‘The Story of Yanxi Palace’ BackStabs Bring iQivi A Half A Billion Online Viewership On A Single Day!

I do love Asian historical dramas, be they Korean, Japanese or Chinese. I used to love the Korean dramas the best for the production and true to life depictions. But lately, Chinese dramas are picking up. as we begin our iWantMyGTV efforts, I like to open with one of my favorite Chinese drmas,
The Story of Yanxi Palace.

The young and old, powerful and frail, imperial concubines weave a fantastic story. Not only it deliver a drama, it also helped China’s iQiyi set a viewership record.

 The 70 episode, online soap opera attracted more than half a billion views on August 12, setting a viewership record in China. The drama wraps around a quick-witted maidservant investigating the death of her sister amid a group of back-stabbing Qing dynasty imperial concubines.
A total of 530 million viewers tuned in on August 12 to follow the scheming on iQiyi, the China’s biggest streaming platform.