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Hehe, it is! 😄

Keeping my fingers crossed the whole cast comes back

Sure is 😀

A good question; after being treated poorly by Tencent, would Dylan still want to work with them? But I’m at awe of his excellent PR skills and business savvy. After being treated unfairyly by IQiyi, he still went to their Scream Night where he received anothef scream god award. Same with Weibo, which has been used extensively by paid marketing accounts and trolls to blacken him. He still attended Weibo Night. So, with Tencent, I think he will choose what’s best for his career.

You’re welcome! I’m super thrilled myself 😃

You’re welcome! Hoping season 2 does happen 😃

I’m actually impressed with Tian Xi Wei’s acting. The princess acts spoiled due to her upbringing and the kind of family she has. She knows that the best way for the insecure emperor to not feel threatened by her is to act silly. Actually, Princess Lin An is smart, not to mention kind. TXW also has the best onscreen kisses with Dylan 🥰

Tencent’s announcement shows they’re eager to have season 2. It’s up to Dylan to confirm his participation.

Cast not yet confirmed. With this announcement, Tencent has expressed its intention to have season 2. The ball is in Dylan’s court, if he wants to star in the second season too.

Seems like Dylan’s fans are known to have deep pockets 🥺

QQ is an instant messaging platform also owned by Tencent. The SVIP memberships may be used in both QQ and Tencent Video apps

Another exciting news… Tencent has started selling special QQ + Tencent Video SVIP memberships that claim to give members an “exciting content preview for GOTD2”!

Season 2 is coming?!?!

Maoyan reported that GOTD has exceeded 1.3 billion effective playback volume.

It will be noted that VIP (non-express) package has not aired the finale yet. Also, the number of GOTD views in a piracy site (not included in official counts) is not trivial, 7 times more than the second most pirated cdrama for the day. In the chart I saw, GOTD pirated views > 14 million per day while views of the second most pirated cdrama that day was > 2 million. So, for 40 episodes, the number of GOTD views on the piracy site could be half a billion. Too bad this number would not go in official counts.

So, GOTD fans, please watch the drama in official sites only - Tencent Video, WeTV, Viki, Disney+, Viu, New TV Hit Drama (please let me know if I missed some sites).

Passersbys (viewers who are neither Dylan fans nor antifans) who liked GOTD are speaking up to condemn the smear campaign against this drama. A Chinese e-sports winner said (translated from Chinese):
“Who says GOTD is bad? It’s all just those paid marketing accounts + paid trolls. They’re purposely thrashing Wang Hedi. Honestly, only he can bring XQA to life. His acting is truly phenomenal.”

One significance is that it only gets close to royalty, which begs the question, does Xu Qi An have royal blood? It plays an important role in ep 32

I noticed that she seemed to have lost weight too

As of 1/22, GOTD is now 2nd in domestic animation history

Oh, I didn’t know this is happening in Weibo too. I’ve been reading about something similar happening in Douyin; people post about him and GOTD but the posts are not searchable/visible by others. It seems this is called shadowbanning? His fans have been calling Didi, GOTD and themselves some other names on the platform, e.g. “DF soldiers” for fans, so their posts are not shadowbanned. Sabotage like this is why I don’t believe charts depending in popularity anymore, like Maoyan, Datawin and VLinkage, as they can easily be manipulated

His haters tried to cripple his and GOTD’s popularity with a huge smear campaign but the drama still succeeded 😃

Yey, Didi is blessed to have such amazing fans indeed! I think this is another reason his haters envy him - his loyal fan base with deep pockets 😄