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First Preview for Youku Period C-drama Ashes to Crown with Chen Du Ling and Zhou Yi Ran Preview the Strong Female Lead Second Chance Saga

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The popularity of female lead reborn to enact revenge or re-do her life novels means there are plenty of such source material for adaptations, and actresses remain vying for such roles for a chance to deliver a memorable hit. Chen Du Ling is headlining Youku period C-drama Ashes to Crown (Chinese title 翘楚Qiao Chu) as a princess with a second … Continue reading →

Wuxia C-drama Generation to Generation with Zhou Yi Ran and Bao Shang En Confirmed to Air February 22nd on Tencent

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Oh I am so sat for this and desperately need it to be good! C-drama Generation to Generation, with the super poetic Chinese title of 江湖夜雨十年灯 or A Decade of Nightscape Lights is now scheduled to drop next week on February 22nd. This Tencent wuxia drama has two of its up-and-coming young stars in the lead with Zhou Yi Ran … Continue reading →

First Look at Chen Du Ling and Zhou Yi Ran in Youku Period Revenge and Romance C-drama Chu Qiao

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I’ve grown warmer and warmer to C-actress Chen Du Ling since her unexpected and well-deserved hit with The Glory earlier this year. She was already getting female lead roles but that drama moved her up to top billing in female character centric dramas with the right male lead actors cast. After The Glory finished airing she was cast in the … Continue reading →

Period Wuxia C-drama A Journey to Glow Reportedly Jettisoning Original Leads and Recasting From Scratch with Lu Yu Xiao and Zhou Yi Ran

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So the online negative commentary around C-actress Yu Shu Xin earlier this month will indeed impact her next C-drama. She was confirmed for the wuxia period drama A Journey to Glow, the companion next project to C-drama A Journey to Love. The male lead was not yet confirmed but by all accounts it was going to be Wang An Yu … Continue reading →

Tencent Melancholy C-drama Twelve Letters with Zhou Yi Ran and Wang Ying Lu Delivers Short But Meaningful Run

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A short (12-episode) length C-drama premiered recently on Tencent in a very low key way (not a lot of promos) and wrapped its run in mere days. But the drama Twelve Letters reportedly received rave reviews from the few viewers that watched so it’s worth writing about. The drama stars Zhou Yi Ran and Wang Ying Lu as they navigate … Continue reading →

Tencent Produced Big Budget Period C-drama Wrong Era Looking to Reunite Zhou Yi Ran and Zhang Miao Yi After Popular First Go Around

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The attempt to make young C-actor Zhou Yi Ran happen by Tencent is becoming quite amusing to date. The young man got a breakout in 2023 thanks to the surprise hit youth drama When I Fly Towards You (WIFTY) and since then it’s been clear as day that Tencent wants their boy wonder to become the next big drama actor. … Continue reading →

First Look at Youku Period C-drama Qiao Chu with Chen Du Ling and Zhou Yi Ran

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Well this drama certainly looks better visually than I anticipated. Youku released the first character posters for its currently filming period C-drama Qiao Chu, 翘楚 which is an idiom that means a person of great talent. The drama got more news during the casting phase of leads Chen Du Ling and Zhou Yi Ran for the online fandom fight over … Continue reading →

Four Consecutive Day C-drama Premieres Starting June 17th with Created in China with Zhang Xin Cheng and Song Zu Er and Ending with The Princess’s Gambit with Liu Xue Yi and Meng Zi Yi on June 20th

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If you thought last month May had a ton of C-dramas it’s got nothing on this month of June 2025. So far xianxia revenge drama Feud is the biggest premiere of the month arriving last week on June 6th, and now we are getting four consecutive-day drama releases next week to get the party really started. June 17th sees the … Continue reading →

Chen Du Ling and Zhou Yi Ran Cast in Period C-drama Adapted From the Novel Empress Chu

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So there was a lot of movement around this drama which has been in prep for quite some time but with the recent hits and misses in C-dramas the production is ready to move forward and the leads are all but inked. The drama is titled 翘楚 Qiao Chu and is adapted from the novel 楚后 Chu Hou or Empress … Continue reading →

Tencent Confirms November 25th Release of Duoluo Continent Sequel Drama The Land of Warriors with Zhou Yi Ran and Zhang Yu Xi

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There are weird casting choices and this one is weird from both the leads itself and within the context of this being a sequel to a first season. Tencent is releasing xianxia C-drama The Land of Warriors with Zhou Yi Ran and Zhang Yu Xi on November 25th taking over for Love Game in Eastern Fantasy. Land of Warriors is … Continue reading →

iQiyi Schedules Period Drama Go East with Tan Jian Ci for August 2024 After the Summer Olympics and Capitalizing on His Lost You Forever Part 2 Rise in Popularity

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So the viewers of Lost You Forever Part 1 who fell in love with Xiang Liu played by Tan Jian Ci are only going to love him even more in Part 2, and it’s already happening. Within a week of LYF2 airing, Tan Jian Ci is just behind Yang Zi in the hot buzz chart and reportedly the highest buzz … Continue reading →

Zhao Lu Si’s Next C-drama is the Tencent Produced Period Romance Green Cloud Platform with Male Lead Going From Deng Wei to Cheng Lei and Now Zhou Yi Ran

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C-actress Zhao Lu Si wrapped Tang dynasty period drama The Story of Pearl Girl (formerly known as The Legend of Jewelry) earlier this year and is reportedly intentionally not doing another project right away. She’s been taking the downtime to do more brand events and other activity but she does have another project lined up. She’s signed the intent letter … Continue reading →

Zhou Yi Ran and Bao Shang En Cast in Wuxia Period C-drama From the Same Novel Author as Love Like the Galaxy

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A very promising new C-drama is being prepped and I’m loving the director and story and intrigued by the younger fresher face casting. The drama is adapted from the wuxia and romance novel titled Ten Years Lantern On A Rainy Night in the Martial Arts World (江湖夜雨十年灯) by the same novel writer Guan Xin Zhe Luan of Love Like the Galaxy … Continue reading →