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Have you watched the trailers for the next 4 episodes?

It has 38.2% online viewership from the market share according to YunHe statistics. The show is a big hit in China.

https://weibo.com/5928051971/QvrQzjUSU

There hasn't been a show with this kind of data since Joy of Life came out in 2019.

The Prisoner of Beauty and Love Like The Galaxy, which are my favourite cdramas do. Since the screenwriter wrote the script for LLTG, this might be her style.

I don't know. To me it seems that ending in the middle of the scene or a cliff hanger is something common in all Chinese dramas. They almost always start the next episode reiterating the last sentences of the previous episode. Which comes in handy when you are binge watching and skip an episode by mistake.

China has Tencent Video (WeTv), iQiyi, Youku etc as streaming services. They are using Netflix and co to popularise cdramas in the West. It is more likely to pull the licensing once enough international fans have subscribed to their services than to give in to the foreign streaming platforms.

I for one gave up Netflix, Disney Plus and Prime and now have yearly subscriptions to WeTv, iQiyi, Youku and Viki and could not be happier with the decision.

They try to bring their model and thinking to the world, not the other way around. Licensing shows on Amazon Prime, Disney or Netflix does not impact the production and release of cdramas.

Yu Qian Qian saw Fan Chang Yu when she went to get revenge at Wang's meat shop and asked her employees to bring Chang Yu to the restaurant to discuss business.

They rely on their own market. International fans are a plus, not the target audience. So I don't think they will change to adapt to the westerner style.

The screenwriter did a great job adapting Love Like The Galaxy. I was looking forward to seeing how she would handle this one.

Qi Min knows Yan Zheng is the marquis, Yan Zheng had not seen Qi Min before, so he doesn't recognise him.

Yes, next 2 weeks only 1 episode per day except for the weekend. It is possible though we get express sometime in the last week of March. If this happens, it will be announced a day or 2 in advance.
https://mydramalist.com/discussions/760409-zhu-yu/148576-calendar-official-airing-schedule?pid=3478042&page=1#p3478042

If you like historical romance cdramas with a bit of action and humour, this is probably the best there is. It's been incredible so far.

The leads have great chemistry, the ensemble cast are great, superb cinematography, the director is the one from Blossom and the screenwriter from Love Like The Galaxy. Cannot recommend it enough!

The waters seem to have calmed after ZLH lawyered up.

And that he is a willing victim of her charms.

Before watching cdramas, I thought a cough that never goes away or coughing blood meant TB. Now I know it's anything from exhaustion to dying or even getting cured from deadly poisons 🫠

He made 20 by selling some essays if you remember. For him, it's pocket change, but these people are so poor that 20 taels is enough for a household to live on for 2-3 years, if they are frugal enough.

The screenwriter also wrote the script for Love Like The Galaxy. I was so anxious to see ZLH in a drama wrote by her and this does not disappoint! It doesn't hurt that the director is the one from Blossom either. As I mentioned in previous comment the other day, it seems like the stars aligned for this drama, everything is a match made in heaven. There will be a major cdrama hangover after the airing is done.

He looks like a cross between Dylan and Ding Yuxi to me.

Episode 1, he watches on the cliff when the nanny comes to take her home. Then he watches when uncle Dong is sent away for treason. He watches when the Chen carriage comes into the capital. He watches on the Lantern Festival when she is in a red dress. He watches when Shaoshang goes to her first party and A'Yao has a fight with his fiancée...

LBY pretended not to be a gossip, but he was interested nonetheless. There was no value in watching uncle Dong being sent away. Lol. At least he knew what family he was marrying into.