It sounds far for them to travel hours(?) to get there every day. The production seems serious with the settings.…
So it’s pretty obvious they have a yin yang script. When the drama was launched (investment conference), it used the "no CP selling point" (written in their project book) and advertising a Wang Hedi ‘male-led’ drama (47% is hardly male-led), but in reality it was promoting a FL and group drama (supporting casts have ‘main role’ title). Then now it was leaked that the crew force addition of emotional ties to SQJ and MY (like you said, becoming a cliché Xian Xia drama🙄). Some certified account said "The wedding is a dream scene, not real.” Book fans and DD fans still call for the deletion of any form of wedding scenes. Yesterday 6.19 (originally 6.23?) is said they were suppose to film the ‘drink wedding wine’ and get married scene, but they changed the shooting did not wear wedding clothes + wedding toast (at least we didn’t see those reuters yet). Maybe they were unwilling to give up also, the decorations still look like a wedding chamber with candlelight and a wedding dress was hung in the background. 🥴 They have been messing a lot with the character logic and plot integrity with these added scenes. Even the minor villains (Wu) said to have 30 scenes. 🙄
The wedding of WZY and MY is a key scene of the "first life.”
CHZ married WZY’s brother (Wei Zhanyang), so maybe that’s why WZY was at their wedding, but I don’t think his own wedding with MY is filmed yet. Li Qin is said to be filming a variety show end of June for at least 20+days, so they will pack in as much of her scenes as possible now.
Is there really no romance between Dylan and Li Qin?Weibo photos indicate something else unless I am wrong?
Which photo? The original story has no CP (but lots of bromance). 😄 There is only one-sided love/romance. They were accused of a yin yang script; advertising a ‘male-led’ drama and ‘no CP’ (written in their project book), but it was leaked that the crew force addition of emotional ties between SQJ and MY (wedding scenes). He is not married in the book. Fans protested and request to cancel those scenes. Whatever you have seen the shooting yesterday night, it was after the producer finally agreed to withdraw/adjust it.
It sounds far for them to travel hours(?) to get there every day. The production seems serious with the settings.…
Ah I see, first life the real CP is WZY & MY and then second life WZY brotherhood with SQJ. 😄 I already saw some SQJ and Ziye shippers. Recently reuters of CHZ and SQJ looks so good too I want to ship them, but I heard she is more like his goddaughter. 😭 Last week they filmed CHZ’s engagement or wedding banquet. I haven’t seen reuters of WD for a while. I think I saw the wedding wine scene was planned for 6.23 (some saying it’s removed from the schedule). They filmed the betrayal scene yesterday, so I think WD will be filming very very soon.
i read ur posts and i loved your reasearch and details u added btw i wanted to ask any updates of season 2?
There will likely be a season 2 because GOTD broke many records and after the first season was aired, it triggered a strong "withdrawal reaction", and viewers frequently urged for the second season. Wang Hedi has publicly expressed wanting to continue playing Xu Qian. The author also revealed that he and Wang Hedi had discussed the possibility of a second season. China Literature Group hinted at the possibility of developing a sequel. One of the gold gong actor hinted a possibly a S2. However, there is high possibility TXW may not return as she may not take a supporting role. I hope she returns. Wang Hedi is also rumored for another project after Live Long and Prosper. Hopefully they will announce it next year. 🤷♀️
Wow, GOTD has been played 4 billion times! 'Wonder if this includes piracy sites. The official viewership number…
Yes I believe when the advertisers talk about their backend data, it is not coming from Yunhe or Kuyun. Also, Yunhe count views if the viewer don’t skip the beginning and ending, don’t watch on double the speed and watch the episode for more than 20 mins. There’s also a thing about Yunhe is only counting non-vip subscribers. 🤷♀️LOL When Only for Love was airing MangoTV reported 3 Billion+ views but Yunhe was a lot lower. I remember I got attacked for sharing MangoTV’s view counts.
It sounds far for them to travel hours(?) to get there every day. The production seems serious with the settings.…
I’ve been offline (still camping at the lake). Not sure if they removed that wedding wine scene. Someone said it got removed after protest? I think they were only engaged in the novel in the past life and after reincarnation, Maoyan has one sided love for SQJ. Tomorrow might be Wei Zhenyu & Miaoyan wedding. Not sure if WD is there already. I didn’t know they were a couple! I thought the love triangle was the bromance between SQJ MHZ and WZY (according to the character chart). 🤣 Seems like I have a lot to catch up on!
It sounds far for them to travel hours(?) to get there every day. The production seems serious with the settings.…
They will have to move to Guizhou. Pretty sure they will shoot in Guizhou because the representatives from the Leadership Group and the Deputy Director of the Guizhou Provincial Radio and Television Bureau were at the boot ceremony. They also published an article about LL&P. The screenwriter Rao Jun is also from Guizhou. Looks like they also plan to shoot in Xinjiang, that’s why their variety show will film there too.
Is this what everyone means by "advertisers can see real data”? The merchant's backend data is the most accurate, reliable and real!
June 6 - Sichuan Provincial Liquor Industry Association announced the results of the Top 10 in Sichuan liquor brand marketing in 2024-2025. Guangliang Liquor's "Guangliang Liquor × "Dafeng Night Watchman": Dafeng Jianghu, no more pretending!" was selected.
🔸Guangliang Liquor certified that "Guardians of the Dafeng" has been played over 4 billion times in total! 🎉🍾🎊
🔸The proportion of audiences aged 18-39 has increased significantly (overlapping with 52% of the series' male audience), accurately reaching the target consumer group.
🔸Exposure of Guangliang Liquor brand activities on all platforms has been 22.2 million times
🔸Ruyi Post has been played 300 million times
🔸The brand’s Douyin search index has increased by 116.67% year- on-year, and the interaction volume of Guangliang Liquor's official account has increased sharply.
🔸“Dafeng Guangliang Restaurant" topped the Douyin Hefei hot list TOP1 and dominated the list for 14 days, becoming an industry benchmark case.
🔸"Dafeng Guangliang Restaurant" has become a popular check-in point on Lei Street, with a month-on-month increase of more than 300% in customer traffic at the catering terminal, and a month-on-month increase of more than 198% in Guangliang product sales.
🔸During the broadcast of the drama, the brand's online e-commerce increased by 39.7% year-on-year
So far, Tencent + 999 Antivirus + TCL + Guangliang Liquor have all posted articles to thank or praise Dafeng.
Remember when Dafeng was black water in the first week, a staff member who claimed to be advertising for Dafeng said that Dafeng's backend data was very good! He said he didn't understand why Yunhe data doesn't match and there were people criticizing Dafeng, when the data was obviously super good!
This is why advertisers follow Wang Hedi. Dafeng is worthy of being the champion of investment promotion on all platforms.
🍉LLAP is rumored to shoot a travel reality show with its cast in Q3 of this year.
"Salted Fish Training Manual" Broadcast platform: Mango TV Guest lineup: Wang Hedi, Li Qin, Rong Zishan, Wang Duo, Zhang Yaqin, Xia Meng
Intro: 3 day 2 night Xinjiang travel reality show centered on the original starring cast of “Live Long and Prosper” the show gathers the cast members to travel to the 3 secret places in Xinjiang, unlock the 3 compulsory courses of joy ascension, competition ascension, and emotional ascension, and complete the evolution from being lazy to the king of rolls and then to the immortal, and finally complete the ultimate being lazy training ceremony in the Bayinbuluke hot air balloon, presenting a healing journey of laughter and tears to the fans of the show!
It sounds far for them to travel hours(?) to get there every day. The production seems serious with the settings.…
I'm also very curious about how the grand scenes will be filmed and when he is in disguise. I think Didi lost a lot of weight recently. These shooting are really hard. Someone said Didi is already at work 6:00am. The drive to Ningbo is over 2 hrs and the area is remote too. The cars could not drive to the scene. There’s probably no restroom and lots of leeches and bugs from all the rain. 😬 They will use as much real scenes as possible, but they also built indoor scenes. Hopefully the director is able to capture the beautiful real scenery and cool landscapes. 🏞️ The producers are using LL&P to achieve a blend of cultural and tourism influence. Later, they will film in Guizhou. According to their project book, they plan to build a Xianxia district in Shanghai and a Xianxia town and a brand new film base (featuring drama sets) in Guizhou Province.
The crew of “Live Long and Prosper” is really a crew that lives in the mountains—always trekking into the wild every day. The sets in Hengdian aren’t good enough for this, so all the scenes are taken in other places, hauling people from Hengdian to remote spots every day. Crew dragged me to the foot of a mountain in Ningbo, changed into costumes, and then it was straight to climbing. You are something else👍🏻. The crew members were all very capable, carrying equipment weighing several kilograms up the mountain. Watching them, I am embarrassed to say I am tired. 🫢 The drama must be a great one—most of the scenes are shot in real locations, something many other productions can't match. I haven’t come across another crew like this among recent projects. Filming in the mountains has another perk: actors can't retreat to their trailers, so they just hang around on set. With someone as eye-catching as Wang Hedi sitting right next to me-damn, he's so handsome! We even locked eyes a few times. Missing last year's "Guardians of the Dafeng" was a regret, but catching "Long Live and Prosper" this year makes up for it. A little mountain climbing? Totally worth it. 🙂 https://x.com/wanghedismile/status/1932725027587437007
Do you know which part this outfit is for? I'm only half way thru the book and SQJ doesn't seem to care much about…
He doesn’t care about his looks, but he will dress up to attend events. I’m only aware they filmed the calligraphy contest and engagement banquet. He didn't get a change of outfit for the calligraphy contest which ticked off book fans. Most likely for an engagement banquet.
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They have been messing a lot with the character logic and plot integrity with these added scenes. Even the minor villains (Wu) said to have 30 scenes. 🙄
The wedding of WZY and MY is a key scene of the "first life.”
CHZ married WZY’s brother (Wei Zhanyang), so maybe that’s why WZY was at their wedding, but I don’t think his own wedding with MY is filmed yet. Li Qin is said to be filming a variety show end of June for at least 20+days, so they will pack in as much of her scenes as possible now.
They were accused of a yin yang script; advertising a ‘male-led’ drama and ‘no CP’ (written in their project book), but it was leaked that the crew force addition of emotional ties between SQJ and MY (wedding scenes). He is not married in the book. Fans protested and request to cancel those scenes. Whatever you have seen the shooting yesterday night, it was after the producer finally agreed to withdraw/adjust it.
Recently reuters of CHZ and SQJ looks so good too I want to ship them, but I heard she is more like his goddaughter. 😭
Last week they filmed CHZ’s engagement or wedding banquet. I haven’t seen reuters of WD for a while. I think I saw the wedding wine scene was planned for 6.23 (some saying it’s removed from the schedule). They filmed the betrayal scene yesterday, so I think WD will be filming very very soon.
https://x.com/XuKai_Soso0305/status/1935741222850904306
Gorgeous Song Qianji
http://xhslink.com/a/DDIRnRH1Kuofb
Wedding atmosphere looks like Chinese horror story 😱
http://xhslink.com/a/HSr6b9ami9nfb
Wang Hedi has publicly expressed wanting to continue playing Xu Qian. The author also revealed that he and Wang Hedi had discussed the possibility of a second season. China Literature Group hinted at the possibility of developing a sequel. One of the gold gong actor hinted a possibly a S2. However, there is high possibility TXW may not return as she may not take a supporting role. I hope she returns. Wang Hedi is also rumored for another project after Live Long and Prosper. Hopefully they will announce it next year. 🤷♀️
Tomorrow might be Wei Zhenyu & Miaoyan wedding. Not sure if WD is there already. I didn’t know they were a couple! I thought the love triangle was the bromance between SQJ MHZ and WZY (according to the character chart). 🤣 Seems like I have a lot to catch up on!
June 6 - Sichuan Provincial Liquor Industry Association announced the results of the Top 10 in Sichuan liquor brand marketing in 2024-2025. Guangliang Liquor's "Guangliang Liquor × "Dafeng Night Watchman": Dafeng Jianghu, no more pretending!" was selected.
🔸Guangliang Liquor certified that "Guardians of the Dafeng" has been played over 4 billion times in total! 🎉🍾🎊
🔸The proportion of audiences aged 18-39 has increased significantly (overlapping with 52% of the series' male audience), accurately reaching the target consumer group.
🔸Exposure of Guangliang Liquor brand activities on all platforms has been 22.2 million times
🔸Ruyi Post has been played 300 million times
🔸The brand’s Douyin search index has increased by 116.67% year- on-year, and the interaction volume of Guangliang Liquor's official account has increased sharply.
🔸“Dafeng Guangliang Restaurant" topped the Douyin Hefei hot list TOP1 and dominated the list for 14 days, becoming an industry benchmark case.
🔸"Dafeng Guangliang Restaurant" has become a popular check-in point on Lei Street, with a month-on-month increase of more than 300% in customer traffic at the catering terminal, and a month-on-month increase of more than 198% in Guangliang product sales.
🔸During the broadcast of the drama, the brand's online e-commerce increased by 39.7% year-on-year
So far, Tencent + 999 Antivirus + TCL + Guangliang Liquor have all posted articles to thank or praise Dafeng.
Remember when Dafeng was black water in the first week, a staff member who claimed to be advertising for Dafeng said that Dafeng's backend data was very good! He said he didn't understand why Yunhe data doesn't match and there were people criticizing Dafeng, when the data was obviously super good!
This is why advertisers follow Wang Hedi. Dafeng is worthy of being the champion of investment promotion on all platforms.
https://mydramalist.com/photos/O8LO8b_3
https://mydramalist.com/photos/oQ6BQv_3
"Salted Fish Training Manual"
Broadcast platform: Mango TV
Guest lineup: Wang Hedi, Li Qin, Rong Zishan, Wang Duo, Zhang Yaqin, Xia Meng
Intro: 3 day 2 night Xinjiang travel reality show centered on the original starring cast of “Live Long and Prosper” the show gathers the cast members to travel to the 3 secret places in Xinjiang, unlock the 3 compulsory courses of joy ascension, competition ascension, and emotional ascension, and complete the evolution from being lazy to the king of rolls and then to the immortal, and finally complete the ultimate being lazy training ceremony in the Bayinbuluke hot air balloon, presenting a healing journey of laughter and tears to the fans of the show!
https://x.com/XuKai_Soso0305/status/1934078388375077305
I think Didi lost a lot of weight recently. These shooting are really hard. Someone said Didi is already at work 6:00am. The drive to Ningbo is over 2 hrs and the area is remote too. The cars could not drive to the scene. There’s probably no restroom and lots of leeches and bugs from all the rain. 😬
They will use as much real scenes as possible, but they also built indoor scenes. Hopefully the director is able to capture the beautiful real scenery and cool landscapes. 🏞️ The producers are using LL&P to achieve a blend of cultural and tourism influence. Later, they will film in Guizhou. According to their project book, they plan to build a Xianxia district in Shanghai and a Xianxia town and a brand new film base (featuring drama sets) in Guizhou Province.
The crew of “Live Long and Prosper” is really a crew that lives in the mountains—always trekking into the wild every day. The sets in Hengdian aren’t good enough for this, so all the scenes are taken in other places, hauling people from Hengdian to remote spots every day. Crew dragged me to the foot of a mountain in Ningbo, changed into costumes, and then it was straight to climbing. You are something else👍🏻. The crew members were all very capable, carrying equipment weighing several kilograms up the mountain. Watching them, I am embarrassed to say I am tired. 🫢
The drama must be a great one—most of the scenes are shot in real locations, something many other productions can't match. I haven’t come across another crew like this among recent projects. Filming in the mountains has another perk: actors can't retreat to their trailers, so they just hang around on set. With someone as eye-catching as Wang Hedi sitting right next to me-damn, he's so handsome! We even locked eyes a few times. Missing last year's "Guardians of the Dafeng" was a regret, but catching "Long Live and Prosper" this year makes up for it. A little mountain climbing? Totally worth it. 🙂
https://x.com/wanghedismile/status/1932725027587437007
https://video.weibo.com/show?fid=1034:5176484500013085
He has a wheat stalk hairpin 🌾😄
https://mydramalist.com/photos/81Ldpb_3
His hairpins from the back has lots of personality. 😍
https://mydramalist.com/photos/DkLrX5_3
The swagger in his walk. 😎
http://xhslink.com/a/kOwzf8rXpWIeb