Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at Chinese dramaland in the past weekend.
and let's get straight into business.
First, the dramas i've talked about last week that will go live did go live,
Reset and Beyond.
Both are actually very good,
should be making reviews on them soon.
Then there is a drama that went live on the 13th
that basically didn't announce previously.
It is also a drama that was filmed quite a while ago
didn't air,
not sure for what reason final just suddenly showed up.
And that is the contemporary drama called
She Jian Shang de Xian Tiao
Cupid's Kitchen led by Ruan Jingtian and Song Zuer
it is being aired on all three platforms
iqiyi, youku, tencent plus satellite television.
As the title suggests, it has a lot to do with cooking.
Our main lead male character is a western style chef
who is very successful,
and then our female lead character works at a hotel.
I wasn't aware of its existence previously,
but now it shows up.
So i'll see if I can get to it,
then we have quite a lot of dramas that just
announced this week that they're gonna go live.
So let's do it in chronological order of their scheduled airing date.
First on the 16th
a drama a lot of people have been waiting since
last year and it's been ready for a while.
Finally, it's here period fantasy drama Jing Shuang Cheng
Mirror: A Tale of Twin Cities
led by Li Yifeng and Chen Yuqi
The second lead couple would be Zheng Yecheng, an Yang Zhiwen.
If you've been a fan of any of the leading actors and this particular genre,
you definitely have heard about this project for quite a while.
Well it's coming.
the funny thing about this is it's gonna air
on Youku and Tencent the same time.
So both platforms have the rights to air it
and they both throw out promotional materials,
almost exactly the same.
It just changes you know the copy and obviously comes
from their different individual account on social media.
and they would actually be leaving comments under each other's
posts and asking people to go to their own platform to watch it.
I'm guessing both platforms think this drama may
bring in quite a big wave of young audiences,
fandom audiences, traffic.
So they just wanna cash in on that.
For me personally, the genre is,
you know
I definitely have passed the honeymoon period with this genre.
I probably will drop in to see Zheng Yecheng.
If you've seen my recent edits,
just wanna see if it's another good editing material source.
For future edits,
he has a couple of prospect projects that's gonna come out this year.
So that's gonna making the fighting scene edit even more exciting.
For me,
then a cluster of dramas all decided to go live on the 18th.
I wonder if they consulted some fortune teller
and told them 18th is a good day.
So let's count them out all.
First, it is the Wang Hou Yu Sheng
A Chance Meeting I've talked too many times
with Li Xiaoran and Zhong Hanliang,
they've just changed the name.
Can you believe it
for all the time that they've been promoting this drama
They changed the name couple of days before the airing
18th, Youku
And now it is called Jin Sheng You Ni
English title unchanged, Chinese title changed from Wang Houn Yu Sheng
which means from now on to the rest of my life.
They changed that, to
Jin Sheng You Ni
I have you this lifetime.
I don't know, maybe again fortune telling consultancy
why would you need to change the name?
I don't see the point, but hey,
happens to pretty much like 80% of Chinese dramas these days
then it is a drama that got cancelled at the end of
last month that's supposed to go live on like twenty first or something.
Tao Jin
Gold Panning, Iqiyi, Mi Wu Ju Chang, Light On drama
supposedly was last year's last one didn't happen.
Now, it's been moved to also 18th, January,
let's hope this time it wouldn't get aborted like 5 minutes before airing.
Also on the same day a drama contemporary one should go live
on both iqiyi and tencent and also CCTV (China centeral )
satellite television called Te Zhan XIng Dong
Operation Special Warfare.
So it's about special force, soldiers, weapons,
and uniforms and all that.
If you're into that type of thing,
this drama is coming towards you.
It's led by Gao Weiguang and Hu Bingqing
There are a couple of other characters, obviously,
and actors and actresses in this drama.
Let's see.
If it does justice to this very special profession,
then the 18th done,
we have a drama that just announced it's gonna air on
the 20th called Liu Guang Zhi Cheng, City of Streamer.
It is a Republic of China setting drama,
no fantasy element involved, all humans.
But this time with Jing Tian and Xu Weizhou,
okay i've seen a couple of posters looking okay
I definitely will check this one out.
It's human story.
It's about a girl who goes to a rich family
as the governess for the young master,
because she is actually in for a revenge.
So it's a personal revenge tale of two people
meeting and definitely they are gonna fall in love.
And then they're gonna together form their change the era
change the society and fighting for the people and all those comradery
and revolutionary thing for the Republic of China setting time,
which is archetypal thing
pretty much every Republic of China setting drama is gonna touch on those things.
So that drama 20th
Jing Tian in Min Guo style
ever since Rattan, she definitely is perfect for that period style.
So for this one,
let's see if there's any breakthrough
if it's even more exciting to look at,
then there are two dramas we've talked about before
that has wrapped during this week.
First is a period drama called Zao Zuo Shi Guang
that doesn't have an English title yet
features Xu Zhengxi and Meng ZIyi as the leading roles
period, Tang Dynasty looking thing.
I've mentioned this in one of the weekly videos,
talking about its styling
hairstyle, costume, looking pretty nice.
Then the other one we've mentioned before that
has wrapped is the Man Ying Xun Zong, Back for You,
Republic of China setting with comic manga and drawing and a little
bit mystery and cases criminal stuff like mixed in that story.
It has wrapped shooting
led by Angelababy and Wang Anyu
would also feature guest stars such as Zhang Yujian
So that means Wang Anyu is basically filming multiple dramas at
the same time or maybe he finished his job for this project,
and he is also filming the one with Jin Chen
But for the production itself,
maybe it has other people shooting and it hasn't wrapped up.
Until now like I don't know,
he seems to be super busy,
which is a good thing at this point.
In time for Chinese dramaland,
any actor who is buried under work now is like a lucky person.
Finally, there's one drama that has started shooting
during this week, contemporary setting drama
and it's gonna be girl focused drama
looking rather promising with its casting
called Xin Xiang Shi Cheng basically means
whatever you think whatever you wish for will come true.
Good word.
And English title is Hello Beautiful Life.
And it's gonna be led by 2 female leads
Mao Xiaotong and Zhang Li
Zhang Li, If you are not very familiar with her,
she is the great actress who did Yao Niang 's Role
In Luoyang.
That one scene with Huang Xuan that pretty much is the
ultimate moment of that entirely of the drama
that actress.
So these two ladies are gonna play sisters
not sure if they're like blood related or not,
but they're very close, tight, knit, girl friendship.
I can't wait to see these two pull off a
good contemporary focused on women drama.
Those are all the news collected during this week.
Within half a month.
We're gonna see Chinese new year the year of tiger
Since the 12 zodiac animals doesn't really include cat.
Tiger is the closest thing to cat and
I love cats.
It's already 2 years after covid hits.
and like now we have Omicron
which is like a super, super, super contagious one
Yesterday I heard on news,
Manitoba government is saying,
expect every Manitoban
getting infected in the next couple of weeks of Omicron.
Should I now just dig a like I don't know,
snow cave and just go hibernating for the next.
How many weeks
that's just like a really gloomy Outlook.
So wherever you are,
I just hope you take care of yourself and do your best to stay healthy.
I don't even remember what it feels like to go on a bus
without wearing a mask.
It would be a very odd experience if one day that day comes
and you suddenly realize oh I don't need it anymore.
That's weird.
I'm rambling again at the end of this video
sorry
Thank you for watching AvenueX
I'll see you in my next video
Meanwhile, stay healthy, live long,
and happy drama watching.