Hou Minghao replied to random posts about today's episode:
⁉️Question: The whole network is waiting for the famous scene of Ji Bozai being struck by lightning and engraving words. Please ask the person involved, Ji Bozai, to express his feelings about being struck by lightning.
✔️HMH: So he was struck by lightning repeatedly, and even when it numbed him, he remained indifferent. Even if the whole world betrayed Ji Bozai, as long as Ming Yi had a little sincerity towards him, he would feel that all the sins he suffered were worth it, but he did not get Ming Yi's sincerity.
✔️HMH: He was numb… not from being struck by lightning, but from being deceived. The sincerity Ji Bozai had mustered up in that moment seemed like a joke. He wasn't laughing at being forced to carve the words, nor was he laughing at whether Mingyi had deceived him or concealed anything; that didn't matter to him. What Ji Bozai cared about most was whether Mingyi had ever shown a trace of sincerity; even a hint would have been enough.
Many of the interesting plots you see in the drama were actually designed and directed by Hou Minghao himself.
For example, - the princess hug that came running over - the scene of sml acting as if JBZ pushed him away, - the call-back between the eleventh and first episodes,(fl fall into JBZ's arms and their first meeting was played on the background. HMH changed the original scene into this and added "Today is a great day") all have some of Hou Minghao's ideas behind them. No wonder Miss Hua Yueye, who was in the same crew, specially posted a message saying that Hou Minghao was very patient during filming and would also help his co-stars design some small details on the characters.
Well his dream is to become a director after completing his acting career in the future. Today he was also implementing his own ideas in his currently filming drama by having a serious talk with the director. He was giving a devilish smile while doing Archery. It was caught in the reuters.
Why do a fandom start collecting data? Because other fandoms are collecting, if they don't, it will bring negative effect to the artist. So the problem might lie on the very first fandom which started this ritual. Well that's something I'm unaware of. So the rest are the victim of the ones who started.
So someone, please let me know, as I haven't watched Hou Ming Hao dramas before, so this is my first one of his…
Idk how to describe about popularity. Hou Minghao might not be one of the most hyped artists in China(like Chengyi, XZ, WYB etc), but he’s definitely got a solid loyal fanbase that is supporting him. He recently held his birthday concert with over 7k fans, tickets sold out in just 3–5 seconds! Hou Minghao himself failed to get the ticket(He tried to grab one). And every time there’s a booting or wrap-up ceremony, around 1.5k–2k fans show up in person to support him.
He was an ex-trainee at SM Entertainment in 2012-2013. He was the only chinese trainee Lee So Man brought that year. LSM gave him the stage name "NEO". Later he left as his mom was sick. So he was supposed to join NCT (Neo comes from that group NCT's "N")
[But everyone thinks he deserves more and more popularity as an Allrounder ACE who is proficient in literally everything(music, sports, acting,dancing etc)]
I don't follow others. But what I have seen in our fandom, chinese fans urge others to buy magazine if they have money. They never forced anyone, all they did was spreading the importance of it as ultimately the artist will be judged according to the number of magazines /other endorsement at the end.
As for shaming / bullying behavior, it does exist in china. Every fandom is involved. So I love to blame the fandom who starts the bullying first. Hmh's fandom also follow this rule, they will only attack if they get attacked first. Otherwise if they don't counterattack, their timeline would be flooded with negative posts from the opposite. Who likes to get bullied?
Every fandom is involved in collecting data. They collect it because they love to support their artists. These kind of data was introduced by the platform / industry itself. They love to check the outcome. You can't blame fans for that. They as well as the artists are basically the scapegoat of the system.
Also I mentioned the chart here as I am proud of him getting the first position despite the lack of trending search, materials or any kind of promotion which other can receive easily. It's not wrong to share it as an achievement which was earned by him.
While going through my rednote & douyin account, I can see thousands of posts from passerby praising his look & acting skill in the drama. He has recently attended 2 music festivals in oct as he is also a professional singer. And it went viral for which he got numerous praises from music critics. It also helped the popularity of his character JBZ increasing more.
well tbf, his character in FOF was meant to look old, cuz well he was a very old demon. Here he's still young…
In reality ML looks more like Ji Bo Zai's polished look if you check his every day life or other dramas.
To make ZYZ older, the stylist did their job perfectly. The make up style was more ghostly with the dark filter of the director. Also he lost weight due to meet the requirements.
As you are mentioning how it works, let me put some information you might not know. Although Hou Minghao is the main character, there was zero high ranking hot trending searches purchased for him. There's issue with his agency which doesn't do anything to promote him. There's also lack of materials from the studio's weibo account and douyin account comparing to the other artists. You can just check both ML+FL's weibo & their studio's weibo.
While fandom might play an important role, the other dramas also have artists with bigger fandom to help them getting high index.
My point was Hou Minghao received the lowest promotion and still managed to compete with the other artists with bigger promotion. I think the buzz is real.
If you go through their page, you will notice they only wrote about Ji Bo Zai as Hou Minghao's role contribution is the highest among all. He is also dominating the Word Cloud. I remember, last year, Datawin only praised Hou Minghao's Zhao Yuan Zhou when FOF aired. Because he brought the highest discussion about his character, role contribution, everything else.
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He gave depth to Zhao Yuan Zhou's character 😭
⁉️Question: The whole network is waiting for the famous scene of Ji Bozai being struck by lightning and engraving words. Please ask the person involved, Ji Bozai, to express his feelings about being struck by lightning.
✔️HMH: So he was struck by lightning repeatedly, and even when it numbed him, he remained indifferent. Even if the whole world betrayed Ji Bozai, as long as Ming Yi had a little sincerity towards him, he would feel that all the sins he suffered were worth it, but he did not get Ming Yi's sincerity.
✔️HMH: He was numb… not from being struck by lightning, but from being deceived. The sincerity Ji Bozai had mustered up in that moment seemed like a joke. He wasn't laughing at being forced to carve the words, nor was he laughing at whether Mingyi had deceived him or concealed anything; that didn't matter to him. What Ji Bozai cared about most was whether Mingyi had ever shown a trace of sincerity; even a hint would have been enough.
Source: https://weibo.com/5860352815/Q8V4Mq90R
Many of the interesting plots you see in the drama were actually designed and directed by Hou Minghao himself.
For example,
- the princess hug that came running over
- the scene of sml acting as if JBZ pushed him away,
- the call-back between the eleventh and first episodes,(fl fall into JBZ's arms and their first meeting was played on the background. HMH changed the original scene into this and added "Today is a great day")
all have some of Hou Minghao's ideas behind them. No wonder Miss Hua Yueye, who was in the same crew, specially posted a message saying that Hou Minghao was very patient during filming and would also help his co-stars design some small details on the characters.
Source: https://weibo.com/7784824560/Q8sQJ48d3
Well his dream is to become a director after completing his acting career in the future. Today he was also implementing his own ideas in his currently filming drama by having a serious talk with the director. He was giving a devilish smile while doing Archery. It was caught in the reuters.
He recently held his birthday concert with over 7k fans, tickets sold out in just 3–5 seconds! Hou Minghao himself failed to get the ticket(He tried to grab one).
And every time there’s a booting or wrap-up ceremony, around 1.5k–2k fans show up in person to support him.
His birthday concert:
https://youtu.be/KFuSq1DSqio?si=tRQwVkgx1H0ZIeda
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM5ZuYupu_D/?igsh=ejA5ZGp6cTRzZDJt
KTTPH Booting Ceremony:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMHTh4LxeYI/?igsh=encwZDd6ajIza2Q4
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMKKOlMR8Db/?igsh=Y2hoNW5sODBkcW5w
He was an ex-trainee at SM Entertainment in 2012-2013. He was the only chinese trainee Lee So Man brought that year. LSM gave him the stage name "NEO". Later he left as his mom was sick.
So he was supposed to join NCT (Neo comes from that group NCT's "N")
[But everyone thinks he deserves more and more popularity as an Allrounder ACE who is proficient in literally everything(music, sports, acting,dancing etc)]
Must watch to see how explosive his singing skills is:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPZFikikdW5/?igsh=ZzRzNmRkdHN5azN2
As for shaming / bullying behavior, it does exist in china. Every fandom is involved. So I love to blame the fandom who starts the bullying first.
Hmh's fandom also follow this rule, they will only attack if they get attacked first. Otherwise if they don't counterattack, their timeline would be flooded with negative posts from the opposite. Who likes to get bullied?
These kind of data was introduced by the platform / industry itself. They love to check the outcome. You can't blame fans for that. They as well as the artists are basically the scapegoat of the system.
Also I mentioned the chart here as I am proud of him getting the first position despite the lack of trending search, materials or any kind of promotion which other can receive easily. It's not wrong to share it as an achievement which was earned by him.
While going through my rednote & douyin account, I can see thousands of posts from passerby praising his look & acting skill in the drama. He has recently attended 2 music festivals in oct as he is also a professional singer. And it went viral for which he got numerous praises from music critics. It also helped the popularity of his character JBZ increasing more.
To make ZYZ older, the stylist did their job perfectly. The make up style was more ghostly with the dark filter of the director. Also he lost weight due to meet the requirements.
Although Hou Minghao is the main character, there was zero high ranking hot trending searches purchased for him. There's issue with his agency which doesn't do anything to promote him.
There's also lack of materials from the studio's weibo account and douyin account comparing to the other artists. You can just check both ML+FL's weibo & their studio's weibo.
While fandom might play an important role, the other dramas also have artists with bigger fandom to help them getting high index.
My point was Hou Minghao received the lowest promotion and still managed to compete with the other artists with bigger promotion. I think the buzz is real.
Hou Minghao's Ji Bo Zai is dominating Top1 position in the VLinkage Character Index chart only after 3days of airing🎉
10th Oct
Ranked 1: Ji Bo Zai - 8.94
[Will break 9 soon]
9th Oct
Ranked 2: Ji Bo Zai - 8.87
8th Oct
Ranked 5: Ji Bo Zai - 8.66
[This data represents the popularity of all characters of the released dramas]
Source: https://weibo.com/2041291667/Q8AYwryyP
Ji Bo Zai is surely a hot topic in the mainland!
He is also dominating the Word Cloud.
I remember, last year, Datawin only praised Hou Minghao's Zhao Yuan Zhou when FOF aired. Because he brought the highest discussion about his character, role contribution, everything else.