Period C-drama Royal Betrothal with Wu Jin Yan and Chen Zhe Yuan Airdrops on Hunan TV and Mango Tuesday July 28th
Talk about a legit come from nowhere air drop. There wasn’t even rumors this one was on deck but then it decided to go to bat on a random Tuesday. Hunan TV and Mango produced period politics and romance C-drama Royal Betrothal with the Chinese title Yu Ting Yao 御庭谣 based on the novel Jiang Shan Wei Ping 江山为聘 or A Kingdom as Dowry premiered this Tuesday July 28th with zero promotion. Starring Wu Jin Yan and Chen Zhe Yuan, I’m not sure the drama air dropping is a sign of lack of confidence of the production or just an attempt to squeeze it into the summer months in hopes of more viewership. July hasn’t seen a breakout hit yet, Love for You, Blossoms of Power, and Overdo all aired to varying degrees of middling reception or heightened criticism so the competition isn’t fierce right now. Might as well slide in and see if viewers look at this one more fondly.
Trailer for Royal Betrothal:
He is hilariously bad in it.
I feel sorry for her but hopefully next time she won’t say yes to acting with people like him.
He has no acting skills to speak of, no charisma and no gravitas. Not sure why they picked him for the role.
Thought I was the only one that couldn’t stand him in this drama. Dude acting is terrible,mediocre at best. Even as a king,he’s so stiff,not to mention the robe kind of looks too big on him.
Wonder why WJY said yes to this.
He shamelessly latched on to this project. Wu Jinyan was cast first. He had connections with one of the producers and forced the production company to give him equal billing. Yu Zheng was very angry and posted about this multiple times.
I’m thoroughly enjoying it so far. It was engaging from the 1st episode, ans you know a drama is good when you keep hitting next episode even though it’s 2AM.
She looks quite old like his sister in this drama.
I really like her…