The success and then later criticism of period C-drama Pursuit of Jade is one of this odd happenings. The drama did well domestically and even better internationally and the critique of the foundation general visuals towards the end didn’t seem to have that much impact when all is said and done. That means any reference to PoJ can still be a good thing and male lead Zhang Ling He just finished filming Tencent period C-drama The Road to Glory with Lin Yun (Jelly Lin) and the first teaser production wrap video has viewers calling it PoJ v.2 due to the same male lead and similar scenes, set ups, and vibes. I think PoJ’s controversy may end up helping by keeping the drama in the news a lot more and longer than just your average drama run so if The Road to Glory is starting off getting compared to PoJ then it will get more coverage and that’s a good thing.

Making of Video for The Road to Glory: