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Since CLJ came out, he's been picking dramas that don't fall into the 'idol' demographic. The only exception is Jmdh, but that's because Tencent has been inisisting on getting him to play Xie Jingxing plus the IP rights close to expiring.

What I think is him taking different genres is not just about diversifying roles; but that non-idol dramas are just not what he wants to do. Since he blew up in China he has more freedom to choose what he wants.

Cast is probably mostly the same as Season 1. And as a reminder, no other character is nearly as important as Xu Qi An in Dafeng, so don't expect a tradtional main heroine.

I don't know if there's any drama on this site listed as Xuanhuan, but I would say Dafeng counts as both Xuanhuan and Wuxia.

No it hasn't yet

I've seen this said before, but where is it confirmed that the original cast (implying all of them and not just Wang He Di) is reunited?

Ok so that is the correct distribution. Still Tencent being an actual co-producer should significantly increase the production level of the drama.

We don't know anything about the cast besides Wang He Di returning as Xu Qi An. Look forward to the official announcement.

The 40 episode limit was literally dropped almost a year ago now, which is why I can say I hope there's more than 40 episodes....

If it doesn't that's ok but I'd rather see them adapt more than that to cover more content from the novel.

The people who have followed him for years only have good things to say about him. Lots of malicious marketing clickbait accounts act simply to make him look bad for fun. In actuality, the people who know him only say good things about his personal behavior. Don't believe whatever marketing account or short clip you came across, Wang's personal behavior is well known to be among the best.

"我不是英雄，我只是没退路“

“I'm not a hero, I just have no way to retreat."

The quote on the poster that Tencent just fully confirmed as official. I'm pretty sure this quote is referring to that one big case; the one people were a bit sad to have in Season 1. But it definitely will be in Season 2 and it's supposed to be one of the defining moments for Xu Qi'an and Dafeng.

Is it too soon to say that it could be one of Wang Hedi's biggest scenes ever?

It's been recently revealed that Dafeng 2 will be fully produced by Tencent. Season 1 was produced by CCTV and Yuewen if I'm not mistaken, Tencent only was the broadcaster that held major stakes in the project.

So if Season 2 is a full-on Tencent production, then I'm hoping they'll go all out on the budget. Especially for that one heavy case that we know will be adapted in Season 2. I'm also hoping they go beyond 40 episodes this time to adapt more of the novel, Dafeng is the reason I'm glad the 40-episode limit was dropped in August 2025.

EDIT: Tencent is a co-producer with Xinli, Yuewen, etc. Still, Tencent being a co-producer this time should mean the production level is significantly higher.

Season 1 ends with a cliffhanger because it's far from the end of the story.

Season 2 was already confirmed in November last year. We don't know when it will come, but we know it is coming.

As for how many chapters will be covered in Season 2, we don't know but it's highly likely that it won't be the last season either.

Supposedly this drama will finish filming either June or July

When Wang Hedi made his statement on Weibo, he didn't think he was right to be sensitive about the speech they made. But when he saw people's analyses about the award speech, his feelings at the time were basically affirmed to be right. This is a common feeling people have, people don't know when they're being bullied, gaslighted etc. and think it's wrong for them to speak out because they think they're being too sensitive or the group mood. I myself have had experiences of feeling disrespected/excluded but didn't know if it was right to speak out. Not the same as Wang Hedi's but I completely relate to his feelings on how he was treated on Inn 2026.

And it's probably not just because of that one speech either, if you look through Inn 2026 you would find Wang Hedi looking more tired and less happy. Plus there are more gruelling things cut out from Inn like deep hand wounds, or carrying big water bottles a long way. It's like these things were cut out to make the show look more friendly rather than full truth. This is why people think things might have actually been even worse than on screen.

And all of this was a public issue to begin with. The moment the speech was brodcasted on public TV it wasn't a private issue anymore. So Wang Hedi had the right so speak up and tell people that he was uncomfortable, publicly speaking up for this treatment encourages good things anyways for the industry. It doesn't help that Shen Yue's letter was not convincing of accountability, she didn't even mention the worst part of the whole award speech (the 王鹤低 Wang He-bottom part). If it wasn't a letter for on behalf of all 5 other members then she was being selfish and just aiming to absolve her of blame.

If anything what she did incited the actual gaslighting here, because black marketing accounts just took it as a way to take lots of out of context clips to slander Wang Hedi for every ridciulous reason. That completely turns attention away from what the actual topic and issue was to begin with.

It was never that Wang Hedi couldn't take a joke, he has many instances of dealing with jokes on other shows. It's that in Inn they didn't respect his boundaries, or show him proper respect as a boss throughout the show. What I've seen actual management peoplee say is that Wang Hedi was doing a lot of work compared to the rest of the crew, and they relate to him. It's not that they didn't do work but they were doing a lot less compared to the boss himself. So an award speech in the end where they called him a bottom is really insensitive and disrespectful compared to him giving normal congratulatory awards to his staff.

There's a time for jokes, this wasn't one of them and it's their fault. [Side note: Wang Hedi and Shen Yue were never as close as people were led to believe. In 8 years they only talked to each other on shows they were both on.]

Yeah and it's really funny what he's saying.

Honestly, I welcome the idea of Wang Hedi acting with any non-Chinese actor

Don't take that guy's comment seriously. It's such an obvious troll comment. Based on his logic, you might as well call every Chinese actor racist towards black people.

I'd rather laugh at his comment then argue with idiotic black haters/Shen Yue fans that try to play victim or defame him over out of context clips.

Don't take that guy's comment seriously. It's such an obvious troll comment. Based on his logic, you might as well call every Chinese actor racist towards black people.

I'd rather laugh at his comment then argue with idiotic black haters/Shen Yue fans that try to play victim or defame him over out of context clips.

What is your point

It's obvious this guy is trolling, don't take it seriously. No one would seriously say this with sincere conviction.

This is really funny. I really needed something to make me laugh, thanks for giving me that laugh.