Hey, welcome to another video from AvenueX looking at chinese dramaland in the past week,
usually after a small week of stuff, we have a big week
starting with as usual stuff that has been scheduled.
There is a drama that should go live on february the 10th.
If nothing went wrong on Tencent called Ting Shuo Ni Xi Huan Wo, English title Love Heals
It is a contemporary drama led by Wang Churan and Peng Guanying
It's gonna happen in a hospital, red flags
let's hope the hospital part works out properly,
and it's about two people who are already divorced at the beginning of the story
who come back in the same hospital, ending up together, working together,
and then remarry, I mean even just by the synopsis,
it's basically two doctors fall in love.
So I guess it totally depends on if the chemistry works out well between these two actors.
Then on the 14th, so far it's likely a drama would go live,
but it's unconfirmed, but very likely, okay the Youku drama
Hu Xin, Back from the Brink
I've talked about this a long time ago.
A fantasy period drama led by Zhou Ye and Hou Minghao
Xian Xia stuff like dragons, reincarnation.
Then we do have another youku drama that has officially released a new trailer.
They're also saying if not this month, first quarter of this year,
so by March it should come out, a period fantasy xian xia drama that we've talked about before as well.
Xing Luo Ning Cheng Tang, The Starry Love led by Li Landi and Chen Xingxu.
The trailer looks at least it's a comedy fantasy, xian xia comedy,
where a human woman marries into the heavenly realm
and starts to do all kinds of crazy things up there to mess it all up.
You could did its traditional with its own platform style grading of color
and skin smoothing, oh heavens, Chen Xingxu almost doesn't look like himself anymore.
If you've watched that drama before that he did with Zhang JIngyi,
and suffered from the blinding skin smoothing, him almost losing all his facial shadows and features.
This drama is the heavenly realm version.
I was very shocked about how bad it looks.
And honestly I don't understand the aesthetics of youku
for january, it really was tencent and particular iqiyi's month in terms of getting super popular dramas.
So Youku really wants to catch up, they've just released a trailer yesterday
of a contemporary crime drama that's also led by Zhang Yi called Ta Shi Shui, Who is He?
that you have very little information on it, and previously they haven't promoted it at all
and they just suddenly chucked out a new trailer.
And this drama doesn't even have an official weibo account,
which is what dramas do these days in china.
They don't even have that, so they're very hastily chucking the trailer out,
rubbing off the heat of the other platform's success.
So this drama based on the trailer is a serial killer case
that gets investigated by Zhang Yi as the main character.
And it's a very classic serial killer case in crime dramaland where young women gets murdered
and it's gonna be led by him, Ding Yongdai, Chen Yusi, also featuring Yu Haoming,
zhang yi looks so much like the character he is in the Wang Junkai and him drama Be Reborn.
He looks almost identical, and then he's also a policeman.
He plays too many policemen in a row
Let's see, at this time Youku can succeed at their plan.
Then we have a couple of dramas that all started shooting
right after chinese new year during this week
in no particular order, first is a drama I mentioned last time.
The Zhe Yao, prisoner of beauty drama,
they officially started shooting and there's already leaked material
about what the main leads look like.
I have to say Song Zuer's styling, hairstyle, costume is gorgeous.
The next drama is also a period drama that has started shooting,
and i'm already laughing. I'll let you know why
called Xiang Si Ling, Everlasting Longing.
It's based on a novel written by the very famous romantic novel writer,XI Juan,
who is already very old, like belonging to a couple of generations ago writers,
but nonetheless was very, very influential popular in romantic novels back in the 80s 90s.
And this novel original title is Qiang Lai de Xin Niang
which means the bride that got kidnapped.
And it's a story about the female lead who's very pretty who basically got
kidnapped by a tribal guy who who's outside of her country type of story.
It's gonna be led by Yang Ying, Angelababy, Song Weilong
My opinion about this type of casting is
if you have to cost somebody who is pretty but who cannot act,
at least pair them up with somebody who can act,
that can balance it off, if you have two people who are both very good looking,
but neither of them can really act at all.
Houston, we have a problem.
You're gonna have 2 pieces of very pretty human wood staring at each other.
It's gonna provide you with a lot of pretty shots of pretty people
that you can use for MV editing, But I have zero hope, honestly,
if it turned out to be actually completely not that.
And suddenly like, I don't know, enlightenment happen to their acting,
i'd be more than happy you slap across my own face and say all the good things about this drama
But before that happens, good luck to the production,
another drama that has started shooting, right after the break of chinese new year
is a much more interesting project to me.
It's a contemporary drama and they've started shooting and started the ceremony in Finland.
It's very unusual for a chinese drama to start shooting in a foreign country.
Let alone for the last 3 years, none of that could have happened
because people couldn't really travel easily due to Covid and how strict the policy in china is.
Now. It's like you can.
So the crew went to Finland to hold their opening ceremony
and it is the drama During the Snowstorm, a drama led by Zhao Jinmai and Wu Lei
I like this pair, 2 young,definitely career on the rise people
and it's gonna feature a lot of foreign land, so it visually is gonna be more interesting
than a completely domestically made drama and the drama is focused on,
both leads being very talented at playing pool or billiards or snooker,
like depending on which game you actually play.
but basically it's with the stick and the ball.
I'm curious to see Wu Lei and Zhao Jinmai both doing that on camera,
I don't know how much training they've got for doing that.
When I was a little, I tried, with like the uncles and whatever guys in the family trying to teach me.
And then I was like, oh, this is not my game.
For people can do it very well, you have all my respect.
Then we have a group of drama, although they haven't announced when they're gonna come out,
they've all got license to air during this week, so technically,
they're all reay, just totally depending on how the platforms holding them are gonna schedule.
First is the contemporary drama that also features Wu Lei,
Wu Lei, Zhou Yutong, Ai Qing Er Yi, Nothing but You
I think that's the title where office worker versus tennis coach.
Then we have a period drama I've talked about a long time ago, once,
that's set in Tang Dynasty called Feng Yu Nong Yan Zhi Luan
It's not a very easy title and it doesn't have an official english translation yet.
That's led by Wang Yuwen and Zhang Nan, the two ladies play sisters,
I believe who go through a lot of turmoil in their family's uprising and and falling
and in the Tang dynasty background with a little bit war and all that going on,
then the other one that has gotten a license is a contemporary drama called Can Lan Can Lan
I believe previously has a different name, but does not matter
English title is Bright, and it's led by Guo JIngfei, Ren Min, Wang Yuan
So this is a high school drama where GJF plays a teacher who basically left teaching for years,
then got back to teaching and then had to face the class of
students who are redoing their national college entrance examination.
So Ren Min is one of those high school student who failed or who
didn't perform as well as they wish they could during 1 year's exam.
So they decided to redo that, which is quite common and quite sad.
Then during this week, we have the ongoing period fantasy drama that is still being shot,
releasing its first set of official materials,
Shen Yin. The Last Immortal led by Zhao Lusi and Wang Anyu
I've already talked about this project previously and
there are leaked photos about what they look like on set.
So there's time officially releasing character posters for all the main male characters and female.
They really over photoshop people, holy shit,
particularly for Zhao Lusi as she's female lead, she's the first image that comes out on the post.
I'm like, what? if you're familiar with her,
you almost have to do a double take to realize oh, it's her
I don't understand, again, aesthetics of current dramaland of doing anything,
posters particularly, this is tencent, this is not Youku, but it kind of looks like worse thatn Youku.
And then also during this week a drama started officially promoting
a contemporary drama called Fei Chi Ren Sheng, Pegasus.
And this is the drama version of the film Pegasus Fei Chi Ren Sheng that happened back in the year 2019.
I remember cause that year it was 2019 this film and then Wandering EarthOne
that was like very competitive against each other.
This is the drama version, taking the same characters from the film,
but they have different things happening and different casting.
and this is a drama about car racing.
If you've watched the film version, in this drama version,
Hu Xianxu is gonna play Huang JIngyu's role,
Wang Yanlin is gonna play Shen Teng'sn role
They haven't said when this drama is gonna get released,
it only just started promoting, probably still gonna wait for a bit until it can come out.
So that's all the drama specific news we've had during this week,
which is already a lot, and then during this week,
Hu Ge announced, I have a daughter i've just had a daughter, Now I'm a father.
Done
He basically has been married for a while,
but he never announced it and he married somebody who is not
technically working in the industry as an actress at least, right? but related
Hu Ge is already in his 40s and he has definitely passed the stage where
basically if you have relationship with a woman or even father child
is gonna destroy your career, right?
He has moved on to a different stage of the life.
So I guess the whole internet when it sees that
it's just like, okay congratulations, hope you are happy being a father
just gives you an idea about if there are a lot of younger people who are right now very popular,
the thing is you're not gonna know if they actually are married or having a family already.
They're just not gonna tell you and keep it very, very low.
for money and for career sake until they're too old to be relevant.
And then they will tell you
it has happened many times, so i'm not surprised at all.
I'll let you know something really funny.
I think it's right around the time of 2017,
I had a dinner with a good friend who is very studied in traditional chinese fortune telling
that type of thing and we started to look at celebrities
and I was like let's look at astrology chart and he's like let me use the traditional chinese Ba Zi
and we look at the same person and trying to guess you know
the birth time because you never know the famous people's birthtime exactly.
and we looked at Hu Ge, I still till today remember the conclusion between us is pretty unanimous,
although we use different system is like he is not gonna get married
until he reaches 40 and even 45.
So it's like 40-45 between that age time
before that don't even think about it.
And that was back in 2017, so 6 years ago.
And there was a girl present at that dinner.
She's a huge fan of Hu Ge's, and she's like, oh, cool
So I still have some years, well girl.
Now the chance is closed, Clearly.
These are everything I wanna talk about this week.
Thank you for watching AvenueX i'll see you my next video
meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.