Love of Nirvana

流水迢迢

A 40-episode Tencent Video martial-arts costume romance in which a lord hiding in a rival kingdom has his plan broken by a stranger, and three people are drawn together.

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Premiere
Sep 14, 2024
Episodes
40
Where to watch
Tencent Video
Also known as
Воды текут вдалеке · Любовь в Нирване · Долгое путешествие

About the drama

Love of Nirvana (流水迢迢, Liu Shui Tiao Tiao, "far-stretching flowing water") is a wuxia romance in which the love story and the politics are one plot. The hero has been living under a false name in an enemy kingdom for years, and the heroine arrives by accident and ruins the one operation he cannot afford to lose. Beijing News summed it up at the time as a story of love and enmity "touching family and country" between two states.

It premiered on Tencent Video on September 14, 2024, and ran 40 episodes. Allen Ren (任嘉伦) leads as the hero, Li Landi (李兰迪) plays the heroine and Xu Zhengxi (徐正溪) the third main role.

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Xiao Wuxia (萧无瑕) is the young lord of Yueluo (月落) City. For years he has lived in the neighbouring kingdom of Liang (梁) under the name Wei Zhao (卫昭), bearing the reputation of a treacherous courtier while he works to learn the truth about what happened to his family. His plan is to seize the only survivor of the case of Prince Qi (齐王).

The plan is wrecked by Jiang Ci (江慈), a young woman who appears out of nowhere and cuts across it. She is badly hurt, and Pei Yan (裴琰) takes her into his household in order to find out who was behind the disruption. From there the three are pulled into each other's lives: Wei Zhao with his tragic past and his sense of duty to his people, Pei Yan with his own aims, and Jiang Ci, whose openness gets through to both men.

When the production wrapped in November 2023, the official message was "青山隐隐,流水迢迢", roughly "green hills faint, flowing water far".

The story is set in two neighbouring states, Liang and Yueluo. It is adapted from the novel of the same name by Xiao Lou (箫楼), who also co-wrote the script, with Li Na (李娜) and Zhang Yang (张杨). The directors are Zhou Jingtao (周靖韬), Qi Xiaohui (綦晓卉) and Liang Baoquan (梁宝全). According to Beijing News, filming was announced as finished on November 24, 2023; the paper described the drama as a wuxia costume romance about family, country, love and hate.

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Episode 1, free on YouTube from the official Tencent Video channel (English subtitles; not available in every country).

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