It looks like the jostling for a coveted big female lead period C-drama has the front runner winning the race. Song Zu Er is by all accounts going to be the lead for Tencent drama Hu Shan Wei (胡善围) centering around the rise of the female lead in becoming a renown palace historian. She’s also got a male lead lined up on Chen Zhe Yuan, a surprise casting for me because I’m not feeling these two generating chemistry their styles don’t seem to mesh in my mind. Of course nothing is final until announced but this drama should be kicking off production in the next month or two so it’ll be clear by then.