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Nah, unless he gets a death sentence, otherwise it's not too difficult to get your sentence commuted if you behave well while in prison. Wu will probably serve about 15 years if he gets a life sentence.

Chinese space industry analysts behind the Dongfang Hour podcast finally caught on there's a Chinese space related drama with 1B+ views
https://twitter.com/DongFangHour/status/1425045538089537536

Yeah no doubt we're having an immortals war (神仙打架) situation here.

YAMG's Douban rating is still hidden, no doubt because of all the 1s from the antis. But its Zhihu rating is up and it's a very good 8.1. For comparison Reba's Love Designer got a 6.0.

Zhihu is basically the Chinese Quora. It has a large user base although its entertainment section is far less influential than Douban's. The plus side is that it's usually not a battleground for fan wars. The negative side is that since the user base for its entertainment section is smaller, if someone wants to manipulate it, it would be easier.

I'll copy/paste the Zhihu ratings of some popular (>2,000 votes) recent dramas with Douban ratings as references if available:

Falling Into Your Smile: 4.0 (Douban 3.0)
The Rebel Princess: 4.6 (Douban 5.7)
Crossroad Bistro: 4.8 (Douban 5.0)
Ancient Love Poetry: 6.8 (Douban 5.4)
My Heroic Husband: 7.4 (Douban 6.4)
The Long Ballad: 7.5 (Douban 5.9)
You Are My Glory: 8.1 (Douban N/A)
Crime Crackdown: 9.0 (Douban N/A)
Remembrance of Things Past: 9.1 (Douban 8.2)

Yeah, especially the new Sun Li drama.

At the moment, no. White collar crime by a little known executive is not scandal material. But depends on how the case goes.

Anyway, Kris Wu is now back on top of the trending list with new allegations from a California-based lawyer that her client was raped by Wu in LA when she was 17 and they plan to start a civil lawsuit against him.

Interesting that multiple times Jingjing's agency was shown to remove hashtags from Weibo's trending list. I never had any doubt that celebrities and corporations could bribe Sina (Weibo's operator) to remove stuff they didn't like, but it's still striking that they decide to show it in the drama so matter-of-factly.

Fun fact: one of the senior executives at Weibo's Marketing and PR department was arrested today on the suspicion of accepting bribery.

Not just the Olympics. In the last two weeks we also had the police detaining Kris Wu on suspicion of rape and a rape accusation at Alibaba. Both lit up the Chinese internet. A lot of people might have been busy following the developments on Weibo rather than watching TV.

Dubbing are often done for technical or artistic reasons (the director might think the actor's voice doesn't fit the character). Dilraba speaks perfect Standard Mandarin even though she has a very distinctive voice.

I think Jin Chen (Xia Qing) is all natural. You can look up her childhood photos and see for yourself. Also she looks almost exactly like her mom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1PlASZ9oEA

The LilacSat team's official Bilibili account has posted a video on the aerospace content in You Are My Glory. LilacSat is the student satellite club at Harbin Institute of Technology and had two (or more? not sure) of their satellites sent to the orbit.
Link (video in Mandarin):
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV13U4y1n7om

Summary for people who don't speak Mandarin:
1. Yu Tu's workplace in the drama, Institute 158, is fictional, but it's clearly based on SAST (Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology)'s Institute 805. The building Yu Tu works in is the real-life office building of Institute 805. IRL Institute 805 built the orbiter part of the Tianwen-1 Mars mission.

2. In the drama it's mentioned Yu Tu only makes one quarter of the 1m yuan yearly salary his classmates in finance are making. IRL SAST's offers for newly minted PhDs are between 250k-350k yuan a year (39k to 54k USD), so the description of one quarter of a million yuan is on spot.

3. The Northwestern Satellite Control Center in the drama is based on the real life Xi'an Satellite Control Center. But the shots of the control room are likely filmed on a set, not in the real control center. They got a lot of details on the control screen right (e.g. code names for the fictional satellites follows the standard naming conventions).

4. In the beginning of the first episode there's a sequence showing three satellites: a weather satellite, a navigation satellite and finally a communication satellite. This is correct as weather satellites are usually in lower orbits than navigation satellites, which are in turn in lower orbits than communication satellite.

5. The satellite rescue arc in episode 9-10 are well-researched. Space weather is a major cause of satellite malfunction. The procedure of dealing with a malfunctioning satellite is correct. It's probably based on the real-life loss of FY-1A, a weather satellite designed by SAST in the 1990s. The only serious error is in the animation sequence where the solar panels on satellite fold during the malfunction and then unfold. IRL once solar panels on a satellite unfold they cannot be folded back.

6. The set design team get Yu Tu's bookshelves right. They (LilacSat) have many of the books on Yu Tu's bookshelves for reference.

7. A lot of little details like the aerospace chat group on Yu Tu's WeChat are on spot. The research articles Yu Tu emailed to his colleges are about aerogel, aerogel are mostly used in deep space exploration which is Yu Tu's specialization in the drama.

8. Yu Tu leaving aerospace for finance is far-fetched, but IRL many Chinese aerospace engineers left aerospace for Big Tech as the pay is significantly better.

Overall, the LilacSat team is very impressed by the aerospace content in the first 12 episodes of You Are My Glory. I don't know if they will make an follow-up video for later episodes, but I'll update here if they do.

Double major is certainly possible but I'm just not sure this particular combination of finance and engineering is possible.

Yeah I agree his undergraduate education is a bit of a plot hole. I don't think it's possible to do double majors in finance and engineering in China either. A more realistic scenario would be he took his undergraduate class in aerospace engineering but is considering offers from one of the big tech companies. IRL the Chinese space program has been having problems with brain drain to Big Tech for a while now.

He did double majors, I think, in finance and aerospace engineering then his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering.

As for his career choice, finance actually makes a lot of sense. There's a New Space boom in China. Every other week there's a rocket or satellite company raising hundreds of millions of dollars in another round of funding. Remember the scene where one potential boss called him to ask about rocket fuel? It's implied that if he goes into finance it could be related to the aerospace industry. Indeed if I were Yu Tu, with background and connections in both aerospace and finance, aerospace investing would be my career path of choice.

Also as @Skibbies mentioned his interests is aerospace, in particular deep space exploration, making passenger jets are not his passion.

Yeah a lot of smart writing was lost in translation. YT-ex was basically implying Jingjing slept her way to the top and Yu Tu hit back by saying when she broke up with him he was glad that she's smart and "knew when to cut your loses", which in turn got the ex really upset and ended the conversation.

Criminal cases are usually investigated by the police of the place of the alleged crime. Most c-ent celebrities live in Beijing's Chao Yang district. Think Chao Yang as Beverly Hills + Manhattan (as the Beijing CBD is also in Chao Yang and the biggest financiers tend to live there). DMZ lives in Chao Yang according to her Weibo. There are rumors Kris Wu live in Linked Hybrid, which is in nearby Dong Cheng district, but the remember the police investigation was first started when Kris Wu reported DMZ to the police for alleged blackmailing, so it should be handled by the police in DMZ's place of residence, which is Chao Yang.

Since the allegations of rape were not reported to the police directly, but made public during the existing investigation of blackmailing, Chao Yang police probably continued their investigation as an extension of the existing case. I suspect that had DMZ reported the case directly to the police, it would be handled by Dong Cheng police, if it's true that Kris Wu live in Linked Hybrid.

Weibo deleted Kris Wu's supertopic after his fans gathered there to express their support.

Now detained: https://twitter.com/dramapotatoes/status/1421483020633001995

Note it's a detention not an arrest. But Kris Wu is definitely done for.

Unfortunately aerospace doesn't pay well in China. Employee retention is one of the biggest hurdles facing China's space program. Engineers working on the national space program usually can get offers from one of China's big tech companies and immediately earn 3+ times more. So it requires a lot of passion and dedication to stay in the industry.

One recent trend is the rise of China's New Space companies. Those companies pay better than the state-owned contractors on the national space program. When Gu Man was writing the novel China's New Space sector was still in its infancy, but now it's a much bigger industry. If she's to write the story now, logically Yu Tu should consider joining one of those small satellites start-ups.

The figure you quoted was (if accurate) for aeronautical engineering (building aircrafts) not for aerospace (building rockets and satellites). Shanghai is home to Comac, China's commercial passenger jet maker, which pays much better than Chinese aerospace companies.