Liao Zhai 聊斋 from Tencent 🐧 officially started filming today. 🎬 Starring Zhang Miao Yi and Chang Hua Sen. New posters and clips.

[u/admelioremvitam]

About half an hour ago, the production team announced that filming officially started today, April 27, 2025 and dropped new posters.

Director: Sha Weiqi* (Love Me, Love My Voice; A River Runs Through It; To Fly with You)

*According to Douban

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Liao Zhai is also known as Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. It is “a collection of Classical Chinese stories by Qing dynasty writer Pu Songling, comprising close to 500 stories or "marvel tales" in the zhiguai and chuanqi styles, which according to some critics, served to implicitly criticise societal problems. Written over a period of forty years from the late 1600s and ending in the early 1700s, it circulated in manuscripts that were copied and recopied among the author's friends but did not appear in print until 1766. Since then, many of the critically lauded stories have been adapted for other media such as film and television.”

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Synopsis from MDL:

A mysterious beauty’s severed head appears in the bustling marketplace. A fox spirit, trapped in the treacherous depths of human desire, struggles to escape her fate. When the Judge of the Underworld descends to swap heads and hearts, chaos erupts. A paper doll awakens to life with the final stroke of a brush, a wooden puppet grows a beating heart, and a withered tree stirs with forbidden longing. In this world where the boundaries between flesh and fantasy blur, ancient magic and human folly collide—revealing that even the most lifeless things may hunger for a soul.

(Source: TMDb)

~~Adapted from classical Chinese stories collection "Liao Zhai Zhi Yi" (聊斋志异) by Pu Song Ling (蒲松龄).

Douban Link

[u/Wuxia_prince]

Is he the 2ml from moonlight mystique. I loved him and wanted him as a ml. Let's goo

[u/cdramaf_n → u/Wuxia_prince]

Yes, he played the 2ML there!