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it is true. but its not a normal player contract. It's also to promote the club. He signed with the club so that he can participate in the competition as a player (not a guest celeb), and to participate, one has to be signed with a club. As for other snooker competitions or training stuff (which are normally required by club contracts), we don't know

whether it is a suspense villian grey character drama with dedicated but low budget team OR a scam low budget production with a fragmented messy plot, the year 2026 showed us the xu kai magic.
he nails it every. single. time.
He creates highlights left and right. Even when sitting on a chair doing nothing. Just some cheeky eye expressions are enough to grab everyone's attention

http://xhslink.com/o/5oJ4oDRkU2q

does anyone who watched the entire drama know whether this scene is in the drama?

it is low budget

funding and also time. Every single extra day you are on set costs thousands on money for location rent, props, extras, casts, crew, accomodation, food, and its endless. They spent a lot of time during the first three months of filming retaking scenes alot. So they did not have enough time to finish all. Plus the production coordination was a royal mess

Saw somethere they could not film 31% scenes from ep 1-21. No wonder there were no scenes of Pei family

LMAOOOOOO and he's a second rank official with no home. Also weeding out overgrowns in the garden himself. not one servant in sight

On Iqiyi only ep 28 and 29 got zero ads. Coincidently the two episodes where xu kai had 0 minutes (ep 28) and 46 seconds (ep 29) of screentime. Every episode on iqiyi except those two got ads. Gao mingqian must be laughing in his sleep now

i dont think its a case of "plotlessness". Like there's a plot. Like too many plots. All mixed together. A general garbage bin with recycles, food waste, glass, paper, metal you name it, everything is here. Sometimes the editors let this bin overflow, sometimes they remove the trash while its not even half-full.

apologies for the bad analogy

possibly. MZY disappeard after his wedding. But this one he barely appears throughout the drama. Only because of his acting, charisma and presence that we don't really feel it.

what i meant by decent is that the show deserved the ratings (by douban standards plus haters). Without the haters, this will not get more than a 6.3

yeah. Another thing is reading SR i could not imagine how kai would portray him, hence why i used the expressions he used for yao zhiming. But SR is much more wild, arrogant, and powerful, it is very different to what i imagined. I knew that he's the boss. But he still managed to blow me away

Fans and casuan viewers might have given 5.9/6.1 but haters bring is down to early 5s. It might go down even further. Kai has some dedicated and extremely loyal haters

i hope thats the case

i was expecting 4s.
5.4 is decent. Probably thanks to CP, acting, and the puyuan scenary

i bought it online. Its in chinese. had to use google translate.

Out of the first 24 episodes, 11 episodes had his screentime limited to max 13 minutes.
🤧 11-13 minutes
🤡 6-10 minutes
💀0-5 minutes


Ep 3- 6 minutes 🤡
Ep 7- 5 minutes 💀
Ep 10- 9 minutes 🤡
Ep 12- 10 minutes 🤡
Ep 13- 11 minutes 🤧
Ep 16- 8 minutes 🤡
Ep 17- 7 minutes 🤡
Ep 19- 7 minutes 🤡
Ep 20- 13 minutes 🤧
Ep 21- 11 minutes 🤧
Ep 23- 11 minutes 🤧


each epsiode is around 40 mins

Douban is 5.4 score with (10k ratings).
https://weibo.com/6923879708/5348498758174447

i think its valid

not yet. Filming starts in October. And the show will air in December, so they will finish filming around that time. Again not sure

looks like they were. Or else there should have been some noise about it these past few weeks