To say career boost feels less accurate than returning her career to the very promising state it was in before her big stumble last summer. I’m talking about C-actress Wang Chu Ran who was one of the up-and-comers among the current slate of Flowers but last summer 2023 her mega high profile C-drama Fireworks of the Heart turned into a one-two punch of bad reviews and a scandal with her off screen personality. She smartly laid low for a year, filming her projects and doing her fashion circuit and then came her summer 2024 C-drama Are You the One (柳舟记 Liu Zhou Ji). The drama has been finished airing for over two months now and sits at a comfortable 7.7 on Douban (after opening at an insanely high 8.0). Industry insiders say the drama did only mid in ratings/view/return on investment but the viewer feedback was especially strong and positive for her character and performance so she’s gotten the career return to a promising level she worked hard for. It also made production companies more interested in her for the strong woman role and to also pick projects with co-leads where both leads are smart/savvy/equally matched like in Are You the One. Yes, make more dramas like this please!
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She is truly beautiful.
she is so beautiful, even as a woman, she is mesmerizing to look at. Hope she plays more smart FL roles like her last one
Maybe I should go back to watching Are You the One again. Not really feeling it with either Love Game in Eastern Fantasy or Story of Pearl Girl.
Her beauty is really my type. I actually quite like her acting in that fireworks drama even if they did butcher the storyline.
She's beautiful eventho not the type of beauty i'd admire. What i like about her is her courage to stay calm when some people bashing her back then. She didnt comment on it or defend herself. She kept her silent. And only did her part, to act well in another project. She did it. Good for her.
Im waiting for her drama with TanJianci.
She more than deserves this career boost. She's got the beauty and the skills!
She is beautiful AND elegant, we don’t often get that in the usual actresses.
Peng Xiaoran, Liu Shishi, Tong Liya are afew that falls in the same group. Beautiful and elegant. I agree, we dont see many these days.
Is she still dating Yang Yang?
Are You The One was a pleasant surprise to me - it might have just topped my favourite C-period drama of this year. Had never watched any dramas including Wang Chu-ran of Zhang Wan-yi. Not gonna deny, Zhang Wan-yi's looks were not my cup of tea before (but boy has such a sexy voice) and all I knew of Wang Chu-ran is that she likes to roll her eyes, wear high heels next to her not-so-tall male leads and of course her image as YY's crazy-in-love girlfriend - which I admit all above might just be a matter of prejudice or being misleaded by those YXH’s (营销号). I’m just a random melon news follower scrolling through the hot searches on Weibo and casually reading through all these “black hot searches” concerning Wang Chu-ran. And who knows, some rumours might not even be real (I just found out recently that she and YY had actually never been photographed together..). Thinking about it, it’s quite unfair to her, girl was bashed and boycotted the whole summer last year just because of a drama and because those YXH's were all slandering her. Thankfully, Are You The One definitely flipped my impression on both leads, I'm happy that people are positively changing their minds about her with this drama (including myself). I’m actually starting to really get fond of Zhang Wan-yi’s looks as well. Will definitely check out their future dramas - I’m hoping for a second collaboration between the two.
Anyway, coming back to Are You The One, I just randomly watched it because it had good reviews (which is rare, we all know how extremely critical C-netizens can be) and because I had nothing else to watch. It truly is a lovely drama with a great and "crack-tastic" OTP - no evil secondary characters, bits of humor here and there, strong women roles and a cute OST (love Zhou Shen’s theme song). Both leads did well and had good chemistry. I loved that every girl/boy got their deserving girl/boy at the end, even second male lead who doesn’t get the female lead. Except for the jealous cousin of course, but even she came to realize at the end that a woman's life didn't have to depend on marriage. I understand the beginning might be a bit slow for some viewers, but the pace will gradually get better. I remember wondering in the beginning if this drama had any secondary characters at all, because the OTP pretty much takes up 95% of the scenes during the first few episodes. Anyway, believe me, if you end up loving this drama, you will be thankful that the OTP was the sole focus of the beginning of the drama, because you can rewatch many sweet scenes (sadly the OTP doesn’t take up much of the story any more during the last few episodes). Such a pity that it didn’t do well in ratings, but luckily their Douban rating started out with a bang - 8.0 was the highest rating for a “period/costume-idol-drama (古偶)” this year.
To think she's 25.
A gem 💎 I must keep admitting. My new under 30 🥰 crush