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.