Wang Xing Yue Breaks Out with Close Airing of Dramas Scent of Time and Story of Kunning Palace with Yu Zheng Planning to Promote Him After Shelving Him Earlier in His Career to Focus on Xu Kai

The recent deluge of C-drama premieres has its usual winners, losers, and just coasting through participants. A clear winner is C-actor Wang Xing Yue, who went from the everyone hates him male lead in Scent of Time to everyone loves him second male lead in Story of Kunning Palace, with the two dramas basically airing back-to-back thanks to scheduling issues which has worked out in his favor. He was the unexpected surprise in terms of acting in Scent of Time and was able to then build on that momentum with an equally great performance in Kunning Palace thanks to the airing momentum. He gives off Luo Yun Xi, but looks more well-fed and less prone to conniptions or spitting blood aura, so a his visuals are totally there. He’s under Yu Zheng’s agency and actually debuted around the same time as Xu Kai who due to his more striking height and looks got his breakout earlier and Yu Zheng then spent all him time promoting Xu Kai and put Wang Xing Yue on the sidelines. Now Yu Zheng is reportedly going to focus on Wang Xing Yue as his next pet project and has a big male lead C-drama prepping solely for him.

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October 2023 C-dramas Not Generating Strong Buzz with Romance on the Farm, The Heart, and Scent of Time as the Top 3 in Viewership

Now that summer 2023 C-dramas are all over, including the tail end premieres at the beginning of September, the fall start feels like a balloon being let out in tension. October 2023 so far hasn’t see any C-drama premiere to … Continue reading

Period C-drama Scent of Time Premieres to Decent Reviews but Female Lead Zhou Ye Gets Dogged by Usual Stiff Acting Criticism and Saddled with Incongruous Voice Dubbing

So there’s a new period C-drama that premiered last few days, Scent of Time with Zhou Ye and Wang Xing Yue. That Zhou Ye already gets first billing is pretty funny to me, don’t get me wrong she’s so cute … Continue reading