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🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to Overdo for ranking No. 1 among all currently airing dramas, with a 16.4% viewer market share! (The lastest data today)
And these are the very numbers some people call "a flop" .

Overdo background story & plot explained (spoiler) Part 2: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSXCUQtrq/

Yes, and actually he's a popular singer many years, sings an OST for a very classic Republican drama 20 years ago, now he's cast here!

Welcome.

I like Ep 1 too 😊 Basically four families in total, Murong, Li, Huo, Zhang. The last three are villains, and each one is worse than the last.

I agree, I think it's really good too. I've actually dropped quite a few dramas since POJ. If I'm not enjoying a drama, I usually don't rate it because I don't want to affect its score.

After 20 years of watching dramas, seeing the reviews and ratings on this page since last night has honestly question my eyes. 😂

Thank you for ending the conversation on a friendly note. If I came across as rude at the beginning, I sincerely apologize. English isn't my first language, so I may not always express myself the way I intend to.

My only reason for responding was that I felt some of your "objective" reporting could be misleading, especially for international viewers who have never watched a Republican-era Chinese drama before. This genre has a very different storytelling style and aesthetic from many modern C-dramas, so it's easy to misinterpret certain choices if you're unfamiliar with it.

We don't have to agree on the drama, and I respect that everyone has different tastes. I just hope international viewers can make up their own minds after watching it themselves, rather than judging it based on one perspective alone.

I said your reporting was misleading. I never said you were being paid. Please read what I actually wrote before accusing me of something I didn’t say.

I’ve followed the Chinese entertainment industry for many years, and advertiser numbers are an important indicator of a drama’s commercial performance. More advertisers generally means brands believe the drama has a large and valuable audience. If viewers truly disliked it and stopped watching, why would advertisers continue placing ads in it?

Platforms pay very close attention to advertising numbers because that directly affects revenue. Once advertisers start pulling out of a drama, it usually signals that its performance is falling short and the platform risks losing money.

Honestly, the reaction of advertisers and platforms is often a much more reliable reflection of a drama’s actual performance than a handful of negative comments online. Capital follows audience attention and revenue, not fandom narratives.

Personal attacks don't add anything to this discussion. I watch dramas for the story, not fandom wars.

The fact is that many viewers in China have been praising this drama's script and storytelling. Its commercial performance has also been strong—each of the first five episodes reportedly carried nine advertisers, while several other dramas airing this summer lost advertisers because of weak viewership. That's one of the reasons the platform prioritized releasing this drama. Reports about the broader trend of advertisers pulling out of underperforming dramas have also been covered by Chinese media.

You're free to dislike the drama, but that's still an opinion, not an objective fact.

My point was that the comments you repeated are almost identical to the talking points being circulated by antis on Weibo.

Calling something “the general consensus of Chinese netizens” doesn’t automatically make it true, especially when Chinese platforms are full of very different opinions. Xiaohongshu, Douban, Weibo, and other platforms often have completely different user groups and narratives.

You’re entitled to dislike the drama, but presenting one section of online opinion as if it represents all Chinese viewers is misleading. And no, I’m not being paid to defend a drama. I simply disagree with your claims and explained why.

Btw, welcome to MDL.

Yes, please read the comments in that post carefully, people are holding both postive and negative opions.

Maybe your xhs is different from mine. Btw, Douban and Bilibili are also well-known for the base of ZLH's haters. Even POJ was critized there. So I don't think their comments are fair.

Btw, your account was just registered at the end of June, and only 4 dramas in your list. So your comments here are not so reliable. Your way of spreading rumors is not smart with just copy- pasting the haters comments from weibo.

I've seen all those comments before. They mostly come from Weibo, right? They're pretty much the same talking points repeated over and over by antis—it almost feels copy-and-paste. You should check out Xiaohongshu instead. The discussions there are generally much more balanced from normal people instead of other fandoms.

I have read a lot of comments on their largest post-styled social media called Rednote. Despite the Ai thing, most people are satisfied with the story itself, it's really the classic vibe of Republican dramas. And even the ai problem, chinese people are used to ai technology, they just think the ai here is not generated as good as expected, but they can accept ai. Many Xianxia and historical dramas use Ai or CGi much more frequent than this drama.

Welcome!

Different from today (6pm China time).

Tbh, the comments here can't been seen in China, and Ai intro are commonly used in cdramas since 2024.

As for the story, the upcoming episodes will reveal what actually happened back then. This drama is different from most C-dramas because it leaves a lot of mysteries unanswered at first instead of explaining everything right away.

The script is actually really well written. It has the kind of intense, emotionally charged storytelling that was common in older Republican-era dramas. If this is your first time watching this genre, it's completely normal if it feels a bit like a soap opera at first.

As for the other aspects, everyone has different tastes. Personally, I really like the vintage Republican-era color grading and cinematography. To be honest, I find the lighting and color grading in a lot of other C-dramas too bright and overly washed out, so this visual style is much more my preference.

Yeah, though their first-love story is in the 30sec flashback, I can feel the vibe and chemistry. And the 💌 is so romantic in that old era.❤️Btw, glad we can purely discuss the story here.😭