Xiao Zhan Leads Large C-star Contingent Posting Support of and Urging Viewers to Watch Zhao Lu Si’s New Drama The Story of Pearl Girl

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• XZ doesn't just randomly advertise for other celebs even there is solicitation from others unless they are on very good terms and had very positive working experience together in the past. I could totally understand XZ was willing to promote ZLS' drama. He was seated right in front of her seat at an award ceremony (or some huge event). He turned his head over to greet ZLS first and started to chat for a while. In one BTS of Oh My Emperor, they both even casually shared one portable fan LOL.

  There used to be a rumor that ZLS was dating EXO Lay who is one of XZ's buddies bcos she was spotted together with Lay in front of a restaurant or somewhere. I wonder if that could be since EXO Luhan also joined the celebs to promote her drama. LOL. How did she even get connected with Luhan? Just some amusing gossip. Never mind! hahaha

  • The dating rumours about lay was confirmed to be false n she wasn't spotted together with Lay in a restaurant but rather their vehicles was seen in front of the restaurant. Let not twist rumours here .

    • It was just a rumor as I already stressed. Nothing serious about it, just for fun like already so many gossips on this site. LOL.

  • Oh
    As a former member of EXO's fandom, I must share the gossips inside of the fandom.
    It's very much speculated that Lay do not have any contact with any former Chinese member of EXO after the three of them left EXO in extremely bad terms BUT recently it was proven that Luhan is still friends with few Korean members of EXO and Lay is friends with few of them too so people speculate they both are "amicable" with each other.
    It must be said that Lay was a huge fanatical defender of SM and EXO so he publicly criticized/bashed the Chinese members who jumped out of the ship through lawsuits and badmouthing SM so it's speculated they hated each other's guts for a long while.
    Lay practically do not have any public interaction outside televisioned ones (can't escape lol) with former Chinese members of EXO since 2015.
    There is no dating rumours of Lay and ZLS. Once upon a time the guy was rumoured to be dating every popular girl but I think it ended before ZLS became popular.

    • I am a fan of Lay...that is a sincere and hardwork guy...he still have connections with his agency in SK. Thus he is popular with many veterans.

• Koala has got all the hot names to get traffic. LOL.

  • She knows how to drive and direct traffic and discussions.

• Besides Pearl Girl, I'm also following a low-key sweet drama, Go Back Lover, with Li Yunrui as the ML. He was the 2nd ML in Love like the Galaxy. GBL is a light idol drama that is easy to watch and a good time killer when I'm not in a mood to watch something as dark as PG. Just randomly spotted his name in the list of those celebs endorsing PG. LOL.

  I just googled news and it seems these promotion strategy works. PG's hot indices are rising. LOL.

• If stars actively promote her drama, it speaks well of Lusi that they are agreeable to do so. Who knows, if she wasn’t well liked or had a good working relationship with these celebrities, would they be willing to do so for her?

  I see this as setting a precedent. What people are complaining about today, because it isn’t the norm, will become the norm later, when celebrities ask other celebrities to promote their works. All things considered, it really isn’t a big deal, except it means less money for the to spend on advertising, unless there is profit to be made can off of celebrities promoting other celebrities works. lol.

  • I also thought the same thing, she just asked few people to do it like the normal promotion that all star do when their show airs n the rest just followed suit , it goes to show the type of person she is in real life n with them. That why she made the video to thank them personally, I think she was surprised herself. She didn't think she will a lot who will do it .

• It's really quite a feat. And yet, of course, some people would find something negative about even support for a colleague. Yet, knowing how some people would do that, these big names still come out to do that anyway. Xiao Zhan knew what he was doing :).

  It's a good drama. Up to Episode 12 now and story is still holding my interest.

  • @xoxo, @gennita

    I agree the stars must have good previous working relationships for them to support Zhao Lu Si. The stars are not that desperate to be solicited by Zhao Lu Si to promote her drama. Stars like Xiao Zhan, Luhan etc are far more established and richer than her.

    When she was the female lead in Oh! My Emperor, that should be her first leading role. So there were lots of jealousy and hatred against her for having good rapport with Xiao Zhan. If she had been a more established actress at that time, she won’t face such a terrible backlash that lasts until today.

    Also, she is not a daughter of billionaire or owner of TV station or agency, so can she force the stars to speak up for her?

    From her interviews and videos, she appears to be straightforward, decisive and determined. She is not the typical soft and gentle girl who wanna please everyone. So trolls or cyber troopers generally hate strong-willed women like her.

    P/S by the way I tried posting twice, but it doesn’t appear… I wonder why

• Friends helping each other...that is great. I am just surprised how close she is with afew of those in the list... I find that interesting. Good luck to her drama.

  When is Xiao Zhan coming back on my screen with his new project?? His CF is active these days, lots of YT post. I can watch those while waiting but I really hope his project airs..

  • His movie Legend of the Condor Heroes and his drama Zanghai Zhuan will air 2025. Everyone is still waiting on the official announcement. But it is rumored that his movie will air during the spring festival and his drama sometime after. I heard winter slot or summer slot.

    • 🎉 I hope so!!!

  • @HL, XZ's major sources of income are from CF and high-end brand endorsements, not from filming projects. It's legit for him to spend quite a chunk of time to work But he needed to work his butt off on those filming sets to achieve and maintain his high popularity that's the driver for him to get profitable CF deals.

• Cringe. So cringe. Her drama isn't doing even remotely how she thought it would do so Youku pulled all the strings and she went around begging from even influencers.

  XZ has to do his part, Zanghai is with Youku so that is all that is.

  The only thing more cringe is her fans trying to spin this as if she is some diva of cent that everyone loves. Wake up, this is business.

  I for one am glad Esther Yu is on par with this drama because she isn't a beggar and is letting the drama speak on its own. Her character jumped over ZLS on vlinkage today and Pearl is recording terrible TV ratings. Guess begging isn't working.

  • It really doesn't feel like a genuine friends helping friends situation tbh. Apparently cnetz are all very skeptical about the synchronized mass promo that feel like copy and paste apparently. I think some are genuinely friends but others probably have dramas on deck with Youku and are doing this as a work thing. It feels off. Esthers actual costars made posts to promote for her as well but they all had personalized messages, like friends spreading the word. Zhang Linghe made a cute one referencing their characters from My Journey to You.

• Lmao Zhao Lusi fans who are trying to play this as if she is some universally beloved saint. Get a grip people. It's pathetic she has to beg for this and Youku has been pushing all the celebs that work with them to post.

• See what I mean? They’ll come raiding out.

• Xiao Zhan is one of the good guys in China’s entertainment business. He is sincere, honest & thoughtful. USA here

  • XZ is handsome and a very hardworking Chinese artist.

  • He IS. He is very likable in the C-ent.