was to transmigrate to another world (this was written in their suicide note) so yeah they are more strict with these stories being shown to large amount of people and the impact it can have on masses. However, i don't know if anime or kdramas etc are also censored in china or this is just the case with chinese medium because anime is filled with isekai plots & kdramas have many time travel stories etc

I heard from some netizens that they relate to XQA remembering only half of the poems because in china, they learn poems in school but don't remember them fully later on. In the drama, XQA has also learned these poems in his school but after coming to dafeng, he is using that knowledge to his advantage by plagiarizing these poems which are composed by famous authors of his previous world
Fun Fact: In ep 5 when he is telling poems to Xu Xinnian, he discard this poem "under the moonlight, baby i love you" because it sounds inappropriate for the era he is in. However this is also a joke for Dylan wang fans because this is lyrics of his famous song "Seaside tango" in real world

This is what i am wondering too 😭
There is literally no news about it except the teaser & wrap up video we got. Reservation? no clue, broadcasting liscence? no clue. The only thing i heard is that it will come in june according to rumors

Because they think audience is too stupid & will be influenced if a popular actor plays the role of villain/anti hero. Look at how japan is able to tell so many amazing stories with all sorts of genre through their anime. It's sad how much cdramas are limited in their storytelling. It's not like China don't have complex characters. If you have read chinese novels, you will know how many complex stories are written in China but sadly they cannot be made into dramas

This is one of my dream scripts for him. But i heard in china, they don't want to show villain in good light so we rarely see anti hero/villain type characters especially in realistic setting

In ep 18

Romance is more in background and side plot but it's cute & some scenes are really beautiful. The drama is not just about case solving but more about exploring the world of dafeng, career advancement, family bond, friendship, camaraderie, world building, mystery, comedy with little bit of romance in mixture. It's a family drama with many other genres

Yeah that is very superficial thinking like there are so many stories out there which doesn't revolve around romace but still successful among both men & women

He will be fine. XQA's father said "I brought that man back as equivalent exchange" to XQA at the end & we see lord wei body returning to bureau in the next shot. Earlier in the ep, XQA gave a book to bureau guy about extracting souls (this is likely the method which which will be used to revive lord wei). Question is how XQA knows the method? It is implied that his father as witcher guy likely told him the method to revive lord wei and as equivalent exchange, XQA was willing to give up dafeng fortune. But his father at the end said he did this for him & likely want his son to team up against senior (old white dude who knows everything in dafeng) so that's why he helped xqa to maybe win his trust. Most of last ep is a setup for s2 so i recommend watching post credit scene if you haven't. They talked about how we will get fighting witcher sect arc and Lord wei death stuff in next part and i thought this was a meta scene to tell viewers that they will return instead of XQA actually going back to his world so yeah i understand if you felt disappointed but there is a high chance we will get more of this story considering how much they setup things for s2 at the end

I have noticed that mostly these haters are ignorant & not much informed about all the data . They just hate whd & wanted this to fail badly to boost their fav success but don't have anything to support their claim. I am not a blind fan so if something fails, i will accept it but in dafeng case tencent itself called it explosive drama so idk what more they need. Platform is happy with the performance

Yeah i got this message after finishing it. I think in the middle, i was kinda lost about what message they were trying to portray but they eventually returned to showing the suffering of women and how bu yinlou was restricted & had no freedom from the start

I think what works in Dafeng's favor is the organic growth of popularity instead of fake hype by buying social media hot searches and creating buzz through money. 30 million people are wearing the badges which can only be recieved if they have watched the show so we already have a dedicated fanbase now & these dafeng's soldiers will do anything for s2 to succeed further. Certain dramas might have higher views but behind them, xinli spend billions for their marketing last year and they only got 100 million in return 😭
Some haters trying to say dafeng was the reason xinli lost money when gotd aired only 4 days of 2024 and the financial report of this drama will be part of 2025 (at the end of the year). Plus we had no marketing behind us and still top 2-3 drama of the year so far on yunhe chart. I will be surprised if dafeng didn't make any profit because as you said all bosses were happy & it looked like they realized whd's power to create money for them

Yeah it's weird how much FL casting is such a big discussion for this drama when the role is not even major. I don't want her to be part of this drama because her fans already spreading too much negativity towards him. Let's hope for the best

And the ip is not even big. It's an underrated novel without any cp and mostly relies on whd's popularity to carry it. Are people still debating about the casting?? Who is finalised as FL??

I really really hope this crew at least won't use Female actress for promotion if her screentime is not gonna be much. Dafeng crew used TXW everywhere for promotion with didi as cp which made her fans have higher expectation for romance storyline and later most were disappointed with how little screentime she was in the drama & tbh i get their anger. The team made us believe that her role will be more prominent. We don't need this type of fake cp promotion when there is going to be nothing in the drama. DD is enough to promote the drama

You scared tf out of me because I was like no way this cute goofy guy is a murderer 🤣

What??
Where did you get this news? 😂

I just woke up and your comment scared me 😭
Then checked the internet & there was nothing like this

Hopefully. I heard xinli suffered loss last year due to spending too much on marketing of some dramas but result wasn't as good. As a result, they didn't even hire a single marketing company to promote dafeng and relied completely on wang hedi popularity to make it work. Thankfully, dafeng got so many ads all because of didi and they made money out of it. I just hope that they treat s2 a bit better because it has potential to be even more successful

And i think Xinli will prioritize shooting JOL S3 first and then Dafeng S2

They are trying to create hype for it & looking at all the reactions recently, i think we are getting S2 but maybe not anytime soon