A short drama called Qilin Song Zi Tian Jiang Xi Fu 麒麟送子天降喜福 has suddenly trended online for the most bizarre reason: its fanciful plot where the heroine accidentally gets pregnant with the emperor’s child and then gives birth to 99 babies (in one pregnancy!) after having a vision of a Qilin. With such a “crazy” premise, it’s been deemed too far-fetched and preposterous by Netizens such that many are asking how it even managed to dodge the censors.
Even the Director and Lead Actor Disassociate from the Series
The 68 episode short series has already garnered 45 million views with just one day on air, but it looks like its “crazy” plot may be the reason why it was suddenly pulled from streaming platforms.
Meanwhile, the short series also saw more drama offline when show director Liu Hanhan who’s fairly popular in the short drama genre disassociated himself with his newest work. He said “I already felt crazy when I was filming it. If you have any issues with it, ask the screenwriter. The screenwriter came up with it!”
Likewise, the male lead of the show Wang Yuwei admitted during a live broadcast that it was his agent who said the drama will be a big hit. “I accepted the role without reading the script, it’s a bit crazy, as long as everyone would just watch it without using their brain, it’s fine”. He also jokingly referred to himself as the father of 99 kids and said, “Happy Father’s Day.”
Short format dramas have exploded in recent years, so much so that the stories the industry has been putting out has started to sound overused and repetitive. That’s probably why stories have taken a turn towards the extreme to inject some fresh excitement. However, as Netizens have already pointed out, rationality should still be a basic requirement and that creators shouldn’t just rely on curiosity and sordid twists to attract attention.
facepalm
welp, thanks a lot screenwriter for calling so much unnecessary attention to short dramas. watch the govt start cracking down on these as well.
n9
Maybe you should blame the dictatorship that cracks down on harmless shows instead, or a society where everyone joins a show called “1 birth 99 sons” and then acts surprised and wants the screenwriter pilloried because the show does indeed feature 1 birth and 99 sons.
Anon
Here is the typical western media fed moron again.
avarachika
Okay, like the director didn’t have any say in it? If the director thought that it was a bizarre scene then he/she should have told that to the scriptwriter. Don’t the director have the final say or the final cut to a series? And for the actor to say he took it because his agent said it was good and he didn’t even bother to read the script beforehand…sure, sure…at the end it still falls on the scriptwriter but I’m side eyeing the director and actor too LOL.
Arduinna
Sadly, in many Chinese dramas the director, who is eventually associated with the success or failure of the drama , has much less influence than the hidden investors behind it. Very often directors don’t even get to decide on the cast or the scriptwriters.
One only has to look at the army of pretty-but-cannot-act traffic stars that get cast in lead roles to know that no upright director would work with them willingly.
Joni
Agreed ! Th director should be paid highest for all the flak they have to take which are not of their own making.
Coralie
Lol honestly I appreciate them taking unconventional storylines – the path less followed by mainstream media because of higher risk – even if the plot is nonsense. The only bad thing is if they take it to the extreme, like in this case, where its novelty brings negative attention, which means censoring is a matter of time