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It follows Zhuang Hanyan, a noble daughter abandoned in childhood, as she returns to her family's Beijing household, clears her name, and joins her mother in a revenge plot against her father. The series premiered on [Tencent Video](https://www.edgepedia.org/tencent-video) on March 18, 2025, ran 30 episodes, and became one of the platform's early 2025 hits under its former title *Guinü* (贵女).[1](https://movie.douban.com/subject/36516580/?qq-pf-to=pcqq.c2c)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original title | 贵女, retitled 雁回时 before broadcast; English title The Glory[1](https://movie.douban.com/subject/36516580/?qq-pf-to=pcqq.c2c) |\n| Source material | Novel *重生之贵女难求* by Qianshan Chake, who also wrote the source of the 2024 hit *[The Double](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-double-tv-series)* (墨雨云间)[2](https://ny.zdline.cn/h5/article/detail.do?artId=243551) |\n| Premiere | March 18, 2025, Tencent Video; 30 episodes of about 45 minutes[1](https://movie.douban.com/subject/36516580/?qq-pf-to=pcqq.c2c) |\n| Main cast | Chen Duling (Zhuang Hanyan), Xin Yunlai (Fu Yunxi), He Hongshan, Yu Entai (Zhuang Shiyang), Wen Zhengrong (Ruan Xiwen), Wang Yan[1](https://movie.douban.com/subject/36516580/?qq-pf-to=pcqq.c2c) |\n| Platform performance | Tencent heat value passed 22,000 on premiere day and 30,000 within 11 days, the first 2025 Tencent drama to do so; Maoyan effective views exceeded 700 million by April 6, 2025[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%9B%81%E5%9B%9E%E6%97%B6/65501185?fromModule=lemma_inlink) |\n| Douban score | Opened at 7.0, slipped to 6.9 after the finale, and stood at 6.8 with more than 136,000 ratings[4](https://k.sina.cn/article_1642592432_61e7f8b004001714i.html) • [5](https://yule.360.com/detail/4035667) • [1](https://movie.douban.com/subject/36516580/?qq-pf-to=pcqq.c2c) |\n| International release | Streaming on Netflix, Viki, and WeTV with English and other subtitles[6](https://www.netflix.com/tw/title/82036449) • [7](https://www.viki.com/tv/40969c-the-glory?locale=zh) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise and production\n\nThe story opens in the depths of winter, when Zhuang Hanyan, the third daughter of the Zhuang family who was cast out to the countryside as a child, collapses wounded at the gates of the Zhuang mansion. Her arrival throws the household into turmoil and draws the attention of Fu Yunxi, a vice minister (少卿) of the Court of Judicial Review (大理寺).[8](https://wetv.vip/zh-cn/play/rtsqlllpjcu566a/g4100pu6iwi-The_Glory_%E7%AC%AC01%E8%A9%B1) Hanyan carries the stigma of being a \"barefoot ghost\" (赤脚鬼) and spent seventeen years exiled in Danzhou; the drama's core is her return to the capital, her search for the truth of her abandonment, and her revenge.[2](https://ny.zdline.cn/h5/article/detail.do?artId=243551) • [9](https://yule.360.com/detail/4080283)\n\nThe screenplay is credited to Cao Xiaotian (曹笑天) with Cao Zhuo'er and Lu Shuting.[1](https://movie.douban.com/subject/36516580/?qq-pf-to=pcqq.c2c) Cao Xiaotian took the project in 2022 from producer Chu Fei, with whom he had just finished *The Nine Selves* (九义人), another costume revenge drama centered on women.[10](https://news.bjd.com.cn/2025/04/09/11124170.shtml) Director Yang Long had previously made well-regarded short dramas for Mango TV, including *Nian Nian Wu Ming* and *Xu Yan*, and had spent three years at Tencent Video on lower-profile projects before being given the S-level IP.[11](https://finance.sina.cn/2025-03-21/detail-ineqmmwi9537615.d.html)\n\n### Plot and themes\n\n**A mother-daughter alliance.** Hanyan's revenge is not only for herself but for her mother Ruan Xiwen, once the foremost noblewoman of the capital, whose family was destroyed by a powerful eunuch. To protect her daughter, Ruan Xiwen cut her own legs, sent the child away, and endured the reputation of a madwoman while secretly plotting against Zhuang Shiyang, her husband and Hanyan's father. Mother and daughter move from misunderstanding to alliance and ultimately bring him down, with Hanyan killing her father to avenge her mother.[2](https://ny.zdline.cn/h5/article/detail.do?artId=243551)\n\nCommentary on the series highlighted how it departs from the older house-fight (宅斗) template in which the heroine's mother dies within the first episodes and the daughter avenges her alone. Here the mother survives as a co-protagonist, and the narrative shifts weight away from male characters and from rivalry among women toward resistance against patriarchal power.[2](https://ny.zdline.cn/h5/article/detail.do?artId=243551) A Douban review praised the finale's framing of revenge as a question of procedural justice, in which Hanyan refuses to trade one living life for vengeance against the dead, and noted the relationship between Ruan Xiwen and Consort Miao as a rivalry transformed into mutual redemption.[12](https://movie.douban.com/review/16622511/)\n\n## Broadcast and performance\n\nThe drama premiered on Tencent Video on March 18, 2025, with three episodes released to members on day one and new episodes dropping at 6:00 pm China Standard Time.[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%9B%81%E5%9B%9E%E6%97%B6/65501185?fromModule=lemma_inlink) Its heat value broke 22,000 on premiere day, the fastest of any 2025 Tencent drama at that point, and passed 30,000 within 11 days, entering the platform's \"hit club\" as the first 2025 title to do so; it also topped the Maoyan and Datawin charts for consecutive days.[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%9B%81%E5%9B%9E%E6%97%B6/65501185?fromModule=lemma_inlink) According to Huanwang big data, it reached the top of the big-screen on-demand daily index within four days of broadcast with a score of 9,209 and later peaked at 10,255.[10](https://news.bjd.com.cn/2025/04/09/11124170.shtml) A rerun began on Dragon TV (东方卫视) on August 11, 2025, nightly at 7:30 pm.[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%9B%81%E5%9B%9E%E6%97%B6/65501185?fromModule=lemma_inlink)\n\nInternationally the series streams as *The Glory* on Netflix, Viki, and WeTV with English, German, Greek, and other subtitle options.[6](https://www.netflix.com/tw/title/82036449) • [7](https://www.viki.com/tv/40969c-the-glory?locale=zh) • [8](https://wetv.vip/zh-cn/play/rtsqlllpjcu566a/g4100pu6iwi-The_Glory_%E7%AC%AC01%E8%A9%B1)\n\n## Reception\n\nDouban opened the series at 7.0 with more than 40,000 ratings, of which 21.2 percent were five stars and 34.8 percent four stars.[4](https://k.sina.cn/article_1642592432_61e7f8b004001714i.html) After the finale the score slipped to 6.9 amid complaints about unresolved plot threads, and it later settled at 6.8 across more than 136,000 ratings.[5](https://yule.360.com/detail/4035667) • [1](https://movie.douban.com/subject/36516580/?qq-pf-to=pcqq.c2c) On Tencent Video it held a 9.2/10 from about 2.5 million raters as of April 20, 2025.[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%9B%81%E5%9B%9E%E6%97%B6/65501185?fromModule=lemma_inlink) In November 2025 it was named a Work of the Year for Popular Appeal (年度大众喜爱作品) at the 2025 Weibo Vision Conference.[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%9B%81%E5%9B%9E%E6%97%B6/65501185?fromModule=lemma_inlink)\n\n**Divided criticism.** Chen Duling's performance as Zhuang Hanyan drew wide praise, including a gunshot scene that viewers called a highlight of the year, while Xin Yunlai's Fu Yunxi was criticized for a narrow expressive range.[5](https://yule.360.com/detail/4035667) • [13](https://static.nfnews.com/content/202504/07/c11162420.html) *Sanlian Lifeweek* argued that beneath its progressive surface of mother-daughter alliance and anti-patriarchal themes, the series applies \"short-drama thinking\": extreme characterizations, people reduced to carriers of emotion, and plot serving immediate conflict at the expense of logic, making its feminist expression superficial.[2](https://ny.zdline.cn/h5/article/detail.do?artId=243551) After the finale, disputes erupted over the ending, in which Hanyan marries and falls in love with Fu Yunxi, her former brother-in-law; screenwriter Cao Xiaotian responded in a long post, arguing that Hanyan could not contend with her era as a whole, and debated viewers directly in the comments.[14](https://news.17173.com/content/04162025/154536213.shtml)\n\n## Controversies\n\nDuring the March 2025 broadcast, a social media post claimed the drama's premise resembled the web novel *Denghua Xiao* (灯花笑). On March 23, screenwriter Cao Xiaotian denied the claim, noting that *Denghua Xiao* was first published on October 19, 2023, by which time 15 episodes of his script were already complete; the original post was no longer viewable by March 25.[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%9B%81%E5%9B%9E%E6%97%B6/65501185?fromModule=lemma_inlink) Post-finale complaints focused on unexplained threads, including the background of the adopted daughter A'zhi and the fate of Zhou Ruyin, and on a romance that some viewers felt undercut the revenge theme.[5](https://yule.360.com/detail/4035667)\n\n## References\n\n1. [雁回时 (2025), Douban](https://movie.douban.com/subject/36516580/?qq-pf-to=pcqq.c2c)\n2. [复仇爽剧成\"爆款\"，\"母女同盟\"让古偶进步了吗？, 三联生活周刊 via 中读](https://ny.zdline.cn/h5/article/detail.do?artId=243551)\n3. [雁回时, Baidu Baike](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%9B%81%E5%9B%9E%E6%97%B6/65501185?fromModule=lemma_inlink)\n4. [主演的《雁回时》豆瓣开分7.0！, Sina Entertainment](https://k.sina.cn/article_1642592432_61e7f8b004001714i.html)\n5. [豆瓣7.0降至6.9！《雁回时》结局留白引热议, 360娱乐](https://yule.360.com/detail/4035667)\n6. [雁回時, Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/tw/title/82036449)\n7. [The Glory, Rakuten Viki](https://www.viki.com/tv/40969c-the-glory?locale=zh)\n8. [雁回时 第1集, WeTV](https://wetv.vip/zh-cn/play/rtsqlllpjcu566a/g4100pu6iwi-The_Glory_%E7%AC%AC01%E8%A9%B1)\n9. [近期豆瓣高分电视剧Top 10推荐, 360娱乐](https://yule.360.com/detail/4080283)\n10. [剧集黑马《雁回时》为何越虐越带感？对话编剧曹笑天, 京报网](https://news.bjd.com.cn/2025/04/09/11124170.shtml)\n11. [当视频平台开始\"买股\"导演, 新浪财经](https://finance.sina.cn/2025-03-21/detail-ineqmmwi9537615.d.html)\n12. [《雁回时》：\"义或不义\"与\"自我救赎\", Douban review](https://movie.douban.com/review/16622511/)\n13. [《棋士》在前，《黄雀》在后, 南方+](https://static.nfnews.com/content/202504/07/c11162420.html)\n14. [《雁回时》编剧和观众吵起来了, 17173.com](https://news.17173.com/content/04162025/154536213.shtml)\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 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/the-glory", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/the-glory.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. AI training is open to everyone. 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