The Tencent Video historical romance drama Blossoms of Power wrapped up filming yesterday four months after it started back in April.
The drama’s wrap up was announced via Tencent’s Weibo account, along with closing ceremony photos of the main cast and a short message:
#Blossoms of Power Officially Wraps Filming#
Flowers blossom, one step at a time. The finale has fallen, and the prologue has begun. Stay tuned to Tencent Video, it’s worth the wait!
Regardless what Tencent says, though, it will still be 2026 at the earliest before Blossoms of Power streams on Tencent, but we should at least get some decent promo pieces before that.
When it does premiere for me, unfortunately, it’s a C-drama I likely will not be watching.
Not after the catastrophe that was The Princess’s Gambit, as I cannot sit through one more second of Meng Zi Yi’s one facial expression. If I do, I am afraid I won’t have a TV screen left as I will have punched my fist through it.
And that fact is a real shame, as Blossoms of Power has a phenomenal cast (Hu Ye, Fan Shuai Qi, Gao Wei Guang, Lai Wei Ming, Chen He Yi, Zhao Zhi Wei and Qiu Xin Zhi all in one drama), which makes this one almost too fabulous to avoid.
But after watching The Princess’s Gambit, Love in Pavilion and The Legend of Heroes starring Meng Zi Yi, and realizing her facial expression didn’t change in any scene in all three of them, watching another drama featuring a lead actress who has obviously looked in a mirror early in her career and decided that one expression is her “most beautiful”, and so she’s stuck with it, is more than I can bear.
I mean, hell, even in the Blossoms of Power wrap ceremony photograph at the top of this article, her face still hasn’t changed its expression from the 3,754 scenes I have already watched her in.
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Blossoms of Power (百花杀), by the way, is a 36-episode drama that was filmed from April 7th, 2025 until yesterday, August 8th when filming wrapped.
The production reportedly spent a huge amount of money on sets and costumes so, if you enjoy a Chinese drama that is intricately detailed, and you aren’t as annoyed by Meng Zi Yi as I am, you may just enjoy this one.
Meanwhile, I wish the cast and crew great success with the drama when it does drop. Unfortunately, it’s just not for me.
Its plot, by the way, sounds like this:
Princess Zhaoning, Shen Xihe (played by Meng Ziyi), grew up in the Northwest, deeply connected to the common people, and sees defending the nation as her lifelong duty. She is also a master perfumer.
When she arrives in the capital under imperial decree for an arranged marriage, Xiao Hua Yong (He Yu) expresses his desire to wed her.
Together, they punish the wicked, uphold justice, and become each other’s most cherished soulmates. Their love story blossoms into a beautiful tale, safeguarding a flourishing era of peace and prosperity for the realm.
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