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The Glory was an A-level drama that had investment promotion:

https://x.com/chenduling1018/status/1946954992616689815
https://x.com/chenduling1018/status/1887809423428472848

yeah, someone is trying to insist that TWD is S-level in the drama page and I just don't want to argue lol

YZ just had a livestream and he said the next is not Heart Hunter but that WXY was approached for it and they're gonna have to see if it can fit in his schedule.

clues about his next drama seems to be a double male lead with a veteran actor and the director did one of the best dramas last year (according to YZ)

I think wang_xingyue_fans on IG/youtube have some subtitled

I think I saw one on twitter, usually iQiyi will provide subtitles on their own yt channels, just with a delay

I've been following casting/industry news on Douban since last year and this was always noted as a low budget A project. Weibo accounts like your source just upgraded it after Wang Xingyue broke out in The Double and iQiyi put it in their summer schedule. (There is also another cdrama titled Ding Feng Bo on Youku which is the actual S tier project and may have caused confusion.)

I can't track down the links now but WXY signed on to this drama around March 2024 when his status was barely C-list, his other ML roles in iQiyi were also A tier (Your Sensibility My Destiny, First Love), while his second ML roles were A+ tier (One and Only, Story of Kunning Palace.) It is not in iQiyi's nature to suddenly let him lead an S-tier drama based on these roles. The rest of the cast are even more unknown than him. Plus, the director's recent works are short dramas, and the head screenwriter has no hits/awards or even representative works. The only one in the creative team with enough status for an S tier project is Zhao Dongling and her credit here is as a production designer, not as an award winning writer. (This drama is also co-produced by Upcoming Legend, her production company.)

EDIT: I found one post from April 2025 in Douban's melon group with the rumored budget tiers of all the upcoming summer dramas. You can choose believe it or not https://www.douban.com/group/topic/323577681/?_spm_id=MTk3MjEyNjg0&_i=37804652tAc5W5

The Wanted Detective officially announced its premiere on August 1st!

VIP calendar seems to be 6 episodes at 6pm for the premiere then 2 episodes every day after
EDIT: until Aug 14 then it'll be 1 episode for the last 4 episodes, ending on Aug 18. Non-VIP is 2 episodes on Aug 1 and 1 episode every day after.

new trailer: https://weibo.com/7906670131/PDjarkwZ8
chaotic shipping trailer: https://weibo.com/7906670131/PDsAVyPQE
music video: https://weibo.com/7906670131/PDC7w4ngB
+ some creepy posting from the drama's villain here: https://weibo.com/u/7999540861

I'll also be tracking the data here if anyone wants to follow it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UG98uTPrOaqCHQgiIp3lEk2JDQQsXeNNHxFbfT0txhU/edit?gid=450558319#gid=450558319

王星越OFFICIAL weibo shared a 🔥 clip and BTS of WXY dubbing it:
https://weibo.com/7707462078/PDld35q9A
https://weibo.com/7707462078/PDlrnj9yG

+ they held an advance screening today and most of the feedback was that the first 2 episodes felt like setup (which is what it should be lol) but the end of the 2nd episode is really good so hopefully the audience will continue watching after. they're too long and mostly gushing from fans so I won't post here but you can search "定风波repo" if you have xhs/rednote.

for creepy case clues, follow the weibo account of the villain, Night Fury: https://weibo.com/u/7999540861

it's still a huanyu x tencent co-production as either side has not officially denied the other.

no confirmation yet but a usually accurate melon owner posted it and YZ hasn't denied it so hopefully it's true.

how can it not be connected to yu zheng? he owns the copyright of the novel it's based on. if tencent cancels their contract, he'll sell the drama to another platform.

yes, that's the one. another accurate melon owner posted it (and YZ hasn't denied it yet) so looks like it's likely true. the writer/director is Zhang Yimou's daughter.

YZ said yesterday it wasn't a time travel mystery and another rumor just dropped (edited it into my comment above) and OMG I think I want it more because it seems to be a villain role lol

it's still included in their upcoming projects for now. and if YZ is to be believed, he said after all the rumors started flying that the contract with Tencent is secure. platform changes are always possible but hard to speculate on.

yes, YZ said a few weeks ago that XZW is delayed to the end of the year so WXY is shooting another drama instead. the contract for XZW was signed last year, the deal was supposedly WXY as the ML, and Tencent chooses the FL. the delay is because YZ wanted to choose his own FL and fought with Tencent. maybe that's part of the reason why they're implementing that rule for the future.

the first drama rumor was already debunked but the second one hasn't so I'm hoping that one is true since the writers are good (previous works: The Ingenious One, War of Faith) and it's not a pure idol drama. it's still somewhat costume though since the ML is a firefighter who'll be traveling back in time to the republican era to solve a mystery around the Chongqing bombing.

melons are basically gossip from industry insiders. they can be drama related information like casting news, or actor related like dating news.

the CD accusations just aren't blowing up as much but there's a lot of evidence in the douban data group. the "too perfect" is because the heat curve is always an exact replica of the previous day, just around 200 higher, regardless of it being a weekend/weekday. it's a sus trend because all dramas fluctuate, especially on Mondays. and none of the baidu/douyin/xhs/quark/douban/advertising data matches, at least when Feud hit 10k, the baidu index legit rose to 200k and the BL fans were spending money on iQiyi's popularity chart. + CD's TGI Index is 80% female, aged 18-23 so it's not the 🥝 silent audience driving the heat either.

anyway, it's just annoying because that melon owner dragged CW into it and now douban is gunning to attack before it even airs.

melon owner reviews (anonymous industry insiders) so take with a grain of salt but I marked those that are from melon owners with a track record of more reliable information.

B, A(+), S(+) is the budget rating, with S+ being the highest. Calming Waves is an iQiyi A, not S. after a drama airs, B/A/S can also refer to the Yunhe (playback) rating.

from a weibo user in reply to the xhs review:

"The beginning is good, and it gets better and better. The so-called "the first few episodes are slightly inferior" is compared with the later plots, not compared with other dramas. The pace is fast, not the kind of short drama fast, but the kind of fast with logic and tension. The case is exciting, the group portraits are good, and it is a high-quality long drama. A poor but sincere little A-level drama, neither loved by its father nor its mother (iQiyi). I hope it can be broadcast well."