Hello, you're watching AvenueX
and this is my third video at the end of 2022
as a summary video of this year's chinese dramaland.
Today i'm gonna list five of my favorite drama CP (couple)
that has happened in chinese dramaland this year
with a few runner ups at the end,
they are totally my personal picks and you are likely to have your own
that didn't end up on my list, so please do share that in a comment section
and let's all have fun.
Today i'm gonna list them in the order of the dramas going live
during this year and to avoid a fight over who is the better one,
they are very different in nature, so they all each deserve their own position.
Let's start around chinese new year this year january
when 2 dramas basically aired at the same time and both of them contain a CP
that ended up on my list,the first couple from the drama.
Ren Shi Jian, A Lifelong Journal,
Zheng Juan x Zhu Bingkun, played by Yin Tao and Lei Jiayin
This is the oldest couple in age in terms of the actors and actress on my list today.
This is also probably the most qualified actor CP in terms of how well established
both actor actress are in the industry already
also, they probably play the hardest CP among all the CPs i'm gonna mention today.
One is the drama is so long, second is they have to play the roles cross a very
large age span from their teenager years early 20s to when they got old and gray hair.
And they've pulled off those 2 roles so well,
thinking about Alifelong journey really is an ensemble drama,
and they are not the only great CP we have in this story.
For example, the older brother of the Lei Jiayin's role and his
relationship with his wife is also a tear jerking one.
And even Lei Jiayin's role's parents , broke my heart that old couple
in a way, It's a really realistic but highly romantic drama
it managed to do both.
You see this half a century span, people are very poor,
there's very limited resources, things don't even look pretty 99% of the time on screen
on the hardware side of things.
This is not the romantic and pretty drama,
but then even though the limited resources and things of this drama
didn't stop it being highly romantic.
For example, this couple, they have so many, weirdly, not pretty.
But holy shit, so beautiful and romantic moments,
such as when the male lead first had this feeling towards the female lead,
when he watches her that camera angle of panning along
her body and seeing her neck and hair and the glowing of the skin under the sunlight.
That's such a romantic camera language.
For example, the slow motion of her skating and smiling
Yin Tao's smile is one of the best smiles in dramaland and that shot captures it perfectly,
or the super, highly emotionally charged moment later in the drama.
When in court to save the husband, the wife literally told everyone in court in public
of her greatest secret, and. that moment just breaks you.
If you've watched the drama to that point.
Honestly, if there needs to be acting awards on the screen
for a CP, they should get it for this year.
There are on a different caliber basically.
So they become the first one on my list and also
because it really did happen around chinese new year.
Okay, so is one of the earliest dramas.
Second one, since i've already told you it happened around the same time.
If you still remember you'll know it is Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun from Reset, Kai Duan
got blown up 25 times couple.
\Bai Jingting, Zhao Jinmai, played this young couple who met under such weird circumstances
who technically only had 1 day to know each other,
but they've lived that day so many times that it becomes much much bigger,
and then their love is formed under extreme pressure situation,
super highly dramatic.
Think about the film many years ago from the US, Sandra and Keanu's Speed
It's pretty much the same situation, right?
Because there's a bomb, there's a bus that cannot be stopped,
and they fall in love under extreme circumstances.
In the film land that couple didn't really end up together when you have the second film.
But in this drama, I think at least from the story tellers' perspective,
they really want these two to end up together that eventually when they get
awards from from there a city government in front of a pure red background,
and both of them were wearing white,
which is these standard backdrop and clothing.
When you take a photo, getting married in china,
put that on your marriage certificate, that's how it works.
So it's kind of like suggesting they definitely end up together.
Also, their names are destined.
Both of them contained in one verse or line of a poem,
suggesting they're definitely gonna end up together.
And in a drama when they introduced themselves to each other, they realize, hey,
our names actually are in the same line of poem,
(Notes on screen)
in the sunny bright sky, a crane flies up and pushes away the cloud,
by seeing that, it draws out my emotion to write poetry into the sky.
That's what that line means and Xiao Heyun, Li Shiqing
although this drama doesn't have the usual things of a long drama
where you have all the time and all the circumstances for two
characters to show you all the details for you to ship,
having fun with the CP so it's not the most shippable CP in
terms of its hard for the audiences to imagine more scenarios,
just because they are so limited in the space and time of the story.
But then they do experience the most extreme situations possible.
It may not be the most long lasting.
And you probably cannot write too many fan fictions of this CP
but every time if you go back and re watch this drama,
you will so easily be taken along their journey and have so much fun
moving along the timeline away from chinese new year
into March, IQIYI, and you already know, Under the Skin
Lie Zui Tu Jian, Du Cheng x Shen Yi, played by Jin Shijia, Tan Jianci
This is the only male/male CP on my list for 2022
And it's not even a BL, it just happens to have two male leads.
They're both policemen working in very different styles and
specialized field coming together, forming a team,
while breaking all kinds of interesting cases along the line,
developing their own characters and their relationship,
solving their previous beef and becoming good friends,
very classic story structure for a crime story
and very maturely and beautifully executed by it this year.
This is probably one of my favorite dramas this year.
Most re-watched the drama for me.
I would say before this drama aired, I totally didn't expect it's gonna be this good.
I also didn't expect the chemistry betweenthese two actors are gonna work out so well.
Magic happens, Sometimes.
I think the success of this drama comes from definitely script level.
They did so much work, researching,
figuring out the particular police work that Shen Yi's character does in reality.
And then they really picked a lot of interesting angles
and cases that adding a lot of not really necessarily
needs to be explicitly explained,
but sharp observations of what's going on in our world currently
in the society currently, being represented by these cases while
they are very good at picking out the most dramatic things
that you can have for two main lead roles
so that this drama is on the detective side of things engaging enough and interesting enough,
but also on character development, relationship development,
Shippable enough.
I know it's not BL, but I ship them anyway,
whether this drama is gonna have a second season or not, we don't know,
maybe not, but as it stands on itself
in the imaginary land of dramaland, where there is a police station called Bei Jiang
where there are two policemen like Du Cheng and Shen Yi
They are happily working in their positions and solving all the cases
and uphold the justice and being good policemen.
I'd like to believe in that.
And I hope everybody who's watched this drama would also believe in that.
If you haven't heard about something really funny,
which is this is the unexpected 陈檀佳酿v.2
in china when a CP happens or before it even happens,
people like to term them with language puns, for Tan Jianci
because he led a BL drama that didn't air
and we don't know if it's ever gonna air, Sha Po Lang, with Chen Zheyuan
before this drama even came out, people have already named their CP as
Chen Tan Jia Niang
Chen Zheyuan, Tan Jianci, and the word Chen Tan Jia Niang means
an old pottery pot that holds a wine or alcohol
that's being brewing there for a long time,
so a beautiful name, very clever
but because the drama didn't happen,
Lie Zui Tu Jian, came along and people realized actually we can use this CP name
repurpose it, exactly not changing anything, still using Chen Tan Jia Niang
but this time not looking at the chen,
looking at Tan and JIa, and it's Chen Tan Jia Niang V.2
weird, isn't it? Coincidence happens in this world
We don't know why, but hey it's just funny.
Keep moving on towards the summer of this year around June.
We have the Tencent drama airing
I made a lot of videos on that one, A dream of splendor, Meng Hua Lu
Gu Pan Sheng Hui, Gu Qianfan played by Chen Xiao, and Zhao Paner played by Liu Yifei
in my reviews I've talked a lot about all the controversy
and weird things happening in Chinese dramaland when the drama got poplular
so if you're curious about that,
you can go back and check those videos, here, just talking about the CP
i wouldn't say this is the best let's say drama bg CP ever in period dramaland
And it's played by two people who are at the age where it is a little
bit too old for them to say being the young idol type of CP anymore.
One is already married, the other person is also like similar age
they've been around in dramaland for long enough,
but holy shit, I enjoyed their CP so much because first
they're both such good looking people.
It's like a classic painting. I'm just staring at it,
just looking at it with my eyeballs will give me physical biological reaction pleasure.
Nothing can replace it.
You're a human, you have a flesh body, you have hormones,
and they hit on my hormone receptors.
And I did so many drawings for this drama.
You can tell like how pretty they are so that I draw pretty for them
also because this rama is directed by this director
who is really good at pulling that push and pull
of a male and female who are both very attractive,
that dynamic, all the little details of people who have feelings for each other,
but who are at the stage where they haven't really solidified their relationship
golden subtle push and pull, happen so much in this drama and juicy,
I think back in June and how I giggled like a little girl and just did this.
while watching this drama
yeah, there's little you can do outside of the drama for this couple,
because one of them is married and then they are both at the age
where you know like it does not make sense to have all those
over the top fan fictions written for them.
But in the dramaland itself,
I wish Gu Pan the happy life forever,
and they are so perfect.
They exist to remind you like how great physical life can be
then moving right to the very heat of the summer.
Without question the fantasy young actors and young audience oriented,
and then the classic type of shippable BG, fantasy land CP, Lan Qiang!
Xiao Lanhua played by Yu Shuxin, and Dong Fang Da Qiang,
Dong fang Qing Cang played by Wang Hedi
another totally unexpected CP, and pretty much for al the audeinces who
were watching this drama and love this drama, before they went in.
They thought this is just gonna be another crappy fantaasy drama that's made to
make a quick buck, please a couple of fans of couple of lead actors
and then get out of there.
First couple of episodes, ah~ interesting
up to episode nine.
So the first quarter of this drama when that epic moment happens,
everybody is like cheering
and this drama really isdivided into four parts 9/9/9/9
even when they aired it, It's like that.
First 9 episodes happened in one physical location,
next nine, another location, next nine, another location.
It's actually following that weird structure of divided it into four parts.
Each parts have a center.
If you haven't realized that go and watch it,
it's exactly 9999 and 9 is the numerology sort of like that number,
right before it goes to ten, and it goes back to one.
So all the mysteries in this world,
do we need to talk more about the cp?
because it's the closest on my list to today that really made
it rather big in dramaland this year,
and probably still really fresh in a lot of people's memory.
it is the completely flipping the classic relationship 180 drama
of that ceo and little girl, the strong man and a much weaker woman
completely rewriting the original story,
making it the updated 21st century version of an overused and very trophy genre of chinese dramas
and making it new, and adding so much unexpected highlight in it.
There's so many good things you can talk about about this drama,
although it's not perfect towards the end,
the script definitely can be improved on that,
but it has given us so much surprise and so much happy, positive, unexpected surprise
that it deserves a place in this year's chinese dramaland.
Even if you consider all different genres of dramas together,
compare it to all the other serious dramas, crime dramas,
dramas on this list, for example,
it still stand out as a very shining gem,
I think, because of the not so famous, the two leads of this drama.
before the drama was airing, and the nature of a fantasy story of that,
a lot of people still actually underestimate how much work was done in this drama
and how good it is.
Love as such a cliche word that's been beautifully represented in this drama,
between father and son, between man and woman, between sisters and brothers, between teachers and students,
all forms of love and how love can really save the world.
It's such a cliche concept, but it's been actually so detailedly picked apart,
played out in this drama.
I think a lot of people still actually underestimate this drama.
They got blinded by the superficial things about
ha this type of drama. How can it possibly be?
well I would say if you miss it because of that reason,
it's your loss and it's our gain for everybody who's loved this drama
and the CP Wang Hedi and Yu Shuxi,
it's gonna stay on my fantasy drama,
sort of list of the best CPs for a long time.
So now i've finished talking about five of my
favorite drama CPs, in Chinese dramaland this year.
Then I have two runner ups
XIng Han Can lan, Love like the Galaxy
Chen Shaoshang and Ling Buyi played by Zhao Lusi and Wu Lei, and the drama
Lighter and Princess, Da Huo Ji yu Gong Zhu Qun,
or later in Chinese got changed to Dian Ran Wo, Wen Nuan Ni
yeah, that name is actually politically very incorrect
Ming Yun Xun Huan CP, Zhun Yun and Li Xun played by zhang Jingyi and Chen feiyu.
These two I put them there is I recognize while they were airing,
they do have fans okay and people do ship them
and I totally understand why it works for other people,
although it doesn't work for me, I think, because I'm at the age
where this type of particular story and CP does not get through to me anymore.
My skin is too thick. And also, I think the acting of these two couples
cannot convinceme to the point where I really can get hormonal.
So very personally, they don't work that much on me,
but I so see why it may work on other people.
So that makes this list a 5+2, not too bad okay In my opinion,
for Chinese dramaland for a whole year's worth of work.
and I am not the judge of Chinese drama;and ,ok, I don't have final say
I also haven't been able to watch every drama
I do know there are a couple of other dramas such as Shinning for One Thing
a lot of people really really ship the two leads,
although it's not my type of drama,
I totally see why you ship it.
So there are many other choices out there
But on my list I'm just gonna keep it like that.
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whether you came in very recently, a long time ago since 2017.
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I just didn't bother to delete them,
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And if it's like 5 years over five and close to 6 years since 2017,
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I think YouTube should give you people awards
instead of like giving me anything if I hit 100k
if you only come recently also still highly appreciate your participation
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I hope 2023 will give us more good dramas, more good CPs
Can we have like a one explosive CP?
just one. more than Can Lan Jue's popularity.
2022 is still that bit away from a super big one
fingers crossed that 2023 we're gonna have at least one at least one.
Thank you for watching AvenueX, I'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching
and happy new year.