Love Game in Eastern Fantasy
Love Game in Eastern Fantasy is a 2024 Chinese television series based on the web novel The Guide to Capturing a Black Lotus by Bai Yu Zhai Diao Gong. It stars Yu Shuxin, Ding Yuxi, Zhu Xudan, and Yang Shize in leading roles. The series premiered on Tencent Video and WeTV on November 1, 2024.
On November 9, 2024, the popularity exceeded 30,000 heat index on Tencent.
The drama was exclusively broadcast on Tencent Video on November 1, 2024. On May 31 of the same year, the drama won the 2024 Golden Bone Flower Network Film and Television Festival's "2024 Most Anticipated Drama" award.
Since the premiere of Love Game in Eastern Fantasy on November 1, the total number of streaming viewership has soared from 150 million to nearly 280 million in mid-November. The follow-up game "Love Game in Eastern Fantasy", which was released after the television series, had a market share of over 20%.
Synopsis
In the heat of a moment, Ling Miaomiao writes a scathing book review of the web novel Catching Demons and accidentally triggers a multidimensional trip which causes her to travel into the world of the novel. She enters the body of the villainous supporting character Lin Yu. In order to return to the real world, she must complete both of the main missions and sub missions assigned by the system. There, she meets Mu Sheng, the second male protagonist, who in the novel was obsessed with Mu Yao and was also responsible for driving Lin Yu to her death. As Miaomiao becomes entangled with him, the hidden past and the truth behind the novel's world gradually unfold.Cast and characters
Main
- Yu Shuxin as Ling Miaomiao / Lin Yu / Mu Qingshi
- * Ling Miaomiao: A reader of the novel Catching Demons. She accidentally travels into the world of the novel and enters the body of a villainous supporting character named Lin Yu. In order to return to her original world, she must fulfill the missions assigned by the system.
- * Mu Qingshi: The first heavenly demon catcher and ancestor of Mu family
- Ding Yuxi as Mu Sheng / Mu Ziqi / Fu Zhou
- * Mu Sheng: The supporting male lead of the novel Catching Demons who is a half-demon. His courtesy name is "Ziqi". He was adopted by the Mu family when he was very young. He is very protective of his older sister Mu Yao and tends to act very good natured in front of her. In reality, he is a vicious person who only cares about his sister.
- * Fu Zhou: Author of the novel Catching Demons. He was unhappy as a child and suffered from Moyamoya disease, a rare progressive cerebrovascular disease. He did not believe that people could love and understand each other and wrote this novel when he was most desperate and angry.
- Zhu Xudan as Mu Yao
- Yang Shize as Liu Fuyi
Supporting
- Lu Yuhao as Cui Cui, a bamboo shoot demon
- Song Jialun as Lin Lushan / Ling Chang'an
- * Lin Lushan: Lin Yu's father and County Magistrate of Taicang
- * Ling Chang'an: Ling Miaomiao's father who died in a tragic accident
- Gillian Chung as Mu Rong'er / Goddess Mei / Resentful Woman
- Xu Haiqiao as Zhao Qinghuan / Marquis Qing Yi
- Bao Jianfeng as Mu Huaijiang
- Zhang Chenguang as Lu Huai'an
- Wen Zhengrong as Empress Dowager Zhao
- Li Yizhen as Princess Duan Yang
- Hai Lu as Shi Niangzi
- Yu Menglong as Li Zhun
- Fei Qiming as Zhao Ruoshi
- Wang Xiaochen as Liu Niang
- Lai Yi as Tao Ying
- Rao Jiadi as Tao Zi
- Liu Jiaxi as Chu Chu
- Peng Bo as CEO Tao, Ling Miaomiao's boss
- Chen Xinwei as Hua Yi, Lin Yu's maid
- Song Zhaoyi as Wan, Lin Yu's maid
- Zheng Yan as System
- Chen Duling as Mirror Demon