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A Dream Within a Dream’s Nan Heng (aka Liu Yu Ning) hits 700 million popularity points – 1st ever character to achieve this

Michelle Topham July 12, 2025

Nan Heng, the male lead in C-drama A Dream Within a Dream (and, if you’ve watched the drama, you’ll know how funny that ‘male lead’ title is) has become the first ever character in all of iQIYI drama history to exceed 700 million popularity points.

This milestone was announced by iQIYI just a week after Nan Heng (beautifully played by the wonderful Liu Yu Ning) earned 400 million character popularity points.

This follows on from their announcement that the drama itself, had also just earned 9,600 on their heat index.

iQIYI also commented:

#Nan Heng Becomes the First iQiyi Character to Surpass 700 Million in Popularity# #A Dream Within a Dream#

Shining alongside the moon, riding the wind with unwavering resolve—unconcerned with origins or destination.

Nan Heng (played by Liu Yu Ning, the male lead of A Dream within a Dream) has powerfully surpassed 700 million in character popularity.

As we’ve witnessed, and as we’ve anticipated, more impossibilities will become possible because of you.

Unfortunately, the Chinese drama was not licensed to stream on iQIYI international, at least here in Europe.

That means, while the drama itself ended on iQIYI yesterday, its final episodes have not yet dropped in some regions, with Viki here in Europe currently 10 episodes behind, with only up to Episode 30 available.

The same applies to Linmon Entertainment, except much worse, as their YouTube channel is only streaming up to Episode 18 so far.

No wonder so many people in Europe and in other regions watched the drama on non-legal sites, eh?

Hopefully next time, iQIYI will do a better job with their international licensing as, if they had, Nan Heng’s popularity could have skyrocketed even further.

RELATED: A Dream Within a Dream hits 150 million barrage comments on iQIYI — poster out to celebrate

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