Shrimpy

Weibo annual TV drama awards are in.

-Zanghai is the most popular and most searched character of 2025 with 674 hot searches
-Legend of Zanghai is the most popular discussed and searched drama of the year 2025 with 874 hot searches in general and 1211 in entertainment list.

It also won in the fan creations category, discussions, dissemination, super topics and videos.

Maoyan yearly report states that Legend of Zanghai is the overall champion in 2025 effective views ranking, having collected 2.35 billion effective views.

- 2025 Overall Champion in Effective Views for TV Series
- 2025 Champion in Effective Views for Legendary TV Series
- 2 Monthly Champions in Effective Views for TV Series on Maoyan
- 3 Weekly Champions in Effective Views for TV Series on Maoyan
- 28 Daily Champions in Effective Views for TV Series on Maoyan
- 13 Daily Champions in Overall Online Views

Both Maoyan and Lighthouse have certified Legend of Zanghai as the drama of the year 2025 (more on the drama page). Great year for XZ!

Lighthouse has also released its end of the year round up and Legend of Zanghai was named the Drama King of 2025

It has achieved
- 2025 All-Network Drama Full-Length Episode Views Champion,
- 2025 TV Drama Full-Length Episode Views Champion,
- 2025 TV Drama Average Episode Views Champion,
- 2025 Costume Drama Views Champion,
- 2025 Suspense Drama Views Champion,
- 2025 Youku Views Champion,
- 24 Single day Views Champion

Maoyan has acknowledged Legend of Zanghai as the most popular drama of 2025. It is the overall Maoyan champion with the score of 9809.7

It has achieved
- 2025 Overall TV Series Popularity Ranking Champion
- 2025 TV Series with the Most Daily Champion Titles
- 2 Monthly Champion Titles on Maoyan TV Series Popularity Ranking
- 3 Weekly Champion Titles on Maoyan TV Series Popularity Ranking
- 32 Daily Champion Titles on Maoyan TV Series Popularity Ranking
- 13 Daily Champion Titles in Overall Online Viewership

I am angry at myself for wasting my time on this nonsense. Should have listened to my instinct and dropped it a good few episodes ago.

He will be on Dragon TV for New Year's

https://weibo.com/1792951112/QjRKIDnlO

Nominations for the 10th Qi Jingcheng Film Critics Association Awards have been announced.
- Xiao Zhan for Best Lead Actor
- Liu Chengyi for Best Art Director

At the 16th Macau International Television Festival Golden Lotus Awards Legend of Zanghai won
- Best TV Series
- Best Screenplay

https://weibo.com/6400913994/5247318392832732

1 no love triangle
2 ep 31
3 no break up, they are very supportive of each other and united
4 happy ending 😊

Over 350 million yuan in B.O. now. Considering the low investment, Daylight is turning profit now and of course the great reviews and reputation of the movie is making them happy as can be seen by their behavior.

Great review from Los Angeles Post

https://lapost.us/?p=78179

I would say that most people watched for the combination of great acting, great plot and great directing. It really was the most talked about drama this year in China because the audience was so engaged with what was happening.

He certainly did an incredible job, if he had failed to portray Zanghai properly then the rest would have collapsed, he had that much screentime but he was great in the role so he was the center jewel for a truly great drama.

It has passed 300 million yuan in box office 🎉

Yes, it includes presales.

The movie has broken 200 million yuan in box office (currently 211). It's getting great reviews so today has actually been rising and Maoyan revised its predictions up.

The final presale number was 150 million. It's an amazing result for such a tight release schedule.

Pre-screening was today and all reports coming in are positive. It's a difficult time slot, Zootopia 2 and Avatar sandwiching it but hopefully the critical reception is good and word of mouth spreads. Movie releases tomorrow.

Presale broke 100 million yuan. That is only the 7th Chinese film to do so this year.

New trailer for the movie

https://weibo.com/7988698146/QgEZajv7R

It is going to be heart wrenching

New trailer is out and it is soul destroying 😭

https://weibo.com/7988698146/QgEZajv7R

Ah thank you so much! Hopefully there is plenty of great news soon 🥰