Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week
and let's get right into it
in chronological order of dramas going live
or have been scheduled to go live.
First on the 24th,
a drama went live on the platform Tencent as well as satellite television,
Jiangsu television,
Jian Yan de Xia Dong, English title
The investigator
led by Zhu Yawen and Wan Qian
depicting the main characters as the investigators
of global companies.
For example, this company submits for ipo
and our main characters are the people who would be responsible for
checking all the documents and making sure there's no fraud involved.
The kind of very high and risk management jobs.
If I hear really positive feedback from people,
I probably will go and just take a look , if not
I may leave it just because I have like 6,7
dramas lined up that I need to deal with.
I still haven't.
Then last week I said there is a police drama ledy by Huang Jingyu
that has started promoting that will also come out on iqiyi
the drama went live, unannounced ,pretty much
on the 25th
then on the 28th already scheduled
a drama should go live on Tencent
it's a contemporary drama i've talked about twice before.
Called Lian Ai de Xia Tian, Discovery of Romance
led by Qin Junjie and Wu Qian
This is a pretty standard contemporary setting
romantic story about two different professions people meet.
And then obviously they're gonna fall in love.
And this is not the only time that Qin Junjie is gonna be mentioned.
During this video.
You'll see why very soon.
One day after that, on the 29th,
Mango television will release another mango monsoon drama.
They've been doing that since last year,
Xiao Shi De Hai Zi, The Disappearing Child.
So just by the title,
you know this is a mystery crime type of drama.
It's led by Tong Dawei and Wei Chen
This guy has a 9 year old son that just one day
disappeared in the stairwell of their apartment building,
then after that on the very last day of August 31st,
that's the second time i'm gonna mention QJJ
Another drama led by him
also owned by Tencent is gonna go live,
is it because tencent love him too much or just like
don't care about how good the dramas perform.
Usually you don't see the same platform doing this,
releasing the same actor leading drama.
Two of them at the same time
I feel like they're just rushing to put everything out.
Before the end, maybe it's because later it's gonna be tighter
about releasing dramas?
because it's heading towards November
and november has big things happening in china, I don't know.
Anyway, so on the 31st that would be the period Wu Xia drama
based on the Jin Yong novel releasing, Fei Hu Wai Zhuan
If you are big Jin Yong reader, you know about this work
Side Story of the Fox Volant
I know that word has multiple pronunciations volant~ whatever, but hey,
people don't use it really in daily language.
This is one of Jin Yong's novels.
He has another story called the snowy mountain of the fox volant
That's like the proper story.
This is like the side story,
but anyway it has recurring characters and it set in Qing dynasty
this time this version while it was filming I did talk about it.
It's led by QIn Junjie, Liang Jie, XIng Fei, Lin Yushen
So another Jin Yong adaptation,
these days for Jin Yong adaptation,
I just pray for it to be normal.
okay,You don't have to do groundbreaking work, it's unlikely.
We all see and we all know how far the
Wu Xia genre has declined in recent decade.
as long as it's better than Tian Long Ba Bu and Lu Ding Ji
it will be fine.
Then let's talk about a couple of other things of dramas.
First is during this week Can Lan Jue, Fairy and Devil
that I i've been keeping close eye on has managed to broken
within iqiyi's own scoring system.
How they judge how popular a drama is.
The 4th breaking the number 10,000 drama in terms of the heat.
The popularity in iqiyi's history
ever since they started implementing this system.
The first one was the 2017 Yan Xi palace.
Then it was the Heroic Husband.
Then it's earlier this year,
Ren Shi Jian, Life is A Long Journey
and now it's Cang Lan Jue
So CLJ is the 4th drama in the history of iqiyi to manage
to hit during its airing that sort of number of 10,000.
I don't know how they calculate it
but it's hard to get
not even Under the skin this year has gotten that
It was like about 8000 or 9,000.
It didn't hit the 10,000 mark,
and it's not even the ending.
It's the 1 week before the last week 6 episodes.
And we all know as this video goes out,
the epic episode is gonna happen
31st episode where shit happens
and then they need to basically restart everybody's relationship,
likely the drama is gonna go even higher.
Let's see how far it's gonna go.
Then last night mango released a trailer of a drama,
they say they're gonna put out very, very, very soon.
It's a period drama and I haven't also heard about it before,
but i'm a little bit intrigued.
It's called Fu Liu Nian
Lost Track of Time
And this is one of those Chong Sheng Wen (重生文） rebirth story.
Female lead gets wronged and kind of died,
but then she comes back.
I don't know how they do that.
It's period drama.
So there are million ways,
and then she comes back to revenge.
Xing Fei looks pretty nice in the trailer at least,
and it's led by her , Zhai Zilu and Jing Chao
Jing Chao is gonna play the bad and emperor guy
I always find this actor more attractive
when he plays bad people than good people,
I hope for this drama,
if it is really as dog blood "gou xie"as the trailer suggests,
then just turn it on.
to maximum, full-on, just milk all the possibilities of that genre.
Then during this week, a drama has started shooting
in the heat.
In case people don't know china.
In some places, it's super hot right now like my hometown.
It's been over 40 for like 3 weeks now constantly.
And there are so many forest fires in my hometown right now.
They've just put down a huge one that was threatening
a major city district pretty epic thing.
But that's not a drama.
That's a real story.
Anyway, during this super hot season,
a drama has started shooting and it's a period drama
Da Li Si Shao Qing You, Based on Da Li Si Ri Zhi
which is an animation english title,
White Cat Legend
which is pretty direct translation.
So this manga slash animation has this main character,
a white cat ,who works as a crime investigator
of the official bureau of crime investigation of Tang dynasty.
So it's a pretty interesting story.
I've read the manga, very nice
and this is the live action version.
They've started shooting it,
and the leading actors are Ding Yuxi and Ren Min
And DYX is gonna play the cat, the white cat.
So this is like his second time of playing not human role.
He has a drama where he leads it with Yang Chaoyue
that crosses over with Cang Lan Jue, fairy and devil
because they're produced by the same company
and they are in the same universe.
And then Chang Heng is gonna show up in the drama.
Anyway in that drama there was a lifetime
where Ding yuxi's character is not a human.
I'm pretty sure it's like a like a demon of any animal.
I can't remember what it is.
But now he's a white cat.
Cat ears will be super cute on him.
So those already specific dramas related news.
Then at the end of this video,
let's talk about a big melon has just exploded at the end of August,
Zhang Tian'ai, the actress
who is the leading actress of Go Go Princess, released.
The phone recording that she had with her ex boyfriend Xu Kaicheng,
in which is the guy confessing to her
about he went to a friend's home
where that friend invited a lot of other people in
and he got drunk and slept with another girl
told her that was the reason why
when zhang tian I wanted to come out
with their relationship to the public
he refused
at that time.
His excuse was my agency wouldn't allow me to do that.
If I do that I have a contract with them.
you know It's gonna cause problems.
But the truth was he slept with another girl.
and he was worried that if he publicized their relationship,
that girl is gonna show up and destroy his career.
So that's what the phone call is.
But that's like the second stage of this whole gossip.
What happened before is a couple of days before.
Paparazzi caught Xu Kaicheng and Na Zha
being very close to each other
going into each other's apartment that type of thing
because they just finished shooting a drama together
at the time.
Pretty much everybody who cares about Zhang Tian'ai and Xu Kaicheng
knows they've been together for a couple of years,
although they never publicized it,
but because they didn't really say they've already broken up.
Therefore, when paparazzi caught Na Zha and Xu Kaicheng together,
they thought she is the third wheel,
and that started to going on on internet,
and people started to attack Na Zha and you see Zhang Tian'ai
couple of days later came out with this recording
basically showing that they've already broken up.
And also this guy is a serial offender of~~~~
all women.
You should wipe your eyes clean
and just like stay away from this kind of guy.
And after that Xu Kaicheng came out with an apology.
And after that Na Zhan reposted Zhang Tian'ai's video
Very briefly saying I was never a third wheel.
I got lied to, I didn't know and then this guy is garbage.
So basically these two super pretty women kind of outed,
this guy that now he becomes a joke in chinese entertainment
that call, you know the way he's said those things
it was so funny.
oh my god Like the the wording,
he's so self moving himself,
like convincing himself.
He is the victim, it's so cringy
It's the worst type of script writing.
You can imagine if it happens in a drama for a guy to say
it literally makes your toe like go.
dig out a whole castle with your toes
just by listening to what he says.
He's got two dramas.
He leads that are completely finished,
one with tencent,
one with iqiyi
now we do not know if those dramas are gonna be airing safely
or are they gonna do anything about it, there
like swapping faces.
He didn't do any legally offensive things like drug dealing.
So technically he wouldn't really be banned in anyway.
But I doubt anybody would still wanna be a fan of his
~~~ if you've listened to that recording,
you can't you really cannot.
He's just so much of a joke
and the grass mower agrees, it just came in
then he's got a film and actually just got mentioned
last week in my weekly video of the Chang Kong Zhi Wang
The. Born to Fly pilot film
like the third lead or something,
main supporting role in that film
that film is done
to make it even more dramatic.
Wang Feng
The rock singer very well known in china
as the human walking prediction machine
whenever he wants to do something
something huge is gonna happen in chinese entertainment
where the trending hash tag is gonna be higher than his
releasing of album or concert.
Earlier this month, Wang Feng announced he was going to
release the first new album in 2 years' time on august 24th.
everybody was waiting for melon on 24th.
And then right after wang feng's release of album,
Zhang Tian'ai released the recording and boom
end of august kpi of all paparazzi are fulfilled.
so Wang feng again never disappoint
as the human version of that hole in the tree.
If you've watched fairy and devil, you know what it is, right?
He never misses it,
just like Xiao Jingteng never misses a rainfall.
The magic of entertainment business continues.
I just feel very fortunate that I never for once
felt very captivated or interested in Xu Kaicheng's acting as an actor
so now when this happens,
I don't get to even feel the house collapsing on you type of feeling.
I just see it happen and i'm like
ah i'm not surprised at all
it's entertainment business and it's a guy.
It's very sad though, these days,
it's so easy to feel disappointed but then accept it
I really miss my childhood where I still had quite stupid and naive,
believes in the good of people,
in the high standard of things.
And now i'm like whatever
end of the world tomorrow, fine,
don't care about it.
i'm gonna stop putting out more negative vibe for your weekend.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
I'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.