With almost zero promotion, Chinese Remake of Korean drama W begins airing with Zhao Yao Ke and Chang Bin

Next Stop Your World (下一站你的世界) is adapted from the Korean drama W with Han Hyo Joo and Lee Jong Suk which aired in 2016. The story follows our female lead who finds herself in her father’s webtoon, meeting and falling in love with the main character.

Not sure what the production is doing here, I’m scratching my head at their barely-there approach to promoting this drama. Coming from a highly popular Kdrama, the weibo home page has exactly 2 trailers and 2 posters. Lol. Is it because each episode is only around 10-11 minutes long so they don’t think it’s worth to foot out the money for advertisements? Hoping it would be a sleeper hit type of drama?

Begins airing 2/16~

Posters:

Trailers:

One of the OST songs by Yu Geng Yin. I first saw him in Chuang 2021 and I started liking him then. Even though he didn’t make it to the final group, he will always have a soft spot in my heart! Man can sing a love ballad!!

  1. 9 thoughts on “With almost zero promotion, Chinese Remake of Korean drama W begins airing with Zhao Yao Ke and Chang Bin

    Tencent has been releasing “short” dramas – literally a few minutes per episode – with little promotion. I guess this drama is no exception. 6 eps are currently available. Removing opening and ending credits should make the total run time to be about one regular episode.

    • 9 thoughts on “With almost zero promotion, Chinese Remake of Korean drama W begins airing with Zhao Yao Ke and Chang Bin

      Thanks for the clarification Keekeepod! I haven’t seen one with so few posters before. Lol

      • 9 thoughts on “With almost zero promotion, Chinese Remake of Korean drama W begins airing with Zhao Yao Ke and Chang Bin

        Btw, Youku airdropped an actual BL-adapted drama “Justice in the Dark” (光渊), previously known as 默读 “Silent Reading”, based on novel by priest. 8 eps.

        No promos. Not on the homepage. Must search for it. No episode release schedule.

        Set in a scifi universe, but not really scifi. Just sociopath becomes Zero Empathy Personality. Character names all changed but the plot has been rather faithful to the novel. Visuals (cast, color, lighting), acting and line deliveries were tough for me to take in. Got better, or used to it, after ep 1. Not being a shipper helps. Story-wise, good enough.

        • 9 thoughts on “With almost zero promotion, Chinese Remake of Korean drama W begins airing with Zhao Yao Ke and Chang Bin

          I think the non-existent promo is done on purpose now for these BL shows. XD Even if they get banned now, there will be distribution of the drama regardless.

          I’m not a shipper, only read a few chapters of the novel, like always, to get the gist. ZYC is looking good!

        • 9 thoughts on “With almost zero promotion, Chinese Remake of Korean drama W begins airing with Zhao Yao Ke and Chang Bin

          Soft ban on BL-adapted dramas was in no small part due to Youku and drama production company promotional tactics and publicity stunts. Just ran into a comment that the powers that be had a chat with Youku. Not surprised that it is extremely low-key with this drama.

          Other platforms might still airdrop but my guess is that they will do little bit more, like maybe post airing schedule!

        • 9 thoughts on “With almost zero promotion, Chinese Remake of Korean drama W begins airing with Zhao Yao Ke and Chang Bin

          @keekeepod, Hi Sorry for jumping in to your conversation, but are you still enjoying Justice in the dark?

          I’m waiting for the machine-translated subs to be better before I marathon it. How is
          Zhang Xin Cheng’s performance for you??

        • 9 thoughts on “With almost zero promotion, Chinese Remake of Korean drama W begins airing with Zhao Yao Ke and Chang Bin

          @Lisa N

          Perhaps hold off on the drama because when new episode will be released is unknown. It’s just the 8 eps. Apparently, as of now, no one has right connection to get info on more eps.

          I’m not a good judge of acting. I care most for the story. I would say the entire cast acting is adequate, better than idol dramas. ZXC does well enough for me.

      • 9 thoughts on “With almost zero promotion, Chinese Remake of Korean drama W begins airing with Zhao Yao Ke and Chang Bin

        I almost had a heart attack seeing Guardian’s Shen Wei on the top of Weibo’s hot topics list followed by a number of BL-adapted drama topics. A frowned upon genre appears on the hot topics list often leads to crackdowns.

        风火流金 supposedly has been renamed 风火令 and may airdrop in March.

  2. 9 thoughts on “With almost zero promotion, Chinese Remake of Korean drama W begins airing with Zhao Yao Ke and Chang Bin

    @keekeepod

    OMG thanks for letting me know!!

    I did not know they only released 8 episodes and nothing more. THATS SO WEIRD!! WHAT!

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