Years of talent, hard work, and iconic roles—and the world is taking notice! ✨ From his debut to the global sensation that is #PursuitOfJade, #ZhangLinghe’s momentum is absolutely unstoppable. 🚀 100B+ total impressions across platforms and counting! The era of Zhang Linghe is here. 🥂👑
#ZhangLinghe #张凌赫 #PursuitOfJade #CDrama
🔥 The Road To Glory
🎬 Tentative Wrap Date: May 9
📅 Filming period: January 9 – May 9
⏳ Four months fully immersed in the production
🎭 Zhang Linghe as Xiao Li – A Complete Transformation
· ☀️ Tanned his skin
· 💪 Gained 8kg of muscle
· ⚔️ Trained relentlessly in action choreography
· 🦱 Half-white hair + dreadlocks + battle-worn makeup – a rugged, tough-guy image
· 🔄 Subverts all his previous costume drama looks
📖 About the Drama
Rating Level S+ (top-tier production)
Original Novel 1.15 billion points on Jinjiang
Genre Power struggle / chaotic times /极致 tragic romance
Co-star Lin Yun
Theme: He wants the kingdom. And he wants her.
A power couple of two unhinged, driven leads. 💥
🔔 What's Next?
Waiting for Xiao Li to go online — already reserving this as the costume drama ceiling of the year.
#PursuitofJade has crossed 70Million average views per episode 🔥; very difficult in the current cdrama stagnancy. Even for a leaked drama. 🤞 for 80M.
- Top 1 Yunhe long after airing
- Top 1 in new user acquisition since 2025, even with double platform
#Tianxiwei#zhanglinghe
#PursuitOfJade makes history. 🏆✨
From 41.1% to 55.1% in just 12 days—now the 2nd highest Yunhe market share of all time.
📺 Dual-platform dominance:
• Tencent Video: 31000+ (2026 record)
• iQiyi: 10500+ (top 4 in platform history)
🌍 Netflix Top 10 across 12 countries
🤝 50+ brand partnerships
💬 300M+ danmu interactions
This is what a phenomenon looks like. 🖤🎬
What does a 55.1% Yunhe market share actually mean? 🤔📊
In the Chinese drama industry, Yunhe is the closest thing to a standardized "Nielsen rating" for streaming. Hitting 40%+ is extremely rare—only 6 dramas in 7 years have done it.
#逐玉 @TencentVideo@iQIYIofficial@netflix
#ZhangLinghe has 3 upcoming dramas without existing IPs, yet all of them have entered the top 8 of the Valentine's Day Baidu Index! Emperor Ling elevates the dramas with his presence, his appeal is impressive 🐮🐮🐮!
This means that Linghe's 3 upcoming dramas are original scripts or are not adapted from a famous or pre-existing popular novel/comic. They do not have a built-in fan base from the source material.
#TheRoadtoGlory - Xiao Li
#PursuitofJade - Xie Zheng
#Overdo - Murong Qing Yi
Why this is notable:
Because the dramas lack the safety net of a popular IP (and its guaranteed fan base), their high rankings on the Baidu Index are attributed entirely to Zhang Linghe himself ("人抬剧," meaning "the actor carries the drama"). It suggests that people are searching for the shows because of their interest in him, not because they already love the book it was based on.
Lesson #ZhangLinghe's all upcoming projects team should learn from #TheBestThing:
Respect my boy & his hardwork, you will be rewarded with 💵 and recognition.
Those who use him as a stepping stone for others,years will pass and will be left with that one single project to talk 😉
C-Drama "The Best Thing", starring #ZhangLinghe and #XuRuohan, has topped the prime-time drama rankings on Cool Cloud for Q1 2025 on Jiangsu Satellite TV!
With a Maoyan popularity score of 9702.83, #TheBestThing has become the most popular idol drama on Maoyan in Q1 2025.
220 fansites of other artists posted about #ZhangLinghe,highest number of posts for male artists on 04/01 and compared to last year a huge📈(almost x10)proving how he is gaining attention among the general audience through his works & positive image🤗
Congratulations #ZhangLinghe & team #TheBestThing for becoming the double champion of Maoyan march idol drama effective playback volume
🥇Cumulative effective playback volume of 660M
🥇Average effective playback of 23.576M