Hey guys, it’s Anton.
The Parting of the Orchid and Demon King is the literary title for a brand new upcoming
fantasy romance drama whose film crew recently announced their two main leads.
I’ll update this video’s title once the official English title is announced.
This series is based on a novel of the same name written by the same author who gave us
“The Legends” from last year.
Yesterday on December 18th 2020, the production team for the new drama officially announced
that the two main actors who will be participating in the project will be Esther Yu and Dylan
Wang.
It’s worth mentioning that in the past few months, a handful of names had been swirling
about as rumors to who could be the main leads, with names including Chen Xing Xu from Goodbye
My Princess and Wang Yibo from The Untamed as possible male leads, and either Yang Chao
Yue from Dance of the Phoenix or Esther Yu as the female lead.
It seems netizens were right on the part of the female lead, as Esther was confirmed yesterday
to play the part of Little Orchid.
You may remember her from her historical romance drama "I've Fallen For You" from earlier this
year.
So the story in this drama is that she was a powerful immortal in her previous life,
but when her tribe gets annihilated by the demon king, she gets reborn as a low ranking
fairy in the Heaven tribe.
She accidentally revives the demon king who had been trapped in a tower since his defeat.
Dylan Wang, of course, plays the demon king.
You may remember him from his breakthrough role as the main lead of 2018's Meteor Garden,
as well as this year's second season of Ever Night.
As demon lord he hatches a plan to sacrifice Little Orchid’s soul in order to escape,
but when he comes into inadvertent contact with her, he falls in love with the small
fairy.
She now has to decide whether or not she can reconcile with her mortal enemy and look past
his terrible deeds against her.
So this drama will apparently test Dylan Wang’s acting considerably, because in the novel
the two main characters have to exchange souls, even at one point merging into the single
body of the demon king.
Some netizens have been worried that Dylan would find it difficult to switch between
the two personalities of cold anti-hero and naïve fairy, but it will be interesting to
see his character range.
There were also some comments about the age gap since he is four years younger than the
female lead.
It seems we have another noona drama on our hands.
Meanwhile, Esther Yu has been receiving great support from fans for her casting in the role
of Little Orchid because her past works seem to fit the character’s personality well.
She has played these sorts of bumbling carefree heroes to great success, and it seems like
the role of female lead is perfect here.
Parting of Orchid and Demon King is being produced by iQiyi who have boldly declared
the project to be an "S+ level" production, which means it will have one of the highest
levels of budgeting and production value.
The two actors themselves have exchanged some friendly banter regarding the drama on Weibo,
in which Dylan Wang posted a picture of a birthday cake with the two characters from
the story wishing Esther Yu a happy birthday on her 25th birthday, addressing her as “Little
Orchid”.
She replied back by wishing him a happy birthday, since his 21st birthday will be tommorrow
December 20th.
She writes, happy birthday, Great Demon.
I think this drama will be an interesting one, and the age gap isn’t as pronounced
as in other similar dramas.
He is supposed to be a lot older than her as demon king though, so, there’s that,
but overall I think the storyline and casting is fairly on point.
The female protagonist is not really my favorite kind of character, but if anyone can do it
really well then it’s got to be Esther Yu.
The director’s choice on her is really good.
I’m pretty hyped for this drama, although I’m just not sure when we will get to see
this one.
iQiyi has stated that this will be one of their big productions for 2022, and as of
right now that just seems like an eternity away.
If we get any news released on it I will let you guys know.
I want to hear what you guys think, does this sound like it will be a good drama?
And do you like the two main leads?
Personally, I can’t wait to see to see this one, but it does seem like a long ways out
there.
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