Catch popular Asian stars on iQIYI this April as the platform announced an exciting lineup for the month which includes Pledge of Allegiance, The Magical Woman, Thirteen Years of Dust, Take Us Home, Cute Bad Guy, Oh No! Here Comes Trouble, The Ingenious One, and The Hidden Character: Unmasked!
With a high score of 7.7 on the Chinese review site, Douban, Brotherhood of Blades was released on the 28th! Pledge of Allegiance is a adaptation from the masterpiece and stars Leon Zhang and Chen Ruoxuan. Since the commencement of filming in 2021, the series has received much attention with over 24.4 million views on the series’ Weibo site.
Fans can also look forward to singer-actor Leon Zhang singing the series’ OSTs and that’s not all! Lu Yang, who directed and wrote the script for Brotherhood of Blades, has also taken on the producer role in Pledge of Allegiance, ensuring the quality of such period action shows he’s all too familiar with while integrating elements of spies and suspense mysteries.
Wuxia fans are definitely in for a treat this April – besides Pledge of Allegiance, iQIYI will also be launching The Ingenious One, starring Chen Xiao and Rachel Momo. Yun Nang (starring Chen Xiao) who stepped into the danger-filled society alone experiences a roller coaster ride. After feeling the warmth and love from the friends he made along the way and love he found, he undergoes deceit, betrayal and was even willing to sacrifice himself if it meant that he could protect the justice he wanted.
The Magical Women is a female centric piece featuring Qin Lan and Deng Jiajia. With both acting single mums in the series, they work together to get over the hurt they experienced and retaliates, emphasising the power and beauty a woman possesses.
Would you be spooked out to see something you create come to life? When the antagonist, Zhang Yijie, cartoonist Wang Luqing drew in Cute Bad Guy, travel through space and appear in her life, he gets himself involved in the situationship between her and her dream guy, creating a story filled with heart warming and interesting snippets.
We revisit old, unresolved mysteries in Thirteen Years of Dust as audiences follow the characters’ attempt to make a breakthrough on old cases with new pieces of evidence collected over the years. Chen Jianbin will be returning to the frontline as he works together with his disciple again to finally resolve the case that made him leave the police force in the series.
Ma Yili and Johnny Bai might just be cousins in Take Us Home but they are so tight, many have mistaken them for siblings. Directed by Lin Yan, the woman behind Where Are We Going Dad. The series follows the story of Zheng Dongni (starring Ma Yili) who grew up in a broken family. As a result, she decided to leave her hometown, the place that traumatises and was hoping to bring her cousin, Xi Jue (starring Johnny Bai) along, only to be rejected. Later, it is also through the help and guidance of Xi Jue did she finally manage to understand the warmth and meaning behind the word, “family”.
Other than these Chinese series set to premiere in April, fans can also anticipate 2 brand new Taiwanese and Thai series, Oh No! Here Comes Trouble as well as The Hidden Character: Unmasked, resolving the audience quest for a one stop asian entertainment platform.
Oh No! Here Comes Trouble stars Tseng Jinghua, Vivian Sung, and Peng Cianyou as well as popular Thai actor, “Nonkul” Chanon Santinatornkul. Through 5 different units, it explores and unravels the mystery behind human’s obsessions and how one can better let go of them.
The Hidden Character: Unmasked signifies yet another collaboration between the company behind the worldwide sensation KinnPorsche, BOC and iQIYI as they introduce a brand new reality show featuring 11 fresh faces, ready to take on the industry and to also discover the next biggest hit.