《Liba, you are famous》Start up: go through 《the left ear》 and let the supporting character change his destiny

- Zuo Er - IP-derived vertical screen short drama - Li Bala, you are famous - started shooting in Hui'an, Fujian Province on September 27, and is planned to be launched in December 2026.The work is produced and directed by Rao Xueman, directed by Erfa, and starring Yue Yuting and Zhang Tingrui.The new story does not copy the youthful pain of the original work, but allows a modern working person to enter the world of Zuo Er, becoming the familiar Li Bala to readers, and trying to change the character's original destiny.

“Liba, you are famous” is one of the most widely circulated sayings in the left ear.Li Bala is flamboyant, stubborn, and has a regrettable ending. He has been a highly recognizable character in this youth IP for many years.The short play pushed her from an important supporting role in the original work to the center of the story, which was equivalent to a new entrance to observe youth.The audience knows the original relationship and ending, and the heroine also knows that this shared memory becomes a suspense that can be used in the plot of the book.

After Lily, a modern social animal, enters the book, she needs to face the plot direction set by the system.She retained the way of thinking of a working person. She would accompany the characters to study real questions, search for medical information across departments, and use her familiar methods to help Xu Yi and Li Er.The misunderstandings, conflicts and regrets in the original work will still appear, but there is one more person who sees the risks in advance.Every time Lily changes her actions, there may be new branches in the relationship between the characters.

The series weakens the simple emotional opposition between the characters and devotes more space to female mutual help and mutual understanding.Li Bala can no longer only be pushed by the established plot. She will take the initiative to protect the people around her and re-understand her own choices.The light joy element gives room to release the sense of dislocation after traveling through the book, and the sci-fi pure love setting adds new imagination to the relationship between the characters.The underlying theme of the youth story is still there, but the sadness left by the tragedy has another answer.

The most difficult part of adapting classic IP is that familiarity and freshness need to be established at the same time.If you completely depart from the original work, the character names will easily become decorations; if you repeat the old story, it will be difficult to create expectations for the audience who have already read the novel and movie.《Li Bara, you are famous》retain the character relationship and key emotions of 《Left Ear》and then use the actions of the book-passer to change the sequence of events.Old audiences can recognize the traces of the original work, and new audiences can also regard it as an independent growth story.

This short drama also connects content, live broadcasting and e-commerce.Taobao short drama, Baidu YY Mai Xu short drama and Jiangsu Xuemanshe Pictures are jointly produced. The producers plan to link the drama viewing, live broadcast interaction and consumption scenes.In addition to following the fate of the characters, viewers can also enter the live broadcast room to participate in discussions or come into contact with related products.For the short drama platform, this approach hopes to extend the life cycle of a work and allow the IP value to continue to extend outward from the playback page.

Since its establishment in 2025, Maisu Short Play has covered script incubation, actor participation, investment and production, and publicity and promotion.The label has participated in the production of nearly 360 short dramas this year, and many commercial works have received over 100 million views.This cooperation with Taobao is not only a short drama experiment of mature youth IP, but also a combination of two sets of platform resources.Whether the traffic entrance, live broadcast capabilities and e-commerce scenarios can be naturally embedded in the plot will directly affect the audience's acceptance.

From novels, movies to vertical screen short plays, every time Li Bara is retold, it corresponds to the expression of youth in different eras.The new work sends “who knows the ending” back to the story, giving her a chance to change her old regrets and allowing classic characters to make an active choice.When it goes online in December, the audience will still be most concerned about the core question: whether Li Bala can truly escape the fate that was written for him, and whether the new ending can retain the emotion that once touched people - the left ear.