A Dream of Splendor

A Dream of Splendor is a 2022 Chinese historical drama television series directed by Yang Yang and starring Liu Yifei, Chen Xiao, Lin Yun and Liu Yan. Set in the Northern Song Dynasty, the series is based on the (Yuan Opera-style) drama Zhao Pan'er Fengyue Jiu Feng Chen《赵盼儿风月救风尘》 by the Yuan Dynasty playwright Guan Hanqing. It is airing on Tencent Video and WeTV from June 2, 2022 to July 24, 2022. Hong Kong's TVB was the first television station to broadcast this drama on TVB Jade from September 5, 2022 to October 14, 2022, previously on its streaming service MyTV SUPER from June 9 to July 2, 2022. It later went on national broadcast and aired simultaneously on Beijing Satellite Television from 22 November 2022. Synopsis Zhao Pan'er is the owner of a famous tea shop in Qiantang. She supported Ouyang Xu for three years before he went to Bianjing to attempt the imperial exam, promising to marry her once he passes. She discovers that though her fiancé won third place in the imperial examination, he plans to wed the daughter of an official and take Zhao Pan'er as a concubine instead of as his main wife. Unwilling to accept her fate, she decides to go to Bianjing and seek justice. On the way, she meets Gu Qianfan, an upright commander from the Imperial City, and they become entangled in a big case in Jiangnan. Zhao Pan'er rescues Song Yinzhang, who was tricked into marriage and abused, and Sun Sanniang, a chef who was driven to suicide by her callous husband and son, and the three sisters arrive in Bianjing together. In order not to be driven away from Bianjing by Ouyang Xu, Zhao Pan'er, Song Yinzhang and Sun Sanniang persevere through many hardships and develop a small teahouse into the largest restaurant in Bianjing, expose the true face of heartless men, and open a door to redemption for countless ordinary women.