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That melon got no basis so far, that's why not much movement from both Zhao Lusi and Xu Kai cfans. If there's any truth to it, there will be movement/buzz around fans. Only those oblivious to how project rumor being passed around will make fuss about it and that's where fanwars usually occurred. Usually high profile pairing like this can cause fanwar during the rumor's stage but since both sides still chill, obviously they knew the one who spread it are not from the opposite side. Meaning, Zhao Lusi fans know ZLS don't need to hype the cake using Xu Kai's name and Xu Kai fans know ZLS don't need Xu Kai to hype the cake.

They are boycotting the production due to their manipulation of fans. They still support Xu Kai for this drama. They just won't spend money like cloud booking, renew platform membership, reservation, hyping up the drama on socmed. Basically they are exercising their rights as consumer. See Moonlit Reunion, how production treated Xu Kai and still rely on Xu Kai fans for promoting and cloud booking due to his traffic. That's cheating on consumers. People said their action will hurt Xu Kai as bad result equal to bad reputation, but how many bad reputation got mocked on Xu Kai in the past due to fraud in his dramas but Xu Kai prevailed. Also, Xu Kai fanbase already past normal traffic fans who cares about high data and high popularity. These are all inflated. If these data that many traffic fans boasted are real, industry won't suffer severe decline like now. For Spring of the blade, fans simply trusted Xu Kai's ability to deliver his character like what happen to Eight Hundred. They just don't want to help others leech off Xu Kai and robbed his result like what happen many times in the past.

Yes, a phone. To replace the broken one.

Included. They were part of it but there are many others. These are just some of it.

"Hesong really likes Xu Kai?” - the suitable question is "how many collaboration were there between hesong and huanyu artists?” xukai-nazha, zhou ye-wang xing yue, wxy - Xu ruohan, neo hou-nazha (huanyu drama The Glory), xukai-zhou ye. Hesong got great resources in fashion and got industry influential figure with them but they didn't have drama resources and relies on connection with platforms and close collab with Huanyu who has own production to produce dramas. There are many instances on how both sides benefit each other, I don't want to go into details but so far none benefit Xu Kai. Why? Because c-ent main business is to propel artists to top and used them later for resource control exchanges. Xu Kai exploded early, so there's no time for him to shine to be promoted by company instead he directly assumed the role to help Huanyu propel others. No matter how many "explosions" claimed so far by hit dramas, none came close to Yanxi Palace explosions. To this date, Fuheng index remained the highest for drama characters among 95 actors and Xu Kai further solidify his position with Lingjian Mountain. That's why the moment his name confirmed for dramas, investment will come and this is where Yuzheng is the happiest, he can act like God and toyed others with his power of controlling resources because he's the boss for Xu Kai.

Sohu is just media outlet with credibility.

Sohu reported all lawsuits issues. The so-called melon about collaboration is only being spread by marketing accounts. There's no credibility on the melon master. This melon is nowhere to be seen on Douban, only on Weibo. This kind of move is just to create diversion from the main issues that has been on going. In the past few days romance melon being shot up out of nowhere like Dilireba- Chen Feiyu and Qin Junjie. But netizens are not eating it. They keep pressing on it. Right now, they put the billing regulation on trend.

After license passed, there's possibility it passed if they amend some parts. So I'm guessing the parts that WZX is about to dub is actually re-dubbing to fulfill the "passed" requirements.

I always love the pacing of this director. The storytelling is easy to follow.

GE provides security guard everytime going for filming.

He didn't even have his own studio.

The concern is about possibility of dumbing the MALE lead in order to be equal. it was never about dumbing the FL. because in female-centric, to show the FL is strong, they WEAKEN the MALE lead. there was no hatred on the FL, it was the concern on the PLOT WRITING direction.

exactly. this is the problem of cn drama. there must be no flaws on characters with uniform. even if the flaws are actually normal human flaws and will serve as improvement in latter plot.

"That's her own thinking" - precisely. and what you replied to me is "your thinking". each has different angle on how they see things.

Let me reiterate what Mephisto meant. The way they want to make a story of "empowering women" in a "male dominated society", is not through their own women power of facing equally with men but by dumbing the men in order to let the women win. In order words, it's degrading to women too since it's not their wit that makes them win, it's the men who allows it. The writing is not creative enough and the writers thinking that women is winning when men is losing. That's a black and white mentality is actually oppressed thinking.

no worries

can you please put spoiler?

Traffic-wise in the eyes of platform. They are respected veteran actors but they don't have the status of carrying drama. To avoid misunderstanding, this is not my pov. This is the pov of his agency and platform.

your "quality" evaluation is different from them. their "high quality" refers to business transaction that can be achieved outside the drama and before filming started. this type of drama hardly attract many investors because the returns usually low. so the salary offer definitely not high, in other words, pay cut. if pay cut, portion received by agency also low. also the casts in this dramas did not belong to the "high echelon of the industry".

because drama like this won't bring massive profit like costume romance dramas. so they think it's a waste of money spent to promote because niche drama won't get popular. also this is small production so kinda low quality project, so no chance for resource exchange.