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The Long Way Back exceeds 1 million pre-orders just 4 days before C-drama premieres on Tencent Video

Michelle Topham August 21, 2025

1 million pre orders for Gui Dui

The Chinese war-themed drama The Long Way Back (aka Gui Dui is scheduled to premiere on Tencent Video on January 25th and now, just four days before it drops, it has exceeded 1 million pre-orders.

Tencent released a poster to celebrate that milestone and I must say, if the posters that have been releasing over the last few days are anything to go by, the cinematography in The Long Way Back looks absolutely gorgeous.

The Long Way Back 1 million pre-orders poster followed on from two other posters released earlier in the week (see below), which had the C-drama at 300,000 and then 500,000 pre-orders so, yep, interest in the drama is increasing fast.

RELATED: Character visuals drop for The Long Way Back as the Chinese military-themed drama heads our way soon

Tencent also commented about its 1 million pre-orders by their Chinese viewers:

🐧 Brings exciting news! #TV Series “The Long Way Back”# has surpassed 1 million reservations on Tencent Video!

The enemy’s fire cannot extinguish the unwavering fighting spirit of the Anti-Union warriors!

From August 25th, stay tuned for more excitement on Tencent Video. Looking forward to it!

Reserve on Tencent Video: http://t.cn/A6RSN5UM
Reserve on Weibo: http://t.cn/A63MPtxp

Enjoy the three really quite beautiful posters, and look out for The Long Way Back appearing on Tencent Video in China on Monday, August 25th.

I will let you know here on Michelle Topham about the C-drama’s chances of dropping on WeTV internationally, or elsewhere as soon as we hear more.

RELATED: The Long Way Back has only dropped 3 episodes and has already hit 21000 on the Tencent Video heat index

Update August 25th: The first three episodes of The Long Way Back are now streaming on WeTV,

500000 pre orders Gui Dui poster

Gui Dui 300000 pre orders poster

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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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