# The Magical Women (灿烂的转身)
**The Magical Women** (灿烂的转身; also known by the working titles 她们的反击 and 姐姐的反击) is a 2023 Chinese urban drama about two single mothers, Su Fei and An Ning, who form an alliance after their family lives collapse and fight back against the men who wronged them. It was directed by Chen Chang (陈畅), written by Xue Jing (薛晶), and led by [Qin Lan](https://www.edgepedia.org/qin-lan) (秦岚) and Deng Jiajia (邓家佳), streaming on iQiyi in 20 episodes from April 1 to April 11, 2023.[1](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_22600154) • [2](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/The_Magical_Women)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Chinese title | 灿烂的转身 (Can Lan De Zhuan Shen); alternate titles 她们的反击 and 姐姐的反击[2](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/The_Magical_Women) |
| Format | 20 episodes, about 45 minutes each; drama, family, romance genres[3](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/67819/the-magical-women) |
| Broadcast | iQiyi web series, April 1 to April 11, 2023, airing at 20:00[2](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/The_Magical_Women) |
| Creative leads | Director Chen Chang; screenwriter Xue Jing[1](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_22600154) |
| Main cast | Qin Lan as Su Fei; Deng Jiajia as An Ning; Zhang Junning as Yan Weilun; Wu Xiaoliang as Yang Kai[2](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/The_Magical_Women) |
| Series placement | Second entry in iQiyi's "Shiguang Limited Kuanghua series" (拾光限定 狂花系列), after *Rock It, Mom*[4](https://www.zaobao.com.sg/entertainment/story20230424-1386642) |
| Platform score | 7.9 on iQiyi[5](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_1sqlg4yh54d.html) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
The series follows two women with contrasting personalities who are drawn together by the breakdown of Su Fei's family. Su Fei (Qin Lan) is a career woman with a stable job and an apparently happy marriage. She notices an unfamiliar perfume scent in her husband Yan Weilun's (Zhang Junning) car and finds women's lingerie that is not hers in his bag, so she quietly sets a trap to catch him cheating and matches wits with him and his mistress; she also discovers he has been secretly transferring the couple's joint assets.[4](https://www.zaobao.com.sg/entertainment/story20230424-1386642)
An Ning (Deng Jiajia) is a single mother with her own hidden history. In her youth she had a relationship with Pang Xin (Bao Jianfeng); when she was six months pregnant she discovered he already had a wife, and because his company belonged to his wife he would not divorce. An Ning left him, married an old classmate to resolve her child's household registration, and then lived a life of frequent moves to evade the husband, who repeatedly threatened her and demanded money.[4](https://www.zaobao.com.sg/entertainment/story20230424-1386642)
After weathering the pain of Su Fei's family breakup together, the two start new lives. In the course of warming to each other, Su Fei discovers An Ning's unknown past, and the close friends go through another storm. The official synopsis frames the theme as both tolerance toward fate's gifts and the resolve to make anyone who offends you pay back.[5](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_1sqlg4yh54d.html) The iQiyi press release describes the show as using a dual-female-lead structure to explore mutual emotional support among women, depicting marriage breakdown, betrayal by close relatives, and workplace setbacks.[6](https://www.iqiyi.com/kszt/news2023040101.html)
## Production and broadcast
The drama was produced by iQiyi with Lian Rui Pictures and Zhejiang Film & TV Group as co-producers, directed by Chen Chang and written by Xue Jing.[6](https://www.iqiyi.com/kszt/news2023040101.html) It is the fourth work in iQiyi's "Shiguang Limited Kuanghua series" and the second in that slate after *Rock It, Mom*; the Singapore newspaper *Lianhe Zaobao* noted the two titles share standard women-centered storytelling and suitably "wild" plots.[6](https://www.iqiyi.com/kszt/news2023040101.html) • [4](https://www.zaobao.com.sg/entertainment/story20230424-1386642)
**Release schedule.** The series went online on April 1, 2023. VIP members received two new episodes each evening at 20:00 from Saturday through Wednesday, with four episodes on the first day; from April 19, non-members could watch one episode free for 48 hours each day at 20:00.[6](https://www.iqiyi.com/kszt/news2023040101.html) The full run of 20 episodes finished on April 11, 2023.[2](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/The_Magical_Women) The international version was distributed on iQIYI's global site iq.com with 4K resolution and Dolby audio support, rated 13+.[7](https://www.iq.com/wiki/zh_cn/album/%E7%81%BF%E7%83%82%E7%9A%84%E8%BD%AC%E8%BA%AB-2023-1sqlg4yh54d)
## Cast
Qin Lan and Deng Jiajia lead as Su Fei and An Ning.[2](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/The_Magical_Women) The supporting cast includes Zhang Junning (张峻宁) as Yan Weilun, Wu Xiaoliang (吴晓亮) as Yang Kai, Sun Ning (孙宁) as Su Luo, Tian Yitong (田依桐) as Ding Manman, Bao Jianfeng (保剑锋) as Pang Xin, Hu Ke (胡可) as [Wang Yuan](https://www.edgepedia.org/wang-yuan), and Zhang Tianyang (张天阳) as Shi Shangfei.[8](https://hualiu.yapy.jp/drama/the_magical_women/) • [9](https://thetvdb.com/series/433162-series)
## Reception and performance
**Viewership momentum.** Within about a week of release the series topped iQiyi's rising chart, with in-platform heat passing the 8000 mark, and it stayed in the top three of all web dramas by Guduo's data tracking. On Weibo it collected multiple hot-search topics with over ten million reads each, and on Douyin the hashtag #灿烂的转身怼渣男太爽# ("The Magical Women's clapbacks at scumbags are so satisfying") passed 100 million cumulative plays.[1](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_22600154) iQiyi's own page lists a 7.9 score.[5](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_1sqlg4yh54d.html)
**Divided reviews.** Early reviews split along a consistent line. One- and two-star reviews targeted the writing: viewers called the infidelity material stale and accused the show of using women-centered themes as a gimmick, and critics noted the plot could be guessed from the opening episodes, with familiar beats of infidelity, scheming mistresses, and divorce.[10](https://www.dianyingjie.com.cn/2023/0404/361699.shtml) Four- and five-star reviews went mainly to the actors, praising Qin Lan's look and Deng Jiajia's comic timing, with commenters saying the two leads carried their roles.[11](https://yule.360.com/content/3340374) A Sina Entertainment piece on the finale described the show's appeal as fast pacing and dense reversals, with the infidelity, investigation, trap-setting, and divorce resolved within five episodes.[12](https://k.sina.cn/article_1731986465_673c0421001010lay.html?from=ent&subch=film) A Phoenix Entertainment review highlighted the portrayal of women's friendship, arguing the series shows the alliance between the two women building step by step through emotionally aligned decisions.[13](https://ent.ifeng.com/c/8OtTOhHRtjt)
## Place in women-centered Chinese drama
The series belongs to the wave of urban women-themed dramas that has grown in China over the past decade, a genre scholars describe as centering urban women's stories and generating substantial public discussion of femininity.[14](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01634437221135994) Reviewers placed it squarely in this field, comparing it with predecessors such as *Nothing But Thirty* (2020) and *Fang Xin Dang Yang* (2022) and noting how frequently infidelity and childbirth plotlines recur across the genre.[10](https://www.dianyingjie.com.cn/2023/0404/361699.shtml)
Director Chen Chang discussed the production in a 2023 interview. The core creative team was largely women, and at the first script read-through he felt unable to join discussions of women's issues; the producer told him the project needed male input for perspective balance, and he argued that women-centered dramas benefit from some broad-stroke thinking rather than pursuing delicacy alone.[15](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_22680723) He framed the show's treatment of its "her-topic" (她题材) material as focusing not on the injury itself but on the two women's attitude toward it, and said both this drama and his concurrently airing *Love Is Panacea* share the message that women in their 30s, with experience, self-judgment, and problem-solving ability, should not feel age anxiety or bow to social opinion.[15](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_22680723)
## References
1. [一口气炫12集，《灿烂的转身》"爽口"在哪？, The Paper (澎湃新闻), April 7, 2023](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_22600154)
2. [The Magical Women, DramaWiki (D-Addicts)](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/The_Magical_Women)
3. [The Magical Women, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/67819/the-magical-women)
4. [秦岚联手邓家佳 爽撕渣夫后"灿烂转身", Lianhe Zaobao, April 24, 2023](https://www.zaobao.com.sg/entertainment/story20230424-1386642)
5. [灿烂的转身, iQiyi official series page](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_1sqlg4yh54d.html)
6. [爱奇艺"拾光限定 狂花系列"《灿烂的转身》上线 直击女性互助情感共鸣, iQiyi news, April 1, 2023](https://www.iqiyi.com/kszt/news2023040101.html)
7. [灿烂的转身（2023）剧情介绍, iQ.com wiki](https://www.iq.com/wiki/zh_cn/album/%E7%81%BF%E7%83%82%E7%9A%84%E8%BD%AC%E8%BA%AB-2023-1sqlg4yh54d)
8. [中国ドラマ「華麗なる転身～妻たちの逆襲～」のあらすじ・キャスト・放送予定, 華ハオ](https://hualiu.yapy.jp/drama/the_magical_women/)
9. [灿烂的转身, TheTVDB](https://thetvdb.com/series/433162-series)
10. [秦岚《灿烂的转身》首波口碑出炉，打分评价几乎一致, 电影界/网易娱乐, April 4, 2023](https://www.dianyingjie.com.cn/2023/0404/361699.shtml)
11. [秦岚《灿烂的转身》首波口碑出炉了！打分评价都"一针见血", 360娱乐, 2023](https://yule.360.com/content/3340374)
12. [《灿烂的转身》收官，秦岚邓家佳收获真爱，网友直呼好上头！, Sina Entertainment via iQiyi, April 11, 2023](https://k.sina.cn/article_1731986465_673c0421001010lay.html?from=ent&subch=film)
13. [《灿烂的转身》暖心收官 秦岚邓家佳摆脱困境共赴灿烂新天地, Phoenix Entertainment, 2023](https://ent.ifeng.com/c/8OtTOhHRtjt)
14. [Min Xu and Shiyu (Sharon) Zheng (2022). Against masculinised hypercorrection? Renegotiating the everydayness and ordinariness of postfeminism on Chinese TV. Media, Culture & Society 45(2).](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01634437221135994)
15. [让剧本在影像中华丽转身，导演能做什么？丨专访《爱情而已》《灿烂的转身》导演陈畅, The Paper (澎湃新闻), April 13, 2023](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_22680723)
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