Five most discussed TV dramas in the first half of 2017

A still of the TV series Ode to Joy 2 [Photo/VCG]

2. Ode to Joy 2

Renowned as a Chinese version of Sex and the City, Chinese popular urban drama Ode to Joy returned to the small screen on May 11, its premiere gaining a high viewership rate of 1.34 percent and 1.55 percent on Dragon TV and Zhejiang Satellite TV, respectively.

Ode to Joy mainly follows the story of five young women who live on the same floor in an apartment building, also called "Ode to Joy" in Shanghai city.

The five female protagonists, ranging in age from their mid-20s to early 30s, come from different social and educational backgrounds, but all want a better life both in love and at work. However, things don't always go the way they expect them to.

In an episode of the drama, Qiu Yingying was dumped by her beloved boyfriend, Ying Qin, a programmer working at an IT company, when he finds out Qiu is not a virgin.

Even as Qiu's friends think of ideas to restore the relationship, Ying turns them down firmly. His mother even says Qiu is not a pure and chaste woman.

Since that episode was released, there's been heated discussion about "virgin obsession" on social media platforms.

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