The Prisoner Of Beauty (2025)

Original title

折腰

Directed by

Deng Ke, Gao Cong Kai, Wang Yi Ding

Cast

Wu Xi Ze, Yue Yu Ting

Genre

idol dorama

Country

People's Republic of China

Length

1 season, 36 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

8.9 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A love story unfolds between a woman named Xiao Qiao and Wei Shao, the lord of the Wei family, against the backdrop of war and the building of an ancient canal. The series is set in a fictional version of China's early dynastic conflicts.

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What happens

The Prisoner of Beauty (折腰) is a Chinese historical romance drama co-produced by Tencent Video and Fat Bear Production, starring Song Zuer, Liu Yuning, Xuan Lu and Liu Duanduan. The plot is adapted from the romance web novel of the same name by Penglai Ke, a writer of Jinjiang City. It tells the story of Xiao Qiao and Wei Shao, the lord of the Wei family, in the midst of family and country wars. The background to the love story is a fictionalised account of building the earliest parts of the Grand Canal. (The canals were to provide supply and transport routes, to prevent flooding, and to provide water for irrigation.) Thus the series is roughly set amidst the conflicts of China's Spring and Autumn period or the Warring States period. The drama premiered on Tencent Video on May 13, 2025. The drama was later also added to Netflix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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