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I gave them the benefit of the doubt until I started seeing so many comments questioning why Seven gets so many female lead roles. They were questioning her casting in Road Home, The Unclouded Soul, and ATC, but do they even know that Seven was offered the female lead role before the male leads were cast? It's outrageous how they keep elevating the male leads while completely dismissing Seven's contribution.
Some even criticize the romance in ATC and blame Seven for it, which is ridiculous because the original script was never meant to revolve entirely around romance in the first place. Others have gone as far as mocking her visuals and body figure. At that point, I can't help but think that Redditors have something against Seven.

You may check out The Sword and The Brocade, Master of My Own, Flight to You, Brocade Odyssey, and As Beautiful As You.

The stage audio was bad, actually if you compared her live performance with other stages, she is actually already on the good side. The live singing captured by fans have even better sound than the official video.

Firstly, if FL is not brought up in an elite family, she is no longer lanxiang/shen Jialan, and the drama is no longer ATC. That will be a whole different drama.

And what is it with them looking down on her popularity in china? For them chemistry is only about kissing, their definition of chemistry is so superficial and downgrading. I truly don't understand Redditors standard of chemistry.

They picked it themselves, and usually English name is rhymed with the chinese name. All of her official social media accounts have her English name Seven as well as Tan Songyun

I was scrolling to find out about Seven in international platforms, but damn Reddit really hate Seven. Seems like for them romance is only all about heavy kissing scenes and they are so judgemental about her visual.

She is low key but she likes singing and she has her circle of friends in the industry.

She is a close friend of Wang Yuexin who is a singer/actor (he acted in With You with Tan Songyun) who also was in a group with Reno Wang. Tan Songyun sang as a guest for Reno Wang in Treasured Voice.

Seven mostly only guested in a variety show with people who she familiars with like He Jiong laoshi or Qin Lan, or relaxing variety show like Mao Xue Woof with Li Xueqin.

Btw, Seven's Xiao Ban stage in Treasured Voice with Reno Wang was viral in China during it's airing.
https://youtu.be/AJSvQ8HOzGY?si=ZN9x1EFFRYoK2fh7

Voted. Hope more people participate voting for Seven ❤️

Yes! With You is the ceiling for china high school drama. It has 450k+ raters, and the rating is 8.9 in Douban.

Geng Geng Yu Huai were so iconic, people are still calling Seven Geng Geng even now. Seven has so many legendary roles, Geng Geng, Jinxia, Jianjian and many more. And the thing is all of these dramas were low budget but it managed to breakout😃

There are honestly so many people who underestimate her. I guess this is one of the downsides of being a self-employed actress without a big agency backing her or doing much marketing for her 🥹.

People don’t even realize that Tan Songyun is currently one of the strongest post-90s actresses when it comes to CVB ratings. Go Ahead holds Hunan TV’s historical crown for CVB ratings, while Road Home and As Beautiful As You ranked #1 on Hunan TV’s annual CVB ratings in 2023 and 2024 respectively. Master of My Own ranked #2 on Dragon TV’s annual CVB ratings, and now My Destiny is currently the #1 highest-rated drama among all dramas aired on CCTV-8 in 2026. No other CCTV-8 drama this year has surpassed its CVB rating so far.

Basically, her dramas consistently end up in the top 1 or top 2 for the year on their respective TV channels. And CVB ratings aren’t something you can simply fake, they reflect actual TV viewership. Every time one of her dramas gets a major TV broadcast, it ends up among the year’s top performers 🥹.

It’s just that Seven is so low profile and doesn’t really do much marketing, so many people don’t realize just how strong her TV record actually is.

One hit might be luck, but so many hits without a big agency backing, without being a traffic star, without heavy marketing, without CP, without goddess visual, that is a pure talent.

And her first few hits were from low budget dramas too. With You, Under The Power, and Go Ahead were all low budget drama

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Lan- orchid, Xiang- fragrance, rugu- remains. So directly translated to Orchid fragrance remains

To be fair, if you reverse the gender, nobody would question Lanxiang's love to ML. If Lanxiang is a cold guy, and Jinqi is a persistent FL, everyone would just accept the love as it is.

Realistic happy ending

From Lin Daye and Xu Lanxiang.

Yeah, that's why I am always irked when her co-stars fans downplay or criticize her after the drama become successful.

I think all of Seven's co-stars are equally talented though. But you have to agree that Seven is very good at bringing out her partner best potential.

Hence, why Seven's dramas are usually successful despite not being a traffic actress, no big agency backing, no marketing, no CP fry, not repeating ML, and no 'goddess' visual. At this rate, people should pull out their thinking cap.

As a longtime fan, I’ve always felt that Seven has a way of bringing out the best in her co-stars. She just has this ability to make them shine and bring out the best in their performances. That's why a drama with Seven is usually successful.

Yes! She never milks off her cp. Once done, it's done. No matter how big is the CP, she never takes a second collaboration with the same ML🥲

It’s already hard for her to get good scripts, especially as a self-employed artist throughout her entire career and with a baby-face look. When she first started acting, a director even told her that she would never become a female lead because of her appearance.

Considering that, I think she has already done really well with the limited resources and opportunities she has had. Even actors and actresses with more versatile visuals often have a narrower range and still get typecast. Some repeatedly get cast as Demon King, revenge-driven characters, goddesses, fairies, CEO, or grey-scale villains.

So what do you expect from Seven, who is an independent artist with a very niche visual? Despite those limitations, she has still managed to build a diverse range of characters. I can still differentiate her characters from each of her dramas. Like I would not think Shiyi from The Sword and The Brocade is Lanxiang, nor I think Geng Geng from With You is Li Jianjian from Go Ahead.

This is not Seven's problem as many other actors/actresses in the industry are also typecasted. They always play similar roles. I feel like Seven is already doing better than most.