Shrimpy

Yes if you are on Wetv it will show you your country. In China it is number one, in fact no drama except WDB broke 29000 this year which is their popularity meter.

The drama is on top of various popularity lists but when it comes to actors and producers, it is TV ratings that are law.

Yes it is. Most popular drama on Tencent this year, which is very unusual because this is a period drama. I try and post ratings here as often as I can, they are continually rising and it broke 2 today. CVB has broken 1. 5 which is like the holy grail for actors. Only XZ and 2 more actors of this generation have it.

WDB broke 2!!!

Today's ratings are a milestone. Especially as the first episode started from a bunker and it ended up over 2 in the end.

Ep 21 - 1.6693%
EP 22 - 2.0797%

Market share also went up, to a whopping 12. 5%. Today is a good day. Even CCTV is bragging with that two. Tencent already broke yesterday's high, let's wait and see.

I have to link you to Douban, I hope this works. That is an older Chunsheng and the red hat.

https://img2.doubanio.com/view/richtext/large/public/p555941143.jpg

It is possible especially as there is a photo of them in winter clothes, I think again skating and HHL is talking to him while wearing that old red hat she had when they met.

I could be over thinking but that is such a classic tactic when trying to evoke old times if she is really going to try.

When he saw Xiaomei on the train and his eyes just filled with tears? I was done.

I think the scene during the rehabilitation is going to fit further on, when Chunsheng gets into business. He will work with medical equipment and here we have needs presented to him on a plate.

Medical equipment is huge money, no wonder he gets rich.

That was acting masterclass, my favorite as well. The way he made himself small, hunched shoulders, the cap down, rictus of an attempted smile and tears, it was so good. I was bawling my eyes out.

The trio really - train, station, father's room - was perfection.

Xiao Chunsheng is in a very difficult period right now. FL2 left him because she in essence considers him a burden and if you listen carefully this is actually mentioned by both Chunsheng himself when talking to the Xiaomei, when he tells her he doesn't want to be a burden, and when his sister asks him if that is why FL2 left.

Generally speaking, he would not want to be a burden to anyone but especially a girl and one thing that he would fear the most is pity. He would fear that Xiaomei pities him and is therefore doing all of this.

There is an extensive need to feel independent, to show they can do things by themselves, that they are still a functional person. He would feel like half a man, useless and it would take time to readjust and realise that none of this takes away from who he is. It is not easy to come to terms with, even with psychological help in modern days and he doesn't have that. Of course, added to this Xiaomei is a young woman, one he may already be attracted to, so that adds to the whole tangled mess of not feeling like a real man. He is not fully paraplegic here so retains sexual function but there is no way his thoughts aren't going down that way too. A psychologist really is a gift from heaven in these situations and even then, sometimes it doesn't help some patients come to terms with it all.

Rejecting Xiaomei's help and trying to put some distance between them is perfectly normal at this point in time but it will get better. I think though hurt, the professional side of her knows what is happening.

Probably yes but it is a happy ending so don't worry about it.

Spoilers say she will be involved in handling of the SARS epidemic that initially started in Foshan, China before spreading. Probably caught it and was sick for a while.

Scene on the train stabs, then scene at the train station twists the knife. I am glad I live alone because I was crying like a total fool. But that was a masterpiece of acting.

No because even 19 and 20 were way more about the ML2 and FL2 than they were about XCS.

What I want is focus on XCS which as far as I am concerned, I am not getting. What I am getting is a lot of talk by the support roles. The previews suggest that this focus should come in 21 onwards but the very event of Xiao Chunsheng's accident wasn't about him.

It is no problem, I just pull my ratings down in the end, others will keep theirs up. Different people get different things from the same material.

He lied right from the start. I actually couldn't believe it so I rolled back.

When he leaves Chunsheng in the minefield and reaches his soldiers, he says Chunsheng stepped on the mine, doesn't say it was XCS coordinates, doesn't say it was he who first stepped on it. He then lies again at the debriefing and keeps lying for days while Chunsheng is in a coma.

Then he tells Chunsheng he will apply for a medal, watch XCS face. He is happy and wants it. Then right after Guohua in the train accepts the cheers.

He morally kidnapped Chunsheng in the end but ultimately, it doesn't matter even if XCS says take it. No moral person ever would. Would you lie if someone saved your life? Of course not. But he knew Chunsheng was a good person and he knew he had a clear way to take advantage of that.

Ignore the ratings, Xiao Zhan's dramas get bombed with 1s by a certain other fan group. There is nothing we can do about it.

It got its licence in May 2022 and could have aired last summer but Tencent aired LLTG.

Then China introduced new rules and TLP had to renew the licence because the new rules are in effect from June 1st. Which is what you are talking about.

But this show could have been broadcast since May 2022 and it is entirely on Tencent that it didn't. This is a big topic on Chinese SNS now because TC hid under the lie that TLP cannot be broadcast and now they have been exposed. Summarily this doesn't mean anything because Tencent could have broadcast it at any point in the past year and they didn't. Nothing says they will do it this summer, especially as they are already focusing on two other dramas.

It is not just you who are frustrated, everyone is. Since we can follow ratings in real time we know cctv viewers aren't into it either. By now it is pretty obvious what makes the ratings dip and what makes them jump. One absolute certainty is that the second FL2 takes out the violin, people hit that remote control.

I don't want to jinx tomorrow so 🤞

There haven't been any outside troubles since May 2022 when it got the licence. It could have aired last summer.

This is all internal in Tencent and situation there isn't much better now.

Great ratings day.

Ep 17 - 1.6196%
Ep 18 - 1.9143%

That is our highest rating high so far, we have great averages and market share was over 11%. The weekend is yet to come! CVB for episodes 13-14 is 1.528, another great result and breaking 1.5.

It has nothing to do with that. Funny how licence news came and here you lot are again with the same bs from last summer when the first broadcasting announcement came.

So, as some of us have been saying - the drama got the licence in May 2022. It has now passed the renewal too because of the new rules.

So I hope certain people will stop their games of no licence, pre - production, other stuff. This drama wasn't broadcast and isn't being broadcast because of Tencent. They can do so whenever they like and this has been true for more than a year.