It seems like the popular Chinese historical drama Story of Yanxi Palace is gearing for a global audience once more with its spinoff, Yanxi Palace: Princess Adventures 金枝玉叶, coming to Netflix on December 31, 2019!
Actress Wang Herun who played a supporting role in Yanxi Palace reinstates her role as Princess Zhaohua in a story that ultimately focuses on her life as the daughter of Wei Yingluo (Wu Jinyan) and Emperor Qianlong (Nie Yuan). Revolving around the political intricacies of selecting the princess’s husband, Zhaohua will meet Er Qin’s son Fu Kangan (played by actor Wang Yizhe).
Story of Yanxi Palace had a typical plot – the rivalry between concubines and palace maids, an attempt to usurp the throne and women vying to become the favorite of the Emperor have been done countless times. But probably one of the biggest things that captivated viewers was Wu Jinyan’s portrayal of the heroine that had such strong and (as typical as it sounds) empowered personality. Something that we don’t often see done quite right.
Wei Yingluo’s cunning mind and wits were perfect for a very strong nemesis such as THE legendary Charmaine Sheh whom I might add did such a stellar job. Not to mention the very fun and unconventional cat and dog relationship the heroine had with the Emperor and their road to romance, it was enough to bring in a loooot of squeals from the masses.
I’m crossing my fingers the spinoff will prove itself worthy because it’s surely hard to top off “The Most Googled TV Series of 2018″.
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hohliu
Yu Zheng is definitely found his specialty and strength.
Anonymous
Yanxi was proved to be successful why not have that on Netflix instead? Who knows if the spinoff will be successful at all, its not proven yet. YZ are sometimes successful but a lot of times, huge failures too. Such as Legend of Haolan it's very boring even when all the casts are same casts from Yanxi.
hohliu
Typo: Has
Anonymous
Yes. They should have the 1st one on Netflix 1st before adding the 2nd one.
Anonymous
When will this be airing?
Anonymous
Please don't judge me, but: does spinoff mean just literally a spinoff, or is it kind of a Season 2? I searched this drama up in MyDramaList.com, and as you can see, the main character is supposed to be Yinglou's daughter. So it is more "spinoff" or "Yanxi Palace 2"?
Sandy
Just watched a few episodes today, and I really dislike it. The princess is super annoying and bratty. Her little baby voice throughout makes my eye twitch. The script is unimaginative and pretty much repeats the exact same themes and plot as YP when it instead could have taken a much more creative path…but I won't speak on that too much due to spoilers.