Hello, dear viewers of AvenueX
Congratulations
You've made through another year, honestly, by this point,
everybody who's still working in chinese,
dramaland and still has a job should be thankful.
What an incredible year we've gone through
today is AvenueX's last video of 2021.
And we're gonna look at the best CPs that
has made me feel life is worth living.
In no particular order of importance,
let's start with the most specialn CP to me in 2021.
And it's the only guy and guy CP from Word of Honor, Shan He Ling,
Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu,
if you've been on my channel longer than 9months,
you know i'm gonna bring it up, right?
And it's gonna be the most special CP
probably ever since I started this channel,
it would be on the top three list of CPs
On my second channel, you can still see all the edits i've made.
Then there were other things I made on
chinese platform that got taken down overall.
I think I made over 30 videos,
including live stream,
including reviews,
including explain things in this drama on youtube and then all
the edits that goes on both platforms I have and then other
specially made for Bilibili stuff.
So it's insane
I have never done that many videos within a 3-month time frame,
pretty much every other day I put out stuff and it's a record.
I don't see I can in any way ever break,
I am forever thankful for this drama happening.
And at that particular time and just gave me so much fun,
made me feel like my life was just energized with a creative
urge that i've experienced
getting up at 5:00 am to watch the new episode every day
ungodly hour.
It only happened once this year for one drama.
Maybe in one of my previous incarnation,
I just owed Priest a lot of things.
I don't know what that is,
but it did make me just fall into the holes she dug multiple times.
and I'm happy to do that.
Then the rest of the CPs coming up are all man and woman.
And let's start with the CP that I totally didn't expect.
I would like but I did.
Because it came from a drama I don't quite care about.
And i've semi ranted about it,
I watched their isolated cut
andI love them,
which is Le Yan and Hao Du from
The Long Ballad
that has the most cliche set up as a princess versus a bodyguard,
the reigning class of the society and the service class of the society,
the white little innocent bunny girl and the big bad wolf guy,
you cannot make it more tropey than this.
Please be honest with me.
How many of you when you were watching the long ballad wished you
could see Le Yan and Hao Wu more frequently than the lead couple,
despite all these superficial element and warning sign that this CP has
it just got to me while I wish that there was more screen time on them,
I actually think because they weren't the lead couple.
It actually made it more interesting for the audiences.
It is like the chinese painting philosophy, Liu Bai
which means leave (the space) empty, leave space,
leave a lot of things you don't articulate,
you fill it up with your imagination.
So I think in a way the success of this, second lead couple
for a lot of people should be thanked to the fact
that they are the second CP and neither zhao lu si
nor liu yunning would be who I consider to be extremely good actors.
Therefore, if you're on screen all the time for too long,
it will just expose more shortcomings in more possible ways.
And you're only there for the selective moments and
somehow that creates a coherent impression of this CP as an even
better one
moving on to our third couple,
another period drama couple,
the workaholic couple,
the imperial coroner, the coroner Chu Chu the prince Xiao Jinyu
I would call this drama first half of the year,
totally unexpected,
black horse drama or black sheep
doesn't matter
in chinese. It's black horse.
It is something that you just don't see it coming.
And when it started,
it just looks like yet another period low budget
drama that's just gonna show up and disappear.
Nobody is gonna care about it.
well well we were so wrong.
The script is rather solid.
It's detective plot is pretty good.
And then all the characters,
the major couples in this drama are all just
so logically normal respectful dignified,
human.
and somehow that is rare now these days in chinese dramaland
you rarely see reasonable people
and because most of the people have been
so bombarded and disappointed by the ridiculous nature
of Chinese dramas for so long
audiences almost just feel
they don't deserve well written characters,
well written plot and reasonable things anymore.
And we get this
that just makes everybody revengefully wanna support
this drama more and support the CP
and they understand what is priority of their life
and what they should stand for
and their personal emotion,
although they have that do not stand in the way
of their clear thinking head
and dramaland has been so starved with this type
of couples and writings
and then these two young actors
who managed to bring these two characters to life.
It came in as a clear, fresh breeze
into the stale, smelly, stinky room called period drama
of chinese dramaland, Chu Yu Fu Fu (楚瑜夫妇) deserves.
All the praise, the two actors deserve all the praise,
the entire crew and production.
Tencent knows it hit on a tiny gold mine,
so they're making a special ep for this thing
If it wasn't for audiences positive response,
it wouldn't have happened
that tells you, hey,
audiences are not blind.
It should have knocked some sense in those
ridiculous creators of storytelling these days.
What people really wanna look at
moving on to the 4th best cp for AvenueX of 2021.
Jiang Tai Gong Diao Yu
that is the nickname that people gave it on china's internet and
it is Jiang Yi and Yu Sheng Sheng from
Bian Cheng Ni de Na Yi Tian
The Day of Becoming You
The classic A sian dramaland body swap story between a star
and an entertainment journalist,
the natural enemy in profession.
I have to thank Zhang Xincheng and Liang Jie for them to bring
those characters to life and delivering me so much fun.
If I have to list like the three most funny couple,
i've seen from dramaland, they will be one of them.
There's so many golden moments,
hilarious moments,
embarrassing moments,
ridiculous moments that happened due to these two swap their bodies
and go through absolutely cringy life situations.
Although this story is hinged upon such an old tropey set up of characters,
it did deliver you the 21st century in time.
Right now version of if that happens what it would be like.
And it played it to the maximum of the possibilities of ridiculousness,
but then also giving all the characters,
the opportunities to show you the beautiful part of
human emotions.
I've had such a good time watching this drama and laughed my heart out.
And if two people in love can have the opportunity of
really living as the other person fully physically.
I don't see anything in this world will ever be able
to break them apart because they have such a shared,
incredible experience.
I actually wish this could be true
on our plane of existence.
The 5th couple on my list would be a really cold couple
to the point that most of people would not have heard about it,
including people who watch my videos
-273.5°cold
That is the mainly CP from the drama Miao Qing Xu Yuan,
Make A WIsh
Chi Yan, a lonely bookstore owner and Xiao XIu
a cat.
and she turns into a human, obviously,
you can check out that video i've made earlier this year
talking about this drama specifically.
I know it's not a popular drama,
but I loved this CP so much with this kind of
semi fantastical setting of a human plus a cat.
It is really interesting that it came across as a very realistic,
relaxed heart warming.
Feel like average person possible CP and I really wish this
drama could have received more promotion and having the
opportunity to show up on more people's feed.
It is a drama that will make you feel life it's worth living,
even just for those little small,
almost insignificant,
happy tiny moments that happens every day.
It is just dependent upon you to discover that
that type of feeling.
And among all the bigger productions with bigger noises,
I have this little secret garden in my heart reserved for
this CP and if anyone comes to me and ask about this drama,
I will tell them,
I recommend you go and check it out and it
probably will also warm your heart
moving on to our sixth CP
another super funny CP
you already know which one it is.
What I said it's super funny,
Dear Diary,
Wo de Ba Bi Lun Lian Ren
Chen Meiru and Murong Jielun
the contemporary life.
Fantasy story about a 24 year old.
woman having her 12 year old written diaries
character coming into her real life and mess it up,
and make her breaking out of the shackles that
she's built for herself for the last 12 years.
What an incredible journey and story and character set up and ridiculous
scenario played out and hardworking actors
giving out their heart 100%
in front of the camera doing absolutely cringy lines.
And oh my god it worked like a magic.
I am yet to hear anybody saying bad things about this drama.
As long as they've watched it,
there were so many happy, ridiculous, funny,
but also touching and just wrenching moment
coming from this CP
I think their nickname in china is
wushan cp
because of the poetic writing from a 12 year old girl.
Wu Shan Yun Yu (euphmism for sex)
definitely worth learning if you're learning chinese,
this CP on its own is a beautiful, romantic cp
but, In another way,
you can look at it as a symbol that represents everyone who
has ever dreamed themselves being the center of a narrative,
of a fantastical story,
standing under the limelight and being loved and adored.
And this drama, in a way,
just realized that for audiences and it's one of those very
serendipitous things in this world when it comes to your life.
Next 7th,
another cp that probably most people don't care about
pretty much like Make A WIsh type of thing
and it happens to involve the same actor i've already mentioned
in a previous CP and you know which one it is already.
Zhi Shi Jie Hun de Guan Xi
Once We Get Married
the leading couple of Yin Sichen and Gu XIxi
what a boring setup
when you first hear about
contractual marriage,
you're like oh my god it's gonna be another cringy,
crap romantic contemporary drama with its budget,
with the look of it,
with a lot of familiar,
very tropey plot happening.
Miraculously.
Somehow these two came together
like milk and water
Wang Ziqi and Wang Yuwen
the two Wangs of this drama just made me believe their characters and the setup.
Although I know it is so tropey, cheesy, old fashioned,
it offers nothing new
apart from pleasure
if I have to say, what is the guilty pleasure CP
or guilty pleasure drama this year for me
That I know it's not good by any sort of super professional standard,
but still I just had a blast.
That would be the drama and that would be the CP
A CEO man has everything and anything
and who is the cold aloof standard ceo
and the aspired designer girl who has nothing else,
but her talent.
just hear it sounds bad,
but the chemistry is so intense and real.
So for me, it is still special.
It is on my list,
although now I have forgotten a lot of its actual plot
when I think about them,
when I close my eyes
pink bubbles start to grow out of my heart,
then the 8th one and the last one,
i'm gonna put on my official list.
I still have a few honorable mentioning at the end
would be the couple from You Are My Glory
Rong Yao Fu Fu(荣耀夫妇) Dilraba and Yang Yang
playing Qiao JIngjing and Yu Tu
I didn't even expect I'll put it on the list before I started listing
because these two actors on their own
have their very special sort of place in entertainment business
top traffic, top popularity,
super big fandom.
And they're both known,
at least I think in china.
For years, their reputation were
the best looking people of their gender.
So when you put these two together because of their super huge
fandom and all types of internet trash that can come with it,
nobody would really care about what the drama actually offers.
Everybody would be just on the edge of fighting off the fandom war.
And I had that worry too.
Before I went into the drama
for the drama itself as a visual storytelling,
I don't think it's perfect in anyway
It has a lot of problems,
particularly the pacing and the lagging of things.
But I actually highly appreciated Yang Yang
and Dilraba playing this superstar and scientist couple
They made the almost unbelievable paring believable
with their unbelievably good looking face.
It's like that on itself is a miracle to have been achieved.
It hit on the physical level,
the hormone level of me as a human
and looking at really cute,
beautiful, romantic, and sexy couple,
and going a bit nuts, basically,
when something undeniably appealed to your animal nature, give it.
It's due recognition,
so these 8 CPs will conclude the official list of my most
beloved on screen couples from chinese dramaland in 2021.
Then i'll add 2 more as honorable mentioning,
making it up to ten,
but slightly less impressive.
For me,
one would be the leading couple.
In the drama Rattan
Si Teng and Qin Fang
played by Jing Tian and Zhang Binbin
Most of that is due to I haven't fully
invested my time and heart into this drama,
although I did rush through it
when it was airing, Word of Honor was airing too,
and I was crazy.
Basically I was mental about WOH at the time
I had 0% of energy left over for anything else.
Therefore by the end of this whole run
I was too tired to really invest my energy into this drama anymore.
But with my limited attention's experience,
I can see why it has become one of the most successful drama CP this year
for a lot of people and it was super appreciated by a lot of audiences.
Both of the actors did such a good job and and then I
have to say they are the role model for promotion.
As a screen couple the way they put all their energy
and heart and they didn't run away from anything.
They're so frank and honest and forthcoming and they had so much fun
This is how you should be promoting dramas for people who love this couple,
love this drama.
They've had such a good time,
not just watching the drama itself
but also feeling so respected by the actual
creators and the leading couple coming from the story
respond to people's love and appreciate that
it just makes the after taste of this drama.
So good.
I understand a fully for Rattan fans
and you guys are lucky.
Lucky Bastards
Then the other CP didn't make to my official list,
but I do enjoyed it while it was airing coming from the drama, Moonlight
Yue Guang Bian Zou Qu, Guang Dian, Zhou qi, li chu,
The Chu Li and Zhou Chuan couple
played by Yu Shuxi and Ding Yuxi
aspired young editor and a popular author.
I think the reason it didn't make to my official is because there are other
similar couples on the list that kind of delivered me similar things,
but better.
Therefore it didn't make to my list
But I had a lot of fun watching this couple
and there's a scene that is talking about.
There's light coming from you.
And I am attracted to the light which just
happened in word of honor
that moment happened.
I was like oh magic oh magic.
One of the reasons I like moonlight is because
it just happened at that interesting time.
And I really like YSX and DYX's performance,
I trust some of the CPs would overlap
with your choice of drama land this year.
and everyone definitely have their own personal favorites
and I haven't watched every drama that came out of China
this year for sure.
So there could be hidden gold mine,
diamond mine,
romantic bubble mine
just hormone raising mine i like haven't noticed at all.
So if you do have something to offer that you notice,
I haven't mentioned
leave that in a comment and blow my world up.
I do try to catch up with older dramas.
That i haven't had time to watch
when I can.
That will conclude all the videos from AvenueX of 2021.
Thank you.
For being with me,
for however short or long,
I hope you all will have a great end of the year and beginning of next year.
And I hope 2022 will deliver.
Everyone what they wish for.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
I'll see you in my next video next year.
meanwhile live long and happy drama watching