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The Road to Splendor exceeds 500,000 reservations as Ding Yu Xi and Ancy Deng nears premiere

Michelle Topham October 11, 2025

Considering the Ding Yu Xi and Ancy Deng-led Chinese historical romance drama The Road to Splendor only begun filming in late June this year, I think it’s a superb feat that it has already exceeded 500,000 reservations on Tencent Video.

Especially as it will likely be well over a year before the series’ first episodes are released.

Tencent Video announced The Road to Splendor had earned more than 500,000 reservations this morning along with a poster of leads Ding Yu Xi and Ancy Deng, and the message:

#TheRoadToSplendor# #花开锦秀 bookings exceed 500,000#

We are together in this world, waiting for the flowers to bloom. Congratulations to #花开锦秀# for reaching 500,000 bookings on both platforms!

Thank you for your continued anticipation. Watch how Zhao Ling (played by Ding Yu Xi — @丁煜兮) and Fu Ting Yun (Ancy Deng — @登恩熙) join hands in this turbulent world and create a beautiful legend together.

The Road to Splendor is being directed by Deng Ke (The Prisoner of Beauty), and is written by Nan Zhen (The Prisoner of Beauty).

With those two back collaborating again then, this one should be head and shoulders above the usual fare, shouldn’t it?

The C-drama itself is based on the novel ‘Hua Kai Jin Xiu’ (花开锦绣) by Zhi Zhi (吱吱), and is currently scheduled to air for 36 episodes.

Enjoy its latest poster.

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Michelle Topham

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British-American journalist currently residing in Vienna, Austria and obsessed beyond measure with C-dramas, a subject I have been writing about for more than two decades. How many C-dramas have I watched? Many many hundreds. How many are still in my backlog? Hundreds more.

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