The period drama Brocade Odyssey was always intended to be a late fall or early winter 2024 airing but now every week faster matters for the production in light of Zhang Hao Wei the third male lead’s scandal last month with allegations of prostitution and maybe even tax evasion and his claim he’s being blackmailed. He has enough scenes to not be fully cut out but the production this month has been working hard to minimize his scenes, he’s been cut from the first trailer already, and the goal is to fully focus this drama on female lead Tan Song Yun and her character as a female empowerment story ala Blossoms in Adversity. New promos are out and indeed it’s mostly Tan Song Yun centered with a new poster of male lead Zheng Ye Cheng. The production is hoping to air this as quickly as possible before the third male lead situation has any chance of getting worse.
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