CCTV & IQiYi’s modern drama Born to Be Alive with Yang Zi and Hu Ge confirms air date

Synopsis Per TMDb: In 1990s Qinghai’s Maji County, rampant poaching plunged the region into poverty. Deputy County Head Dorje’s mountain patrol team shifted from mineral exploration to protecting antelopes. Bai Ju (Yang Zi), a fearless female officer raised by a Tibetan doctor, grew into a leader fighting for a nature reserve with her comrades and journalist lover, only to face Dorje’s mysterious disappearance. Decades later, as coal mining threatens the eco-balance again, Bai Ju reunites with allies to solve the cold case and uphold the legacy of safeguarding the Tibetan Plateau’s untouched beauty.

Airing 1/30~

If there’s a hot ajushhi/uncle/Shushu in town, he’s likely in here. Lol XD

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Hu Ge and Li Qin begin filming for new modern drama Ren Jian You Wei

Ren Jian You Wei (人间有味) can be literally translated as Taste of the Human/Mortal World. No official English title yet.

The story follows our male lead, who is a chef at a century-old restaurant. He is the third disciple there and his master/shifu intends to pick him as his successor. However, our hero wants to experience the world and start his own business, so he kindly rejects the offer. When his career flourishes, his master’s restaurant falters due to the poor management under their senior disciple. On the brink of bankruptcy, our male lead swoops in to save the day. But that is only the beginning of the many challenges to come their way in the highly competitive food industry.

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New Cdrama Trailers at the 2026 Tencent Video V Vision Conference

And the last compiled post for me! I won’t be doing these posts in the future because it’s too time-consuming and usually by the time I put the post up, most have seen the trailers on other platforms. No point in me rehashing another version. As always, I only included dramas with trailers since the stills will be in their individual post.

For those new to this routine, each streaming platform (tencent, mango, youku, iqiyi, etc) has a few conferences each year to showcase their upcoming dramas, roping in potential advertisements and interest.

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New Promotional Materials for upcoming Cdramas at the 2025 iQIYI iJOY Conference

These posts! BAHHH! I mostly focus on trailers being released, so if a drama doesn’t have any video, I would usually include a poster.

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Casting Confirmed for Various CDramas: Against the Current, Love Travels through Time, Spying, The Days of Seclusion and Love, Born To Be Alive, and more!

As you might have noticed, a slew of dramas wrapped up filming last month, so the natural order of things are for more dramas to confirm and start with their productions!

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Hu Ge’s modern drama Bright Future suddenly airs…

Following the trend from our previous post, is Hu Ge considered a swoony uncle for some now? 🤭

Synopsis for Bright Future (县委大院) from Daylight Entertainment on Youtube: tells the story of Mei Xiaoge, secretary of the county party committee, and his colleagues uniting the people to build Guangming County, showing the style of grassroots cadres and masses; On the eve of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Mei Xiaoge took up the post of county magistrate of Guangming County, and became colleagues with county party secretary Lu Qingshan and deputy secretary Ai Xianzhi. At this time, they were confronted with Guangming County, which was in urgent need of restoration and development, with various problems and troubles. One after another. Mei Xiaoge has a high emotional intelligence and good affinity, and gradually gets along with colleagues to balance the contradictions in the governance process; she also has the courage to break the boat, and has traveled non-stop to hundreds of villages in Guangming County after taking office. After being elected secretary of the county party committee, Mei Xiaoge devoted himself to deepening the reform of cadres’ style of work, adhered to the concept of green development, guaranteed people’s livelihood on the basis of protecting the environment, and optimized county education. With the efforts of the county party committee team, Guangming County’s dream of getting rid of poverty, becoming rich and developing healthily has finally been realized. Young cadres also continue to grow through practice and training, do a good job of inheritance, overturn the invisible barriers between cadres and the masses, and the relationship between cadres and the masses has taken on a new look.

Began airing 12/7~

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Previews of Upcoming Tencent (mostly) Cdramas 2023

I’m embarrassed to say it took me four days to compile this list. In the past, only 2 days! A galore of Trailers and new stills!

Which drama (s) are you looking forward to?

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Tencent drops official trailers for its 2021 upcoming Cdramas

More dramas coming your way! Which ones are you looking forward to?

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