Hello, welcome to another week's video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week,
a lot of dramas went live during last week.
Some previously already announced
some kind of airdropped
so in order of them airing in time
first on march the 15th.
Oath of Love finally went live, Yu Sheng Qing Duo Zhi Jiao
with Xiao Zhan and Yang Zi on hunan television.
Then on the 16th the drama Ying Di de Gong Zhu, Be My Princess
led by Xu Zhengxi and Zhou Jieqiong
also went live.
I've watched a little bit of it,
the type of nobody would ever say it's a good drama,
but then if you want some brain-less fun,
it does have that element.
type of thing
totally depends on if you actually like these two actors.
Then on the 17th two dramas went live,
one is the drama i've already said last time that's scheduled,
life is a long quiet river.
That's led by some very, very good actors in chinese dramaland
I've checked out the first three episodes.
It is definitely watchable at this point and I hope it gets better later
family life domestic-ish drama set in the
super expensivecity shanghai and it has a lot to do with
buying properties
ah the pain.
For our commoners.
We're gonna talk more about that at the end of this video.
you'll know why
then also on the same day the drama that
kind of suggested they're gonna go live this month,
but didn't say until like one day before,
they said we are gonna go live.
Yu Jun Chu Xiang Shi
The Blue Whisper
Fantasy drama led by Dilraba and Ren Jialun
it's on Youku and it airs at the weirdes schedule I can imagine
so for the first 9 days for all the vip
it's gonna keep updating
Today it's 2 episodes, tomorrow it's just one episode,
but they're gonna keep doing that for 9 days and then a break.
And then like I don't know like how they design this like.
It's very confusing.
Anyway.
The whole thing is 44,
and they break it down into first half and second half.
22 and 22.
Don't quite understand why that's necessary.
It's not super long.
Why do you have to do that?
But anyway, it has aired, has started.
I've actually watched the first 4 episodes already yesterday.
I'll try to catch on with this drama as much
as I can before I put out a review video.
Then today as i'm sitting down making this video,
a drama just went live on iqiyi and I didn't even know it existed,
but I will check it out cause it's a short drama,
only 12 episodes
Liao Bu Qi de D Xiao Jie, The Greate Miss D
Led by Zhang Jingyi and Niu Junfeng
also featuring Zeng Li
which is a beautiful actress.
I've only just turned it on before I sat down
and I was watching it while I set up my camera.
For today.
As a chinese drama youtuber,
you try to watch dramas at all times in all kinds of weird ways.
Then let's talk about a couple of other dramas at different stages.
There is a drama that threw out a trailer during this week
hasn't said when it's gonna come likely very soon
and this is a tencent drama called Zhui Ai JIa Zu
The Bachelors,
the cast is made up with Guo Jingfei, Jia Nailiang, Xiong Ziqi
These three guys,
I guess are somehow related in some ways
and then they are bachelors
and then the female lead is Tan Zhuo
just because it has Guo Jingfei and Tan Zhuo together.
And not so long ago,
we've just finished their espinage contemporary drama.
That's great.
In terms of their acting,
I may try my best to check out this drama when it airs
But then just having the actors names kind
of really don't guarantee you anything.
Think about the Zheng Wu Yang Guang drama
Xiang Feng Shi Jie with Lei Jiayin and Yuan Quan
I think that has like the lowest score of ZWYG drama ever
right now on Dou Ban and i've only heard
rant about this drama
like nobody ever said anything good about this drama.
And I actually tested about 3 to 4 episodes of
that drama before I totally just gave up on it.
So even with some great actors doesn't mean
the drama would turn out to be great,
you still have to actually watch the drama to know whether it's worth it.
Then also during this week because it was on china's lunar calendar.
One of the day is Hua Zhao Jie
no longer very celebrated holiday anymore,
but traditionally it's pretty interesting and it's about flowers
because this is spring.
So on the day of Hua Zhao I think
the drama released an atmospherical trailer
that doesn't really tell you much about the plot,
but just about the mood of it.
And that's the fantasy drama.
Cang Lan Jue led by Wang Hedi and Yu Shuxin
that is in post- production.
And because the female lead is actually an orchid fairy type of thing.
That's why they put out the trailer.
And I just checked on drama list,
they've decided they're gonna call this drama in english
eternal love.
And I was like
really????
do you know, in the english subtitle world of chinese drama
This is the third time that this word has been used for one drama.
So now you have this drama this drama and this drama
all called eternal love
good luck distinguishing that
really! do your research!
and just make up a different name.
Why?
why like Why the fascination with love and
its eternal and every drama is eternal love.
Today i'm being possessed by ranting demon probably.
Then one of the drama i've recently mentioned that is the
nrta's important projects started shooting during this week
Zhong Zhong Zhi Zhong, the one that is on heavy machinery,
heavy industrial mechanics stuff industry.
The power source,
that drama started shooting this week
and the casting Yang Shuo, Hou Yong, Jiao Junyan
These are the type of actors I consider to be a really
proper and serious actors when they are in proper serious dramas,
Yang Shuo
Sometimes when he's in wrong drama,
he looks at absolutely horrible,
but then when he was in the right type of drama
with the right type of roles
he is fantastic
and hou yong no need to worry about him.
Jiao Junyan I like her very much,
she needs to get more dramas, she's good.
If you've watched the Wang Li Chuan
if you've watched Fa Yi Qin Ming
you know she's one of the more unique actresses.
So these are specific drama news
and then during this week something really interesting happened
which is chinese tiktok Dou Yin and the platform sohu,
which also is a video platform,
but has become much smaller after the fierce
competition between the major platforms.
It kind of fell off the top team list.
You have the three Tencent, Iqiyi , Youku and mango on the top.
And then sohu is very far behind in terms of their copyright stock up dramas,
very few dramas air every year on sohu.
But Douyin and Sohu have collaborated and they
sign this thing about all sohu's copyright content.
Douyin's short video have the rights to do second iteration.
So basically people like me who do edits
if those dramas belong to sohu,
then you can put your edit on douyin without worrying
the stuff getting copyright strike,
which is the start of something
It hasn't happened before.
I guess it's because dy has a lot of traffic
tiktok , and then sohu is tiny.
Sohu needs traffic.
That's why they sign that kind of contract.
Whereas for iqiyi, youku, tencent
who are the top players of chinese long video these days,
don't see in the future anytime soon
that they are gonna do this with a short video platforms.
And to me, really,
I don't use TikTok
So like even if that's like you know like,
it doesn't mean anything to me.
My videos are not that short.
When I do edits,
well it's the start of something.
Let's see how it's gonna pan out and
how it's gonna influence the rest of the industry.
Finally, like I said earlier about money and property price.
I'm gonna talk a little bit about another big news
during this week which happened also on 315
March the 15th which is traditionally china's 消费者权益日
cosumers' rights day
and traditionally all kinds of media platforms will put out
their investigation news on bad quality products
on the day, apart from as usual,
people find out something they've been eating for years is crap
Then it is Deng Lun's news
leading actor of ashes of love.
Is now kind of cancelled in china due to tax evasion
that god publicly announced.
Immediately he issued a super 2 line short
apology from his official account on weibo.
And then like half an hour later,
his personal account on Douyin
his studio account on weibo all get deleted,
literally none existent anymore.
Think about all the tax evasion people we've had in last couple of years.
Nobody has come back yet.
So you pretty much can consider his career has
reached the point of
the coffin nail down
most of the celebrities who got found out with tax evasion problems,
do it in similar ways which is they would put their personal income.
Whatever that is, for example,
being spokesman of something or acting in dramas get the pay,
it's their personal income,
but they would go and get a couple of companies set up like their studio
and then put money into the studio and say that is that company's income.
The way of calculating tax in china is if it's your personal income,
it's one way of calculating it as individuals, natural person, business owner.
But if you have a company and you are the 法人
you know the legal server owner of this company,
then it goes to a different type of tax.
And with some maneuvering,
you can actually reduce your tax significantly from the level of.
You kind of have to pay almost 1/3 of your income once it goes over.
A big number.
to you kind of only need to pay between 3% and 10%,
depending on your registered local province or cities regulation.
In china.
The tax enforcement is actually really really gentle and thoughtful.
There are five steps they're gonna go through until
reaching the final point of.
First is enforce you to pay the money,
also publicize the news.
Let everybody know that you've evaded tax.
That's the last step.
Before that.
There are actually four stages of first notifying you, then warning you,
then you know likes four other steps.
If you don't comply.
4 times, that's the 5th time you will be.
so really,
there's no one he can blame apart from himself
and thinking about if it's united states, right?
And with us tax law and enforcement, holy shit,
you know china in comparison is so much softer
on how they deal with people who don't pay money.
It's not like there's any hard law that says because you got this exposed,
you will be cancelled.
but, Nobody would dare work with you anymore,
and then just look at previous people who have gone down
because of the money thing
fan bing bing is still nowhere to be seen
in terms of going back to acting.
She can do other things,
but going back to acting as a public figure is no longer an option
ashes of love is something i've watched,
but then i'm like very lukewarm towards the ip personally,
I don't like really have any emotional reaction to it,
but yeah for people who have been his fans for a long time,
it's it really sucks.
Hey, this type of thing.
But it's type of thing also is like,
yeah you can't argue with with the fact
that that it's just something
responsible celebrities shouldn't be doing like they already earn
so much money and why
he evaded about like 45 million.
That's the number amount of tax.
And then you have to pay fines over that.
So overall he paid 106 million rmb
for the tax He's found evading from 2019 to 2020
only 1 year
to give you an idea.
If you put 106 million rmb into a normal chinese bank account and get,
let's say, a 1 year saving type of thing.
So for the 365 days of a year,
every day, just for the interest money,
you will get eight thousand eight hundred
rmb which is over 1,500 us dollars
per day.
Put that into perspective how much money ridiculous money
chinese celebrities earn
another warning for every fandom people out there is like,
ydon't feel sorry about your gege and jiejie
they live in ways you cannot imagine.
And money to them is a totally different thing.
And for people,
your monthly salary is less than what they can earn one day
with just interest.
okay.They belong to a different social class.
come on,Come on.
Why do you feel like sorry for them,
for anything they do?
You deserve better.
Than spending all your time,
money and energy
feeling, sorry and worried about these people up there,
come on.
Every time when a celebrity has this type of problem,
it put something in perspective in your life.
If I want to earn that much money with my salary,
the type of I have to start back in the days
when dinosaur exists the type of thing.
Anyway,
so a little bit long ranting thing at the end of this video,
chinese dramaland really owes this world, a lot of apologies,
just because of the constant house collapse
emotional trauma,
psychological waste field,
no man's land,
and.. emotional pains we suffer
because of something we love.
Anyway, thank you for watching avenue x
i'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile live long unhappy drama watching
and may your houses never collapse.