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30 episodes, premiered January 20, 2025 on Tencent Video.", "snippet": "Everlasting Longing (相思令, aka 抢来的新娘) is a 2025 Chinese costume romance drama adapted from Xi Juan's novel, directed by Mai Guanzhi, starring Angelababy and Song Weilong; 30 episodes, premiered January 20, 2025 on Tencent Video.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.east_asian_web_streaming_serials.alpha-cr-to-in", "markdown": "# Everlasting Longing (相思令)\n\n**Everlasting Longing** (相思令, also known by the alternative title 抢来的新娘, \"The Stolen Bride\") is a 2025 Chinese costume romance drama directed by Mai Guanzhi (麦贯之), starring Yang Ying ([Angelababy](https://www.edgepedia.org/angelababy)) and Song Weilong, and adapted from the novel *Qiang Lai De Xin Liang* by the Taiwanese romance writer [Xi Juan](https://www.edgepedia.org/xi-juan) (席绢). It premiered on January 20, 2025, as a [Tencent Video](https://www.edgepedia.org/tencent-video) exclusive in 30 episodes of about 45 minutes each.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965?fromModule=lemma_inlink) • [2](https://baike.sogou.com/v214597518.htm) • [3](https://www.cpophome.com/everlasting-longing-angelababy-song-weilong/)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Native title / alternative | 相思令; also released as 抢来的新娘 (\"The Stolen Bride\")[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965?fromModule=lemma_inlink) |\n| Source material | Novel *抢来的新娘* by Xi Juan (席绢)[2](https://baike.sogou.com/v214597518.htm) |\n| Lead cast | Yang Ying (Angelababy) as Jun Qiluo / Jun Feifan; Song Weilong as Xuan Lie[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965?fromModule=lemma_inlink) |\n| Format | 30 episodes, about 45 minutes each; Mandarin; costume, romance, drama genres[3](https://www.cpophome.com/everlasting-longing-angelababy-song-weilong/) |\n| Production | Tencent Video and Shanghai Film Media; director Mai Guanzhi; screenwriter Qing Mei; filmed at Hengdian from January 31 to May 15, 2023[2](https://baike.sogou.com/v214597518.htm) • [1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965?fromModule=lemma_inlink) |\n| Premiere | January 20, 2025, Tencent Video exclusive; members received four episodes on day one with daily updates at 18:00[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965?fromModule=lemma_inlink) |\n| Reception | Tencent Video score 9.1/10 from 492,000 raters; Douban 5.3/10 from 30,431 raters[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965?fromModule=lemma_inlink) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise\n\nThe story follows Jun Qiluo (君绮罗), the eldest daughter of the Jun family, the leading merchant house of the southern city-state of Yannan (焱南). Because the family's ancestral rules bar women from commerce, she lives a double identity as Jun Feifan (君非凡), presented to the world as the family's illegitimate son, and secretly develops and improves weapons as the holder of the family's craft tradition to strengthen local defenses.[4](https://hamivideo.hinet.net/product/289427.do?cs=2) • [5](https://www.tvmao.com/kanju/ZmdibClc)\n\nDuring a trading journey she is seized by Xuan Lie (玄烈), leader of the Xuan tribe of the northern city-state of Beixuan (北泫). The two travel north together with different aims, testing and distrusting each other while surviving life-and-death situations, and gradually fall in love despite their opposing positions.[6](https://wetv.vip/zh-cn/play/8ur46qprj630cpy) • [7](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkSg3NirRXU) At age 20 Qiluo is taken to Beixuan, where she is accused of being a spy and mistreated; after escaping she finds that a prince has colluded with her second brother-in-law and his mistress to steal the family fortune, and she rebuilds the family business while caring for her aging father, her father's second wife, and two younger sisters.[5](https://www.tvmao.com/kanju/ZmdibClc) • [8](https://wetv.vip/en/play/8ur46qprj630cpy/n4100853ave-EP01%3A_Semasa_Rindu) The couple's efforts to develop the silk trade are presented as enriching the people and preserving peace between the two regions.[6](https://wetv.vip/zh-cn/play/8ur46qprj630cpy)\n\n### Cast and characters\n\nYang Ying plays the dual role of Jun Qiluo and her male alter ego Jun Feifan, and Song Weilong plays Xuan Lie, the wolf-lord contender of Beixuan.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965?fromModule=lemma_inlink) Ren Hao (任豪) plays Shao Qimin (邵祁民), Jun Qiluo's childhood friend and guard, and Bai Bingke (白冰可) plays Xuan Qingkou (玄青蔻); Yao Chi (姚弛) plays Luo Zhizhou (罗执舟).[2](https://baike.sogou.com/v214597518.htm) Supporting and guest roles include Yu Bo as Jun Chengliu (君成柳), Qiluo's father; Tian Li as Empress Dowager Xiao; Sha Baoliang as Xi Changkun; with special appearances by Ren Zhong, Zhang Junning, Xia Nan, and friendly appearances by He Rundong and Luo Jialiang.[2](https://baike.sogou.com/v214597518.htm)\n\n## Production\n\nFilming began on January 31, 2023, and the series wrapped after nearly four months on May 15, 2023, at [Hengdian World Studios](https://www.edgepedia.org/hengdian-world-studios).[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965?fromModule=lemma_inlink) In October 2024, China's National Radio and Television Administration announced the July-to-September 2024 issuance permits for domestic online dramas, and *Everlasting Longing* passed review with distribution license number (沪)网剧审字(2024)第017号.[9](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965)\n\nThe chief producer is Li Liming, with Xie Yang and Mei Qinghai as producers, and Wang Juan as chief supervisor; the production companies are Tencent Video and Shanghai Film Media.[2](https://baike.sogou.com/v214597518.htm) In wrap-up featurettes the leads asked for repeated retakes of fight scenes: Yang Ying requested greater force in a tree-binding scene, and Song Weilong repeatedly asked to raise the difficulty of his action sequences.[2](https://baike.sogou.com/v214597518.htm)\n\n## Release and international broadcast\n\nPromotion began well before broadcast: the first stills appeared on April 17, 2023, wrap-up photos and a featurette followed on May 15, a confrontation poster and first trailer on June 19, and a Qixi festival poster on August 22; in October 2023 the series was included in Tencent Video's 2025 drama slate.[9](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965) The series premiered on January 20, 2025, at 18:00 on Tencent Video, with members receiving four episodes on the first day and one extra early episode for SVIP subscribers.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965?fromModule=lemma_inlink)\n\nThe drama also aired abroad: on South Korea's Zhonghua TV from July 2, 2025, and on Japan's LaLa TV from November 19, 2025, under the Japanese title *Soushirei: Kun Kira to Gen Retsu* (相思令～君綺羅と玄烈～).[2](https://baike.sogou.com/v214597518.htm) • [10](https://nbcuni-asia.com/sp/soushirei/) In Japan, NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan licensed the series, with exclusive early streaming on U-NEXT beginning January 7, 2026 (episodes 1 to 16, then 17 to 30 on February 4, 2026) and DVD rental releases on the same schedule.[11](https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000023.000084381.html)\n\n## Music\n\nThe opening theme, \"Shijian Lichou\" (世间离愁), is sung by Xi Linna Yi Gao (希林娜依·高); the ending theme, \"Lianshan Yipian Qing\" (连山一片青), is sung by Hu Yanbin with lyrics by Zhong Wen and music by Gu Su; and the insert song \"Xu\" (虚) is performed by Alan (阿兰).[2](https://baike.sogou.com/v214597518.htm) • [9](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965)\n\n## Reception\n\n**Premiere performance.** The series opened with strong heat on Tencent Video: it passed a heat score of 12,000 within half an hour of launch and 20,000 within two hours, reached second place on the platform's internal hot-search list on day one, and recorded 6.356 million cumulative effective plays across its first five episodes within 24 hours, averaging 1.271 million per episode. Yang Ying's promotional posts on her personal social media account drew 313,000 reposts and 60,000 comments.[12](https://k.sina.cn/article_1900552512_7148214004001bl02.html?from=ent&subch=oent) On its finale day the series ranked sixth on Maoyan's web-drama heat chart with a heat score of 8671.05 and seventh on Maoyan's effective-play chart.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965?fromModule=lemma_inlink)\n\n**Divided reviews.** Audience opinion split in two directions from the start. Some viewers praised Yang Ying's line delivery and emotional expression as an improvement, found Song Weilong's performance solid, and commended the costumes, sets, and pacing; others criticized the plot as formulaic, found the characterizations unconvincing, noted a lack of chemistry between the leads, and pointed to visible chroma-key compositing artifacts.[12](https://k.sina.cn/article_1900552512_7148214004001bl02.html?from=ent&subch=oent) The scores reflect this split: Tencent Video users rated the series 9.1 out of 10 from 492,000 raters as of February 15, 2025, while Douban users gave it 5.3 out of 10 from 30,431 raters.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965?fromModule=lemma_inlink) A *Cosmopolitan* review credited the adaptation with softening the \"forced love\" elements of the source novel to fit modern values, and praised the pairing of the two leads and the variety of the drama's romantic subplots.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965?fromModule=lemma_inlink) Japanese press coverage noted criticism of Yang Ying's acting in grief scenes, echoing earlier responses to her period drama *General and I*.[13](https://www.recordchina.co.jp/b947608-s36-c70-d0196.html?lang=ja)\n\n## References\n\n1. [相思令（2025年麦贯之执导的古装传奇剧）, Baidu Baike](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965?fromModule=lemma_inlink)\n2. [相思令, Sogou Baike](https://baike.sogou.com/v214597518.htm)\n3. [Everlasting Longing – Chinese Drama 2025, CPOP HOME](https://www.cpophome.com/everlasting-longing-angelababy-song-weilong/)\n4. [相思令, HamiVideo](https://hamivideo.hinet.net/product/289427.do?cs=2)\n5. [相思令剧情介绍（1-30全集）大结局, 电视猫](https://www.tvmao.com/kanju/ZmdibClc)\n6. [相思令 EP1 免费观看 Eng Sub, WeTV](https://wetv.vip/zh-cn/play/8ur46qprj630cpy)\n7. [首支预告：杨颖宋威龙异域斗爱甜虐交织【相思令 Everlasting Longing】, YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkSg3NirRXU)\n8. [Everlasting Longing EP01 Watch Free with Eng Sub, WeTV](https://wetv.vip/en/play/8ur46qprj630cpy/n4100853ave-EP01%3A_Semasa_Rindu)\n9. [相思令（2025年麦贯之执导的古装传奇剧）, Baidu Baike (mobile)](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%B8%E6%80%9D%E4%BB%A4/62619965)\n10. [「相思令（そうしれい）～君綺羅と玄烈～」公式サイト, NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan](https://nbcuni-asia.com/sp/soushirei/)\n11. [「相思令」U-NEXT 独占先行配信開始＆DVDレンタル開始 プレスリリース, NBCUniversal Japan / PR Times](https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000023.000084381.html)\n12. [《相思令》开播效果与口碑两极分化, 凤凰网娱乐 via Sina](https://k.sina.cn/article_1900552512_7148214004001bl02.html?from=ent&subch=oent)\n13. [アンジェラベイビー×ソン・ウェイロンの「相思令」、早くも敗因分析が登場, Record China](https://www.recordchina.co.jp/b947608-s36-c70-d0196.html?lang=ja)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › East Asian drama series › East Asian web and streaming serials › Titles Cr to In*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/everlasting-longing", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/everlasting-longing.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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