According to Xiaohongshu Road To Success drama became the 🎊 First TV series of the Summer season to surpass 10,000 community members, reflecting the overwhelming enthusiasm surrounding the drama.
It didn’t stop there: 🏆 No.1 in discussion volume among TV series on Xiaohongshu.
A great story will always find its audience. Congratulations to the entire cast, crew, and everyone who made Lin Wanxing’s journey unforgettable. 💙
We saw the filming behind the scenes of chinese actor Gu Zi Cheng as Chun Yulin ( playing the second male lead ) with the female lead actress Esther Yu playing the role of He Pan. I'm also excited to watch their scenes in the drama. I don't read the novel yet so I can't say anything about the second male lead story in Love In The Shell. They had scenes filmed during the day and fans saw them clearly.
I hope we also see a filming of the male and female lead stars Esther Yu and Hou Minghao in a day scene because lately all their scenes were filmed during night time so their face were not captured clearly by fans.
Speed And Love drama starring Esther Yu and He Yu shows the younger generation that they should move on with their lives, become a better version of themselves, if other people don't want them to be with at that moment because if they are meant to be each other, destiny will bring them back together and never be apart like Mu Mu and Chao Chao. 🌜🌞
It's very hard for Mu Mu to accept the sudden decision of Chao Chao of not contacting her after the car accident when she's in Canada to care about her sick mother. This time, the writter let Chao Chao's character very weak of being cruel to Mu Mu who really loves him. He said he only wants the best for her but he didn't know that he's the only one that will make her happy. It's very good that Mu Mu's character is brave that she continued her own life without him and studied in Canada in College with a degree in Physics and Astronomy. Chao Chao also studied again continue his life too.
Ok can someone pls tell me about the leap that takes place in this drama? Its so confusing tbh, they just had…
It doesn't matter the number of years, maybe it's a typo error but if you already read the web novel where the actual drama Speed And Love was adapted, it was written there 6 years. You can checked it because I already ready the novel.
Road To Success focused on the Psychological healing of every character in the drama. Esther Yu playing the role of Ms. Lin Wanxing has her own problems to solve and Chen Jing Ke playing the role of Coach Wang Fa had also a mission and he thinks he's responsible too. Some of the Hongjing No8 High School football team boys have their own family problems in each episodes. The story is well written and all the casts are perfect for their roles
📊 Maoyan Final Battle Report | Road to Success (灿如繁星) ✨
An unforgettable journey from premiere to finale. Here’s a look at Road to Success’s final performance:
🏆 Achievements • Maoyan Web Drama Daily Effective Views Champion ×4 • Maoyan Web Drama Daily Popularity Champion ×4 • Maoyan Web Drama Weekly Effective Views Champion ×1
📺 Viewing Performance • 434 million cumulative effective views • 13.592 million average effective views per episode
📈 Platform Index • Baidu Index: 87,000 • Weibo Index: 7.051 million • WeChat Index: 30.888 million
From its inspiring story to its outstanding performance, Road to Success has left a lasting mark. Congratulations to the entire cast, crew, and everyone who supported Lin Wanxing’s journey. The finale may have aired, but its long-tail popularity continues to shine. 🌟
July 27, 2026 Ye Kaiwen ( one of the Hongjing No8 High School football team boys ) posted a personal farewell message on XHS. The previous one on Weibo
“Time flies like a dream. The hundred-plus days of shooting in Quanzhou are still fresh in my memory and truly allowed me to get to know this ancient city!
I am Zheng Ren—Midfielder No. 15 for the Hongjing No. 8 High School football team in Bright as the Stars, and the god of the pitch!
Zheng Ren’s character traits have had a massive impact on me. This past year felt like turning in a lucky report card for my 20-year-old self. I experienced my first career media-office tour (saolou), learned how to interact during live streams, broke out of my comfort zone to shoot short videos, and met the absolute best version of all of you!!
Returning to the warm and welcoming land of Quanzhou on the finale day is both a nostalgic nod to our shooting days and the perfect closing chapter for Zheng Ren.
Thank you to the director, Teacher Xiaolin, the coach, my brothers, and the entire cast! I sincerely pay tribute to all the behind-the-scenes crew who worked quietly and tirelessly; every brilliant moment on screen is inseparable from your day-and-night dedication. Thank you to everyone who poured their heart into Road To Success.
Looking forward to our next reunion as we head toward the future. Here’s to a better version of myself!”
July 26 , 2026 Yan Yu Chen posted on Weibo a lengthy farewell message to Road To Success. He went into depth about what the character Wen Chengye meant to him. Here’s an excerpt:
“I often try to imagine: if I had personally gone through the darkness you endured, what would I have become? I would probably have collapsed, sunk into despair, and never managed to stay as resilient as you. Surrounded and trapped layer upon layer by life, you still clung tightly to the purity and kindness in your heart. That unextinguished true nature is the rarest kind of courage.
Chengye, you are truly wonderful. You are brave, pure, and deeply loyal. All your awkwardness and sharpness are the protective colors given to you by the years; all your silence and distance are the self-completion you achieved when no one came to save you. From now on, there is no need to force yourself to pretend to be strong anymore, and no need to use coldness to shut out gentleness. You deserve all the special care and light, you deserve to be loved properly, and you deserve a free, passionate, and shining life.
Special thanks to Teacher Xiaolin, who always used her delicate and unique perspective to help me peel away the layers of disguise around the character, understand the struggles and gentleness you hid deep in your heart, and truly walk into Wen Chengye’s inner world.
Thank you also to Coach Wang Fa, who throughout the filming days always looked after us and was patient with us like a warm big brother.
And even more, thank you to every partner in the crew who walked this path side by side — those days of running on the football field and shooting from dawn to dusk are the most precious and healing treasures of this journey.
Finally, I want to properly thank you, Wen Chengye. This long period of immersing myself in you, imitating you, and understanding you has also gradually moved and healed me, allowing me to become a braver and more at-ease version of myself. May the Wen Chengye of the parallel universe live in peace year after year, with light in his eyes. Wishing all of us that our lives shine as brilliantly as the stars.”
Why can’t they guest a variety show with cast members, really missing all of them🥹💕💕!!
I think, some of them are now busy, some are busy in filming another drama like Esther Yu and some boys are also filming their next drama while others are studying now
It will be the comeback of Esther Yu in costume dramas after doing three consecutive modern dramas and already released and streaming now . Looking forward to the Premiere of Yunchu's Vengeance this year or next year?
260726 Liu Jun posted on Weibo a farewell message to Road To Success. Unlike his character Fu Xin Shu, he is a man of few words in real life 😊
“Hello everyone. I’m not very good at expressing myself. I still have things to say, but writing them feels too formal, so I’ll speak off the cuff. From the start until now, we’ve reached the championship. After filming wrapped, I often wondered what season and weather it would be when Fu Xinshu meets everyone again. Even watching the World Cup, I’d think, ‘Our Hongjing No. 8 Middle School has used this tactic too.’ Those four months in Quanzhou were lively. Every day brought countless talks with the brothers. In Hongjing No. 8’s auditorium, at Yuanyuan’s tutoring class, on our familiar football field—squeezing in with Teacher Xiaolin and Coach Wang Fa for photo after photo. I can’t pinpoint the moment, but I truly felt happiness. I like summer—passionate, lively, full of hope, and raw vitality. We met in summer too. I won’t say more, or it’ll get long-winded. I hope Teacher Xiaolin, Coach Wang Fa, Wen Chengye, Qin Ao, Jiang He, Brother Suo, Lin Lu, Yu Ming, Zheng Ren, Zheng Feiyang, Qi Liang and Zhi Hui all stay happy forever.”
Other Casts ~ Actress Chen Zhiyan / CoCo spotted on set 🎬 July 22, 2026 Chen Zhiyan started as a child actress and she and Esther Yu known each other for a long time since they both star in the costume fantasy drama titled Sword And Fairy. Chen Zhiyan known also as CoCo
Chen Zhiyan is very young at the time she first met Esther Yu and they still close until now. So it's a reunion project of Esther Yu and Chen Zhiyan ( Coco ) in Love In The Shell
I still don't know what is the role of Chen Zhiyan in Love In The Shell
It didn’t stop there:
🏆 No.1 in discussion volume among TV series on Xiaohongshu.
A great story will always find its audience. Congratulations to the entire cast, crew, and everyone who made Lin Wanxing’s journey unforgettable. 💙
https://x.com/i/status/2082007885274661085
July 27, 2026 Filming of Love In The Shell
Watch the video here:
🔗http://xhslink.com/o/6jLBeTi1jK
🔗http://xhslink.com/o/9acQabgUL0L
Esther Yu and Hou Minghao filming scene
🔗http://xhslink.com/o/1ihFdOYXJxv
July 27, 2026 Filming of Love In The Shell
Watch the video here:
🔗http://xhslink.com/o/6jLBeTi1jK
🔗http://xhslink.com/o/9acQabgUL0L
Esther Yu and Hou Minghao filming scene
🔗http://xhslink.com/o/1ihFdOYXJxv
Gu Zi Cheng filming Love In The Shell
🔗http://xhslink.com/o/AKP5hjxFi7l
I hope we also see a filming of the male and female lead stars Esther Yu and Hou Minghao in a day scene because lately all their scenes were filmed during night time so their face were not captured clearly by fans.
The title of the novel is Shuang Gui
https://mydramanovel.com/star-trails/
An unforgettable journey from premiere to finale. Here’s a look at Road to Success’s final performance:
🏆 Achievements
• Maoyan Web Drama Daily Effective Views Champion ×4
• Maoyan Web Drama Daily Popularity Champion ×4
• Maoyan Web Drama Weekly Effective Views Champion ×1
📺 Viewing Performance
• 434 million cumulative effective views
• 13.592 million average effective views per episode
📈 Platform Index
• Baidu Index: 87,000
• Weibo Index: 7.051 million
• WeChat Index: 30.888 million
🔥 Discussion & Buzz
• Weibo topic reads: 1.903 billion
• Douyin topic views: 6.408 billion
• 690 cumulative Hot Search topics
• 64 No.1 trending topics
👥 Audience Demographics
• Female: 78.31%
• Male: 21.69%
From its inspiring story to its outstanding performance, Road to Success has left a lasting mark. Congratulations to the entire cast, crew, and everyone who supported Lin Wanxing’s journey. The finale may have aired, but its long-tail popularity continues to shine. 🌟
“Time flies like a dream. The hundred-plus days of shooting in Quanzhou are still fresh in my memory and truly allowed me to get to know this ancient city!
I am Zheng Ren—Midfielder No. 15 for the Hongjing No. 8 High School football team in Bright as the Stars, and the god of the pitch!
Zheng Ren’s character traits have had a massive impact on me. This past year felt like turning in a lucky report card for my 20-year-old self. I experienced my first career media-office tour (saolou), learned how to interact during live streams, broke out of my comfort zone to shoot short videos, and met the absolute best version of all of you!!
Returning to the warm and welcoming land of Quanzhou on the finale day is both a nostalgic nod to our shooting days and the perfect closing chapter for Zheng Ren.
Thank you to the director, Teacher Xiaolin, the coach, my brothers, and the entire cast! I sincerely pay tribute to all the behind-the-scenes crew who worked quietly and tirelessly; every brilliant moment on screen is inseparable from your day-and-night dedication. Thank you to everyone who poured their heart into Road To Success.
Looking forward to our next reunion as we head toward the future. Here’s to a better version of myself!”
Road To Success drama starring Esther Yu
https://v.douyin.com/qDET5ANCFhk/
Road To Success drama starring Esther Yu
https://v.douyin.com/qDET5ANCFhk/
“I often try to imagine: if I had personally gone through the darkness you endured, what would I have become? I would probably have collapsed, sunk into despair, and never managed to stay as resilient as you. Surrounded and trapped layer upon layer by life, you still clung tightly to the purity and kindness in your heart. That unextinguished true nature is the rarest kind of courage.
Chengye, you are truly wonderful.
You are brave, pure, and deeply loyal. All your awkwardness and sharpness are the protective colors given to you by the years; all your silence and distance are the self-completion you achieved when no one came to save you.
From now on, there is no need to force yourself to pretend to be strong anymore, and no need to use coldness to shut out gentleness. You deserve all the special care and light, you deserve to be loved properly, and you deserve a free, passionate, and shining life.
Special thanks to Teacher Xiaolin, who always used her delicate and unique perspective to help me peel away the layers of disguise around the character, understand the struggles and gentleness you hid deep in your heart, and truly walk into Wen Chengye’s inner world.
Thank you also to Coach Wang Fa, who throughout the filming days always looked after us and was patient with us like a warm big brother.
And even more, thank you to every partner in the crew who walked this path side by side — those days of running on the football field and shooting from dawn to dusk are the most precious and healing treasures of this journey.
Finally, I want to properly thank you, Wen Chengye.
This long period of immersing myself in you, imitating you, and understanding you has also gradually moved and healed me, allowing me to become a braver and more at-ease version of myself.
May the Wen Chengye of the parallel universe live in peace year after year, with light in his eyes.
Wishing all of us that our lives shine as brilliantly as the stars.”
“Hello everyone. I’m not very good at expressing myself. I still have things to say, but writing them feels too formal, so I’ll speak off the cuff.
From the start until now, we’ve reached the championship. After filming wrapped, I often wondered what season and weather it would be when Fu Xinshu meets everyone again. Even watching the World Cup, I’d think, ‘Our Hongjing No. 8 Middle School has used this tactic too.’
Those four months in Quanzhou were lively. Every day brought countless talks with the brothers. In Hongjing No. 8’s auditorium, at Yuanyuan’s tutoring class, on our familiar football field—squeezing in with Teacher Xiaolin and Coach Wang Fa for photo after photo. I can’t pinpoint the moment, but I truly felt happiness.
I like summer—passionate, lively, full of hope, and raw vitality. We met in summer too.
I won’t say more, or it’ll get long-winded. I hope Teacher Xiaolin, Coach Wang Fa, Wen Chengye, Qin Ao, Jiang He, Brother Suo, Lin Lu, Yu Ming, Zheng Ren, Zheng Feiyang, Qi Liang and Zhi Hui all stay happy forever.”
~ Actress Chen Zhiyan / CoCo spotted on set 🎬 July 22, 2026
Chen Zhiyan started as a child actress and she and Esther Yu known each other for a long time since they both star in the costume fantasy drama titled Sword And Fairy. Chen Zhiyan known also as CoCo
Chen Zhiyan is very young at the time she first met Esther Yu and they still close until now. So it's a reunion project of Esther Yu and Chen Zhiyan ( Coco ) in Love In The Shell
I still don't know what is the role of Chen Zhiyan in Love In The Shell
🔗https://x.com/i/status/2079867067688485142
🔗https://x.com/i/status/2079866911073161639
~ Shi Yanpei playing the Fire Demon
https://x.com/i/status/2080679593955205161
Esther Yu and Shi Yanpei fight scenes.
( He Pan vs Fire Demon )
The fight against the Fire Demon was filmed July 24, 2026🔥⚔️
Shi Yanpei ready to film after makeup and hairstyles finished
https://x.com/i/status/2080613331115876375